Re: [Official!] Project Horizons Comment Crew Chat thread.

[Kippershy]

There is no entitlement to owning a beast of a PC, only that we truly deserve.
Games are designed on PC's, are they not? Besides, they said during development that they were developing it for both 360 and PC at the same time and though they wouldn't delay the 360 version, the PC version wouldn't follow far behind.
...It's been how long?

[Harmony Ltd.]

http://derpiboo.ru/431917

[Guest]

There is no entitlement to owning a beast of a PC, only that we truly deserve.
Games are designed on PC's, are they not? Besides, they said during development that they were developing it for both 360 and PC at the same time and though they wouldn't delay the 360 version, the PC version wouldn't follow far behind.
...It's been how long?

Wait, believing you are owed or deserve something is the definition of entitlement right? I'm not misusing that word? And no you're not owed anything and no you do not deserve anything.

[Harmony Ltd.]

Deserve got nothing to do with this.

[Guest]

Well actually no, I misspoke you do deserve something. If you purchase a game you deserve a working title.

[Kippershy]

Nope, you've got entitlement right... it's that I'm not entitled, I just truly deserve.
There's a difference

[Harmony Ltd.]

http://derpiboo.ru/422090

[Kattlarv]

You guys! I totally got the best idea when I was lying in bed ignoring my morning dew: You know how Luna sort of is the princess of batponies? She should totally have the batsymbol as mottling xD

And I'll try to read that fic later today if my tactical advantage will let me. Still gotta stack more gecko's to solve my animation issue. And woo! This gotta be my most backwards animation so far, technically xP Start with cumshot, then afterglow, then realize I have to do the actual flash itself, and messing up all the layers in the progress, then forget to duplicate a layer, ruining it further! Gonna need a stack of http://www.rhandst.com/stack-o-beardies.jpeg stat!
And sheesh you guys, why you always gotta post so much?

@Harmony: Not that I know off. There doesn't tend to excist any female counterpart for most things. People are neglective fucks in that.

@cb5: Nah, it depends HOW the eggs work, and what size. There's a quite interesting theory that she injects small eggs into her victim, which I think fed off his sperm or something like that, then when having vagina intercourse, or overall, the eggs would detach and make it's way out, having a slightly stinging orgasm, then make it's way into the womb. There's also two "spin offs" of that theory. One that she instead "drains" the male off sperm directly from the testicles with her oviposistior. And one is that after injecting with eggs, they're hit with a latent mind control thingy, and heads out somewhere seclusive to "birth" the eggs where they can grow/be collected. Only having a sore dick in the morning as a recollection of what happened.
But that said, most theories are open to how they actually work :P

What species on earth can sustain solely on the emotion of affection? Don't try to mix logic into this xD The cocoons can have a dozen functions.

And that was sort of her plan. She didn't drain magic though, she drained love, which in turn gave her power. But her plan was sadly flawed and rather stupid due to some writing. Same goes for her thinking.

And dunno tbh how the ponies would have reacted to that.

@Frost: Ah, okay. Haven't heard of it I think.

And her plan would have made more sense to dispose of shining, taking his place. Cadance is actually useful to her. Princess of love you know? The thing your species feeds on?
And guys! sex =/= love. Personally facepalm quite hard at all those that take it as that. Especially the generic version, considering Chrysalis would likely be a incredibly selfish lover if anything. Then again, people never want bland porn to be IC.

@Kipper: (and c:o) Yeah, that'd pretty much be Chrysalis in a nutshell when it'd come to sex. Why service some buffon when she can just as easily make them service her, not having to bother dealing with inferior lifeforms, instead having them pleasure her?

[cb5]

@cb5: Nah, it depends HOW the eggs work, and what size. There's a quite interesting theory that she injects small eggs into her victim, which I think fed off his sperm or something like that, then when having vagina intercourse, or overall, the eggs would detach and make it's way out, having a slightly stinging orgasm, then make it's way into the womb. There's also two "spin offs" of that theory. One that she instead "drains" the male off sperm directly from the testicles with her oviposistior. And one is that after injecting with eggs, they're hit with a latent mind control thingy, and heads out somewhere seclusive to "birth" the eggs where they can grow/be collected. Only having a sore dick in the morning as a recollection of what happened.
But that said, most theories are open to how they actually work :P

What the fuck am I reading? It sounds like a bad clopfic.

What species on earth can sustain solely on the emotion of affection? Don't try to mix logic into this xD The cocoons can have a dozen functions.

And that was sort of her plan. She didn't drain magic though, she drained love, which in turn gave her power. But her plan was sadly flawed and rather stupid due to some writing. Same goes for her thinking.

And dunno tbh how the ponies would have reacted to that.

Just cause a show is a magic fantasy you still have to explain it.

Not really cocoons are for larvae. Tell a biologist otherwise and they'll give you a dirty look.

Not really. If you take out the government, take out the ruler, and take out the army and take out anyone who has the ability to stop you how would someone stop you from conquering the populace? It took her five minutes to conquer canterlot.

