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Thread Games / Re: ask a question and and get silly answers~

2015 Feb 04, 16:48:54

Quack quack meep kaboom!

While were on the subject, why do sheep say baaaaaa?

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Thread Games / Re: ask a question and and get silly answers~

2015 Feb 04, 14:43:41

Because FUS RO DOUGH 

Fish?

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Thread Games / Re: Fillies vs Colts Reactivated

2015 Feb 04, 14:27:39

56.9999

Oh for the love of... Well at least now I know where to aim now.

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Thread Games / Re: Fillies vs Colts Reactivated

2015 Feb 04, 12:33:16

63.0001

Oops, looks like I missed by a bit. Oh well what's the worst that could happen. 

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Thread Games / Re: ask a question and and get silly answers~

2015 Feb 04, 02:50:01

YES!

Now where did I leave my bucket of cement?

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Thread Games / Re: Fillies vs Colts Reactivated

2015 Feb 04, 02:47:23

Gah I turn my back one moment!

74.

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The Retirement Home / Re: Make up a secret about the person above you~ (reactivated)

2015 Feb 04, 02:46:44

Secretly tries to hog all the dictionaries because they make great tower bases.

... Oh hey you got my books under your cast! Thanks!

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Thread Games / Re: Fillies vs Colts Reactivated

2015 Feb 04, 01:00:47

No. 70.

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The Retirement Home / Re: Make up a secret about the person above you~ (reactivated)

2015 Feb 04, 01:00:25

But, the cake! All that cake!

Secretly wants to build a book fort in the public library.

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Thread Games / Re: Fillies vs Colts Reactivated

2015 Feb 04, 00:54:50

70 foreveeeer!

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Thread Games / Re: Fillies vs Colts Reactivated

2015 Feb 04, 00:23:13

Oops accidental treason. Oh well happens all the time.

69!

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Thread Games / Re: Fillies vs Colts Reactivated

2015 Feb 04, 00:02:19

*forgot which way I need to count*

71!

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Thread Games / Re: ask a question and and get silly answers~

2015 Feb 04, 00:00:58

Theres no question... Default to 42!

My answer is 42.

But wet dog smell to the meaning of life, what is the meaning of sandwiches?

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The Retirement Home / Re: Make up a secret about the person above you~ (reactivated)

2015 Feb 03, 23:56:02

Secretly prepares a best man speech.

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Off-Topic Archive / Re: Valentine's day

2015 Feb 03, 23:53:15

Oh right, this thing. I always forget this holiday is a thing.

I'll be confronting this one with a healthy supply of utter apathy and do whatever I feel like doing on an otherwise perfectly serviceable Saturday.

@Mercurial We could play some rounds of Killing Floor if your up for it

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Off-Topic Archive / Re: Rumors that disappointed you past or present

2015 Feb 03, 23:38:56

Continue at your own peril... You have been warned

Spoiler: show

You really ought to quit while you're ahead...
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Learn from last time
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I even told you that you're being trolled
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Your curiosity consumes you
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This spoiler is called Sunset Shimmer (Hi Lync)
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Spoiler alert
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This isnt funny now...and it wasn't funny in the first place
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Here's your prize:
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Your mouse has passed the endurance test (R.I.P Lync's mouse) and here's the rumor...
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Microsoft can't count to 10 (good job with windows 10 btw)

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I'll stop...soon

*clicks quote button and skips to the last spoiler*

Indeed, but it looks better and a bit faster than the last windows so hooray?

[Spoiler:]

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Off-Topic / Re: Dumb things that annoy you

2015 Feb 03, 22:44:32

When people who have no command over a man try to police his hair, unless he has a job/career that requires short hair.

Like, if a guy's hair gets even the teeniest length to it, he gets people saying his hair is too long and he should cut it, even if it doesn't even go past the tops of his ears. Excuse you. This isn't the 60s! Men can have longer hair if they want, and it's his choice if he wants his hair like that!

Like, I used to see people actually commenting on Tobuscus' videos, telling him to cut his hair and telling him his hair is too long, when it was about this length:

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That is rude. That is extremely rude.
Then again, his fans have been horribly rude to him before. Like when he had just broken up with his girlfriend and stated outright that the entire reason they broke up was because both of them were too busy for a relationship, and he suddenly had hundreds of fans hounding him to date some fan he doesn't know.
No, I won't let that go. I'm still salty about that. How disrespectful can people be?! The man said he was too busy for a relationship, and tons of people wanted to force him into a relationship with some girl he didn't even know!

At least I haven't seen anyone say anything about Jared Padalecki's hair because his hair is much, much longer than that, and it looks amazing.

Spoiler: show

It's 2015, people. Let men grow their hair out if they want to.
And respect people's wishes when it comes to dating. Life still has meaning when you're single, you know.

As a guy with hair down to elbows, I applaud this!

I don't catch all that much flak about it, at least not to my face. The ones that ask about it only ask once xD

The Jesus comparison can be annoying though.

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Pony Off-Topic Archive / Re: What determines if you are a Brony/Pegasister?

2015 Feb 01, 20:03:22

Ooh a whole bitcoin! That's substantially more than 2 cents!

Anyhow that's pretty much how I use the term 'Brony'. Any member of the brony fandom, so regularly partaking in some part of the fandom.

By this standard I suppose someone of the original target audience can be a brony if they take an interest in the actual fandom rather than just watching the show, whereas someone who just watches the show and ignores the fandom is just someone who likes the show.

Whether or not you are technically a brony is not all that important. Doesn't change what you like, nor do annoying and insecure siblings by the way. Just learn to stop worrying and enjoy your newfound hobby!

[Spoiler: All this! •]

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Pony Off-Topic / Re: How did you become a brony?

2015 Feb 01, 18:57:08

I like how this thread revives every time the OSW comes up. These stories are kinda fun to read.

