Re: help finding people to discuss something with
Re: help finding people to discuss something with If I might be permitted a brief off-topic post, I expect shortly to be permanently banned due to a disagreement with the moderators I am having in another thread, that perhaps most of you aren't reading. If you want to keep in touch, please feel free to shoot me an email at sam...@interfree.ca. Thanks for bearing with me! Now, you can all return to your regularly scheduled cheerful ponies.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=177764#p177764 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: help finding people to discuss something with
2014-06-20
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with My bad.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4onyvQRhVZEURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=177627#p177627 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @darkabomination: A link would help. LOLURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=177603#p177603 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: help finding people to discuss something with
2014-06-20
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Here's a fun song about Flutterbat.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=177594#p177594 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with So, if you have a screen reader that can read the youtube automatic captions, turn them on for this video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK7ihFIQKpUMy favourite is the bit about the burning burning cars Nissan is recalling. Whatever the heck is going on in Hamilton County is a close second. Amusingly, if I hold my iPhone up to the speaker, Siri can transcribe it just fine. And now I've listened to that twice and I no longer believe that pony is a real word.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=176452#p176452 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with I listened to the first minute or so of Turn About storm, and got the impression some of the dialog was on-screen, in the style of Phoenix Wright, so never bothered with it beyond that. As for reharmonized ponies, I am just in it for the voice acting, and that's pretty good. I don't think I'd bother reading it with text to speech if that were the only option. Also, I don't watch cartoons (seriously: MLP is the only cartoon I've ever watched more than 4 or 5 episodes of in my life) so the crossovers don't bother me. And I started reading fanfic long before I even bothered with the show itself, so I'm used to the various fanfic universes, and in my head they feel just as valid as the official cannon. I tried to get into anthropology, but I just couldn't. The writing felt kind of slow and a little bit...stiff, or something. Though I tend to find fanfic that sticks closely to the tone of the show is the least intere sting type of fanfic. It takes real skill to write ponies having grimdark interdimensional adventures, and get the reader to take it seriously. And I admire that kind of talent.Edit: Fixed "grimdark interdenominational adventures" to be "grimdark interdimensional adventures." Good going, spellcheck! Although now I want a fanfic about how Luna was banished to the moon for being a Catholic, and this set off a thousand years of Catholic Protestant warfare. And now that I finished writing that sentence, I don't want it anymore. Yuck.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=176106#p176106 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: help finding people to discuss something with
Re: help finding people to discuss something with I listened to the first minute or so of Turn About storm, and got the impression some of the dialog was on-screen, in the style of Phoenix Wright, so never bothered with it beyond that. As for reharmonized ponies, I am just in it for the voice acting, and that's pretty good. I don't think I'd bother reading it with text to speech if that were the only option. Also, I don't watch cartoons (seriously: MLP is the only cartoon I've ever watched more than 4 or 5 episodes of in my life) so the crossovers don't bother me. And I started reading fanfic long before I even bothered with the show itself, so I'm used to the various fanfic universes, and in my head they feel just as valid as the official cannon. I tried to get into anthropology, but I just couldn't. The writing felt kind of slow and a little bit...stiff, or something. Though I tend to find fanfic that sticks closely to the tone of the show is the least intere sting type of fanfic. It takes real skill to write ponies having grimdark interdenominational adventures, and get the reader to take it seriously. And I admire that kind of talent.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=176106#p176106 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: help finding people to discuss something with
2014-06-05
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Eh, Turn About Storm is rather bad, both in terms of writing and production, and as a Phoenix Wright crossover.VST is just about the only alright audio drama, most are rather low-quality. I usually just stick with fanfics.And Reharmonized Ponies which is a part of the Pony POV series of fics is really overrated. It's not bad exactly, but takes it's rediculous premises rather seriously, feels rather outdated with the evil Discord and god-tear alicorns, and has a lot of crossover with other pony cartoons, and as a fan of said cartoons I don't think they're done particularly well.Anthropology I have heard some good stuff about, generally to the effect of not great, but not bad either.In general I've lost interest in long epic adventure stories and prefer to read romance, slice of life, light darker stories, or comedic fics that are a bit closer to the show's tone.That being said, Harmony Theory is an ongoing adventure s tory I will recommend, thankfully it knows how to keep comedy and lighter moments with the usual darker bits, so it balances out rather nicely. And the OCs are rather well done.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=176087#p176087 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with I only know about things that are popular enough to reach me so you probably know about these already. So I can only think about these two radio plays. (Not entirely in the style of the show since they are crossovers but I'd still recommend them.)Doctor Whooves and AssistantYoutube playlist (some of the earlier episodes were remade in higher quality)Turnabout storm (This one has a bit of visual though although most of it is to show emotions that the voices also convey. I don't remember if there's anything really important with no sounds.)Link to first episodeURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175842#p175842 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Oops! I thought the playlist I shared had Everfree radio in it. Turns out I forgot to click save after adding it. Fixed:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18413495/mlp.m3uhttps://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18413495/mlp.m3u8https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18413495/mlp.fplURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175834#p175834 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Hmmm, Reharmonized Ponies is pretty good. And those same people made another one...I can't remember the title, though. It had the word discord in it. It's more of a graphic-audio style dramatic reading, but it does have effects and music, and the voice acting is super. I enjoyed all of the Doctor Whooves stuff for what it is, even though sometimes the production values aren't so good. Oh! _The Vinyl Scratch Tapes: The Master Recording_ did a really good job of turning kind of crappy production values into a virtue. The premise of the series is that Vinyl and Octavia are in charge of Equestria's first ever independent radio station. It goes pretty much how you would expect. Also, there are some good fallout dramatic readings, but you've probably heard those already.Edit to add: The moonstuck dubs are also worth a listen, if only for her voice. But don't expect to have any idea what's going on; apparently it's based on a comic that is a parody of a different comic and I really have no idea what happens or why. But if you can get past that you won't want your 20 minutes back, because her voice really does cause cuteness overload. Or just skip it and listen to her audition:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezy_xkcPWoEURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175741#p175741 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: help finding people to discuss something with
Re: help finding people to discuss something with Hmmm, Reharmonized Ponies is pretty good. And those same people made another one...I can't remember the title, though. It had the word discord in it. It's more of a graphic-audio style dramatic reading, but it does have effects and music, and the voice acting is super. I enjoyed all of the Doctor Whooves stuff for what it is, even though sometimes the production values aren't so good. Oh! _The Vinyl Scratch Tapes: The Master Recording_ did a really good job of turning kind of crappy production values into a virtue. The premise of the series is that Vinyl and Octavia are in charge of Equestria's first ever independent radio station. It goes pretty much how you would expect. Also, there are some good fallout dramatic readings, but you've probably heard those already.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175741#p175741 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Hi,I might have to look at some of the audio dramas. I know anthropology is getting an ongoing conversion, which is a rather nice fanfic that's most definitely written in the style of the show.What would you say the best audio dramas are to listen to? I'll take anything, as I'm kind of interested to see what people are up to. I even saw some Doctor Whooves stuff on YouTube which is quite a fun listen.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175737#p175737 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @fastlinge, glad that helped. Thanks for the list of direct links by the way! Saved me a lot trouble hunting for them. The playlist is just a text file with a m3u extension, darkabomination (also welcome back to this thread!). So I can open it and give a line in the file to mplayer (or whatever program that can take a stream url).Sadly, its always been a trend to hide inner workings of technology for the sake of "convenience". In this case, removing the step opening a second program. I don't mind having the embedded version of course, but like you said, they should really feature the stream url more prominently.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175732#p175732 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Yeah, but there are lots of other players that can use Winamp playlists: foobar2000, VLC, XBMC, Cog, Rhythmbox, Amarok, etc, etc, etc. Every radio station website I visit these days, not just MLP stations, assumes you want to listen in your browser. Why? Do most people really not want an audio player these days? Please pretend the following space contains a 6 thousand or so word rant on why embedded players suck. It'll save me the effort of writing it, save you the effort of reading it, and stop the thread from getting highjacked. Thank you!URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175714#p175714 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: help finding people to discuss something with
Re: help finding people to discuss something with Yeah, but there are lots of other players that can use Winamp playlists: foobar2000, VLC, XBMC, Cog, Rhythmbox, Amarok, etc, etc, etc. Every radio station website I visit these days, not just MLP stations, assumes you want to listen in your browser. Why? Do most people really not want an audio player these days? Please assume the following space contains a 6 thousand or so word rant on why embedded players suck. It'll save me the effort of writing it, save you the effort of reading it, and stop the thread from getting highjacked. Thank you!URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175714#p175714 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: help finding people to discuss something with
2014-05-31
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Probably doesn't help Winamp's now in the hands of it's fans to provide updates.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175672#p175672 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Yeah, I put them all in the playlist above, I believe. Man, what is it with radio websites today and not wanting to link directly to a winamp/whatever stream?URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175669#p175669 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: help finding people to discuss something with
2014-05-31
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Yeah, your behind the times, dude.The biggest ones are Celestia Radio, Fillydelphia Radio, Ponyville Live, and Radio Everfree.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175659#p175659 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Both of the official albums are also on rdio, and thus probably Spotify as well, for people like me who have gone the cloud subscription model. There are official Daring Do novels? I...am not sure how I feel about that. Curious, but not curious enough to want to pay $9.99 for an e-book, I think covers it. So hopefully they'll be on bookshare or somewhere. There is so much good MLP related audio stuff, someone should really set up an internet radio station for it all! There are, like, thousands of hours of audio dramas, interviews, music, etc. Radio Equestria? Oh, never mind. The internet is way ahead of me. Down the rabbit hole I go! Wait, wait, wait..."The Equestrian Broadcasting Company Presents..." I demand that you tell these people to stop spying on my dreams! If they use a modified version of the NBC chimes I am actually going to be just slightly freaked out. Anyway, have a playlist:https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18413495/mlp.m3uThere are 12 pony radio stations. What.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175657#p175657 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: help finding people to discuss something with
