Count to 50: Ponies vs. Non-Ponies XXXV: Something to do with Link and Sonic

[BasketOfPuppies]

Blah blah intro stuff blah.
Normally, non-ponies add 1 to the count, and ponies (i.e. people with a My Little Pony/equine avatar) subtract 1. However, once the count reaches 1 above/below the record for non-ponies or ponies, respectively, the game enters PANIC. The moment a pony posts (Or non-pony, if the ponies have broken their record), the count is reset to 0. You have to try to increase the record as much as you can before PANIC is stopped. When that side wins, they get a point, the count is reset to 0, and their record is reset to ±10.

The Three-Post Rule is in effect, meaning that you need to wait for three people to post after you do, or else your post won't count.

Additional information: The Three-Post Rule applies across the thread boundaries due to the special nature of this game.

Non-Pony wins:16
Non-Pony Panic: 34
Pony wins: 6
Pony Panic: -25
The count begins at 10. May the Schwartz be with you.

[Woodzyowl]

11. What if I don't want it?

[Socksy]

10. I dreamed we started a new thread (The title was "Count to 50: Ponies vs non-ponies XXXV: Something To Do With Link And Sonic"), and woke up to a new thread!

[Mauve Shirt]

I really hate it when my roommate watches loud inappropriate comedians while I'm arting and expects me to pay attention. :smallannoyed: I'm working. 11

[Duck999]

12
I'm working on counting.

[ts20fan]

Eleven. Almost missed the "new thread" stuff...

[Zaydos]

12 What to add? What to add?

[Mauve Shirt]

13.....................

[Duck999]

14..................

[Pseudo_Nym]

Thirteeen.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Fourteen. Next week is character creation for an upcoming D&D campaign.

[Mauve Shirt]

15. If you play the frames fast enough, they won't notice your mistakes. :smalleek:

[Duck999]

16.................

[Dudeons]

15......,.....

[Targ Collective]

Time for a new number it would seem, for we have reached again sixteen!

[BasketOfPuppies]

Seventeen.

[Mauve Shirt]

Damnation that took a long time. Tomorrow I'm going to do the part that I really want to do instead of the parts that come before. 18

[Pseudo_Nym]

Seventeen.

[Duck999]

18
nay nay

[Zaydos]

19 obviously for nay/aye it should be non-anthropomorphic animals versus humanoids.

So nay.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Twenty. Mrrrrgh.

[Mauve Shirt]

WTF is yay/nay and why doesn't it have its own thread. :smallannoyed:
21

[Pseudo_Nym]

Twenty toxic tulips.

[Zaydos]

Twenty-one I'm not 100% sure, Duck started it.

[Duck999]

22
I started yay/nay because I was bored of typing random things to hit the 10 letter limit. Yay!

[Dudeons]

21,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Mauve Shirt]

22 Maybe we should converse?

[Zaydos]

23 But conversations take actual thought :smallfrown: I mean what would we talk about? Star Trek?

[BasketOfPuppies]

24. I changed the thread name hoping Socksy would see but she hasn't gotten on since.

[Targ Collective]

Look alive, it's twenty-five!

Duck999, it's simple and fun

To approach this as a rhyming one

If you express in prose and verse

(whether or not you need rehearse)

You'll find the limit goes past quick

With many an entertaining quip.

[Duck999]

26
I can't rhyme quick(s?)

[Zaydos]

27 I don't feel like rhyming right now.

[Targ Collective]

(Not a participating post as that breaks the three-post rule. Just a reply to Duck999.)

What about slick(s)?

Or trick(s)?

As is the way with any skill,

You can develop it at will.

Brains are good at pattern matching

It's all to do with neurons pathing

The more you try the better you'll get

The skill is worth it don't forget.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Twenty eight. If I rhyme I'm going to be late.

[Targ Collective]

(Participating post, as per the three-post rule.)

Feeling fine at twenty-nine.

[Duck999]

Thirty
which is feeling (flirty? dirty?)

[Zaydos]

Thirty-one
Was written on the moon
By a pair of goblins blue
Trying to talk to you.
You didn't realize they were capable of such feeling?
Then you ought to find this rather thrilling.