Spoiler: All this! • show

I'd already given my story a while back, so I'll tell you the tale how I turned my brother to a brony.

During my early brony days (Fall 2011 is where it started), I hated the fact that I liked the show so much. "No one will ever know!" I said to myself often. Unfortunately, it got increasingly more difficult to hide my pony love as time went on. I have 2 younger brothers, you see. The middle child hates everything and thinks that everything I or anyone else does is stupid and annoying. He's been angsty since 2nd grade, and I knew that if he found out, I would never live it down. The youngest one, however, is stubborn as a mule, but he respects me more than the middle. I thought, "Maybe, I could convert him!" and I devised a plan. An awful plan. I had a wonderful, awful plan.

I decided to act as a hater for the time. I would mention how I "found out about bronies" and said it was a stupid thing to exist (I know it was horrible for me to say that, but I wanted to be convincing). Sometime in January 2012, when me and the youngest were home alone, I got him to watch some videos with me. I came to some videos where there was pony stuff in the suggested videos, and I "complained about it being shoved in my face" Totally convincing. So we searched videos of people destroying pony toys and other merch. I tried my best to hold back the tears of sorrow, and instead replaced it with evil cackling. My brother joined in on this. We eventually got to the point where we were watching short clips of the actual show. I commented on how good the animation was, faking the belief that they were fan videos, but almost sure it was actually part of the show. I showed him the clip of Rainbow Dash's Atomic Sonic Rainboom, and "admitted" that it looked pretty awesome. Then it was time to put my plan into action. I told my brother that, "If there's a clip from the show of one of these ponies actually snaps a neck, I'd watch an episode". Everyone knows, of course, the moment Fluttershy snaps the bear's neck, yes? I did a vague search for it, found it, and watched it with feigned awe. "Oh... I have to watch it now..." I said in "dismay". My brother was laughing. I shot an angry look at him and then pleaded, "PLEASE, watch it with me! I can't do it by myself!" He agreed rather quickly, surprisingly. If I didn't know my brother, I wouldn't have thought that might've worked so easily. So we watched the first episode; a cliffhanger, if you recall. Then I said, "That's it, no more!" shutting my laptop and asking my brother that we should never speak of this again.

But I knew my brother well. A cliffhanger is too deviously clever to leave unresolved. I knew that eventually his curiousity would consume and overthrow him. I giggled evily as my plan was in full swing. (Wow, I am a psychopath.) Two weeks passed. I went to my brother while we were at Quiznos and whispered to him, "Hey, you know that My Little Pony thing? I kinda wanted to know how it turned out," and he admitted that he too wondered what happened next. At that point, I knew I had him in mine and the fandom's grasp. We agreed that we should at least finish that two-parter. The two of us waited until we were home alone again (which didn't happen for a while, and I assumed that his curiousity burned even further). Then we watched it. I admitted it was pretty good, and so did he.

So the two of us watched more episodes together. Unfortunately, he barely started Season two when he was caught by my other brother. After he was harshly ridiculed, he just plain stopped watching MLP. He never wanted to see another episode because my sociopath brother told all of his "friends" about it (I put "friends" in quotations because he sure doesn't act like one to them). I felt guilty and responsible for this. He never deserved that sort of humiliation. So that was the end of that.
Or so I thought.

Eventually, the middle child discovered that I was a brony. He didn't say anything for a while, because by that time I had a new gaming computer and he would have done anything to play on it. Blackmail is a funny thing. The slightest annoyance could have deleted his precious Guest account. It eventually did come to that, and he would beg me to give him another guest account. I told him to stop making fun of the youngest for watching MLP because he didn't do so anymore. We came to an agreement.

After some time had passed, my youngest brother started watching the show again, and this time he was more careful about being caught by the middle. Also, the middle brother stopped playing on my computer in favor of a brand new PS3, but he was so busy playing Call of Duty and screaming at the TV that he had no time for us "inferior brothers". By the time me and the youngest had some friends who we discovered became new bronies, my brother was a bit more comfortable with himself. And so was I. I now wear pony shirts in public and pony pins on my backpack, and I care little about what the middle brother has to say, because all he ever does is spout garbage. It's a wonder he still has any friends at all.

Of course eventually, I had to tell the youngest the truth.

While the two of us and a brony friend were at Wendy's, the friend brought up the topic of how he became a brony. After his short'n sweet story, my brother told his and "mine". He said, "We just lost a bet with each other."
"Umm... About that..." I began, and I told him how I actually tricked him into watching the show. He was kinda mad about it, but hey, I got him to where he is, didn't I? He got over it pretty quickly.

And so ends the tale of happiness, sadness, my vague understanding of psychology and curiousity, my weird obsession with laughing maniacally like a cartoon villain, and my next-to-perfect plan of converting my youngest brother.

I still do read everyone else's stories to see what kind of unique answers we get.

Man my story is a lot less interesting than ones like this though. I basically just got very bored and somewhat intoxicated and figured there might be more to this pony meme than just a meme, since most of them last a lot less long than 2 years. (but still too long most of the time... man did those Chuck Norris jokes start to grate)

I was never particularly bored by all the memes, had no reason to hide anything since I live on my own. What I said, pretty bland story.

What did catch me off-guard is how large this fandom is. Not just the sheer number of bronies but the amount of content artists put it pretty spectacular!

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Off-Topic Archive / Re: Windows 10

2015 Feb 01, 17:38:32

Hm right the Phenoms can run pretty hot even in a desktop computer. All the nicer I suppose that from windows 8 it started being more careful about wasting resources (mostly for preserving battery power on mobile devices).

You can get DirectX to generate a report on system hardware and what versions it uses, but my old 4890 could not run DirectX 11 so I somewhat doubt it will run 12.