>>11148
>shitty family
I a lot of people are "in the middle" and aren't completely shitty or great, but average, with some faults and are unfairly judged as one or the other. It is the nature of the internet.

>>10908
>software Raid
Software raid has amny trade offs, some of the ZFS camp insist that hardware raid cards no longer do the checking that they used to do.

>>11148
>Crazy story. I guess the steam was condensing on your windshield (car window).

You missed the part about how I wasn't in the car. My blood was condensing into steam right above my head, the same way you can see your breath on a cold day.

The car window was still attached to the car, which was sitting on top of me. But not enough to prevent me from getting rained on.

>>11151
Didn't miss that part, just wasn't super thinking about it or didn't entirely understand the situation (I did read all of what I quoted + other things from the JSON). In fact, before you posted #11151 I was going to say "or like breathing out in a cold day=vapors". You posted
>My blood was condensing into steam right above my head, the same way you can see your breath on a cold day.
Or like steam rising off of hot coffee or some other hot liquid in a cold day. Blood is like 80% water. In a cold day, do vapors come off of non-water liquids like hot pure hydrochloric acid? What about hot Everclear? That alcohol is nonaqueous because it's only like 5% water.

About
>blood was condensing into steam
I think that's incorrect word usage because "condense" means this:
>Sense 2= To transform from a gaseous state into a liquid state via condensation. Sense 1=To concentrate toward the essence by making more close, compact, or dense, thereby decreasing size or volume --!wt
It could condense onto a car window (gas->liquid). Water could evaporate into steam (liquid->gas).

Sense 1 is like Sense 2. If you condense Earth into like the size of a marble then it will become a black hole. Bigger->smaller. Steam is larger or less dense than water, so also bigger->smaller when condensation happens. We know that Earth would become a black hole if compressed down to that size due to the Schwarzschild radius equation, which !w says is
>radius = \frac{2 G M}{c^2}
>where G is the gravitational constant, M is the object mass, and c is the speed of light [in a vacuum].
Not LaTeX: RadiusS = 2GM/c^2. chat-gpt.org/chat says that
. G = 6.674 × 10^-11 m^3 kg^-1 s^-2)
. c = approximately 3.00 × 10^8 m/s)

>>11152
*its JS-heavy search thing didn't work

I was right:
. 9.911 millimeters --ML slop
. 8.857 millimeters --me
. 8.87 millimeters --https://www.calctool.org/astrophysics/schwarzschild-radius
. 9 millimeters (about) --https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/61413/how-small-the-earth-should-be-for-it-to-become-a-black-hole

Non-nerdy sexy image

>>11152
>In a cold day, do vapors come off of non-water liquids

Yes, they're just less likely to catch the light the way suspended water droplets do. The reason coffee has such a 'texture' that tea doesn't, is there are a bunch of oils that dissolve into the solution, but they will evaporate out because of how light they are and how hot the coffee is. That helps explain why reheating coffee ruins it - you're boiling out the last of the oils, and now you just have terrible tea, much the same as rehydrating instant coffee.

Also, visible steam isn't steam, because steam is a gas, and because of how light the molecule is compared to most of the air molecules, it makes the air much less dense. But when it cools and condenses, the liquid water is suspended, lighter than air, because of how small each individual drop of water is. The space between each drop means the body of water is less dense than the contiguous body of water it came from - lake, stream, pool of blood, whatever.

Also I consider the immediate consideration of turning the Earth into a black hole a very odd thing to be distracted by when trying to figure out why I was talking about clouds that were actually from my head, though no longer IN my head.

>>9471
Guilty as charged. Not the best thing to draw on but that description always stuck with me and I think the name fits.

>your low expectations were hugely exceeded.
Could that be the case for FiM itself? Arguably yes. The show was good at the time but only slightly above average in the first season. When you go in expecting trash it can really stick with you.

BIG SUNNY
https://www.equestriadaily.com/2024/02/upcoming-22-inch-trojan-horse-toy.html?m=1

I prefer to link to sites like:
https://www.mlpmerch.com/
for merch but unfortunately MLPmerch has slowed down a lot lately.


