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Gigatoast wrote:

Equestra Daily is considering starting an eMagazine, I cannot express the level of want I'm exuding at this moment.

Wightprincess wrote:

Paint?

Oh no no no! That simply won't do. Grab GIMP or Paint.net! They are free and amazing alternatives to Photoshop! Nopony should perform image manipulation with Paint.

@Ideo below me (to avoid making a separate post)

I like how confident you are now, for sure. Its a pleasant change.

Dr. Gregory Horse The Pony Medic wrote:

Well, Paint is all I got and know how to use. But lemme give a try at these. Wich one have you got?

Ideological the Vinyl Scratch wrote:

And I wait for the song to finish processing….And here it is. Well, here goes nothing. Please be gentle but remember, honesty is important too.

Ideological the Vinyl Scratch wrote:

And I wait for the song to finish processing….And here it is. Well, here goes nothing. Please be gentle but remember, honesty is important too.

Wightprincess wrote:

Much better than before, but still has plenty of room for improvement. I'm not a musician, but I'm noticing that there is very little variance in the notes. It sounds sort of repetitive. Try to mix it up some.

Also, take your time if you aren't already. These things should be a labor of love. Be prepared to spend many hours perfecting your work.

RandomMan wrote:

@Ideo

Sounds good, but could use some more variation. It's just the same thing over and over and over and blarg….

But would make a great dungeon theme. Has a nice atmosphere to it.

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@The Cheetos

After all this time some of us have Cheeto'd avatars, you guys finally notice now?

But yeah, I use Photoshop Elements 8 for my shops. It was on my laptop when I bought it. Gimp is getting positive reviews and is free. So that might work as well.

Ideological the Vinyl Scratch wrote:

@Random: What I was striving for.

Also, Gimp is a bit more difficult. I should know. I already have trouble shopping images as it is. I miss photoshop.

RandomMan wrote:

@Ideo

Sounds good, but could use some more variation. It's just the same thing over and over and over and blarg….

But would make a great dungeon theme. Has a nice atmosphere to it.

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@The Cheetos

After all this time some of us have Cheeto'd avatars, you guys finally notice now?

But yeah, I use Photoshop Elements 8 for my shops. It was on my laptop when I bought it. Gimp is getting positive reviews and is free. So that might work as well.

RandomMan wrote:

@Ideo

Sounds good, but could use some more variation. It's just the same thing over and over and over and blarg….

But would make a great dungeon theme. Has a nice atmosphere to it.

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@The Cheetos

After all this time some of us have Cheeto'd avatars, you guys finally notice now?

But yeah, I use Photoshop Elements 8 for my shops. It was on my laptop when I bought it. Gimp is getting positive reviews and is free. So that might work as well.

Dr. Gregory Horse The Pony Medic wrote:

I just downloaded GIMP and still have to take time to learn how to use it. Let's see if I can

As for the Cheetos…

Erin ◕ω◕ wrote:

Cheetos scare me.

Verbose wrote:

I will never be a cheeto. I have a hankerin' for them every once in a while, but they disgust me a bit regularly.

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Oh, we should talk about our favorite writers from the episodes so far. I'm not up for a decent conversation for it for tonight though, so I'll pose it later, but if anyone wanted to start now, I'll weigh in later. Gigatoast did have a good point. Writers (or lead writers) for the show tend to have some common attributes. So I wonder if some of my least favorite and favorite are written by the same writer.

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And when Jayson Thiessen was talking about Granny Smith in that Reddit open forum thing, I'm pretty sure he had this scene in mind.

Granny Smith might have overtaken Fluttershy in this episode. I've been waiting for that moment.

And I still can't understand everything she's saying.

Ashki wrote:

D: Does that mean less Fluttershy? I sure hope not.

Erin ◕ω◕ wrote:

If that happens then we'll need to love and tolerate some writers…

Ashki wrote:

D: Does that mean less Fluttershy? I sure hope not.

Erin ◕ω◕ wrote:

So I was wondering what else the artist of ^that does.
>clicked on gallery
>bondage everywhere
WHYYYYYYY!?!
(No genitals, just plot)

Verbose wrote:

Darn straight.

No, I know you really like Fluttershy, but I've never really liked her (not saying I dislike her either.) Jayson just said that there was going to be more Granny Smith, and I liked her a lot for a secondary pony just for her line in the very first episode and even when she faded into background pony. I love senile cats characters like that.

