MisterChippy

Put in in your room and plan to do something with it someday, then throw it out two years later when you finally give up on it. That's what I do with stuff like this, and it's never failed!

Here at canterlot.com, we believe that everyone should have an oppurtunity to showcase their work. However, many people feel like they can't post their art here without being told that it's terrible. Horrors! you gasp. Why do they feel that way? I have dedicated seconds of time to the study of this phenomina and come up with the following answer: Because their art is terrible. Amazing! but how will we fix this problem? :!: Some people might suggest mandatory art classes for people to maintain their membership on this forum, but I've come up with a simpler, easier solution to the problem in the form of this thread. That's right folks, this here is a thread for you to post those pieces of art that probably shouldn't be called art at all, and to kick it off, here's a piece of my own work! Sadly, that actually turned out pretty well for somthing I drew. Seriously, this is good for something I made. Also, to maintain the spirit of openosity, anyone can post bad art here! Even Leonardo Da Vinci and Fred Astair could post their failed doodles here if we didn't all hate them oh so very much (Motzart, however, is always welcome). So, joking aside, this thread is meant to be a thread in which to post your flops/failed artwork, preferably with an amusing comment. Also, if you can't draw worth spit but still want to post something you made, this is the place.

Firstly, a clarification. When I use the word 'hacker' I am not talking about computer crime. The word hacker predates the internet and is used by real hackers to refer to a really clever person. That's all it means. The [bad word removed]s who steal your credit card info, write virsus, and crash websites have stolen the word and made it dirty. When I talk about hackers I am refering to 'white hat' hackers, who are just clever people who love messing around with technology. Criminal hackers I will refer to as 'black hat' hackers, 'crackers', or '[naughty language]s'. As you can tell I feel very strongly about this issue, and if you ever want to hear a rant on the subject feel free to ask me about it. So anyways, I found a hackerspace in my hometown today and I am so totally stoked! For those of you who don't know, a hackerspace is a workshop where people interested in technology get together to build, teach, and mess around. If you find one you can join up with them and make all kinds of cool stuff. It's kinda like a robotics lab, a software development firm, a video game company, a design firm, and a DND circle all rolled into one! As you can tell I think that this is the coolest idea ever, and that's because it is! I mean come on! What's cooler than a place where you can find a ready supply of technology experts ready and willing to help you with your own pet projects. A rollerskating chicken you say? True, but those are much harder to find and tend to make a bit of a mess. So anyways, this place is awesome and the people working there are all working on some sick projects. There's one dude who's making a 3D printer that (is supposed to) print out new 3D printers. Tell me that's not cool. Plus, this means that my plan to make a working mini-sentry gun from TF2 is back on track and I'm even considering adding a wrangler function again! (By the way, if anyone has any advice on making a mini-sentry, please tell me.) I'm hoping to use the 3D printer to print out the barrel and maybe even the casing for the gun instead of just making it out of wood like I planned at first. So, blog summery time: Hackers rock, h4X0rz suck, rollerskating chickens are cool, and I found me the coolest workshop ever. All in all I'd have to say this day has been pretty good. Mister Chippy, signing off. (Isn't it so cool how I've decided to end each blog post by saying that? Don't answer that, just let me keep thinking it's cool.)

Cool. I'll see it then. We would follow filly Vinyl Scratch who is about to be send of to a music school by her parents and has one last evening to follow her dream to be a DJ. (And in EBA tradition, if you do well enough, her parents see how important this is to her, and let her pursue her dream. Blood Red Shoes - It's getting boring by the sea Photo Finish and Picture Perfect have a photoshoot at the beach, but in all the commotion of preparing it, they miss a tsunami warning. So now, you assist Picture Perfect in keeping the photoshoot together, and ultimately avert the tsunami from ruining everything by using A LOT of unicorn magic. I have a couple of more, but they are in really early planning stages. Anyway, you should rename the thread into something that gives any indication what it's about. xD That idea sounds cool and while it's not exactly what I had in mind I still think working together would be sweet. Collab projects are almost always better than single person things and even if we end up doing different things I'd still like to help out with yours. Also, I know I should probably change the name now. I'm just used to working on request forums where the people who get views are the ones who beg the loudest. Now that there's a bit of interest I'm gonna change the name.

