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    Splashee

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    29 minutes ago, Splashee said:

    Wait, how do I read binary after the decimal point?

    I assumed something like for the first position, it would be 1/2 (0.5), then 1/4 (0.25), then 1/8 (0.125)... But adding those together will never get 0.2 or 0.3.

    Exactly like that, yes. 0.2 is a recurring fraction in binary, just like 1/3 is in decimal.

    so it is 0.001100110011... forever.

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    Sunny Fox

    Posted · Edited by CypherHoof

    I agree with most of this.

    Going back to the event, Twiight lacked empathy for Moondancer, and indeed her other classmates; we see that also in Episode One Ponyville (in the party scene that ends with Twi holding a pillow over her head and declaring all the other ponies in town are crazy) and of course Twinkleshine's line is spot on.

    Moondancer clearly had similar problems; her unhealthy focus on Twi's non-attendence indicates that she DID see Twi as a friend, but of course that would seem in retrospect to be pretty one-sided, and she must not have felt the same about her other classmates given her withdrawal and rejection of them after the party incident.

    So, while Twi did nothing wrong, or out of character for her, she also was responsible for the hurt Moondancer felt; that THAT was largely Moondancer's own doing (and created from whole cloth in Moondancer's head) doesn't mean it hurt less.

    So, to contrast with the lesson of "forgotten friendship" - maybe it's not good enough to NOT be mean to someone - maybe you have to be nice. As Spike pointed out, as Princess of Friendship, Twilight is now holding herself to a higher standard, and her actions back in Canterlot clearly didn't meet that higher standard. Clearly also Pinkie would easily make a better Princess of Friendship than Twi does :)

    So, if we distinguish between "old Twilight" and "new Twilight" (hopefully with less violence than a "new Fluttershy") then "old Twilight" did nothing wrong, by her own standards, but *was* a bad friend. "New Twilight" by contrast strives to be a good friend and a better, more empathic pony, so it is only right that she tackles this "Friendship Problem" in canterlot, without being pushed there by the Table.  It is her duty to fix this, even if she wasn't "wrong" when she did it.

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    Dark Qiviut

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    On 2/18/2019 at 9:37 PM, Sparklefan1234 said:
    1. I do! :-D/:sunny:
    2. The castle is a nice idea but, I feel like Twilight's personality was better represented in the Golden Oak Library due to the feeling it gave off.

    I hope that made sense. 

     

    I think the Golden Oak was ideal for Student Twilight. Gaining her wings was a major change in her life though, and her self-appointment to the role of "princess of friendship" made it appropriate for her to have a change. Besides, we know from various scenes that the Castle has at LEAST a large a library as the Golden Oak ever did :)

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    Kyoshi Frost Wolf

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    I think she made a convincing villain - and her carefully plotted revenge (and glee every time Twi messed up trying to stop her) was great; for all she gets compared to Sunset quite a bit, there really isn't that much in common. But what we do see - is that in the S6 finale, GlimGlam closed her redemption arc by reaching out her own hoof to "pay it forward" - just as Sunset does with Scitwi. Ends differently of course, but then, as I say, they really don't have a lot in common :)

    She made a great Snowfall Frost too.

    She *is* still massively OP though, possibly more now than ever (Royal Problem and Matter of Principles being good examples there) but hopefully, she will figure out you can't fix everything with magic, eventually....

     

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