2014-05-31
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AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : darkabomination via Audiogames-reflector
Re: help finding people to discuss something with To be fair a lot of fan music, especially early on was meme-heavy, so it tended to get dated rather quickly. Most fan musicians link to any upcoming albums, eps, or projects on their bandcamps, and most will provide high quality mp3s downloads on youtube.As for official show music, we have two albums. Songs of Friendship and Magic, which has the major songs from the first two seasons like Smile, BBBFF, Giggle at the Ghostly, and This Day Aria, though most of Pinkie's small little ditties aren't there. Also notable is the Mane Six's reprise of Art of the Dress isn't represented.The second album released two months ago is called Songs of Ponyville, having some of the bigger season 3 songs and Hearts Strong as Horses and extended versions of Pinkie Pride aka the Weird Al episode's Make A Wish, and Magical Mystery Cure's I've Got to Find A Way.You can find them on Itunes if you want to support them.Also assuming if you don 't keep up with pony news or Equestria Daily in general, there's some new books added to the merch list. A trilogy of official Daring Do novels and the Mane Six's journal, with all the lessons in season 4 and a few entries written by Celestia and Luna before Nightmare Moon. They'll be out sometime this fall.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175644#p175644 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: Ah, there we go! Exactly what I wanted. +1Edit to add: Aaaand...this is the first thing the random page thing gives me:https://eqbeats.org/track/1011Yup, of course it is. I should have expected that, really.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175630#p175630 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: Ah, there we go! Exactly what I wanted. +1URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175630#p175630 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @fastfinge, what about https://eqbeats.org/ for fan music?And yeah, the technology or in this case magic was never really the focus for MLP. On the other hand, this wouldn't be the first time a fan fiction had a different tone than the source.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175626#p175626 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @fastfinge, what about eqbeats.org for fan music?And yeah, the technology or in this case magic was never really the focus for MLP. On the other hand, this wouldn't be the first time a fan fiction had a different tone than the source.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175626#p175626 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Uh, @darkabomination and @dark are not the same person. I recall @darkabomination chiming in about pony music in the past. By the way, is there an archive of that stuff that isn't youtube? Firstly, because I would like to purchase the good bits and support the artist if I can, and secondly, because the audio from transcoded mp3 rips of youtube videos sucks bad enough that it bothers me. I did check bandcamp, but it wasn't helpful. Maybe artists don't sell the stuff because of IP issues? But even if so, there's just gotta be a better music archive than youtube, right? right? *cries*URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175618#p175618 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Hi,@dark: What? How did you suddenly get to watch this? You just... came out of nowhere! You just made my day. An audiogames moderator watching mlp! This is definitely 20% cool as Rainbow would say, well it's cooler, but aah well.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175561#p175561 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
Re: help finding people to discuss something with
2014-05-30
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AudioGames . net Forum — Off-topic room : darkabomination via Audiogames-reflector
Re: help finding people to discuss something with It was a good finale yeah.Tirek wasn't as cool as he was in the 1984 special, but that's personal preference.Also I think you should have watched all the episodes in order, the show does have some continuity and developments if you pay attention.Speaking of music, I have the two official albums and some song ripsfrom Equestria Girls, so good.Plus a few gigs of fan music.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175516#p175516 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: Yes, songfic is a thing. A songfic is any fanfic that makes reference to songs and music that is not part of the fandom the fic is written in. The most notable songfic example is the Harry Potter fanfic _My Immortal_. Though it's more of a Good Charlotte songfic, as it never actually mentions the song _My Immortal_ anywhere other than in the title, if memory serves. If you haven't heard of My Immortal:http://myimmortalrehost2.webs.com/After that, all other songfics are just presumed bad. Yeah, something more event-driven would play to my strengths. Unfortunately, that really doesn't work well in something as character based as MLP; event-based fics are far better in fandoms like startrek, where it's as much about the cool ships and neat technology as it is the people.URL: http://forum.audi ogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175419#p175419 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: Yes, songfic is a thing. A songfic is any fanfic that makes reference to songs and music that is not part of the fandom the fic is written in. The most notable songfic example is the Harry Potter fanfic _My Immortal_. Though it's more of a Good Charlotte songfic, as it never actually mentions the song _My Immortal_ anywhere other than in the title, if memory serves. If you haven't heard of My Immortal:http://myimmortalrehost2.webs.com/After that, all other songfics are just presumed bad.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175419#p175419 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Way to go out-ternet for keeping people busy, myself included.@fastfinge: Actually, that detective dream did sound like a pretty cool "crackfic" as you call it. I say do it just to see how it ends up!And songfic. Didn't know that was a thing. Are they really known to be bad? In any case, no I can't really think of what to do with 3 sets of 3 like that. Its a shame to just outright scrap work though.So I take it your style is more event-driven. Hmm...I'm wondering if you could get something that not centered around some chosen characters then. It the events are interesting, that could be the focus and a large assortment of individuals (or groups) would simply react to them. This way, you could pick the most suited player for the role so it wouldn't cramp your style as much (hopefully!).@aaron, about the finale.spoilerspaceI think you made a good choice to watch straight on. While they did recall some of the earlier episodes, they are mostly only relevant to the final episode through the key items.That "You'll Play Your Part" song was nice, although if you really think about it, they didn't really say anything particularly reassurance. In fact, it almost seems like Celestia is admitting she doesn't know and asks Twilight to just wait for it. Which explains her later behaviour as a princess-level blank flank of sort.I really like how the writer "snuck in" the fact the two opponents powering up for that terrain-levelling confrontation at the end. When the others gave Twilight their magic, I hadn't even thought about the consequences in battle. I also thought Discord sincerity at the end was pretty well shown and executed. And that sudden change to a scary tone at the beginning telling us that something was up even though the scene didn't otherwise suggest anything worr isome (and we didn't know about the villain just yet).I'd probably recommend "Pinkie Pride" from this season if you like Daniel Ingram's songs even more than the rest of us!And Tenerife, you mean in the Canary Islands?URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175408#p175408 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Hi,@kantorlot, regarding the finale, and other show elements so I think this calls for the thing we normally do here regarding spoilers, see below:spoilerspaceJust so that it gives anyone time to stop reading as each letter is read on a separate line.Anyhow, I really liked it. I have also seen the episode entitled "Leap of Faith", and heard about the key arc so I used the wiki for now but will go back to the actual episodes later. I got back from Tenereef and noticed the finale was being discussed so I thought I'd just watch it, and interestingly all you really needed to know about were the keys. I liked the flashbacks and the uncertainty at points surrounding discord, and I wondered if they might have made him evil permanently, but luckily they didn't. The villain and battles were also nice! It also had some really cool songs in this one, "You'll Play Your Part " was my favorite of the two while "Let The Rainbow Remind You" was a nice little upbeat number. I actually really like Daniel Ingram's music, and I recently listened to some littlest pet shop songs, and songs like "Chez Paris" from that show have a real disney feel. I've now got even more respect for Ingram, I enjoyed the Pony stuff but hearing stuff from Pet Shop and hearing how it's just as good, well, it's just really cool that someone in the industry knows how to make really good, listenable songs in shows marketed more for children, who's songs usually seem to be more annoying to listen to. In fact I enjoyed the music so much I purchased the second Pony soundtrack which has Apples to The Core on it, and I usually avoid soundtracks like this accept for Disney. I think this shows how great the music is, at least imo. Usually I buy film soundtracks, some game music here and there, some rock, and I got for a lot of the Disney stuff , I never expected I'd be buying a MLP soundtrack, and I don't regret it.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=175078#p175078 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Hi,@kantorlot, regarding the finale, and other show elements so I think this calls for the thing we normally do here regarding spoilers, see below:spoilerspaceJust so that it gives anyone time to stop reading as each letter is read on a separate line.Anyhow, I really liked it. I have also seen the episode entitled "Leap of Faith", and heard about the key arc so I used the wiki for now but will go back to the actual episodes later. I got back from Tenereef and noticed the finale was being discussed so I thought I'd just watch it, and interestingly all you really needed to know about were the keys. I liked the flashbacks and the uncertainty at points surrounding discord, and I wondered if they might have made him evil permanently, but luckily they didn't. The villain and battles were also nice! It also had some really cool songs in this one, "You'll Play Your Part " was my favorite of the two while "Let The Rainbow Remind You" was a nice little upbeat number. I actually really like Daniel Ingram's music, and I recently listened to some littlest pet shop songs, and songs like "Chez Paris" from that show have a real disney feel. I've now got even more respect for Ingram, I enjoyed the Pony stuff but hearing stuff from Pet Shop and hearing how it's just as good, well, it's just really cool that someone in the industry knows how to make really good, listenable songs in shows marketed more for children, who's songs usually seem to be more annoying to listen to. In fact I enjoyed the music so much I purchased the second Pony soundtrack which has Apples to The Core on it, and I usually avoid soundtracks like this accept for Disney. I think this shows how great the music is, at least imo. Usually I buy film soundtracks, some game music here and there, some rock, and I got for a lot of the Disney stuff , I never expected I'd be buying a MLP soundtrack, and I don't regret it.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175078#p175078 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @fastfinge About writing: Same here. I found writing for the main characters, even the Cutie Mark Crusaders really hard. And ended up resorting to more background ponies which inevitably have more freedom in personalities with room to grow. I don't know if that's a bad thing or not. But if you feel like you are only using traits, you could always try to flesh characters out a bit more beyond their current fanon personalities.And 9 chapters of 1 words each! (And in less than a day?) I think lots of fics are shorter than that. Of course, I'm guessing they don't all quite tie in at the moment. On the other hand and this may be a silly suggestions, but maybe you can just be brief about the remaining details to tie the whole thing in together. If the encounter with the Good Magician isn't interesting to you, or at least if you don't have any ideas at the moment, the scene might not end up as interesting to read either if forced. Seems better tha n scraping the whole thing in my opinion. (You could even remove some stuff to avoid opening arcs to tie up if it really came to that.)I'm still not coming up with any initial challenge ideas though. Since its at the beginning, I'd probably try to use it to either show some character attribute used later or set the tone of the story.@aaron: Oops, didn't realize it was just that. Just watched it today. So much to say! Yes, it was very nice. And guess I should avoid other episode spoilers now if you haven't seen them yet.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175047#p175047 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: Yup. Unfortunately, none of them tie together well, because they're 3 sets of 3, all at the start of the fic:-- 3 Elements of Harmony chapters, taking us from ponyville into xanth, where the six ponies try and figure out what's going on, and eventually head off to the good magician's castle-- 3 Princess Luna and Lyra chapters, wherein Luna discovers how to open a dream portal between universes, and her and Lyra go through it for no explainable reason, and Lyra gets distracted by humanity and nothing interesting happens. Also, it became a songfic for Henry Mancini's Moon River, and everyone knows all songfics are bad.