/overboard/ - Overboard

Hello all, here is tonight's movie schedule:

Merrie Melodies: Farm Frolics
Wodehouse Playhouse: Strychnine in the Soup

Animal House (1978)

Poniee:
S1 episode 15 - Feeling Pinkie Keen
G1: The Return of Tambelon Part 4, Little Piece of Magic

Gargoye:
S2 eps 42 & 43 - Met by Moonlight, Future Tense

An official announcement post seems like it'll make sense for this. We've got a bunch of longer-form content in this week. Less music this week, but still a couple of bumpers.

MLP videos include a Keyboard Ponies Compilation (with new scene), Wind Striker Theories' video asking “Did Cozy Glow know how to use spells?”, a video on the MLP:FiM finale, banqui0's History of the Brony Fandom But Way Too Fast, and a video from four years ago just titled “What Happened to My Little Pony” by Negative Legend.

The final item before Undergrads is an animation called “Peanut Factory”.

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UnderGrads

Episode 07 - Jerks
Gimpy, unable to further tolerate Rita's tyranny, enlists Cal to woo her into submission. But the plan works a little too well. Kimmy tells Nitz that she is moving to England so he offers her his travel clock even though he doesn't have one. Rocko drags Nitz around town all night and then destroys the travel clock that Gimpy found for Nitz.

Episode 08 - Rivalries
Nitz and Gimpy enter a trivia competition but end up competing against each other in an inter-college competition.

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Still live, still running.
Pony Theme of the Week is "Dustmotes".

https://cytu.be/r/FlappyPterodactyl
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Not sure if anyone else here has ever worked retail, but "Superstore" is apparently a really funny show. Would it be possible at all to watch it in the future?

One more week of summer. I hope you're hanging in there and that you're able to make the heat of the season work for you. Perhaps by planting seeds and growing stuff?

For tonight's structure, I decided to theme it around the “Tiny Sky” playlist / album by Skyshard[1]. It's got six songs in it, and it's mostly orchestral stuff. In order to prevent that from taking over the whole tone of the night, I've added a bunch of electronic music from Cider Party's “Uplifting” playlist[2] by a variety of artists. One of the songs is a cover of SoGreatAndPowerful's On My Own[3].
Bumper videos for the night will be taken from the channel of the animator Batsy[4].

Our Undergrads episodes for the night are about a financial aid cheque not showing up, followed by one themed around identity crisis.
There are three more episodes this week. Does the group want a three-parter next week, or a two-parter followed by the next week having the last episode and some kind of documentary or review video talking about Undergrads instead?

[1] - The “Tiny Sky” playlist / album by Skyshard.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7IkgZSdTxUZH1ABMvEZLSqMtN3PTJUmi
[2] - Uplifting - Playlist from Cider Party
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjOADkDLgN4RmbMO5CPT5InXl3Sstjr2m
[3] - SoGreatandPowerful - On My Own (loophoof & Tw3Lv3 Remix) [Electro]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kxymi--lfk
[4] - Batsy YouTube Channel (Animator)
https://www.youtube.com/@batsy4119/videos

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UnderGrads

Episode 09 - Financial Aid
Nitz does not receive his financial aid check and so joins the local student action group. Rocko joins the local college ROTC.

Episode 10 - Identity Crisis
After returning from winter break, nobody seems to remember Nitz so he locks himself in his room to create an identity. Rocko converts Cal into a version of Rocko.

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Theme of the week is Potted Plants, because gardens in the summer are nice.

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https://cytu.be/r/FlappyPterodactyl

Imagine the smell.

I saw this image today, and realized that I can no longer tell the difference between clever memes making fun of Democrat propaganda and actual Democrat propaganda.

Such blatant lies

>>375423
George floyd did nothing wrong

>>375286
Religion is very human tho. And just like the amygdala, it forces conformity into people. You may not like it, but a civilization is full of midwits who can't really be trusted.
>>375329
>>375386
Real AI doesn't exist yet. And whatever crap we call "AI" right now, is probably going to delay it even more.

