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I'm surprised only one person so far has mentioned SomecallmeJohnny, of course mentioning him goes along with his other two group channels, Brainscratchcomms and SGBlikestoplay.

Besides them I'd say Micthemicrophone is fun to listen too, Teamfourstar makes some funny stuff... and that's about all I'd really say I enjoy more than others, for the rest I just watch whatever crosses my path.

Is it okay if you upload it for me? I'm on a phone so its kinda diffucult.

That won't be a problem. I'll start on it later today and send you a link as soon as it's done. Is there anything else that I should note/be aware of? 

I'm rather surprised that AJ isn't speaking in Kansai-ben. I only know a little bit of the dialect though, so I might be able to pick it up more in the second episode or whatever. I just see Kansai-ben being as close to Southern as the Japanese can get. Haha.

I actually had this discussion with my friends when the episode was released. At first they were like "what the buck is Kansai-ben", then when I explained it they were like "That's amazing! Why is this not in there?" (Mind you that I'm still not 100% sure if I was right about that.). 

Also, I detect a great amount of "wakuwaku" from Pinkie Pie. Perhaps her Japanese catchphrase?

One thing I want to do once I get the chance is go back and compare the background scores to the original, because I believe a few of them were remasterings and I could swear the music that plays at Twilight's welcome party is completely different, but maybe that's just my fuddled memory... . 

For anyone that knows Japanese dialects: Can anyone tell if either Rainbow Dash or Applejack speaks in Kansai-ben? Applejack sounded like it, but I wasn't sure since I couldn't pick it up.

Just going from what my little experience can tell I'd say that neither of them speaks Kansai-ben... which I find strange. But AJ is definitely speaking with some kind of accent so either I'm wrong or she's trying to pull off a western accent.

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I'd say adopt their current powers to the human counterparts.

Earth ponies are at their physical peaks and are the best cooks (or general workers).

- Pinkie specifically has minor reality bending slapstick actions.

- Appplejack could have abnormally strong legs.

Pegasi can have either a flight ability or actual wings.

- Rainbow Dash I believe is self explanatory.

- Fluttershy could pull a Bubbles (Powerpuff girls) and gain the ability to talk to animals. (Perhaps even ponies? )

Unicorns can be your basic mages, the levitation spell wouldn't be as necessary. Considering that humans have hands with which they could hold stuff that specific ability might be best dummied out. Each mage could be gifted in a single specific school of magic.

- Twilight would have the potential to learn from all schools.

- Rarity could have a gift for aesthetic focused spells (maybe Trixie could fall in the same school).

Spike... ? Well you got me there, I have no idea for him... .

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That sounds like a very bad idea. Throwing off your regular sleeping schedule by 3 hours is not something I'd want to advice you to do.  I guess I'll just have to wait and see how things turn out.

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Suppose I could get my stuff ready for recording about an hour earlier (11:00 pm for you), would that be a feasible time? Do you maybe have somewhere you have to be the next morning, or do you generally just don't want to stay up that late? I can understand in either case.

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Interesting... what's your timezone? I might be able to get my stuff done a little earlier if that would help any, because my ability to record after 10:00 pm depends fully on whether or not my family is awake and blasting on the background.

Well, technically I could easily do that for you... the problem is that well... I wouldn't be able to do anything fancy. If this doesn't bother you however then I'm all game.

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I use various programmes depending on what I'm recording.

- FRAPS

- XSplit broadcaster

- Camtasia recorder

- *Some other recorder of which I do not know the name off the top of my head.

- Audacity (audio only)

On another note, I have been granted certain partner privileges by Youtube on my main account. Not sure if I'll actually use that for anything though... .

I was planning on recording commentary to a Pokemon LP I have recorded and edited and I was wondering if any of you guys would be up for joining me. I plan on recording somewhere between 2:00 pm GMT and 5:00 pm GMT. (10:00 am CST and noon CST)

Alternatively there's a very small chance that I might be able to reschedule to somewhere after 10:00 pm GMT. (5:00 pm CST)

Hai-hai,

I do let's play videos and playthroughs, I have considered doing fanfiction readings, but my very few subscribers are mostly non-bronies. I would love to join up with some group or so to engage in a more commutative type of video making.

now what would be the best way to host this group/keep them all in contact with each other?