>>9485
More on this later.

>>9510
>>9511
Wow, that is one big Sunny! I am almost retarded enough to get that, but, money, plus the fact that it would be almost useless unless I tried some stupid memes or stop motion skits, prevent me from doing so.

As far as MLP Toys goes, this one is comical and a bit absurd and I like it for that.

>MLPmerch has slowed down a lot lately.
It is a shame it all got centrilized to Equestria Daily as Equestira Daily doesn't always provide the best coverage to niche topics well.

So, the word on the street is that G5 is dead. I see a lot of fruitless triumphalism over this with utter despair among the small number of complete unironic G5 fans. I don't share it. I wasn't a fan of G5 and thought it did mess up FiM's happy ending. But I was sort of a fan of some of the characters from it weirdly enough Pip So it is kind of bittersweet.

I don't know. Just wanted to express something other than happiness or being blindly butthurt and figured this thread was as good as any.

Dream of a pony: >>10933 (cross-thread). I was not lucid dreaming in that dream. I did some lucid dreaming before. When I realized that I was in control of the dream, I thought: "Huh, might as well do some crazy shit like diddle some kiddies." So I tried to do and in other case(s) did do some pedo shit in those dreams. The experience in the dream of doing that was rather boring and uninteresting: nothing felt much like anything. It was more like a feeling of looking around or like understanding a story that you read in a newspaper. Maybe next time I get control of a dream I'll do a lot of LSD and fly around, or have sex missionary style with a beautiful mare.

>>10716
>07/22/2024
>felt like something is going to end soon, just something I feel in the air, and noting.
Made me think of Blingee, but that basically ended a month or two after
https://web.archive.org/web/20240220214018/http://blingee.com/

>This feeling of a malevolent and all consuming force that was going to take over or destroy you and it doesn't quite feel like I can put it to words.
I think I have had such an experience in a bad dream years ago. Also can't really put it in words, so my description is more artistic than 1:1. I will say this, so to speak: A cosmic horror in which a monstrous Cthulhu-like being was skulking around the universe. It was an alien the size of Earth's solar system, or many orders of magnitude larger. Somehow it was making the air vibrate with such a loud unbearable noise. This terror indicated a certain doom. This Lovecraftian being was a highly intelligent and highly malicious being. In effect, he was God in this Godless universe. Were there more beings like him? If there were, one could only hope that they were not completely evil like him.

Dreams have been... been having a lot, in small bursts, sometimes waking me up every hour or two some nights. Don't have much coherency or theme, even spookiness seems (mostly) absent. Minus something I might save for Nightmare Night.

>>10934
>Made me think of Blingee, but that basically ended a month or two after
Never know what is vibing through the air.

Thanks for telling me of the FIMcontent there, btw, I like some of these

> So I tried to do and in other case(s) did do some pedo shit in those dreams.
That still feels kind of cursed even if in the confines of ones mind. This is coming from somebody who argues that, while fictional content is not equal to the real thing, it does matter to some level.

>It was more like a feeling of looking around or like understanding a story that you read in a newspaper.
I'd say 50% of my dreams now are sort of like that, usually my POV is outside or partly outside the person that is experiencing the thing.

>>11140
>That still feels kind of cursed even if in the confines of ones mind
I imagine it's just me being something of a porn addict/enthusiast/enjoyer. Years ago, lolicon/shotacon fictional works (image+video) was definitely more a part of my porn diet. I suppose because that was a novelty back then. As of now, lolicon is barely a part of my "porn diet". Last viewing: one to three months ago. As for my pornography diet now: coomer brain got to me, so after somewhat running out of non-anthro clop, I have been experiencing anthro MLP porn. Seems I only like a small part of that selection. I guess that's normal for people who have looked at a lot of porn: only a small part of it really does much of anything for them anymore. Oh, and based on records from like 10 years ago, looks like I was naively interesting in anthro back then. Anthro is basically furry, which I feel is not such a good look. However some of those artworks and creative works are definitely valued creations. While definitely not valued on the same level as fine art, I bet that art snobs would say that some of those are good/OK. Wonder what art snobs would say about AI/ML art...

