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I just got my hands on a new laptop! It's an HP Pavilion 15, and I upgraded the ram from 8GB to 16GB before switching it on for the first time!
Now to see how long it takes to install World of Warcraft and League of Legends on this rig...
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Well, this Fasion Week took me by surprise. But I'll see if I can compensate a little...
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Nah, Smooze ripped off on my style. On that note...from the grand list of things Hasbro won't let a Brony do while adapting a MLP game:
25) Bringing back the Smooze from G-1 as a boss is okay. Defeating him by packing him into a magical steamer trunk is also okay. Having someone ask "What'cha gonna do with all that gunk? All that gunk inside your trunk?" is not.
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I was going to write that I'm still not quite over the series ending, but---then I saw Pear Butter and Bright Mack, working with their kids, and that REALLY gave me the feels!
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The Whinny City pony convention isn't going to take place, after all! I'd spent a ton of money getting 800 physical buttons made to promote my fangame, too---and now I can't do squat with them this year!
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Well, I've felt like garbage all day and expect to continue to do so for another day at least...I lost my temper on social media about a political issue, and quickly afterwards, I discovered something afterward that I didn't know about myself: I'm not good with rejection!
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You guys will hate me for suggesting this, but... At work, I have a coworker who's...well, he's quite a character, sometimes. He saw some Nerf Zombie Strike stuff on sale and buoght it and brought it to work---the fake grenade/thrown saw-blade kind of stuff. And he often goes out to a Thai or Chinese place and buys lunches for other people---we reimburse when he does, usually. One other coworker forgot to, and he hung up a sign that was dangling from the ceiling saying "_____...
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...saying "_____ owes me $11.50" in an attempt to shame him into paying him back.
My first joke in response to this was that it's better than leaving a severed donkey's head on the guy's desk---that's a classic "pay up" message in some parts of the world. Then, after remembering how he buys Hasbro stuff like Nerf every now and again, my next joke was that, if that other guy doesn't pay up, he should buy a My Little Pony, cut its head off, a...
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Merry Christmas from the States!
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Facebook got so political for me that, months ago, I decided to stop going to Facebook.
And today is the one day I decide to log in and see if there's anything worth seeing---and it's down! How can one of the biggest social media platforms in existence be down?!
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Say, did you once have an Artificial Thunder account on deviantart? Because I just noticed that user seems to be gone.
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I can't remember whether I asked your permission in the past to use your Wind Chaser OC in my fangame before today, but would you be okay with it?
I've been working on that fangame for a few years now, and it'll probably still be a few before I release the final version that includes an explorable Ponyville with NPCs, but when that day comes, would you be okay with Wind Chaser being in it?
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Well, shoot---registration is open for Whinny City Pony Con, but I'm suddenly finding myself wondering if I want to spend over $550 to go to a fan convention for a show I haven't watched in I-don't-know-how-long.
It's a sobering feeling: I really did like G-4 while it was on; they did an excellent job with the characters, and I'm still working on my Weather Factory Meltdown fangame. I cried back in 2019 when the show had its finale, simply because it was all over. In a lot of ways, the show is a part of who I've been since 2010.
But...is it still a part of who I am today...?
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This is so relatable, I totally get what you mean.
I haven't watched pony content in yeeeeears either, yet I'm still slowly working on pony stuff. However, I do intend to give up on my pony games in the near future, though not because I lost interest, but mainly because real life just doesn't want to cooperate, heh.
$550 to go to a fan convention? You account travel and all that stuff, right? Well, that's a lot, I'd never be willing to go even if that was for something I'd be super hyped for and the like.
For the same reason I've never ever in my entire life been on vacations. My budget kinda tight. 
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$550 is the hotel plus the registration; I live near enough to Windy City to drive there. Food and gas aren't a part of that, but I know those'll up the cost. It's high partly because the con starts on the 7th and ends on the 9th, and while I could save myself money by arriving on the 7th and leaving on the 9th, I'd prefer to be rested; I plan to arrive on the 6th and leave on the 10th.
Just after I posted this, I realized that I still daydream about a portal to Equestria opening in my laundry room---I'm not exactly proud to admit to something that silly, but it is enough to tell me that G-4 is still very much a part of who I am; I've already paid for registration, and I think after my next payday, I'll look into a hotel. Maybe I'll cut a day to save some money; I don't know.
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Wow! For the first time, someone else streamed my fangame!
If you ever wondered what I look or sound like IRL, this'll tell you!
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I've been posting here and there that I've had anxiety attacks since seeing the MLP Movie. I'd been thinking for a long time that the anxiety had nothing to do with the MLP Movie, and were more a result of my Seasonal Affective Disorder. I'm still pretty sure my SAD had a lot to do with it, but in the last day or two, I've realized something:
I love Equestria, and the way the movie drilled home how its existence is so fragile...scared the crap out of me. I know the TV has shown Equestria in deep trouble before, but not like how the movie did!
Still, I want to enjoy the movie, and my anxiety's gotten better over the last few weeks. I hope I get to enjoy it with friends in the next week or so.
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One of the things I've been trying to do to deal with it is to laugh at it...e.g. describing Tempest Shadow as the "unholy offspring of Darth Vader...and Pikachu."
Another thing I've been trying to do is analyze it a bit, but...if I start describing how I'm doing that, I could make some spoilers happen...
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...Aaaaaand today is my birthday!
