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Archonix 
Retired Ass
@Cosmas-the-Explorer
I am, but I’m not staff any more, so I suppose it doesn’t really count. :D
I am, but I’m not staff any more, so I suppose it doesn’t really count. :D
Ciaran 
Senior Moderator
友情は魔法だ
@Cosmas-the-Explorer
As Mariner Beckett said on Strange New Worlds:
As Mariner Beckett said on Strange New Worlds:
No, no, no, I am not living off the grid anywhere. I thrive on the grid. I require grid.
But, yeah - heading for a wilderness camping area to do some dogsledding and snowshoeing, 2 weeks of solid no grid. I’ll be past the end of the road, and far from anything but satellite communications, which is for GPS and emergencies only,
Really looking forward to it.
How about you?
Cosmas-the-Explorer 
Explorer in Training
@Ciaran
For me, I go in and out of the idea. I know I have to get a better schedule for myself. I do use the internet a bit too much at times.
For me, I go in and out of the idea. I know I have to get a better schedule for myself. I do use the internet a bit too much at times.
Though I have learned the wonders of reading some books at night like on castles and battleships from my collection of picture books I got even from young childhood.
Cosmas-the-Explorer
Explorer in Training
@The Smiling Pony
Makes sense. There’s a literal unicorn in it. Your guide Bjorn.
Makes sense. There’s a literal unicorn in it. Your guide Bjorn.
Ciaran
Senior Moderator
友情は魔法だ
@Cosmas-the-Explorer
I’m currently re-reading Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. It’s easily one of my favorite stories of all time.
I’m currently re-reading Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind. It’s easily one of my favorite stories of all time.
It’s fascinating to see his politics change through the length of the story. He rages from one thing to another, and as he ages through the telling of the story the narrative gets more and more intense, until it kind of “snaps” and then everything falls into place.
I recreated (with my own flawed hand and inadequate understanding of quills) one of my favorite scenes out of the entire story:
It’s literally been on my cube wall, and my guiding light, at every single job I’ve ever had this century.
“Having ended Nausicaä doesn’t mean that everything has ended or come to a conclusion… I ended the story at the same point as we are now, at the starting point of an incomprehensible world.”
—Hayao Miyazaki, from Starting Point: 1979~1996
Yeah. Just like that.
PS: Hardcover: 1104 pages. Far too short.
Cosmas-the-Explorer
Explorer in Training
Do you know how to upload a clip from MLP onto derpibooru?
Someone wants to have a clip of Pinkie and Skystar singing One Small Thing from the movie.
How do you do it? Does the size of the pixels matter sometimes?
Ciaran
Senior Moderator
友情は魔法だ
@Cosmas-the-Explorer
Convert it to a WEBM or GIF, and you should be able to upload it just fine.
Convert it to a WEBM or GIF, and you should be able to upload it just fine.
Please remember that we can’t host more than 30 seconds of official video, or more than 10 seconds of official audio or copyrighted music.
Ciaran
Senior Moderator
友情は魔法だ
@moonchosen
I personally like the story of how G4 was made much more than the story of G5. It’s always more interesting to me when things have largely gone to shit and a big company pulls a “What could go wrong” and ends up with more than they bargained for. But, I’m more on “the industry” side of the show.
I personally like the story of how G4 was made much more than the story of G5. It’s always more interesting to me when things have largely gone to shit and a big company pulls a “What could go wrong” and ends up with more than they bargained for. But, I’m more on “the industry” side of the show.
From the perspective of the show itself, I’ll haven’t seen anything that blew my mind in G5 as much as the “Hallway Gag Without A Hallway” that G4 did in the episode where Fluttershy accidentally ‘killed’ Philomena - complete with a Benny Hill style Yackity Sax chase.
The only thing that was missing was Jackie Gleason sipping on bourbon and mugging “How sweet it is!”
Also, G4 had more fan interaction. It was a very different era pre-Covid when you could have a convention with just a couple hundred people in a hotel by the airport, with actual top flight actors coming and hanging out with fans in the local pub or at the rave. It was a great era, and a HUGE amount of fun.
I do enjoy G5 though - it’s got some really interesting stuff going on, and is also doing a good job exploring some pretty tricky story lines. But it feels like it has more “adult supervision”.
So - I liked the lack of adult supervision and total rave quality G4 had, and with G5 I’m enjoying watching Hasbro try to take control of their product again and how they are rebuilding their approach to a global market for MLP.
G4 was very hard to turn into a global product. G5 is fascinating to watch because of how it is better suited for global distribution - but, personally I enjoyed G4 more because I actually could hang out with the people making it, and the whole “behind the scenes” of it was more accessible.
Which is your favorite so far? Or were other generations better? I know some people who really loved G1, and some who really enjoyed G3.
Cosmas-the-Explorer
Explorer in Training
Do you mods and admins talk to each other regularly?
Or is it more on a need to know basis?
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