1) Ah… Hmm… I’m gonna go with worse. For the betterment of society, specialization is needed to efficiently complete a task, both for yourself and others, which allows those others to similarly complete different tasks. When a society has everything it needs to sustain itself, it can advance and expand into new territories (both physically and technologically).
If I had to gather food and maintain a shelter and you had to gather food and maintain a shelter and Hopscotch had to gather food and maintain a shelter; it just doesn’t allow much time for anything else but focusing on survival.
2) No. No I think we can do for less of that.
3) You keep using words that are vague and open to interpretation. Depending on where you go, Tumblr is obscure. Is this website a cult? Specific forums can be very hard to find in the vastness of the internet. Is a small group of ten or so folks brought together because of a common appreciation for a video game a cult?
4) No, sorry. Greed can be a decent fall-back. “I do bad because I want nice thing.“ That’s what Ursula did, anyway.
But no, what you’re describing is a tool. Somepony trying too hard to be edgy and cool, and will just wind up being used by somepony else with greater ambitions.
You know, at some point I graded first year graphic design students. Graphic designers generally design print media so their websites are absolute trash. At least at that college they were trash. I learnt from them for a year, I know how bad their sites are. They don’t understand grids and usability. Usability being how logical a website is and how user friendly it is.
At some point I had to grade a kid who had comic sans all over his website, black borders everywhere and neon colours with clip art to spice it all up. But every thing was still clear. The font was chosen to be easier to read, the buttons were all located in an easy to spot place and overall I didn’t have issues navigating his absolutely horrible looking website.
Right now, I believe that the kid that made that horrendous website as a first year graphic design student, would still be able to put together a more logical layout design for Tumblr than anyone over at Tumblr could ever do.
I don’t complain easily about changes in websites because I know 99% of the time they’re actually for the better. That’s my semi-professional opinion. It’s been a while since I worked at a webdesign/development agency and I kind of changed what I do over time.
But this?
This is absolute [redacted].
This mirror’s my opinion, only it has the experience to back it up.
1) Well, I suppose the most important thing is rationale; your reasoning for doing what is considered wrong. You can’t just go attacking ponies all wanton. You need a morally ambiguous goal or drive for your actions.
2) Is religion a cult? What about television and the internet? If you spend hours upon hours invested in an object, is that not worship? Is sleep a cult?
Disturbing is an awful subjective point-of-view, isn’t it?
3) A little light on the original part of OTP, but they have so much chemistry, don’t they?
Somepony asked me today, in person mind you, who my OTP was.
And I had to pause for a moment, and act like I didn’t hear what they said. Because how do you explain to somepony that your OTP are a pair of rocks?
1) That’s a funny sort of question. What constitutes a cult? At what point does a repeated gathering become a cult?
2) Now I’m just angry! Why do my figures always have horrible manes! I mean they’re not horrible, but they do not work for me at all! Stop giving me Twilight’s mane! And Rarity’s? Really? Were you even trying?
And then I saw Octavia has her own molded with her double cello or whatever and I just closed the friggin’ window.
3) Bon-Bon: Because my parents are rich. That’s the sort of thing rich parents do. Less family togetherness time, more materialism. Love them both with all of my heart, of course, but I don’t intend to follow that path.
I forgot how hard it is to weld tiny things with a mig welder.
Aw. It’s even got a widdle mouf.
Well, seeing as I have no more questions, I guess I gotta end early again. Had a lot of ponies scheduled that never got to do anything. I’ll just address this one message.
Lyra: My speech recognition program has two settings. It either detects who is talking or it just writes down everything that’s said. Now first of all, I have to go in and manually program it to detect each new pony, which is a long, painful task. Doing that for every single pony is a chore and runs into time constraint issues, as most guests only have so long to be here. We already have to pick out the question, throw some ideas around about what would be a good set-up or-
Lyra: Rehearse it, record it, usually several times. It would just be one more step we don’t have time for. Especially when some of these guests might not come back. The other reason is that some of the supposed “answerers” aren’t really here. Obviously I couldn’t really get Chrysalis from last year. And Sombra-
Rainbow Dash: Evaporated.
Princess Twilight Sparkle: Vaporized would be more accurate.
Discord: [pirate accent] You’d best start believin’ in cartoon characters…
Lyra: … Right… Anyway… Actually I think I’m done. Thank you to everypony that participated, with special thanks to our princesses! Happy April Fools and regular updates will resume whenever I get a message!
I don’t… I don’t know for certain. I’m not sure what a BOFA exam is.
BOFA deez nuts.
… I… What?
BOFA deez nuts, darling.
Um… I… I must be misunderstanding.
Don’t worry about it, dear. Just a foalish prank.
Uh… Hmm… This must be one of those smart questions, right? Where the answer is, like, something to do with how the question is worded? Alright. I got this.
Rainbow Dash.
Don’t tell me! I got this!
Rainbow Dash.
I said hold on! I just need a minute! I read books! I’m smart now!
Rainbow Dash! I don’t think it’s a smart question. I think it’s supposed to be a joke. A corrupted amalgamation of two phrases.
… Amalgamation. Right. I was gonna say that.
Well that’s just super-duper A-OK in my book! The Cakes were getting worried the shipment wasn’t coming at all! But you have now reassured me, floating ball with just-deal-with-it shades! I’ll go tell the Cakes! Hmm hmmhmm hmmhmm hmmhmm.
No. You have it backwards. You’re placing emphasis on the wrong thing. It should be: “Comparing yourself to me? You’re not even good enough to be my fake,” Shadow the Hodghog brooded. If you’re just using a dialog tag you don’t want that at the start of your sentence. That’s boring. You’re leading with the wrong hoof.
If you’re describing something: an action, a facial feature- sure. Especially if it takes place before the speech. But dialog tags are just to eliminate any confusion with who’s talking. Even any kind of inflection is an afterthought. A means of not repeating “blank says” “blank said”.
Was I seriously dragged all the way out here for this? If I wanted to run a writer’s workshop I could be getting paid for it.