-- 3 Vinyl Scratch and Octavia Melody chapters that take place entirely in Ponyville, wherein Vinyl isn't as funny as she thinks she is, Octavia is horrified, and oh my God we are never ever getting to the plot so the author just transports the two ponies to xanth when Vinyl's most powerful amplifier explodes for no clearly explained reason. Plus one bonus opening chapter involving Derpy Hooves that just winds up turning into a long drawn out set of the worst classical music puns that anyone has ever written in the history of ever.I got nothing written today, because the waterbed mattress sprang a leak and that took up a bunch of life, plus I got distracted and had to watch all of this girl's videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MwQx-I8Xxsand now I am unfit to write in English at all.So, yeah. Unfortunately, there is absolutely nothing there that I can stitch into a coherent, publishable, complete fic. I think there is something wrong with me as a writer. I can type really, really fast, and my degree in journalism means that I'm accurate enough I don't need to do much proofreading for spelling or grammar, so I can really pump out vast quantities of writing on a whim, because I'm used to having to crank out 500 words within fifteen minutes or so. But what I am absolutely incapable of doing, in anything I ever try to write, is getting my characters to do what I want and follow my carefully crafted plot outline. This probably has something to do with the fact that I crank out character free outlines, and then go and try and find characters I can railroad into them. I'd love to change how I think up fiction; unfortunately that's just how the ideas come to me. At this point I'm thinking I should just throw up my hands and go and write out that stupid dragnet dream I had a while ago as a ten or fifteen thousand word novella, call it a crackfic, and horrify everyone everywhere. At least then I could say I actually completed something.Edit: sprung to sprang. Just because I was saying I don't proofread for grammar, of course I had to go and make a stupid obvious mistake. This is entirely The Fan fiction Critics fault.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175052#p175052 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: I think reviewers also often pick on xanth because of the content of Piers Anthony's adult books. While xanth is always PG13, if you pick up some of his books aimed at adults, not children...well...let's just say that the book Firefly is most notable for having a detailed depiction of paedophilia...from the 6 year old girls point of view...and both the author and characters involved seem to feel that what happened is perfectly OK, because she liked it. This is another thing that didn't bother me when I was a teenager; I was used to adults thinking they knew best when they didn't, and was perfectly willing to assume that anti-paedophilia laws were more of the same. I just read that scene and moved on. So going and rereading that particular book at 22 was a hell of a shock; I think I actually shouted "WHAT THE F***!" at the top of my voice when I was on the bus. At least Anthony stuck with his lawful stupid leanings and stuck the guy in jail, because that's the law, even if he didn't seem to believe it was just. So when those of us who are regular Piers Anthony readers see something even a little, tiny, itty bit sexual in xanth, it triggers us and we foam at the mouth for pages and pages about it, even though that never ever happens in xanth, and most of the sexual content we dislike appears in other completely unrelated works.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175012#p175012 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: re: xanth fanfic: He almost always knows who the potential visitors are, and almost every book starts the adventure with a group of people going to visit the good magician. Honestly, right now I'm still just having Pony problems. I started off writing a few chapters with the elements of harmony visiting xanth. I had several various challenges and goals planned out, and I was going to split them into groups of two, and alternate between the three groups from chapter to chapter, with an overall story arc lasting about 12 chapters. The problem is that the way I right fanfic feels most like inviting a collection of existing characters into my head to sit around a table and play a long and intricate game of let's pretend, and I realized that Twilight is the only element I love enough to want to have her living in my head for an extended period of time. So then I wrote a few chapters involving Princess Luna and Lyra, but they are best not spoken of, bec ause they were so bad that I'm afraid Luna might come back and yell at me some more. Also, Lyra gets far too distracted by humans to ever accomplish anything at all in xanth, and that's why all of my challenges were just getting totally derailed by those two. So this morning I started everything again as a Vinyl Scratch and Octavia Melody fic. But then I realized I needed a Pegasus for stuff that needs to happen later, so Derpy Hooves got involved for a while, but it just wasn't working out between her and the other two ponies. Finally, I remembered that xanth itself has a vast collection of flying equines, so now I'm going through the xanth concordance, and rereading parts of the various books, to try and find Vinyl and Octavia the perfect tour guide to xanth. But as I continue down this route, I'm feeling more and more like using a collection of background ponies is a cop-out, and the fic is going to lose all of its MLP flavou r, and be a xanth novel with some vaguely familiar names. I'm actively considering restarting everything as a fic where several xanth characters get dumped in Equestria and have to find a way back to xanth. That would let me keep my ponies, and avoid the good magician entirely. The problem is, it would make the entirety of my plot outline totally useless, and I just have no plot at all for a xanth characters in Equestria fic. So, to make a long story short, I have wound up writing 9 chapters, of about 1 words each, and none of them are going anywhere but the trash. Are you starting to see why my writing expeditions never wind up getting published where anyone can see them? I am perfectly capable of writing about 4 more story starts of 2 or 3 chapters each, and then getting distracted and going off to do something else.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175013#p175 013 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Hi,All I said was that I enjoyed the finale immensely, or rather, it was very nice.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175032#p175032 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @fastfinge, I found this girls issue surfaced a lot when looking up reviews and discussion after reading. Though I didn't it deserved this much focus. I mean yes, it can get unnerving and would have preferred the story without the excessiveness but it seems like the only topic that a large number of (vocal) readers remembers the book by, when there's so much more in there. Of course, if this is a pattern that gets more pronounced later, I can understand the aggrevation. And since the series is popular, might affect views in an unfortunate way.I'll find out soon enough during the dreaded inter-season hiatus. Anyway, I think Xanth was a worthwhile recommendation, intentional or accidental!And Lawful Stupid. Didn't know about that (and was therefore trapped in TV Tropes for a bit). That pretty much explains it.@aaron, I also thought that some of the Rainbow Dash effects sounded like a Sonic the hedgehog spin dash. I tried to shorten ponyless s ummer by waiting to watch the finale in a few days (and had to stop reading aaron's post at "Also, the recent season finale" but will happily post back once I've seen it!).@fastfinge again: Glad my involvement ended up in something good! Well, since you spent so much time with fiction, you're much better suited than me. I'm sure it will turn out great! But like you said, its more important to have fun with it! As for challenges...hmm...that might depend on if Humfrey knows who the potential visitors are. Would be kind of funny if the answer is no and the ponies subvert it. Like maybe they try to converse with the sea horse who tried not to answer, being in service of the Good Magician. But they start saying ridiculous things like "Is she hard of hearing? Maybe we should speak louder. Or slower." causing the creature to laugh/react and giving up by just answering them.Or they come at a bad time and the guardians are on break and t his inadvertently makes it more difficult for them. In the "this empty room with unlocked door on the other side must have a challenge since we just faced two others" kind of thing.But maybe you were looking for some more down to Xanth challenges. That needs more pondering.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=175008#p175008 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: Yup. Unfortunately, none of them tie together well, because they're 3 sets of 3, all at the start of the fic:-- 3 Elements of Harmony chapters, taking us from ponyville into xanth, where the six ponies try and figure out what's going on, and eventually head off to the good magician's castle-- 3 Princess Luna and Lyra chapters, wherein Luna discovers how to open a dream portal between universes, and her and Lyra go through it for no explainable reason, and Lyra gets distracted by humanity and nothing interesting happens. Also, it became a songfic for Henry Mancini's Moon River, and everyone knows all songfics are bad.-- 3 Vinyl Scratch and Octavia Melody chapters that take place entirely in Ponyville, wherein Vinyl isn't as funny as she thinks she is, Octavia is horrified, and oh my God we are never ever getting to the plot so the author just transports the two ponies to xanth when Vinyl's most powerful amplifier explodes for no clearly explained reason. Plus one bonus opening chapter involving Derpy Hooves that just winds up turning into a long drawn out set of the worst classical music puns that anyone has ever written in the history of ever.I got nothing written today, because the waterbed mattress sprang a leak and that took up a bunch of life, plus I got distracted and had to watch all of this girl's videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MwQx-I8Xxsand now I am unfit to write in English at all.So, yeah. Unfortunately, there is absolutely nothing there that I can stitch into a coherent, publishable, complete fic. I think there is something wrong with me as a writer. I can type really, really fast, and my degree in journalism means that I'm accurate enough I don't need to do much proofreading for spelling or grammar, so I can really pump out vast quantities of writing on a whim, because I'm used to having to crank out 500 words within fifteen minutes or so. But what I am absolutely incapable of doing, in anything I ever try to write, is getting my characters to do what I want and follow my carefully crafted plot outline. This probably has something to do with the fact that I crank out character free outlines, and then go and try and find characters I can railroad into them. I'd love to change how I think up fiction; unfortunately that's just how the ideas come to me. At this point I'm thinking I should just throw up my hands and go and write out that stupid dragnet dream I had a while ago as a ten or fifteen thousand word novella, call it a crackfic, and horrify everyone everywhere. At least then I could say I actually completed something.Edit: sprung to sprang. Just because I was saying I don't proofread for grammar, of course I had to go and make a stupid obvious mistake. This is entirely The Fan fiction Critics fault.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=175052#p175052 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: Yup. Unfortunately, none of them tie together well, because they're 3 sets of 3, all at the start of the fic:-- 3 Elements of Harmony chapters, taking us from ponyville into xanth, where the six ponies try and figure out what's going on, and eventually head off to the good magician's castle-- 3 Princess Luna and Lyra chapters, wherein Luna discovers how to open a dream portal between universes, and her and Lyra go through it for no explainable reason, and Lyra gets distracted by humanity and nothing interesting happens.-- 3 Vinyl Scratch and Octavia Melody chapters that take place entirely in Ponyville, wherein Vinyl isn't as funny as she thinks she is, Octavia is horrified, and oh my God we are never ever getting to the plot so the author just transports the two ponies to xanth when Vinyl's most powerful amplifier explodes for no clearly explained reason. Plus one bonus opening chapter involving Derpy Hooves that just winds u p turning into a long drawn out set of the worst classical music puns that anyone has ever written in the history of ever.I got nothing written today, because the waterbed mattress sprang a leak and that took up a bunch of life, plus I got distracted and had to watch all of this girl's videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MwQx-I8Xxsand now I am unfit to write in English at all.So, yeah. Unfortunately, there is absolutely nothing there that I can stitch into a coherent, publishable, complete fic. I think there is something wrong with me as a writer. I can type really, really fast, and my degree in journalism means that I'm accurate enough I don't need to do much proofreading for spelling or grammar, so I can really pump out vast quantities of writing on a whim, because I'm used to having to crank out 500 words within fifteen minutes or so. But what I am absolut ely incapable of doing, in anything I ever try to write, is getting my characters to do what I want and follow my carefully crafted plot outline. This probably has something to do with the fact that I crank out character free outlines, and then go and try and find characters I can railroad into them. I'd love to change how I think up fiction; unfortunately that's just how the ideas come to me. At this point I'm thinking I should just throw up my hands and go and write out that stupid dragnet dream I had a while ago as a ten or fifteen thousand word novella, call it a crackfic, and horrify everyone everywhere. At least then I could say I actually completed something.Edit: sprung to sprang. Just because I was saying I don't proofread for grammar, of course I had to go and make a stupid obvious mistake. This is entirely The Fanfiction Critics fault.