Okay, so think of it like a Pokemon. It’s like a chameleon with a scorpion stinger, only it has no poison on it’s own. It has to dip it’s stinger into the little pot on it’s back to coat the stinger in poison.
It rubs the poison off by stabbing the dirt a few times and then it can use the stinger for utilitarian purposes like pickin’ up food.
I… I am stunned. And, I mean, at first I thought, “Well yeah, sure, but that won’t work with higher numbers. But I tested it! It does!”
(via lifehackable)
Bon-Bon: Oh, you know, she only ran around with the thing for half an hour. Blowing leaves everywhere. Leaves from our yard. The neighbors’ yards. Then when the battery ran down, like anypony could have guessed it would, she tried to recharge it with her magic. Did that break it, Lyra?
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Bon-Bon: It exploded- Oh yes it did! Huge scorch mark on who’s lawn?
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Bon-Bon: Same pony that let you borrow it? Why I believe it was. Had to pay for the leaf blower and the damages. She won’t talk to us anymore. Her son, who’s a pegasus, actually flipped me off once. Little colt- gave me the bird! And you know, in the end, somehow you managed to wiggle your way out of explaining what in Celestia’s grace was going through your mind at the time. I don’t suppose you’d care to take this time to enlighten us, would you?
Lyra: … I like Play-Doh?
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Lyra: Oh come on Bon-Bon, it was funny! Bon-Bon!
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Lyra: She’s just mad she never got their family’s secret recipe. She never liked them.
(Source: sinfest.net)
1) Well, Krastos doesn’t technically live here. He has his own house in Ponyville. Bon-Bon? Yes, but Tootsie-… Well, I mean she spends a lot of time here, certainly. But she… You see, her parents work a lot so she stays here during the week. She lives with them on the-… You know what? Yeah. Tootsie lives here.
Sweetie moved back home a while ago. I think her parents were having a mid-life crisis with all the vacations and traveling. But don’t tell them I said that. That’s cool that you’re putting me in your Sim-town, though!
2) It doesn’t have to be so black and white, you know. I neither make decent money nor do something I love for a living.
On reflection, I’m not sure I’d enjoy working as a professional musician anyway. If I was one, I’d have to constantly practice and practice and that’s not fun. That’s not enjoyable. Why would anypony want to do that to themselves? Turn what they love to do into work? But, when I come home from working as an aid, I get to pick up my lyre and just have fun with it. No pressure. And if I don’t want to play something, I don’t have to.
I think the only critical thing is that you avoid doing something you hate. It’s like having a bad day everyday. It will ruin you.
3) B: Closure is something real. That thing won’t show her what’s real, only what she wants to see.
Even if it was real, I don’t even know what I’d use it for. I don’t want to see my mother being killed. Or my father…
Thank you, though. I know you’re trying.
1) Nu-… Nothing? Y-Yeah, nothing. I’ve known at least one human for over two years. Not a big deal. Never was.
Why do you ask?
2) I’ve been reading it since further back than I can even trace. It’s great! It’s like, the longest running comic I follow.
3) Did you just call me a boy? And a human? A human boy?
And who is Lily? I was talking to Sexxi-Bbz.
Oh my gosh, you guys! The writer of Scary-Go-Round, Bad Machinery, and Giant Days replied to me! He replied to me!
I’m so freakin’ out right now!
1) Yes. EVE Online. Sorry. I did like Parasite Eve, though. I was all set to finish the Chrysler Building when my memory card reset and I lost everything except my Legend of Mana data. This is why I avoid third party products.
The fundamental idea behind hardcore is that your reward for doing well is nothing special; it’s just the ability to play the game. Your punishment for doing bad is taking that way. I’ll give you a perfect example: XCOM Enemy Unknown’s hardcore mode removes the ability to load and saves everything you do. If somepony dies, they die. If you fail a mission, you fail. If you lose all support, you start over. You could lose some thirty hours or more of work and have nothing to show for it. EVE isn’t a textbook example, but it is very much hardcore in the scale of how much you can lose.
“Nintendo hard” isn’t really hardcore. I’m not all that at video games, but I’ve beat Contra without dying. All it takes is practice and memorization. That conditioning, basically.
[omitted], I beat Megaman X2 without dying and getting the secret upgrade; and that took 3 hours! 3 hours of not dying once!
2) Bon-Bon: We don’t even have a leaf blower. And last time she used one she-
Lyra: Oh! Hamtaro and Bijou were my favorite! I liked Oxnard too! Cels, I want to watch it again! I wish it still aired…
3) No! That’s not me! That’s not who I am! [/Chowder]
1) B: I’ve seen one of those before. It’ll show you whatever you want to see, with no bearing on what’s real. Great if you want a five second vacation in your head, but little else.
B: If there were an easy solution to everypony’s problems, we’d have used it.
2) Alright, look. I’m in hard mode here and this Macca is important. If I give you some will you for real join me?
3) Well, that is sort of the point. Being ruled by a single entity for a long duration only works if the one in charge is truly benevolent and willing to sacrifice for the advancement of his/her subjects.
Otherwise a government for the ruled needs to be governed by the ruled. Rotating an individual in and out every few years only minimizes the damage caused by whoever managed to win a popularity contest.
4) Thanks! That means a lot. Things are a little… shaky right now, but I’m okay and I hope to be here for many years more!