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  1. Lightning Fluttershy
    For the last few months, I've been engrossed in reading the visual novel known as Little Busters! made my the company Key. There are different routes to take simply by making choices throughout the game. These routes all circle around the girls Rin, Komari, Haruka, Kurugaya, Kud, and Mio. Depending on what choices you make, you can get the route of one of those listed. There are an extra three routes in the Ecstasy version of the game, but only after you've completed the final route known as Refrain.
     

     
    Refrain,,, Refrain is what makes this work of art so amazing.This route, the final route, is perhaps the most powerful thing I've ever read as far as jerking the old heartstrings. Rin, who is the main heroine of the story, has her route divided into two parts, Rin1 and Rin2. Refrain is a direct continuation of Rin2. Rin2 can only be completed after completing all the other routes, which include Haruka, Komari, Kud, Kurugaya, Mio, and Rin1. Trust me, if you decide to play it, Refrain is well worth the 40+ hours of your time going through each route.
     
    Jun Maeda, Key's main man as far as story writing and music composing gos, truly shows off his talent in Refrain. I'm not going to give any spoilers in this blog, but I am going to deeply encourage anyone who reads this to play Little Busters! EX. It's around 100 bucks if you have the money or you can download a free torrent of the game.
     
    Little Busters! is without a doubt my favourite work out there of everything I've ever read or watched, it's pure art. The writing, music, and art all are beautiful. Refrain is perhaps the most emotional thing I've ever encountered in the short 16 years I've been alive. I couldn't help but cry when reading Refrain and even some parts of the other common routes. I DEEPLY recommend Little Busters! EX to anyone looking for amazing music, amazing art, or simply a tear-jerking story. I just finished Refrain a few days ago, and am still feeling the effects of it. Every time I see the face of one of the characters from the game it makes me want to cry. Not to mention, finishing Refrain unlocks all sorts of extras if you replay the common routes as well as the three new routes unlocked by completing Refrain.
     
    Download links below if you do want to play the game, I highly recommend giving it a shot. The common routes themselves are beautiful in their own right but don't compare to the final route, Refrain. The common routes are all important however as they foreshadow the events of Refrain.
     
    Order --> http://www.paletweb.com/selectpage.asp?code=0002302
     
    Free download (requires torrent downloading software) --> http://katproxy.com/hshare-net-little-busters-ex-t2223298.html
     
    English patch --> http://dl.blicky.net/lb/lb-english-ex-6.0.exe
  2. Lightning Fluttershy
    I'm generalizing here, but why does everyone seem to hate everything nowadays?
     
    Honestly, when Equestria Girls was announced, it received awful reception from the brony community, without even giving it a chance.
     
    Same goes for the Xbox One, which was just revealed today. As I scroll through Facebook and other forums, I see post after post about how it will be "laughable" as I saw in one post. It hasn't even been launched yet people are judging it.
     
    Another example, Apple products. Many, many people prefer Windows, which I understand, but they go out of their way to criticize Mac users. Macs are innovative in their own right and can perform some tasks better than Windows.
     
    Another few examples? Sure. Electronic Arts (EA) has an awful rep for overpricing products and being greedy, yet I honestly don't see the problem. They provide quality entertainment to the general population of gamers. I've never had a game of Battlefield 3 lag or crash on me. They even promised anyone who bought The Sims (which was awful and full of problems) on the release day a free pc game.
     
    I think a lot of people today hate just for the sheer point of hating. There's no need for it. Just because something is changing up how we do or see things, like Equestria Girls and the Xbox One, doesn't mean it's going to be awful.
  3. Lightning Fluttershy
    So yea, I returned about 10 days ago after my 2 month suspension. I don't think that too many people care or remember me though.
     
    So after about half a year of continually passing out, tiredness, etc. and chronic nightmares since I was little, my mother finally took me to the doctor a week ago for some tests. Today, I went back and received my diagnosis.
     