So it wouldn't take much for me to put Granny Smith over Fluttershy. It did take a lot for me to put Applejack over Pinkie though. Just barely though.

Verbose wrote:

Darn straight.

No, I know you really like Fluttershy, but I've never really liked her (not saying I dislike her either.) Jayson just said that there was going to be more Granny Smith, and I liked her a lot for a secondary pony just for her line in the very first episode and even when she faded into background pony. I love senile cats characters like that.

So it wouldn't take much for me to put Granny Smith over Fluttershy. It did take a lot for me to put Applejack over Pinkie though. Just barely though.

Erin ◕ω◕ wrote:

So I was wondering what else the artist of ^that does.
>clicked on gallery
>bondage everywhere
WHYYYYYYY!?!
(No genitals, just plot)

Ashki wrote:

ಠ_ಠ I would be disappoint if that happened, and I'd probably have to send Twilight and Dash after the writers, and we see that they're ready to do some loving and tolerating there if that's the case.

Erin ◕ω◕ wrote:

STOP DRAWING MRS. CAKE!!!

(Ignore the "NO," I'll hire somepony to shop that out l8r)

Erin ◕ω◕ wrote:

No, what we need to do is track down several 20ish year old cartoon writers and animators who are bronies, and send them to studio B, then infiltrate the show from the inside!

Erin ◕ω◕ wrote:

No, what we need to do is track down several 20ish year old cartoon writers and animators who are bronies, and send them to studio B, then infiltrate the show from the inside!

Verbose wrote:

I will never be a cheeto. I have a hankerin' for them every once in a while, but they disgust me a bit regularly.

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Oh, we should talk about our favorite writers from the episodes so far. I'm not up for a decent conversation for it for tonight though, so I'll pose it later, but if anyone wanted to start now, I'll weigh in later. Gigatoast did have a good point. Writers (or lead writers) for the show tend to have some common attributes. So I wonder if some of my least favorite and favorite are written by the same writer.

---

And when Jayson Thiessen was talking about Granny Smith in that Reddit open forum thing, I'm pretty sure he had this scene in mind.

Granny Smith might have overtaken Fluttershy in this episode. I've been waiting for that moment.

And I still can't understand everything she's saying.

Gigatoast wrote:

I looked up the writers on the wiki, it conveniently enough comes with a bit of each of their writing backgrounds. Based on that and the episodes they worked on you can see key themes in their work. Here's some quick observations.

There are seven different lead writers so far, some with more episodes under their belt then others, all from different backgrounds in TV animation. Ya got,

+ Amy Keating Rogers who did Bridal Gossip, Best Night Ever and others. She generally does good work, a lot of her episodes tend to get the whole mane cast involved. She worked on all of Faust's other shows as well as Johnny Bravo and Fairly Odd Parents.

+ Charlotte Fullerton who did Suited for Success, she writes a good Rarity. She's also a Faust veteran.

+ Chris Savino did Boast Busters and incidentally was a producer for Dexter's Laboratory.

+ Cindy Morrow tends to do most of the "meh" episodes, like Show Stoppers and Owl's Well that Ends Well. She's competent, but tends to lay on the cheese a little too thick at times.

+ Dave Polsky is the odd one out, he's responsible for Feeling Pinkie Keen and Over a Barrel. But it may be the result of a completely different writing background, where as most FiM writers where at least focused on golden age CN cartoons Polsky worked on South Park and Scary Movie 2. His involvement is truly bizarre.

+ M.A. Larson hasn't worked on a Faustian cartoon before but is still a certifiable badflank, he did Sonic Rainboom both of the Discord episodes and Luna Eclipsed.

+ And finally we got Meghan McCarthy, who loves to push the ponies to their extremes. She did Dragonshy, Party of One and Lesson Zero. That's right, you can thank her for crazy Twilight.

My personal favorite would have to be M.A. Larson, as I said, dude's a badflank.

Gigatoast wrote:

I looked up the writers on the wiki, it conveniently enough comes with a bit of each of their writing backgrounds. Based on that and the episodes they worked on you can see key themes in their work. Here's some quick observations.

There are seven different lead writers so far, some with more episodes under their belt then others, all from different backgrounds in TV animation. Ya got,

+ Amy Keating Rogers who did Bridal Gossip, Best Night Ever and others. She generally does good work, a lot of her episodes tend to get the whole mane cast involved. She worked on all of Faust's other shows as well as Johnny Bravo and Fairly Odd Parents.