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=175052#p175052 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: Yup. Unfortunately, none of them tie together well, because they're 3 sets of 3, all at the start of the fic:-- 3 Elements of Harmony chapters, taking us from ponyville into xanth, where the six ponies try and figure out what's going on, and eventually head off to the good magician's castle-- 3 Princess Luna and Lyra chapters, wherein Luna discovers how to open a dream portal between universes, and her and Lyra go through it for no explainable reason, and Lyra gets distracted by humanity and nothing interesting happens.-- 3 Vinyl Scratch and Octavia Melody chapters that take place entirely in Ponyville, wherein Vinyl isn't as funny as she thinks she is, Octavia is horrified, and oh my God we are never ever getting to the plot so the author just transports the two ponies to xanth when Vinyl's most powerful amplifier explodes for no clearly explained reason. Plus one bonus opening chapter involving Derpy Hooves that just winds u p turning into a long drawn out set of the worst classical music puns that anyone has ever written in the history of ever.I got nothing written today, because the waterbed mattress sprung a leak and that took up a bunch of life, plus I got distracted and had to watch all of this girl's videos:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MwQx-I8Xxsand now I am unfit to write in English at all.So, yeah. Unfortunately, there is absolutely nothing there that I can stitch into a coherent, publishable, complete fic. I think there is something wrong with me as a writer. I can type really, really fast, and my degree in journalism means that I'm accurate enough I don't need to do much proofreading for spelling or grammar, so I can really pump out vast quantities of writing on a whim, because I'm used to having to crank out 500 words within fifteen minutes or so. But what I am absolut ely incapable of doing, in anything I ever try to write, is getting my characters to do what I want and follow my carefully crafted plot outline. This probably has something to do with the fact that I crank out character free outlines, and then go and try and find characters I can railroad into them. I'd love to change how I think up fiction; unfortunately that's just how the ideas come to me. At this point I'm thinking I should just throw up my hands and go and write out that stupid dragnet dream I had a while ago as a ten or fifteen thousand word novella, call it a crackfic, and horrify everyone everywhere. At least then I could say I actually completed something.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=175052#p175052 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @fastfinge About writing: Same here. I found writing for the main characters, even the Cutie Mark Crusaders really hard. And ended up resorting to more background ponies which inevitably have more freedom in personalities with room to grow. I don't know if that's a bad thing or not. But if you feel like you are only using traits, you could always try to flesh characters out a bit more beyond their current fanon personalities.And 9 chapters of 1 words each! (And in less than a day?) I think lots of fics are shorter than that. Of course, I'm guessing they don't all quite tie in at the moment. On the other hand and this may be a silly suggestions, but maybe you can just be brief about the remaining details to tie the whole thing in together. If the encounter with the Good Magician isn't interesting to you, or at least if you don't have any ideas at the moment, the scene might not end up as interesting to read either if forced. Seems better tha n scraping the whole thing in my opinion. (You could even remove some stuff to avoid opening arcs to tie up if it really came to that.)I'm still not coming up with any initial challenge ideas though. Since its at the beginning, I'd probably try to use it to either show some character attribute used later or set the tone of the story.@aaron: Oops, didn't realize it was just that. Just watched it today. So much to say! Yes, it was very nice. And guess I should avoid other episode spoilers now if you haven't seen them yet.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=175047#p175047 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Hi,All I said was that I enjoyed the finale immensely, or rather, it was very nice.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=175032#p175032 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: re: xanth fanfic: He almost always knows who the potential visitors are, and almost every book starts the adventure with a group of people going to visit the good magician. Honestly, right now I'm still just having Pony problems. I started off writing a few chapters with the elements of harmony visiting xanth. I had several various challenges and goals planned out, and I was going to split them into groups of two, and alternate between the three groups from chapter to chapter, with an overall story arc lasting about 12 chapters. The problem is that the way I right fanfic feels most like inviting a collection of existing characters into my head to sit around a table and play a long and intricate game of let's pretend, and I realized that Twilight is the only element I love enough to want to have her living in my head for an extended period of time. So then I wrote a few chapters involving Princess Luna and Lyra, but they are best not spoken of, bec ause they were so bad that I'm afraid Luna might come back and yell at me some more. Also, Lyra gets far too distracted by humans to ever accomplish anything at all in xanth, and that's why all of my challenges were just getting totally derailed by those two. So this morning I started everything again as a Vinyl Scratch and Octavia Melody fic. But then I realized I needed a Pegasus for stuff that needs to happen later, so Derpy Hooves got involved for a while, but it just wasn't working out between her and the other two ponies. Finally, I remembered that xanth itself has a vast collection of flying equines, so now I'm going through the xanth concordance, and rereading parts of the various books, to try and find Vinyl and Octavia the perfect tour guide to xanth. But as I continue down this route, I'm feeling more and more like using a collection of background ponies is a cop-out, and the fic is going to lose all of its MLP flavou r, and be a xanth novel with some vaguely familiar names. I'm actively considering restarting everything as a fic where several xanth characters get dumped in Equestria and have to find a way back to xanth. That would let me keep my ponies, and avoid the good magician entirely. The problem is, it would make the entirety of my plot outline totally useless, and I just have no plot at all for a xanth characters in Equestria fic. So, to make a long story short, I have wound up writing 9 chapters, of about 1 words each, and none of them are going anywhere but the trash. Are you starting to see why my writing expeditions never wind up getting published where anyone can see them? I am perfectly capable of writing about 4 more story starts of 2 or 3 chapters each, and then getting distracted and going off to do something else.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.c om/viewtopic.php?pid=175013#p175013 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: re: xanth fanfic: He almost always knows who the potential visitors are, and almost every book starts the adventure with a group of people going to visit the good magician. Honestly, right now I'm still just having Pony problems. I started off writing a few chapters with the elements of harmony visiting xanth. I had several various challenges and goals planned out, and I was going to split them into groups of two, and alternate between the three groups from chapter to chapter, with an overall story arc lasting about 12 chapters. The problem is that the way I right fanfic feels most like inviting a collection of existing characters into my head to sit around a table and play a long and intricate game of let's pretend, and I realized that Twilight is the only element I love enough to want to have her living in my head for an extended period of time. So then I wrote a few chapters involving Princess Luna and Lyra, but they are best not spoken of, bec ause they were so bad that I'm afraid Luna might come back and yell at me some more. Also, Lyra gets far too distracted by humans to ever accomplish anything at all in xanth, and that's why all of my challenges were just getting totally derailed by those two. So this morning I started everything again as a Vinyl Scratch and Octavia Melody fic. But then I realized I needed a Pegasus for stuff that needs to happen later, so Derpy Hooves got involved for a while, but it just wasn't working out between her and the other two ponies. Finally, I remembered that xanth itself has a vast collection of flying equines, so now I'm going through the xanth concordance, and rereading parts of the various books, to try and find Vinyl and Octavia the perfect tour guide to xanth. But as I continue down this route, I'm feeling more and more like using a collection of background ponies is a cop-out, and the fic is going to lose all of its MLP flavou r, and be a xanth novel with some vaguely familiar names. So, to make a long story short, I have wound up writing 9 chapters, of about 1 words each, and none of them are going anywhere but the trash. Are you starting to see why my writing expeditions never wind up getting published where anyone can see them? I am perfectly capable of writing about 4 more story starts of 2 or 3 chapters each, and then getting distracted and going off to do something else.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=175013#p175013 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: re: xanth fanfic: He almost always knows who the potential visitors are, and almost every book starts the adventure with a group of people going to visit the good magician. Honestly, right now I'm still just having Pony problems. I started off writing a few chapters with the elements of harmony visiting xanth. I had several various challenges and goals planned out, and I was going to split them into groups of two, and alternate between the three groups from chapter to chapter, with an overall story arc lasting about 12 chapters. The problem is that the way I right fanfic feels most like inviting a collection of existing characters into my head to sit around a table and play a long and intricate game of let's pretend, and I realized that Twilight is the only element I love enough to want to have her living in my head for an extended period of time. So then I wrote a few chapters involving Princess Luna and Lyra, but they are best not spoken of, bec ause they were so bad that I'm afraid Luna might come back and yell at me some more. Also, Lyra gets far too distracted by humans to ever accomplish anything at all in xanth, and that's why all of my challenges were just getting totally derailed by those two. So this morning I started everything again as a Vinyl Scratch and Octavia Melody fic. But then I realized I needed a Pegasus for stuff that needs to happen later, so Derpy Hooves got involved for a while, but it just wasn't working out between her and the other two ponies. Finally, I remembered that xanth itself has a vast collection of flying equines, so now I'm going through the xanth concordance, and rereading parts of the various books, to try and find Vinyl and Octavia the perfect tour guide to xanth. So, to make a long story short, I have wound up writing 9 chapters, of about 1 words each, and none of them are going anywhere but the trash. Are you starting to see why my writing expeditions never wind up getting published where anyone can see them? I am perfectly capable of writing about 4 more story starts of 2 or 3 chapters each, and then getting distracted and going off to do something else.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=175013#p175013 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: I think reviewers also often pick on xanth because of the content of Piers Anthony's adult books. While xanth is always PG13, if you pick up some of his books aimed at adults, not children...well...let's just say that the book Firefly is most notable for having a detailed depiction of paedophilia...from the 6 year old girls point of view...and both the author and characters involved seem to feel that what happened is perfectly OK, because she liked it. This is another thing that didn't bother me when I was a teenager; I was used to adults thinking they knew best when they didn't, and was perfectly willing to assume that anti-paedophilia laws were more of the same. I just read that scene and moved on. So going and rereading that particular book at 22 was a hell of a shock; I think I actually shouted "WHAT THE F***!" at the top of my voice when I was on the bus. At least Anthony stuck with his lawful stupid leanings and stuck the guy in jail, because that's the law, even if he didn't seem to believe it was just. So when those of us who are regular Piers Anthony readers see something even a little, tiny, itty bit sexual in xanth, it triggers us and we foam at the mouth for pages and pages about it, even though that never ever happens in xanth, and most of the sexual content we dislike appears in other completely unrelated works.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=175012#p175012 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: I think reviewers also often pick on xanth because of the content of Piers Anthony's adult books. While xanth is always PG13, if you pick up some of his books aimed at adults, not children...well...let's just say that the book Firefly is most notable for having a detailed depiction of paedophilia...from the 6 year old girls point of view...and both the author and characters involved seem to feel that what happened is perfectly OK, because she liked it. This is another thing that didn't bother me when I was a teenager; I was used to adults thinking they knew best when they didn't, and was perfectly willing to assume that anti-paedophilia laws were more of the same. I just read that scene and moved on. So going and rereading that particular book at 22 was a hell of a shock; I think I actually shouted "WHAT THE F***!" at the top of my voice when I was on the bus. So when those of us who are regular Piers Anthony readers see someth ing even a little, tiny, itty bit sexual in xanth, it triggers us and we foam at the mouth for pages and pages about it, even though that never ever happens in xanth, and most of the sexual content we dislike appears in other completely unrelated works.