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♦  Sugarcube Corner

Also probably a branch of Salon Solitarie...
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Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 24 09:47
Though S1 E1 says that the Summer Sun Celebration is on the longest day of the year, so it's likely that Princess Celestia moves the sun in a way that days are longer in the summer, like in our world. Moving the sun is a unicorn magic specialty, so unicorn magic is still involved in changing the seasons indirectly.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 24 09:39
“Clean up winter? Who cleans up winter? Don't they just use magic to change the seasons like they do in Canterlot?” “No Spike, Ponyville was started by Earth ponies, so for hundreds of years they've never used magic to clean up winter. It's traditional.”
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 24 09:38
Maybe the pegasuses could help in some other way, but Ponyville was founded by earth ponies (or by secret alicorn Granny Smith pretending to be an earth pony in any case), and have earth pony traditions that Winter wrap up tells you about. It's not clear how much those exclude pegasuses, because the pegasuses do clear the clouds.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 24 09:36
@SPArcheon-onstrike I think it's more like that the leaves fall because the ponies running causes a small earthquakes that shakes the trees, and if you fly then you won't cause an earthquake.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 24 08:29
It's like "let's create a game that an earth pony, a pegasus, and a unicorn can play together" and succeeding that goal but failing by every other measure of making a good game.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 24 08:28
HPMoR criticizes Quidditch by saying that the golden snitch and the role of the seeker was forced into a game that used to be normal before that because the local lord wanted his nephew, who was no good at sports, to play in the team. That is same kind of problem that Buckball has.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 24 08:24
It could be something that's silly in universe too, with some ponies in game forcing the make a game that features all three races to, uh, symbolize the unity of Equestria or something, but they're also bad at making new sports, and maybe in the future someone will make a better variant. But I think it's more likely that it wouldn't happen in universe and the writers in our universe just forced the unicorn thing to make an episode.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 24 08:23
@SPArcheon-onstrike The part where it's pony basketball slash american football with kicking the ball with your hind leg into a hoop is fine. The part where teams are made of an earth pony, pegasus, and unicorn is what seems silly to me.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 24 07:59
@SPArcheon-onstrike That's way past when I stopped watching, and there were some idiotic choices they made much earlier. Mostly in S8, which is why I stopped watching, but there's one terrible episode earlier that I almost managed to forget the details of.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 24 07:53
Frungy is not described, we know basically nothing about it, so it might not even be something that involves all three races, but it's at least suggestive enough to remind me of the MLP sport.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 24 07:52
The Zoq-Fot-Pik is a civilization made of three different races living together on a planet, the three races being the Zoq, the Fot, and the Pik. We know basically nothing about
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 24 07:52
@SPArcheon-onstrike No. So the episode is about the fictional sport of buckball, or possibly a new variant of buckball, where each team is made of an earth pony, a unicorn, and a pegasus. And I just came across this old question scifi.stackexchange.com/q/60853/4918 which asks about a fictional sport that the Zoq-Fot-Pik play.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 24 07:49
Ugh. So MLP has an episode S6 E18 “Buckball season”, which I think was created by one staff member challenging another to create a fictional sport more stupid than even Quidditch. I think I was trying to forget about this episode but apparently failed. You know what made me recall it?
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 13:25
@SPArcheon-onstrike I don't know the Disney version. Does Sci Fi SE have questions about it?
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 13:24
@MattCloudy-grid sad puppy eyes => bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tnde52rcbqxotp7a2cl7bmxu/post/…
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 11:21
Eventually the question got reopened but only because Penguins of Madagascar is on topic, not because Octodad is also on topic.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 11:19
Er no, it was closed and reopened twice only
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 11:18
It's the same problem as if MLP was considered off topic because it's just a talking animal TV series.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 11:17
People argued that Octodad was off topic because it was a talking animal game, which is off topic. But that's off topic only if everyone in universe just treats the talking animal characters as if they were humans. In Octodad, a sushi chef wants to kill and cook Octodad because he's a talking animal, which clearly makes it on topic. And Penguins of Madagascar is on topic because of the sci-fi uglifier ray whose polarity can be reversed, not because of the talking animals.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 11:15
