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Espy

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  1. Banner by @Treeglow Flicker MLP Forums Banner Contest - 2025 Hello everyone, welcome to the 2025 MLP Forums Banner Contest! Site banner submissions have been open for some time but it's been very stagnant. To help stir up activity, we're holding a contest specifically for banners! Theme The theme for this contest is Seasons! In preparation for 2026, we are looking for pony-themed site banners to use for the whole year. There will be a total of 4 winning submissions for each season which will be used accordingly as the main banner for the (rough) length of a season. Winners will be credited accordingly and all participants may also earn a badge. Rules Your banner(s) must be related to any of the four seasons: Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall/Autumn You are allowed to submit as many banners as you'd like Banners must preferably be sized 225 x 1000 pixels (H x W) Please note that your best submission for each season will be the only one considered for the final round of voting for this contest Preferably, if you intend on sending multiple submissions, you can submit them all at once in the same submission rather than separately Please try to organize and group your submissions as best as possible if you want to send them all at once. This isn't a must but helps a lot! Your banner(s) must be related to My Little Pony in some way Any generation of MLP is allowed Your banner(s) must feature MLP Forums somewhere It can be written/drawn out or use the official logo text (provided in the spoiler box below) Example: "MLP Forums" or "MLPForums.com" would be acceptable You are allowed to collage (combine/stitch together) vector art to create your banner Still frames from official media may also be used OC's and official characters may be used Parodies are also okay too as long as the main theme is followed Your banner(s) must follow the site rules; please keep it appropriate!!! Official MLP Forums logo text: DO NOT SUBMIT: A banner that is unrelated to the given theme Please see the bottom of this post where to submit these banners An old banner, especially one that you did not make Anything that is considered inappropriate for these forums (refer to the site rules) Anything that is completely unrelated to My Little Pony This includes random SFW images and memes Anything that is considered a troll submission Specifically: blatantly low effort, or maliciously spamming submissions for the sole purpose of making it difficult to sort through Not following any of these rules will result in varying consequences depending on the situation. This can range from your submission being disqualified from this event to your account being banned from the site. Deadline Submissions for this contest will be open from August 5th, 2025 - September 5th, 2025. Judging MLPF staff will pick the best submission from each participant for each season as soon as possible. Afterwards, all of the handpicked best submissions will be voted on by the community and the winners will be announced afterwards. There will, at most, be four winners by the end of it. One for each season! The winning submissions will have their banners used accordingly as the default site banner throughout 2026. All participants may receive a badge for participating. Submitting a Banner To submit your banners for this contest, please go to the bottom of this page, select: Contest Banner Submissions -> 2025 We encourage submitting your banners in one submission rather than multiple to streamline the judging process. If there are any more questions, comments or concerns, please feel free to ask below or directly to either @Dynamo Pad or @Espy. Please note that we are always looking for new banners made by members of this community! Banners can always be submitted even when there is no banner contest running at this link, which also has general information regarding banners (if you submit one that is not for a contest, make sure you select Regular Banner Submissions -> 2025 (or whatever the current year is): https://mlpforums.com/event-team/banner-submissions/?do=form&d=22
  2. Astral vibes

     

  3. Espy

    mega thread What are you thinking?

    Getting ignored by every staff member at another community about a report I made a while ago sucks. They're just memeing about things in the main chat channel. And yes I did read the new AND the old rules even though you clearly meant me when you said "why does nobody read the rules?" publicly after I tried to contact staff about my now "stale" report. I get the rules changed from then and now, thats why I'm asking so please give me an answer here. I don't mind if you disregard it now because the new rules don't explicitly state that people shouldn't do it anymore. Also for the other people if you donated money to them that doesn't give you any liberty to talk like you have authority, and quit being a smart ass too. I didn't bait anyone, and y'all know that I don't bait people. If anything y'all are the ones on the game every day baiting people and making them upset so you can get them to say and do something unhinged for your stupid brainrot compilations and also so you can get these players banned. Ever wonder why the player count has decreased so much? This is the biggest reason. You can change the game mechanics as much as you want but that won't fix the same 10 or so people from baiting people to make them leave or crash out hard. I promise if you ban this group then there will actually be some player growth again since they're some of the most toxic individuals I've ever met. Not the most, but they are up there. Oh and yes I have met this group before. Please don't talk to me like I haven't run into them for the past few years. I choose not to give them the reaction they want because if they're busy with me then that means people who are trying to play the game can actually *gasp* play the game. Sorry. Really pissed about this right now.
  4. They updated FL Studio from 24 to 25! The loop starter feature is kinda meh tho, I feel like that's gonna get abused a lot. Everything else is good though!
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    mega thread What are you thinking?

