Ask Lyra

Sorry, Sexxi-Bbz. I hope that didn’t make things awkward.

I mean, I’m sure it was pretty awkward. I just hope it wasn’t too awkward.

1) Sorry! I wasn’t at home last night or I’d have snagged that first like. I was at a Hearth’s Warming party. Second one this season! Feels great to get out of the house!

2) Bon-Bon: Well, of course it is. It’s just not something you get to choose. If I could choose I’d be known far and wide for my incredible candy store, Sweetie Drops, and the delectable candy I produce!

Lyra: Nice advert.

Bon-Bon: Why do you think I originally agreed to answer questions on here?

3) Duo is my favorite Gundam character, but there was this one series I thought was pretty cool that took place on Earth in some sort of guerrilla war. I don’t remember what it was called.

Marty was a good- uh… I guess man is the word. He looked to be having a little trouble and I hope he managed to get things sorted out.

I remember that Scootaloo… things seem so different now.

1) Bon-Bon: Unfazed? Everypony already thinks she’s better than me.

Bon-Bon: I’m just boring ol’ Bon-Bon. Never to be seen without Lyra. I can’t tell if that’s worse or better than being known as the human-obsessed pony.

2) Happy Hearth’s Warming! Merry Christmas!

3) Lyra: Thanks! The socks are great for this cold weather!

Bon-Bon: I love it! Harrison Ford is the best character ever!

Lyra: Don’t you mean Han Solo is the best character ever?

Bon-Bon: I know what I said.

Lyra: I don’t think Tootsie watches the show, but she loves the little dog thing!

4) Krastos is my special somebear. I guess my reaction might have been a little uncalled for. But we can’t get married. We haven’t really been spending much time together lately, to be honest. He’s always so busy studying and I don’t want to interrupt.

1) Oh! Why thank you!

2) If I may stop time for just a moment. Given the information that you are a human, the answer to the first posed question would be yes. You.

I saw a human once. His name was Marty.

3) Lyra: Thanks!

Bon-Bon: Thank you! You too!

4) Things would have to have taken a grimdark turn if those were discussed regularly. Also pancreas is a funny word.

5) Not that I know of. I mean, I’m sure they’re symbolic of something but I don’t know it. Hands are just a strange thing. Some ponies, like humans, are interested in things that are foreign to their understanding of the world.

Or maybe I imagined the whole thing and there is no such thing as a glass minotaur hand. I have some… I have some kinda dreams.

1) I remember this!

Boo. Wa-wa hoo-hoo hoo. (Content warning for… I mean it’s Professor Brothers. Usual Brad Neely adult shenanigans.)

2) Lyra: You know what? That’s it. That’s it! I’m gonna find one of those creepy curio shops. I’m gonna buy a… Like a glass minotaur hand or somethin’. I’m gonna set that thing on display smack-dab in the center of the living room table-

Bon-Bon: No you’re not either.

Lyra: And the next time somepony is all, “Huh huh huh, hands.” I’m gonna be all “There! Right there, mother [omitted]! I have a freakin’ hand!”

3) … What?

4) Gundam was pretty cool, sure!

Sorry about the music. I mean, I went to a Hearth’s Warming party last night and not a single Hearth’s Warming song was played.

5) How did my computer, at the receiving end of this message, automatically translate this?

And what is morse code?

1) Bon-Bon: Well, uh. Indirectly? I would say the world would have indirectly been in danger, had we failed.

Lyra: Hold up. After everything I’ve been through, I never saved the world. You’re saying you did?

Bon-Bon: Indirectly.

Lyra: Excuse me, I’m going to go bury my head in the dirt.

2) Lyra: We got hea~a~arts; hearts strong as horse~s!

Bon-Bon: Ugh. Half the town has been singing that song since Saturday. I mean, it’s an alright song. Great work by the fillies for making it up. But all day in the shop it’s like every pony that happens by is singing or humming that song!

Lyra: We’ve got de-ter-min-ation; to rep-resent the nation- For. The. Wi~n!

1) Exactly! The rotating world map was really the worst possible thing.

That also brings up an interesting point about the differences in DW and DW:G. DW:G has sort of become what DW used to be. The pace of DW has slowed down a lot in favor of more and more enemies. After reading a bit on DW:G3, I might need to revisit the series. It sounds rad. More like DW7 than 8.

2) Uh… Skipping that other part, you do realize that a bad guy is just the protagonist of their own story, right?

3) I wouldn’t know. I don’t listen to the radio.

We got hearts

Do do do doodoo

We got hearts

Do do do doodoo

Ba-du baa baa baa~

Wait, where did I hear that from?

Okay, haha. So you may recall this post. Well, a few days ago I started playing the first Digital Devil Saga. I was sort of expecting it to just be a nice diversion. You know, until I get something else to do (like maybe a new game for Hearth’s Warming I’m expecting, but you didn’t just read that because I don’t know anything about it).

