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Author Topic: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)  (Read 435452 times)

Jacob/Lee

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« Reply #1935 on: August 31, 2011, 03:40:23 pm »
Oh god, the Dead Space crossovers.
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Perhaps the only slightly funny one besides Isaac Pie. The rest are mentally scarring.
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« Reply #1936 on: August 31, 2011, 04:32:00 pm »
Time to start NaPoWriMo.
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #1937 on: August 31, 2011, 06:59:31 pm »
Wow, just wow. Someone made a clopfic with filly Nyx as the star.

I hate some people, I really do. Pen would be ashamed.
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« Reply #1938 on: August 31, 2011, 07:01:13 pm »
Some people really are terrible, I agree.
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #1939 on: August 31, 2011, 08:38:06 pm »
I will simply refer you to Sturgeon's Law.

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90% of everything is crap.

I take this to include people, as well.
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #1940 on: August 31, 2011, 08:52:34 pm »
Quote from: Crazy Cow on August 31, 2011, 08:38:06 pm
I will simply refer you to Sturgeon's Law.

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90% of everything is crap.

I take this to include people, as well.

Get this, though. The 10% of things that aren't crap are a category of things. That means 90% of them are crap.
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #1941 on: August 31, 2011, 09:01:00 pm »
The reason why people can stand a world with 99.9repeating% of everything being crap (the logical conclusion to your potentially infinitely recursive statement) is that in the end, the 0% that isn't crap is worth it. For instance, most people would say that Past Sins was worth it, even if it did result in a clopfic that starred filly Nyx.
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Dsarker

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« Reply #1942 on: August 31, 2011, 09:01:57 pm »
Is anyone else doing NaPoWriMo?
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #1943 on: August 31, 2011, 09:04:49 pm »
I'm making (well, I was making, got writer's block) a single fanfic, but I'm not doing the whole thing. I was actually linking it up on this thread as I was writing it, but it didn't seem to get much interest, so I've stopped.
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Dsarker

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« Reply #1944 on: August 31, 2011, 09:05:55 pm »
It's good!

I'll be putting up each week's piece of my one up here, with any luck. First one should be ready by the seventh.
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Re: When did ponies become awesome? What else have I missed? (take 2)
« Reply #1945 on: August 31, 2011, 09:08:56 pm »
Good luck with that. I don't think I have the time or storytelling ability to make it through the whole thing.

It's funny, I can make up the most amazing stories in my head, but when I try to convey it through some medium, it tends to not come out nearly as well as I hope.
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« Reply #1946 on: August 31, 2011, 09:09:28 pm »
Wait, if 90% of everything is crap, does that "everything" include the 10% that isn't crap?

*head asplode*
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« Reply #1947 on: August 31, 2011, 09:12:22 pm »
No, no, no :P
You have 100% of everything. Take 90% of that everything; that stuff is crap, low-quality stuff ultimately not worth your time. The remaining 10% is high-enough quality to be enjoyable. If we start going into the "everything includes that 10%" then we will all be driven into insanity.
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« Reply #1948 on: August 31, 2011, 09:16:26 pm »
I've always taken the whole Sturgeon's Law system into a slightly more positive tone. As far as I consider it, for each person, 90% of all artistic works are beyond their ability to enjoy. Therefore, to each and every person, 90% of everything is crap. However, since people are different, they like different things. So what's crap to one might not be crap to another. This makes a lot less stuff have the potential to be universally crap.
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« Reply #1949 on: August 31, 2011, 09:30:12 pm »
Heh, I'm similar but I see it a slightly different way.

Take one of my favorite Yahtzee quotes:
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People are shit. Whenever I'm in a crowd I think "who left this shit all over the place?". I'm shit. You're shit. The world is shit. And if you're sitting there thinking "yes its true. Everybody is shit EXCEPT me"; then you're a double-bacon shit-with-large-fries, mr. shitface.

...Sorry, this reflects badly on me doesn't it? I should've said: Mr. OR Mrs. shitface.
I take this as probably the exact opposite as intended. My reaction to it is "well, if THIS is shit... shit ain't so bad."

What's often described as crap or shit really isn't that awful. And the stuff that IS good is better by an order of magnitudes, so the not-so-good stuff helps the good stuff shine through comparison.


Maybe I'm overly idealistic.


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