    I was diagnosed with narcolepsy, a sleeping disorder. My doctor says it explains my chronic nightmares, tiredness, and the recent occurrence of my random pass outs. (The passing out only started a couple months ago.) If you really want to know more about it, you can look it up.
     
    That's it, just an update in my life.
  4. Lightning Fluttershy
    So yep, the titles implies that I've been crying, and indeed I have. It's been a long time since I cried for a reason other than a sad fan fiction. This morning however, I woke up to some of the worse news I could hear IMO.
     
    This is difficult for me to type with only one hand seeing as my arm is broken, but it's important to me.
     
    Warning: In the following text you may come to think of me as: weak, pathetic, unrealistic, sad, etc. I don't give a fuck what any of you think of me at the moment though, heads up.
     
    So.... I'm sure the majority of you remember Clarity, our lovable AJ fangirl. This morning I woke up to the notion that I may not even get to talk to her anymore, or should I say, can no longer even be close friends with her. Now... if you didn't read my blog about my feelings for her, you should now. <<blog>>
     
    Here's where the majority of you may come to think of me as those lovely adjectives I mentioned earlier. See... I fell in love with a girl over the internet, Clarity. Now that the possibility of separation looms over my head however, I don't know what to do. I'm angry at a certain someone on the forums, I'm angry at myself, I'm angry at the internet, I'm angry at my life. For the first time in my life since my sister passed away 4 years ago, I feel emotionally distraught. I'll admit right here, when she mentioned that we may not even get to be close friends anymore, I broke down crying....
     
    Now for her reasoning behind it. See, she was caught on Skype at her school... and her teachers didn't take too kindly to what they saw. They saw her convos with spas, and we all know spas, how he can get. They saw her convos with me when we were together, lovey dovey and what not. Now they want to monitor her Skype for any fucking imperfection because they're puritans or something. That was rage induced, Clari said it's because they care about her. And so, they told her never to trust anyone on the internet and to never get to close to anyone on the internet. I would agree with them, good advice. My only fault is....... it applied to me too.... I can't even be her boyfriend anymore...
     
    This hits me so hard emotionally because... I don't have anyone anymore... no friends in real life to support me, never a friend like her before... this may sound cliche and maybe you think I need to get over her or whatever, but she was the only thing that mattered to me anymore. Yes, a girl who I've never met IRL, lives on the other side of the world, and I likely had no chance of seriously being with, meant the world to me. Now, we can still talk, but it can't be the same as it was before, when she could call me her BF and I could call her my GF and we could talk about whatever we wanted without a care or worry in the world. That doesn't seem to be the case anymore...
     
    Don't get me wrong, I still have her in Skype and can still talk, but like I said it won't be the same. Clarity is the only person in the world that seems to have the ability to make me happy, to make me forget about my problems in reality. She's tried to calm me on Skype... but this is too important to me.
     
    Clari, I know you're still lurking, and I've told this on Skype a hundred times, but I love you. You're the only person in the world who matters to me and making you happy is my only goal. <3 Know that even if you aren't allowed to love me, I will always, ALWAYS love you.
     
    Comments and thoughts are appreciated. I'm sure many of you just think of me as this weak, pathetic teen now...
  5. Lightning Fluttershy
    This is taken from my post on the "5 things you love about your favourite pony" thread. Read and understand where my bottomless love for her comes from.
     
    Oh, and Dimitri, this isn't me saying I'm the best fan, so no need to come in here and prove yourself. You won the contest, remember?
  7. Lightning Fluttershy
    So yea. I'm proposing to Clarity.
     
