Duh, i guess someone already made a dumb joke of this sort before
Since this group kindly asks for a welcome message from new members, i'll leave a salute to all fellow MtG playing bronies here
I like MlP:FiM for the fact that it feels like it combines a 90ies cartoon with some moderate aspects of anime. It has distinct characters. The flash animation is smooth and fresh. The voice-actors are excellent. The plot of the stories is pretty enjoyable, and the songs in some of the episodes are just the icing on the cake, i already thought of this being extinct in animated series.
Well, that's about all i have to say for now.Keep loving and tolerating everybody! (Come to think of it, this would make an awesome white split card, wouldn't it?)
"Not a single raindrop believes it is responsible for the flood."
Why does everyone say it feels like a 90s cartoon? I really don't understand that. I grew up in the 90s and watched lots of cartoons and I'm not sure I agree with that (unless I'm just missing something.)
As life gets longer, awful feels softer and it feels pretty soft to me. And if it takes **** to make bliss, well I feel pretty blissfully. If life's not beautiful without the pain, well I just would rather never ever even see beauty again. Well as life gets longer, awful feels softer and it feels pretty soft to me.
Why does everyone say it feels like a 90s cartoon? I really don't understand that. I grew up in the 90s and watched lots of cartoons and I'm not sure I agree with that (unless I'm just missing something.)
Well, it's like how cartoons in the 90s were good. And then they stopped doing that (At least for cartoons that any given parent wouldn't flip the **** about their kid watching). Plus it has that special brand of humor that seems 90sish (like getting crap past the radar).
Zammm = Batman. Bronies unite. "I'd call you a genius, but I'm in the room." It's my sig in a boxShow
Funny story: InQuest Magazine (I think it was InQuest) had an oversized Chaos Orb which I totally rooked someone into allowing into a (non-sanctioned) game. I had a proxy card that was a Mountain with "Chaos Orb" written on it. When I played it, my opponent cried foul:
Him: "WTF? a Proxy? no-one said anything about Proxies. Do you even own an actual Chaos Orb?" Me: "Yes, but I thought it would be better to use a Proxy." Him: "No way. If you're going to put a Chaos Orb in your deck you have to use your actual Chaos Orb." Me: "*Sigh*. Okay."
I pulled out this huge Chaos Orb and placed it on the table. He tried to cry foul again but everyone else said he insisted I use my actual Chaos Orb and that was my actual Chaos Orb. I used it, flipped it and wiped most of his board.
Unsurprisingly, that only worked once and only because everyone present thought it was hilarious.
My DM on Battleminds:
no, see i can kill defenders, but 8 consecutive crits on a battlemind, eh walk it off.
Hi guys! So, I'm a sort of returning player to Magic. I say sort of because as a child I had two main TCG's I liked. Yu-Gi-Oh, and Pokemon. Some of my friends branched off in to Magic, and I bought two pre-made decks just to kind of fit in. Like I said, Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon were what I really knew how to play. I have a extensive knowledge of deck building in those two TCG's. However, as far as Magic is concerned, I only ever used those two pre made decks. I know how the game is played, and I know general things, but now I want to get in the game for real. I want to begin playing it as a regular. My question is, are all cards ever released from the time of the inception of this game until present day fair game in a deck? Or are there special rules? Are some cards forbidden or restricted? Thanks guys, and I will gladly accept ANY help lol.
I have the same problem with women.
Is this my new ego sig? Yes it is, other BarryShow
And that's why you should never, ever call RP Jesus on being a troll, because then everyone else playing along gets outed, too, and the thread goes back to being boring.
See, this is why RPJesus should be in charge of the storyline. The novel line would never have been cancelled if he had been running the show. Specifically the Slobad and Geth's Head talkshow he just described.
Not only was that an obligatory joke, it was an on-topic post that still managed to be off-topic due to thread derailment. RP Jesus does it again folks.