I am thirty-six hours in and I have misjudged the poop out of this game. Holy moley, is it ever awesome! There are some issues here and there, particularly when I compare it to Nocturne. But the good far outweighs the bad here! Once I finish I totes want to do another write up like I did with that Deus Ex game.

1) Uh… Not really. That sounds painful.

I went to your deviant art. The weapons and stuff was kinda cool! I’d have gone with some more diverse choices than swords, but your depictions were great!

Of course, you don’t follow me sooo… You’re probably never gonna see this!

2) I don’t have any reason to believe anything sinister going on. I figured they were just trying to sell merchandise.

What kind of unknown entity would we be talking about here?

3) I loved pretty much everything about Deadly Premonition that wasn’t a result of poor controls and navigation (in particular, that un-zoom-out-able, rotating, overworld map).

Regarding Memento, it’s not like you’re watching the movie backwards. You’re watching fairly long scenes before it breaks off and goes to the one before it. But you don’t even realize that’s what’s going on until about halfway into the movie. It just seems random. To that end, I can totally understand what you mean. That would be just confusing.

Well, for the most part. DW:G has notable differences to DW. The biggest one (after they removed the ability to fire a bow) is the dash ability. It pretty much negates any reason to ever block, which removes a layer of strategy and makes it more twitch. Not that any of that mattered in DW:8, since the AI was so dumb there’s no balanced difficulty anywhere in the game.

1) Bon-Bon: Now now. That’s just cruel. Surely something at least half as awesome a series of events, that stretch well beyond imagination, will happen eventually. You know… Somewhere.

Lyra: … A bunch of vines from the Everfree Forest spread throughout town and wrecked up the place.

Bon-Bon: Poo. Who told you?

Lyra: Carrot Top.

Bon-Bon: Never cared for her much…

2) You really want to know?

3) Lyra: Everypony in Canterlot was pretty worried about it. I seemed to be the only one that paid little heed. I guess being undaunted by theatrics has its downsides.

Bon-Bon: Good heavens, no! We would never destroy a priceless artifact! It wasn’t even enchanted. It was more like… Well… I guess like a key.

1) Bon-Bon: ‘The other day?’ Those Everfree vines invaded months ago.

Lyra: What are you talking about now?

Bon-Bon: Lyra, I know you don’t always pay attention to what’s going on, but how could you possibly… Wait a minute… [Audible Gasp] You weren’t here.

Lyra: What?

Bon-Bon: That’s right. You were in Canterlot for, like, a week. Taking pictures of flowers and house-sitting. We had it all cleaned up by the time you got back.

Lyra: You never told me about this.

Bon-Bon: Yeah yeah. But you had to have seen the sky, right?

Lyra: The day-night thing? Sure. Everypony was freaking out over it, but I just assumed it was just some promotional thing for the Summer Sunset Celebration.

Bon-Bon: Hmhmm! That means I have another secret you don’t know!

Lyra: Ugh! Bon-Bon!

3) I hope so. Seems like I haven’t done anything in forever, though.

Hope you and yours had a happy Thanksgiving!

2) Oh don’t be ridiculous. You were fine. I took a grammars class in college that opened my eyes up to how insipid a razor focus on standardized grammar is. Successfully conveying the desired information in an appropriate tone consistently is all that really matters in communication.

4) You know, I was going to change Bon-Bon’s name in the last set of questions to Roommate. But then Bon-Bon subtly reminded me of the ultimate conclusion of Scrunch Battle and I thought better of it.

1) Bon-Bon: Well, we already had a relic of sorts, so I’m going to go with the second one.

2) What? The griffon thing? What does it matter?

3) Sorry. The same thing happened to me too.

Oh! Did you get to the market and the ham-ham behind the glass? Using Scrit-T there was my favorite part of the game!

4) Simple can usually be trusted outside, but once he got out and herded a group of foals into the yard and wouldn’t let them leave.

Pretty funny looking back, but some of the kids were crying.

1) I haven’t! I was looking into it, but there’s no online emulator for GBA games. And I don’t really want to download something to play it.

I haven’t finished my first run through it, but from what I’ve gathered it sounds good! It needs a lot of work, though. Stuffed moved around, the whole piece needs to be considerably shortened, key notes that are missing. And I just don’t have any motivation right now. To do anything. I feel so tired and empty lately…

2) If I was having an affair, why would he message me? We could just talk face-to-face.

Also you’re still on thin ice with me, mister.

3) And here we are! Bye! It was nice having you!

4) Bon-Bon: I have a name.

Lyra: Just answer the question, Roommate.

Roommate: I am presently single, but-… Did you just change my-

Lyra: Moving on!

5) Well la-dee-dah. One less cryptic pony in my life. How swell.

I once thought some group called Hasbro was responsible, but in a previous conversation I was given cause to doubt.

I thought the reason was marketing for something your world would consider strange and interesting. But if I don’t know who anymore, I don’t know why.