/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

Welcome again, Lads and Gents, to your regularly scheduled stream night.

In the early part of the pre-stream, I've popped in a 12 minute stand-up comedy sketch, a video that's hard to explain, and Clipper Anon's "The Founding of /mlp/" as voiced by 15.ai, TalkNet, and DeltaVox.

After Bob, Mainframe's Guardian protecting the city from the devastation of the Games, got F'd by Megabyte and Hexadecimal and sent to 'the Web' (read: a lovecraftian hellscape beyond understanding), it's up to Enzo. The kid / little brother character who, while he has some experience in Games, he is only a guardian cadet. And that, only about an hour before Bob got sent off. His keytool that he inheirited, Glitch, is the one the Megabyte crushed, so it's broken. Time to establish the new status quo.

Pony Theme of the week: Calcium Cavalry

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ReBoot Episodes

(v3.1.1) - To Mend and Defend[b] - 20 August 1997 (Canada)

Dot is now the Commander of the Principal Office and with Bob gone, Enzo must prove himself as a Guardian while Megabyte and Hexadecimal attack the Principal Office.

Cultural references: A CPU (Convertible Pursuit Unit) pilot says, "Well, ya heard the little lady. Single file. Proceed heading 1138. Stay frosty," referring to THX 1138, an early George Lucas movie as well as Aliens. A similar line was uttered by Bob in The Tearing. When Hexadecimal is preparing to fire again, she says, "Say hello to my little friend," a reference to Scarface. The game in this episode is clearly modelled on the Evil Dead film series, or the computer game which followed. Upon rebooting Enzo becomes a take on Michael Jackson in Thriller and Dot becomes a take on cult-TV horror show host Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (Cassandra Peterson). Additionally, The Addams Family motif plays briefly after her reboot. The user is based on Ash (Bruce Campbell) in the Evil Dead movies, specifically Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness, which is further alluded to when the user, having been "killed" and turned into a zombie, exclaims "I'm dead before dawn!" (referring to Evil Dead II). The chief of police being interviewed on TV is Marge Olmstead-Gunderson from the movie Fargo. At one point in the episode, Dot asks what kind of "sick creature" would take pleasure in playing a violent game like the one they are in, at which point she and Enzo break the fourth wall and glare accusingly at the viewer.

(v3.1.2) - [b]Between A Raccoon & A Hard Place[b] - 27 August 1997 (Canada)

Confidence in Enzo's skills begin to diminish due to efforts by Megabyte, who is easily seizing sectors. To prove himself as a capable Guardian, he and AndrAIa enter a game in order to win it without Dot's help.

Cultural references: After deleting the outspoken binome in the nullified sector (which is dressed in a Next Generation-style Starfleet uniform), Megabyte says that resistance is futile, an allusion to the Borg of Star Trek. Also, before being deleted, the binome declared, "we are sick of running in fear. A line must be drawn here." This is a parody of a speech Jean-Luc Picard gave in the movie Star Trek: First Contact. Enzo reboots in the game cube into a character who is dressed like, and sounds like, Elmer Fudd. The User's raccoon character is a cross between Sonic the Hedgehog and The Road Runner; many of the gags used during the game are characteristic of Road Runner cartoons. The raccoon's name, Rocky Raccoon, is a reference to a song off The Beatles' White Album. One of the binomes returned to normal after they win the game looks like Sailor Moon.

Ghost Stories Episodes
Here's a little preview for our wrap-up section.

14 - [b]Cold Dark Space - 10 November 1997

A frenzied man finds himself trapped in a nightmarish hospital room. Surrounded by the dead from his past, it appears he's lost in a limbo world between life and death. We discover this is all the delusion of an astronaut adrift in space with his dead co-pilots as company.

15 - [b]Green-Eyed Monster[b] - 17 November 1997

A jealous husband becomes a green-eyed monster when he finds his wife giving undue attention to their backyard tree — the very tree from which her ex-boyfriend committed suicide.

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Things are set up, and the room is open. Get in while the gettin's good!

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>>364360
>vacuumposting
>I'm glad that it's becoming a thing now
Not funny.

I recently stumbled across a video talking about dark and disturbing media, and it both reminded me of one film and introduced me to another. What would you guys think of the film The Plague Dogs? The theatrical version is shorter as it cuts a part out, but the youtube upload is the full extended version.

And speaking of the film, Snitter is voiced by John Hurt, who also played Hazel from Watership Down, and Winston Smith from the 1984 adaptation of...1984. So, this is a roundabout way of asking, what about Watership Down? Have we seen it for movie night before?

