Dessa

Dear Twilight Sparkle,

Enclosed are five internets! You win!

Celestia

PS And one more internet for Spike!

Who voted for Cutemark Crusaders!!?? I outta smack you!!

Friendship, bro. Friendship.

Even Baraka knows its magic.

Scoot fell out of the sky and has been afraid to fly ever since. She's going to learn the courage from Rainbow Dash. You heard it here first.

Wait, there's just one Internet now? Man, I remember back in 2004 there were a whole bunch of Internets.

Yeah, it's a funny thumbnail isn't it? Even the computer gods ship those two.

I got black but only cause the store only had copies of Black for people who didn't preorder. So that sucked, but I'm liking it very much. ^-^ Also, I'm not sure how to find my friend code so anyone who wants help with that would be appreciated. ^-^

It's in your Pal Pad which is a key item. Took me a long time to figure that out too.

My friend code: 3611 0403 3570

Also, Adasyd, your code is one digit too long. I took one of the 7s off the center block and added you.

Non-binary = not male, not female.

ntteiner = scrambled internet.

Yes! A non-binary member in our midst! That means non-males outnumber females now, making this an ntteiner.

I like this version better, I think.

i...

i love you.

And you know that I love you mare,

Hot like Ponyville, rejoice!

Charizard is cool, yes. Cute? No.

None of them were cute in the final evolved state, though.

I can't think of a single one from any generation that was cute in it's third evolution.

True enough, I suppose. But Charizard was hideous in his middle state.

To your cannons!

Charizard is cool, yes. Cute? No.

She's not Gummy, she's just a gator

But her owner's like a fan, just like a fan

A pet gator is a bit like Gummy, but to see the difference, all you gotta say to the little guy is SHOW ME YA TEETH!

HOOVES UP, LITTLE MONSTERS!

Eh, I wasn't a guy anyhow.

I base my decision entirely on how cool the Pokémon will look throughout its life. So, whereas Squirtle and Charmander were cuter than Bulbasaur, Bulba's evovled states we coller than the rest. Same for The monkey in Pokemon Black/Pearl.

Snivy looks cool at every stage, Oshawott's plain ol ugly, and Tepig is only truly cute as Tepig.

Oh, "wiggle" stereoscopy. Yeah, I kinda stumbled on this by accident, and the images I grabbed weren't grabbed for the purpose of 3d viewing. They are taken from further apart than a person's eyes actually are, so the "wiggle" is too much. And if you're viewing stereoscopically, then you're seeing more depth than the picture should have. Which makes sense. You look at how near the buildings in front are to those one row back and they look near in 2d (as you can best estimate), but really far in 3d.

I'll see if I can post some more if people find this cool enough (I've got a love affair with 3d viewing)

Oshawott? Eww. Snivy FTW!

You'll notice "advance mode" picture is not only wider, but larger. THose of you who can do the diverge eyed method should totes learn the cross-eyed. You can see much larger images this way. You can cross your eyes far more than you can diverge them, unless you're derpy-eyed.

As for how the above images were made, I just took snapshots of a screen-pan. So this can't be done except when the camera pans. So no 3d images of Twilight Sparkle unless/until they do a matrix-cam sequence with her, like this:

Super-Advanced, impossible mode image -- easier to make sense of from a small distance away, like 4 feet:

Those of you who are unfamilar with stereoscopic viewing techniques, keep reading. Those of you who have done this before, here are the images

Easy view, diverge OR cross-eyed method (Columns alternate -- If the image looks inverted, move a column over)

Advanced mode, cross-eyed only:

"But Dessa, I don't know how to do it!"

Okay, there are two ways to do this. Let's try the cross eyed method first. Do you know how to cross your eyes? Look at the first image and cross your eyes at it until adjacent frames overlap. For most people, once you do this, your eyes will "snap" to position and everything will look all funny-dizzy-like. Well, that "snap" is your eyes being tricked into seeing that image as though it's nearer to you than it is. But that's not necessary to know to do this. Just cross your eyes until frames overlap, and "snap." Then look at the pictures. Every other row will look 3d. The rows that dont will look weird, with the far object near and the near far.

If you dont know how to cross your eyes, put your thumb right in front of your nose and look at it. When you do this, you're crossing your eyes. If you move your thumb toward and away from the screen, you might notice the image behind it "snaps" at various points. Every other "snap" will cross the images over so you can see them in 3d. This isn't so easy, but it's one way to do it, if you practice enough. Just pull your thumb out and try to keep your eyes in position.

The other method is "diverge eyed." This is where you relax your eyes as though you're looking far away. The first thing you can try is to try to look THROUGH the top image. Or act like you're just "zoning out" and looking into space. This doesn't work for most people on their first try. The next thing to try is, if you've got a shiny screen and a bright light (like the sun) behind you, look at an image reflected on your monitor, and you might just notice that the image ON your monitor "crossed over" and looks all funny. Try to hold your eyes like that, and you've got it. Also not terribly easy for newbs.

The one that seems to work best for newbs, is the put your nose right up on the screen, right on that MIDDLE black line in the top image, and relax your eyes. Because the screen is so close, your brain naturally "gives up" on trying to focus on it. Most eyes just dont cross far enough to see things that close up without major effort. This is a good thing, because it means your eyes have diverged. That's the first part. Now, while continuing to stare off into space, SLOWLY pull back from the monitor, and dont try to look at it. Just relax your eyes and pull back. I just did this and noticed that these images are incidentally spaced really well for this. What happens is that it'll look like everything's normal, but if you try to focus on the image, the image will look normal, but everything outside of it will be all doubled. THe image should also be in 3d.

This isn't easy for most people to get (although I suspect the cross-eyed method might be easier for those who have given up on stereoscopy), but you CAN do it. Some people just need to practice at it. Some need to practice a LOT.

There are guides online for this too if my advice doesn't make any sense.

C'mon, ladies, we need to WIN this. We need to win the stenretni!

The tally:

Owners of black: 6

Owners of white: 7

Wannabe owners of black: 1

Wannabe owners of white: 1

I... shall we say, 'acquired' a copy of PKMN Black Edition, US. All I did was start it to make sure it, well, started... but I was DISTRACTED SETTING UP A WEB FORUM FOR SOMEONE to even pick a Starter pokémon.

Heh. Much of my Pokiman time has been replaced with tiny-icon-tinkering. On the plus side, searching for good reference images is another excuse to watch the episodes for the billionth time.

Edit: Oh, and I got Pokémon black. Friend code forthcoming.

Argh, I can't really pick. I chose "Art of the Dress" because the episode was so good. Also, I'm glad to see "We are the CMC" got a vote. It gets too much hate for such a great song.