starswirlthebearded

Eeeee! Indeed it is! I'm very happy to meet you! I'm sure we'll get along great!

Out of all the games, I like Devil Summoner the most. They're all so good it was pretty hard to pick a favorite.

Mine is nocturne, but that might be because it was my first, so I'm a bit biased. I'm currently playing strange journey and dds. Both are awesome.

Oh sweet Celestia! A MegaTen fan?! Can it be? You are now one of my favorite people on this forum! It is so rare to find fans of MegaTen!

I do so hope we can get along, I am Star Swirl. It is a pleasure to meet you . Welcome to Canterlot!Oh and a fan of Freakazoid?! You are awesome in my book.Just remember, nopony say his name!

Thanks for uploading these.

Ah yes, Jurassic Park. Beautiful dinomation, if nothing else. And then there was that funny coincidence (or as Chesterton calls them Divine Puns), that Utahraptor was discovered when the "Velociraptor" in Jurassic Park was being written. Utahraptor: a raptor you can ride on. As for T-Rex, it might be better to blame Valley of Gwangi or King Kong, or just God Himself. The Tyrant Lizard King is hard to top when you're a young boy, unless you muck with Spinosauridae anatomy(Another intellectual crime of Spielberg's, with no help from Crichton this time, but plenty from Jack Horner.) or overestimate the hunting style of Giganotosaurus.

Your friend does seem skilled. I'll have to peruse her other work.

Also, a few questions. Does anyone know how to reach Chat? I keep following the given directions and nothing happens. And how long does the average approval of an RP character take, and how will I know it has been?

The chat is on IRC. You can access it through mibbit.com. The server is esper.net, the channel is #canterlotcentral. If you have mIRC or other IRC client, irc.esper.net:5555/canterlotcentral

Thank you all very much.

Blaze, my favorite dinosaur(s, you'll get more because one is never enough) are as follows and in order: Velociraptor, Utahraptor, Microraptor, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Suchiomimus, Torvosaurus, Allosaurus, Edmontonia, Amargasaurus, and Brachiosaurus.

Pinkie, the image works now, and your welcome needs no epic introduction. The spinning pony is epic enough.

Tales, thank you for your gracious greetings and helpful information. I have never been received better by any online community.

I totally blame Jurassic Park (whose creatures were largely NOT from the Jurassic era) for making people so enamored with the Velociraptor, T-Rex and Brachiosaurus.

You might like some of my friend's artwork though... http://elyssawecera.blogspot.com/2009/05/optometry-contest.html This is what she drew for an optometry contest for kids waiting room. She has other more realistic pictures though. I just thought that one was fun and bubbly, in other words perfect for this forum

Full contact fighting with weapons, magic the gathering, moustache Monty python, and you like Luna ... you are cool by me even if I didn't see twilight's name in your list of ponies.

Welcome to Canterlot

From LF's Devaiant art:

I honestly figured something like that. It is a similar deal to Hey! Arnold kind of. It was never defined whether they were alive or dead, and even after the last episodes we never truly find out, probably for the same reasons LF stated. They did alluded to it, but never confirmed the state of his parents (or last name for that matter).

I think with the basis of this show and its target audience, if aj's parents are needed it will likely be a traveling situation, because that would explain their absence at the family reunion as well, as they couldn't be contacted. Perhaps they are following their grandfather's legacy and searching for seeds, but instead of just trading them their goal is to find new fruits and vegetables to be cultivated on family farms. Personally I think that kind of background story would not only fit, but work for the audience.

Welcome to Canterlot!

I too am a Twilight Sparkle fan.

Half nerdy eh? Well... I'm a total nerd, but I think your partial nerdiness should be enough for us to get along well .

I consider it clever wordplay on the part of the show's writers

Anypony notice the big push towards family names as canon in MLP?

It has been there since ep 1 with the introduction of the Apple family. They are just making it more obvious lately.

*sips more Duncan Doughnut French Vanilla* *reads*

We need more topics about coffee. Is it mentioned on the show that much? Seems as though they prefer tea.

After the mythbusters tested it it is no surprise. I think twilight requested a ban from celestia and she granted it.

Allow me to tip my hat to thee and be the first to welcome you to Canterlot!

I'd say I'd describe myself in the same manner as yourself, except for the humorous part. That means we'll either get along well or drive each other mad (I'll opt for the former in this case).

And judging from this intro... you are Rarity with the personality of Twilight...? INTERESTING! I'm Twilight with the personality of well... Twilight!

You are from Stephen King story country! Maine! No wonder it is weird where you are! Also coffee is fine, unless you are me and it has no effect what so ever, but I still drink it occasionally.

Either way, welcome to Canterlot. I am Star Swirl. I think we'll get along fine.

@fearanger: I'm sure you have seen this.... but here is "Today on Mythbusters" where they give Pinkie Pie some coffee with lots and lots of sugar as an emulsifier... Let's just say the bunker won't be as effective as you think

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Even some kids want more accurate toys. I think Hasbro needs to fix that before all else.

Collectors toys would be good though.

Lauren Faust confirmed for June 31st Bronycon!

I HAVE to go now!

I'll go to that one just for her. I'll preorder tickets as well

Not a huge fan of that kind of contests. They did that for Doctor Who several times, and it led to some of the dumbest alien designs ever. XD

edit: ...and you just know that some crayon drawing would be picked as the winner, not one of the brony perfect vectorized kind of designs.

OK... That is the first real argument against this idea I have heard yet. I had totally forgotten about the Dr who contests (I think I blocked them from memory). So... Yeah. Some horrible designs. Why did you have to remind me?

As for the second, it largely depends on selection processes and rules. It is likely they would opt for hand drawn designs, but that doesn't mean that the selection be done entirely by Hasbro.