    These recent book bans and careless training and destruction of books for AI training might've reignited reading as a serious hobby for me again. At least this time I don't have to stop every few pages to do an assignment just for a grade can't believe school killed it for me so many years ago.
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    mega thread What are you thinking?

    Can one of you listing watchers buy this thing off me already??? it's been a few months that it's been listed and I already lowered the listing price quite a bit... way under market value now and it should be better value with the additional goodies. Whatev Also I think this is a great addition to the forums ->
  7. Those are great picks! Monrroe and Hybrid Minds were some of the artists that got me back into DnB. It's a shame that liquid got the "sleepy" reputation over the years. It can be very energetic too! at one point you could safely mix a liquid track with techstep and neurofunk, but it's super jarring nowadays, oh well. Anyways... I saw a distributor list this one, new old stock apparently. They listed a few so I might be able to grab a copy + they aren't so expensive. State of Play - Stranger Days (Marcus Intalex & ST Files Remix)
  8. @Ice Princess Silky <3

    Excuse me lady

    Why am I ablen't to change my name to this??? :flutter-table-flip:

     

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    1. Sparklefan1234

      Sparklefan1234

      Me have? Cookie Monster? 🍪:pinkie-gasp:

    2. Raskolnikov

      Raskolnikov

      Me've, the ancient forbidden slur :twi-thisisfine::Cozy:!!!!

    3. Sparklefan1234

      Sparklefan1234

      *Looks it up* Move? 🤔

  9. Welcome! That's a very nice pfp you have
  10. I should probably try to move on from Windows 10. It seems like Native Instruments and Arturia would be the biggest pain to get working though (for me). Including their app managers. Arturia would suck the most if it doesn't work because I really like their stuff! I'm gonna place this here for myself later or if anyone else wants it: https://linuxdaw.org
  11. This is definitely a great episode for me! I still need to collect my full thoughts on it eventually but this one stands out to me a lot. That one scene with all of the eyes spinning around Flutters was intense for me. That's a really good way to demonstrate how I feel almost every day with lots of things, even if I don't show it or say it, it's a very real thing for me. But something of note is Dash setting her ego aside at the end. I know she gets a lot of crap for her character as the show goes on by some people in this fandom since she's very boastful, but this is undeniably one of her better moments. Her big goal was to set a new record in front of Spitfire and look good in front of her for it, but she let that go when it was apparent that just getting the whole thing done was barely possible. She was able to convince Flutters for help instead of needlessly putting her down and they were able to get past the threshold as a result.
  12. A new release by Calibre! I was kinda right with it being liquid dnb. The other side is actually more like some mellow UK Garage/Breaks. Calibre & Chelou - No Man Is An Island
  13. Look! The light reflecting off my midi piano keys looks so pretty :fluttershy:

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    1. Sophie

      Sophie

      I love dis! 

  14. Espy

    mega thread What are you thinking?

    I'm glad nobody saw me try to drink from the handle of a spoon
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  16. *opens fridge*

    :derpy-unimpressed:who put this here?

    1. Sparklefan1234
    2. Samurai Equine

      Samurai Equine

      :flutter-wonder:

      ... (Gently pushes a @Chocolate Milk to the back of the fridge)

