Interesting /g/ posts which contain the word "stabbed":
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/31886521/#31887533
>I thought about getting a knife before. Then I realized if you get mugged the second you pull out your knife you turn it into a live or die situation. You can't just cut someones arm and incapacitate them. You pretty much have to slit their throat or cut a major artery. This opens the possibility to you getting shot or stabbed by someone with way more resolve/strength. Pepper spray is a much more effective deterrent than a knife. \\ TLDR: If you carry a knife you're a fucking retard.
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/95324064/#95325283
>>and the people [in Europe] seem happier and healthier [than those of USA]
>Globalism means we're all eating the same microplastics and seed oils and if you've ever been to Europe they have plenty of fat fucks.
>\ Whatever statistics you're thinking of are leftoid propaganda designed to make you give up the autonomy that a car gives you and pay 40% income tax to pay for the privilege of cramming yourself into a steamy fart-tube of a bus or metro system rat maze like a good little worker drone until you eventually get blown up by a suicide bomber or stabbed in the street by an immigrant. All for the good of the planet of course.

Interesting video game video which reminds me of Russian Roulette:
https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=zaWPFbX7Q8A
https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=hGIG6hKEHI0

>>5893
>horsecock
Nice horsecock videos:
https://twibooru.org/1184842
https://twibooru.org/1184343

>>10403
>Buckshot Roulette
That game helps me understand the appeal of gambling. More on that:
. Moronic gamers: Jack https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=otQtQEeC-lA and Case https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=9ynISZj0mjw
. Mark https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=pln0lUgsWsU and Manly https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=I9DyGcnrMNk
. explained https://iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=PWSlfg1V380

>>10407
Image looks grey:
https://endchan.org/.media/95a226dcb69c4acea8b0da4c937dc47b-imagepng.png

Thumbnail image looks black:
https://endchan.org/.media/t_95a226dcb69c4acea8b0da4c937dc47b-imagepng

I like the black/dark grey color over a lighter grey, but must say that the thumbnail isn't a very good representation of the image colorwise.

>>10380
>[Democratic systems, are they any good?]
In the US, a system of representative democracy is used. So elected representatives supposedly do what their constituents want. Sounds OK, but was times under monarchy really that bad? Or is that just Whig History? An obvious criticism of democracy is that no one is really that dedicated or involved in politics. Most voters don't know a lot about politics and economics, so why should their vote matter? Quote from some TV show episode where an absolute democracy is criticized: "I think you're confusing knowledge with opinions." Additionally, politicians themselves aren't that dedicated. Presidents serve for 4 years. Senators and other higher-ranking politicians can have such a position for up to ~50 years. (Higher-ranking politician in the same position for decades is similar to the aristocracy class.) Monarchs on the other hand are supposed to serve and lead for their entire adult life. Makes me think of Putin - maybe he'll still be "president" of Russia when he becomes an old madman with Alzheimer's or dementia (such a corrupt system might enable such weirdness).

The question kinda becomes this: would those with governing power (politicians/aristocrats/monarchs/governors) do politics/ruling/leading/serving/war any better if democracy was not involved. In the book "Democracy, the God that Failed" I think the author argues that the economics of a nation without democracy is better than one with democracy. Or at least other(s) make that argument.

Reject Modernity. Embrace Tradition.

>>10413
*3-hour-long video

>generated image
Warhorse

>post the image you meant to post
Failed again - https://endchan.org/.media/512ed5d8b9933d616145fd477f2bc206-imagepng.png - see that Derpib'u ID.

>>10401
Trixie’s appearance and mannerism certainly stand out to the few other single episode characters that we have seen thus far. Her bravado and bragging nature, though meant to be annoying, do have a certain charm to them and I can see why she is one of the Season 1 character’s that survived well past in fandom consciousness even before she was brought fully back in the show. Now, one tiny thing I noticed and I am not sure if it is just me, but do some of these expressions feel a bit choppy in animation compared to the other ponies ? (Sorry, no examples, I was rushing a bit).

I like Trixie’s “uh oh” in the clip here. Real subtle and… IDK, I have the desire to use it for something. I don't squee over ponies as often as some but it is very cute.

This episode hit close to home in a somewhat weird way. I'll admit, this sort of moral I would be slightly biased against. Not strongly. Just the whole internet I feel there is a lot of... negativity sometimes, with overly affirmational and blindly positive even if I dislike those who want to bring back bullying and shaming behavior. Bit of a tangent. My father... let's just say that he probably needed this lesson growing up and perhpas I as well.

I may make a whole separate post on magic and some of the other elements mentioned here if I get the chance.

