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10 years ago @ Equestria Daily - Discussion: Has Twilac... · 0 replies · +2 points

But what about all the other episodes where she acted 'like old unicorn Twilight'? I.e. Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3, Castle Sweet Castle, the start of The Lost Treasure of Griffonstone, several other scenes in S4 and S5?

10 years ago @ Equestria Daily - SFM: Summer Sale 2015 · 0 replies · +2 points

Some games on Steam can actually be launched without having Steam open, so that's something.

Personally, I think Steam is rather unintrusive and basically a digital distribution service for games done well (especially because it has an offline mode, so you don't need to be online to play your games). But I can see how you could be opposed to any kind of DRM, even as basic as Steam's.

10 years ago @ Equestria Daily - THIS IS HAPPENING - Ne... · 0 replies · +28 points

That's why they're doing it for the 100th episode, so that they can have fun with it once.

10 years ago @ Equestria Daily - Lullaby For a Princess... · 0 replies · +2 points

Pretty much, check the smooth video project's website for more information.

10 years ago @ Equestria Daily - Animationish: Dioscord... · 0 replies · +4 points

Well, I disagree with many of the points raised in this video (I really enjoyed the premiere for one), but the presentation (especially the voicework) is pretty well done. I like it.

10 years ago @ Equestria Daily - Discussion: Unpopular ... · 1 reply · +5 points

'The damsel in distress trope was used yet again to nerf the other three Princesses'

What the hell? That's not how that trope works at all. Twi's friends were in more distress than the princesses, who even gave up their power voluntarily. And none of them were saved by a male character.

Also yeah, Twilight's key episode and all that. And I don't see how it was nonsensical, it was obvious that the princesses' power was not enough to beat Tirek, so why give it away that easily?

Come on, at least base your gripes on actual problems, like the princesses not thinking of Discord's knowledge of Twilight.

10 years ago @ Equestria Daily - Discussion: Unpopular ... · 0 replies · +4 points

The problem with this is that while he calls himself an analyst, he seems to be delving way too far into review territory, as in listing things he liked/didn't like, and not actually analyzing the episode (plot, elements of style, etc.). At least that's the impression I got from his video on the S4 finale, which is the only one I've seen.

11 years ago @ Equestria Daily - Untitled LUNA Chapter ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Seth, please, the company is called Hachette. Not hatchet. It's a French publisher.

11 years ago @ Equestria Daily - Wikipedia Founder Jimm... · 0 replies · +1 points

Well, I still see several ArbCom reviews happening there. They can't just ban everyone, after all (although I wonder what topic banning everyone who has ever edited the article before would do). Also, ArbCom is there to resolve user conflicts, not to assess the quality of the articles.

At this point, it would probably take an unrelated journalist who does lengthy research on the topic (also including browsing/posting on 8chan to get their side) and who doesn't immediately back out when he sees something possibly offensive to give an actual neutral assessment of this thing.

I fear that both pro- and anti-GG editors on Wikipedia are just already too biased to properly assess the situation.

11 years ago @ Equestria Daily - Wikipedia Founder Jimm... · 2 replies · +3 points

Biased? Possible. I won't make a statement because I don't know.

But 'they don't even pretend to care about'? After going through community sanctions and later a fully-fledged ArbCom case resulting in the banning of several users, enabling of broad sanctions and a 1RR edit rule? Honestly, I think they care very much, but they simply don't know what to do because the thing is so much of a clusterfuck and sadly not well researched by reputable journalists, but still gets an incredible amount of attention.

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