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=175012#p175012 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: I think reviewers also often pick on xanth because of the content of Piers Anthony's adult books. While xanth is always PG13, if you pick up some of his books aimed at adults, not children...well...let's just say that the book Firefly is most notable for having a detailed depiction of paedophilia...from the 6 year old girls point of view...and both the author and characters involved seem to feel that what happened is perfectly OK, because she liked it. So when those of us who are regular Piers Anthony readers see something even a little, tiny, itty bit sexual in xanth, it triggers us and we foam at the mouth for pages and pages about it, even though that never ever happens in xanth, and most of the sexual content we dislike appears in other completely unrelated works.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=175012#p175012 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @fastfinge, I found this girls issue surfaced a lot when looking up reviews and discussion after reading. Though I didn't it deserved this much focus. I mean yes, it can get unnerving and would have preferred the story without the excessiveness but it seems like the only topic that a large number of (vocal) readers remembers the book by, when there's so much more in there. Of course, if this is a pattern that gets more pronounced later, I can understand the aggrevation. And since the series is popular, might affect views in an unfortunate way.I'll find out soon enough during the dreaded inter-season hiatus. Anyway, I think Xanth was a worthwhile recommendation, intentional or accidental!And Lawful Stupid. Didn't know about that (and was therefore trapped in TV Tropes for a bit). That pretty much explains it.@aaron, I also thought that some of the Rainbow Dash effects sounded like a Sonic the hedgehog spin dash. I tried to shorten ponyless s ummer by waiting to watch the finale in a few days (and had to stop reading aaron's post at "Also, the recent season finale" but will happily post back once I've seen it!).@fastfinge again: Glad my involvement ended up in something good! Well, since you spent so much time with fiction, you're much better suited than me. I'm sure it will turn out great! But like you said, its more important to have fun with it! As for challenges...hmm...that might depend on if Humfrey knows who the potential visitors are. Would be kind of funny if the answer is no and the ponies subvert it. Like maybe they try to converse with the sea horse who tried not to answer, being in service of the Good Magician. But they start saying ridiculous things like "Is she hard of hearing? Maybe we should speak louder. Or slower." causing the creature to laugh/react and giving up by just answering them.Or they come at a bad time and the guardians are on break and t his inadvertently makes it more difficult for them. In the "this empty room with unlocked door on the other side must have a challenge since we just faced two others" kind of thing.But maybe you were looking for some more down to Xanth challenges. That needs more pondering.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=175008#p175008 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Hi,@fastfinge and kantorlot, regarding the sound: Rainbow's flight sound reminds me of a world war 2 style plane, although not as pronounced. It sometimes has elements of one of Sonic's spin-dash sounds from the SatAM version of the cartoon, at least to me anyway.Also, the recent season finale was really nice! I still need to go back and catch up on past seasons though, and even watch some of the season 4 episodes.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=174939#p174939 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: You've only read the first book, and already the author's obsession with the female figure is bothering you. [[wow]]. You have a long journey ahead, my friend. I say the author's obsession, because every single one of his male characters does this. In every single book he's ever written. When I was 13, I had hormones, and so I didn't have a problem with it, and honestly thought that all adult men were like that, not realizing it was something I would grow out of, and that it's kind of creepy. I also thought that because xanth had what I considered to be strong female characters, it was OK for the author to obsess about boobs and somehow wasn't objectification. I really didn't mean my MLP review to come across as recommending Xanth to an adult who has never read it. There is a reason I couldn't reconnect with those characters after university. Unless I'm overestimating your age, and yo u're a mature 16. In that case, have fun; you've got a couple years left where you can enjoy xanth. As for the rest of your questions, if you read books 2 and 3, some of them will get answered. But it's important to remember that Piers Anthony believes that Lawful Stupid is not just a thing on TVTropes, it's the 1 true and correct way to live your life. This also comes across in all of his books. So the distrust for Trent wasn't because trent was evil as you and I would think of it, but because he was, to borrow DM terminology, chaotic good, not lawful good. Seriously though, my griping aside, if you enjoyed that, you won't be disappointed by the next several books in the series. Maybe spend the summer with them when there's no MLP.As for the sound of Rainbow Dash, yeah, that's what I meant. But I thought, and still think, that she should make loud swooshing air noises if anything, not those...whatever those are. They don't sound anything like a jet to me. But as I said, it only bothered me for the first episode or so.Edit to say: your encouragement to actually watch the show and join the community, as well as some other MLP/Xanth discussions I've had with real world friends, has inspired me to try my hand at a MLP/Xanth crossover fic. Unfortunately, thus far, it isn't going well. Do you have any idea how hard it is to come up with 3 challenges the good magician could give a group of ponies? But I'm having fun, even if nothing comes of it, and that's the important part. So thanks for that!URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=174920#p174920 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: You've only read the first book, and already the author's obsession with the female figure is bothering you. [[wow]]. You have a long journey ahead, my friend. I say the author's obsession, because every single one of his male characters does this. In every single book he's ever written. When I was 13, I had hormones, and so I didn't have a problem with it, and honestly thought that all adult men were like that, not realizing it was something I would grow out of, and that it's kind of creepy. I also thought that because xanth had what I considered to be strong female characters, it was OK for the author to obsess about boobs and somehow wasn't objectification. I really didn't mean my MLP review to come across as recommending Xanth to an adult who has never read it. There is a reason I couldn't reconnect with those characters after university. Unless I'm overestimating your age, and yo u're a mature 16. In that case, have fun; you've got a couple years left where you can enjoy xanth. As for the rest of your questions, if you read books 2 and 3, some of them will get answered. But it's important to remember that Piers Anthony believes that Lawful Stupid is not just a thing on TVTropes, it's the 1 true and correct way to live your life. This also comes across in all of his books. So the distrust for Trent wasn't because trent was evil as you and I would think of it, but because he was, to borrow DM terminology, chaotic good, not lawful good. Seriously though, my griping aside, if you enjoyed that, you won't be disappointed by the next several books in the series. Maybe spend the summer with them when there's no MLP.As for the sound of Rainbow Dash, yeah, that's what I meant. But I thought, and still think, that she should make loud swooshing air noises if anything, not those...whatever those are. They don't sound anything like a jet to me. But as I said, it only bothered me for the first episode or so.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=174920#p174920 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: You've only read the first book, and already the author's obsession with the female figure is bothering you. [[wow]]. You have a long journey ahead, my friend. I say the author's obsession, because every single one of his male characters does this. In every single book he's ever written. When I was 13, I had hormones, and so I didn't have a problem with it, and honestly thought that all adult men were like that, not realizing it was something I would grow out of, and that it's kind of creepy. I also thought that because xanth had what I considered to be strong female characters, it was OK for the author to obsess about boobs and somehow wasn't objectification. I really didn't mean my MLP review to come across as recommending Xanth to an adult who has never read it. There is a reason I couldn't reconnect with those characters after university. Unless I'm overestimating your age, and yo u're a mature 16. In that case, have fun; you've got a couple years left where you can enjoy xanth. As for the rest of your questions, if you read books 2 and 3, some of them will get answered. But it's important to remember that Piers Anthony believes that Lawful Stupid is not just a thing on TVTropes, it's the 1 true and correct way to live your life. This also comes across in all of his books. So the distrust for Trent wasn't because trent was evil as you and I would think of it, but because he was, to borrow DM terminology, chaotic good, not lawful good. Seriously though, my griping aside, if you enjoyed that, you won't be disappointed by the next several books in the series. Maybe spend the summer with them when there's no MLP.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=174920#p1 74920 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Extreme Xanth spoiler ahead, but only for the first book A Spell for Chameleon. Read ahead at your own risk and peril.spoilerspaceAdmittedly, when I started reading, I actually thought the first few chapters after the adventure started were kind of boring and was afraid the entire story would turn out to be this one journey since Bink lost ground. But fortunately, he didn't take that much longer. Although, this is probably me missing a good number of jokes in there. Especially things that might come from expressions (such as "items don't grow on trees"). Most of those chapters look like they are there to paint a picture of Xanth and throw in some of these jokes.I found it much more pleasant once Bink reached Humfrey's castle. So I finished the tome in three days which is way too short when I have stuff to do!I really like Bink's over analysis, announced in t he beginning as a character trait which lead to an occupation in the end (I guess?). That reasoning about the Spring of Life's geis was great! And the text arguing with itself trying to explain seeming plot holes. Finally, how the story got stuff past the reader like when we first encounter Iris, the moment of silence after the battle with the wigglies and of course Bink's talent. I usually don't like this kind of stuff when its too easy (or too unobvious when pointed out in the end) but I think this book did it just right and made it that much more enjoyable. Although I did contemplate the possibility that Bink had some kind of improbability drive as a talent.The other prominent trait of the main character was of course his obsessions with the female figure. While I didn't not find this overwhelming, it did happen often enough to be noticed. And I also didn't sympathize so much with Chameleon's plight. But it was written convincingly enough for me to suspend disbelief for that. Though I don't really follow Bink's reasoning for choosing her.Now for some serious overanalysis. I think there were a lot of good reasoning and overthinking about the world instead of just building it. And think it was delivered pretty well. All the main characters being pretty sensible helped quite and bit and is what I think really got me hooked to this in the end.I liked how it mixed magic and evolution and came to the inevitable conclusion that everything must develop self preservation spells. I admittedly don't read all that much so I don't know how novel the idea actually is.Another thing I didn't understand: Why did Bink and Chameleon mistrust Trent so much? Bink knew from his conversation with Cherie that history was not already as it seemed so calling one Magician "Good" and the other "Evil" (and stories told about them) seemed like bias Bink would got past after obse rving Trent for just a short while. I don't mean for them to give him the location of the Shieldstone, of course. But not trusting him to turn against them looks very odd to me. Especially since Bink so readily trusts so many other strangers he meets.Stuff about the timeline also seems a bit messed up. 20 years doesn't seem that long for people to forget what Trent actually did (or didn't do) to the point of painting such a terrible image of him. Of course 20 was needed so when Trent departed he was already powerful enough and when he returned, he would not be too close to retirement. And Iris NOT having schemed in the past when the Storm King was just a contender to the crown sound unlikely to me (so why didn't anything bad happen to her? There's no mention of her island as a punishment?). Speaking of Iris, Bink didn't know who she was despite a "commoner" mentioning her as a threat at the very end.I'm also unsure ho w Trent concluded that Bink's talent only affected magic in the end. What if it just preserved him (but not small chunks of his body)? Although its more likely Bink comes to that conclusion (knowing more of his own past), Trent is pretty unaware of most of the evidence (including the monster battle near the beach that saved Bink).One last remark: the author really likes the verb "to abate".Think I'll stop here. So much more to say that have probably already been said elsewhere.