>>364535
We've actually already watched both The Plague Dogs and Watership Down, but I'd be good to watch either of them again.

>>364558
Damn, late to the party. And here I was, thinking it was niche enough. I'm just uncultured.

>>364559
I went back through the old threads and it looks like the last time we watched either of those movies was January of 2021. Since it's been awhile and we've rewatched plenty of other things, I'm thinking it would be fun to do Watership Down again, so I'll go ahead and preemptively schedule that for tomorrow.

>>364565
Well in that case thank you.

Hi guys. The day went later than expected, so the pre-stream will be late. I still have some stuff to do before I can sit down.

I may skip out on getting the episode summaries prepped before starting the stream.

Real quick, and real dirty, we have a pre-stream of some "X reacts to MLP songs" video and a ten minute animation titled "A Different View Of History". Two songs later, and we're in to the next two episodes of ReBoot.

These next two episodes are the second half of the current story arc. Things change. Massively. No episode summaries in this post so the stream can be gotten to quickly. This is the kind of thing you'll likely want to be here for. I'll post the actual YT links later.

Points to whomest-ever(?) can guess where these images came from.

Stream is running right now, BTW.

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I got a bit of a late start today as well, movie schedule will be up momentarily.

Merrie Melodies: Porky's Railroad
The Honeymooners: A Woman's Work is Never Done

Watership Down (1978)
Requested by >>364535

Poni
S7 eps 12 and 13

Ghoest
Eps 16 and 17

>On June 27, 2023, YouTube revoked CyTube's API access
Well shit. I was actually looking forward to the palate cleansers/memes/songs on Friday. Any plans to get around this? Locally hosted videos downloaded by Elway perhaps?

>>364583
Ah, you're watching that ghost stories. Hehe, yeah that was fun. Maybe one day when I'm less of a loner and can join in and be a poner ^^

>>364738
Well... shit.
I'll see what I can do in the meantime. Pony content may be a bit light for the pre-stream portion if I can't get it working, but Ghost Stories is available on another website that I've streamed from before.

Due to the YouTube outage, and in recognition of Canada Day being tomorrow, I'm putting on some episodes of the Red Green show, a show that was on TV from 1991 to 2006. I haven't seen it in years, but I'm expecting good vibes and a generally relaxed atmosphere.

I'll work on getting Internet Archive copies of the ReBoot episodes up while Red Green is playing.

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Room is open and the video is running. I'm operating it like it's cable rather than a curated and organized playlist this week because things are a bit weird. I had the playlist pre-made this week, too.

Movie schedule will be up in just a moment.

Merrie Melodies: Speaking of the Weather
The Honeymooners: A Matter of Life and Death

The Plague Dogs (1982)
Suggested in the chat last week, made by the same people who did Watership Down if I'm not mistaken.

Me Hoeres:
S7 eps 14 and 15

Der Ghosten:
Eps 18, 19 and 20

There are only 3 episodes of Ghost Stories left, so I figure we can just go ahead and finish it tonight. Hopefully we shouldn't run late. We'll start a new anime next week.

We have a playlist up and running. Turns out both shows were available on the Internet Archive.

The next episodes of ReBoot are going to continue growing past the censorship a bit.

Happy Thursday, everyone!

As of this comment, adding YouTube videos to the CyTube list still doesn't work. We're currently on track for another several episodes of Internet Archive shows.

Normal CyTube definitely won't work. It might be possible to try to borrow the server that was set up for /mlp/con, but I'll have to wait on a reply to the messages I just sent.

>>364962
Twifag gave the go-ahead for this weekend! Glory to Twifag!

I doubt this server will remain up in the long term, so we still need to think about what we're going to do without being able to add YouTube links in the medium term until YouTube pulls it's head out of it's ass. Assuming it ever does.

>>364962
>>364963
I hate Harold with a passion but Red Green was pretty kino otherwise. I am okay with using Internet Archive. In fact, I could even provide films/shows with a sockpuppet. I can't promise they'll stay up for long though, I uploaded stuff awhile before and they were struck down.

I'm sure the debate on what mediums can be played on Cytube has already happened before, but would it be possible for the movie night room to have stuff like bandcamp/audio file links for musical intermissions, and so forth? If youtube's going kaput that means we all gotta put our heads together and consider all the options we can for entertainment/curation. Even changing sites for hosting/sharing.

>>364965
Just download whatever from youtube (yt-dlp) and upload it somewhere else. If its pony then upload it to pony.tube as it works fine with cytube.

