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2019-04-14, 11:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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On saturday it's episode 200.
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2019-04-14, 04:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-15, 05:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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My opinion on the season premiere and the 3rd episode.
Spoiler: Spoiler for the first threeWas it me or the episodes are not only okay, but also somewhat self-aware of their "okay" nature.
Even Discord pointed out, how easily he could defeat Sombra if not for deliberate choices.
Edit: Also what do you think about Fiendship is Magic's Sombra?Last edited by t209; 2019-04-15 at 06:05 PM.
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2019-04-15, 06:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-15, 08:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Oh, that's not fair. It's just a tad better than the Siege of the Crystal Empire which it set up. So a natural two, not a one.
Put another way, Sombra's comic fall was better than his comic redemption, which was utter garbage, but with which it should not be entirely conflated.
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2019-04-16, 11:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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I tend to agree here. The comic portrayal of Sombra seemed to be mainly interested in providing excuses for his being evil (he had a horrible foalhood and was really an evil shadow creature and not a pony). I much prefer Sombra as being an unambiguously evil pony with no sad-sack Freudian excuse backstory. Some villains are just evil, and that's all the explanation you need.
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2019-04-16, 11:09 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-16, 11:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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Given the amount of bullying shown in the series towards anypony lacking the mark, I'd say that alone is enough reason for his characterization of burn it all down and rule over the ponies living in the ashes.
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2019-04-16, 11:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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The one is inextricably linked to the other, in my head. (Given that I also read them not far apart, because I got the trade for the former on the basis that getting comics is sometime near-impossible nowadays, and why I have basically stopped aside from the main pony comic.)
Yes, the comic handling of him was atrocious. And I can't help but notice out of all the other villains? Sombra was the most pony-like. And I thought "yeah, that's not displaced humanocentrism at work at all is it?"
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2019-04-17, 06:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Still, current Sombra wasn't as powerful or evil as his first portrayal....aside from his "haha, slaves". But he did enslaved an entire kingdom, Mane Six nearly losing the battle if it not for Spike, and alternate history version managing to turn entire Equestria into warzone.
Even if it was self-aware.Badly drawn helmet avatar drawn by me.
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2019-04-17, 06:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-18, 05:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-18, 08:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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As a bit of a break from HoI4, I decided to play another game of X-Com. Damn, I'd forgotten how little customisation 1 gave you by comparison to 2. Also, not using ponies dramatically reduced the obvious colour-scheme variety...
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2019-04-19, 02:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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The S3 story is an odd balance between strength and tactics. He very nearly wins with just the precautions he took against the Crystal Heart back in the day. If Spike hadn't been with Twilight they would probably have lost - Twilight would have been delayed too long by the trap at the top of the tower or simply defeated by the portal.
The story is a race between Sombra regaining his senses and powers after his imprisonment, and the Main 6 trying to find a way to deal with him before he grows too strong to beat. The trouble is that we see too much of the animilistic Sombra, we don't see how much he recovers when he regains physical form, and don't really see much of what he was like before.Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
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2019-04-19, 04:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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And that's why I was expecting/hoping for a sort of chess-master, Thrawn-ish Sombra, but that might have been a step too far,
But what we got was one that I really can't complain about, not at all - he had the right level of of credible threat. (So much so that Harmony BLEW HIM UP (AGAIN) rather than just banish him to Tarterus or something, which shows you ho seriously he had to be taken. (As if if straight-up murdering the Magic Tree wasn't a clue!)
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2019-04-19, 05:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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That actually seemed a bit too comically obvious to me. He's effortlessly finger-snapping every attack Sombra makes into butterflies or other harmless nonsense, and then suddenly has to bodily intercept - and be meaningfully harmed by - an attack just because it's specifically aimed at Fluttershy? Not buying it.
It's kind of reasonable for the Mane 6 to believe it in the moment, though, and Sombra still being an immediate threat meant they couldn't afford to spend time calling Discord's bluff unless they were really certain about it.Like 4X (aka Civilization-like) gaming? Know programming? Interested in game development? Take a look.
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2019-04-19, 10:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-19, 10:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-19, 11:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Discord is primarily motivated by his own desire for entertainment.
Over time he's increasingly come to value his pony friends, but at the end of the day if Discord solves it himself with a snap of his nigh-omnipotent fingers it's boring.
Furthermore: Discord is old, powerful. He may act childishly bu he's not stupid.
If he solves everyone's problems, then everyone gets dependant on him.
After three defeats, getting sick of the wurm's sneeze, and IIRC he was proven susceptible to anti-magic effects, he should know that he's not invincible.
If his new friends get reliant on him, then he runs into something that can stop him, then he's they're screwed.I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2019-04-19, 11:28 AM (ISO 8601)
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And, of course, there is always the issue that one should never actually SAY how close on is to being beaten, of course.
It is entirely possible that Discord might NOT have been able to keep shrugging off Sombra's attacks forever, but he would never want to have to admit to that. Better to pretend to be an ultimate chess master than admit that most of the genius plans are a combination of forethought and the ability to seemlessly switch gears and adapt to useful (or detrimental) happenestance, while presenting the image that it was your plan all along.