It was wonderful. Us Johnnies had a field day. That Timmy with the Grizzly bears would actually have to think about swinging into your Mogg Fanatic , giving you time to set up your silly combo . Nowadays it's all DERPSWING! with thier blue jeans and their MP3 players and their EM EM OH AR PEE JEES and their "Dewmocracy" and their children's card games and their Jersey Shores and their Tattooed Tenaged Vampire Hunters from Beverly Hills
Seriously, that was amazing. I laughed my *ss off. Made my day, and I just woke up.
ArtVenn You're still one of my favorite people... just sayin'.
You... You... Evil something... I actualy made the damn char once I saw the poster...
Now you made me see it again and I gained resolve to put it into my campaign. Shell be high standing oficial of Cyrix order. Uterly mad and only slightly evil.
And it'll be bad. Evil even. And ill blame you and Lizard for it :P.
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...Am I the only one that thinks this is reaching the point of downright Kafkaesque insanity?
I condone the use of the word Kafkaesque. However, I'm presentely ambivalent. I mean, that can't be serious, right? We're April 1st, right? They didn't mod RPJesus for off-topic discussion when the WHOLE THREAD IS OFF-TOPIC, right?
Save or die. If you disagree with this, you're wrong (Not because of any points or arguements that have been made, but I just rolled a d20 for you and got a 1, so you lose).
HOW DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THE BEAR PRODUCING WORDS OF WILDING?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?!
That's what RPJesus tends to do. That's why I don't think he's a real person, but some Magic Card Archive Server sort of machine, that is programmed to react to other posters' comments with obscure cards that do in fact exist, but somehow missed by even the most experienced Magic players.
And then come up with strange combos with said cards. All of that is impossible for a normal human to do given the amount of time he does it and how often he does it.
He/It got me with Light of Sanction , which prompted me to go to RQ&A to try and find if it was even possible to do combat damage to a creature I control (in light that Mark of Asylum exists).
Blue players get all the overpowerered cards like JTMS. I think it's time that wizards gave something to people who remember what magic is really about: creatures.
Initially yes, Wizards was married to blue. However, about a decade ago they had a nasty divorce, and a few years after that they began courting the attention of Green. Then in Worldwake they had a nasty affair with their ex, but as of Innistrad , things seem to have gotten back on track, and Wizards has even proposed .
You are my favorite. Yes you. And moments like this make it so. Thank you RPJesus for just being you.
yeah Fluttershy is a nice character, although sometimes she transforms a bit too much into that cliché timid anime girl. But i guess that's intended to attract fans from that genre.
i'm not sure if i have a favorite character since i like all of them, although i often find Pinkie Pie to be most entertaining, because she's such a random comic relief character. It also seems she's the only one that's permanently under the influence of toon physics^^
Well, it's like how cartoons in the 90s were good. And then they stopped doing that (At least for cartoons that any given parent wouldn't flip the **** about their kid watching). [...]
That on one hand, although up to that point i can see why 4Tens doesn't necessarily agree with that statement, since saying what's good or what's bad always is a bit a matter of taste. And there were some DC/Marvel saturday morning cartoons that not every parent would have liked his kid to watch. (Although i didn't quite have these in mind actually anyways.)
[...] Plus it has that special brand of humor that seems 90sish (like getting crap past the radar).
That one's a very good point. It has some slapstick elements like the Disney and Warner Bros cartoons had (although more like Disney, since it's most often done in a lesser extent) And it has various references that only theolder part of the audience would get (this time this would more apply to Warner Bros movies, like Pinkie and the Brain. (Although i won't dare to say MLP:FiM makes political statements, lol)) An example would be Pinkie Pie saying "the punch has been Spiked", giving that mail delivery pegasus DERP-eyes (talk about Memetic Mutation ), or just the way characters act - like by using irony or sarcasm (which a small girl either won't understand or learn through this show )
It's trying to be that kind of family cartoon that many cartoons in the 90ies were - done primarily for kids, but also adressing adults at some parts with a plot that's not too dull that you couldn't enjoy it.