>>364966
Well yeah, I just don't know what specific video sites in the same vein as youtube are compatible with Cytube. I know webms from this site don't work (without plugins implemented into the channel I think?), nor do bitchute links. Just trying to get our ducks in a row for the long haul.

>>364966
That's going to be a really awkward workaround, but barely doable.

I'm trying to build these playlists to have a good balance of longer stuff to shorter stuff, energetic stuff to calm stuff, et cetera. YouTube lets me save playlists, add new things, drag and drop easily to rearrange, and then add the whole playlist in one operation. Having to switch away would be somewhat annoying.

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I'll be putting the playlist originally intended for last week in for this week.

Seems like CyTube has access to the API this week. We'll still be using the other CyTube room this week since Twifag and I agreed on it. I'm assuming we might get some new viewers to our weekly get-together if I put it on there.

I don't know about adding the old Emote list to Twifag's server. I didn't ask him about the windmills. I also don't have the right plugins for posting images directly to the chatroom. Hmm... We might end up using the regular CyTube server after all if the lack of emotes is an issue. Maybe I can get a copy of the Convention Emotes to put in our room for this week.

>>364977
>We might end up using the regular CyTube server after all if the lack of emotes is an issue.
Don't think having all the same emotes is that important.

Evening gents, it's that time again. Here is tonight's program:

Merrie Melodies - The Case of the Stuttering Pig
The Honeymooners - The Sleepwalker

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)
A fine film by the illustrious Wes Anderson, beloved of smarmy hipsters everywhere.

Hros:
S7, eps 16 and 17

Animu:
Charlotte, eps 1 and 2

We'll be starting a new anime this week. It's one I watched a few years ago and greatly enjoyed, hopefully you guys will like it.

Not sure what Flappy has planned exactly what with the cytube issues and all, it sounds like we might be using a different room this week, but there shouldn't be any issues doing the movie portion as usual one way or the other. Hope to see you all there, wherever that may be exactly.

We continue on with our regularly scheduled program. Hopefully the emote list issue isn't going to be a problem. I'll just copy the normal emote list over, broken links and windmills and all.

It was Canada Day weekend last week, so I only found out about the /mlp/con after all the events except for the closing ceremonies. Therefore, I'm going to add the Pony Antithology 2023 to the stream this week, so we can all see it. If everyone in the room except for me already saw the thing, then we can skip it and get right to the movies.

Pony of the Week is Celestia being cute.

ReBoot Episodes

30 (v3.2.3) - Number 7 - 1 October 1997 (Canada)

Entering a game, Matrix and AndrAIa find themselves back in Mainframe where Bob and Dot mistake Matrix and Andrea who are Rebooted into Megabyte and Hexadecimal, trying to find the mysterious number 1.

Cultural references: The entire episode is a reference to the cult series The Prisoner. In the golf game cube at the end of the episode, Matrix and AndrAIa's opponents are a tiger, a sombrero, and a shark, a reference to famous golf pros Tiger Woods, Lee Travino, and Greg Norman. The tiger also bears a resemblance to Hobbes from Calvin and Hobbes. Little Enzo's words, "there can be only one," is a reference to the film Highlander, and the image of Matrix after he is hit by the golf ball blob is another reference to The Prisoner, in which Number 6 is incapacitated by Rover (a weather balloon), thereafter to be dragged back to his villa. In addition, Phong has coffee delivered to him by a "9" sprite and asks him "How is your back, 9?" in reference to the last nine holes of a golf game. The song "Here Comes the Judge" by Pigmeat Markham is sung during the trial.

31 (v3.2.4) - The Episode with No Name- 8 October 1997 (Canada)

Matrix and AndrAIa arrive in a system with a ports to the net making Mainframe that much closer. The Guardians however... are infected by a supervirus named Daemon, but Turbo, the Leader of the Guardians though infected is fighting it. He explains the only hope of defeating Daemon lies in Bob's protocol. Matrix must find Bob not only to return him home, but to save the net.

Cultural references: Four Imperial stormtroopers are clearly seen walking through the streets of the desert town; and one is seen in the bar, which is a parody of a Star Wars cantina, though the scene (and a large part of the episode) are parodies of various Spaghetti Westerns. At one point when Matrix jumps, the sound effects and slow-mo are reminiscent of The Six Million Dollar Man. The search engine's vehicle says IMAX on the side. When Matrix runs off, chasing the thief, AndrAIa shouts after him, "stay frosty, Sparky," a reference to both Aliens and an earlier episode where Bob says something similar. While in the bar, Matrix has his gun target all the patrons and initiate "Death Blossom mode", taken from the movie The Last Starfighter.

