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  1. Drakkon
    I didn't feel that Season 4 was much different in terms of quality than any other. I'm actually in the middle of rewatching—I'm at Season 3 right now. And honestly, I find Season 4 to be an average season. Probably better than Season 3 since it has twice as many episodes, and I still find Season 1 the "worst", if only because I might simply be tired of it after so long. Season 4 was refreshing, and for the first time introduced a formal season-wide story arch, which was an interesting development. Of course, Season 1 had the Grand Galloping Gala, and Season 3 had the book affair, but they were much less pronounced. I was not honestly impressed with the arch I'll be fair, but it's not as though I hate it or think it was awful. I just didn't find it to be amazing. I am in love with some episodes such as Filli Vanilli, and I find it hard to go through some others such as the Breezies. No different for me than how I felt about Winter Wrap Up and The Show Stoppers in Season 1 and Magical Mystery Cure and Spike at Your Service in Season 3, "love" and "hardtogothrough" respectively. Which is why Season 4 ranks average for me and Season 2 I still find to be the best, simply because it has no episode that I feel like it's a chore to start and finish. My chart basically goes 2 > 4 >= 3 > 1. I understand if some people disagree and find a large number of episodes in Season 4 to be bad, but I just don't find it really awful. It's the same pony I've seen for years, and I don't fear that the quality is dropping, as some expressed about Season 4. I think that Studio B rarely fails to deliver. I am hoping that they will not only deliver, but deliver something outstanding that will surely stand for a long time as a classic, something that will always be remembered as the highlight, big showcase of not only the season but the show. Every season had an episode or episodes like that, and I think Season 4 had them in the form of Three's a Crowd, Pinkie Pride and Twilight's Kingdom. Some people are expecting every episode to be Winter Wrap Up, the Grand Galloping Gala, Return of Harmony, Lesson Zero etc, but really every season had big exciting ones like that, but also had some more average ones that weren't as memorable.
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    Friendship is Magic part 1. Since I've just rewatched it, she was saying here, "I've been sent from Canterlot to—" and then gets cut off and Rarity daydreams about living there, if that rings any bells.
  3. Drakkon
    Fashion pony cannot lose to moon pony! Keep it up, Rarifans!
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    Dulset means the voice in the S1 opener Friendship is Magic, and it's the childlike voice I was referring to. She had only one line with this voice though.
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    I'd honestly be quite sad. Like said above me, the voices have become iconic, and I can't really imagine the characters speaking any different. An exception would be Luna, her voice never really sat right with me, just because her voice is sometimes so similar to Rarity's (I don't find her original voice any more fitting though. Too childlike). Although it would be unfair for me to criticize the voice actor, as sometimes you notice Fluttershy's voice sounding like Pinkie's—her manic laughter and consecutive "woah" in the Grand Galloping Gala being a classic example—but it's very rare, much less than Tabitha. Though even Andrea doesn't top Ashleigh as I've never actually noticed Rainbow Dash and Applejack exchanging voices. Slightly more on-topic, there was actually—at least where I was at the time—an uproar during the pause between Season 1 and 2 from a rumor that a mane cast voice actor has been replaced. I think it was Andrea Libman or Ashleigh Ball, but I can't remember. During the opening people were going, "Hear? Different voice! Different vooiiiceee!" in the livestream of Return of Harmony, and as the episode went on the chants of "it was just a rumor enough already" won over. I was quite relieved!
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    In my experience, it's Luna that usually wins or nearly wins everything. I was honestly tempted to side by her, I did last time I participated in a Best Pony poll. It's time for a change though!
  7. Drakkon
    In honor of your bravery, I've changed my avatar to Rarity!
  8. Drakkon
    Go Rarity, most fabulous of ponies!
  9. Drakkon
    Please say if you're still getting this. We were installing a new hook around that time and received similar reports.
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    An ad in ponycountdown way back in season 2.
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    general questions Full Editor

    Drakkon replied to Vocaloid_IA's topic in Site Questions

    I'm not entirely sure what you mean. For practicality purposes, the text you write is not immediately parsed For example, if you hit the Smiley icon, you can see the full array of emoticons. If you click one, you'll see that it appears in the post. However, you can click the button at the top-left corner of your editor twice to immediately convert all your BBCode. ...however, uh, if you mean you don't know how to access this then all you need to do is click the button next to your 'Post' button, called 'Upload Files + More Reply Options'.
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    Yeah, I'm in a similar vein as @cutecindyhoney. I don't find any episodes really boring, I enjoy the work they put in all the episodes, however some episodes I found to be less entertaining, in the sense that I'm usually thinking about the next episode rather than focusing on my enjoyment on the current one. Say, the Show Stoppers, or Family Appreciation day, or really most of - I'm sad to admit this - the Applejack or the Apple-family oriented episodes. I actually love quite a few, such Apple Family Reunion and Super Speedy Cider Squeezy. But others such as The Last Roundup and Leap of Faith are less enjoyable for me.
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    general questions Weapons and Outbreaks

