[GRIMDARK] Fallout Equestria: Project Horizons Discussion

ketchup504 wrote:http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperWeight
Where do you guys think Blackjack fits here? I'm thinking 3 or high 2.

Okay, first off, unicorns are normal people in FiM, therefore they are the base level of... er, superness. You have to recalibrate the scale for the setting.

The answer really depends on whether you count equipment as a superpower. If not, she's a solid 2. Her only real power is regeneration/repair, with fingers as an odd bonus little. Eating metal and such are required secondary powers. She's strong, but not stronger than the strongest pony. (Like Captain America, she gets to be stronger, faster, and tougher all at once where a normal would need to focus on one of those at the expense of the others.)

If you do take equipment as part of her powers, the PipBuck provides a +1 upgrade. I don't, though, any more than I would count a gun or armor.

SilentCarto wrote:

ketchup504 wrote:http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SuperWeight
Where do you guys think Blackjack fits here? I'm thinking 3 or high 2.

Okay, first off, unicorns are normal people in FiM, therefore they are the base level of... er, superness. You have to recalibrate the scale for the setting.

The answer really depends on whether you count equipment as a superpower. If not, she's a solid 2. Her only real power is regeneration/repair, with fingers as an odd bonus little. Eating metal and such are required secondary powers. She's strong, but not stronger than the strongest pony. (Like Captain America, she gets to be stronger, faster, and tougher all at once where a normal would need to focus on one of those at the expense of the others.)

If you do take equipment as part of her powers, the PipBuck provides a +1 upgrade. I don't, though, any more than I would count a gun or armor.

I'd factor her Pipbuck in, since removing it is very hard short of cutting the leg off(not in Sanguine's or a Pipbuck tech's case), and it acts almost as a cybernetic device.

Kattlarv wrote: 3 "hives" as of far. The "Fling" hive, the "Companion" hive and finally the "Predator" hive.

...Neat!

WaffleSmart wrote: Deeeaaaath...

One of the reasons I really (really) like PH is because it constantly reminds us about a truth that so many programs and stories forget (although FOE does remember it, just not as prominently). Loss is not death. In the Hoof, being crushed by the bad guys usually means something far worse than death. Littlepip's scars and injuries come from battles won. There's nothing wrong with this- and I do remember some losses for her too. But on the whole her failures could never measure up to her victories. Blackjack... lost. Her team lost. Everybody has met an end that other (less brilliant) works would write off or mix with arbitrary death for a miserable ending. Instead they walk away, and carry more loss than any dead hero.

Nightmare Moon/Nurse Redheart/Lyra wrote:So tempted to change mine...but I already have 4 names on this site depending on who you ask

Nursemare Lyra Badgerheart is fine by me.

Sindri wrote:Shoot me an email at sindrisnctchr on gmail if you want to discuss changeling abilities further; I'm attempting to write a fic of my own on the subject and it might be nice if we didn't directly contradict each other much, in addition to the benefits of actually discussing things and seeing if they make sense before they become an integral part of the story.

Oh, and IIRC 'Pip said that they tasted like somepony tried to make it orange flavored, but despite or because of that it was still nauseating. Blackjack likes the orangyness, while everypony else hates it, but it's still orangy.

I think I'll do that, though I'm unsure of what I can offer. And... yeah, I'll accept orange then.

SilentCarto wrote:I wonder what the line of succession is for the OIA... was Garnet first in line? Horse is probably either dead in the Redoubt or locked outside. Or a drooling vegetable in his suspension pod, with Garnet running everything in his name. Either way.

Or tearing up the Hoof in search of EC-1101. I don't really have much reason to assume Horse is the screaming madness in Hoofington's security system (other than being a fitting punishment for someone so desperate to get in the game) but it will remain my theory until further notice.
However, that last idea rings more true to what I imagine of Garnet. We haven't seen much of her, but she doesn't seem like someone who would do the legwork if they were the one pulling the strings...

ScytoHarmony wrote:PS. If anyone on the editing team reads this, go tell Somber that he has made the greatest creation since the Lord of the Rings novels.

Edit: Does that sound fanboyish and random to anyone else?

Message sent.

By the way, you can just use the forum system to email me.

Just wondering if you all ever thought of mirroring the story on fimfiction? Cause GoogleDocs isn't quite as android friendly for adjusting the text for reading. Just a suggestion. :3

Ki-Tarn wrote:Just wondering if you all ever thought of mirroring the story on fimfiction? Cause GoogleDocs isn't quite as android friendly for adjusting the text for reading. Just a suggestion. :3

GDocs is unfriendly towards Google's Android OS? Irony! Anyway, IIRC I think that Somber wants to finish the whole thing before uploading it to other sites, but I might be confusing Somber with Kkat...

Ki-Tarn wrote:Just wondering if you all ever thought of mirroring the story on fimfiction? Cause GoogleDocs isn't quite as android friendly for adjusting the text for reading. Just a suggestion. :3

The idea's occurred. However, as I understand it, no simple, direct, automatic system, and doing it manually would be far too much of a hassle.