[Moodyman90]

If you take the comics as canon to the show, than the changelings would have eventually turn Equestria into the new Changeling kingdom and more than feeding on love but draining everything of their essence like they did the critters where they landed at.

And sorry cb, but cocoons can be used for other thing. Derpy decided to make the one she was trapped in into her house. Once again if you take the comics as canon.

[cb5]

If you take the comics as canon to the show, than the changelings would have eventually turn Equestria into the new Changeling kingdom and more than feeding on love but draining everything of their essence like they did the critters where they landed at.

The comics are canon though.

And sorry cb, but cocoons can be used for other thing. Derpy decided to make the one she was trapped in into her house. Once again if you take the comics as canon.

I mean biologically.

[Ironmonger]

Cool 8-bit music.

[Stringtheory]

For Frost/Iron/Anyone else who this might apply to:

If you guys are ever in court you should try this defense, in our politically correct society it might just work.

[Ironmonger]

For Frost/Iron/Anyone else who this might apply to:

If you guys are ever in court you should try this defense, in our politically correct society it might just work.

>Eyes dart back and forth suspiciously.
>Takes notes.

[Moodyman90]

Well to be honest the changelings cocoons always seemed to be less for larval to grow and more for storing beings for later. At least for me.
Both in the show and in the comics that what they're used for, shoving other creatures into.

So, either they're storing them for later as a food source, like spiders wrapping up their pray, going to lay eggs in them like in Aliens, or there really is a magic that would turn whoever is stored in a cocoon into another changeling.

While I do agree that sometimes just going "It's magic so I don't have to explain" isn't a good excuse, I also agree that going "but that's not how it works in the real world" isn't a good reason to dismiss magical explanations in a setting that has magic because we have no experience with magic and what it is capable of, thus it is an unknown variable but an important one all the same.

[Kippershy]

@Kipper: (and c:o) Yeah, that'd pretty much be Chrysalis in a nutshell when it'd come to sex. Why service some buffon when she can just as easily make them service her, not having to bother dealing with inferior lifeforms, instead having them pleasure her?

The other argument here is that while she's acting as another, she might service someone else for their love.
Because if it's a good relationship, well, we don't know if she feeds on sexual affection as well, but even if she doesn't, the feelings of love that come with the release from sex would no doubt feed her...
So there's that to it.

[Harmony Ltd.]

My guess is that the idea is the same as spider cocoon for their preys : keeping the prey captive and alive. At least regarding how we see them used on the CMCs in the comic, and during the Canterlot Wedding.

[cb5]

Yeah, in the comics, Chrysalis stuffs all three CMC into one cocoon. If they were for transforming them into changelings, I would think they'd each get their own, right?
There's also never any indication that they're being affected by the cocoon.
At the very least, some cocoons can just be made for storage.

Considering how annoyed Chrysalis was I don't think she would want the cmc as part of the hive.

[Frost]

For Frost/Iron/Anyone else who this might apply to:

If you guys are ever in court you should try this defense, in our politically correct society it might just work.

"Your honor, how can we judge 'murder'? The souls of the dead are all around us, staring at us, judging us. I see them now. They're looking me dead in the eye as they fuck. Yeah, did I mention that? Ghosts are pretty much fucking all the time. There's not much else to do when you're dead but haunt and fuck, you know?"

"Yeah, you're guilty"

"Oh, right. Kinda forgot I was on trial here. Got distracted--some of these ghosts are sexy as hell."

[Katarn]

Awkward...:

[Frost]

Tytanbait:

[Moodyman90]

Okay, now a poor attempt to explain away one of the "plotholes" of Canterlot Wedding!

Granted this is based off how well a human could survive and I have no idea how a horse, much less a pony from the show, would do, but a human in the best of health can technically survive without food for almost a month, but less than a week without water.

Now I can't remember if it was stated how long Cadance was in those caves other than " a couple of days", but she did look worse for wear when Twilight finally saw her. Now for some people "a couple of days" means 2 days tops but for me can mean almost a week, so Chrysalis could have replaced Cadance anywhere between a week before the wedding to a day before Twilight and the others got there. Chrysalis could very well have expected Cadance to be dead already when she trapped Twilight in the caves. And there's also the case of "it's a maze that nobody has been in for forever so you'll be trapped forever", which of course they managed to find a way out anyways.

It's still a case of "bad writing", but honestly guys, what do you expect from any form of mass media, especially a western cartoon? Yeah a villain who's smart enough to just kill whoever gets in their way can be entertaining, but make them too smart and you'd have to rely on a dues ex machina for the heroes to win. Which is actually what happened in the Wedding cause Chrysalis had them all dead to rights anyways before the super shield Cadance and Shinning made.

[Stringtheory]

A point was recently came up in the comment thread of a story that I follow which was: why do societies that have perfect afterlives (i.e. heaven) punish murder? It's like punishing someone who hands out free permanent vacations, shouldn't that be a good thing? Plus, why do these societies even have funerals when those living will get to see the recently departed again in however long?

