1) I watched all of the first one, but skipped to the ends of the others (because I can’t sit still long enough). They were pretty neat! I learned some interesting stuff about human politics! I had no idea the UN was such a useless piece of crap! Or that the Trilateral Committee was real, and that it’s power amounted to little more than club for a bunch of rich old ponies!
2) Ah yes. I too will go back to being a pony on Sunday.
3) Oh I got my tail hoofed over to me. I beat Unova and Kanto, and that’s it. Basically anything that involves Pokemon that are EV trained ends in me losing.
BUT! Once I get to X it’ll change because I can properly EV train my Pokemon without it taking the eleventy-billion hours I don’t have! Speaking of which, the whole reason I want Pokebank is so I can start with a select set of low level Pokemon. Other than my Mew I’m not really concerned with the higher level Pokemon I have outside of collecting.
1) Well, I heard Twilight did some calculations with the weather team and had created a pretty mild start to winter. But mare, have things ever taken a blistery turn lately.
I think you mean Join Avenue; and it’s sort of an afterthought as far as town-scaping goes. Breath of Fire 2 probably did it better. As for Poke Studios, the problem is you have to redo movies no matter what in order to unlock them all. And because you or the enemy are still subject to crits and misses, it all just becomes so random and time-consuming. Even with a guide.
Short answer: yes. I hacked myself one of every legendary from every generation minus the three birds and Mewtwo (because I’d rather catch those myself in X, if I can). Long answer: They’re all “legit” in theory, because they’re just copies of real pokemon that somepony somewhere caught or were given at an event. But until Pokebank launches there’s no way of knowing for certain that they won’t be flagged as fake somehow.
Either way I only have them for personal collection. I’d never trade them and I’d never battle in any tier of play that allows legendaries. I’d either get my flank delivered to me or be accused of cheating.
2) Yeah. I just figured that… you know… cats and dogs don’t get along.
3) If you didn’t want to superimpose then you shouldn’t have started placing pictures of your face over every portrait in the house.
I just knew I was alright the following day. To be frank, it passed through my digestive system.
2) Thank you! This is actually the first time anypony has given me a positive comment on it. I get questions about it every now and again, but never any commendations!
3) Groovy, Gnarly, Tubular, Radical. Wait, I take that last one back. Pretty sure Rainbow Dash says that too.
I want to use heavy, but I keep forgetting in the heat-of-the-moment.
4) This made me feel better at the time.Thanks!
5) We shall be resolute in our resolutions!
That we both evidently failed last year.
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) 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.
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.
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: You might say it found me.
Lyra: Don’t get sucked into this. It’s just another elaborate troll.
2) Working hard or hardly working?
3) Lyra: Oh! I put strawberry throat lozenges in a colta-cola once when I was sick! That was really good!
Bon-Bon: I don’t think that’s at all similar.
Sorry I haven’t posted anything in a while. Not having many questions usually leaves me with time to work on other projects, but I haven’t really felt like doing anything. Things aren’t going so well career-wise.
1) Did you do that last year? I think somepony did.
Not any less creepy. I’m just a mare.
2) Blissfully. Better off not knowing. Because knowing about atrocities doesn’t help anything if you never had any chance of being involved, and lack the ability to change them.
But luck has little to do with it. All it really takes is knowledge that someone is watching you.
Safety goes up; freedom goes down.
1) We get along just fine, but I’m not supposed to spend much time with her. Tootsie’s mother hates me. She thinks I’m useless trash and doesn’t want me around her daughter.
Even though I know she wouldn’t show me the same courtesy, I try to respect her wishes. If nothing else, I don’t want Tootsie or Bon-Bon to wind up getting in trouble.
2) And you see how easy it is to not notice it? How easy it is to live your life completely unaware?
3) Bon-Bon: Lyra’s been helping me research for that. I’m trying to sprinkle in simple french words and phrases to really sell it.
Bon-Bon: “How are tu? J'adore your costume!”
Lyra: I loved it as much when I first played it as I do now. And I don’t really know what you mean, no.
4) I’m not too worried. I’ll still look awesome either way.
Uh… Good luck with that kilt, though.
5) Lyra: Milky Way.
Bon-Bon: Kit-Kat, I guess. I don’t really eat candy bars.
1) I don’t know. I don’t really know how old Mr. Cake is. I do know that he’s around foals a lot. I mean, come on. He works in a confection shop! I’m sure his job just puts him closer to the pulse of child culture.
Didn’t mean to make you feel old! Sorry!
2) A proper strategy game gives you simple tools and lets you formulate how to use them yourself. The trick is which ones, where, and in what sequence.
The problem with Pokemon is that it gives you a bazillion complicated, interconnecting, one-shot, trump cards! I know they were bugged as a entomology museum, but the first Pokemon games were simple enough to fully wrap your head around.
I don’t know. I’m sure I’d still like the game if I played it, but that wouldn’t suddenly make that aspect (because I don’t want to call it a fault) any less pronounced. I just wish the series hadn’t taken such a Magic the Gathering-esque turn.
3) Lyra: Not just three double yous, three double yous and a period. Still stupid. I mean, it doesn’t stop spammers anyway. They just use “(dot)” instead of “.”
Lyra: I’m going to be the Demi-Fiend from Nocturne! I even got glow-in-the-dark body paint!
Bon-Bon: I was originally going to go as a royal guard, but Lyra suggested Joan of Arc instead, as something more specific. So in addition to armor I’ll be carrying around a… battle standard? Oh good, I remembered!
1) You were an adolescent back then? Luna above! I knew you were older than me but I didn’t realize you were that much older! You’re old enough to be my dad!
2) Huh. You know I think I read that book before. I might go back and read it again. But if I do, it would only be because it’s midnight. … That was a- That was a stretch to… Heart of a Lion-Anyway.
I think it took your “Awwww.” and saw “www.” and sent it to Tartarus.
3) Even when I was playing Silver I wasn’t really that into it. And from what I’ve been hearing these newest generations are less legit tactical rpg and more “You activated my trapcard!”-style measure, counter-measure, counter-counter-measure when fighting others. Or just steamroll easy in the regular game.
I mean- I’d totally play it if I had a 3DS and a copy of the game, just to play something different. But I don’t have either.
1) Bon-Bon: There’s nothing wrong with that. We’re all different.
Bon-Bon: Oh, that was a little before my time. I’m sure Cheerilee would know better. I have seen pictures, though. I can definitely tell you it happened.
2) I think autotuning has a place in, like, techno or similar styles of music. Outside of that you can tell what a minimally edited voice sounds like and autotuning comes off as so… unnatural. Detached.
1) Long time Jolteon fan, here. Pin Missile, yo.
Of course, the last Pokemon I played was Silver. I think the main problem is that after G1, I played other rock/paper/scissor style games like Jade Cocoon and Nocturne and realized Pokemon was nothing extraordinary.
2) … Not sure how you expected me to respond to this.
3) I don’t think I’ve ever had peanut butter and cheese. Mostly because I don’t care for peanut butter.
4) You just don’t know what to look for. I mean, I don’t know what to look for in an aging human myself!
1) Bon-Bon: ‘The other day?’ Those Everfree vines invaded months ago.
1) You were an adolescent back then? Luna above! I knew you were older than me but I didn’t realize you were that much older! You’re old enough to be my dad!
