Widdershins

Snom! snom is precious and must be protected at all costs

Cool!

I know, It's quite....ICE.

 Frostmoth is best bug. Very clean, very kind, very cool!~

there are many video games actually, Icewind dale, baldur's gate and neverwinter nights, i'm sure there are more but i only know the old ones, you can either have it turn by turn or switch it to real-time(it's still turn/dice based but the computer takes care of it), and you can pause it so you can give comands to your party without getting overwhelmed

So its one player playing multiple characters? Thought Dungeons and Dragons was based around not being able to tell what actions could result in, communal storytelling. Video games kind of have to be restricted in what you can do which is why many of them don't really have, like, subplots or cut-tos.

 I have to wonder how that works.

I mean, i've played, like, Fire Emblem but that's kind of like chesspieces.

there is an option for multiplayer but the internet wasn't that big back then (1998-2002)
so if you play solo, you make one character that is you, and you find the rest during your adventures, they talk and interact with eachother, and may even leave your party if they don't agree with your decisions and on extreme cases even attack you, it was lot's of fun, but requires lot's of reading as they're dialogue heavy and have no voice over

I gotta fever. And the only cure is more cowbell.

(if you have a fever I hope you feel better soon buddy)

Dabbit, how do I delete?

Go to "Options" at the bottom of it.

I has no options buttons~ 

@Anti-Villain bold of you to assume Waluigi isn’t a mad scientist version of Waluigi.

@Widdershins..... Im actually impressed on your ditzy doo impersonation! I must take notes... 

Well, I kind of AM a Derp!

 Backstory being here, of course, Jingles isn't sentient. It's literally just a toy. Just Ditzy doo sometimes forgets where its left, enters the room and a whole encounter starts once she notices. 

What do you mean “no one’s done”?

@ShadOBabe Smaug has never been happy.

Gosh, I could go on for ages about Smaug. I don't think he was so much representative of Greed as Pride. He was pretty much the dragon version of Scrooge. I think, in the book it was insinuated that he might have been in better shape had he not spent the past few decades stuck in a dark, abandoned castle and refusing to come out lest his hoard be left unattended. I think it was cannon he hadn't even eaten at all? 

... Not that I'm... *cough* insinuating there's no way any human could have any advantage over a healthy, prepared dragon...

Edit: Hmmmm, TECHNICALLY... dragons are a hexapod, not a decapod.

Life, um, finds a way.... of ramming a weather vane into the subject's spinal cord so the organism can harness lightning as a power source. 

I've heard it's meant to be a hillbilly word for fuck, 
I've never heard it used outside of the brony community (in the british isles we tend to use "shag" more for that)

And Shag, of course, was a very popular slang term back in the seventies if Austin Powers is anything to go by. Probably why the popular, long-fibered, dense carpeting is called that too.  ...it tended to only be put down in the room intended for... well, having fun times.

Like them big heart-shaped beds or mirrored ceilings!...... Nobeing hire me to do interior decorating for them.

@Widdershins Oh? Idk honestly, I know it's still common here now, 
hehe, maybe that's cause some dogs have a coat that's shaggy~
oh, welll maybe the rug had a feet kink hehe
haha, don't hire me either

Heh, I’m a native Texan. I think almost all of us say “y’all” down here. But even then, I’ve lived in apartments and suburbs my whole life, so I’m not as country as I could be.

I have relatives that are VERY country though. XD 

Except mercury. It’s like that one that got cooked too long and now it’s a charcoal piece. 

I thought Mercury was all goopy? On account of it being made from mercury? I mean, like, why else would it be named that?

 Much in the same way Earth is made from Earth! And Jupiter is made from Joops!

Don’t be ridiculous Widders. Jupiter is made from iters. That’s why it’s so much bigger.

LOL!! That’s how they propagate.

But pirates are Ninja's at sea?....and Ninja's are pirates at land....has you not played black flag? Thats the only game who thought of mixing ninjas and pirates at one boat.....see what i did there ...ehh...eeehhhhh!

You belay that talk @Kujamih. Or i'll have yeh plank! 

 Yes, comit the action of planking. I don't currently have one so you'll have to plank off the side of the boat so i can force others to walk off yeh to dunk in the ocean. It only makes sense.

It's a matter of tactics, I reckon. Way I see it, Ninjas go out of their way to be as brutal and rude as possible. It ain't enough to throw things at people, they gotta be sharp and spinny so they tear through more painfully. If you a ninja and your standing on some loose Tatami Mats, you whip that grass rug up and whap your opponent with it just to distract them while you... I dunno, kick 'em in the crotch. I dunno. They're underhanded and ruthless.

So are pirates. Now we pirates might load the cannon with shrapnel, handfuls of silverware or a good wheel of Hard Cheese to fire that out the cannon to blow a hole in the other ship... or whatever gets in our way. Just hit everything with whatever we've got. Real smash n' grab scavengers pirates be! They had to be! They're kind of on a limited area out at sea with little to no access to anything like reliable, healthy food or anythign calming. Think of it like being locked in your job's building for months on end with other smelly people you didn't exactly agree to be crewmates wit'. Have a lil' pirate sympathy.  ...because the pirates certainly ain't fer yeh.

