Please don’t. I can’t get you anything back. And you already got me that gift package/gift card for Hearth’s Warming.

There was a little while where I could gift games to others, and that felt great! Turns out I shouldn’t even have been doing that back then.

Thanks! Yeah I try not to make a big deal about it anymore.

Oh! But I did get the new Kirby game! Haven’t beat it yet, but it’s pretty good!

Also was gifted Chroma Squad on Steam! Which looks amazing! I haven’t had the chance to play it yet because of this event in ESO that’s been taking up all my free time (but is giving me tons of cosmetics). But I’m looking forward to it!

Thanks again, @mikedaws0n!

Bon-Bon: So then I said, “No no. Oatmeal is completely normal.“

Lyra: Uh huh.

Bon-Bon: She argued for a bit about whether or not that would make it a muffin, but once I explained that you could still put icing on it she seemed to reluctantly accept.

Lyra: Greaaat…

Lyra: Oh, say Bon-Bon.

Bon-Bon: Mmhm.

Lyra: Remember that time Rainbow Dash flew in out of nowhere and ruined our souvenir photos while screaming like a mad mare?

Bon-Bon: Well, if I ever manage to forget we have the photos to remember it by.

Lyra: Nice of Rarity to invite us over for a fashion show, eh Bon-Bon?

Bon-Bon: Why are you talking like that? And I didn’t think it was her fashion show. I thought she was just participating.

Lyra: No, you’re right. Strange that she had to leave early.

Bon-Bon: Did she and her friends say anything as they left?

Lyra: I heard Rainbow Dash say something to Applejack. Something about, “Fluttershy taking a level in Pinkie Pie.“

Bon-Bon: Hmm. Cryptic.

Lyra: Sorry we got separated in the crowd.

Bon-Bon: It’s alright. Raindrops was with me.

Raindrops: Raindrops is still with you.

Bon-Bon: And we’re delighted to have you!

Lyra: Yeah! You should’ve told us you’d be there!

Ribbon: So… That new school of Twilight’s looks… lovely.

Lyra: Ugh… As if the castle wasn’t enough of an eyesore.

Ribbon: Well, at least it’s for a good cause.

Bon-Bon: Twilight had quite a bit of trouble getting the doors to stay open.

Ribbon: So I heard. It’s a shame how the EEA caused such a ruckus. Behavior like that is what starts conflict.

Lyra: Really? You’re one-hundred percent on board with an international school of friendship?

Ribbon: Hmm? Oh certainly. We’re lucky so many other nations are willing to participate.
Bon-Bon: Wait for it…
Ribbon: It’s the perfect opportunity to elevate these other species away from their antiquated traditions.
Bon-Bon: There it is.
Ribbon: Did you know Hippogriffs don’t even have a standardized currency? An established society like theirs? You’d only expect something so backwards from Yaks or Dragons.

Bon-Bon: It continuously amazes me how you can manage to be in the right, yet do so for all the wrong reasons.

Ribbon: Oh dear Bonnie. If you didn’t come to the same, financially-profitable conclusion you’re simply not being creative enough.

So… I just saw the ReBoot reboot trailer via The Forgotten History of Reboot and…

First of all, I liked Code Lyoko. I watched it a bunch. It was a fantastic show. It did a lot of things very well. But, I also watched ReBoot. It was a fantastic show. It did a lot of things very well.

However, ReBoot and Code Lyoko have ZERO analogs between each other. Even trying to say they’re both video game shows is like saying the original Super Friends is similar to Teen Titans. Nothing! Not the tone, not the stakes, not the characters- Nothing about them were similar! Code Lyoko was basically a high school drama with action, that gradually leaned more and more on the action. ReBoot was a comedy/action with consequences, and that ultimately took the show down a more mature path.

So… How do you turn ReBoot into a bargain-bin Code Lyoko? Was it an accident? Can that even be an accident?

Usually I ignore it, but I do get upset sometimes at things like this. I get angry, or sad, or disappointed. But right now I’m disgusted. Someone woke up one day and decided to ruin a license, one that wasn’t even very well known, and for what? There can’t be any money in this, at least not any more than a new franchise would have made without disgracing an old one.

I know right? What a completely new and original concept that’s never been done before, ever.

But it’s not really the genre of game that interests me so much as it is SWERY’s involvement. He’s really good at character development/interaction. And I don’t know if he can ever top Deadly Premonition’s plot twist, but I’m sure there’ll be something way deeper than turning into house pets once a month.

Isn’t that right, Jolteon?

Jolteon: Oh absolutely!

Jolteon: Jolteon! Jo-jolt! Jolteon-on jo-jolt. Jolte-e-eon! Jolteon!