[Pseudo_Nym]

Now thirty is the current count.
Still far too high, if you ask me.
I'd prefer a much smaller amount,
Like eight, or six, or minus three.

[Targ Collective]

We return to thirty-one.

Don't be so small and negative mon!

We will reach fifty yet again

A victory over ponykind of men

and dracoliches and other things

There is a great anti-pony force

We're more positive so we'll win of course

[Mauve Shirt]

Thirty two. Rhymes are dumb and so are you.

[Zaydos]

Thirty-three
I was sitting in a tree
And what did I see
A lass with hair of gold
And beauty to break the mold
Her wit won my heart
And smile inspired this art.

[Duck999]

34
It's not poor.
@V 30, not 40

[Targ Collective]

Duck999, that's a good start,

Nice to see people taking part,

Perhaps if this does not offend

Dullness this practice may forfend.

Regardless, I say, look alive,

For we now reach thirty-five.

EDIT: ^ Quite correct, I apologise for the error.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Thirty six. We could use some more ponies, or else his becomes a much easier Count to 100 thread.

@V: Goooood.

[Targ Collective]

(Again, not a participating post. Just a reply.)

I've asked for a ponytar in accordance with my needs in the appropriate thread and if I can get one I'll be willing to switch sides. In the mean time, consider maybe switching to your ponies basket for the purpose of this? Because frankly the red, hypnotised gaze and the blood-red triforce are starting to creep me out...

[Zaydos]

Thirty-seven... Sunglasses Gandalf versus Ganon's Puppies fight, go!

[Dirtytabs]

Okay, I clicked the link to the new thread.
36?

[BasketOfPuppies]

Thirty seven. *launches tennis ball ball of darkness at Targ.

HA! and all you have is a mere bottle. Wait...

[Targ Collective]

Let's not hate the thirty-eight

The ball of light flares oh-so-bright

The ball of darkness fills with Light

And then it vanishes out of sight...

[Zaydos]

Thirty-nine
She was mine
On Valentine.

[Dirtytabs]

Wait, it's thirty-eight.

[Mauve Shirt]

26. All conversations take is talking about your day.
For instance: Daylight savings time, amirite?

[Socksy]

24. I changed the thread name hoping Socksy would see but she hasn't gotten on since.

She has gotten on since, but it wouldn't let her post until now due to horrible internet.
It freaked me out, I thought I was in some sort of dream-within-a-dream weirdness until I saw the post saying you changed it :p

25. C:
EDIT: Or maybe 38?? I'm confused

[Duck999]

39
Mauve went wrong.

[ts20fan]

Non-Ponies are doing great, getting it up to 38!

[Mauve Shirt]

Sorry bros. 39

[Zaydos]

40.

Super Mario Bros is a game in which you control one of two plumbers, either the red Mario or green Luigi, in their quest to save Princess Toadstool so she can free her kingdom from Bowser's evil curse. To do this you must travel through 8 worlds, fighting your way through eight castles and saving 7 fake princesses (although a knowledgeable player can skip most of these worlds and princesses). A classic of gaming it requires fine timing, quick reflexes, and a heroic spirit.

[BasketOfPuppies]

41. Glad I could mess with you a bit, Socksy.

[Duck999]

42
qwertyuiop

[Dirtytabs]

41
poiuytrewq

[Zaydos]

42 Dance my puppets! DANCE!

[Targ Collective]

Soon more numbers we will see,

We have the joy of forty-three.

[Woodzyowl]

44. I'm not a poet.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Fourty-five, look alive.

[Zaydos]

46
I feel rather sick.

[Targ Collective]

This number's higher than eleven,

because it is forty-seven.

[Socksy]

Oh look, I killed panic again... C:
Zero.

[Mauve Shirt]

One. Finally got home from a wasted afternoon. /Need/ to do laundry, but I'm torn between working on my animation and working out for the next activity.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Two. I'll update.

[Zaydos]

3 well we were close at least

[Targ Collective]

Panic knockback? What a bore. Here we are at number four.