    All of you --->
     
    I've consulted it with Kirino and the girl herself, the time has come. Dunno how many of you know of my feelings for Clari. They're there though, and very strong. Getting all nostalgic now thinking about when we met. Our now passed love for fanfictions. Yours Truly being both of our favorite fanfic and the one that ultimately led me to send that one fateful PM to Clari, starting a friendship I know hold closer than anything. You're my best friend ever. I tell everything to you, am always honest about how I'm feeling to you, trust you with secrets I've never told anyone else. Oh the memories make me nostalgic. Don't even get me started on the countless hours spent playing RotMG together. I always wait for you, whether it be postponing watching an episode for you to wake up, or literally staying up without sleeping just to talk to you more. I still have bags under my eyes from that time I stayed up for 48 hours just for you. I'm always there whenever you're angry, annoyed, frustrated, or just when you need someone to talk to. I'm there when you need someone to swear at (every time you die in RotMG ). I'll even go WAY back to the early months of our friendship when we would watch episodes in my Synchtube channel. Random stuff would happen like randomly talking in third person to each other or stalkers with celery stalks.
     
    Those memories go on forever, I won't bore the rest of you . Even if the proposing thing isn't completely serious, I want you to know how much I care for you Clari. You've made a bigger impact on my life than anyone I've ever met, and I can't imagine not knowing you now. You've made me happy, you've made me laugh, you've made me better. When I needed someone to vent to or spill my heart out to, you're there. To this day you're the only person who knows about my incident with my father. I don't know how much longer I would have lasted without your support.
     
    So Clari, thank you.
     
    YOUR MOVE CLARI.
  8. Lightning Fluttershy
    We all knew it was coming and IGN has finally released the cinematic trailer today for The Elder Scrolls Online.

    I don't know if I speak for everyone, but I'm pretty damn excited for this to release. Bethesda has yet to disappoint me and I anticipate for that streak to hold up. I instantly fell in love with all The Elder Scrolls games as well as the Fallout games. This cinematic trailer looks extremely badass too.

  9. Lightning Fluttershy
    The title was in fact sarcasm. In case you don't know: Jagex, creator of Runescape, recently bought out Ace of Spades. Ace of Spades is a team based, online, first person shooter, sandbox game and WAS very unique until Jagex bought it,
     
    Ace of Spades combines a first person team based shooter with Minecraft. The point of the game is to eliminate the enemy team. There are nearly no limits to how you accomplish this though. The world is indeed made of blocks and you can dig tunnels underneath them and surprise them or simply run in, however you feel like doing it.
     
    Jagex successfully destroyed any need to build tunnels with the addition of jet packs. With these, you can simply fly over the enemy base at high speeds and take them out. May as well have taken out the digging aspect altogether, The digging animation itself is horrendous and so is the firing. The only thing Jagex managed to do right was make nice looking maps.
     
    If you don't believe me, take it from TotalBuscuit.

     
    So Jagex, I'm impressed. I never thought any company would be able to so terribly fuck up a game as good as Ace of Spades.
  10. Lightning Fluttershy
    Eh, hello everyone. Another blog about my family. Original I know.
     
    So, if you read my last blog you know that my dad finally agreed to stop drinking hard alcohol because I finally openly admitted that it was worrying me and I hated it. Well today I found him drinking it again and I kind of freaked out,
     
    Basically, when I saw him drinking even when he promised he'd stop, I started yelling. I was mad at him, like really mad. I just walked around the apartment yelling until I eventually just walked out the door and slammed it. I'm currently at my grandparents house.
     
    I'm still very much angry right now and I feel like I had every right to be. I'm afraid to return to our apartment however as he too was very much angry... usually it's him making me leave. This was the first time I left on my own, but he didn't stop me or care so neither do I. I'm afraid to return though because of how angry he was too. Clarity knows why I don't want to go back. Don't want.... repeats.
     
    So yup. I sit here my grandmothers couch writing this. Don't really know what to do. He broke his promise to me by drinking so I don't care. I want nothing to do with him.
  11. Lightning Fluttershy
    It's been like a month since my last blog.
     
    pt. 1
     
    Anyway, some bad news. If you read my old blog about it, you know how I feel about my family and how they act. Not necessarily how I like. For a long time I just assumed there was nothing I could do about it and slowly drifted away from them, slowly forming a resentment for them.
     