Oh, and yeah, what I did in one of those dreams was pretty degenerate/weird. I think that was a non-lucid one which I am thinking of. Something adjacent to my porn interest back then but not directly it. In that dream, it was like I was doing something just to be a disgusting/deplorable/horrible pervert. It's like if you remove all limits and decency and say "my mother's pussy feels just as good to fuck as any other pussy". That sort of mindset where nothing matters but the animal experience of sex. As long as you can fuck it, you fuck it: doesn't matter if you think it's cute or sexy or beautiful or pretty.

Watch the following video and you might have a nightmare:
. https://web.archive.org/web/20240925081758/https://invidious.jing.rocks/watch?v=8OQ1WX8_bQU
. https://web.archive.org/web/20231209162316/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OQ1WX8_bQU
Bug in Invidious: says that "Let's Find Larry" was uploaded in 2024-09-25 (today), but it was actually uploaded in 2023-12.

>>10609
Cat has been found!

Goodnight, /endpone/!

PoLS

I am doing erm... alright overall. More strange symptoms have sometimes handicapped my ability to post here weirdly for two days had nearly debilitating pain in right hand (maybe COVID/Unrelated?) but I am still watching as best as I can, just dealing with stuff.

I hope all you 5050, Archivist, CB, a few others more infrequent. are doing well, /)

>>11130
>Hi! Glad you could make it.
Yeah, I'll take minor abnormality to... well, all the horrible things people were worried about this could be. Still aren't a 100% sure but the way it has presented has lowered the risk of it being scariest stuff.

>Heck I'm glad I could make it.
Indeed, you have... some war stories to tell your self, to put it lightly.
/)


>result of "unicorn littlepip reloading her revolver in the desert"
It could be Lyra with a really human hand attachment.

>In the second image I didn't specify she was supposed to be a unicorn, and was a tad closer.
Humanized Littlepip who was a grandchild of Scootaloo?

>...Why is it we think AI is neat, again?
Because... reasons?

Made Rarity's private parts sexier:
https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/bafybeigg7zlkvmf7uhia47qrwpxmybfvw2dtazuvvuaxijgx5hotqh7h4q

Synthesizing marecock was a relatively intensive task. It resulted in an important running daemon of mine to get oom'd. From GitHub, bootchk's resynthesizer is like photosh*p's content aware fill (source code in the above folder). It didn't work super well on this task, and I don't think content aware would work better either. However both of those tools are great for certain tasks. That folder also includes the .xcf file, either for completeness, or for the rare case that someone wants to edit it better than I did (which is certainly possible). (Oh wait, that XCF file doesn't include edit history.)

>>10889
Like the biggest problem with this is: from a distance you can see an outline of what it was before. I did a "lazy fix" using resynthesize+blur and I feel like it looks better:
- before: bafybeig...7h4q/3266844.jpg
- after: https://files.catbox.moe/6v7ulb.jpg

Fapped and came to ponies 3 times today. Definitely not the first time I've done that. This image: idealized projection.

>>10905
Ha! Make that 4! I'm the great and powerful coomer!

Finally got AI to produce Little Pip!
And it almost got the glowing pools of green right.
..And that might be a revolver, though it looks more like an SBR.
ANYway! Mission mostly accomplished. I think.