[Mauve Shirt]

5 blah blah blah, we're much closer to a panic at 50 than previously.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Six. Mrrrrgh.

[Zaydos]

7 random slaughter

[Duck999]

8 slaughter

[Mauve Shirt]

9 butts

[BasketOfPuppies]

Ten. just got my "long term' project for Biology done.

[Zaydos]

11 Oh? What was it?

[Duck999]

12
I assume it didn't take long from the ""

[Mauve Shirt]

13 blaaaaaaaaah

[Socksy]

Twelve. It's 2AM and I jolted awake at midnight from my almost-asleep state realising I had two essays due tomorrow morning.

[Zaydos]

13 Good luck. Write, write, write the almost due essays.

[BasketOfPuppies]

14. It was a small pamphlet about the effects of exercise on someone with dementia.

[Mauve Shirt]

15......................

[Duck999]

16 Small????????

[Zaydos]

17 I'd say that's not so small a number.

[Targ Collective]

We're at eighteen here again,

Which has to be better than four, or ten.

[Balmas]

Seventeen is even better.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Eighteen .

[Zaydos]

19 Puppies in service to Ganon.

[Targ Collective]

Twenty is the number we do see,

counting into history!

[Dirtytabs]

19 is better than 20

[BasketOfPuppies]

20.
@Zaydos: what can we do for you today? Our specialties include pestering the hero as he's searching for you, reconnaissance, and fetching a tennis ball (if not thrown too far).

[Zaydos]

21. Pester the hero, always pester the hero.

I need to stop selecting that option when the hero is unaware that heroism is needed yet. I really ought to.

[Socksy]

20. I'm so tired, but the essays' existence has been confirmed by my teacher and I can move on to typing everything out. In related news, the pluperfect tense and conditional perfect tense can go die in a pond made from the tears of teenagers taking foreign languages.

[Targ Collective]

Loads of lag is going on,

Making it tough to increment by one.

Nevertheless I will try,

And a twenty-one I let fly.

[Mauve Shirt]

22......................

[BasketOfPuppies]

23.

@Zaydos: Sorry to report, but the bugger beat us. How? He just got up at 1. He barely knew how to swing a sword!

I blame Obama.

[Duck999]

24
asdfghjkl

[Socksy]

Twenty-three.

[Targ Collective]

Whee - hurray - what fun I say,

The lag seems to have gone today!

This number appears yet again,

Twenty-four (in a good strong currency, not yen).

[BasketOfPuppies]

Twenty five.

[Duck999]

twenty six.
Wow, this extra typing wasn't necessary even!

[Zaydos]

27... What is up dudes, dudettes, and equines?

[Targ Collective]

Time for a new number at any rate,

I'm thinking it is twenty-eight.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Twenty Nine. Do NOT buy Tagalongs from the Girl Scouts. The quality has plummeted.

[Duck999]

thirty thirty.

[ts20fan]

Twenty Nine.

[Targ Collective]

Deprecation is such a pain,

Here we are at thirty again.

[Zaydos]

Thirty-one maneuvers in a discipline.

[Duck999]

Thirty two

[BasketOfPuppies]

Thirty three.

[Dirtytabs]

2 5

[Zaydos]

Thirty-three

[Mauve Shirt]

34. Blah blah blah.

[Socksy]

Thirty-three.

[Duck999]

thirty-four

[BasketOfPuppies]

Thirty-five.

[Targ Collective]

No time for the puppies' tricks,

Got to count to thirty-six!.

[Zaydos]

Thirty-seven, sleepy.

[Socksy]

One-on-five-on-three-tens. The counting system in Wales is weird.

[ts20fan]

35? I don't understand that number...

[Targ Collective]

Here we are at thirty-six

(Let's not confuse with counting tricks)

[Duck999]

Thirty-seven

[BasketOfPuppies]

Thirty-eight.

[Zaydos]

Thirty-nine is three followed by three sets of three :P

[Targ Collective]

Forty is a number for us to see,

Ten short of the magic fifty!

[Dirtytabs]

Better than that is 39
And less than that would be just fine

[Duck999]

40
You won't get much shorter. Until panic of course...

[BasketOfPuppies]

Forty One.

