1) I played Chu Chu Rocket, Sonic Adventure, one of the Virtual On games, and some Bombermare game. Oh, and I watched somepony else playing Shenmue and Seamares a few times.

Oh wait, that was Dreamcast. Does that count for anything, though?

2) Is this a thing? I can’t tell if you’re doing a bit or not.

3) Yes. No. And they’re actual correctional facilities, not cages.

4) Generally you can be classified under a few levels of ownership, with only certain more expensive items added individually. Also, from year to year it’s cumulative unless you make a note of removing items. It’s not terribly hard to calculate if you’re at all familiar with the forms. First year is always a pain, though.

Food is exempt. Farm crops that yield food are not.

5) I can maybe hear it on some of the more unsettling portions of the song, but I’d have never guessed it myself.

6) Well that explains plenty about you humans. You must be living on a planet of monsters. No wonder you’re so harsh by nature.

1) Great! I don’t know if it’s this summer mating thing or because the glue demand is lower, but I get to see him while he isn’t working more often!

2) Wouldn’t you know it.

3) What ponies do in their freetime, as long as it doesn’t hurt anypony, is none of my business.

4) Seeing as we wouldn’t know the difference, would it matter?

5) I’m afraid I can’t help you there. I was a thief and lived off of others, but I don’t recommend it.

6) Ordinarily I’d give you the whole government answer. But as far as the tax thing, you’re better off sprouting wings and/or a horn and becoming an alicorn. That law is one of the oldest ones in Equestria. It was created when the three races settled their differences and formed a united government. It can suck, certainly, but that’s the point. You can’t really escape it. Everypony is taxed, unless you somehow don’t own anything. And good luck proving that.

7) This is an excellent example why Macross/Robotech is better than Gundam. Gundam is just a lot of Dragon Ball Z energy levels and endless babbling mixed with horribly attempted emotion.

1) In your world’s United States, yes. I saw a while ago. However, that doesn’t really have any bearing on our world. Or more specifically, my dimension of our world.

In my dimension a bit is worth roughly ten USD. I calculated that based on things like construction costs and yearly taxes, but I still had to factor in food consumption. If we spend three bits on a bag of apples, that’s roughly 30 USD. That’s going to look really expensive to you humans, but that’s what our economy is based on: food. Food is what we spend our money on.

We don’t pay for things like electricity and water, those are just provided for if you own or rent a home (within limitations). We don’t pay for law enforcement or road repair. We don’t need clothes. The only tax we have is the ownership tax based on 10% of what we own, not what we make.

2) Goodness, you weren’t kidding. That sounds horrible! Worse than a water-based flood!

3) That depends, are you a Homestuck fanboy?

I kid. I kid.

No, I don’t think so. I recall more than a few coming to Gilda, though.

4) [Omitted]!

I knew if I said four it was going to be three!

But yeah! Nocturne was sweet! If I could draw with a reasonable speed I think it’d be cool to do a pony drawblog based on the main character toward the end of the game. You know, reflecting back on what happened before climbing the tower. Just something fun with a hard limit of like 50 responses.

I mean, why not? Everypony else RPs all the time.

Maybe, maybe not.

Seems to me your society has a lot more freedoms than ours. Plus, our taxes are pretty steep and all but necessitate having a job.

See, Equestria isn’t taxed on income like your society. We’re taxed on possession. The more you own, it’s assumed the more you make, and thus the more you owe. If you’re out of work, this will quickly eat away at everything you have left.

Both of our worlds still have intolerance toward race. Only ours also has intolerance towards other sapient species. These aren’t just people that look different or come from different backgrounds, they fundamentally are different. Paws instead of hooves, beaks instead of muzzles.

Both of our worlds have a problem with underage relationships, only ours in spades. Ponies don’t like to talk about it, but there are far too many that think it’s okay for a child and an adult, or two children to be in a romantic relationship. Some even go so far as to think it’s “cute.”

Even a Utopia has it’s share of problems. And all of that is ignoring the situation between us and the griffons.

If I remember right, and I probably don’t because I’m horrible at history, after Princess Celestia banished Princess Luna to the moon she wasn’t the only pony upset. The law was put into place to try and lift spirits. There isn’t really a penalty for ignoring it, but there’s a huge tax break for those that abide by it.

It’s based upon a number of puns per year, but a certain number of those puns have to be different and spaced out over a certain number of days. You can’t just say the same thing over and over again on the last day (that day always being your birthday).

It’s not really enforced, it’s just sort of tradition at this point. Even if somepony accuses somepony else of ignoring the law, there has to be pretty sizable evidence to prove it.

That or the defendant has to be stupid enough to plead guilty.