>>10869
>but I have liked the idea of the dark magic being some sort of alicorn mgaic
In terms of Alicorn and dark magic being linked, I generally have come to see that as being Unicorn magic specifically, because most of the magic we see Alicorns using is unicorn magic - but perhaps since we see both light beams and the Sombra-esque dark magic being used by Alicorns, perhaps it's that they're tapping into the elements of harmony and disharmony. I guess I can't say for sure that the elements of harmony are diametrically opposed to dark magic, but it seems as though the show portrays it that way. Interestingly, neither Discord nor Tirek seem to tap into the same dark magic, animation-wise, that both Sombra and Twilight show the ability to use. Tirek fundamentally uses the powers of others, and Discord actually seems to fundamentally use the same magic as Pinkie - he doesn't really use his with a glow like unicorns or with the same effects Sombra's magic has, so I'd actually posit that Discord is a powerful user of the harmony magic the Earth ponies are able to tap into, and that it's simply his chaotic nature that allows him to use it so effectively, NOT that he actually uses any kind of 'chaos magic' directly. If the magic of the world runs along a different axis of harmony compared to material objects, I could see it being fairly 'random' to common sense to know in what manner things are connected. In this sense, the two 'paths' are either going with that nonsensical-seeming flow, as Pinkie and Discord do, or using a power from within to force and bend magic into the shape you need it to be. I'd then suggest that unicorn magic sits in a balance, where you have to allow your own inner power to work with the magic of the world to a certain extent, so that you don't go into the extreme where dark magic lies, where it's fundamentally perverting and twisting reality into doing what you want such that it violates it's harmony. As with all these things it needs more thinking on my part, but the thing which does seem quite clear to me from thinking about this is that, contrary to what you'd assume, the cosmological constants at work in this universe aren't especially directly present in the story. You'd assume that Celestia is the demigoddess of the 'good' axis and somebody like Tirek the 'bad', but as I went over, only Sombra out of the villains seems to directly tap into dark magic proper, and Celestia and Luna and the other Alicorns are ultimately just powerful ponies, with the real source of the opposing axis to dark magic being Harmony, which starts as disparate elements in the pilot and gradually grows in power along with the mane six throughout the course of the story. I don't even know if I'm characterising disharmony as relating to dark magic and the windigos correctly, necessarily. But I do find it interesting to hypothesise that all the events of the show are essentially the modern backdrop to a far older conflict between fluctuating forces of harmony and disharmony.

Also another reason I link unicorn magic moreso to disharmony is EqG, where magic outside of it's proper place consistently causes evil results, but that's sort of the reason for my personal view - whether EqG is canon to how we interpret Equestria is a whole other question.

>>10869
>Even if some parts to me feel... hard to explain for whatever reason or another.
With Celestia, eventually some of her decisions would come to be seen as less and less rational inevitably since she was originally written to be mysterious, leaving nothing there to stand up to scrutiny when contradictory or odd things come up later in the show. Frankly, and this suggestion will be harsh and obviously the show could never have done it, but for the sake of the story, Celestia needed to be killed off. Whether before, during or after Twilight ascends doesn't matter so much next to the fact that having her around for the entire rest of the show after that just snowballs into what really becomes the show's cluttering issue: simultaneously trying to move constantly forward, whilst never leaving a single thing behind. More and more new comes into the world of Equestria, but nothing ever dies to make way for it. It makes the change feel strangely unnatural - almost like how it'd be surreal to read Lord of The Rings but discover halfway through it's an alternate universe copy where Gandalf never dies and he's just Gandalf the Grey from the beginning to the end, Balrog or not. Really the story that was growing in these early seasons was too ambitious, in a certain sense - I don't think it could ever have grown to it's full potential due to the company that owns it and being a children's property. Because regardless of my specific point here or the outer trappings of the show, at it's core it is a Fantasy Epic, and you have to neuter an epic when it's for a children, sadly.
In fairness to Hasbro, they did do something similar to what I'm suggesting with the 1986 Transformers movie, and it produced what is, for me, one of the greatest things ever. But sadly, the backlash to that "taught" Hasbro their "lesson", a lesson they ideally would never have learned.
>>10913
>Might be the best episode of the season.
Right on, brother. I think we're on the same page with this one.
>why did it stick out to me so much more this time?!
How long after the pilot did this come out back in the day? Because I feel like Twilight's role in the story is very close to the one she has in the pilot, and so it complements that very well indeed.
>This is one of the things that makes the show feel alive and complete. The world has its own set of rules and logic that is trying to follow.
I think MLP as a franchise succeeded in having a consistent throughline of a certain philosophy of Harmony which informs not just the lessons and worldbuilding, but the characters and direction of the show. I was questioning recently why I like EqG so much specifically as a PART of MLP when it's in many ways so disconnected, and I think perhaps it's that it draws from this exact same slightly vague notion of Harmony. Whatever it is, it's exemplified by Winter Wrap Up, both the episode and the tradition.