The polka remix idea sounds perfect for an easy mode song. Not too long (but long enough to help a new player get the hang of the game), not too fast, not too complicated. It sounds like a great idea and I'd love to hear it once you're done! I'm sure it'll fit in well!

Hmmmm... Well, a good length would be three to four minutes, with maybe a chorus every minute. The BPM should be below 140. In order to make sure that the BPM is good, use this link to test it out. If you get the same BPM as what you intended (it might be smart to have someone else test the BPM too since you already know what the answer should be) then your song is likely to work well with a rhythm game.The only other thing I'd ask for is a simple, easily remembered rhythm/melody. This makes beatmapping the song wayyyy easier and also makes it really catchy. As long as thats there and the beat is managable the song should work very well with a rhythm game. Please don't feel rushed when it comes to making this song (It'll probably be a month before I could get to it even if you sent it in now) and if you have a great idea that doesn't fit with specs, ignore the specs!( Huh?) Don't let them ruin a good idea!

Hand drawn is fine, just make sure that it looks good on a computer. I'm glad that you want to help out with this! If any of the songs I've chosen look interesting (or you have any ideas of songs that you want to draw for) just say so and we can get to work. The waiting thing is fine since it takes time to beatmap a song, so if you have anything you want to submit you can just take a picture of it with your computer/camera and post that so I can see it.I only have three songs for sure so far (although if me and Davroth collab on this he might have some himself) and they are as follows: 20% Cooler by Ken Ashcorp, Alex S remix Discord, by Eurobeat Brony, The Living Tombstone remix Never Back Down, by Aviators, Thatsonofamitch remix List of songs being considered: Everything from Balloon Party (Trying to find which songs lend themselves best to rhythm games) The Wooden Toaster's work (same as balloon party) and basically every other piece of pony themed electronic music (that can be downloaded legally for free). Well, the music is all great and I'd love to include some of it, but remember that this is for a rhythm game and that I'm not selecting songs based solely on their musical merit. Here's a quick list of the things that I'm looking for:An easily identifiable BPM. The BPM can change throughout the song, but if I don't know the exact BPM then I can't make the game work. Telling me about the BPM will help with this, but if the player cannot find the BPM themselves then they'll have trouble with the song. A managable pace. If a song is made up of a lot of fast, short notes then it's very hard to beatmap, let alone play in a rythem game. If a song has a lot of fast notes but also has a foreground melody made up of longer notes, that's fine. A backbeat. If there's an audible, consistant beat in the background it not only helps me beatmap, it provides an anchor for people play the game so they can save themselves if they screw up and lose the beat. Not really required, but good to have. A chorus. When playing a rhythem game it's comforting to have a series of notes/beats that appear a few times in the song, and the best place to have this is a chorus. Breaks in the song. This can be in the form of a sample, a lull in the music, or even bit of silence in the middle of the song. This makes it possible to include story images without forcing people to look away from the music. That said, I'd like to use the first song here. I think it would make a good 'super-intense' level track. However, if you have any simpler songs (or could compose one) that would be great. Since I'm just starting on this game I'm gonna have to make the 'easy' tracks first because nopony wants to play a game that starts out really really hard, so I'm not gonna be able to use any of these songs at the moment. However, I do plan on including one of them in the future, so stay tuned!

Well, I just started a blog here. Why, you might ask, did you start a blog when you don't want to talk about your day to day life? That's a good question. The simple answer is because I was bored. The more complicated answer is because the alternative was to spend time with my very extended family. So, here's a blog that I'm going to fill with so much random stuff that you won't want to read it. Here's a list of various topics you won't be reading about: Video Games (mainly TF2) Trading Card Games My Life (not the boring bits) Whatever Crazy Plan I'm Currently Working On Random Capitolization Of Letters My Hatred Of Spelling Cheese (and why I hate it) Birds My Friends (and dumb things we've done toghether) And Other Stuff... So if you've been considering a masochistic lifestyle, make sure to subscribe to this blog! If you want to read a blog written by an interesting person who actually knows how to spell, try elsewhere. Seriously, this is gonna be Boooring! (Pssst! Listen to track eight, otherwise the joke's not funny.)

