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  1. Midnight Justice
    Luna's great. I'm definitely a Luna fan, but I also partially agree with this. After presumably centuries of feeling marginalized and inferior to Celestia, Luna slowly gave in to darker impulses and let envy and pride corrupt her. That doesn't make her a bad pony, but it does mean she made a huge mistake and unfortunately when a pony of Luna's power and position makes that kind of mistake then the consequences are appropriately proportional. That said, since Luna's return she's reintegrated into pony society and Celestia now realizes that she didn't see the warning signs early. It's not Celestia's fault that Luna became Nightmare Moon, but if she had perhaps been a little bit more attentive and open then Luna wouldn't have given in to her darker aspect. It's not as simple as you're making it out to be, I think. It's just that casting a critical eye on some aspects of the show turns up some some surprisingly deep moral quandaries. Yes, it's Luna's fault for becoming Nightmare Moon, but perhaps a tiny bit of negligence can be attributed to Celestia for not realizing the problem and failing to talk it out with Luna.
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    That is a perfectly valid interpretation that I agree with now. Mind blown.
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    Unicorn. No books on magic? Time to experiment, conduct research, and write treatises on the subject!
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    I got to see it in London back on 2009. It was wonderful. Les Mis is my favorite. I used to like Phantom and I still do, but it's just more ridiculous now that I've matured a bit since my high school days.
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    I keep reading all of your posts in Pinkie Pie's voice.
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    I only count Tirek as a betrayal. What are you counting as the other two times? The black vines and stuff don't count as a betrayal because Discord sowed those seeds long long ago, and while he certainly enjoyed the chaos he actually helped the Mane 6 is his own roundabout way. Kind of in the same way someone who tells you a riddle slyly hints at the answer while tickled to death you can't figure it out.
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    Discord wasn't even evil when he was a villain. He was just the personification of chaos. A force of nature.
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    Laughing so hard right now.
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    I didn't particularly care for Magnet's comment about how the wedding is more important, but eh.
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    Hmm, so you did. Mea Culpa. That's what I get for skipping over a few pages. Another fact then. Atoms are almost entirely empty space. You could fit all the matter comprising every member of the human race into a sugar cube if you were to condense that space.
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    Nobody truly lives in the present. The time that it takes for our sensory organs to perceive the world and our brain to interpret those electrical impulses means that everyone is actually living a tiny fraction of a second in the past.
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    If the King has to fight then they've very likely already lost. It would mean that not only has the front line collapsed, it would mean that their army has been routed to the point where the battle has reached the back lines and if a king had to fight for their life then that means their personal bodyguard would be too hard pressed to help them. At that point they would surrender and hope for a good ransom or fight and die. That doesn't mean that every so often a king wouldn't want to get his hands dirty, for example King John the Blind, King of Bohemia who fought with the French at the battle of Crecy (many of the French nobility died there, perhaps as high as 4,000 although that count may be unreliable and exaggerated), died because he wanted to jump into the fray and fight. (Dude was blind.) It's a generalization and there are always exceptions to generalizations, but there ya go.
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    Quite right, and as gunpowder weapons began to develop and became more efficient and useful swords were typically relegated to a decorative yet practical sidearm. Sabres were officer sidearms until the 20th century. And of course the civilian gentry carried rapiers during the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries. But really it's pikes, spears, and variants that were the go to weapon for soldiers throughout most recorded history. (And bows, but those are ranged) From the Hoplite spear, to Roman pila, to Scottish schiltron pikes, Italian and Swiss pikemen. etc. etc. Spears lend themselves to being highly effective when in formation with others, require little training (and THAT is huge), are cheap to make in comparison with swords, and have a very long reach. Piercing weapons are far more common than hacking and slashing weapons. Even English longbowmen, who trained from childhood to pull their giant yew bows often carried poleaxes and pikes as well. Soldiers with pikes were the backbone of every army of the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance (even though the Renaissance wasn't actually a thing).
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    2009 for me. First long term relationship, semester abroad, and a 4.0 GPA for that year.
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    I'm almost dead certain that the item one fear came from the hand in the toilet in Legend of Zelda. Speaking of which when I was five or six I played Link to the Past and got to the part after you get the Master Sword. Then I went up to the tower and Agnahim zapped Zelda and I was like Oh no she's dead. Then I got really scared, cut the power on the SNES and didn't play LOZ for a year.
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    I like this episode a lot. I don't think Applejack is acting out of character. I think that mostly she's afraid of something bad happening to her sister and that probably stems from whatever happened to her parents and she just got carried away. Happens to us all at times. But most importantly, and I don't think anyone's brought this up but... Remember Smarty Pants, Twilight's doll from Lesson Zero? It's under Applebloom's bed when Applejack lifts it up when she starts panicking. So THAT'S where Big Mac hid it.
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    Maces and warhammers are far more useful against armored people anyway. Don't care how strong the armor is. If you smack someone on the head who's wearing a steel helmet they're getting a concussion or a broken skull.
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    If your BF likes Star Trek and Q, then your course of action should be apparent. Also second the Lesson Zero suggestion. But whatever you do don't PUSH.
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    Well, while I fault him for excessive force in discipline, it seems like he didn't like his job. Either that or he used to like his job, but got jaded over the years. I've always felt a bit of sympathy for people like that who miss their calling or lose the love for their career. That's still no excuse, but it's cause for pity not hate.
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    I have usually kept a beard while I've been in school. It's probably getting shaved off in the near future, and I usually need to shave every three days.
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    Well that's unprofessional and uncalled for. A teacher's job is to educate students, and things like that are not only uncivil but also directly against what they are hired to do in the first place.
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    Scales of course. Ya know, balancing scales. Either that or a rather large stack of papers.
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    I like Spike a lot. I also like Rarity, but I don't like how Rarity can sometimes be a little manipulative when it comes to getting Spike to do things for her. I don't think this happens as much in later seasons as it does earlier but I've noticed that I'm not alone in this line of thinking. I think if Spike grows up and matures a little more and gets a little bit more of a backbone then I wouldn't mind seeing that "ship" happen but right now it just feels an inequitable relationship as far as relative age and maturity is concerned.
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    I've started an antique map collection. I've got two so far and they're going to be hanging in my office when I start work.
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