Miltank: Miltank!

Jolteon: Ooooo… lteon.

Lyra: That Maud Pie sure was… somethin’ else! I mean, Pinkie had said so much about her “humor”, but it really… uh… pales in comparis-
Bon-Bon: Are we seriously going to trot around how incredibly uncomfortable that was?
Lyra: Oh thank Celestia you said it instead of me. You are an Earth Pony, so I didn’t-
Bon-Bon: No, that was weird.
Lyra: Okay good! What the heck?! Was the joke supposed to be that it wasn’t funny? ‘Cause it wasn’t funny!
Bon-Bon: I mean, it’s not like I have wings or magic to lift things with. Of course I have to walk everywhere and use my mouth. There’s no other timely way to accomplish day-to-day tasks.
Lyra: Right? And it must taste awful too. It’d be impossible to never touch anything with your tongue.

[Pause]

Bon-Bon: This is not an open forum to discuss-
Lyra: Yes! NO! I’m so sorry! I-I’m just trying to be sensitive and-and-
Bon-Bon: Well stop it! Earth Ponies are a proud race and we’ve never needed extra consideration. Our Equestrian society may have developed in a direction that doesn’t glorify the use of Earth Pony magic, but it’s still there! I use it everyday!

Lyra: Yes! I’m sorry! I-
Bon-Bon: Stop! Being! Sorry!

[Pause]

Lyra: Okay…

[Long Pause]

Lyra: The rock jokes were funny though, right?
Bon-Bon: Oh yes! That was hilarious!

I’m pretty much required to tell you that The Good Life’s kickstarter is up now.

Backed! Thanks for letting me know!

Choo Choo! All aboard the Swery train!

Lyra: Well that blew chucks.

Bon-Bon: Yes. Being held captive for 3 days isn’t what I would call “fun“.

Lyra: It’s a good thing for them that Twilight and her friends came back. ‘Cause I was about to give each and every one of those ogres a left… and a right!

Bon-Bon: Right…

Lyra: And a left.

Bon-Bon: Fantasies aside, that might have been the worst things have ever gotten.

Lyra: Nah. Discord was still out there, so even Tirek had him beat. And Chrysalis 2: Electric Boogaloo actually managed to capture all 4 princess and get away. It took Emo Backstory and The B Cast to save the day that time, with a little help from us. I’d rate Storm Drain right around a Nightmare Moon; lot of flash, not a lot of substance.

Bon-Bon: … You are so full of crap it’s dripping out of your ears.
Lyra: Heh.

Bon-Bon: I am starting to get a little worried though. I mean, these attacks seem to be happening more and more frequently. Where are we now? Bi-yearly plots to overthrow Equestria?

Lyra: Well, among those that manage to get off the ground.

Bon-Bon: That makes it even worse.

Bon-Bon: You’re… not looking so hot.

Lyra: Mmm.

Bon-Bon: More nightmares?

Lyra: Yee.

Bon-Bon: Reoccurring nightmares?

Lyra: Uh-uh.

Bon-Bon: You… sometimes make Tumblr posts about new ones. Did you-?
Lyra: No.

Bon-Bon: That bad?

Lyra: And graphic.

Bon-Bon: Yeesh.

Lyra: Why am I like this? I never hear anypony else having nightmares all the time. Isn’t Luna supposed to be watching over the dreamscape or something? Are my nightmares not bad enough? Is it just me? Am I overreacting?

Bon-Bon: You’ve talked to her one-on-one half a dozen times. Why haven’t you ever asked?

Lyra: “Oh hey, Princess Luna! I wake up multiple times every night weeping from the ghastly visions my broken mind won’t stop producing. What, may I ask, the [omitted], your majesty?“

Bon-Bon: I’m sure you could think of a better way to word that.

fridayflareon:

Okay, so in this nightmare I’m a news anchor. Or I work on the show or something. Anyway this other news anchor died. Never explained who he was or how he died. I was upset, but the rest of the news team was trying to turn it into some big publicized thing. And I was angry. I wanted to take control of the news story and change how it was presented. And I did. But I lost traction or something and they got control back.

So we’re at the last segment and I was there in the back and they said something that really got under my skin and I walked out there and I mean I’m ready to deck a fool. But as I’m holding the guy’s chair back and about to lay one into his face, I realize that I wasn’t the only one who missed him and he wouldn’t have wanted this.

And it hits me just how much it hurts. It just hurts so much that he’s gone. And-and I stumble off set weeping and I just curl up in front of a door and cry and cry. And when I wake up… it still hurts. And it’s stupid. It wasn’t real, but I couldn’t make it stop hurting. So all I could do is lay there, struggling to hold back tears, just so I can go back to sleep.