Ok. Ummm.... (Stupid question alert!) How do I do that? Never mind. I found out how.

But I like programming things... I wanted to make sure that I'd have the support required to make this work before investing a large amount of time in it. Still, while I really do want to program this myself OSU looks interesting and it's cool to know that someone else had the same idea I did. I think that I can probably master it pretty quickly, so wanna work together on this?

Well, I guess this is [Final] now. Please tell me what I need to change to get this character up and running.

Ok, recently I've been playing EBA (Elite Beat Agents) and I've been thinking. Wouldn't a pony based music game like this be awesome? Then I realised that I actually have the skills required to make such a game in Scratch (a free and simple SDK created by MIT). I've tested what I've got so far and it works great. Only thing is that I've got a ton of stuff that still needs doing and I can't do it alone. The basic idea behind the game is this: You will pick a song to play. As the song plays, you hit keys on the keyboard as arrows move towards a target on the screen, kinda like DDR. In the background a series of pictures related to the song will be shown. For every note you hit you will recieve points, for ever missed note you'll lose points. If your point total reaches zero the song will stop and you'll get a game over. Pretty simple, right? WRONG. This is really hard to make and I can't do it by myself. The following is a list of why each thing is really hard and why I need help: Gameplay: Art: Music: If you'd be interested at all in helping PLEASE SAY SO! I'd really like this to work but I can't do this alone. Also, if you don't understand anything or want some clarification, please just ask. I know that I'm terrible at explaining things like this and that this sounds more like a list of demands than a polite request, but I really do need help and if you help me I will be so very grateful. Plus, it'll be fun! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help out!

I've read all of the links and have plans to follow the tech restrictions. For the hacker thing to work all there really needs to be is one factory that relies on machinery to do at least one important task. I didn't put that in because I wanted to do a high tech thing, but because I wanted him to have a guilty conciense about something. We know that cloudsdale has a factory in it so I can use that. The tech bits are just part of his personality. He likes technology, and it doesn't really matter how advanced it is. I don't mean computer keyboards, I'm referring to the typewriter used during the newspaper episode. As for the magic thing, my point is that whether or not the machine is powered by magic, it is still programmed to carry out a task until further input is recieved, and because of that it should be possible to 'hack' such a device by providing said input. My argument here isn't any attempt to change board cannon, but just to say that there is some technology in Equestria, primitive as it is, and therefore my app can still work. Also, as for the projector, the movie was very old style, but it was also very old. If you've ever seen any such old style presentations you'll find that they don't actually look that old when they're new. They're fairly clear and nowhere near as discolored. The presentation was obviously meant to be very old and well used, similar to those videos that you have to watch in school that have been in use since 1975. Here's a quick explanation of how my app works with the tech level. Firstly, ignore the word hacker. I'm using it in a rather archaic and romantic sense to refer to a person with a very creative and unconventional approach to solving problems. It doesn't necessarily have to have anything to do with computers, and since they don't exist they won't even get mentioned. Secondly, for his past, I just wanted to give him a bit of baggage and guilt. I wanted something he'd done to haunt him, but I didn't want it to be anything too bad. Therefor, hacking. While I'm not going to reveal what, exactly, he did, just expect it to have been something like messing up the Cloudsdale cloud factory by looking at the blueprints and finding that if someone turned a specific valve at a certiant time it would cause the machine to overload. No computers involved. Thirdly, and least importantly, all three genres of music could technially be made with the technology avaliable to ponies. For any of the sounds involved that might be considered too synthy, just assume that a unicorn made those sounds with magic. If you look closely, you'll see that those are the only bits of my app that refer to tech. I hope that this helps clear stuff up.