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With that all out of the way, come on in to the new room for this week. We can swap to the old room during the night if there's an issue.

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>>364979
Swapping from Ghost Stories to Charlotte makes sense. After ReBoot's done, that slot will be taken up by Berserk (1997). A bit of a change of tone.

If the Antithology 2023 is a bit too much for time, I'm fine with dropping that and watching it on my own.

Since the CyTube issue seems to be worked out, we can swap back to the normal room to get access to the "post image links in the chat to see the images" function/script. I haven't gotten that set up on the server that's going to be shut down in a day or two, because I don't know if it's worth the hassle.

For the time being, we'll use the new room and see where the night takes us.

Dropping an hour long Antithology into the list on a whim was too much. We'll watch that some other day.

>>364992
The numbers are the tabs I have open in the windows

Hey poners, what are we watching tonight? And Flappy, did you get through a hundred or so tabs just yet?

And now back for the rundown of the evening, to be held at the usual spot. It's starting to feel comfy, huh?

ReBoot Episodes

32 (v3.3.1) - "Return of the Crimson Binome" 15 October 1997 (Canada)

When Matrix and AndrAIa find that Captain Capacitor's crew are being held in the portal system due to a new law enforced by the guardians. They attempt a prison break-in to free them to use their ship to return to Mainframe, and find a Web Surfer named Ray Tracer who agrees to help them. Matrix grows jealous of him when he flirts with AndrAIa.

Notes: This was the last episode shown in Britain due to concerns that the show's themes were becoming more mature.

33 (v3.3.2) - "The Edge of Beyond" 22 October 1997 (Canada)

With Ray Tracer and Captain Capacitor and his crew, Matrix and AndrAIa enter the Web to find Bob and to return to Mainframe. They find themselves with a new goal after AndrAIa gets bitten by a Web Creature.

Cultural references: Ray Tracer was named in a contest; the winning name came from Motorola, and Ray's icon symbol sometimes resembles the Motorola logo. (At other times, it is a stylized wave.) The language the Web Riders speak sounds similar to a low-speed dial-up modem. When AndrAIa first encounters the web creature, it seems to emerge from an egg that looks very similar to the way the eggs in the Alien franchise hatch.

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Same pony time [now], same pony place.

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>>365175
Schedule will be up in just one moment.

>>365175
No, sadly I did not. I'm getting better at not opening more, at least. Compartmentalizing the various trains of thought such that I can tolerate getting rid of it forever.

A bunch of them are videos or songs I was scouting for this night. Some of those turn in to entries in the storage playlist I use, but I'm using those to link to the artist themselves. They usually have an average anywhere from 3-7 up to 15. But I don't want to risk dedicating a big chunk of the night to an untested variable. It might be the kind of genre that gets boring after five minutes, and it thus good only in short bursts, or as a spacer.

Every time I look at a tab I see this data, and a dozen more layers besides. Then the analysis paralysis kicks in.

Alrighty folks, here is tonight's movie program:

Merrie Melodies: Little Red Walking Hood
The Honeymooners: Better Living Through TV

The Usual Suspects (1995)
May actually contain previously unseen suspects.

Horoes:
S7 Eps 18 and 19

Animu:
Charlotte Eps 3 and 4

>>365179
Just wanna bump to thank you for last night's extended afterparty and for bearing with my sudden reignited passion for AshaLogos.

If time permits, anons, then on Friday we will set aside time for watching his series, Conspiracy? Our Subverted History - a series which goes in loving depth about ancient Indo-Aryan history. We only watched part 1 last night - which is mostly a preamble with scattered pieces of evidence that Egypt, Sumer, Mesopotamia, India, Japan and others have pieces of white ancestry biologically. If nobody else attends but the same that did last night, we will be starting on part 2, but if we get a lot of eyes on it, we'll happily rewatch part 1.

Welcome again, fellow horsefuckers, to yet another night of pony-themed YouTube videos, a movie, and an assortment of other video media to keep your spirits up.

Pony Theme of the week is Jargon Scott's stuff.

ReBoot Episodes

34 (v3.3.3) - Web Riders On The Storm 29 October 1997 (Canada)

The crew of the Saucy Mare encounter Web Riders, beings living in the web, who are not happy with their arrival in the Web. The crew must fight them off and time is running out for AndrAia.