Also, I'm really surprised to learn that Google Docs and Android don't play well together; that seems like a ridiculous oversight.

O. Hinds wrote:

Ki-Tarn wrote:Just wondering if you all ever thought of mirroring the story on fimfiction? Cause GoogleDocs isn't quite as android friendly for adjusting the text for reading. Just a suggestion. :3

The idea's occurred. However, as I understand it, no simple, direct, automatic system, and doing it manually would be far too much of a hassle.

Also, I'm really surprised to learn that Google Docs and Android don't play well together; that seems like a ridiculous oversight.

http://nallar.me/fics/ - use one of the ebooks/ the online plain-ish HTML one.

Alternatively, try changing /edit to /preview in the google docs URL.

Meleagridis wrote:

Nightmare Moon/Nurse Redheart/Lyra wrote:So tempted to change mine...but I already have 4 names on this site depending on who you ask

Nursemare Lyra Badgerheart is fine by me.

I second this.

CalamityWhen wrote:

Meleagridis wrote:

Nightmare Moon/Nurse Redheart/Lyra wrote:So tempted to change mine...but I already have 4 names on this site depending on who you ask

Nursemare Lyra Badgerheart is fine by me.

I second this.

I third it because it looks to be an awesome name to have haha.

I picture an angry large nurse-mare wielding a meat cleaver.

(methinks it's the "badger" part...)

Moodyman90 wrote:

CalamityWhen wrote:

Meleagridis wrote:

Nightmare Moon/Nurse Redheart/Lyra wrote:So tempted to change mine...but I already have 4 names on this site depending on who you ask

Nursemare Lyra Badgerheart is fine by me.

I second this.

I third it because it looks to be an awesome name to have haha.

It is decided.

TheLastDefender wrote:

Moodyman90 wrote:

CalamityWhen wrote:

Meleagridis wrote:

Nightmare Moon/Nurse Redheart/Lyra wrote:So tempted to change mine...but I already have 4 names on this site depending on who you ask

Nursemare Lyra Badgerheart is fine by me.

I second this.

I third it because it looks to be an awesome name to have haha.

It is decided.

You should to totally change your name to that!

I would just like to note that the top weekly posters section is already filled with people from the PHCC.

I don't know if I should be proud that I'm in the top three or not....

I just think its a sign that we take over comments and other such communications systems.

I... don't even know how to apologize for this. My brain goes weird places sometimes. In this case, my brother was supposing that getting all her souls eaten might be the only way to kill Rampage.

And then this happened.

Meleagridis wrote:I don't really have much reason to assume Horse is the screaming madness in Hoofington's security system (other than being a fitting punishment for someone so desperate to get in the game) but it will remain my theory until further notice.

Oh, no no no. The Cyberdaemon looks like a rogue AI to me. I think the signal coming from the Redoubt is the "green" computer -- the one that entered through the security hub at Hippocratic and twisted like a snake to evade Dealer's counter-hack.

SilentCarto wrote:I... don't even know how to apologize for this. My brain goes weird places sometimes. In this case, my brother was supposing that getting all her souls eaten might be the only way to kill Rampage.

And then this happened.

It's glorious.

SilentCarto wrote:I... don't even know how to apologize for this. My brain goes weird places sometimes. In this case, my brother was supposing that getting all her souls eaten might be the only way to kill Rampage.

And then this happened.

I deem this pure win but going back to a previous conversation would probably bring Blackjack to Super Weight of 5.
I want to see a pony version of TTGL with PH ponies now.

did our thread just shrank?

Katarn wrote:did our thread just shrank?

Yes, it appears the threads have been split doubled!

Oh...kay. It appears that a section of posts at the end of the last thread broke off, the last thread got locked, and this new thread grew from the posts that broke off. Why and how this happened I have not idea. I suppose that I'll just change my bookmark and wait for word from someone in the forum administration.

I guess that means there's a post limit to threads? I dunno.

Katarn wrote:did our thread just shrank?

O.Hinds wrote:Oh...kay. It appears that a section of posts at the end of the last
thread broke off, the last thread got locked, and this new thread grew
from the posts that broke off. Why and how this happened I have not
idea. I suppose that I'll just change my bookmark and wait for word
from someone in the forum administration.

That was...peculiar...

ketchup504 wrote:

Katarn wrote:did our thread just shrank?

Yes, it appears the threads have been split doubled!

At this rate, we will fill whole sub-forum with our threads in....2 month.

Katarn wrote:

ketchup504 wrote:

Katarn wrote:did our thread just shrank?

Yes, it appears the threads have been split doubled!

At this rate, we will fill whole sub-forum with our threads in....2 month.

We are quite a riot, huh?

ketchup504 wrote:
We are quite a riot, huh?

Best riot ever!!!

I didn't even noticed that we broke the thread haha. I guess we rock hard then?

This is a good thing, right? Business for Cloudsville and all that?