I agree that cartoons in the 90s were good, much better than your average 80s cartoon. But I don't think MLP is really strutting the 90s cartoon vibe, it feels different. The expressions are even better than your average 90s cartoon (they are quite briliant) and the animation is a lot more copy / paste (so there is less uniqueness but more uniformity.) The BGM is much better than any 90s cartoon I've seen, it is much more varied and really matches the moods of the situations perfectly. Shows in the 90s were also a lot more confrontational with their humor (think Animaniacs or Ren & Stimpy.) Also shows in the 90s seemed infinitely whackier, well MLP does defy physics and have slapstick humor and old school chase sceens it is a lot more mellow and down to earth throughout, generally using character conflic to hold interest throughout the majority of the episode, in fact the character interaction is great in this show. Also characters in 90s cartoons were rarely "relateable", the characters in MLP are way out there personality-wise but incredibly relateable. Basically I think there are parts of MLP that you can point to and say "that is like cartoons from the 90s", but the show as a whole feels like its own breed, revolutionary, just like a couple of the cartoons in the 90s at the time. But that is just my opinion.
As life gets longer, awful feels softer and it feels pretty soft to me. And if it takes **** to make bliss, well I feel pretty blissfully. If life's not beautiful without the pain, well I just would rather never ever even see beauty again. Well as life gets longer, awful feels softer and it feels pretty soft to me.
[...] The expressions are even better than your average 90s cartoon (they are quite briliant) and the animation is a lot more copy / paste (so there is less uniqueness but more uniformity.) The BGM is much better than any 90s cartoon I've seen, it is much more varied and really matches the moods of the situations perfectly.
Compared to something like Animaniacs i certainly agree on that. Although i think Disney cartoons generally got all facial expressions you could ask for as well. Certain is that the FiM animators knew how to do that, too.
I agree with you about the "uniformity" thing - while c/p generally speaking is a lack of quality, in this case it's nothing bad at all. Also, it's in the nature of flash animation to have a different feeling than your classic cartoons. Vectorized animation gives a different feeling of smooth movements, which is another point why you could argue it doesn't feel like a 90ies cartoon on one hand, and say it's a contemporary version of them on the other hand. I really like that too, also because i connect it with so many independant animations from Newgrounds i love :D
Shows in the 90s were also a lot more confrontational with their humor (think Animaniacs or Ren & Stimpy.) Also shows in the 90s seemed infinitely whackier, well MLP does defy physics and have slapstick humor and old school chase sceens it is a lot more mellow and down to earth throughout, generally using character conflic to hold interest throughout the majority of the episode, in fact the character interaction is great in this show.
Right. Although the Episode "Feeling Pinkie Keen" seems to be a hommage to this, including character deformation, and they even pull an anvil gag - although still less exaggeratedly. Tbh i never really liked that exaggerated humor even as a kid^^ But again, you got just that, more down-to-earth-humor, at least in Disney cartoons.
Also characters in 90s cartoons were rarely "relateable", the characters in MLP are way out there personality-wise but incredibly relateable. Basically I think there are parts of MLP that you can point to and say "that is like cartoons from the 90s", but the show as a whole feels like its own breed, revolutionary, just like a couple of the cartoons in the 90s at the time. But that is just my opinion.
Let's bring up Disney for a third time, shall we? :P I think it's the length of cartoons that plays an important part for more focus on the personalities, and while FiM does have that, many cartoons like Talespin, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid or even Ducktales do have that as well. There are episodes that are centered around a certain character, Iago from Aladdin for instance has an episode with focus on his conflict between greed and loyality/friendship :D (So when talking about Disney i'm not refering to the Disney Cartoon Classics - since these are more like the Looney Toons kind - but about the animated series that were often based on the movies)
What brings me to the conclution that for the most part, MLP:FiM actually feels like a conteporary revision of a 90ies Disney cartoon to me.
My response got a bit long...i guess i'll notice when i teal-deered it :P
The show is structured like a ensemble sitcom, instead of the usual cartoon formulas.
Never thought of it that way :D To tell the truth, i won't second that though. I can't remember any episode where they would just stand on the same spot and talk, with characters arriving and leaving the location. Let alone any laughter in the background^^
"Not a single raindrop believes it is responsible for the flood."
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), or just the way characters act - like by using irony or sarcasm (which a small girl either won't understand or learn through this show 
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