Ninjas are an Inventive Cruelty that makes it all the worse. When a Pirate mugs n' murders yeh, its because we're gonna die of scurvy if we don't get SOME resources soon! Pirates are an Animalistic Cruelty. Sure, pirates might be real nasty... but it might be years before we make landfall and get food, health, showers, company, comfort... not die every other week from the assorted diseases being ship-stuck gets yah.

Pirates be Punk. They kinda have to be smelly and patchy.

But I didnt see her manipulate anything. I saw others make their own choices and her claim it was her plan after. I saw her only knowing ehat to fo after a bigger villain told her.

 I feel you could have cut her entirely and everything still would have gone down.

I can't tell what the last season is. Netflix kinda did a thing where they split up a season and called it different seasons. Nine was the last season? The one that ended with... uh, Tirek never leaving his cage and the main six getting locked in a room because they didn't check the door before it closed... and Starlight somehow walked into an obvious bomb created by a four-year-old that somehow managed to endanger all the power in the land despite the fact no natural rules being capable of falling apart from a single point like that... was season Eight?

... That two parter made no sense to me.

But what I was seeing instead, in that two-parter... was that everypony else just got stupid to the point of being barely functionable just so they could write a filly as a villain.

 None of those decisions have to be made. Abandoning the whole of the school they founded for them all to go off to the same place and leaving behidn what needed to be defended. Tirek, a guy who darn near ATE Equestria whole, was apparently not guarded, just thrown into a cell where anypony could come talk to him. Tartarus was just some cave with a magical lock on it. Starlight apparently walked into a ball of energy and stood gaping at it despite her being even more acquainted with magic than Twilight is. RD, Miss "Ten Seconds Flat", apparently not capable of dealing with a sudden downpour.

 Everything has to go just right for Cozy Glow. She didn't even know how to pull magic in herself. She basically had to have somebeing else do all the work, write it down and she just gathered all that was needed. Apparently pulling out one string dooms Equestria's fickle laws of reality. Apparently the super powerful artifacts of numerous royal lineages are just free to lend out to any school that asks, and some four year old filly can just steal them out from under adults that have saved the world and fought battles. That any student of magic can do the research from some random book in a public library to know that these artifacts can doom the world if put together... and nobeing takes any precautions at all.

 It's almost as egregious as the Changling Throne episode.

 Where Chrysalis somehow claims Three kingdoms, simultaneously, in the same night, kingdoms she's had very poor history of attempting to conquer... all because she now has a McGuffin rock that she's apparently had all along. A device that can somehow mitigate fully, even from a distance.... Discord. A God of Magic and more force of reality-bending than a living creature. 

MLP, in its last seasons seems to be only capable of crippling everything pre-existing just to try and up ante. It's saddening.

Yowie wowie~

I like Silly!~

I also like silly~!

yup. Am thinking a distributed nervous system - autonomous functions like balance, breathing and so forth as subbrains all reporting to (and overridable by) the central brain which, like the most important organs is situated deep inside the body and protected by bone.  The heads then can house what amounts to the audio and visual cortexes - normally a large part of a mammal's brain, and by that method that can scale with the number of heads the creature has.

as a more disturbing thought though - imagine that only 80% of each head's brain is used for local processing, but the intelligence of the creature is a single mind spread over the remaining 20% of each brain. That would mean every time you cut off a head, the mind loses memories, but grows back smarter than before...

There is a bit of purely spiritual defining to do there though. Lopping off a head, while likely not ideal for the health of anybeing, would mean the brain also regrows and.... well, brains don't work that way. They form uniquely from use and you don't get memories from a new brain. 

 But hey, Dragons can pull off an awful lot with the excuse of "It works because magic."

Likely, I say that most hydras aren't particularly bright and just need to bite at whatever goes by. Like most sea life.

 There is also the lesser known trait... that if hydras grow heads... if too many heads crop up, then the body can't support them and it falls apart trying to. That's why I say "self-pruning" is important for a hydra. That, while two-heads-in-place-of-one is thematic for a story and for heroics..... that can't biologically work even with magic. That growing heads works like tree rings and is a sign of the near limitless age and with age, comes the knowledge that anymore heads means competition for food and a strain on both the body and environment. 

Biologically & Theorhetically proven Funcitonal Self-Maulings! Whoo! Logic!

Indeed.

I choose to look at it more like how Google and other petascale providers operate. A storage location fails? well, that's what redundancy is for; buy and power on two more, and rebuild the lost data.  how about losing compute? yeah,that's expected; the system requeues the tasks that were not completed, and again, you buy and power up two more to replace what was lost.  lose sensor data? replace and upgrade...

learning how to make huge distributed systems took the big operators years of experimentation, but then, evolution has had millions of years to iteratively design the systems it uses, and, in many cases, we just reinvent wheels that nature already perfected long before we came out of the trees.

Successful mathematicians in the past had very high cranial bone density to keep their brains on the inside. In the modern age, of course, we've developed an artificial workaround: titanium skull implants.

Sadly however this has the tragic side effect of amplifying 5G government mind-control rays to the point where the only way to guarantee independence of thought is by wearing aluminium foil helmets to block them out. 

And here i’ve been eating the aluminum. 
Which is why Im so twitchy.

Hi, Widders! Sorry it took me so long to reply. Thank's for the birthday well-wishes. Hope life is being kind to you & that you're staying healthy & safe. 

Well, trying to. As are we all~ That's the important part, the trying!

I'm just always enthused to find someone else so close in naming convention! The purple does look good on you!