>>10343
>I’m intrigued by the fact that Spike refers to Twilight’s moustache spell as ‘growing magic’, and that it’s one of ‘25 tricks’. I assume he refers to them as tricks because Trixie’s magics are also ‘tricks’ later in the episode, but it seems kinda weird to refer to them as that all the same,
>I didn't realize and I don’t think there’s much reference to spells as ‘tricks’ later in the show.
>Also intriguing was that Snails had trouble using his horn to light up the cave, whilst Snips didn’t even try at all. I took away two things from this: first, I guess light is more necessary for finding snails than snipping things, so Snails probably has this ability whilst Snips can’t use lighting magic at all, and secondly, given that Snails is so slow, I wonder if magical ability is tied to intellect. Now, that’s a fairly obvious seeming conclusion
Me too. I can recall fanfiction trying to justify these spells as merely magic "tricks" like a branch of magic.As, later context it seems hard to believe that Twilight at this stage would know only 25! In the episode though it does seem this maybe magic more generally.
To quote Spike:
>I though unicorns were only supposed to have a little nagic that matches there special talents!

And 25 is a lot of spells by pony standards it seems. What counts as a spell, considering that, Rarity created the gold parts of that dress from thin air seemingly. Is that a separate conjuring spell? Or is it some sort of single spell related to her special talent? (which is gems not beatify per see) Or is Rarity a slightly more advanced magic user herself considering we do see her learn and using some other spells relatively casually in the series!?

This is what I mean with possibly making a whole post on the magic in this episode, I am racking my brain! It is fun though.

> maybe her big hat is to hide when she’s using her magic?
I like this theory!

>Anyway I like this episode probably the best so far, first we get to see Twilight do something really cool, and she starts to really properly find her place fitting in with Ponyville
Okay, magic aside, I see we are in similar opinion on this episode! Ponyville feels a little more established here and all the attention is just on the characters.

>>10401
> they also did this while providing a character who is an example of a braggart and show off in a negative sense (beyond the point of being a mere charming sometimes flaw like with Rainbow Dash) I think is very clever and gives a balance that maybe is lacking in our current era of online hype culture.
having that juxtaposition to hammer home the lesson is a very neatly efficient use of the episode's runtime and characters, and I appreciate that from a writing point of view and that this was almost certainly the entire intention with creating Trixie, but I can't help but also think that Trixie is the sort of person Twilight could have ended up as if she let beating Nightmare Moon get to her head. Part of why knowing just how much she relied on her friends to win back in the first two episodes is so important, I suppose.
> I disagree with the issues some had with Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity challenging Trixie. Trixie directly invited them to it and acted pretty antagonistic.
It seems like Trixie's standard act is to provoke audience naysayers and critics into challenging her directly to immediately defuse heckling and play up her power and prestige. It may possibly make more sense logically speaking for some more suited pony characters for that role to challenge Trixie, but since the whole conflict is centered around how Twilight's friend's feelings towards Trixie makes Twilight afraid of being seen like Trixie, it doesn't really make sense to skip out on our main characters interacting with Trixie, and this specific interaction serves to establish Trixie's quirks and personality too. It's again that sort of efficient, shortest-path method of achieving what the episode wants to get across that I think is on full display here and I find very admirable. We talked about how episode 5 kinda dilly-dallied a bit before introducing Gilda and it felt like the episode could have been a better-oiled machine, well this episode is run like a tight ship in comparison I'd say. Virtually no wasted space.
>Twilight Sparkle quietly pleaded this after she removed the Ursa Minor from the town. Rationally, as a adult, this monster was threatening the town and actual lives, at least to some extent. Of course her friends wouldn’t hate her for this and it is almost absurd for her to think otherwise.
It's possible Twilight had taken Trixie's initial claim of vanquishing an Ursa Major more seriously than the others and misinterpreted their skeptical reactions as ingratitude, or maybe she thought the townspeople wouldn't understand the threat an Ursa Minor presented... It is still a weird line though.
>Still, I like to think of this from an in-universe perspective as well.
Ponies clearly strongly value maintaining a very innocent, peaceful and sheltered society, which I think is an explanation I prefer to the specific mental maturity of the specific characters idea. Plus ponies are particularly conflict-averse as a species, something which can make them seem childish to a warrior species like ourselves where even simple debates are seen as a kind of contest of wills - like, a pony's reaction to adversity is never going to be that they've gotta toughen up or tough it out as is the adult norm among humans, with few exceptions ponies just seek safety the way human children do. That's part of why they're good for imparting lessons to children, because they grow emotional intelligence and maturity in their childlike adulthood rather than emotional callouses and numbness like human adults do.