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=174918#p174918 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Ok, so I'm back.Archiving things off the internet is good practice. Sites can go down for all kinds of reasons. Case in point: this place. From the threads, it sounds like the server was lost but since the forum is here unharmed, either the administrators have really good backups or they only lost the domain name.Just played that turtle song and... hahahaha. I suppose its sort of MLP related after all.That's an interesting point about sounds. I think its typical of cartoons to use sounds like these. Most of it is used for emphasis. Rainbow is probably supposed to sound like a jet when flying fast. This show might even do it a bit less exaggerated than others. Unless you meant something else about the sound choice and quality other than its exaggeration and wackiness.I wasn't aware of Xanth and so I looked it up. And peered into the first book. Annnd that's the real mesmerizing magic gourd. Probably going to type up a long overanalysi s right about now.URL: http://audiogamesforum.captivatingsound.com/viewtopic.php?pid=174915#p174915 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com https://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @aaron: Hmmm. Actually, I have a lot of them. First off, I was incredibly glad to have the transcripts. While I love the voice acting on the show, I am a lot less thrilled by the sound design. This might be because this is only the third animated show I've ever watched in my life, as I generally avoid cartoons of any kind. But...I'm sorry...that isn't what a Pegasus in flight sounds like! The flight sounds they use for Rainbow Dash don't make me think flight, they make me think dishwasher from the 25th century having an accident. That's the worst example, but I find all of the other sounds equally bad. However, the rest of the show, plus just ignoring the sound design because I don't need to listen carefully to follow along thanks to the transcript, meant it only really bothered me for about half of the first episode and then I mostly got over it. Second off, I am kind of surprised how much I *do! * love the voice acting. Every single character sounds completely and totally different from the voices I was hearing in my head from fanfic. Being the kind of person I am, I am shocked at how totally fine I am with that. Normally, I get a set idea of how things should be, and cling to it pretty tightly. But the actual MLP voices sound even more like the right voices for those characters than the voices I was imagining for them. So, who ever was in charge of casting has mad skills to make it that satisfying. Now that I've dealt with the technical stuff, I can move on to the plot. I don't know if you're a Piers Anthony fan or not, but Equestria feels so much like xanth without the sex, and a few less puns, and a lot more ponies, it's astonishing! When I was watching Dragonshy, I could have sworn that exact plot happened in Xanth. But I looked through my _guide to xanth_ and the xanth concordance, and it turns out it didn't. It just felt super xanthian. The starting two-parter episode also felt like something that could have happened in xanth: a young creature is sent out on a quest to do x by the all knowing magician, and along the way meets a group of companions, and discovers the things that were really important all along. At the end, just when everything seems lost, the all-knowing magician tells her that she was meant to discover those things from the start, and all is well. Even the dialogue feels like something Piers Anthony might have written for his child characters. I remember actually saying out loud at the end of part 2: "My God, this is early xanth again." Also, MLP uses similar word gags that don't really affect the plot much, but are funny, and encourage a love of words and language, while building character. Also also, a lot of the animation gags (hearts in people's eyes, seeing stars, etc) are thing s that absolutely can and do happen in xanth. The things that are important in MLP are really similar to the values that are important in Xanth. Xanth and MLP are both interested in clothing only for appearance sake, otherwise being fine with nudity. Xanth even has a lot of equines in it: centaurs, flying centaurs, unicorns, ghost horses, alicorns, etc. They even seem to have similar ideas about exactly what it should mean to be royalty. The reason I am harping on this so much is because the xanth books were the books of my childhood. I grew up reading, re-reading, and otherwise loving the hell out of them. But as I grew up, I got more and more uncomfortable with the side elements of xanth: strange sex, female objectification, etc. Also, as xanth went into its 30th book, the plots got tired, and the characters got warn. I mostly convinced myself that it was because I'm just too old to enjoy new xanth books now, not because Piers A nthony jumped the shark long ago. And then I finally watched My Little Pony. This is almost exactly how it felt, to be 11 years old, and curled up with _Aisle of View_ or _Ogre Ogre_, but distilled into half an hour. And you know what? I'm still not too old. I didn't do all of the awful growing up that I was kind of afraid I had gone and done. Sure, I'm more aware of things now, so I can see the holes that Xanth had that I couldn't see when I was 11. But My Little Pony doesn't have most of those pitfalls. It's just silly little adventure stories, with a lesson at the end, where nothing really horrible ever actually happens. I don't mean that in a demeaning way, at all. I lived for exactly those kind of stories as a teenager. But I lost them somewhere during university, and could never quite reconnect with my favourite characters and stories. But finally, in Friendship is Magic, I 9;ve found them again. And that's what kept me up all night.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=174022#p174022 ___
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Hi,@fastfinge: ouch and lol. I'm kind of surprised you stayed up late watching mlp. I'm now wondering what your thoughts on the show are, now that you've seen some episodes.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173963#p173963 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: Yeah, that's where I got them, and then I promptly lost the link. I tend to archive things I want to keep on sendspace for myself anyway, especially things like that where I suspect a copyright takedown is coming soon.In other news that nobody cares about, I lay in bed and watched MLP until about 1:30 in the morning, and yet did not get another MLP related dream. Nope! Instead, I dreamed that I was a DJ at a radio station, and someone had invaded the studio and was forcing me to put this song on continuous play:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRWAFQqQY9YI woke myself up going "turtle yeah yeah yeah yeah! turtle urtle urtle urtle" in that half-asleep mumble voice that you have when you're talking in your sleep. And now that song is stuck in my head, and probably will be all day. Yuck! I guess now that I've watched the show my brain is less fascinated b y it? I'm mostly sharing so there is a chance someone else will be stuck with that annoying music in their head. FMLURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173937#p173937 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: Yeah, that's where I got them, and then I promptly lost the link. I tend to archive things I want to keep on sendspace for myself anyway, especially things like that where I suspect a copyright takedown is coming soon.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173937#p173937 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Yay! Happy watching then! Its a bit funny that you dreamed of fanfic before you watched the series. Although in the early fandom, I read stories of people going to meetups having never watched the show just because they liked the people. I don't know if they are true but just the idea is kind of funny. To each their own!I think the mobile version of Google docs is more text friendly (example: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T_9 … ic?pli=1). You get this if you put mobilebasic instead of edit in the url. I actually set my browser to send a phone's user agent sometimes and this makes a lot of websites load faster and text friendly!Oh, I haven't checked if they are the same as yours but there are voice only audio of episodes here.P.S., I'll be away for a couple of weeks. Just a preemptive "not dead" note.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173855#p173855 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with For those who want it, I converted all of the existing transcripts to plain text format, to make them easier to deal with. You can find them on sendspace here:https://www.sendspace.com/folder/kh6m1cNote that this is still uploading. The folder is like 3.65 GB, so it could take a while. Also included are vocal-only audio versions of each episode. I'm currently watching MLP via netflix, so I have no idea if those are useful or not. Once my torrent finishes, I'll do real full-audio rips for everyone who doesn't need the video. But the torrent is going to take 3 weeks, so don't hold your breath. Unless someone can tell me how to easily rip the audio out of Netflix? I have send space pro, so that folder isn't going anywhere, and I'll keep it up to date. So feel free to share and enjoy. Now, back to my Marathon!URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173773#p173773 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: They must have been added, or I also missed them. But I never heard anything back via email, so I dunno. But they exist, now! Yay! So I guess I'll finally watch the actual series. Seeing as apparently I'm going to dream about it regardless.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173767#p173767 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @fastfinge: That's some seriously wicked dream and a great read.So apparently, other transcript, after S2 were there all along. Even goes up to the last episode. Were these added recently after your e-mail? Or did I just miss them??URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173765#p173765 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Hi,@fastfinge: lol! This is the third time I've laughed today while browsing this forum. What an odd and in a weird way, awesome dream.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173752#p173752 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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This has nothing to do with the thread up to this point, but I just had to share! Last night, I had the strangest My Little Pony related dream, and woke up to write a bit of it, as I usually do. I have kept a dream journal for about 13 years now, and am to the point where I remember to write about almost all of my dreams. Apparently, my brain loves crack fanfic so much that it's now generating it for me while I sleep. First, some background. I sleep with my laptop next to my bed, so often, when I am having trouble sleeping, or wake up in the middle of the night, I roll over, put my headphones on, and resume playing whatever I was listening to before I fell asleep. Recently, this has been the dragnet old time radio show. So, last night, I was wide awake...or thought I was..., rolled over, put on the headphones, and hit play. Only to hear:This is EBC, the equestrian broadcasting company. {the three dong dong dong chimes. First bar of t
he theme song.} Dragon net. Mayors and gentlestallions, the story you are about to hear is true. Only the names were changed to protect the Innocent. {more theme music.} You're a detective Sargent. You're assigned to robbery detail. A gang of ponies has been steeling baked goods. Evidence points to a well-oiled criminal organization. Your job: cook them. {final bars of theme music} It was Sunday July third. It was raining in ponyville and we were working the night watch in robbery detail. My partner's Applebloom. The boss is princess Celestia. My name's Scootaloo. We were on our way out of the office and it was 9:57 PM when we got to sugarcube corner. Unfortunately, that was all of the dream I bothered to write down at the time. I have vague memories involving Twilight Sparkle getting arrested, and Rainbow Dash fighting an army of eighteen Pegasus thieves, and...something about Scootaloo's scooter bursting into flames after a b
ombing attempt because she was getting too close to the truth? Also, there was a marshmallow laser battling Pinkie's party cannon in defence of poundcake at some point for...some reason. The only other thing I thought was important enough to write down was this:Starring Emma Stone as the voice of Scootaloo, Yeardley Smith as Applebloom, Kristin Chenoweth as Pinkie Pie, Sarah Silverman as Rainbow Dash, India Fisher as Rarity, Idina Menzel as Fluttershy, and Sarah Michelle Gellar as Twilight Sparkle. So, yeah. Apparently my brain can tell me the most epic story of utter epicness in the history of epic things, and all I really want to do when I'm half asleep is dork out about voice actresses. Go, sleepy me! You win! LOLEdit: I lay in my bed again, because sometimes that helps me remember bits I forgot to write down. So...it turned out Twilight was the one steeling the baked goods, because she thought if she could only eat enou
gh blueberries, she would turn blue. No, I don't remember why she wanted to turn blue. But unfortunately Fluttershy caught her setting fire to Scootaloo's scooter with her horn, and snitched. So Twilight kidnapped Poundcake and was holding him hostage in Sugarcube Corner to negotiate safe passage out of Equestria. She was also demanding 80 pounds of blueberries for the journey. And every time Scootaloo got too close, Twilight was taking pot shots at her with a magically powered marshmallow laser that she had somehow bolted onto her horn. I mean, like, with actual metal bolts. Based on the sounds, it apparently hurt. A lot. There were a lot more things, I'm sure, and I'm sure the bits I'm forgetting made that all make more sense. Well, no. I'm not. Why did I bother straining my brain trying to remember this in the first place? Gah!URL: http://forum.audiogames.