>>375406
"Just conform!" -> "Just obey!"
You can keep pretending that cucking civilization is necessary. It isn't.

>>375406
>Religion is very human tho
Alongside ignorance and stupidity

>>375411
>"Just conform!" "Just obey!"
If you are a half-wit, you don't even need to be told. You won't even realize it.

>>375419
>Poison Joke, a plant that fucks with you and takes away one of your greatest strengths, just fucking kills you because this is Edgequestria.
To be fair, if I remember it right, Poison Joke in FoE doesn't just straight-up kill you. It subjects you to Twilight Zone levels of cruel irony, which most of the time ends in death. Fluttershy said she wanted to be a tree that one time, so it physically transformed her into a tree. That sort of thing.

>Everything that happened to these kids was entirely unnecessary because Fluttershy forgot Cockatrices exist.
This is kind of an interesting idea. The only potential snag I can see is that, iirc, a cockatrice's spell can only be undone by the cockatrice who cast it. So in other words, you could use a cockatrice to turn the kids to stone until a cure could be found, but you would have to ensure that nothing happened to that particular cockatrice, and also figure out the cure within the course of its natural lifespan.

>Use machines to keep one of those alive if keeping it alive is necessary for keeping the kids alive while turned to stone or keeping them from changing back.
This might work, though if the technology works the same way you'd just be subjecting the cockatrice to psychological torture instead of the foals. In that case, by the time you're ready to un-stone the child, the cockatrice might be unwilling to help. Or, maybe it will have gone completely crazy itself and start turning everyone else to stone. All I can say is that if I had stone-turning powers, and someone used me to turn their sick kid to stone until a cure could be found, and then kept me in a state of torturous suspended animation for 200 years until it was time to revive them, at the end of it my attitude would pretty much be that the guy and his kid could just go fuck themselves.

Anyway, the trouble with this is that it doesn't work for engineering the kind of tragedy that Somber wanted to create. So, if any of this had occurred to him, all it would have done is make him realize he needed to scrap the entire arc.

>>374348
>>375192
>>375379
>>375410
>mfw
Clearly, I wrote these. But I have no memory of it.

>>375426
>blacking out only to find shitposts on a kazakhstani horse-whispering forum made in your name
That's concerning. We should get that checked out, me.

Jokes aside, as far as I know there are two swedes frequenting Glimmy's threads. One posts OC, has better grammar, makes good observations about the story being reviewed and is often referred to as Sven. The other is me. Just to clear up any possible confusion.

>>375422
Poison Joke's ironic instant deaths is better than nothing but it feels like a wasted opportunity for authors to never use this to make life harder on the heroes long-term and spend an arc exploring how character dynamics change and dynamic characters grow when subjected to its effects. Just imagine an arc where Blackjack is blinded then gets better in the end. Blindjack could stumble blindly and tap things with her baton and rely on her friends to tell her where to shoot. The author could try to write like a blind person, talking about smells and sounds instead of sights. SATS and EFS can't activate because she can't see shit.

As for the hospital...

A conga line of cockatrices could be created. The one that turned the kids to stone is turned to stone by another, which is turned to stone by another, which is turned to stone by another, and a mechanical system is set up in a lightless underground cage to feed the sole living cockatrice. When it expires, the next cockatrice becomes flesh again, and it stays in the cage and eats and dies and turns the next cockatrice to flesh. Eventually the final cockatrice dies and the kids are restored 200 years later. If the kids cannot be saved by then, get more cockatrices, throw them into the lightless cage one by one, turn the lights on so the current cockatrice is turned to stone by the newcomer, then each newcomer after that is turned to stone, and the waiting game continues. Could set up a Cockatrice Chute so they don't see light until they are safely in the Cockatrice Cage. It could last forever. Or until the world runs out of cockatrices if they cannot be bred or magically created.

