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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #30 on: 16 May 2017, 15:09:58 »
I just chalk that up to Equestria being a setting where it's the norm to get an apprenticeship rather than to go into secondary education: Twilight was a student when the series started and Ponyville is a much smaller town with less formal education opportunities than Canterlot or Manehattan, so the friends she makes that are her own age have already started working.

One thing that also occurs to me is that the Mane Six might all be receiving a stipend from Princess Celestia: they are a vital part of the realm's security force, after all.
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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #31 on: 16 May 2017, 16:47:58 »
My first thought is that Fluttershy is just really really frugal. She's not one for fancy things and I'm sure there's a garden on her property somewhere that's probably her primary food source.  It's quite possible she could be getting by on nothing but odd jobs and animal sitting.   Of course, once you factor in feeding her pets(especially angel), that theory goes out the window.   I know there was a fan fiction some time ago that suggested she had a job as a weather pony like many other pegasus in Ponyvill, but she specifically handled fog so she could stay near the ground.

As for the ages of the mane 6, Lauren Faust said they were intentionally vague. She wanted them to be old enough to be independent, but still young enough to be learning lessons. Interesting side note, pony analysts have confirmed the CMC are growing up physically.  They are larger now than they were in their first appearance.

I try not to overthink Equestria Girls.  It exists solely to compete with monster high dolls. Yes MLP exists to sell toys, but not as a poor attempt to rip off another toy.   The new minis are pretty neat though. Still waiting for that derpy one to release.
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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #32 on: 16 May 2017, 19:43:22 »
Given the friendship, kindness, and sharing dripping from every pore of the series, I have to assume that the kingdom of equestria has a robust public assistance system. Maybe Fluttershy is classified as legally disabled (social anxiety disorder) and draws assistance.
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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #33 on: 16 May 2017, 23:07:54 »
Someone tried to pin down the ages of the Mane 6,  however I didnt agree with them, even based on their cited evidence.  But they did conclude late teensb or whatever the pony equivalent of that is.

Really, in series the only concrete mention of ages is Fluttershy telling Pinky "I'm a year older than you"
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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #34 on: 16 May 2017, 23:56:01 »
Exact age doesn't matter. What matters is that the Mane Six started firmly in the Erik Erikson psychosocial stage of Intimacy vs. Isolation, where young adults choose between a path that has stable friendships and loves they can rely on, or a path that is closed off and ultimately leads to them being alone.

The CMCs are firmly in Identity vs. Role Confusion, as are all of the ponies that age - Diamond Tiara's song about not knowing who she is despite being told what she is is perfect for this - but now they're growing out of it, becoming young adults in their own right.

Meantime, the Mane Six is moving onto the next stage, of Generativity vs. Stagnation - where people contribute to society in general or never move on. We can see it in Rarity's opening of beautiques, in RD becoming a full time Wonderbolt, in Twilight Sparkle teaching a student and trying to make the hard choice of asking her to leave.


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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #35 on: 17 May 2017, 00:51:53 »
Fellow bronies, lend me your ears...

How would you use the MAGIC OF FRIENDSHIP to solve a problem stemming from...the Manehattan underworld?

Scenario:

The Cutie Mark Crusaders get a letter from Babs Seed in Manehattan, asking them to come and help her with another "bullying problem".
The "bullies" are in fact part of a protection racket, extorting bits from the mane salon where Babs works.  The CMCs soon realize they're in over their heads as it emerges this is part of a turf war between rival gangs.

So, if it were you, how would you go about resolving this in a way that's consistent with the show and the comics?  Especially without having to bring in the princesses as a deus ex machina?  (Who else is going to bring a bunch of ruthless Manehattan mob bosses to heel?)

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So, now I'm imagining people boxing up Overlords for loading as cargo.  "Nope, totally not a DropShip.  Everyone knows you can't fit a DropShip in a WarShip!  It's...a ten thousand ton box of marshmallows!  Yeah.  For the Heavy Guards big annual smores party."
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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #36 on: 17 May 2017, 11:18:22 »
I suspect a West Side Story style dance off, where the Sharks and the Jets realize that they don't need to fight, thanks to the magic of friendship. 

