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  1. speedyblupi
    I feel awkward thinking about RD's personality because I'm friends with a guy who's effectively an introverted and less fast version of her, down to the level of some very unlikely coincidences, like both of them completely overusing the word "awesome". But with deconstructing personalities one of the best ways to do it is with socionics. RD is an ESTP (Extroverted, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving. my friend, predictably, is an ISTP: Introverted, Sensing, Thinking, Perceiving)
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    CoD fanboys. It's not even good compared to most FPSs.
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    It's definiely a lot harder for small businesses, but not impossible.
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    Not met, but I have seen evidence of bronies. I'm at the University of York. There's a guy with a Derpy bag. There's a poster for a pantomime, written in Generation B - this doesn't mean the person who wrote it MUST have been a brony, but it is pretty unlikely that anyone would pay $20 for the official MLP typeface for any other reason. I walked past a woman earlier today, and noticed that she had a couple of small stuffed ponies. I didn't see very clearly, but one of them was orange with blonde hair, and the other was purple, so I think it was twilight and applejack - or they might just have been non MLP pony toys. I'm always on the lookout for evidence of bronies I think this Uni needs a brony society, because there are definitely a few of us around.
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    You don't have to be a large business to have intellectual property or patents.
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    I've been wondering about AIs too, because I occasionally try to make games using game maker (my current project is a turn based game similar to civilization 1 - I've managed to make all of the mechanics work apart from the tech tree and unit stacking, which I haven't started yet), but I don't know how to make an AI to control the opposing players, so it's limited to a multiplayer hotseat game. I've also considered making other games, including fighting games, but have not done so because I don't know how to make an AI for them.
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    Smile Song! It just keeps on playing inside my brain.
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    I'm somewhere between Derpy and Twilight, but I don't own any merchandise.
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    Your spelling is making me depressed.
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    My lung spontaneously collapsed last monday... Thankfully it seems to be fixing itself, but I'm going to get an x-ray next week to check it's gone.

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      speedyblupi

      And it's fine.

       

      But now I have to decide whether I want to get a pleurodesis or not...