[Targ Collective]

Counting higher (as you do)

We now reach the forty-two.

[Mauve Shirt]

43..........

[Zaydos]

Forty-four

[Duck999]

Forty-Five

[BasketOfPuppies]

Forty six.

[Targ Collective]

Panic may soon ensue,

This number's greater that two,

Here we have the forty-seven

Let's hope we avoid getting less than eleven.

[Zaydos]

Forty-eight
Claws in my flesh I hate
Why oh why cat
Can't you get that?

[Woodzyowl]

49. Woo hoo.

[Socksy]

Deny, deny, deny, deny the non-ponies their win!
Zero.

[Mauve Shirt]

One. We'll just get it next time. Can't panic us any further. :smallsmile:

[BasketOfPuppies]

Dos. I'll update Panic.

[Duck999]

Three
Next time we can get 50.

[Socksy]

Two. You're right, there. I should have woken up earlier! :P

[Woodzyowl]

3. Owls are nothing if not patient.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Four. Mrrgh.

[Zaydos]

5 Excellent.

[Socksy]

Four. I have Apple strudel.

[Dudeons]

Three.......

[Mauve Shirt]

Four. I may have burned enough calories today.

[Laughing Dog]

Five. Fooooore!

[Zaydos]

I feel 6 on my stomach :smallfrown:

[Targ Collective]

This is now a formality

As we reach the count to blessed fifty

No more pony panic here

As the numbers climb sheer

We had six, we'll soon have eleven

But one at a time, it's number seven.

[Dudeons]

And now it's the satanic number 6. :smalleek:

[Woodzyowl]

7 sarcastic silent soarers.

[Zaydos]

8... yay senses of finality :smallsigh:

[Socksy]

Do you wanna build a seveeeen?

[Mauve Shirt]

Or ride an eight around the halls?

[Dudeons]

Or do unspeakable things with a seven? :smalleek:

[Zaydos]

8 does unspeakable things to everything.

[Duck999]

Nine
nine.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Ten. Got a Gamecube controller today.

[Mauve Shirt]

11. Sounds Great! Dlal!

[Targ Collective]

Twelve is the number we are at

And that is simply that

[Duck999]

13
I still can't rhyme.

[Zaydos]

That's un14ate.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Fifteen. I'm bringing some pies to my Geometry class for Pi day.

[Targ Collective]

Things are moving lightning fast,

Sixteen we have reached at last.

[Dirtytabs]

15
Non-rhyme

[Zaydos]

16
The time of the rhyme is at an end!

[Socksy]

Fifteen. I have double French this morning D:

[Mauve Shirt]

Sixteen. I have another job interview!

[BasketOfPuppies]

Seventeen. I got a rock.

[Duck999]

Eighteen..

[Zaydos]

Nineteen elven knights mimed werewolves nightly.

[Targ Collective]

Twenty is the current count,

From the non-pony counting fount

[Socksy]

Nineteen. Thursdays are exhausting.

[Mauve Shirt]

20. Eating a tuna and white bean salad. Eating dinner earlier is better for weight loss.

[Zaydos]

Twenty-one

[Duck999]

Twenty-Two.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Twenty-three.

[Targ Collective]

It is with the greatest glee

I reach a count of twenty-three.

[Zaydos]

Twenty-four dancing bears.

[Duck999]

twenty-five

[BasketOfPuppies]

Twenty six.

[Dirtytabs]

Five fives

[Zaydos]

Twenty-six sounds like something that's sick.

[Mauve Shirt]

27 ladeefreakinda

[Duck999]

Twenty eight

[Targ Collective]

Feelin' fine at twenty-nine.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Thirty. Two hours until Pi day!

[Zaydos]

Thirty-one. I care more about pie day than pi day.

[Mauve Shirt]

32 Hrm, that's right. Tomorrow is pie day. I wonder if I should cheat tomorrow or Saturday.

[Targ Collective]

As we can see,

It's thirty-three.

[BasketOfPuppies]

34.

@Mauve: tomorrow. If you're going to cheat, cheat right.

