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She's an easy charater to write for, and (some) fans absolutely LOVE her -.- These are the type of fans who love the annoying, pandering, meme-bait nonsense prevalent in season 2; Maud herself is basically a meme/ image macro generator

Elite4

^totally one word

Bouncy~ <3

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^essential material for understanding the Church of Scientology and the overall reason why they received so much backlash

Banned for brohoofing all my posts

Banned for changing you avatar too damn much. -.-

No way! Pocahontas isn't bad by any means. Is it as good as The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, or The Hunchback of Notre Dame? Of course not. But it's still up there, maybe around Tarzan-tier =^-^=

On April 17, 2017 at 10:00 AM, BrawnyCharger said:

My sister has often complained about the historical inaccuracies of Pocahontas. Her main complaint is that Pocahontas and John Smith were never romantically involved. I tend to agree with her on this. 

On April 17, 2017 at 1:53 PM, TBD said:

It's okay to enjoyed the movie Pocahontas but just to be sure to research the actual story of Pocahontas...it is not like the movie. 

10 minutes ago, Dreambiscuit said:

I'm not a fan of the movie. I don't like Disney's politically skewed version of historical events beating me over the head

Do you guys really care about a fictional adaptation of a real life historical event having some "creative liberties"?

Sure, as a history lesson Pocahontas fails, but that wasn't really the point of the movie(as far as I am aware). It was an animated film with plenty of fantasy elements meant to entertain the viewer; historical accuracy =/= entertainment quality

I would love to see some elaboration within the show about why unicorns have differently colored magic auras. Like why is Sweetie Belle's green while Rarity's is blue?  Would be cool if there was some in-depth reasoning they could incorporate somehow. (I have heard people theorize the magic matches the eye color, but I that only seems to be a coincidence as MANY ponies to not go by this "rule")

Kawaii! >.<; I wish I had some ponies lol

I am particularly enamored by (Royal Rose's ?) little pinkish gradient on her wings =^-^= So freaking cute!

Has no one mentioned the fanfic yet?  Too lazy to lurk lol

No the worst episodes of the series are the following:

#1 worst: The Times they are a Changeling (awesome message but HORRENDOUS execution complete with little to no respect for the viewers intelligence. The only episode of MLP:FiM I ever felt was legitimately written for a toddler-young child)

#2 worst: TIE

Spike at your Service & Cutie Pox (the former was one of the most tired overused crutches used in western animation and done BADLY to top it off. The latter was just painful to watch. Full of awful character interactions, bad writing, and overall just seemed to be the very definition of a "filler" episode)

#3 worst: Baby Cakes (this one might seem a little more subjective, but personally, it was one of the few episodes to make me actually contemplate quitting the series. "Season 2" Pinkie Pie AKA flanderized Pinkie is in full force here, being as annoying, screechy, and just plain cringe-worthy as ever. It pains me to say this considering how much I LOVED Pinkie's bubbly, carefree, and sweethearted nature in Season 1; but ever since Season 2 rolled around, they started writing her like the traditional "omgsorandom" in-your-face cartoon archetype -.-)

#4 worst: Boast Busters (just plain BAD: bad writing, bad morals, bad characters introduced... just awful lol. This was the first episode to make me think about quitting the series, but thankfully I decided to power through, and was delighted at all the other amazing episodes later on. Trixie is horrendous here (thankfully Magic Duel aka the best season 3 episode, fixed most of her shortcomings). Snips and Snails are just "ugh". Need I say more? o,o The Ursa Major/ Minor thing was pretty cool though, I'll give it that)

#5 worst: TIE

Mysterious Mare Do-Well & The Show Stoppers (The former needs no explaination, I'm sure ^^; Show Stoppers was just plain BORING. Just bland writing, bland character interactions, felt much more childish than most other episodes (besides the #1 on this list lol). I have a similar issue with Call of the Cutie, but that episode at least got some things done: set up the whole "cutie mark" factor, and introduced Scoots & Sweetie Belle.)

So yeah, that's my top (bottom?) 5 worst episodes for FiM and as you can clearly see, the season 1 two parter is nowhere to be found. Now I am perfectly aware that other people will not share my opinions in this matter, but, hey, just giving my own perspective

The first two eps in the series are certainly weak when compared to the AWESOME eps later on (even in season 1) but they are far from "worst" or even "bad" imo. It's by far the worst opening two parter, that's for sure. But definitely not a bad pair of episodes overall, I'd give them around a 7.5-8.5/10

Here's a little chart I put together a few months ago for reference (I actually didn't look at this before writing my above walls of text so forgive any inconsistencies as my opinions on episodic quality is bound to change slightly over time:

If Starlight killed Chrysalis in To Where and Back Again part 2, we would not have the epic 1-2 season wide arcing build up to a crazy awesome final showdown ala Tirek vs Twilight

Hydrophilic 

I would bust out the hair dryer

Anime is popular because it scratched an itch for many people who liked traditional western animation, but were not satisfied with the low-consequence narratives of such. Anime could take cartoons in a more serious direction with larger focus on mature thematic elements as opposed to simple comedy.