...And tomorrow is when my Ms. Pacman arcade1up machine arrives :/
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Well, my AtGames Legends Ultimate Arcade finally arrived, and I spent a good, sweaty hour assembling it!
So far...I like the Arcade1up version of Centipede better :/ There's some audio lag with the Legends Ultimate, plus the visuals...ugh, so hard to tell where the edges of the screen are! Millipede is fine (it's easy to tell where the edges are due to the area your "elf" can move in being dark aqua), and it's got a lot of crazy titles---I'll find enough to keep me occupied for quite a while!
I'm not sure when I'll try to fix my partycade, but I plan to. Not sure if I'll give it way, either, since I like Centipede on the partycade more than I like it on the AtGames machine...
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I've been playing Shups, and it seems like I never progress to level six, even when I've been in level five long enough to progress. The enemy level got up to 166 before I was foolish enough to try to fly through a cloud of red projectiles to evade the beam-turrets' fire.
Is there a Stage 6, or is Stage 5 coded to keep throwing enemies at the player until the player makes a mistake like mine?
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Oh, sadly there are no more stages at the moment, the stage 5 is the last one and it indeed keeps going forever until the difficulty becomes impossible. Sorry for the disappointment.
I'm actually surprised you're still playing this if I had to be honest.
I guess I should be trying to finally work on the update. 
I'm not doing a good job lately, because I'm feeling rather odd for some reason.. Maybe it's because I don't sleep well.
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I hope you get some good sleep, then!
To be honest, it's been a while since I played Shups, but every time I do, I find it very engaging---surprisingly so for a game with only two types of enemy! I think it's because of the tight second-to-second gameplay; I always have to keep figuring out a path for my ship to travel along to get items, avoid enemy fire, and (above all else!) keep a step ahead of as many laser turrets as I can.
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Found this on youtube (by someone who insists he's not a brony), and my first thought was "Isn't Twilight's tail getting soaked?"
...Then things went from bad to worse...
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How do I know when a support ticket has been looked at or answered, I wonder? I submitted one with a question---and don't know whether anyone has replied
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You'll receive an email notification. You can also check them here: https://mlpforums.com/index.php?app=nexus&module=support
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...How did I just manage to get awarded all these gemstones all at once?!
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Well, I've never been to a pony-specific fan-convention in my life, and I still haven't, and there went the last BronyCon ever...! I sure hope there's another convention I can go to next year!
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At least this gives me hope there'll be a convention I can go to in the near future:
https://twitter.com/WhinnyCityPony/status/1130961995333869571 https://twitter.com/WhinnyCityPony/status/1130961995333869571
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Ugh. Just ugh!
I felt sad, but not depressed, while watching the finale. But after watching it, I've gone into a spiral...
The worst part was when I tried to sleep at night afterwards; I was so worried that I wouldn't be able to sleep, so I took a couple of knock-off NyQuil before going to bed. But as it's 3:22am and I've probably slept for a total of two minutes, both of which awakened me with a despairing nightmare...well, I suspect those NyQuil contained something that's keeping me UP!
I keep having feelings of despair and horror in the pit of my stomach: no more new episodes of MLP! I know the comics are coming, but still---the despair and horror just won't stop appearing in me! And it's keeping me from sleeping!
The worst part of THAT is what'll happen in the morning: I won't be in any condition to go to work. I do NOT want to be sitting in my apartment alone in the morning; that won't help with my depression and anxiety. But that'll happen, too.
I done got too attached to something, and now that it's gone, I'm miserable and afraid. This is the second time this has happened to me in the last few weeks! Ouch...sucks to be me...
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I'm feeling better this evening, but throughout the day, I was struggling with depression and anxiety. There were times when I actually cried---not while watching the finale, but the day after watching it. I was blubbing like a little child, and I'm in my mid-30s.
Still...this reminded me a lot of things I've seen the characters do in the show: just like Twilight in the Season 8 premiere, I didn't want to leave bed. Just like Twilight in the Season 5 premiere, I didn't want to face any reminders of what I'd lost---I was trying to stay away from my computer so much that I did things like work for longer than I really needed to on my work computer (I have the ability to work over the internet), empty the dishwasher, and vacuum my apartment despite my low energy levels. And just like Rainbow Dash in Tanks for the Memories, I found that it wasn't easy to cry, but after I was done crying, I actually felt better, like crying was cathartic.
These characters were SO believable...! I think that's what made FiM feel real to me.
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Another one from the List of Things Hasbro Won't Let a Brony Do in a Fangame:
3) Pinkie-Swears aren't the kind of things I should need to bleep over. -
Well, apparently this glitched and left me a blank status update. I'll see if editing it helps...
I think I said something about the latest episode of MYM in here; Izzy...she has no respect for other ponies' property. That's a pretty big flaw, and makes Pinkie Pie's inability to respect or conceive of boundaries seem small in comparison!
But they had a joke in there that would've sailed over kids' heads when Izzy was examining a stallion's key ring...! The fact that they're putting in humor only adults would get feels like a major reason for hope for G-5, though they should probably scale it back a bit...!
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Merry Christmas, all!
...Saying that from 11pm Christmas evening in the USA means that it's already the 26th on most of the rest of the planet by now, so...it's belated. But it still counts!!!! -
Well, I just uploaded seven youtube videos that, in and of themselves, might be completely useless for the Closing the Book project:
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@Rikifive thanks
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