[Zaydos]

35 pies taste best on weekends.

[Mauve Shirt]

36. But I have parties tonight AND parties tomorrow!

[Duck999]

thirty seven
Pi day next year is 3/14/15

[Woodzyowl]

38. Owls don't care about "pies".

[Targ Collective]

Thirty-nine is our count

From the positive non-pony fount

Yet I begin to grow concerned

Our victory seems too easily earned

[Zaydos]

Forty just trotting up the hill ever up ever up :smallsigh:

[BasketOfPuppies]

41. Open a thing of donuts in the lunchroom and everyone decides to be your best friend.

[Socksy]

40. Someone say doughnuts?? o:

[Woodzyowl]

41. I don't have any doughnuts, but I do have a few d'oh dice :smallbiggrin:

[Mauve Shirt]

42 I have ice cream! (I decided it's my cheat day)

[ts20fan]

41? Don't think it is panic yet.

[BasketOfPuppies]

42. We won't PANIC this round.

[Zaydos]

43 Just going to win again :smallannoyed:

[Dirtytabs]

42 grumble grumble

[Targ Collective]

The count now stands at forty-three

It climbs yet higher, as you can see

[BasketOfPuppies]

Forty Four. Could do with some more ponies.

[Zaydos]

Forty-five handwaves

[Mauve Shirt]

46 Wooo, no panic til it hits the big 5-0

[Woodzyowl]

47. Wow, 6 hours without a post? Is everyone giving up?

[BasketOfPuppies]

48. I had character creation for a campaign and then played Talisman with a friend.

[Zaydos]

49. I've played Talisman once, I didn't like it much.

[Targ Collective]

50 is the number I do see,

for a non-pony victory!

Do I get another prize for doing the honours again? :p

I'll sit this next one out, give the ponies a chance.

[Mauve Shirt]

Yaaaaaaaay 0

[Duck999]

1-So does 50 automatically reset? Or did Mauve just become a pony?

[Zaydos]

2 It's an auto-reset because it's a "win". So end of the round you could say and we get a permanent point.

[BasketOfPuppies]

3. I'll update.

[Mauve Shirt]

4.....................

[Duck999]

5
Oh, okay.

[ts20fan]

4. I am about to open my window, deposit laptop, and laugh maniacally.

[BasketOfPuppies]

5. Hey, it's a pony.

[Mauve Shirt]

6 Dang, it's about time some people posted. Where've you guys been?

[Dudeons]

A wild PONY appeared!

The wild PONY used Quick Attack!

1 point of damage to SCORE!

SCORE: 5

[Blood_caller]

Kick the pony, don't kick the pony. ... KICK THE PONYS...
6

[BasketOfPuppies]

Seven. *poke*

[Mauve Shirt]

Eight. Yes. Kick the ponies.

[ts20fan]

7. No, trample the Non-ponies.

[Duck999]

8
That rarely works.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Nine. Why are Mondays things?

[Mauve Shirt]

10 Because the work week's gotta start somewhere.
I might get a snow day tomorrow, but I doubt it.

[ts20fan]

9, same here. I hope we get out, because I need my sleep.

[Dudeons]

8. Well that's great.

[Dirtytabs]

7 Because Tuesday would be Monday and it'll wind up being the same thing

[Zaydos]

8 Because the Moon is important.

[Blood_caller]

9 also the stars

[Socksy]

Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-GHT.

[BasketOfPuppies]

Nine. It was a joke.

[Duck999]

Ten
ten
ten

[Mauve Shirt]

Eleven. BIG breakfast today, yet it's completely in line with my diet.

[Zaydos]

12 Are we panicking?

[Nemixen]

13 I don't think we are, are we panicking? I'm not, nope. I'm most certainly am not panicking...

[BasketOfPuppies]

14. No Panics here...

[Mauve Shirt]

15 If anyone's seen any panicking, they didn't see it in this thread.

[ts20fan]

PANIC! Zero.

[Duck999]

NON-PANIC
One

[BasketOfPuppies]

Two. I'll update.

[Mauve Shirt]

Three.....