Mr Zoat
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Twilights right ear twitches in a way which probably conveys all sorts of meaning to other ponies. "So… You've realised that your obsessive behaviour was self-destructive and you've come to apologise to everyone you offended and repair your old friendships?"
Probably an accurate reflection of Twilight Sparkle's brain at that moment."This video is no longer available because the youtube account associated with it has closed."
True, Lathander is the greatest god who is not Apollon.Don't forget she is an immortal who literally raises and lowers the sun.
Quite a lot of us humans would pray to someone like that.
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True, Lathander is the greatest god who is not Apollon.
Although for all that the Sun God is amazing, I'd rather follow a craftsman who is better than the gods. One who could craft something better than the Sun and Moon.
Eh. She's had a thousand years to fix it. She could have trained up a squad of unicorns to handle the sun, and created a parliament to run the country. If she decides not to, that's on her.And here comes the massive weakness in ponykind collective psyche.
Celestia is considered by her little ponies both as an all knowing, all powerfull GOD-queen and their MOTHER.
Therefore, she CAN NOT be wrong !
She is the cornerstone of their whole universe. Without Celestia the sun WILL litteraly not rise.
Doubting Celestia is as alien as thinking that the sun may one day not rise.
However it was proven and established that Celestia, i mean the actual pony, in spite of all her power, wisdom and
good intention has made mistakes. She is responsible for many faillure, she can be defeated and she is far from being perfect.
In my opinion, it is unfair for every parties involves in this matter.
For Celestia because she has to shoulder those expectations and the responsabilities dumped on her by her subjects.
For all the little ponies because they have allowed themself to become overreliant on one allmighty parental figure.
Perhaps, it is the reason why she lets the Mane 6 handle all those crisis. She is trying to gently teach her people that
they could do thing by themself. That they don't truly need her anymore. To grown up.
Eh. She's had a thousand years to fix it. She could have trained up a squad of unicorns to handle the squad, and created a parliament to run the country. If she decides not to, that's on her.
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Probably an accurate reflection of Twilight Sparkle's brain at that moment.
When that happens, Celestia and Luna are in very different places.Or she and her sister just don't give a fuck and decide to retire, forcing someone who isn't in any way prepared for the burdens of leadership to take up that mantle.
Which I think Zoat is disregarding, even if a retiring Luna is just the opportunity Grayven needs to convince her to move in with him.
Albus only started to suspect that Harry was a horcrux late in the game. He didn't even realise Voldie used Horcruxes until the second book. So, no.
Also, Albus explicitly did not believe in prophecy.
Do me the courtesy of actually reading the books and understanding the timeline.
Whoosh
I didn't mention sports, I specifically said 'get jacked' in reference to an increase in size and muscle mass.
You can take drugs that will make you stronger and bigger in an easy way which is why using them to increase size and strength is cheating. (for the purposes of this argument I did not refer to sports but for the cause of gaining muscle mass for its own sake)
Now in relation to what sunset is doing she is usingdrugsmagic to enhance herstrengthmagical potential and change her form.
Still cheating
If the only acceptable way to become an Alicorn was through whatever friendship enlightenment bullshit, then it sounds to me as if Cadance (think that's her name?) cheated as well as her baby Alicorn or they shouldn't be Alicorns at all, unless it gets proven that they went through the same friendship enlightenment bullshit. If not, then Alicornism is just an ascension/transformation, and all the study and hard work that Sunset invested in finding a way to get that ascension is as valid as, I don't know, being born an Alicorn or whatever.
What example? I was using an example to attempt to demonstrate why there are incorrect ways of obtaining certain things and that was the most relevant human equivalent I could think of (due to the lack of any magical transformations that I'm aware of IRL)Except, whenever someone talks about doping, the context is always sports. It's a very reasonable assumption. And 'getting jacked' is the literal definition of steroids. Even if it is done in the context of showing off, there is still a significant aspect of effort and competitiveness inherent in the act.
If it is done 'for its own sake' as you say, or getting a more attractive body, I would say that it would be perfectly viable, except for the shiton of health hazards, including but not limited to, drug dependence, impotence, poor eyesight, anxiety, heart problems, metabolism problems, hair loss, etc.
And again, you're only trying to (faultily) combat the example and not the point I was trying to make. Also, as Lord Ernest says,
Was the crux of my objection.She is usingdrugsmagic to enhance herstrengthmagical potential and change her form.
Still cheating
You really don't know shit about Harry Potter, do you.. you seem to just know the fanon.Are you kidding me with this. Everything Albus did was because of the prophecy. Harry had to be hidden? Because the prophecy showed signs of being true once Voldy attacked the Potters at the end of whichever month it was, and he needed the blood protection charm to subsist. Why did he hire Trlawney? To keep her safe because her prophecy turned out to be true. He also always suspected hocruxes from the start because if the prophecy was true, that meant Voldemort had some form of immortality to allow him to survive beyond death. Even then, prophecy was a mostly accepted discipline, besides McGonagal, which seemed more a humorous addition than a serious attempt at world-building.
And again, you keep trying to invalidate the example instead of actually addressing my points, but you don't even do that properly.
Zarus has an interesting story, but he doesn't appear to be Fëanáro Sintamotar.
Solitaire isn't a competition, you can still cheat at it.I'm not quite sure why people are talking about cheating in what doesn't seem to be a competition? Whether you become an Alicorn through studying/friendship/magic, unless you define the competition as life itself and becoming one gives you an unfair advantage, it's a weird argument to be having that one method that doesn't harm others is inherently fairer than another.
It's not a competition maybe, but it is a game with rules, so breaking those rules equal cheating. Again, unless you consider life itself to be a game/competition, I'm failing to see how what Sunset's doing is cheating.
I'm not quite sure why people are talking about cheating in what doesn't seem to be a competition? Whether you become an Alicorn through studying/friendship/magic, unless you define the competition as life itself and becoming one gives you an unfair advantage, it's a weird argument to be having that one method that doesn't harm others is inherently fairer than another.
Everything builds character. Sometimes, it's just a bad character.I hear this talk about how using a more reliable, less complicated method of becoming an alicorn is cheating and it's giving me flashbacks to the Calvin & Hobbes strips where his dad would talk about how doing certain things certain ways built character.
I'm not sure how natural variations in populations are the same as becoming an Alicorn, but if we had the science to reliably edit genes why would it be cheating if I add a couple of inches to my height or change the color of my eyes/hair? Especially if I studied and developed the method to do it myself?
This was all before I ever found your story. This is the first I am hearing why you haven't updated ur story there. If you don't mind can you tell me what happened? Broadstrokes? If not oh well I am just curious.I'm not perma-banned on SV either, but I'd never go back there. I'd have to go back to operating under their nonsense rules again. And you can bet mods would be hovering over the thread with a banhammer.
The only way I'd go back to SB is if I got a retraction of the original ban.
This was all before I ever found your story. This is the first I am hearing why you haven't updated ur story there. If you don't mind can you tell me what happened? Broadstrokes? If not oh well I am just curious.
Did you not read how that conversation is already ended without your post? Hours before you even posted?Take the harry potter argument to PMs. You guys have spent long enough off topic.
It's not a competition maybe, but it is a game with rules, so breaking those rules equal cheating. Again, unless you consider life itself to be a game/competition, I'm failing to see how what Sunset's doing is cheating.
This was all before I ever found your story. This is the first I am hearing why you haven't updated ur story there. If you don't mind can you tell me what happened? Broadstrokes? If not oh well I am just curious.