>>10401
>This episode is 8/10. Solid/Great!!!!! This is my favorite episode of this season so far.
I can certainly understand that. For me it had that "bigger" feeling the first two episodes had as well, but I think that may be down to the persistent misinterpretations my brain loves to make as I rewatch, even though the more slice-of-lifey stuff reminds me more of what it was like before this show had the significance both of personal connection and of the epic fantasy scale of the story towards the end. In particular I think this episode fed into that feeling for me because it returns to Twilight as *main* character. She's definitely our audience surrogate, but we have other viewpoint characters and the story's never just about her, it's an ensemble cast right to the end. But this is the first of my mind's automatic misinterpretation: Twilight as the central figure of the story, and the overall arc of the entire show as being about Twilight and her journey and growth. The second misinterpretation is of the show as a cohesive narrative from beginning to end - this is easily logically picked apart but particularly when Twilight's on screen I keep finding myself reading her in context of foreshadowing and future events even though very little was really planned beyond the realm of a given episode's season. I'm sure it'd still be up there in enjoyability for me but I recognise my weird brain biases me since it applies more significance to Twilight-centric episodes than is actually there.
>>10402
>Just the whole internet I feel there is a lot of... negativity sometimes, with overly affirmational and blindly positive even if I dislike those who want to bring back bullying and shaming behavior.
The internet at large is what I'd describe as "hauntingly hollow". The fact you can get a chatbot to scrape the internet and spit out an opinion is particularly weird, it gives the internet at large a personality and the dominance of social media and self-censoring corporate speak in all the trash shoved online so massively outnumbers everything weird, awful or wonderful elsewhere on the internet that you get this sensation as though the whole world or the inner thoughts of others are made up of this bland, emotionless, corporate robot view of reality where everybody is equally rational and has equal access to the facts, except for the crazies. Especially when the internet makes up the majority of your daily experiences, as it does for me, it feels like the sterile soullessness can surround you until you wonder if you're the last receptacle of thoughts and feelings left.
>>10404
>And 25 is a lot of spells by pony standards it seems. What counts as a spell, considering that, Rarity created the gold parts of that dress from thin air seemingly. Is that a separate conjuring spell? Or is it some sort of single spell related to her special talent?
Perhaps given how unicorns often use their magic like a pair of hands, lifting and manipulating objects casually and with little thought given to it, I wonder if to unicorns, a 'spell' can be articulated in so many different ways that it essentially operates as a whole class of magic, whilst to a more humanoid caster it would have more limited effects. That is the effect I'd imagine from having a wand plugged straight into your brain as like an extra limb, to be honest.
>Didn't get it done for the episode but still happening. It does relate to this episode.
Looking forward to it, but no rush!

>>10334
>It is MUCH harder to post or administrate when you're dead.
Or easier, depending on your view of said obligations!

>picking on you for posting after you died would constitute beating a dead horse, wouldn't it?
Unironically lol'd.

>>10355
>Unironically lol'd.

TBH I was reminded recently of the joke as somewhere I came across "DnD Dad" who re-did this scene.
The earlier one, the drow wizard, Red, said to the rest 'yeah whatever I'm going to bed'
>Oh, you're pretty tired?
"By the Spider I just said as much!"
>So ... you're feeling
< PRETTY DROWSY?

Which is almost as funny but not as equine related.

>>10363
>beating a dead horse
>PRETTY DROWSY?
Slightly clever punny humor I am a sucker for.Equine related or not, I can appreciate!

Speaking of drowsy, I am pretty drowsy myself. Hopefully I'll get back here soon as I have a lot of things to post and comment on I also need to touch base with you again. In the meantime. Goodnight /endpone/.

>>10396
Message now sent.

Sexy stallion

I want to definitely say: horse butt does NOT look like this, human butt does (which is what I think ML pulled from). Horse butt does not have the gluteal cleft that humans have; thinking anatomically, it makes sense that humans have that fold/cleft under their butt and horses and ponies don't have that there. See attached image which is not entirely anatomically correct. (Also autocorrect kept making stupid "fixes" to what I typed when tapping out this post: weird/unusual.)

>>10393
Gayi generated

Kinky mares. I came.

>>9695
>I am board

I'm on board with those who are bored!

I didn't finish, but liked the experience of reading Subjunctive - a story about the Changeling invasion of Canterlot but it was all about the proposed differences in how Changeling language works.
Since words can fascinate me, I enjoyed it quite a bit.

