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  4. Hello people.

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    So I get you've been listening to Dubstep since 1998?

    Yeah. I was kinda young back then, but my mum would have her students come over to watch my little brother sometimes (she's a college professor) and one of them introduced me to it. I think I learned about it sometime around 2002 ish?

    EDIT: Actually, to be totally honest, I first HEARD Dubstep in the early 2000s, but I didn't really like it until around 2008. Up to then I prefered DnB and House. Even now Dubstep is sort of hit or miss, although I've fallen in love with enough Dubstep songs that I feel I can say I'm a fan of the genre.

  5. Hello people.

    in Introductions

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    Welcome! It's always nice to see someone who isn't afraid to admit that certain pieces of brony themed music are actually pretty bad.

    (I don't actually agree with you on the dubstep thing, but that's because I'm so hipster I liked dubstep before Skrillx was cool.)

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  7. Forum name as seed

    in Entertainment and Geekery

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    In minecraft Mister Chippy gives you a some gentle grassy hills near the ocean, with a jungle right next to you. I found an open cave that goes quite far down very fast that also has some exposed iron, a pumpkin, cows, sheep, and chickens. So a fairly basic seed, but never the less a pretty decent one to start in.

  13. hey there!

    in Introductions

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    Davroth: oh where do i start? lol i've been playing lots, walking dead, far cry 3, halo 4, skyrim, i'm pretty much into rpg's, some shooters, platformers, (good) indie games, anything really as long as it's fun :)

    MisterChippy: Thank you!

    Rosewind: actually i've been trying to learn smile smile smile on guitar. Will be trying to learn more later too :)

    If you're playing games play TF2. Is best game. EVER!

  14. Wave of youtube mlp takedowns

    in Pony Chatter

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    I'll be totally honest here, this whole thing is being blown way out of proportion. FiW is gonna be able to get their stuff back up and if they can't they'll still be able to make it and distribute it, even if they have to do it the old fashioned way by posting the video files on a sharing website for others to download.

    Also, Hasbro is kinda removing the episodes from online, but not really. I can still find every single one, and in HD no less, in multiple different places.

    In other words: Don't panic. Everything is fine.

  16. S03 E10 - "Keep Calm and Flutter On"

    in Friendship is Magic Series

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    A lot of people have said that the episode felt rushed, and initially I agreed. Within 20 minutes, Discord goes from an amazing (or terrible) villain, to a "good guy." The premise is nigh-impossible to believe, and many felt it should have been a two-part episode as such. After watching it for the second time though, I feel that, like season 3 opener, the obvious point was not actually the message the writers were trying to convey.

    I feel as though instead of turning Discord from Good to Evil, instead they (read: Fluttershy) taught Discord compassion. Previously, Discord was a character who had the powers to do what he wanted, when he wanted. Did he conquer Equestria and make his own empire? Did he amass any sort of fortune or fame? What he did was have fun. Looking at his character, I would say it was easy to see him as a very young child. He did that which amused him, not so much ignoring or reveling the suffering of others, but being oblivious to it. Granted, turning the Mane 6 grey was a pretty dang evil thing, but that could be written of as a form of self defense; they were trying to "hurt" him, so he hurt them first. Still a very childish method.

    In Keep Calm and Flutter On, Discord started off in an identical form, though with a proverbial gun to his head: if he misbehaves, he goes back to being imprisoned. What Fluttershy did was to take away this threatening situation, temporarily at first by letting Discord make himself at him inside her cottage, and then more permanently when she promised not to use her Element against him. She treated him with patience and tolerance, asking things of him rather demanding. Once she called Discord her friend at the dinner party, he realized how differently she had been treating him. At Sweet Apple Acres, when Discord froze the water, he was thinking only of only the fun that could be had and not the disruption it would cause to those around him, something that would be considered 'childish' by almost anyone. I feel an impossibly important and subtle note was that when he offered Fluttershy the skates, he did it as an activity two friends could do together to have fun. When he finally realized how his actions upset Fluttershy, and finally realized how he was about to lose his only friend, Discord gained the understanding of compassion and empathy. Discord was able to see how his shenanigans directly affected the ponies around him.

    In this way, I feel Discord did not turn from evil to good. I would not even say that Discord was ever truly evil, simply immature and unable to truly grasp the impact of his actions. A child does what it does because it is fun for whatever reason. Once you teach a child to think about how his/her actions and how they will affect others, that child is more likely to act restrained and more composed. Discord is still the same chaos-loving draconequus that he will always be, but I feel as though draconequus, like ponies and people, are social creatures that seek the acceptance of their peers.

    Very calm and well reasoned analysis. You not only managed to grasp the idea that Discord isn't evil but chaotic (something most people don't seem to get), but you also managed to give a pretty good explanation for why Fluttershy's strategy for converting Discord worked. You managed to dispel all my doubts about this episode.

    A+ post.

  17. Incoming Transmission From Autobot HQ

    in Entertainment and Geekery

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    Whooaa. He did with Transformers what Nolan did with Batman. If you like campy and boxy, sure, it's not your thing, but he brought the Transformers down to their essence - freakin' sweet transforming cars - and put them into a different setting. Beast Wars and the incomparable Beast Machines did the same thing too. You can't compare it to the original because it's not trying to be the original.

    Thing was I liked the origninal. The first movie was good, but the others were just fetid. He did the epic robot battles better than the shows, but that was mainly because of his huge budget. The original, while campy, was good. Bay's movies, while epic, were not (you CANNOT say that Rise of the Fallen was a good movie), and they ruined the original. That's the problem I have with them. Not that they weren't good, but that they got rid of the part of transformers that I liked.
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