    Just recently however my mom and I discovered my dad has been drinking and driving for years, without us even knowing. AS angry as this made me, I was too worried about it to be angry. He could potentially kill himself. That's something I really don't want to happen whether I like my dad or not.
     
    For a week or so I just kind of left it however, afraid to say anything from past experiences. Today though he got home and the side mirror for our truck as smashed clean off from my dad driving into a light post in a parking lot. That was kind of the last straw.
     
    When he got sober, I told him how I honestly felt. How much I hate his drinking and how much I really do worry about him, even if our relationship is shaky. He didn't say much afterwords. Just kind of looked at me. After a minute or two he nodded and said I was right, and that he'll lay off the hard liquor for good.
     
    I don't know if he'll keep his word or not. He's said things like this before in the past and didn't remain true to his promise. This is, however, the farthest I've gotten talking to him about it so I'm happy. I can tolerate his drinking. When he gets drunk I usually just sit in my room and lock the door but his drinking and driving legitimately worried me.
  12. Lightning Fluttershy
    The reason I make this blog is just cuz I'm bored and I have school in 15 minutes.
     
    Anywho, to the point of the blog. These forums have become pretty boring to me. I don't know why this is so, but I just don't see the fun or draw to them like I used to. I haven't been spending nearly as much time here as I used to and am not posting nearly as much. I have over a month on my slate for time here (which is little compared to some people) but still a hell of a lot of time.
     
    I don't know if it's a lack of interest in ponies or simply the forums losing their novelty to me. I dunno. I haven't really been as interested in ponies as I used to either. While I was totally hyped for season 3 and was not literally dying to see it, I'm kind of lazy about new episodes. Watching them I mean.
     
    Also, I've been posting like twice a day around these forums unlike previously where I could be found in the top five top posters of the day. I dunno what's wrong and I hope it's not me losing interest in ponies because I love this fandom so much. It could and probably is just my cynical nature. Rest assured I'll probably stay for a few friends and the fan art.
     
    Just thought I'd say something in case anyone cares and notices any absences. (Probably no one though XD)
  13. Lightning Fluttershy
    I don't know how many of you are going to read this or even care but I'm having some family problems...
     
    Basically I don't like my family. I live in Toronto with my parents and brother and they're generally all right. What I'm talking about is that we have occasional family reunions... And that's where the true side of my family comes out. They are a bunch of drunken hill billies.
     
    I can't stand meeting with my family. I tend to be a more proper guy. using manors and I don't even touch alcohol. My family could not be more different. Whenever I meet with them they just sit around and drink and yell curses at each other. Most of them are hairy guys without shirts, keep in mind I go up to the country to see them. I wouldn't show my face around Toronto with them.
     
    Usually within a few hours they are drunk and then things get even worse. They get rowdy and even louder and just unpleasant to be around. Now I am almost the opposite of this. I really don't like alcohol, tend to be quiet, and try to be as polite as possible. It's hard to do with them... I remember our last reunion I yelled at a few of them for being loud while I was trying to read and yelled at them to take it outside. This did not improve our relations.
     
    Now yes they are my family and I love them to death, but does that mean I have to like them? To be proud of them? Because I do not like them nor am I proud of them.
  14. Lightning Fluttershy
    Well today I was bored out of my mind in math and began to day dream and think about stuff, one of them being the impact that these forums have made on me.
     
    It seems strange to me, but I can't seem to imagine NOT logging onto this website everyday and talking to all of you and posting things and role playing and all the other amazing things that these forums have brought me. Not to mention some of my best friends I met on here.
     
    It's been nearly four months now since I became a brony and joined this site, and something got me wondering. I lived for fifteen years without these forums and the fandom in general, seemingly okay but now I can't imagine what I would do without them.
     