    Drakkon replied to Critical Mass's topic in Site Questions

    It is not possible to "decrypt" a password here, as they are not encrypted. The storage method is known as a "one-way hash"; it uses an existing algorithm such as sha to take an input (password), salt it, and then one-way hash it. The only possible method to breach an account is if you have a virus, or if the person bruteforces it. The last method will take several centuries though.
  14. Drakkon
    United States, no doubt about it. I love the English language and the only reason I'm not moving there the first moment I can is because I love my family and my national identity. If for any reason I couldn't do either anymore, I'd definitely go there!
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    Because her cutie mark is about tricks and flashy magic, I believe. Many unicorns seem to have cutie marks that revolve around a specific magical ability or affinity to something (see Rarity, gems). Twilight, however, is an exception with her talent being magic itself.
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    Just because it's her job doesn't mean it's her lifelong dream to give books to everyone. Your job doesn't define you, same as a garbage disposal man doesn't feel the unquenchable need to take out somebody's full garbage when he comes across it on an off-day. Not to mention, it's not her job—my mother works at the library as well, but she's a data engineer. It's a volunteer thing in town, separate from her job, and I would say there are similarities here with Twilight, considering she's a princess, and before that a student. She also didn't declare she'd never give the book to anyone—she said what I said, that those books have special meaning and she shouldn't just give them away like that. That being at some fair to some stranger; same as I'd be happy to part with my book to a junior family member one day to help them. Those books have special meaning, if you are to part with them it should be under similarly special circumstances.
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    That's not really fair. I have an old book about the concept of programming, but it was the first book I read—courtesy of my uncle—about programming. I may lend it out to someone one day, but it has special meaning to me—I am unlikely to dump it or hand it out to a random person. Similar reasons are drawn here, not to mention that this really wasn't the lesson of the episode.
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    I'm sure we'll see extremely powerful and less powerful but no less dangerous villains in the future. I think we hit the peak of the power curve though, I doubt we'll see many villains more powerful than Tirek was at his pinnacle. We might though!
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    Depends on who you ask and when. At work, I'm an officer in my unit and people say I'm doing a much better job than my predecessor and we're all good friends, so 7/10? In school I was very quiet, but notably during recess I always read these huge novels and that kind of attracted some attention, since I read them literally everywhere. In elementary, I sat with both legs on my chair with my shirt spread over them, citing "cold", when really I was just hiding my book in there. I read while walking, I read during recess, etc. For some reason, people thought I was really smart and must have top grades or something, but in reality my grades were really average to mediocre and I was never able to really bring myself to properly study for any test, since I was more interested in programming, video games and the internet. People were often trying to chat with me though, so I guess I must have been doing something right, probably an average 7/10 again. Overall, just... averagely popular!
  20. Drakkon
    Yeah, I meant the concern that I may either be using my microwave wrong or that it's in general broken (and if it was, it's been so for a looong time). I'm from Israel, and it's called "Hot Pop". I sometimes buy other brands but they all also have the same time, one of them even advises for 5 minutes (which is why I got into the habit of putting in 5)
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    I think it is, but the thing is, when we did just use the timer and then start without pressing any button, the micro just made sounds and acted like it was working but never did. This was when we bought it. We tried something like 5 times to cook (coincidentally, popcorn) trying to do it different ways until one time it completely burned out. Ever since then we're using Micro no questions asked. I'll look for power options, thanks! Never found some but I'm sure I can dig up the manual from... somewhere. Okay so this actually quite concerned me since it implied I microwaved everything too slow, so I called up some friends. All of them agree that it takes them 3 minutes to cook their microwave, so I think it's the popcorn product in the country that takes this long. I looked in the back and it says the microwave should run on high power, and that it will take between 2 to even 4 minutes depending on wattage.
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    I must have been living a lie with a pretty terrible microwave, how are all of you people achieving perfect popcorn in one minute? By one minute there isn't even any popping yet, for me. I usually put on five minutes (for no particular reason) and then between 2:10 and 2:20 remaining (so after nearly 3 minutes) I manually cancel once I get the feeling that it's ready. Sometimes it's ready at an early time such as 2:20 and sometimes really late at 2:10 or even slightly later. Or actually, since my microwave has a number of "options", I may have been using it wrong for years. I just hit the "Micro" button (There's grill, Jet Defrost, Crisp, Fitness, and some other stuff).
  23. Drakkon
    Didn't they give a Q1 2015 estimate? Storyboarding had to have finished months ago. I'm pretty sure they meant that it's completely done, which considering the timeframe sounds entirely reasonable.
  24. Drakkon
    My eyes are brown, and while it's not exactly some kind of hollywood sapphire blue or emerald green or, like one of my friends, one eye blue and one eye brown, I'm so glad for practicality my eyes are brown. It's much harder to get blinded by light. People around me were covering their eyes when I was in a snowy area yesterday as their eyes slightly hurt when they looked at the snow, and I'm just, "Uh, guys?"
  25. Drakkon
    It is very, very rare for me to read a fanfic. I think the last one I read was On a Cross and Arrow. But all the ones I did find were from Equestria Daily.
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