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  1. BlackWater627
    @@Delzepp, You do a great service to us all. Rarity forgot to turn off her swag.
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    Also, I agree I liked that it wasn't solo Rarity. I love her but we've gotten lots of her lately and it's great to have team episodes where the mane6 shine as friends.
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    No. No, you were not the only one. View on Derpibooru (Original source unknown at time of posting)
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    That's really interesting. And also makes sense. What I'm curious about is how much of that is related to cognitive development and how much is cultural expectation. Kids literally have developing minds, so some things won't work for them until they're older (try teaching a five year old about double integrals) but then there are also things they can learn and understand but don't because culture doesn't push it as a norm. Maybe I'll talk to my mother about it because she's actually an early childhood development teacher...(I get lucky insider info)
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    Yep. I use it to talk with fellow bronies about whatever I want - mostly MLP. Also meet up for streams and such. I'm straightforward that way. I find MLPF to be an excellent place to do this stuff. Some people on the forums are great and others not so much but the reason for that is pretty obvious. They're people just like you and me.
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    Sweep sweep~! Seriously, yeah. A great solid episode with a fun story-telling style. And tons of humor. Episodes like this make me want to bounce! View on Derpibooru (Original source unknown at time of posting)
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    Is that like a suspended railway line in the background or a suspended road? Reminds me of some things from Myst for some reason.
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    My sentiments so much. I was hoping for this episode to get back to the awesomeness we love and...yep. It did. I'm also not sure if this is my favorite Hearth's episode. It is indeed hard to compare. I like this one for different reasons and it was more musical than the others too so there's that. If I had to just give my favorite regardless, I might say Hearthbreakers. So much <3 in that episode. Now Hasbro needs to release an official soundtrack including these songs. Come on. I've bought all the other soundtracks. They better not make me rip the songs to my phone.
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    I get what you mean and pretty much agree. It would also be nice if they had gone more the Grinch rather than the Carol route at the end and excluded the presents to put the emphasis on the meaning of relationships rather than presents. Starlight could have found out that perhaps...just maybe...Hearth's Warming means a little bit more.
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    @@PoisonClaw, @@Sonic5421, If you were in the livestream on eqTV then you might have seen me guess it was Luna. I think the live poll had the majority of us guess that too. It was predictable. Not that predictable is bad. She just happens to be the dark-colored alicorn who used to be a scary villain and often steps into ponies' nightmares. I love Lulu.
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    Rarity says dAWling and AJ says dAHling. Very important difference there. ;)

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    Bam! You nailed my one major nitpick of the episode. I mean, I loved this and gave it a 5/5 but this is a detail that bugs me. I get that they didn't mean to imply this but it's just too obvious for anyone who picks up on the details. I think the writers might have written it in without any idea of the complexity of anti-work mentality. That is to say, most people in our culture (I should specify US for the international bronies) are raised with a certain understanding of what work and fun are. Work is this and it's undesirable and fun is that and it's what you want. And this comes down to fundamental economic structures - all of which is a very deep and complex discussion that is far beyond the scope of this show (or this ep thread for that matter). So, yeah I understand why work and betterment got that implication, but I do disagree with it.
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    Right on! Bronies will be making Derpy treetoppers shortly. It will live on eternally. Remixes will be good but the original is fab as is. I totally agree. I give this a 5/5. It had good songs, a good story, and fun characters. I do have a few nitpicks but nothing that big or important. I get where they were going with this, as I imagine most people did. We now have three Hearth's Warming episodes now, right?
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    Twister. xD I laughed: https://derpibooru.org/1148370