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This has nothing to do with the thread up to this point, but I just had to share! Last night, I had the strangest My Little Pony related dream, and woke up to write a bit of it, as I usually do. I have kept a dream journal for about 13 years now, and am to the point where I remember to write about almost all of my dreams. Apparently, my brain loves crack fanfic so much that it's now generating it for me while I sleep. First, some background. I sleep with my laptop next to my bed, so often, when I am having trouble sleeping, or wake up in the middle of the night, I roll over, put my headphones on, and resume playing whatever I was listening to before I fell asleep. Recently, this has been the dragnet old time radio show. So, last night, I was wide awake...or thought I was..., rolled over, put on the headphones, and hit play. Only to hear:This is EBC, the equestrian broadcasting company. {the three dong dong dong chimes. First bar of t
he theme song.} Dragon net. Mayors and gentlestallions, the story you are about to hear is true. Only the names were changed to protect the Innocent. {more theme music.} You're a detective Sargent. You're assigned to robbery detail. A gang of ponies has been steeling baked goods. Evidence points to a well-oiled criminal organization. Your job: cook them. {final bars of theme music} It was Sunday July third. It was raining in ponyville and we were working the night watch in robbery detail. My partner's Applebloom. The boss is princess Celestia. My name's Scootaloo. We were on our way out of the office and it was 9:57 PM when we got to sugarcube corner. Unfortunately, that was all of the dream I bothered to write down at the time. I have vague memories involving Twilight Sparkle getting arrested, and Rainbow Dash fighting an army of eighteen Pegasus thieves, and...something about Scootaloo's scooter bursting into flames after a b
ombing attempt because she was getting too close to the truth? Also, there was a marshmallow laser battling Pinkie's party cannon in defence of poundcake at some point for...some reason. The only other thing I thought was important enough to write down was this:Starring Emma Stone as the voice of Scootaloo, Yeardley Smith as Applebloom, Kristin Chenoweth as Pinkie Pie, Sarah Silverman as Rainbow Dash, India Fisher as Rarity, Idina Menzel as Fluttershy, and Sarah Michelle Gellar as Twilight Sparkle. So, yeah. Apparently my brain can tell me the most epic story of utter epicness in the history of epic things, and all I really want to do when I'm half asleep is dork out about voice actresses. Go, sleepy me! You win! LOLURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173748#p173748
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This has nothing to do with the thread up to this point, but I just had to share! Last night, I had the strangest My Little Pony related dream, and woke up to write a bit of it, as I usually do. I have kept a dream journal for about 13 years now, and am to the point where I remember to write about almost all of my dreams. Apparently, my brain loves crack fanfic so much that it's now generating it for me while I sleep. First, some background. I sleep with my laptop next to my bed, so often, when I am having trouble sleeping, or wake up in the middle of the night, I roll over, put my headphones on, and resume playing whatever I was listening to before I fell asleep. Recently, this has been the dragnet old time radio show. So, last night, I was wide awake...or thought I was..., rolled over, put on the headphones, and hit play. Only to hear:This is ECB, the equestrian broadcasting company. {the three dong dong dong chimes. First bar of t
he theme song.} Dragon net. Mayors and gentlestallions, the story you are about to hear is true. Only the names were changed to protect the Innocent. {more theme music.} You're a detective Sargent. You're assigned to robbery detail. A gang of ponies has been steeling baked goods. Evidence points to a well-oiled criminal organization. Your job: cook them. {final bars of theme music} It was Sunday July third. It was raining in ponyville and we were working the night watch in robbery detail. My partner's Applebloom. The boss is princess Celestia. My name's Scootaloo. We were on our way out of the office and it was 9:57 PM when we got to sugarcube corner. Unfortunately, that was all of the dream I bothered to write down at the time. I have vague memories involving Twilight Sparkle getting arrested, and Rainbow Dash fighting an army of eighteen Pegasus thieves, and...something about Scootaloo's scooter bursting into flames after a b
ombing attempt because she was getting too close to the truth? Also, there was a marshmallow laser battling Pinkie's party cannon in defence of poundcake at some point for...some reason. The only other thing I thought was important enough to write down was this:Starring Emma Stone as the voice of Scootaloo, Yeardley Smith as Applebloom, Kristin Chenoweth as Pinkie Pie, Sarah Silverman as Rainbow Dash, India Fisher as Rarity, Idina Menzel as Fluttershy, and Sarah Michelle Gellar as Twilight Sparkle. So, yeah. Apparently my brain can tell me the most epic story of utter epicness in the history of epic things, and all I really want to do when I'm half asleep is dork out about voice actresses. Go, sleepy me! You win! LOLURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173748#p173748
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with I keep forgetting to mention this here. My Litte Investigations, which is a fairly popular project was recently released and is fully voiced. Unfortunately the interface is custom made and entirely mouse driven. But since they used an open format for their files, it's plausible to it turn into some kind of interactive fiction with the same resources. The moving around in this game isn't actually all that important.Here's the only playthrough I found that doesn't talk over the game audio (Youtube video). You can play this video up to 9 minutes in without spoiling anything (up to then, the game only involves clicking when a character stops talking to advance the dialogue).Last line before gameplay starts: Twilight: "Don't worry Rarity, I'll get to the bottom of this before the other investigation team even gets here."URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173568#p173568 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Hi,@fastfinge: That's the thing, I don't really think I'm missing anything as if I can't find transcripts, I just let my imagination fill in the gaps using sound design and music to help me.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173548#p173548 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @fastfinge: That's actually a really interesting setup. I can't think of a better way if you want to get everything. Now to see if there's some way to stir some interest in transcripts in the community...URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173507#p173507 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @aaron: But...all the stuff you're missing! How does it not make you twitchy?URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173478#p173478 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Hi,If a show is half an hour I'd usually just watch it and enjoy what I can from it, if there's a transcript, so much the better but I don' think it's necessary for stories and character dialog.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173411#p173411 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: I put whatever I am watching on netflix via my Apple TV for the audio, and read the transcript on a braille display connected to my laptop. So when I want to do a close-reading of something in the transcript, I can use the apple TV remote to pause the show for a sec, and then easily unpause it. I generally pause for 10 or 15 seconds about once a minute. If the transcript is unclear about something, or I get curious about a particular thing (Where have I heard that voice before? Where was that scene filmed?) I will sometimes hit a wiki or fansite to look something up real quick, adding another 30 seconds or so on pause. A half hour show generally takes me from 45 minutes to an hour to listen to. When I watch a TV show with friends, I will usually listen to it my way beforehand if I know what we're going to watch, or if I don't, I'll listen to it again myself later. I really, really don't see how multiple voices could work. I can listen to up to three voices speaking at once and understand them, but I find it extremely stressful. I don't know how well those transcripts do about not revealing information before the writers intended, because I haven't watched the show yet, but I do agree that sometimes is a problem. But IMHO, as you can probably tell, I would far rather too much information than too little.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173340#p173340 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with New episode day for the interested! (likely no transcript of any sort at the moment though...)@fastfinge: That exact thought crossed my mind! Transcripts would probably bug me because its not the character's voices but I don't know what your setup is (to have both the transcript and listen to the show at the same time). Its possibly also easier to find people to write transcripts (narrators would likely have had to read from a transcript anyway).A side remark: Someone sighted watching the show is likely to miss most of what's in that description or only be left with a vague impression of it. It just happens too fast. I mean the background music that we hear during those few second could be given an extensive description as well. Although some of the visuals are much more central. The central parts and ideas can probably be describe more briefly.Or maybe you could have different voices talking at differen t distances depending on how prominent it is? I wonder if it'd be possible to get that to even work though. Even in the best case, we'd still be funneling two sources of information (audio and visual) into a single one (audio only).This reminds me that I wanted to say something else about this "background ponies" phenomenon (TV Tropes article on the topic Warning: website that is potentially a huge time sink). If someone doesn't interact with the fan community, it is possible and I'd say even very likely to watch the entire show without being able to distinguish between the background characters, much less have names for them. So to some extent, that's pretty equal footing or even a bit of an advantage for the one with the transcript (they are called by name there despite having unremarkable visuals). (Of course, there's the eventual problem when they point out th at such and such can be seen for half a second sitting awkwardly way over there in the background while some much more noticeable thing is happening in the foreground (I think Fluttershy running around in this case?).)URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173321#p173321 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: No, I never got a reply. Interesting idea about having a narrator like DV, and I'm sure some people would want that. Personally, I would rather read transcripts while listening to the original show than listen to the show with DV. Because in DV, the narrator only has 2 or 3 seconds where people aren't talking to describe things. But in a transcript, the transcriber can be as descriptive as he wants: "(On the second half of this, the clouds fade away and others slide out of view to expose the landscape. A town can be seen near a meandering stream, with a second one—made of clouds and rainbows—floating near it and higher than the peak of a nearby mountain. A city of white and gold projects from the nearly-vertical precipice. Zoom in on this, then cut to a pair of winged unicorns standing back to back on a cloud; the left one is white, with a pink mane and long tail, while the other is dark blue with a lighter blue mane/tail. Tilt up slowly.)" There is just no way that DV could fit that huge chunk of description in between the first two spoken lines of the show. Though I might be more comfortable with this, because I have taken some television and film classes, so I am aware of the meanings of things like cut, pan, zoom, tilt, swipe, whip, etc. I can imagine that people who haven't handled a camera might be a little lost in a screenplay or transcript.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173291#p173291 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @aaron: Equestria Daily is perfect for that kind of thing then. I think the /r/mylittlepony subreddit tends to get these news a tad earlier though. But has the accessibility issue mentioned (though your could sift through titles and only look at self posts or posts with lots of comments). Oh and the show creators tweet teasers sometimes. I'll edit this post with their twitter account when I find them.I didn't realize IRC wasn't easy to setup, being more or less entirely text based. Quite honestly, I'm not sure how much more a dedicated IRC client would do.@fastfinge: That's for finding Jesus for me. That's fixed now. Although the Wikipedia disambiguation page suggests that stigmata is also the plural of stigma? What? This is more confusing than I though. (The stigmata pa ge talked about wounds like you said.)And now you know I never commented on Equestria Daily. I know they changed their commenting system a few times. I guess its Intense Debate now. E-mail is probably the better choice here anyways. Did you get a reply?It may otherwise be possible to incite people to write them given the size of the fandom and the large number of fans looking to contribute but generally don't know how. Maybe even have a narrator to make like DV.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173252#p173252 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with I'll finish this list first and then answer.4. The Round Stable Description: Forums created by members of the Something Awful website. Has a front page with news for the last two years. Offers an alternative perspective that also less focused on fan creations. It has rather eloquent creator and so attracted similar members. Eloquent doesn't mean already to the point though. Sometimes criticised for its stricter rules.Accessibility: There's relatively heavy use of images in user profiles and signatures. Discussions have an average amount of emoticons, which while tagged by name, are not always used in their original context so it could get confusing. Some threads have large text walls so it may be better to start there. Some threads are heavy in linked images.Userbase: Smaller than the other places but still with many users, I believe.5. Sub reddit /r/mylittleponyDescription: A link aggregator, meaning that it contains a bunch of user submitted links to other sites that are sorted by user votes (in some sense). Sometimes considered an art dump by others due to the large number of images links to fan created drawings. Also a bit hard to socialise due to its format.Accessibility: Does have discussions sometimes, especially when new episodes airs. Its possible to comment on all the links. Comments sometimes contains emoticon images.Userbase: 63627 users with 186 active right now. Pretty nice moderators in my humble opinion although its mostly a hands-off site that runs on its own.6. Rainbow Dash NetworkDescription: A twitter-like socialising site (1000 character limit). I've never used it so can't say much more.Accessibility: Seems pretty going, being more or less all text, except for picture.Userbase: There seems to be a good nu mber of users. However, it doesn't seem to be mentioned so prominently on other sites anymore. I don't know why.7. Derpy Hooves newsDescription: Perhaps the second biggest news site, although still not too well known I believe. It is also uncensored, although not prominently so (Equestria Daily doesn't feature articles unsafe for the young-uhns). Digs a bit deeper into rumours and stories.Accessibility: Nothing particularly noticeable for a news site (obviously pretty visual-heavy).Userbase: Being less popular, there are much fewer comments so its hard to tell except for the editorial team, which seems good to me.8. Equestria GamingDescription: Pony themed games and reviews. Still quite unknown I believe but might be a good place to find links to other things or projects. ( is not mentioned there; I haven't tried submitting it.)Accessi bility: The site itself is like any news site but most games are pretty bad with accessibility I think.Userbase: Same are Derpy Hooves news. Few comments so its hard to tell.9. meDescript - Wait! I'm not a website! But just wanted to answer about contact information at such. My e-mail iscantorlot at-sign derpymail dot org(I spelled it out to avoid spam but this makes it not possible to copy and paste.) I don't have a twitter account though. Unfortunately, I tend to reply rather slowly to e-mail because of lack of time. But go ahead and e-mail me anytime!I'm avoiding Skype to keep my anonymity. Most fans are not this crazy though. So I'm sure you can find a Skype group if you chat with them long enough. I feel voice gives away too much information, that's all (I didn't credit myself in-game).URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173236#p173236 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Hi,Unfortunately, I don't have the link on hand at the moment.