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Quote from: Kogut on April 14, 2011, 02:24:18 pm

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That was both ludicrous, and very very funny.

edit(times3): for spelling, formatting, and generally idiocy in finding ways to screw up suck a simple reply.......sheesh

I lol'd

Well, it makes sense that there are more ponies at the princesses' power levels around somewhere.  I mean Celestia does have a nephew, on her mother's side.

Which is interesting, cosmologically.  We know the sisters are well over a thousand years old.  One might assume, given their whole sun/moon thing, that they are always-was/always-will-be deities.  But they did have a mother, and from Lauren Faust's phrasing, one can assume they had a father.

I wonder if they were young before the world was created, that they in some way took up their sun/moon roles at the same time as the world really started being a thing that exists?  Did they take over from their parents?  Is the world screwed because Celestia doesn't have children...or does she have some after all?  Maybe it's not an inherited position, but rather an earned or accepted one.  Is Twilight being trained to take on sky-goddess duties someday?  She does have a time-of-day based name, so it's possible.  Could she be distantly related to the royal family?  She lived in Canterlot, she might be.

I keep wondering about the Elements of Harmony back in the good old days.  In modern times they have to be wielded by personifications of the elements.  Was that true a thousand years ago?  If so, surely Celestia and Luna were two of the elements.  I'm guessing Celestia was probably magic, but what was Luna?  Kindness maybe, or laughter...  Now I want to see more of the historic ponies.


...Luna's ruined castle was in the Everfree Forest.  I wonder if it was quite so Everfree before her exile.

Quote from: Sowelu on April 13, 2011, 08:14:51 pm

My survivability has increased immensely since I started carrying a bucket of lava or two around everywhere.

Break into a cavern and find a few skeletons?  Dump some lava on the other side of a one-tile-high wall, hide until they're dead, and collect your lava source again.  Hell, usually it works just to place the lava and pick it back up as soon as it spreads once.  Creeper bouncing around just out of reach, but can't fight it and don't want to leave it there?  Lava.

Man, minecraft really IS just like DF.  Magma solves everything.

What about a load of magma pouring down the hole you fell down without taking a pick or blocks with you?

You shouldn't have done that.

Um, probably Colossal Cave (aka Adventure).  Spelling was the hard part.
And Spacewar.  Ahh amber monitors.  TOUGH GAME when you're four.
:|

My first actual console game was probably, I dunno, Air/Sea Battle?

Yeah... What makes you respect yourself?

Not the same for person A as it is for person B.  Some things seem universal but there's always subtle differences.  Certainly there would be disagreements between how much hard work is sufficient versus how much personal freedom and time to think one has, or disagreements over how much duty one has to one's fellow man.  Some people can't respect themselves if they don't give absolutely everything they can to help others, some people can't respect themselves if they sacrifice personal freedom to do that.

I've never understood why the argument against Communism always comes down to a lack of incentive to put in more hard work. I put hard work into the things I do because it nets me social power and prestige, and it would likely be the same if we all had the same material wealth.

Social power and prestige exist just fine in very small societies, which includes the upper echelon of the highest skilled minds in a large society.  In any situation where each person who receives goods from society is in direct contact with the people who produced those goods, there's some mutual respect going on.

Once it's possible to be anonymous, or when the people you deal with on a day-to-day basis don't actually know about you or your accomplishments, it breaks down.  The people who bring you goods don't actually know what you do or don't do.  It's impossible to create social pressure on weaker-producing elements.  And if you do very well at your job, nobody will necessarily know, or care.

People who are driven by the good feeling of a job well done, and in showing it off to others, won't work any less hard under communism.  But what about people who don't really care about social power?  Art is one thing, but what about farming, or factory work, things where you're terribly sore at the end of a hard week?  Plus, it's hard to say "Okay men, if you can produce these widgets 20% faster, you'll get a raise".  "You'll win a sticker on your progress report!" just doesn't have quite the same impact.

I could see some utterly insane people who are terrified of The Man being CN, and other utterly insane people who can't stand the madness of the world around them and need to retreat into way-beyond-OCD rules and procedures as being LN.  I don't think they could truly stray into good or evil, though, and maybe those other ones are even a little artificial...

If you go far beyond that point though, they become practically mindless.  Someone with INT 2 or WIS 2...can they even have alignment at all?  Hell, I don't know, animated undead can be evil but then that's just the magic talking.  Though they do have at least one of those scores, so...

My personal favorite alignment to play is LN.  Mainly because it makes everyone go "Wait, WHAT?".  Maybe you just care about yourself and your family and nobody else, but think that orderly society will help you better than anything else.  (IE, Republicans.)  Maybe you can go out adventuring and bring law to the wilderness, maybe as a bounty hunter, but it's just because you personally want to see it like that.  It makes you feel warm and fuzzy and safe and/or paid.

Also. Hair. Presumably everyone still has to comply to the hair regulations, yes?

Are you trolling?