Lately, anime has really been going down the drain, with lackluster by-the-numbers narratives, subpar animation (as the result of animation studios working their animators like sweat shop workers), and overabundance of shallow fanservicey elements. If anime continues this downward trend, I can only assume the industry will eventually implode; as I believe even the die-hard fans will catch that the overall quality is not what it used to be.

I'm hoping for an anime renaissance, similar to what happened in 2010 for western animation. Shows like Steven Universe, Adventure Time, and MLP:FiM can compete with the Samurai Jack's, Animaniac's, and PowerPuff Girls' of yesteryear; maybe soon we will get some heavy hitters that can compete with the likes of Death Note, Elfen Lied, Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni, Haruhi Suzumiya no Yuutsu, Tengen Toppa Guren Lagaan, and FLCL to name a few.... Last anime I watched that I was pleasantly surprised by was Anohana (and even that isn't quite on par with those aforementioned classics :O)

Banned for shamelessly engaging in semantics >:T

Yes, the fandom IS smaller. Is this a bad thing? Hell to the no. The smaller the fanbase the BETTER the show's quality has gotten. The quality of the show only dropped when the writers were aware of the fanbase being massive.

Scatman's World in Equestria

Discovered this artist for the first time ever on derpibooru the other day, and I just HAD to put it in my avatar. Sweetie Belle is my favorite (canon) pony evar! She is so adorable, and this artist seems to understand her everything I love about the character to a tee! \(^o^)/

https://www.derpibooru.org/tags/artist-colon-spikedmauler?q=artist%3Aspikedmauler

23 minutes ago, Sir Floof said:

Yooka-Layle, on the other hand, actually doesn't look as good as it could look on the video you linked because it's the console version, capped at 30fps. I found a video showcasing PC gameplay of Yooka-Laylee at max settings, and it (in my opinion) looks beautiful.

This is from the same video you linked: https://youtu.be/JaUQ5VfswLw?t=32m40s

^It seems certain stages have more of the effect i am talking about than others. It is nice to see not all the stages suffering from this, but that one starting world (not the hub world) is the best example of that blurry, hazy atmospheric lighting.  While it is less prominent in other stages, it is definitely still present, although the hub zone looks pretty damn good.

14 minutes ago, Sir Floof said:

I think whether someone prefers the clean, colorful look of KH 1.5 versus the more detailed, "fancy" look of Yooka-Laylee comes down to personal preference.

Why can't we have BOTH "clean, colorful" AND "detailed" though? I don't understand why it is one or the other. As you said earlier in your post:

"The low geometry and the textures just aren't as detailed as modern games."

^Why not use the extra horsepower available on current gen consoles/ PC to increase poly count, texture res, etc? That would be far preferable to slapping blurry atmospheric lighting effects on everything which take away from the cartoony aesthetic

7.8/10

11 hours ago, AwesomePony14 said:

Starlight is a teenager

Why Sunburst have a goatee

Goatee only to mean that they're fully grown up ponies

Why Sunburst have goatee when he was a teen

What the hell are you talking about? Starlight isnt a teenager. If anything, she should be OLDER than the mane6  Oh no... wait up, don't tell me there is some retconning of the ages in the S7 Opening episodes (which I am avoiding like the plague Dx).

Well, even if they were teenagers, I had a goatee when I was 16-18 soo.... yeah lol. Now time for me to make my escape before my pure mind is soiled with potential spoilers >.> <.<

3 minutes ago, Whompy Whomperson said:

1) Kingdom Hearts is an upscale of a PS2 game, on top of that, it's one that isn't very demanding, so they can afford to make them look nicer

^Thats the whole point. With a freakin' Ps2 game they are able to pull off more pleasant, vibrant visuals than on games made for current gen hardware. It's pathetic to see technological advancement regressing the level of graphical appeal in a game.

5 minutes ago, Whompy Whomperson said:

2) Only people really anal about visuals is gonna be bothered by seemingly minor graphical imperfections

^I just can't find a game to be properly immersive if it looks worse than games I played over 10 years ago. This is one of the reasons I take so much issue with Nintendo's reluctance to properly innovate in the graphical department. If you ask me, Super Mario Sunshine looks significantly better than any 1st party Nintendo game released since! The water effects, heat distortion effects, beautiful environments brimming with crisp vivid colors... thats what I crave, not half assed, low poly character models with a crappy bloom filter slapped on (see 3-D World). Even their newest foray into the Mario series, Super Mario Odyssey, disappoints greatly in terms of visuals. There are certain elements I like: the water effects and little, buoyant animations on Mario's hat/nose come to mind. But, overall, it looks like an early Xbox 360 release.... in 2017 no less!

I understand, graphics do not make the game good automatically. Games like Rise:Son of Rome and The Order 1886 are great examples of such. They astonish the player with incredible graphical spectacle seemingly to distract from the lackluster gameplay within. But if you have a game that already has awesome gameplay, better graphics can only add to your enjoyment.