That said, while some villains like Discord and Starlight (and innumerable lesser characters) have been reformed, several like Tirek and Chrysalis (and others like Flim and Flam) have gone on being bad and simply had to be exiled or imprisoned.  So it depends if you're doing A Bronx Tale or Casino or Goodfellas or the Godfather. 
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« Reply #37 on: 17 May 2017, 22:36:56 »
Perhaps the Capo retired recently, and he was more of a community style guy who asked for 'donations' but plowed it back into the neighborhood, and his successor has become more violent and greedy? Giving them an avenue to find the retired Capo and talk to him?

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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #38 on: 17 May 2017, 23:06:18 »
Now what's a Godfather pony's cutie mark going to be?
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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #39 on: 17 May 2017, 23:46:18 »
Perhaps the Capo retired recently, and he was more of a community style guy who asked for 'donations' but plowed it back into the neighborhood, and his successor has become more violent and greedy? Giving them an avenue to find the retired Capo and talk to him?

I'm thinking having a bunch of rival bosses, each controlling a turf in different parts of Manehattan.  Some names for you:

Little Seedser (should be obvious)
Don Coltleone, a.k.a The Godstallion (again, beyond obvious)

Based on real-life mobsters:
Dapper Dock
Double Dutch
Lucky Strike

Thrillson Risk

Cutting Board (a cookie for anybody who can guess the inspiration for this one)
Bumpy Road (a cookie here too)

For those of you who think this is a bit dark to be playing with a 9 year old kid, the comics have established that intimidation and extortion do indeed happen in parts of Equestria.  Not quite as idyllic as shown on the TV show.

And FYI this is a kid who in one of our previous games insisted that Celestia face an ultimatum where she had to eat a potentially lethal poisonous mushroom.

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So, now I'm imagining people boxing up Overlords for loading as cargo.  "Nope, totally not a DropShip.  Everyone knows you can't fit a DropShip in a WarShip!  It's...a ten thousand ton box of marshmallows!  Yeah.  For the Heavy Guards big annual smores party."
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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #40 on: 18 May 2017, 09:12:37 »
Now what's a Godfather pony's cutie mark going to be?

How dark do you want it?

A severed pony head, of course!

cheers,

Gabe
So, now I'm imagining people boxing up Overlords for loading as cargo.  "Nope, totally not a DropShip.  Everyone knows you can't fit a DropShip in a WarShip!  It's...a ten thousand ton box of marshmallows!  Yeah.  For the Heavy Guards big annual smores party."
--Arkansas Warrior, on the possibility of carrying Dropships as cargo in Warship cargo bays.

TERRAN SUPREMACY DEFENSE FORCE.  For when you want to send the SLDF, but couldn't afford the whole kit and kaboodle.

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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #41 on: 18 May 2017, 10:25:29 »
How dark do you want it?

A severed pony head, of course!

cheers,

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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #43 on: 19 May 2017, 13:41:57 »
Honestly, though Vito Corleone was prepared to use violence when needed, I don't think it was ever his first choice.  He tried to be a man of reason, and only resorted to violence when there was no other choice.  He was more a man of the people, picking out oranges when he was shot.  For a real cheeky cutie mark, maybe a bottle of olive oil for the Godfather. 

As to how Our Little Ponies would deal with such a world... 

They'd almost surely try and reason with the mobsters, because that's almost always plan A.  But, if that failed, we have seen several episodes focus on investigation, so we might see the Ponies taking on the role of the Untouchables and trying to uncover enough evidence to call in Shining Armor and Flash Sentry and the Pony PD and round everyone up. 
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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #44 on: 23 May 2017, 13:22:47 »
Suddenly, I have visions of the Cutie Mark Crusaders donning sleuth hats and carrying around spy glasses, bursting through doors on the chase for the next clue.
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« Reply #45 on: 23 May 2017, 13:24:29 »
Didn't Rarity and Pinky actually do that?
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« Reply #46 on: 23 May 2017, 16:19:15 »
Pinky for sure. Maybe with Rarity. Don't recall very well. I'm at the start of season 5, but it's been a few months since watching the earlier stuff.
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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #47 on: 23 May 2017, 16:43:19 »
Pinkie went all Sherlock Holmes to find a cake eater, while Rarity went all film noir private eye to save Rainbow Dash's career.
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« Reply #49 on: 24 May 2017, 19:21:18 »
So here's a question: the ponies are all herbivores, right?  So why does Applejack's farm have chickens and pigs?
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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #50 on: 24 May 2017, 21:22:43 »
Are the Ponies all herbivores?  They seem mostly to eat pastries, true, but we know cheese is a thing (since Twilight is afraid of quesadillas for being too cheesy) and we know they eat sandwiches (which can have meat or not).  So I suppose it's possible that they eat bacon (I assume the chickens are for eggs, though both chicken and eggs are delicious).  Either that or it's all for Fluttershy's animals, since we know she harbors carnivores.  Only other thing I can think is maybe sow's milk, which is a real (if weird) thing.
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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #51 on: 24 May 2017, 23:48:00 »
The show is pretty careful to avoid any mentions of meat: Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle both enjoy hayburgers, for example.  Near as I can tell, the ponies are dairy-okay vegetarians.
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« Reply #52 on: 26 May 2017, 15:39:03 »
Regarding the question of Fluttershy's job: I was rewatching some of the earlier seasons this week and in the finale for Season 2, Fluttershy's bird chorus is requested to perform at the wedding.
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« Reply #53 on: 26 May 2017, 18:23:07 »
The show is pretty careful to avoid any mentions of meat: Rainbow Dash and Twilight Sparkle both enjoy hayburgers, for example.  Near as I can tell, the ponies are dairy-okay vegetarians.