@SPArcheon-onstrike I don't think so. The issue there was both Octodad and Penguins of Madagascar are clearly on topic on Sci Fi SE, but people don't like them so they closed the post. This is why I thought it was worth to fight for getting that post reopened three times, because it lets us expand the scope of the site.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 09:18
6. This one is doubtful, but “Lights, Candace, Action!” has an age-inator ray that makes Doofenschmirtz, Perry, a baby in a stroller, and a random movie audience old and ugly. Doofenschmirtz originally made it to age his family recipe cheese, which normally takes over 50 years.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 09:16
5. “Meapless in Seattle” features an element called cutonium that makes people incredibly cute, and gives them super-charisma similar to the previous examples. It can be mined, extracted from cute people or infused into people to make them cute. At one point Doofenschmirtz gets infused with the cutonium.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 09:14
4. In “Quietest Day Ever”, Doofenschmirtz makes a ray that can be switched between handsome vs ugly with just a reverse switch. He was planning to make the handsome actors on magazine covers ugly. But by accident in the fight with Perry, Doofenschmirtz is turned into handsome. This gives supernatural charisma to Doofenschmirtz, everyone gives him free stuff and the town declares him mayor. Perry eventually turns Doofenschmirtz back into his normal ugly.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 09:07
3. In “Night of the Living Pharmacists”, Doofenschmirtz sets out to make an inator that makes people ugly. He wants to use it only on Roger this time. The machine goes horribly wrong, it turns everyone into mindless Doofenschmirtz zombies that can infect other people with the zombie curse on touch. The infection spreads to everyone in town, except for Doofenschmirtz who was already so ugly that he's immune.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 09:04
2. In the episode “Blackout!”, Doofenschmirtz gives himself big sad puppy eyes with an inator, which makes everyone pity him and give him free stuff. The puppy eyes work well for as long as the city is blacked out, but fail after power is restored.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 09:01
A stray ray also hits Jeremy's band, which turns into a metal band. Perry reverses the ray by using an autographed photo of Vance Ward as the handsome power source.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 09:01
1. The most similar to the film is “The Best Lazy Day Ever”. Here Doctor Doofenschmirtz makes an uglifier ray that's powered by an ugly power source, namely a toad. Doofenschmirtz wants to turn everyone in Townsville ugly, which would make him not ugly by comparison. He tests his invention on handsome movie actor Vance Ward who he captured.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 08:56
Phineas and Ferb has four, possibly five episodes with uglifier or cutifier devices, and often they can be reversed.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 08:56
ok so this one is a bit funny. scifi.meta.stackexchange.com/q/9642/4918 is a Meta discussion on whether the film Penguins of Madagascar is on topic for Sci Fi SE. the argument is that it's on topic because it has an uglifier ray that turns people into ugly monsters, and the ray can be reversed to make them cute again but needs someone very cute as the power source for that.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 7 19:30
@Otaku I don't remember exactly what it looked like, but I think the chat room list now has a bright background instead of dark, and the line height for the room names used to be so small that the letters were truncated or overlapping. Also I think there used to be a link on the top to switch from site rooms to all rooms, but now there's no easy way to switch to all rooms.
Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 7 18:04
oh hey, they improved the formatting of the chatroom list page
Matt Cloudy-grid
May 30 09:31
@SPArcheon-onstrike where's the arm cannon?
Matt Cloudy-grid
May 15 10:37
The fan-made animation is based on several games and the animé plus adds some more stories.
Matt Cloudy-grid
May 15 10:37
@SPArcheon-onstrike Yeah, that's kind of different. Anime Ash very much dates Misty (perhaps not in all parts of the Anime, but often enough). But I don't think the player character dates Misty in any of the video games.
Matt Cloudy-grid
May 15 10:25
Probably when Gold fights her for the gym badge.
Matt Cloudy-grid
May 15 10:24
I think that might be depicted earlier in the Gold movie, but I'm not sure I remember and don't want to check it right now.
Matt Cloudy-grid
May 15 10:14
@AndrasDeak--СлаваУкраїні Yes, that's a fair description.
Matt Cloudy-grid
May 15 10:11
@SPArcheon-onstrike Yes, the Red movie makes it clear that Red is Misty's boyfriend. This still seems to be the case in Gold, but it's less clear because it's only shown in two short scenes, the second has Red secretly meet Misty while he's still supposedly hiding, but then Gold arrives and Red hurriedly leaves so Misty is angry that Gold interrupted their romance. I don't understand the second part of your question, what escapes when?
Matt Cloudy-grid
May 15 10:08
@SPArcheon-onstrike Yes, but the movies add so much to the existing Pokémon canon elsewhere, and it seems to me that the combined story usually makes sense. And that's in addition to how even the already canon parts of the story are collected from multiple games plus the anime.
Matt Cloudy-grid
May 14 23:41
I watched the recently completed fan-made Pokémon Gold animated serial movie by Pedro Araujo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOL_E4m1LMY , the sequel to his Pokémon Red movie. I like most of it, but I find the ending confusing.

