krastosthegluemaker-blog asked: Lyra, zinc helps with overcoming colds, so I would be more than happy to make you and Sweetie some salads mixed with palm hearts, fireweed sprouts, sun-dried tomatoes, and other vegetables high in zinc.
Uh… That’d be fine. But I don’t want you coming over here and getting sick too.
1) You were fine. I don’t blame you.
2) Okay.
3) I liked watching others play, but I was never very good myself.
4) It is pretty dang awesome. In fact, I’ve touched upon it some time ago. And that wasn’t the only time.
5) I don’t appreciate ponies pushing against me to see what they can get away with.
6) I suppose we could. Thanks. That’s a nice idea.
7 & 8) I never yelled at you. I just asked you to stop. Don’t try and play the victim with me.
9) I can understand that position. In a lot of ways it’s a matter of the shear amount of effort you put in giving you a greater invested reward. When you spend a long, long time on something, don’t you feel really good when it’s finished to a level you feel satisfied with (homework and work-work not withstanding)? That’s the fundamental idea behind it versus an alternate multiplayer game. But a good MMO has to offer something that makes the experience not so tedious. That’s where story and innovative gameplay come in. The game needs to either be able to immerse you, or just be really, really fun.
Star Wars: The Old Republic has a really good story to keep you interested when you aren’t playing heavily with others. But to be honest, I don’t really favor how it plays. It’s very WoW-ish, which is extremely boring with a whole bunch of moves you don’t even need.
City of Ponies lets you heavily customize how your character looks and plays while (and this is key) remaining balanced. Champions Online fails in this by forgetting to remain balanced despite being even more customizable than City of Ponies.
But MMOs aren’t for everypony, and I won’t pretend they are.
Anonymous asked: What if... your parents were somehow, just somehow found, providing you with a family surname. Would you be able to marry then? Would it be worth having to confront your parents and learn the reason you were alone on a Canterlot doorstep?
In a carriage next to a storefront.
And if you can find them, go right the [omitted] ahead.
You want to know the truth? I can’t let go. I can’t ignore it. I can’t tell myself enough that I’m never going to find them. I’ve spent years talking to contacts, spending money I don’t have, trying to find something, anything that might tell me-…
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But there’s always that stupid spark in the back of my head. That yearning that it was… justified somehow. That one day they’ll find me and explain everything and they’ll love me and support me and help me get a real job and I won’t have to constantly owe others and…
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[Sniff]
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I… I hate it. I hate them…
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1) If we got married in another country, then it would be recognized by the other country. Perfectly fine if I wanted to move away and never come back, but citizens of Equestria are liable to its laws regardless of where they are.
And I already said I can’t legally change my name; it’s not supported by Equestrian law. All you can do is drop your surname, of which I don’t have or this wouldn’t be an issue to begin with.
I don’t know if you’re trying to help or not, but please just stop.
2) Seems to be a cold, but it’s not letting up yet. Not severe enough to be another Upper Respiratory Infection, though.
Anonymous asked: Why don't you just visit Twilight Sparkle or one of her friends, and ask them if they could write a letter to Princess Celestia, asking her to change the law?
Princess Celestia doesn’t just clap her hooves together and change a law on a whim; that’s something a dictator does. She oversees the law making process, but she lets greater Equestrian society handle the rest.
Ponyville is a pretty understanding society. There’s a decent chance it might pass here. But this would be a national law, since the current one in place is. It would have to be accepted across the entire country. Canterlot would probably be the single largest force to strike it down, but it wouldn’t be the only one.
Ponies are like any other creature. They’re very much set in their old ways. If there doesn’t appear to be a pressing need for change, it doesn’t happen.
1) Of course. And I never said it wasn’t a solid game, either.
2) Certainly!
I’ll keep it simple and just call it Games. Going to need to build it up a bit before it’s worth adding to the sidebar, though.
jmg1234-deactivated20140425 asked: Yea, I'm not so big on the chainsaw
A little excessively gory for my tastes.
Their use seemed milder in Dead Rising.
jmg1234-deactivated20140425 asked: Gears of war has a more engaging storyline. It's like a movie
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I’m not going to disagree with somepony’s opinion. But if this were a question, the answer wouldn’t be no. Rather, it would be…
Presentation and story are not interchangeable. I love Megaman Legends 1 and 2, but its story was actually pretty weak.
All three Deus Ex had good stories. Psychonauts had a good story. TimeSplitter’s Future Perfect had a good story.
Darwinia had an interesting presentation. Skyrim has a robust presentation. One might argue that Gears of War has an engaging presentation, and that would be a little easier to defend than saying it has an engaging storyline.
Anonymous asked: How was your day Lyly?
Sickly and right pitiful.
Sweetie and Tootsie are sick too. Bon-Bon’s dodging germs like a champ, but who knows how long she’ll be able to hold off?
I’ve been playing the new Star Wars MMO with an old friend I ran into while Boscov and I were in Manehatten. I’d rather be a jedi, but he and his friends were sith so I rolled a bounty hunter. The storylines are so engaging! They’re better then a lot of single player games out there!
1) I checked back at some point and I have addressed this before. If you manually input the right tag, you’ll go straight to the answer.
I won’t link it though, because I’m mischievous like that.
[Insert winking emoticon]
2) I’ve said before, but if even I can’t find it that’s a problem.
In on the human maturity scale, I’m roughly twenty-three/twenty-four. Boscov is roughly ten years older than that on the same scale.
1) Boscov isn’t a pony; he’s a bear. That’s like asking him to be a completely different person! Even if he was willing I’d never let him do that.
2) If you want to consider either of us young, I guess all I can say is thanks.
krastosthegluemaker-blog asked: Lyra, I... We may not be able to marry, but that doesn't change the fact I love you. Nothing will ever change that truth.
I love you to, my Boscov.
And I like your last name.
1) The only time you have to use your legal name is in legal capacities. You’re free to tell any random passerby on the street that your name is whatever you want to go by.
Unless they can prove that they’re a member of the guard and are asking for your name on official business, which still falls under legal capacities.
2) Can’t go wrong joining the Illuminati. Just be careful; I’ve heard it’s like Hotel Coltifornia. You can checkout anytime you like, but you can never leave.
3) Like someone lifting you up only to slap you back down.
4) Wouldn’t matter if he did or not… Equestrian society requires that in any marriage involving a pony, both participants must take the surname of the pony. It was put into place when interspecies marriage was legalized in an effort to ensure proper Equestrian societarian integration.
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It’s… It’s fine, though. Was never all that interested in getting married anyway… I mean, it’s just a formality, right?
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His last name is Arctos.
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I suppose I’m just as qualified to address this as anypony else. I’ve looked into the subject for what should seem like obvious reasons. Either way it’s not a short answer, so it’s after the break.