Cultural references: The episode's title is a pun on The Doors' song "Riders on the Storm."

35 (v3.3.4) - Mousetrap 5 November 1997 (Canada)

With Bob and a portal found, the Saucy Mare prepares to return to Mainframe, but Mouse has set traps that make the trip more difficult than expected.

Cultural references: The "wriggles" that the surfer eats is possibly a lampoon of 'gagh', a Klingon food (from the Star Trek series) that also "wriggles all the way down". After the surfer eats it a web rider says, "You are a warrior, you have honour!", typical of something a Klingon would say. Matrix, in a conversation with Bob says "I've done – questionable things" with the same pause that Roy Batty takes when he says the same thing in Blade Runner.

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Please enjoy your weekly dose of Pony and good company. The room is open and ready to go.

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>>365505
Whoops. I had my VPN on.

On a side note, basically all the organization for the event happens inside the thread, so if anyone has feedback regarding the format, feel free to chime in. I'm assuming a time budget on my side of approximately one hour of Pony, two episodes of one show, then we move to the movie, shorts, 2 pony episodes, and two episodes of something else. As far as I can tell, we just fell in to this structure.

Anyone interested in The Adventures of Mark Twain for a movie on movienight at some point?

>>365678
That sounds good to me, I've seen some clips of it before and it certainly looks like quite the experience.

Whether your last week was as nice as I'd hope it was, or whether it wasn't, we gather again for more Ponies and other assorted Shenanigans.

I popped one six minute political video in there because it's mlpol. I'm going as middle of the ground as I can. It's Thomas Sowell, so it's still a bit normie-tier-spicy. There are a pair of Fluttershy videos in here, and I stumbled on to a theme of different covers of "Welcome To The Show". I made sure to add what looked like a clip of it from the movie that I found on YouTube.

I have about two screens worth of tabs open on my main browser again already. There's a memory leak in my habits, but the browser's tabs are still at least being relatively responsive.

Regarding the Emote list, that could use some work. I just have to make time and really buckle down on it for a while, but that's been tough for me for the last couple weeks. I'm slipping in my habits a bit.

ReBoot - Now we've reunited with Bob, Bob fused with Glitch to be some kind of limited deus ex machina god-character, and Matrix and Andrea are bringing a crew of pirates, and their ship with them. I picked the last item on the list to try to help set the tone for this. I think this is the week we get to re-watch that fight scene with proper context.

ReBoot Episodes

36 (v3.4.1) - Megaframe 3 January 1998 (Canada)
The Saucy Mare arrives to a heavily damaged Mainframe, under the control of Megabyte. They are in preparation for an assault on the Principal Office and Bob gets abducted by Hexadecimal.

Cultural references: Some of the binomes in the beginning resemble the Sailor Scouts from the anime Sailor Moon. One of Megabytes officer's remarks "Those rebel scum. Will they never learn?"—a line commonly used in Star Wars media. The code that Megabyte extracts from Phong translates from ASCII to the phrase "YADDAYADDAYADDA!" – exclamation point included.

37 (v3.4.2) - Showdown 10 January 1998 (Canada)
Reunited with friends and family, Dot, AndrAIa, Mouse, Matrix and their group of binome rebels begin to invade the Principal Office, where Megabyte and his army await. Meanwhile Hexadecimal holds Bob against his will until he voluntarily does something benevolent for her. Matrix faces Megabyte alone before he escapes the system.

Cultural references: The Saucy Mare's destruction (and the conversation between the captain and AndrAIa afterwards) is a reference to Star Trek III: The Search for Spock. Hex's response to Bob when he offers to heal her is taken from H.A.L. protesting his system's shutdown in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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Now that that's set up (I sure hope I got the colourshift thing to work properly) I'd like to invite you all in to the room. The pony theme for the week is going to be something quick that is at least somewhat themed. How about... the mouth pieces! I started saving the ones I saw back when I was arguing with people on the internet. I probably don't have a "complete" collection, but I've got about 20, with only one that's an edit-duplicate of another.

Room link:
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Now to do an emergency repair job on the :sunbeam: emote.

Sorry for the late notice, here is tonight's program:

Merrie Melodies: The Woods are Full of Cuckoo]/s]s
The Honeymooners: Brother Ralph

Idiocracy (2006)
The fictional movie that feels more like a documentary.

Pony:
S7 Eps 22 and 23

Anime:
Charlotte Eps 7 and 8

>>365698
I haven't seen that movie in a long time. I've seen it at least twice, but I wonder how it'll feel watching it this time.