Alternatively, experiment with artificial bodies. Brains in jars don't work? Why not? Was the process written off after donor brains from serial killers went evil? Does the brainbot simply use the brain as a CPU enhancer without actually giving the brain control over the machine despite keeping it alive and conscious? What happens if you take the souls from the kids and tie them to suits of armour or weaponry or puppets? Rarity split her own soul 69 times and had some of the soul fragments modified to imitate soul photocopies of her friends, this process was used to create the invincible unbreakable obnoxious stat-buffing Statuettes. Something convoluted involving magic was used to justify a retarded game mechanic instead of doing anything interesting like giving Littlepip a quest to gather many Twilight Sparkle statuettes and combine them into a RealDoll to get a fake Twilight Sparkle on your side, or throw them into Alicorn Creation Goo and hope for the best. Hell, aren't objects infused with a soul supposed to be invincible? Infuse armour pieces and buildings with souls.

Maybe this is all a bit retarded.

Perhaps this scene would have worked better if, when the bombs fell, after fighting off some feral ghouls and psycho bandits desperate to steal supplies, Nurse Redheart looked at the cryo-frozen orphan kids she was supposed to monitor and said to her conveniently placed tape recorder "The bombs fell and everything is chaos. Oh fuck, these kids are going to thaw out and die now that the power is out and we are never getting more supplies. Some of these kids even have rare diseases. Good thing my shotgun has enough shells left for all of them plus me. Tell Fluttershy she still owes me twenty bits."

Blackjack could piece the story together with environmental storytelling and say, damn, that's rough. Then one of her friends could cry about it.

But that means no spoomy shit...

Maybe use misdirection so the heroes think this is some horror movie shit and a psycho killer has been torturing and killing all these kids in hospital beds and we're next. Oh fuck oh shit that pony is missing an arm. And that pony is missing an eye. And that helpless tiny armless legless orphan foal was killed via lethal overdose of a painkiller Blackjack misidentifies as a recreational drug. One pony had its head blown clean off. Whoever did this must have been a really sick fucker. Oh god there's bright red blood all over the place. Oh fuck the lights are flickering. Then after the big reveal, it turns out the spooky murals and blood trails were poorly thought out halloween decorations. The loud bangs? Wind blowing the metal doors around loudly. Egg on the face. All the tragedy happened centuries ago and these ponies were jumping at shadows and other spooky stuff.

Maybe this isn't tragic enough. Maybe the mainframe AI thingy meant to protect this hospital has been crying and going crazy for 200 years stewing in its impotent rage after a power surge broke its ability to control turrets when Nurse Redheart needed it most. But once some idiot fixed the turrets 200 years late it decided "damn you ponies, you always destroy each other so die now. Life is a terminal illness, pain and misery are its symptoms, death is the cure". Or maybe "I am programmed to guard this area and kill everyone without a hall pass or level 3 security clearance".

Maybe it isn't sad enough. Maybe after Redheart kills kids and herself she finds out some unfinished magic circle Twilight or Fluttershy set up in the basement without permission or consent has been storing souls "for their own good, because once our Trapped Souls With Artificial Bodies project works we can cure death" but it was going to be completed one day after the bombs went off. So these kids and Cheerilee were trapped here in a soul container for no reason for 200 years. Maybe the kids could be mad at Cheerilee for aborting them instead of letting them thaw then letting them decide if they wanted to die here or take the risky journey to some potentially safer area? "I mean if you wanted to die anyway why not risk life for us?" A kid might say. Might be wrong to say that. Who knows? Something retarded about hope and sucide could be said here. Maybe right after Redheart dies, frens with medical shit show up. Egg on face. Cue tears. Maybe.

I enjoy the anime more than I enjoy the manga. The gags are paced well and the Nano student rewrite was nice.

I never actually got around to watching this show. I probably should.

>>375402
>tfw this guy did his deed cuz he refused to realize that illegal immigrants are literally criminals by default
Jesting aside, he types exactly like a marginally informed shill. I guess some of those are real and not anons being a goof.

>>375402
Big if true

Trump will win
(((they))) will kill him
(((they))) will blame Iran
Then we, will go to with iran for (((them)))

>>375382
~30min video from which that clip is out from
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwBygHmIZ6c

>>174706
"What is it Mala?"