A little kid yes, but an adult with a character that Hasbro could now own and do whatever they like with? THat would be a bit of a mess

Technically Hasbro can use ANY character made by fans right now, because you are using character designs based on their property. So, there wouldn't be any legal issue, because, we did not come up with the design or the concept. The characters fall under fair use, but that does not mean the creators can lay claim to the concept art. The creator can request monetary compensation for use of their character design idea, but that is where the legal issue would end. Any further than that would not end well for the artist. And I have a feeling that Hasbro would not have issue giving monetary a prize either for adults, and a toy based prize for kids, along with their character being displayed as a background pony.

Edit: Again this is only an idea. And even if they limited it to kids only, tell me that you don't think an adult would enter just because they wanted. Hell it is a high possibility that adults would enter more than kids anyway.

No I think that's asking far too much and would be a legal sticky mess..plus I'd rather not see bronies develop fat heads and insist their characters are now canon cause they were in the background...

I understand your latter concern, but your former... How? MLP is the property of Hasbro, who would be running the competition. It is their intellectual property, therefore there would be no legal issues. All creations fall under fair use, and if they incorporate it into the show it would be their call. Again the bronies getting fat heads is a concern, but it would be as much for them as the younger community whom the show is targeted towards, and for a kid to have their creation put on a show, is a pretty big deal.

I've been lurking in the community for a little under a month, been a fan for about two months. There is no doubt that there is no lack of creativity in the MLP:FiM community. From the music to the RP OCs. I really think they need to hold contests for the fans. Specifically an original character contest with the winner having their creation be a background pony on the show. Companies have done this before in the past. I know Nickelodeon did this at least once in the 90s, and I recall it being a big hit with a huge response. I think they can easily do it with the community we have here. They can choose either to do it by original artwork or by a pony designer that they can create (I know there is one already, but they will likely want to make their own). I think it would be a great opportunity not to see the fans getting recognition but also to bridge the adult fandom with the younger fandom (naturally there would have to be at least 2 choices, one from older fans and one from younger, at minimum).

What does everypony think of this idea?

Btw, I apologize if this idea has been posted about before, I used the search and came up with nothing.

Be careful about assuming that the epsiodes are chronologically ordered. At all. xD

With a few exceptions due to explicit references, it's quite possible to turn the order of the episodes on their head.

Off topic: I always assume floating timeline in episodic series like MLP:FiM. Any other timeline doesn't make much sense. I mean, Winter Wrap Up came before Fall Weather Friends. If we assume chronological order, that means that A YEAR passed within two episodes. Which means, that in theory, by the time Green isn't your color rolled around they could have all aged several years... So yeah... floating timeline it is. Basically whatever time of year the writer wants it is, it is, no other system. They are set at their undetermined ages (except for Pinkie whom we know had a birthday). And we assume that all stories are being told without time being a major concern.

Another way to think of it is the retrospective timeline. The stories being told are by the central protagonist or third party observing telling the story after events have already transpired. This allows for the discontinuation of time, and thus making time irrelevant to the story save for time of year necessary for certain events to occur (ie Fall Weather Friends, Winter Wrap Up, and Hearth's Warming Eve)

That said... On Topic: According to Hasbro or the Hub (can't remember where I read it) Twilight brought the 5 ponies together. So it can be assumed that none were particularly close to any other pony before Twilight came to Ponyville. They must have known about each other (I mean, with events like the Running of the Leaves, and Winter Wrap Up, it would be hard for them to have NOT had contact.) However being *close* friends is an entirely different story. Pinkie Pie considers every pony in Ponyville to be her friend, but her close friends are within the mane 6, which Twilight brought together. And honestly, outside of those events, the mane 6 have such polarizing abilities, that I doubt that they would have need to contact each other. Perhaps due to her interest in sewing and design Fluttershy stalked (read, never went in) to Rarity's shop (Had she done so, Rarity would not have been so surprised at Fluttershy's freaky knowledge of fashion and sewing, which would lend to the idea that they were not close before Twilight). Applejack likely had contact with Pinkie Pie the most, due to the cake shop needing apples, and them both being interested in baking. However, how close they were is up to debate. But from a logical standpoint, they had the best chance. No other pony had need to really see any other pony. The only other possibility is again Pinkie Pie and Rarity, with Rarity helping to do decorations for Pinkie's parties. I don't think RD and FS had much contact after FS was grounded, and since she doesn't live in Cloudsdale and has no involvement with weather, I don't think RD and FS really had much contact, let alone being friends.

Well... That is my analysis. Feel free to agree or disagree with any part of it or take it apart... I won't mind

Edit: I'm on my second rewatching, and realized that Opal could have broken the ice between Rarity and Fluttershy without the topic of fashion coming up. So they could have also met through that route. But again, that could have been either a business arrangement and not a friendship. I won't discount the possibility though. It also can't be determined how close they got from that one segue, but we know that animals help Fluttershy open up to people so it is a strong possibility that they could have been friends because of that.

MrSpiderman is clearly made of awesome and win. Welcome to the herd.

You'll want to snap a few pictures of me. Spiderman is best pony, after all.

But what of Pony Parker? Isn't he your photographer pony?

Change the file extension from .mkv to .avi.

Yes, it is that simple.

^This! I don't think people realize that .avi and .mkv are containers, nothing more. You can interchange them all you want. Now, the only time you need a converter is if you have a conflict with codecs (like PS3 doesn't play nice with certain codecs, or doesn't play them at all), otherwise, you can do everything through simpler softwares, from changing the size of the picture to changing the container.

A photo pony? Finally! A rival for photo finish! Welcome. I hope you enjoy your stay here

This community is very friendly and lively. I welcome thee to the capital of Canterlot. I am star swirl the bearded, but you may shorten it as you wish. I hope we can get along well