Palpatine once once described by someone who said he was the master of plan B. I can relate to that; the amount of stuff over the years as DM, say, (let alone command of Bleak Despair) that has had something set up only to neatly fall into place years later form something I'd not considered at the time is staggering.
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2019-04-19, 12:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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Both of these are consistent with being okay with any outcome - with the ponies' success or failure. But Discord says he is invested in showing Twilight that she could be "the incredible leader I know you can be." Why does he want that specifically?
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2019-04-19, 12:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-19, 12:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-19, 12:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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There have been several episodes focusing on Discord's growing friendship with the Mane 6, Twilight in particular--remember discord faking an Illness to see if Twilight considered him a friend?
And Twilight insisting on discord's release with "all my friends" even after discord was manipulated into betraying Equestria--with that being the incident that got the final key from to the Box of Harmony?I also answer to Bookmark and Shadow Claw.
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2019-04-19, 02:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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I've had a theory for a while as to why Discord seems so fixated on Twilight; Twilight bested him at his own game, something not even Celestia and Luna were able to accomplish. True, Celestia and Luna defeated Discord, but they were only able to do so by bringing in the Elements of Harmony, which, based on the scene Twilight saw, it doesn't appear Discord had been aware of. In Twilight's case, however, she played the game according to Discord's rules and won anyway on the power of friendship, and in doing so I think Twilight earned his respect.
Which Discord shows by teaching her in the most trolling way possible because Discord.If brute force isn't working, that just means you're not using enough of it.
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2019-04-19, 04:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Well, I think I finally worked out why the printer has been playing me up gor the last few weeks - since the last time I looked at it (when the mess started), it looks like one of the fans has gone. It wasn't until today that my suspicions started again, when it crapped out in the last five minutes of or of the 2 1/2 hour Phystyulon print I was doing and knackered it up - just like when we very first started (because one of the fans was in the wrong way around).
So that's tomorrow's job, dismantle and see if we can get a new fan. (If I'm lucky, we might just get it before my working week starts up again (which will probably be Wednesday to be fair...))
In the meantime, for a bit of creator's block, I sat down to deal with one nagging loose end that's been bugging for years - our Dark Fear Destroyer. One of the first 10th generation (i.e current) ships to be started on, it's only just NOW coming into production finally. (Bearing in mind that the first 10th generation ships were rolling out in the mid 1990s. So yes, it took longer than Duke Nuken Forever...) Hell, we've had second-wave ships (like dear old Wrathfire) gone through design to production to getting to Bleak Despair's sector fleet (we're quite low on the totem pole, honestly) before the Dark Fear. But it was just one of those things where nothing ever seemed to work quite right and nobody could ever quite settle on what they wanted it to do. I couldn't even try modelling it for years, because it's had like, what, fourteen? Seventeen? Or something major re-designs before the final one.
And, with grand irony, all the faffing about and re-designing and confusion about what it should be doing? By the time they'd got it settled and working properly - with some slightly more modern tech and a little Aotrs ingenunity, I understand - all that paid off in typical Aotrs fashion. So the Dark Fears are coming out with, like, four variants with different weapon load-outs (coldbeams like the Shadowfangs on sterioids, other coldbeams, warheads, bolts...) It's not actually modular or anything, but it's close.
So there is now a running joke that the Dark Fear is now the bus of the fleet; you wait twenty years for one to come along, and then there's bloody four of them turn up at once.
Unlife is stranger than fiction...Last edited by Aotrs Commander; 2019-04-19 at 04:52 PM.
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2019-04-19, 04:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-04-20, 12:02 AM (ISO 8601)
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The official MLP Youtube channel has released a behind the scenes video for episode 200. Warning it is full of spoilers likely including the episode's ending scene.
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2019-04-20, 01:13 AM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: Twilight's SevenReally selling Twilight as a leader, there, staff. Being eminently predictable (it's not a matter of the siblings knowing each other, either; she can't do anything with her knowledge of Shining Armor), once again giving up at the first sign of adversity, and needing to outsource planning - of all things - to Rarity.
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2019-04-20, 11:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: S9, E4I have remarkably little to say about this episode. I thought it was alright, I certainly liked it better than the previous episode, but for a 200th episode special they had been hyping since the season was announced I found myself a little underwhelmed. I think part of the issue is that the whole Ocean's 11-style heist plot would have worked better if they had just stuck to Twilight's original plan from the start; you'd have given the heist hi-jinks more time to play out, and you wouldn't have even needed to change anything about the ending with Spike and Luna, since that hinged on Twilight's original plan anyway. Adding the separate non-plans to the mix just cluttered the narrative.
That being said, I did like the ending, especially the bit with Spike being officially recognized by Twilight and Shining Armor as the younger brother of the group. the only thing that could possibly top that were the strained 'let's not fight in public' interactions between Luna and Celestia. Overall, I'd probably give this episode a B, not the best the show's produced but still enjoyable.If brute force isn't working, that just means you're not using enough of it.
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