Even Equestria Girls avoids it.  So many fruit salads.
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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #54 on: 26 May 2017, 20:02:42 »
I guess the follow up is: what does it say that Pony-nomics are more plausible than FASA-nomics that we spend so much time decrying in the other parts of the boards?

That aside, it's been a pretty good season.  But, something I've noticed more and more is episodes that just dial in on one Pony.  They've always done this, to some greater or lesser degree, but I felt like this season has had fewer group episodes, and more that aren't just small group (two or three at a time, say, which can sometimes be best) but rather just one pony from the mane group. 
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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #55 on: 30 May 2017, 09:50:19 »
Chickens make eggs, useful for baking.
Pigs...garbage disposal, trade with non-herbivorous species, feeding pets, and to make lard/leather.

Also, while I'm thinking about it. You very rarely find pure herbivores. Most herbivores WILL snack on animal protein if they have the chance. It's just that they're not equipped to hunt it down or easily digest it in mass quantities.

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« Reply #56 on: 30 May 2017, 10:05:06 »
Also, while I'm thinking about it. You very rarely find pure herbivores. Most herbivores WILL snack on animal protein if they have the chance. It's just that they're not equipped to hunt it down or easily digest it in mass quantities.

Actually, what usually is happening is that they're going after the bones for calcium.  They'll avoid eating meat unless there's something seriously wrong.  Also, real-world biology doesn't exactly apply to a setting with talking "ponies" that can fly with tiny chicken-wings and use magic because they've got horns.  Even most hostile creatures aren't shown to be carnivorous in the show: dragons aren't.  The only monsters I can think of that actually tried to eat the ponies were either plants or a non-sentient crocodile.
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« Reply #57 on: 30 May 2017, 11:02:58 »
Chickens make eggs, useful for baking.
Pigs...garbage disposal, trade with non-herbivorous species, feeding pets, and to make lard/leather.

Also, while I'm thinking about it. You very rarely find pure herbivores. Most herbivores WILL snack on animal protein if they have the chance. It's just that they're not equipped to hunt it down or easily digest it in mass quantities.

The only sentient species in this world seem to be of ruminant (both artiodactyl and perissodactyl) extraction.  Carnivores and even omnivores (e.g. Applejack's pig) are non-sentient. 

What do the griffins eat again?  You would think a half-eagle/half-lion would NOT be a vegetarian...

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So, now I'm imagining people boxing up Overlords for loading as cargo.  "Nope, totally not a DropShip.  Everyone knows you can't fit a DropShip in a WarShip!  It's...a ten thousand ton box of marshmallows!  Yeah.  For the Heavy Guards big annual smores party."
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Re: Mods are Awake, Post Our Little Ponies!
« Reply #58 on: 30 May 2017, 11:58:51 »
Well, I asked my kids about the pigs (the chickens thing is a no brainer, especially being reminded how many of the sorts of pastries and confections that the Ponies seem to more or less live on require eggs).  They answered that she has pigs because she's a farmer, and farmers raise pigs.  I don't think there's more to it than that.

As for Griffins, they eat scones, seemingly.  Terrible, baking power free scones. 
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« Reply #59 on: 30 May 2017, 13:57:00 »
The only sentient species in this world seem to be of ruminant (both artiodactyl and perissodactyl) extraction.  Carnivores and even omnivores (e.g. Applejack's pig) are non-sentient. 


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