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So, was it common practice for LJN to grab a license, throw together something that ranged from awful to passable yet generic, and then hire on a sound programmer that knew what he was doing? The music and sounds are almost always the best parts of their games.
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You know, one thing that bugs me about this show: None of the main characters really seemed to have much of a social life before Malificent Nightmare Moon. About half their cases I can understand: Twilight Sparkle was established to be an antisocial bookworm and Fluttershy is effectively a shut-in crazy cat lady. Rainbow Dash has had one previous social contact make an entrance, but swiftly broke that one up; otherwise, she's been presented as something of the school loner and freak.
But what about everyone else? Rarity is an high society socialite; where are her upper class twit friends? Applejack is a farmer and a businesswoman, both of which require extended contacts to be successful at either; why is she never really seen talking to anyone outside her family? And then Pinkie Pie! You'd think the local party girl would be incredibly popular! But no, she's only ever hanging out with the other five.
In short, why do none of the other characters say, "Twilight, I have someone I'd like you to meet"?
(note I have not seen every episode, this is just the impression I've come away with)
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DK64_MASTER wrote:
I'm just sad at people actually finding this funny. I don't think Child porn isn't anything to joke about, even if it is on a somewhat esoteric viewing device. Doesn't the DS have a camera as well? You put 2 and 2 together.
Throw another 2 in there: It has two cameras, for stereoscopic photos!
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I'm in the camp of people who find the goal too arbitrary. I understand the desire to show off more of the game using the glitch, but how much is enough? What if I submitted a run that beats all bosses then collects the instruments? Is not that more of the game? Then what if someone comes along and collects all inventory items? How much is "enough"?
With the select glitch here, I can tell it's going to be all or nothing. 100% would be more acceptable, I'd think.
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Warp wrote:
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The title "Dragon Quest" is all I really care about here. It's not often you see references to not-Mario games.
It could be pure coincidence.
Considering (a) how often the production staff keeps its ear to the internet to play off the older fans of the show (b) the title of nearly every episode is a reference to a show, movie, book, or common English phrase, I doubt it. C'mon, they even reference Call of Cthulhu in one!
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Warp wrote:
Does anyone have an idea why they changed it? Executive meddling perhaps?
There was actually a petition somewhere about people who found the presence of "lol retard" humor to be inappropriate in this show. And I agree! No one would blink an eye if it were in, say, Family Guy. I could go at length talking about this, but not now.
I tried finding that petition, but searching "derpy hooves petition" just pulls up a bunch of other petitions to restore the scene as it originally was.
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I've noticed I have a strange tendency to develop light antigravity powers in my dreams. Usually it just means that I can walk along, lift my feet to my butt, and kinda float along for a bit with my legs off the ground. Last night I managed to move forward by leaning forward without falling down.
I then complimented a 14 year old girl on her Applebloom costume when passing her while doing this...
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Bobo, a few notes.
You'll notice I focused mainly on the merits of the songs themselves, divorced almost entirely from the situations that they're attached to. I'm not arguing that they fail to do the job of certain things like characterizing and advancing plot. I'm just saying that they are either bad songs or good songs marred by a couple of things (Art of the Dress for seeming to be more than homage, and Invitation for having some terrible word flow; the latter was nice on the visual front, and the singer getting tired at the end was an excellent touch, but I can't get past the awkward lyrics).
Also, it should be noted I don't really watch the show. I've only ever really seen it when babysitting my young nieces. The culture and other aspects surrounding the show are certainly interesting though. Pinkie Pie voices Fluttershy? Wow, that's some talented vocal range! Hasbro finally releasing what can only be described as the Brony Set? I'm not interested in the toys except maybe Nightmare Moon, but a bunch of toys being released for a little girl's franchise at the behest of older, male fans is truly something momentous. That's the sort of thing I can't get enough of.
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To briefly go back to a previous topic, if someone wants to spend a week of their life sitting in front of a theater, okay, sure, more power to them. Not gonna stop me from thinking, "Good grief, life is too precious to waste doing nothing in front of a theater! Go home and do something, y'know, useful!"
On the topic of songs: I haven't heard all of them, but by and large I find myself not wanting to listen. "Giggle at the Ghosties" may be infectious, but it's a bad, annoying sort of infectious. The CMC performance and You Gotta Share may have been intended to be bad, but that doesn't make up for them being bad; having characters in the show snark about how awful that was simply doesn't win me over.
Pinkie's Invitation has a decent melody, but the lyrics! Just like almost every other song in the show, the lyrics are reminiscent of something a high school senior wrote during the poetry unit in English class just to get their instructors off their back. The words and rhymes don't flow very well.
Art of the Dress is probably the best of the ones I've heard since Tabitha is a great singer and is overall very fun, but is docked points for ripping almost wholesale from other sources and including such asinine lyrics as, "I'm stitching Twilight's dress!" Um, okay?
Oddly, I find both of Pinky's songs in The Ticketmaster to be okay. Nothing good, nothing bad.
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IronSlayer wrote:
Watch... a Danny Kaye film.
I found a bow and arrow and I learned to shoot, I found a little horn and I learned to toot, now I can shoot and toot, ain't I cute? *ppbbttbtbtbtbt*
Otherwise completely agreed with everything.
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