    1. Attack of the Pwns

      Attack of the Pwns

      LEL

    2. wallower

      wallower

      Twister is no laughing matter :<

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    In my opinion, perhaps the most disappointing episode of the entire series. Contradicts many of the lessons taught thus far. I'm going to keep my spirits up for the next one. As for this...ugh. How easy it is for people to throw morals and ethics out the window because they want to fit in and "not rock the boat." Well, I'm going to give a stick because what the Wonderbolts did was wrong and it's not right because "that's just what happens." Nobody can justify it. Institutionalized bullying is not magically okay just as individual bullying is not. It has real world consequences outside of contrived scripts. This episode disappointed me because it tried to justify it and even (perhaps unknowingly) encourages the person being bullied to stay quiet about it. This is serious stuff and it's wrong. Really think about it. If it had been only one of the Wonderbolts who had done the bullying then they would have been the episode's villain character. And yes it's a thing that bullies often think what they are doing is endearing or helps the other person "toughen up." I don't have a problem being the only one to stand up against bullying if everyone else turns the other way because I've personally gone through this sort of thing and know where it can lead. The consequences of this are serious and real people in real life get hurt because of this mentality. And no, none of it was necessary to teach Rainbow about being a team member instead of a showboater. We practically have an entire series behind us that shows how to be a good team and it's not through bully tactics.
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    Dat banner. (⌐?? _?? ) Feel the Glimmer love, yo~ <3

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    Awww, well thank you~ And yeah. I have a couple of the official plushies and I don't think they're as good as most fan-made ones. There are multiple branded varieties though and the 4DE plushies are pretty nice. But I get the feeling that was more a reaction to the superior quality of the brony plushies and they still can't beat most bronies. Probably because fans can take their time and really put their heart and soul into what they make. It's like baking. Make it with love and it's all the better.
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    I made some various pattern updates and made a second version of Twilight. Some of the details included on my DA post. I'm always looking to improve and also make the hug factor better. I'll try and post these pics in posts rather than at the top so the first post doesn't become a bandwidth monster. @@Kenshiro, @@PE Brony, I know what you're both saying and it'd be true if it weren't a camera thing. You'll notice how the proportion of the ears seems to change in the different photos. One has the ear taller than the horn and vise versa. The ears are not actually as big as they appear in some of the shots because my camera is getting this weird perspective thing (I'm not a photographer). In any case, I changed the way the ear is sewn against the head in the updated version above to improve on it. I can't make the ears smaller without it looking odd in real life. Maybe I'll try messing around with my camera to get some reference shots (because I do agree the ears look too big in some shots even though they are not really that size). Thanks! That means a lot to me. 1in = 2.54cm. I understand other countries don't use the US system but it's not too hard to convert and I did use a small figurine as reference in the photos. Lots of bronies have one of those since you can get them cheap in blind bags. Anyways, lets say for the sake of conversation that the average human is 67in tall. That means the average human is about 170cm tall. Twilight here is about 122cm tall to the tip of her horn. Or you could simply say that her horn comes up to the average human's chest.
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    Yeah, I get what you mean. Kind of like that art style I knew back from the 90s. I'm no connoisseur so I don't know the technical name.
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    Age. All ponies get animated mane textures after their 500th birthday. Basic biology. A damaged sense of self-worth is practically impossible to fix by oneself. Hence the magic of friendship. Angel is all like: Use my power. I beg you. Don't trust angel! View on Derpibooru - Original source
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    I've been pretty amazed at how deep they've gone in past themes. This show never ceases to amaze me how it can be so happy-go-lucky and also dark and serious. Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep was a good example of that. I'm sure we could look deeper into this than the writers ever intended (common thing to do in the fandom) and Dark fics will doubtless be made. Needless to say, it just makes me all the happier that Starlight came back to Trixie and saved her.
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    I'm gonna have to rewatch that scene with my bass booster cranked for maximum sonic boom effect. I know. I was just joking around. And you're right. That was the point leading up to Starlight finding someone she could really connect with. I knew a Trixie episode was coming up but I didn't see this coming. It was very well done. Maybe Tia should start suggesting Twilight read her own scrolls again.
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    No. It was just cake withdrawal. Seriously though, was there any cake at that table? Maybe she was waiting to get her share.
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    I don't know about Big Mac but friendship with Vinyl isn't doomed from the start. I mean, she's got Octavia. We all know that friendship is a stellar one without any tension of any kind whatsoever~
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    I was shocked when Vinyl came out of that bush. And we could hear Wubz bleeding from her cans.
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