+ Charlotte Fullerton who did Suited for Success, she writes a good Rarity. She's also a Faust veteran.

+ Chris Savino did Boast Busters and incidentally was a producer for Dexter's Laboratory.

+ Cindy Morrow tends to do most of the "meh" episodes, like Show Stoppers and Owl's Well that Ends Well. She's competent, but tends to lay on the cheese a little too thick at times.

+ Dave Polsky is the odd one out, he's responsible for Feeling Pinkie Keen and Over a Barrel. But it may be the result of a completely different writing background, where as most FiM writers where at least focused on golden age CN cartoons Polsky worked on South Park and Scary Movie 2. His involvement is truly bizarre.

+ M.A. Larson hasn't worked on a Faustian cartoon before but is still a certifiable badflank, he did Sonic Rainboom both of the Discord episodes and Luna Eclipsed.

+ And finally we got Meghan McCarthy, who loves to push the ponies to their extremes. She did Dragonshy, Party of One and Lesson Zero. That's right, you can thank her for crazy Twilight.

My personal favorite would have to be M.A. Larson, as I said, dude's a badflank.

Verbose wrote:

Keep your thoughts outta my ponies. No cookies for you or your crew.

Erin ◕ω◕ wrote:

You really could trust me not to ruin the show if I controlled it. I just enjoy making everypony in the fanon freak out. But there would be moar Derpy. A Derpy in every scene wouldn't be too much to ask, would it?

Ashki wrote:

I think the show is doing that pretty good on it's own, particularly the sister pairing with Dinky and Pinchy, that really freaked the fanon out.

Erin ◕ω◕ wrote:

One letter makes all the difference
derp
or
derpy

anyway, time to go play amnesia at 12:30… Ill just add my computer to the pile.

Gigatoast wrote:

I looked up the writers on the wiki, it conveniently enough comes with a bit of each of their writing backgrounds. Based on that and the episodes they worked on you can see key themes in their work. Here's some quick observations.

There are seven different lead writers so far, some with more episodes under their belt then others, all from different backgrounds in TV animation. Ya got,

+ Amy Keating Rogers who did Bridal Gossip, Best Night Ever and others. She generally does good work, a lot of her episodes tend to get the whole mane cast involved. She worked on all of Faust's other shows as well as Johnny Bravo and Fairly Odd Parents.

+ Charlotte Fullerton who did Suited for Success, she writes a good Rarity. She's also a Faust veteran.

+ Chris Savino did Boast Busters and incidentally was a producer for Dexter's Laboratory.

+ Cindy Morrow tends to do most of the "meh" episodes, like Show Stoppers and Owl's Well that Ends Well. She's competent, but tends to lay on the cheese a little too thick at times.

+ Dave Polsky is the odd one out, he's responsible for Feeling Pinkie Keen and Over a Barrel. But it may be the result of a completely different writing background, where as most FiM writers where at least focused on golden age CN cartoons Polsky worked on South Park and Scary Movie 2. His involvement is truly bizarre.

+ M.A. Larson hasn't worked on a Faustian cartoon before but is still a certifiable badflank, he did Sonic Rainboom both of the Discord episodes and Luna Eclipsed.

+ And finally we got Meghan McCarthy, who loves to push the ponies to their extremes. She did Dragonshy, Party of One and Lesson Zero. That's right, you can thank her for crazy Twilight.

My personal favorite would have to be M.A. Larson, as I said, dude's a badflank.

Wightprincess wrote:

Have you just been experimenting with Google Images ever since I brought up the ludicrous amount of plot I found?

Erin ◕ω◕ wrote:

Explanation:
Derpy: time travel n' shit
Dat aint Pinchy! Pinchy's a unicorn

nukefire wrote:

@ Dr. Ray
Try this instead:

Anyway, was I the only one who immediately thought "The engineer is a spy!" at the end of the episode?

Ashki wrote:

To be honest, I'm not sure how a Tardis works since I've never watched Dr. Who before.

Okay, it's near 2 in the morning (even though it's soon to be 1 due to the time change), so I think I best to be leaving. See you all later!

nukefire wrote:

@ Dr. Ray
Try this instead:

Anyway, was I the only one who immediately thought "The engineer is a spy!" at the end of the episode?

Erin ◕ω◕ wrote:

What made you think that?

The only thing I was thinking of was how "intriguing" Rarity looks with wet hair.