Varrack

I really love the control vs chaos conflict here. Also I'm happy earth pony magic is a thing now. I don't like the villain (she seems too cliche) or the baby dragon, but maybe that will change. And omg Twilight! 

Anyone planning to go?

Alright, so:

• Jokes good
• Songs great
• Pacing fast 
• Characters work well together
• Setting is cool (tho it seems like the places from the g4 world just completely disappeared)
• Animation top notch
• Moral okay
• Jokes terrific, the 2017 movie's jokes were awkward in comparison
• Voice acting dope
• Ending kind of weird (she's an alicorn? what?)

I think it was a great start to the new gen, but I do want more questions answered. It's cool how they had the intro with the g4 characters, but...what happened to them and their families I guess? Do they have any living descendants? And how did it go from Twilight being ruler to queen Haven?

I also liked that there wasn't much of a villain. It seemed like Sprout was it at the end, but clearly he wasn't the main source of conflict in the movie. I found his incredibly big ego funny though 

7 minutes ago, Rawzy said:

Took me a bit to gather this is probably in the future after some disastrous event between now and gen 4. I really hope they reference back to the old gen, they have to. Hopefully some story about how one of the mane 6 screwed up and caused the separation of the races. The show looks really really good, animations smooth as butter. Looks more like a movie to me but it's a series, kinda makes you think how ridiculously high the budget for this must have been. I wonder what lengths artists will go to now, if this new style will motivate some to adopt this higher detailed art style. Still get to look forward to all the 2D fan art. Hope they still keep all the hidden cameos and "adult jokes" they would reference in gen 4, Hasbro has to know we're the majority of people watching this show.

But yea, definitely excited to get back into this, came into gen 4 when I was 14, now I'm 22, haven't been heavily into mlp since the last couple seasons, watching the trailer and getting excited for gen 5 kinda brought back a small spark of joy I used to have which is nice. Interested to see where this ride goes.

 

Ay wassup dude? I haven't seen you in forever.

Yeah the trailer excites me a lot too. Honestly I don't think the animation could be any better. My only concern is whether they stick to the same principles that G4 did - is it going to have moral lessons like G4, or is it just going to kind go off in its own weird direction and become like any other animated show?

On 2021-04-27 at 11:50 PM, Rainbow StarFlight said:

Anyone have the swf file for generalzoi's pony creator (Preferably Full Version, but Version 3 is fine)

I found a saved copy of the creator if you're interested. You have to download a Windows/Mac app though.

8 hours ago, Metal Brony 42 said:

Well, that happened. And will happen again next year. I bought some stuff, found pony music, and met @Partialgeek514 and some other new friends. 

It was nice meeting you

On 2021-08-11 at 11:40 PM, Partialgeek514 said:

I'd love to meet up! It'd be awesome to get to know you guys better.

Great! I DM'd you on discord

On 2021-08-05 at 6:27 PM, Partialgeek514 said:

EFNW is only a week away!  Anypony who's going know what events you'll be attending?

I'm going! Um, probably most of the main hall events? I might hang out in the tabletop room too. I would love to meet up with someone from here

I think the CGI looks amazing! Especially after seeing the animation GIF. I wonder how far in the future this is...is it right where The Last Problem left off? Or further ahead than that? I find it really hard to imagine the Mane 6 in this animation style 

I was going to go. This is sad, but the right move.

BABScon, which I was going to staff at next month, is likely getting postponed or cancelled. My siblings are out of school for 6 weeks. I work at an airport so my job is okay for now, but if domestic air travel gets shut down then my job is gone.

I'm thinking about it. It's only a few months away now so I fear I may have waited too long. I'm already going to EFNW so idk how committed to another one I am.

Is the OP familiar with climate change? We are pumping billions of metric tons of co2 emissions into the air every year. That's been causing hurricane and wildfire rates to increase. We could do something about it, but we'd rather just play politics... 

I don't do it. But the anti-smoking campaigns are unhelpful, and there are worse things you can do. I have sympathy for those who do because they probably have stressful lives and need relief where they can get it. I would be open to trying weed, though.

I would go straight to a financial consultant and learn how to manage the money. Many lottery winners have spent all that they won and gone broke, and that temptation will be too great if I don't know what I'm doing. I'd probably save at least half of it. I don't really want to think about that responsibility, tbh.

I would lawyer up to keep people from pestering me for handouts. I'd get protection for my home in case people camp outside it waiting for me to come out (this is a reality of some lottery winners).

Winning the lottery honestly sounds like it would be a nightmare if you don't get lucky.

The hope of a better future. One day I will travel frequently, explore new cultures, and have real, authentic friends in my life. So I just need to keep pressing on until that becomes a reality, which won't be long, hopefully...

I'll meditate. If I can remember to. I'll pace back and forth a lot to understand what's bothering me, and if that doesn't work I'll listen to upbeat music.

Sometimes I just let anxiety run its course because it's sometimes completely irrational and will go away eventually. I tend to have more of these moments in public because I fear I'll get jumped or something, so changing my environment can help.

How I'll be away from family on Christmas. It'll be weird, but I honestly prefer a more quiet atmosphere.

Not really. It's more of a boredom reliever. I only come to talk to specific people

No, and I don't plan to. No one should, IMO, enter a relationship if the chances of a nasty breakup are any more than minimal. If you feel that a relationship is critical to meeting your basic emotional needs, than you are the problem, and a nasty breakup is all but guaranteed.

It's unfortunate that EqG puttered out instead of going out with a bang. I'm not really sure where Hasbro decided to go after Legend of Everfree. That being said, I liked these shorts - they were far more entertaining than the 2 minute ones, which I couldn't bring myself to finish. The snowball fight and school heist ones are gold. Even though it's the end, I'm glad it went on as long as it did, and that the EgG team produced such great content over the 6 years they worked on this.

This is almost certainly G4.5. There doesn't appear to be any change in setting or characters, and given the 2021 movie that will presumably start off G5, this seems like something to tide us over until the next generation begins.

22 months away! I wonder if anything will happen between now and then. I hope it improves on areas the last movie didn't do so well in (I still liked it overall though).

I'm pretty agnostic, but I tend to believe that consciousness is a fundamental constant of the universe, like energy, which cannot be created nor destroyed. This would mean that it has no starting or stopping point, and thus the concepts of 'birth' or 'death' are invalid. This doesn't mean, however, that one's identity or memories, or even "soul" is kept intact, just that the consciousness of what was once you is now observing a completely separate reality. 

I have complex views. Let's just say that 

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