Gotcha. The tech level stuff was something I wondered about. Considering there is no cannon tech restriction in the show and how there is plenty of fannon stuff that would require computers (how could Vinyl do her stuff without them?) I figured it might be safe to include it, but if there's a tech restriction here I actually do have a plan for that. Also, just on the tech thing, we've seen ponies typing on keyboards, so obviously they can. They do so many things that require ridiculous manual dexterity that I just assume they can use their hoofs like fingers if they need too. I just decided to go along with my own personal interpritation of how things work until told otherwise, and now that that's happened I can change it easily.We've seen that they have movies (hurricane fluttershy) and that they have audio technology comparable to our own (the sound system in Royal Canterlot Wedding and Iron Will's microphone). Also, whether magically powered or not they DO have computers of a sort. The Flim Flam brothers Super Speed Cider Squeezer was able to tell wheather or not an apple was good by itself which means that it is a computer of some kind, and you could actually see that it also used electricity in the form of the simplified vacuum tube on their device. While there may not be an internet in equestria the art of hacking existed IRL before the internet either in the form of messing with the simple computers that existed back then. Since we know that ponies understand magic and that there are whole libraries dedicated to how it works, it stands to reason that any pony with enough intelligence would be able to use knowledge of magical theory and electronics to mess with any sort of hybrid magical-electrical computer without even need any magical abilities himself. Brighteyes's entire skill set translates very nicely to the level of technology that exists in ponyville. Judging by technology seen in the show, such as the factories in Cloudsdale (which are 100% mechanical, since no unicorn had visited there before Twilight and Rarity) and the various sound systems seen in the show (Iron Will's mic, for example, proves that they have circutry and know how to build radio devices), Equestrian technology is mildly advanced. There are PROBABLY magical/electronic semi-computer things (like the Super Speedy Cider Squeezer) that are capable of running a factory or something similar. Even if computers aren't a part of everyday life and are rather primative, there would still be high demand (in fact, since his skills would be much rarer) for someone with his talents, both for legal and illegal reasons. Given what we've seen in the show I'll postulate that most of these devices would be controlled through a combination of magic and/or a series of levers. In oreder to 'hack' one of those devices all you'd need to do would be to input commands that would cause the machine to function in a manner harmful to itself. Anyways, all that tech babble aside, consider the tech level reduced to the level seen in the show. I'll admit that I've stretched things as far in the direction of technology as possible, but it's all stuff we've seen in the show and it lets me RP this character in the way I've originally planned, so it's all good, right?

Sorry about that. I tried using the template provided and it didn't really work. Consider them gone.I think the app is going well and if nobody else comments with suggestions I'm gonna mark in final soon. That said, I actually would like more suggestions/questions.

Russian commando pony... I like this idea! However, what is he doing in Canterlot? I'm sure Stalliongrad had plenty of great military acadamies, so why did he chose to come to Canterlot? He wasn't able to tell the difference between gaurds and the blue team, so is he a little bit slow, or just kinda impulsive? Is he still looking for his mother? Was she secretly a spy? Does he still want to be in this corrupt army anymore? What's he doing to try to change it? Does he have any real combat experience? Those are just some questions that popped into my head while reading this. Hope they help!

Added some stuff, mostly his sexuality and an bit of an explination of what happened in his past that he's ashamed of.

So, I've decided to try my hand at a little dubstep and so far things are going well (apart from the fact that it takes me three hours with a keyboard to get seven notes out of my head and onto paper). The biggest problem I'm having is that I have no clue how to make wubs. I'm using a POJ (piece o' junk) audio program for the PC known as Mixcraft, but just general advice on what sort of synth I need and what sort of filters I need to run in through should be fine. I hope to be able to post what I'm working on here once I have a few seconds of audio ready...

Why thank you my good sir.

Same here, even though if there are any physical activities involved he'll fail...

I think everybody's thought of getting frisky with their doppleganger. Or maybe that's just me...

I wanna see twighlight lose it, get possessed by her magic, and take over equestria herself.