>>10825
>>10826
>>10827
>>10828
> As such, another neat difference between Pony and human society in this sense is that ponies aren’t really faced with necessity as much, and yet they choose to continue to live in a way that brings them in harmony with their countryside and with eachother.
Feels like with this, one could argue, that, with their magic and control of the whether, ponies achieved relative abundance and stability and have partly resolved/better dealt with it than we humans here, but also... still not completely.
>In this sense, not only does Ponyville represent pony values as contrasted to human ones, but also pony values contrasted to Canterlot!
> but it would be interesting to think of urban pony life as having degraded from the harmony that kept Equestria together in the past, and so from Celestia’s perspective, all this fun slice-of-life stuff is essential training for her protege to go through
I think there is a lot of support for this! Consider how detached Applejack's family was in Manhattan? Heck, possiblily some stuff in the Equestria Games that really proves this point if I recall correctly. Considering how Ponyville was seen as exceptional with the harmony in the three races yet, we have seen other towns, like Rainbow Falls, that seemed pretty mixed (though a lot of towns are still Earth Pony.

>Then we’re introduced to Rainbow Dash’s weather team. Twilight realising she doesn’t have wings takes on a different note on rewatch for sure, but what note that is exactly I don’t yet know how to say. I’m sure it’s also been noted by others before that Pegasi don’t exactly fit the “Earth pony way”.
Unicorn magic is unfair but Pegasi are essential for weather regulation?

> the whole social-environmental structure works much better with Celestia as effectively a deity. It also makes the world beyond Equestria much more mysterious and potentially scary, as it’s outside the protection of the world’s only known benevolent deities.
Never been Celestia as a deity (though casual evidence in earlier seasons you certainly can go with that route) but I consider her (and the other Princesses) as something that should be above simply being a really powerful mortal. Even if not a hint of the divine, there is going to be a reverence for her and fear outside of her realm.

>Uncontrolled weather in regions like the Everfree forest and beyond the borders of Equestria would also be an interesting thing to explore at this stage of canon – perhaps it’s much more extreme and violent.

>>10952
>Right on, brother. I think we're on the same page with this one.
Yeah, /) I remembered respecting this epsiode but was surprised how much I loved this on rewatch. Especially the Winter Wrap Up song. Maybe it's just because I hadn't heard it in years but it felt like I really appreciate it now, when before it was one of the ones that, while respecting, I didn't really love it or anything. I am not the most musical liking but some of the song numbers I do enjoy and this has certainly become a contender for my top favorites.

>Celestia needed to be killed off. Whether before, during or after Twilight ascends doesn't matter so much next to the fact that having her around for the entire rest of the show after that just snowballs into what really becomes the show's cluttering issue: simultaneously trying to move constantly forward, whilst never leaving a single thing behind. More and more new comes into the world of Equestria, but nothing ever dies to make way for it. It makes the change feel strangely unnatural -
That is an interesting stance! I am not sure I agree on Celestia but do agree on the show being too cluttered in the latter seasons. I think the show did a lot of botched half transitions, Dolores Umbridge was an aborted new audience surrogate. The old element barriers were supposed to be the focus of Season 8, but the school came, which itself was derailed by the the fact the show ended and needed to give a lot of focus to tying up loose ends. It never could give focus or do these varying elements properly. So, TDLR: I see where you are coming from.

Alright, I got to get for now, but I do have some more things I do want to point out on your megareveiw when I get the chance (tornadoes you say!? I have an interest in those too, and a story or two from personal experiences (though don't get too hyped, never saw one in person, just had them near enough for the siren to be going off and hear them)). Other than:
>>11120
I am doing alright.