So in most of the movie, Gold trains to be the strongest Pokémon trainer. Gold gets the eight Johto gym badges. He helps defeat team Rocket who are doing villainous acts again, this time in Johto. Gold then goes to Johto champion road. Now while fighting the elite four, Bruno tells Gold that he's only ever seen three trainers as good as him: Lance, Blue, and Red. So…
b_jonas
Oct 4, 2024 10:01
Ah, here it is! sandraandwoo.com/scarlet/comic/a-sky-full-of-stars-013 says Scarlet is six years old, and Tibor does know her by that time.
b_jonas
Oct 4, 2024 09:57
@SPArcheon-onstrike I kind of doubt that. sandraandwoo.com/scarlet/comic/a-sky-full-of-stars-009 lists another book by Abel Axios.
 

 The Pantheon

General discussion for mythology.stackexchange.com
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Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 23 08:31
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Q: What was the first work to portray the guardian of the Golden Fleece as a many-headed hydra?

BuzzAt the climax of the mythical tale of Jason and the Argonauts' voyage to Colchis, Jason (with the help of the local priestess-princess Medea) steals the Golden Fleece from a sacred grove, where it hung from a tree and was guarded by the Colchian dragon. He put the dragon to sleep and took the fl...

history-of dragons mythology
 

 The Restaurant at the End of the Univ…

General discussion for scifi.stackexchange.com, both on-topic ...
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Matt Cloudy-grid
Jul 18 08:33
hey guys. scifi.stackexchange.com/a/297859/4918 is a story-id question posted a few hours ago as an answer to an unrelated question. if the user scifi.stackexchange.com/users/131267/scottef returns and posts it as a question, please direct him to scifi.stackexchange.com/a/271839/4918 (Isaac Asimov, “The Deep”) in an answer.
 

­Trash

Where the trash goes.
b_jonas
Dec 16, 2024 08:56
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b_jonas
Dec 15, 2024 23:10
^ youtu.be/hBP-NzOadL0?t=642 (video may be NSFW)
b_jonas
Dec 15, 2024 23:10
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 The Sphinx's Lair

General discussion for puzzling.stackexchange.com
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b_jonas
Dec 11, 2024 22:04
@msh210 er yes, that's correct, I left out some words.
b_jonas
Dec 11, 2024 20:23
archive.org/download/2009Xkcd/2009_xkcd.pdf page 10101 says “started with four letters what a riddle what a mystery" but I don't understand what that is trying to say
 

 The Reading Room

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b_jonas
Oct 7, 2024 09:20
@Randal'Thor Yeah. But I have one Socratic badge on Sci Fi.