I'm going to suggest Skype, because that also automatically provides the means for recording with each other.

I would ask them why they hate the show, then Id ask then to support hose statements with arguments, then I'd ask them to elaborate on those arguments, then I'd ask them if they could look at stuff in a different way, and I continue asking questions until I feel satisfied with their answers.

I can't promise anything spectacular, but I wouldn't mind giving it a shot. I have one question though, what is the story going to be about? That information is pretty handy when designing a story cover.

I typically refer to everyone here as bronies more or less . Just out of habit.

Thank you, I appreciate that. It makes me feel a little bit less... "out of place". 

Truth be told, the question of this topic has been burning at the back of my mind for a while, I'm glad someone asked the question for me, giving me an opportunity to evaluate some stuff.

I suppose, I just wonder why if they like content from the show so much why they don't just watch the show.   Maybe they're just bronies in denial or something..? I don't really know how to explain this.

I could possibly provide a little insight into this from my own viewpoint.

I myself find a lot of enjoyment in viewing the fandom's creations and engaging in roleplays, but when it comes to actually watching the episodes it costed me way too much energy to push myself through watching the entirety of the show.

Now, don't get me wrong, I by no means "hate" MLP, but I've found that only a select amount of episodes hit that sweet spot for me where I believe it truly rewards my time investment (and that number of episodes is lower than most other shows I watch). Yes, I do enjoy the episodes I like probably most of any show I've seen, but the consistency is something I just don't feel is there, and recently even more so than before I feel a distinct disconnect MLP the show as season three for me personally fell flat before what I've seen from seasons one and two.

I should also say that I like the art style, characters, and locations of the show, it's just that the situations portrayed generally leave me saying... "meh...". The fanon stuff tends to spice that part up a bit, hence why I really love to hang around and invest my spare time on brony websites.

For the sake of finishing what I've started, staying up to date and knowing what the fandom is talking about, and picking out those occasional personal treasures of episodes, I will continue to follow this show until its end, but I can easily relate to anyone who would choose not to do so. I guess you are right when you say that someone with a similar mindset is not technically a "brony", but that word as a title is something that not everyone engaged in the MLP fandom accepts anyway. I couldn't care less about whether or not I'm technically a brony, so long as I can create, read, listen to, and watch content and I can say that I can enjoy what I see, I have no regrets sticking around.

In short,

The show does not make me feel rewarded for my time investment as much as I believe it needs to while the fandom does just that, that's why I personally don't spend an incredible lot of time on the episodes, but rather on fan created content.

Didn't mean to annoy you .

Don't worry about it, it's just in my nature to nitpick stuff, though it can get tiring at times. But I definitely wasn't annoyed.

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(Oh, here I go anyway... . Celestia help me.)  

It would have made much more sense for Rarity's interest to change into a need for speed as opposed to the whole weather thing because in universe it was established that pegasi handle the weather. Anyone who would've watched Rarity trying to maneuver clouds (including Rarity herself) should have been tipped off that something here was not right here.

Now, athletic abilities on the other hand is something that could conceivably apply to any type of pony, so that would be a much more desirable trait of Dash to channel into another pony.

(There, out of my system, now I'm going to waterboard myself so I won't do that again.) 

There's a similar issue with Dashie's talent, which isn't weather management... but at this point I've spent so much energy harping and nitpicking on that episode's inconsistencies that I just don't care anymore. I'd say "just bring on the next season and let me see where the series goes at this point".

9/10, Amazing Dashie looks amazing.

If your only available drawing tool is a mouse I'd suggest learning how to draw using vectors, you can get pretty darn excellent results with that once you get the hang of it.

Well, considering that Chryssalis, and The lord and saviour of all that is equine, Faust, are not options... I have to go with the third best option, the princess of the night. (Purely for the awesome design and cool powers.)

We still don't know how it will affect anything in the future so I don't understand how you could already regret that Princess Twilight isn't a great thing. For all we know the show might take your idea.

You are completely in the right my friend, I cannot read the minds of the writers and Hasbro, nor can I predict the future. I can not truly "regret" Princess Twilight yet because... well... you said it, there's not enough to really "regret". That having been said, the entirety of season 3 left a bitter taste in my mouth and I will be the first to admit that my entire statement before caries a tone of bias to it.