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    No Pegasus Device? No Until the Sun? No Pony Empires? But you do have a lot of songs by artists that I've not heard of, which is good - many people neglect the lesser known artists.
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    You could do with a category for "non-gamer" and a definition of what the different choices actually mean. I'm a fairly good PC gamer in most games, but I don't play mobile or console games. While I lived through the pathetic PC games of the mid 90s without a game console... That said, some of them were actually very good (e.g. civilization 2, theme hospital), despite having pixellated 2D graphics while consoles were all doing full 3D. I think it's strange that the quality of PC games vs console games goes through such wild swings. In the early 80s it was pretty much all arcades. In the mid 80s nintendo ruled. In the late 80s and early 90s PC gaming made huge amounts of progress with great graphics (e.g. Alpha Waves, the first 3d platform game), storylines (e.g. The sierra quest games and monkey island), music (the same again) and new concepts (e.g. RTS in Dune 2) In the mid 90s PC gaming virtually made no progress, while consoles became many times more efficient and developed much better 3D graphics (e.g. starfox to the early N64/PS1 era) In the late 90s and early 00s PC gaming started coming back with much better graphics and fully rendered FPSs and 3D racing games. It was mostly balanced for the mid 00s Consoles got a slight edge in the late 00s And since then PCs have become many times more powerful than consoles
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    Ok. From the top video we can see that the confetti moves about 1 metre in about 1/5 of a second. The tablecloth and hat aren't shown leaving the cannon, so I would assume they're further down inside it, and therefore move to the table in about 1/10 of a second. The table is about 5 metres away. The force required to accelerate them (approximately 1 kg) to 50 m/s in 1/10 of a second (100 m/s/s) is 500N, so being hit by them would have effectively the same effect as if you had a 50kg mass lowered onto you. The area this is distributed across would be equal to the cross section of the muzzle at point blanc range. Pinkie is about 50cm high in the stance she's in (based on apple size and the height of Twilight relative to the element of magic in Equestria Girls), and she's three times the height of the diameter of the muzzle so the diameter is about 17cm (about that of a human face), giving an area of 227 cm squared, which is about equivalent to a 15cmx15cm square. So lie down with a 50kg weight on your face to get approximately the same effect as a party cannon shot in the face - it would be very uncomfortable, and probably quite painful, but it wouldn't cause any significant damage (it might break your nose, depending on how hard it is - if it was a tablecloth it probably wouldn't). (I could do some differentiation to get a more accurate result for the force - it would actually be about double the calculated value, but I can't be arsed to make it THAT complicated) SCIENCE FTW!
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    A lucid dream is a dream that you're conscious of and that you can control. It's when you are dreaming and know you're in a dream. I've managed to lucid dream a few times, but usually I wake up about 30 seconds later, so I don't often get to do much.
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    Do I find the ponies sexy? Some of them, yes. I don't know exactly why I like ponies (and a few other things), but I'm ok with it.
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    Well. I'm not sure whether any of the things I've imagined would count as a tulpa or not. The closest thing I've ever had to a tulpa was an absol (pokemon). I effectively tried to temporarily convince myself that she was real - completely suspending my disbelief for a few hours I ended up being able to feel contact with her, and she spoke without any conscious input from me, but as far as I was concerned it was a sort of forced dreaming/hallucination, or just a very developed imaginary friend. It was quite easy for me to do this - it only took 5 hours or so to get to this stage. I did this well before I'd even heard about tulpas. There's probably a spectrum of how real these different things appear, and also of how independent your conciousness is from theirs, between hallucinations, dreams tulpas and imaginary friends, rather than discrete categories (how else could a tulpa develop and grow from a simple thought?). But there is no reason to assume any sort of spiritualism or magic is involved (and this "mental energy" thing seems a bit dubious too), for those of you who do: it's probably just subconcious thought processes being transmitted via an imaginary personality rather than your own. It's still a useful way to get a different perspective though, especially on sensitive issues that you don't want to talk to other people about.
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    This chart is at least partially wrong - Celestia definitely isn't an INTJ. She is far too passive in her interactions with Twilight - an INTJ would usually just explain stuff, rather than sending people off to learn things for themselves. An INTJ would also be very unlikely to play a joke on someone, as Celestia does with her tea when she visits Ponyville. And Twilight is too organised and critical to be an INTP - she's probably an INTJ. Dash and Spike are probably right though. (INTJ, INTP, ISTP and ESTP are the four types I've looked into in detail).
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    Everyone thinks cupcakes is as bad as it gets. This is quite amusing. I can tell none of you have read the "Iron Will's Foalcon Necrophilia Sex Rampage" trilogy. That story is like cupcakes, but with rape added, and about 10 times as long. And 120 days of blueblood is slightly less over the top in its violence, and isn't quite as badly written, but it's just as disgusting, and it's the length of a full novel. It's based on "120 Days of Sodom", the book which gave us the word "sadism" and the film ("Salo") of which regularly appears at or near the top of lists of the most violent/disturbing films ever made.
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    It's difficult to do this, because different people try to sell them for different amounts, and the condition also has a big influence. My one is probably near-mint quality. Plus, it seems that not many people actually notice that it has an error when they try to sell it - I've never seen the error being mentioned before, despite seeing many of them for sale (typically for about 8-10 $), so maybe if people noticed this it would be worth a bit more. I could pay to get it valued, but this is likely to cost a similar amount to what the card itself is worth. PS: (it might not be an error, because baby pokemon cards say they can evolve into basic pokemon. It still seems strange that they'd make basic pikachus after introducing the babies though.)
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    That doesn't make you unintelligent (have you ever seen the handwriting of the typical doctor's prescription?). Poor memory and spelling don't neccessarily make you less intelligent, though they can make you look and feel less intelligent, and lower intelligence makes it harder to improve them. Logical ability is usually what defines intelligence.
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    I'd say yes. I got higher than average grades at school, and I can understand things better than most people. Judging from the sort of stupid things so many people say on the internet, I'm a genius, but pretty much everyone on this forum probably is relative to them - bronies are generally a lot more open minded than average people, which means we can learn more easily and consider things logically. In my experience bronies tend to say stupid things (e.g. The NWO is trying to brainwash us, vaccines cause autism, clothes can drain energy from our bodies) a lot less often than non-bronies do. It's not a coincidence that the 2013 herd census gave a 20x higher than normal rate of INTJ (aka mastermind) personality type in bronies than in the general population. Insight and observational skills are important aspects which contribute to the intelligence of people, though logical ability is generally the most important thing. Though it really depends exactly how you define "intelligence".
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    It does support it - e.g. "Mules are ugly" Plus the ponies were pretty prejudiced against Zecora at first (though at least they eventually accepted her).
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    I have a pokemon card (pokemon day 2009 pikachu) that says numb does extra damage if pikachu evolved from pichu on that turn, despite the corner saying it's a basic pokemon, but I don't own any MLP merchandise.
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    I stayed up until 6am last night... Or this morning... (What you're supposed to call stuff is confusing when you sleep at weird times). I've been pretty convinced that I'm naturally nocturnal since a few months ago - I'm often tired at midday no matter how much sleep I get, while I virtually never feel tired at midnight, even if I've not been sleeping or resting since 8 am. I've never stayed up for two days straight, but I was considering trying it earlier.
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    Oh, never mind, ignore me, I misread your comment. Though I don't remember that episode...
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