I also started in on Project: Sunflower, which about a gal turned into a pony so she could spy on Equestria, since Earth was facing a gray-goo scenario and needed someplace to run to.
The reason I started on that, was I'd offered to critique a piece written in that universe that focused on building the apartment complex that would house the last billion people expected to be alive and retrievable by the time it had been cleared to begin construction.
That title, that I forgot, would only be interesting in you were fascinated by plumbing, and other engineering concerns. I could go either way, and this one didn't grab me since it was focusing on committee meeting drama and miscommunication, rather than the actual engineering of the building.

>>9702
> Subjunctive - a story about the Changeling invasion of Canterlot but it was all about the proposed differences in how Changeling language works. Since words can fascinate me, I enjoyed it quite a bit.
I skimmed through some of it and liked what I saw so far. It looks the kind of thing that I think was looking for: Off the beaten path from the big fics of old I see circlejerked while also not being something that was the reason people circle jerked them (Low tier self inserts and one shots). Thanks!

>I also started in on Project: Sunflower, which about a gal turned into a pony so she could spy on Equestria, since Earth was facing a gray-goo scenario and needed someplace to run to.
Can be interesting, can be not. HiE fics of this sort I don't autohate but have been done to death. I have always liked some of the anons' input around input so I'll give it a shot.

>I could go either way, and this one didn't grab me since it was focusing on committee meeting drama and miscommunication, rather than the actual engineering of the building.
I think this can be summarized as: Why have what happens in slack at work be the driving force of the plot? Plumbing, I known little but I can get engrossed in something if presented interesting enough.

>>9702
>>9733
I've now finished Subjunctive. I feel too low IQ to really get in the nitty gritty details but I did enjoy it and it felt "fresh", compared to the usual stuff I read. I think I am a fan of highly detailed world building that autistically focuses on subtler aspects like that.

>Rainbow Dash: Re-Animator
This was good but just when I was getting into it felt like that it ended abruptly. It isn't too sort a fic but I think it would have benefited from Rainbow Dash and Sweetie Belle having a little more time being partners in crime together.

>>10322
> Subjunctive. I feel too low IQ to really get in the nitty gritty details but I did enjoy it and it felt "fresh", compared to the usual stuff I read.
I have only just barely started to skim it. Will see how hard it is for me to grasp slight but VERY rudimentary interest in linguistics aside.

>I was getting into it felt like that it ended abruptly.
I remember partly thinking that myself, albeit:
>over 50k horse words
I wasn't sure if that was just my own warped sense of pacing from reading so many 100K plus word fics over the years.

I once was looking for a Princess Celestia image where it showed her with some meat on her bones. Not overweight, not morbidly obese, just a nice hefty mare. All I saw was too-fat Celestia. With other and probably also canonical depictions of Celestia, she looks to skinny.

(Ignore the following if you want. Thread maybe going to get deleted: >>10196 - I didn't post any thing there; I'm this guy: >>10254.)

>>10255
Found what I was looking for from searching "princess celestia,horse,solo":
https://twibooru.org/2466083
https://twibooru.org/342963
1426016 977583 406604 919302

>>10193
>tag
If it did exist, something like "chubby", or "overweight but not obese". For my Princess Celestia explanation: this would be "anatomically correct" in reference to the barrel of the pony. "Barrel" is "horse jargon"; it's akin to the trunk of a human. However, the anatomically correct tag mainly refers to genitals, so nope. The tag "horse" kinda means "anatomically correct". Maybe "anatomically correct barrel", but that sounds odd.

>>10256
>Maybe "anatomically correct barrel"
The trick isn't deciding what's wrong with the tags as-used-now, the trick is convincing the unwashed hordes it's worth going back to re-tag all the backlog of artwork so you can find what you want and exclude what you don't.

If you weren't so very, very alone, this would be reasonable, because that same unwashed horde would realize they could sort, favorite, and blacklist with greater precision.

And then you find out there are bronies who are angry because their upload of some art they found somewhere on the interwebs was denied because they couldn't string four tags together to describe what they were uploading.

>>10255
The problem is those who have porn brain pollute things to freakish fetish territory. Kind of the way fetishes work. Anons who have more tastefull and moderate taste don't have good tags. You can find some attempts "reasonably sized X," but still their needs to be tagging work.

>(Ignore the following if you want. Thread maybe going to get deleted: >>10196 - I didn't post any thing there; I'm this guy: >>10254.)
I am not 100% familiar with the cultural norms here, but while they cluster to single threads I don't think they would delete this, at least right away, while your still asking a question.

>>10261
Even if alone, it isn't completely undoable. Personal booru software and a some elbow grease you could amass a good collection of reasonable pony images. Keep a list and mass tag the shit when you get a good idea of what to look for.

Wasn't there a anon here who did talk about something like this once? I don't think it was fetish related though.