[cb5]

Okay, now a poor attempt to explain away one of the "plotholes" of Canterlot Wedding!

Granted this is based off how well a human could survive and I have no idea how a horse, much less a pony from the show, would do, but a human in the best of health can technically survive without food for almost a month, but less than a week without water.

Now I can't remember if it was stated how long Cadance was in those caves other than " a couple of days", but she did look worse for wear when Twilight finally saw her. Now for some people "a couple of days" means 2 days tops but for me can mean almost a week, so Chrysalis could have replaced Cadance anywhere between a week before the wedding to a day before Twilight and the others got there. Chrysalis could very well have expected Cadance to be dead already when she trapped Twilight in the caves. And there's also the case of "it's a maze that nobody has been in for forever so you'll be trapped forever", which of course they managed to find a way out anyways.

It's still a case of "bad writing", but honestly guys, what do you expect from any form of mass media, especially a western cartoon? Yeah a villain who's smart enough to just kill whoever gets in their way can be entertaining, but make them too smart and you'd have to rely on a dues ex machina for the heroes to win. Which is actually what happened in the Wedding cause Chrysalis had them all dead to rights anyways before the super shield Cadance and Shinning made.

Yeah they made Chrysalis too smart of a villain.

Personally I'd like for Chrysalis to become a regular villain, but they'd have to really reduce the number of changelings for the heroes to have to have a chance. They don't have to outright spell that the majority of changelings starved to death from being blown across the world with no food. What I mean by that is if they changelings really did get blown thousands of miles in every direction then the number that make it back to civilization without starving to death or dehydrating to death. However they can just offscreen kill off the majority of the changelings so they're not as strong as to conquer canterlot in five minutes again, but still dangerous.

They could have chrysalis still as a major threat and make her a regular villain if they go,
"I only see a couple hundred changelings instead of the tens of thousands we saw at canterlot what happened to the rest of your army?"
"After our defeats at canterlot and in the comics this is all that remains of my army"

The implication would be pretty dark, but they could get away with it cause it would fly right over kid's heads.

[Harmony Ltd.]

A point was recently came up in the comment thread of a story that I follow which was: why do societies that have perfect afterlives (i.e. heaven) punish murder? It's like punishing someone who hands out free permanent vacations, shouldn't that be a good thing? Plus, why do these societies even have funerals when those living will get to see the recently departed again in however long?

Depends on how well known is the reality of this afterlife, I guess ?

I mean, IRL there's people actually believing in that, who have enough faith in this afterlife to think someone they love is going to go to it upon their death and they'll see them anyway, and this doesn't stop them from grieving the loss and having the ceremony.

It's one thing to "know", intellectually, that this is not the end, it's another one to accept death a something positive.

Plus, the fact murder is still punished could easily be seen from the viewpoint of "dude, if everyone kill each-other willy nilly, there's not going to be many people left in the world of the living." And as some of these religions may share with christianity the divine command of "grow and multiply", tolerating murder might contradict it.

[Scyto Harmony]

A point was recently came up in the comment thread of a story that I follow which was: why do societies that have perfect afterlives (i.e. heaven) punish murder? It's like punishing someone who hands out free permanent vacations, shouldn't that be a good thing? Plus, why do these societies even have funerals when those living will get to see the recently departed again in however long?

People are too afraid of being wrong.

[Moodyman90]

Could just be me but even if a society as a whole believes in a perfect afterlife, they generally frown on people being taken "before their time". "Before their time" being being killed by anything that isn't old age, illness, or just freak accidents.

On that, if everybody in said society allowed themselves to die/be killed, there wouldn't be much of a society anymore after a point in time because they're all dead.


And then there's all that stuff about religion and trying to spread it to others, which is hard to do if everybody who believes in said religion is dead.


Edit: As for funerals. Those are more for the living than anybody else. It sure ain't for the dead. They're dead and gone, and despite believe we'll see them again, we need something RIGHT NOW to get over the death. Or we get into another death chain of "I want to see them now, so I'll find a way to die" and others' follow that line of thinking.

[cb5]

What's sad is that my grandma may be dying soon. She's a pillpopper and was popping pills she really shouldn't have. Her blood pressure is for some reason extremely low right now.

I can see why funerals are for the living, cause my mom is hiding that she's not doing well and is probably going to become depressed if/when grandma dies.

[cb5]

whoops wrong thread

[Moodyman90]

It's been years now but I heard there was a tribe in South America in which a baby being born was treated how we do funerals, and a person dying was treated like a party. Because they knew that child would have to go through a life of pain and suffering, but death was a form of release and they didn't have to suffer anymore.

That said, they didn't go around killing babies to "protect" them, they still let them live their lives.


Me personally? I don't do well a funerals when it's close family as to be expected, but everybody else I'm good. Respectful for the family to be sure, but good.
I also want my funeral to be a rock concert. Oh yeah, there's going to be church hymens and stuff, but I want to be lowered into the ground during the middle of a guitar solo and the whole thing to be as upbeat as possible.

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