  17. I kinda forgot to post about this one! Music label showcase: Soul:R / Revolve:r Soul:R (pronounced like "solar" and also written as Soulr) was a drum and bass label founded and ran by Marcus Intalex & ST Files since 2001, primarily releasing a variety of liquid funk and techstep. It also ran alongside sister label Revolve:r as well as hosting Soul:ution club nights. Revolve:r in particular started releasing drum and bass, but quickly shifted to releasing some dubstep and techno by the end of it's lifespan. It's considered as one of the best drum and bass labels of all time but unfortunately shut down operations in 2017/2018 after the sudden death of Marcus Intalex. (Cause of death is publicly unknown; I believe the label Metalheadz handles business for them now, they just don't release anything new on Soul:R out of respect other than remasters and new vinyl record prints of older releases.) It's tough to separate Soul:R from Marcus Intalex. His first love was actually with techno, but he got dragged into what was jungle at the time and began releasing music (as a collab with Mark XTC and L Double) under the name Da Intalex (What Ya Gonna Do - 1994) before his legendary collabs with ST Files (How You Make Me Feel - 1999; Just A Vision (Remix) - 2000; Universe - 2001, just to name a few). How You Make Me Feel is actually considered as one of the first "liquid funk" tracks to be released, right before the 2000's hit. It was much different than what many other artists were releasing at the time which made it stand out a lot. Actually, the B side to it is Neptune, which is a lot more representative of what was dominating drum and bass. They also released Taking Over Me during this time on Hospital Records. Also, they made the song Smart Systems for the game Wipeout Pulse, which I've heard is one of the best songs ever made for the franchise. What's funny is that he and ST Files didn't get along at first. Afaik, they worked at a record shop together for a while and their rave music tastes didn't fit together mostly. Marcus Intalex preferred darker sounding stuff while ST Files liked brighter cheesier stuff, but eventually they got along. Later on, Marcus Intalex would make a turn towards more techno-related works under the alias Trevino and ran the label Birdie. And unexpectedly he passed away in 2017. A book was written about him called How You Make Me Feel, which I still need to grab and read for myself. The Marcus Intalex Music Foundation was set up afterwards, also ST Files started a label called Br:nk with two releases: Grow and Astral Plane, both done with Calibre. There have also been some postmortem releases, the most recent being an older collab with Mako called Keep Your Cool which was released quite recently. But anyways, back to Soul:R. The name itself didn't have much thought put into it. Afaik it's literally just the word soul stylized with a colon and an R at the end of it because it was the 2000's, everything needed to look cool like that. Alongside the M.I.S.T duo, they featured artists like Calibre, D.Kay & DJ Lee, DJ Marky & XRS, High Contrast, Sonic & Silver, Martyn, Phil Tangent, and LSB, to name a few. It's got one of the most powerful lineups ever as well as being one of the least controversial lineups, relatively speaking. I personally don't feel a single bit grimy with buying from any of these artists and the label as a whole. A lot of other labels have some sort of controversy or some issue that an artist gets involved in (ranging from the label not paying their artists properly, to some artists becoming insufferable pricks), but that isn't the case here. Well, maybe other than Commix... who scammed some people and has a drug addiction apparently (that's probably why he scammed people). But it used to be a trio, then a duo, then a solo project when the 2010's passed by. They also ran an online radio show called Soul:ution Radio. I don't know when it ended but it definitely started in the early 2000's. Pretty much playing and promoting music from inside the studio, quite standard. But yeah, here's the playlist, combining both Soul:R and Revolve:R. Enjoy! This Ain't Love is one of my favorites now btw, I love it a lot!
  18. I'm sure we've all listened to some music before and thought it sounded like it was specifically made for a video game when it actually wasn't. If you've ever experienced this feel free to share below! Right now I'm giving the Total Science duo a proper listen through and ran across this one from them. Originally released in 2000 on their Advance album, this track has that weird video game OST quirkyness to it especially of that time period. But it was never made or featured in a video game afaik! Total Science - Jinx
  19. Espy

    mega thread What are you thinking?

    This is exactly how ridiculous it sounds. I'm still getting people responding to a comment I made a while ago telling me it will "never happen" despite the admittedly obscure information about this one specific scenario because, especially modern day, it doesn't fail. The actual technical experts that I've been referencing have said it's designed to not fail, but they also say that there's a possibility it could fail. It's just a very rare situation to be in that it's the last thing to be worried about. I'm wondering if people think when I used the word "concern" they think it means I take it with higher priority. That wasn't how I was using the word. It's the only situation that makes me concerned because it usually means there's a larger mess to clean up, which I would actually take with higher priority. The other situations are just an easy and inexpensive fix which doesn't concern me.
  20. Espy

    mega thread What are you thinking?

    Just because it never happened to you (in your "over 20 years" of experience) doesn't mean it never happens at all.
  21. @Ice Princess Silky <3 How do the we do the voting for the funny faces?
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    mega thread What are you thinking?

    My bank's email verification system couldn't be ANY SLOWER could it? Waiting 30 minutes already for a verification code.
  23. I was scrolling through old, forgotten websites, it's crazy how much of a wild west it was.
  24. This video about a game I was waiting for being canceled! Hypnospace Outlaw is a fun game and I was waiting for this sequel to be released
  25. You are chaos :v

    1. Bairro Moetriet Vagrant

      Bairro Moetriet Vagrant

      That's how you ponies praise someone?:smolder:

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