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173223#p173223 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @aaron: I kind of assumed that, yeah. That's another reason why I avoid cannon; I have much more fun that way! LOL. By the way, can you link me to the mIRC with NVDA? All of the mIRC stuff I have requires Jaws or Window Eyes. These days I just use chatzilla, but a dedicated IRC program might be nice.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173218#p173218 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @aaron: I kind of assumed that, yeah. That's why I avoid cannon; I have much more fun that way! LOL. By the way, can you link me to the mIRC with NVDA? All of the mIRC stuff I have requires Jaws or Window Eyes. These days I just use chatzilla, but a dedicated IRC program might be nice.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173218#p173218 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Hi,@fastfinge: Sorry to spoil your fun, but nope, Jesus hasn't really shown up in Equestria, not in the official cannon anyway.@kantorlot: I don't really mind spoilers. For me, it generates a bit of hype. I haven't used IRC in a while, in fact there was a mIRC with some NVDA-based scripts for it but I frgot all the commands for it. Aah well, might have to dig it out.I like browsing Equestria Daily, but I think I'll stay away from ponychan.Thanks for the help so far, and the same can definitely be said for @darkabomination who has given me another place to try out too.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173198#p173198 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with @cantorlot: Just as a gentle FYI, in case you didn't know, you meant "stigma", not "stigmata". I know lots of people get those words confused, but they mean really different things; stigmata means the bloody wounds that some Christians claim to manifest miraculously, in the places where the nails pierced the hands and feet of Jesus when he was crucified. Stigma means a mark of shame. So unless the MLP fandom is stranger than I ever imagined, the word you want is stigma. Although, someone *did* write that Cupcakes fanfic, so a community devoted to pony crucifixion wouldn't really surprise me, unfortunately. Also, there is this:http://www.fimfiction.net/story/37680/f … with-jesusso apparently Fluttershy and Jesus do hang in the same circles. Actually, Jesus kind of shows up surprisingly often in Equestria:http://www.fimfiction.net/story/18724/1 … chapter-18Why on earth did I ever Google for this? Anyway, I had a point to posting, other than that nonsense. What was...oh yeah! Equestria Daily has some accessibility problems that might prevent you from participating: they use intense debate for there comments, and that system will often make you fill out a CAPTCHA before the comment will post, and WebVisum can't always solve it. I only discovered that this morning, when I went to comment on the post I linked to in the other topic with the transcripts, to ask if anyone was going to do the new seasons. If I can get transcripts up to s4, I'll probably just give up and watch the show already. So I just emailed the address listed in the file instead. Also, the links in the menu don't quite open right. For example, if you click community, the community links won't show up to NVDA as underneath the community link; you kind of have to go down a little bit and hunt for the new links. Also, clicking chat caused my Firefox to crash completely, so don't do that.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173171#p173171 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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I'll preface this by saying that there are different things people discuss about this show. There's talk about what happens in the show, of course, but there's also a lot of talk about the show's schedule and direction ("when does the next season start" or "how many princesses will we end up with?" are some examples) and also talk about the show's creators (what they are doing, when are they making appearances and such). Since you've already visited Equestria Daily, you're probably pretty aware of this, or at least the perspect that website projects, which is pretty widely shared.The other thing to note is that the fandom is fairly large which means there are many groups that form within it. Each with their own appeal and own rules. And yes, sometimes even some rivalry between them. But I think this is a good thing because it gives you more of a choice as to where you want to go. I'll list some of the places I know
here but I'm sure there many others. And, this is probably already obvious, but I'm going to state the obvious a lot. Like right now. But that's because I don't know where you've been up to now.Ok, two more notes before I get down to the list. To answer your post in the other thread, Aaron, which I think these places are much nicer than the rest of the internet, I don't think they avoid misconceptions entirely. So if you've met people who thought that blind people can't use a computer, I think the truth is you'll still meet them there. However, since they may be fending stigmata of their own, they may be more willing to listen once you've explained. But from the get go, I think its inevitable that a number of participants think that way.Finally, my opinion will obviously seep through my description so I won't
try to hold back much. But just because I don't like some aspect of some site or other, it doesn't mean that you won't. And if joining them is what makes you happy and is what you were looking for, by all means do it! I'm just one person with one opinion after all.Last thing before the list: Some of these places may also contain spoilers for future episode. I don't know if that kind of thing bothers you or not.List of pony places:1. Equestria Daily.Description: The most popular news site around. Shapes mainstream fandom opinions by its sheer popularity. Although, some people may be think that it tries too hard to make headlines and sound bites, and perhaps the lack of depth and sophistication in some cases.Accessibility: Discussions are mostly image free. Content is tagged which helps
with searching for only accessible stuff. Except for fan fiction, it has a fairly strong bias for images and videos.Userbase: Being the "majority of the fandom" so to speak, I think it may be more difficult to pitch different ideas here.2. Canternet.Description: This is an IRC network formed by fans. Has quite a few large channels. Although I've had very little contact, I think this might be a good choice to start just because people are somewhat forced to chat in text here. A lot of the other websites I'll mention in the list have a channel on here (such as #EquestriaDaily, #ponychan)Accessibility: I would think it is good if you have a good IRC client.Userbase: I haven't been here often enough to know.Accessibility: Heavy use of images for emotes and images in signatures. Posts with images are allowed but not so frequent.3. PonychanD
escription: An imageboard, which is said to have historically welcomed the exiles of 4chan who discovered the show (WARNING: Don't go to 4chan unless you know what you're getting yourself into. Ponychan by contrast is safe).Accessibility: I think the interface for the site itself is fairly accessible. But being an imageboard, that's a forum where each post can have an image displayed prominently alongside the text (or possibly no text at all) so obviously the informations from those images will be missed (they don't always have indicative filenames). There is occasional dissent about rules, banning and board structure. Sometimes criticized for its "hugboxing". Although, I was never active enough for these things to be noticeable to me.Userbase: Having been there since the beginning, it has a fairly large number of users. Users and level of discourse vary greatly depending the "board" (a.k.a. subforum) you frequent. /pony/ is the main board for discussing the show but move very quickly (at least for me). So there may be far too many new posts that can be easily missed while you're typing. Or maybe not, I don't know.Sorry, spent to much time on the preface. I'll finish this list in a day or so. Other things I might talk about: The Round Stable, Derpy Hooves news, Reddit, game playing and making groups,
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I'll preface this by saying that there are different things people discuss about this show. There's talk about what happens in the show, of course, but there's also a lot of talk about the show's schedule and direction ("when does the next season start" or "how many princesses will we end up with?" are some examples) and also talk about the show's creators (what they are doing, when are they making appearances and such). Since you've already visited Equestria Daily, you're probably pretty aware of this, or at least the perspect that website projects, which is pretty widely shared.The other thing to note is that the fandom is fairly large which means there are many groups that form within it. Each with their own appeal and own rules. And yes, sometimes even some rivalry between them. But I think this is a good thing because it gives you more of a choice as to where you want to go. I'll list some of the places I know
here but I'm sure there many others. And, this is probably already obvious, but I'm going to state the obvious a lot. Like right now. But that's because I don't know where you've been up to now.Ok, two more notes before I get down to the list. To answer your post in the other thread, Aaron, which I think these places are much nicer than the rest of the internet, I don't think they avoid misconceptions entirely. So if you've met people who thought that blind people can't use a computer, I think the truth is you'll still meet them there. However, since they may be fending stigmata of their own, they may be more willing to listen once you've explained. But from the get go, I think its inevitable that a number of participants think that way.Finally, my opinion will obviously seep through my description so I won't
try to hold back much. But just because I don't like some aspect of some site or other, it doesn't mean that you won't. And if joining them is what makes you happy and is what you were looking for, by all means do it! I'm just one person with one opinion after all.Last thing before the list: Some of these places may also contain spoilers for future episode. I don't know if that kind of thing bothers you or not.List of pony places:1. Equestria Daily.Description: The most popular news site around. Shapes mainstream fandom opinions by its sheer popularity. Although, some people may be think that it tries too hard to make headlines and sound bites, and perhaps the lack of depth and sophistication in some cases.Accessibility: Discussions are mostly image free. Content is tagged which helps
with searching for only accessible stuff. Except for fan fiction, it has a fairly strong bias for images and videos.Userbase: Being the "majority of the fandom" so to speak, I think it may be more difficult to pitch different ideas here.2. Canternet.Description: This is an IRC network formed by fans. Has quite a few large channels. Although I've had very little contact, I think this might be a good choice to start just because people are somewhat forced to chat in text here. A lot of the other websites I'll mention in the list have a channel on here (such as #EquestriaDaily, #ponychan)Accessibility: I would think it is good if you have a good IRC client.Userbase: I haven't been here often enough to know.Accessibility: Heavy use of images for emotes and images in signatures. Posts with images are allowed but not so frequent.3. PonychanD
escription: An imageboard, which is said to have historically welcomed the exiles of 4chan who discovered the show (WARNING: Don't go to 4chan unless you know what you're getting yourself into. Ponychan by contrast is safe).Accessibility: I think the interface for the site itself is fairly accessible. But being an imageboard, that's a forum where each post can have an image displayed prominently alongside the text (or possibly no text at all) so obviously the informations from those images will be missed (they don't always have indicative filenames).Userbase: Having been there since the beginning, it has a fairly large number of users. Users and level of discourse vary greatly depending the "board" (a.k.a. subforum) you frequent. /pony/ is the main board for discussing the show but move very quickly (at least for me). So there may be far too many new posts that can be easily missed while you'r
e typing. Or maybe not, I don't know.Sorry, spent to much time on the preface. I'll finish this list in a day or so. Other things I might talk about: The Round Stable, Derpy Hooves news, Reddit, game playing and making groups, myself. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=173165#p173165
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Hi,If you click the email link near my name, you'll be able to send me a forum email which wll go to my email address.However, if you'd like the actual address anyway, it is:jukesy1...@gmail.comURL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=171390#p171390 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Heya. I've got a good forum group I'm personally freinds with. So I can help you out. but it'd be much easier if I had a contact like email or skype to discuss it with.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=171387#p171387 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with Of course, if you really are having trouble finding a group, the other option is to start one, and then (using completely legitimate channels) ask people to participate. It could really just be that this is an underserved discussion topic. URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=171340#p171340 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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Re: help finding people to discuss something with You could try:http://ponyville-trot.dreamwidth.org/Read, comment, and post. Everyone I've interacted with in other DW communities has been really friendly thus far.URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=171338#p171338 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
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help finding people to discuss something with Hi all,This might seem a very weird question to ask, but you'll see why in a bit.As many of you know, I'm a fan of Friendship is Magic. However, I'd like some people's help. I'm wondering how to find other fans of the show to discuss it with? For some very strange reason, I can find fans and twitter timelines for doctor who and things, but I don't really know how to approach existing mlp fans. As it stands I don't really have anyone either on twitter or in my contacts who I can discuss the show with, and it's slightly annoying me. In fact I was recently told that someone was a fan, tweeted said person and, low and behold, turns out it was a prank. Now before you guys go mad and say that this person shouldn't have pranked me, don't panic. I'm not offended by this prank. I'm just wondering how to proceed here, what to look for, how to find others to discuss the show with. I don't know whether to try joining a site such as equestria daily or whether to try twitter. I'm not sure how welcome I'll be.While I understand there might not be many mlp fans here, could you possibly tell me how to approach things in a general sense? Say, in the past, you must have found a program and wanted to discuss it with people. How did you go about finding people to discuss it with?URL: http://forum.audiogames.net/viewtopic.php?pid=171324#p171324 ___ Audiogames-reflector mailing list Audiogames-reflector@sabahattin-gucukoglu.com http://sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/audiogames-reflector