I just can't see them making a change to the formula like the one I described. As much as I want to believe it, I just. can't. see. it. 

Would you change anything in the latest episode or do you think it's fine as is?

Well, I by no means think it's "fine as is", so assuming I would be put into charge of re-writing the episode right at this moment, having seen all the fan responses, positive and negative, I would make... let's say... three changes.

Firstly, I'd split it into 2 episodes, give some more time to flesh out the real focus of the episode, because I think most people can generally agree that it felt rushed.

Secondly, I'd give less time for the coronation, because for a good amount of time we were looking at a story without conflict, considering that the one conflict in the episode had already been resolved. And to me it kinda seemed like the show was stroking its... uhm... "alicorn horn" for the latter part of the episode.

Finally, I guess I'd add in more relevance to certain pre-established stuff. For one, Discord. They needed him for something in the future, this seems like an opportunity to me. I doubt he'd want to see his new friend Fluttershy affected by magic that resulted in her being so unhappy.

Or how about the evil corrupt black Sombra magic? I honestly thought they were going somewhere with that and I can't be the only one with that thought. Or the crystal empire... I don't know, I guess I'm kind of grasping at straws for that one, but my point still stands that I don't think those few additions would ruin the episode and could in fact add something to it in the form of binding the season together.

Oh yeah, with the extra time, maybe another song or two. I didn't care much for them, but there are a lot of people who do, so in my mind, why not give them more of what they liked? 

My friend, you have just perfectly echoed my main opinion on shooters, there's just too many and they're just too similar for me to care. (Though if the companies actually have the balls to team up and make a game named "Call of Battlefield 18: Modern Warfighter" I would laugh my ass off and applaud them. Who knows, I might even buy it just for the heck of it.)

I don't think it would hurt much for there to be a drop in the number of different FPSes, or even just have the same amount, but take more risky design philosophies when making it. Also, to the companies, please stop the full game sequels if you're creating what could basically be a game patch plus some DLC (and the same applies to you New super Mario bros. series! Don't think I can't see you in that corner).

Again, I think game developers need to create more new IPs, but come to think of it, I'd say this applies to more than just shooters.

I think Princess Twilight would be a great thing... if it actually affects anything in Equestria. Oh yeah! And if they cut out all the boring paperwork-esque stuff that would come with the responsibilities, though at the moment I think only the latter is true. I just can't see them changing up the status quo all that much for season four, maybe the first and last episodes (at best 4 out of 26 from what I've heard) would be affected, but the entire rest would just be more slice-of-life stuff with Twilight relegating herself to the stuff she usually does with near complete disregard of her princesshood.

Don't get me wrong, I would appreciate that effort of sticking to the old formula and I think it would be an admirable thing to do, but I have two major issues with that if it would be the case:

Firstly, it would make the entire coronation thing entirely pointless in the long run. If Twilight gets promoted to the most respected rank in Equestria and has no responsibilities, then why did she need to transform at all?

Secondly, I just can't realistically imagine the majority of Equestria treating her normally after such a change. Ponyville is excused, because it could be argued that over the time she has spent there she got to know everypony there to the point of them not being intimidated by her anymore, but places like Canterlot, where social status means everything? They should go buck-wild if they even hear an announcement that a princess will be mingling among them, even if just for a day. Just look at how they treat poor Celestia, everyone is always so honoured to be in her presence that she barely gets any freedom to go through a regular day in ponyville without everybody orbiting around her like she has honey pasted on her flank, just imagine how this would apply to the upperclass nuts in Canterlot.

Not to mention that it would be a huge waste of potential. With the change the whole symbolic symmetry in the group has pretty much been broken already, so why not take advantage of that and use Twilight as an excuse to show us more of Equestria? Change her and the mane six into diplomats and every so often take the opportunity to send them on a train ride to some foreign place that has a problem that needs an outside hand to solve. We have yet to see the zebra, changeling, or gryphon societies, and I'm sure there are many other places that could be interesting to see in the show. Heck, I'd even go for seapony Atlantis if it means that alicorn Twilight actually affects anything. This way Hasbro can simultaneously use their own change to market their ware in the show, and we could get an extra occasional non-slice-of-life episode.

I think this sounds reasonable, do I sound crazy when I propose this?

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I'm very sorry for the long run-on sentences, I need to learn to remedy that.