    I don't really know what that means, but I'm guessing it's a true testement to how wonderful this place is, and how much I truly love it and every one of you.
     
    So long story short, this site seems to have impacted my life enough that I can't even imagine what I would do without them now. I'm so glad I made that choice nearly four months ago to hit that green "Join the Herd" button. Best choice of my life.

  15. Lightning Fluttershy
    Well I was scrolling through various forums until I found one particular thread that was posted yesterday, with no comments and barely any views.
     
    This user who invested hours of work and devotion into this music they had made, had not one brohoof or comment on the thread he posted the day before. It makes me a little sad to find when people work hard on projects and try to share it with their friends and fellow bronies on this website, only to get no attention whatsoever.
     
    All I'm saying is that that user must have been feeling pretty low at that point. To invest hours into something that they enjoy and to ask for a little feedback and support on it, to find absolutely none. It makes me sad whenever this happens and it wasn't a one time deal. Things like that happen all the time.
     
    I'm not trying to tell you to go find a bunch of unattended threads and spam comments or brohooves, I'm just saying to appreciate the time and effort that the artist invested into the piece. I for example, even when I don't necessarily love the art, I give it a brohoof anyway just because that user invested their own time and effort into creating that for the fandom.
  16. Lightning Fluttershy
    Something weird has been happening lately. In the past month maybe my interest in things I used to love doing has been slowly dwindling. I've had periods like this before like say for a video game I no longer play but this seems to be on a larger scale.
     
    The largest one I've noticed is my love for writing and reading. I used to love reading all kinds of My Little Pony fictions and would read them for hours, one after another, however recently I haven't really felt any urge to read them. They just don't appeal to me in the same way they used to. On that same note I used to love writing. I would write stories in my spare time and get lost in my own worlds that I created but... I haven't really felt any urge to do that any more either. It's been such a long time since I've written anything with the same urge or motivation I used too.
     
    The second one I noticed was basically my curiosity about things. I can remember a time when I used to love to question things, find answers to questions, and basically learn stuff. Over the past month I've found my love for knowledge dramatically decreasing. I once spent an entire summer with a telescope, observing the universe because I wanted to learn about it. Now I barely take a second look when I see a shooting star or anything normally considered interesting really.
     
    Basically the summary of these things is that I seem to be loosing my general interest in things. I couldn't care less about things I used to be ecstatic about. I really don't know what the cause behind this is. I just don't generally find almost anything interesting any more.
     
    I don't exactly know why this is happening.
  17. Lightning Fluttershy
    I don't know if you have noticed but I love reading fictions. Specifically the sad ones that make me feel for the characters.
     
    Now in school I've always kind of been a writer. I've never wrote recreationally before but in my English classes or school in general, I've been assigned projects where I write stories. To my surprise they are usually appraised by the teacher and other staff. Last year I won the school award for best creative writer.
     
    I've read enough fictions to know what makes a fiction beautiful or what it takes to completely butcher the job. Hopefully I have what it takes to make my fiction at least decent. I plan to make it a sad fiction and I haven't decided whether or not I will ship any pony. I have a basic premise in mind but I will likely not implement it and start writing until later in October.
     
    Feedback is appreciated. Feel free to to give me suggestions on the fiction.
  18. Lightning Fluttershy
    Hey ponies on the forums. I've been around the forums for around two months now and been an active member however I never really introduced myself. When I signed up I never made a welcoming plaza thread and I've never made a status about me or anything so here goes. First I was MJP2010, then I was Like a Boss, and now I'm Lightning Fluttershy. Most people I role play with just call me Boss. My real name is Matthew and I live in Toronto. I'm publicly open about being a brony. I mean my friends and people know I am one but I don't force it upon them or anything. I'm into video games, programming and designing, and ponies. I strongly believe curling is a real sport and that Fluttershy is best pony.
     
    This is it for now. Just a little introduction even though some of you have probably seen me before posting my opinions in threads. I'll likely post more blogs in the future!
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