>>174706
"They are a bit odd." Kira giggles. "They look really exotic though, a different kind of exotic from you ponies. You're exotic because, well, we never see any of you around where we live, while kirins are just, well...exotic! I've heard of lamias living within the Kirin Empire and the other kirin nations. An entirely different subspecies called 'fire lamias'. Supposedly they have fire magic, hence the name, and I've even heard some of them have the physical features of kirins! Very reclusive though, and apparently very territorial. I'm not sure if they're more or less territorial than the huge jungle lamias to the south of my tribe."

>>174705
>Posey is definitely tired. Somehow, she feels like more has been taken out of her on a physical level than expected. Must be the weather, although it's actually cooler here and now than it is on the Dread Peninsula in summer.
"I should have never gone out during the day, or crossed over and through all that water... Anything for the mission though... urgh!" Posey groans glassy-eyed, necrotic black veins visibly pulsing through the white fur on her face in what could be described as the undead equivalent to a migraine. Her fur appears blotched and patchy, and her mane is frizzy and discolored. Her face contorts erratically, at times seemingly feral as bat-like or wolf-like features push themselves to the surface. Despite being a daywalker, adventuring in such conditions doesn't come without its costs...
She distracts herself by combing her mane, brushing her fur, polishing her armor, checking her makeup as best as a pony can without a mirror, and generally trying to salvage her appearance.
>over creeks and in one instance, a true river.
Posey winces and yelps quietly at this, trying to suppress the visibility of her pain.
>At one point, the vehicle comes upon a segment of the road where there are very clear cracks in either side, and the tree line is clear on either side. Mason slows down, and looks to either side, where trees are snapped off from their bases, uprooted, branches broken, or in some cases simply bent to either side. The broken trees form a line that crosses the road and is maybe 20 or 30 feet wide. When this segment of road is crossed, Mason steps on the gas, accelerating the engine much faster than the shift of the gear can match.
"I wonder what caused that...?" Posey wonders aloud
>by this time the sun has set, and the remainder of the trip is in increasingly dwindling twilight, becoming full night
"At last, the Night..." Posey says, her mood improving alongside her face, seemingly energized by the darkness. The blacked veins on her face fade away. Her fur becomes snowy white, seemingly absorbing the filth into itself. Her mane shines scarlet once more. Her eyes glow with that menacing golden aura. All monstrous, un-pony features fade from her face as she reclaims her comely and delicate appearance.
Posey performs all necessarily checks and charms with her improved modifiers to get past the checkpoint.
>Posey is only minimally expected, and they make it to Licorice's manor, where he is up and about with Day Low Rain.
"At last, I have returned, victorious!" Posey declares, puffing her chest out with a whirl of her cape, raising her sword in the air, her horn shining with a halo of sickening light in all her golden vainglory. A vain smugness betrays her normally paralyzed face and calm demeanor.
The Dread animated diamond dog arms levitate just behind her, one brandishing the electric polearm as if held by an invisible sentinel, the other gently leading the captured bitch by her shackles.
Behind her, the disguised ghoul drags the cylinder, saddlebags loaded with other spoils of the adventure.

The ghosts do whatever they want, I guess. Posey doesn't control them.

>>174706
Amber gives a small, reassuring smile as she explains, "Nothing to do with you, but I've heard of griffons working with radical groups like the anarchists that give Sewn so much trouble. But, uh, I guess those are only rumors to me, since it's been only ponies that have gone after the shop."

Biden Speech
https://youtu.be/t9Mtav8Nfr0?si=gMc0RcRShJ4sdsbK&t=109

>>375400
>>375399
They painted him orange.
Why did they paint him orange?

>>375408
Someone higher up saw a video of two oompah-loompahs jousting and thought it would be fun to replicate that for the 2024 election. Unfortunately Biden's mental decline progressed too rapidly so they had to scrap that plan and go with something else.

>>375110
That's why you don't just fencejump, you love a horse intimely like a wife.

>>375114
klassic pic, cool to see it got updated lol

up

>>375397
Cute!

>>375397
The creator of this art is a damn fagot, I wonder where you found this.

>>375412
True, but the art is good with the text removed. I found it on Ponybooru