Dawnshine Wonder

Beatport is another alternative I use, any legit music provider for downloads or CD singles or albums is better than streaming though.

Agreed, out of all features in media players, song rating is perhaps the most useless feature in them. Great, some people rate some of their songs 4/5 or whatever, but nobody cares. People either like listening to a song or they don't. Chances are if people have songs on their device for long periods of time, a month or more, they either like the song or ignored its existence, so we'd assume. Rating a song does not automatically make it more popular, surveys are used to determine that, not the rating itself. All I use Jriver for on my device is to listen to CD's I like, if I don't enjoy a song, I skip it. I'll be putting Ponyphonic - Lullaby for a Princess on this thing later on. It goes without saying yeah I use Bandcamp to get some songs digitally, the only exception to the listening to CD thing I mentioned.

Calm, listening to music on my computer is helpful for that. I got great friends like Snoopy Fan to talk to on this forum as well. I've not been active on Twilight Soapbox recently, and to be fair with you I see no reason to discuss things for the sake of it. It's more the case of, what is bothering us at the time is when it works. And as for my My Little Pony FIM fan fiction, I can discuss that without Twilight Soapbox involved, I only brought it up there for comparison, why me and my friend @Night Sky here would rather live in the fictional world of Equestria from G4, than the hellscape that is the real world. At least villains there end up defeated some time or other, and it doesn't take them growing old and dying for that to happen. Love is almost like a universal law in Equestria, but here in the real world, and especially in communities outside this forum, love is not valued as much as it should be, relationships are often toxic and more about ulterior motives, and even individuals with a sketchy history who did make an effort to reform, people are quick to ignore that, look at critics of the Beauty of the Beast movie and you will see what I mean. Redemption is not possible? only if you believe that to be the case, and unfortunately that is a view held by many. That's the reason I've been avoiding the Twilight Soapbox forum section, I don't want to discuss anything which is either unnecessary or is a waste of time.

I was thinking of this part of my MLP fan fiction for the final chapter which I am not even close to writing yet, but this is a sticky note idea type of thing to keep the basic concept memorized, where Discord places his magic of his immortality in a crystal, then asks Fluttershy's ghost to either keep it or smash it, he does not try to stop her, and tells her she can do what she likes with it. Fluttershy after seeing what eternal separation is doing to Discord's psyche, she does the merciful thing, and grants him peace, Discord fears growing old, but Fluttershy reassures him he will be okay, and that one day they will be reunited to be together for eternity and at peace. this corrects an abysmal piece of writing from G5 official, where Discord's fate is much worse than the alternative. I know he has made mistakes, but he does not deserve this outcome IMO.

I got screenshots working on my Linux system, it was simple actually, all I had to do was press the print screen key, and it activated an application called grim. On another good note, I installed the Sandisk extreme pro sd card in my machine and it is much faster, especially noticeable with web browser use. True SD cards generally die quicker than SSDs do, but those things are cheap to replace anyway so I'm not too worried about it. As long as I got important files backed up who cares, does not take long to install Debian.

I like this desktop theme I put together on my Linux system, thanks to the MLP 2017 movie DVD I have a copy of. I could not do this on Windows because of the copy protection nonsense interfering with screenshots, I'm giving up with Windows altogether from now on. The final straw for me was when I could not make a screenshot of a film I paid for a licensed copy of, both for personal use and commentary on forums. Wouldn't something like that would fall under fair use? I'm not a lawyer so I don't even know for certain. Either way, Windows sucks, it is too restricted, not in terms of compatibility for software, that is not the issue, the issue is how it can be annoying to customize the look of, as evidenced by posts here. Anyhow, I enjoyed Ponyfying my Raspberry Pi 5 desktop, it has been a rewarding experience.

Finishing rewatching episode 3 of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic - The Ticket Master. I like how fair Twilight Sparkle was to her friends, forfeiting the tickets because she did not have enough for everypony in her group. How many friends do you know who would do that for you? when people value their relationship and needs of each other more than their own wants, that is love. Sometimes being there for a friend is more important than going to some event you're only going to see once in a lifetime. This is what makes me respect Twilight Sparkle, this is who she is and is meant to be in the show, and I'd like to have a friend like her if I were in that fantasy world as a Pony myself, I could learn a lot about friendship from her influence, and she and others like her, are the reason why I would love Equestria so deeply.

The Simpsons is a great show too. Yeah I get the joke, everybody else here would. But thinking about how many episodes I had watched from that show, Treehouse of Horror specials are some of my favourite ones.

Some people on other forums may have questioned why I am now using a Raspberry Pi 5 for using MLP forums. The reason for that is simple, its low energy drain, it's an eco friendly option, especially now that I got my LED lights on my shelf pulling energy with it, which serve both as decoration and as a modern desk lamp. And because it doesn't have a built in fan, it's less noisy as well which makes it ideal for a jukebox setup. And because it does not generate so much heat, I can keep my room cooler in summer. Not every application needs a souped up x86 machine with dedicated graphics cards, kind of the reason not everybody needs to own a sports car on a -40mph limit road, what it is used for and why does matter.

Still listening to a Ministry of Sound CD album on Jriver. This album was put together by Boy George and Judge Jules and I got to say it is one of the best albums I have listened to.

Ouch, that sucks. I still got my laptop, it is old but still usable, and thankfully has a safeguard against nooby mistakes like that. Laptop motherboards like most PC motherboards automatically throttle the CPU, or in the worst case, shut down if the temperature is too high. Still it is not sensible practice to keep our electronics under blankets though, if there is a design fault or it has no built in safety features, it can cause a fire. And yeah I suppose I could use my laptop for the same purpose, watch films, but why do that when I don't travel a lot? it's easier to use my desktop computer to watch movies and TV shows.

I may just install my 256gb extreme pro SD card in my Pi 5 system, high endurance would have been a benefit if the thing wasn't so slow. Defeats the purpose, my Pi 5 has 8gb of RAM so there would not be enough writes to kill the SD card in any short space of time anyway.

I used to have one but the battery became defective and I had to get rid of it for safety reasons. I miss it though because it was region free, and would playback imports, some DVDs of cartoon shows I have will only work with region 1 DVD players. Powerpuff Girls being one of them, Courage the Cowardly Dog being another. And if my My Little Pony FIM and Ed Edd n Eddy DVDs are region 1 that's another problem, because it means I have to keep my DVD drive connected to my Raspberry Pi 5 PC in region 1 mode, and their region cannot be changed infinitely which sucks. VLC Player is great but it has its limitations no thanks to DRM.

Little Ed Blue episode of Ed Edd n Eddy - Big Trouble!

I suppose you got a point, at least they added a different villain this time around though and did not keep reusing the same ones from previous story arcs. Storm King I thought was an interesting character, though he got what he deserved at the end IMO, for trying to keep Ponies enslaved.

Listening to a Ministry of Sound CD album, not too much going on besides that and me talking to family.

If you were in a VR simulated world with them however it is reasonable to expect their character models to appear more 3D.

Funny how that works, on the same month I got the Queen Chrysalis action figure, my MLP profile is ranked evil Changeling, yikes, good thing she is not real, if she thought I had any allegiance with her cult or worshiped her, she may try to recruit me.

I couldn't help but notice Tirek and Queen Chrysalis both have something in common, they both have egos the size of a quasar.

I love how passionate she yells that Rarity truly would be an exciting friend to have if we lived as Ponies in the fantasy world Equestria.