FIRST

>>27699621

I need something more pleasant to think about.

>>27699652

>>27699645
my little nightmare
my little nightmare

>>27699645
Looks like a cow.

>>27699621
>mfw all the show

Rarity is a good pony, but her fans are disgusting.

Discuss.

>applying your fetishes to ponies

I sure hope nobody from /co/ does this.

>>27699645
I would love to take that little pony and gently cuddle it before raising it to my crotch, unzipping, and finally plunging in.

>>27699645
LOOK AT THIS PONY FUCKING

>>27699687
They all look pretty ugly imo.

>>27699687
She has fans?

>>27699687
ffs....

I'm listening to her theme song right now.......

>>27699645
NATHAN AS A CHILD

Someone shoop nao.

>>27699687
I'd rather talk about why your theme on the OST had clarinets playing in place of the DELICIOUS PIPE ORGAN we heard in the show.

Which CMC is going to be the first one to suffer from a mental disorder?

>>27699687
It's true; We're pretty disgusting.

>>27699688
few months late for that, buddy boy.

>>27699712

That's kneesocks brah.

>>27699713
the remix btw

Last thread...
>>27698952 adult blankflanks include Sapphire Shores, Celestia's gardener, train ponies

Scootaloo: I said, you got a problem with blank flanks?
Silver Spoon: The problem is, I mean, she's like, totally not special.
Sweetie Belle: No, it means she's full of potential.
Scootaloo: It means she could be great at anything. The possibilities are, like, endless.
Sweetie Belle: She could be a great scientist, or an amazing artist, or a famous writer, she could even be mayor of Ponyville some day.
Scootaloo: ...and she's not stuck being stuck-up like you two.

Hey guys, what if blank-flanks are LITERALLY full of potential? What if they get more powerful the longer they wait for their Marks? Like how Pokémon get their attacks at earlier levels if they don't evolve.

The energy that would have gone toward specialization goes toward making them taller, stronger, more talented. McIntosh is taller than most others, and he was last in his class to get his Mark.

>>27699722

>>27699714
Once again.

The more you prolong this, the bigger of a faggot he will become. He is eating this shit up you guys.

Some post in the vicinity is marker

>>27699744
Go to hell. Nobody cares about you, you'll die alone.

And nobody cares about your fanon theories. Go fuck a rock.

>>27699751
Hideous

>>27699752

But I just want to talk about Ponies...

Daisy and Colton. They're at the gala without formal attire. How scandalous.

>>27699777
I'd do her rather than you, Princess.

no offense.

>>27699753
I thought I told you to shut the fuck up!?

Everytime someone mentions Nathan you have to go "Hurr you'll hurt his feelings he'll be harder gay stop it guise". Go fuck a chair.

>>27699787
Damn

I wonder how Megasweet feels about his porn being used to troll.

>>27699702

I didn't like those last trees

Macro ponies time.

>>27699722
Where do ponies get all these axes?

>>27699744 discussing show in pony general
>>27699772 we hate your fanon go away and die

I remember, back in November and December, when these threads were stuffed full of random fanon theories, such as all males being mute.

It was the joy of an unexplored High Fantasy universe with possibilities around every corner.

What happened to us?

>>27699822
Yea, we haven't upgraded his motherboard to process emotions yet.

>>27699808
But it's not hurting his feelings. He's loving this. And you guys are letting him.

>>27699775
If you really think that, you're a bigger idiot than he is.

>>27699838
The season ended

>>27699838

Well the season finish and no one wants to talk about the show i will say.

>>27699838

The season ended and it's /co/

>>27699838
"We wrapped ourselves in a layer of cynicism to distance ourselves from ponychan" seems appropriate here.

>>27699814

Did you make that thread, anon?

>>27699743
Rarity or kneesocks?

>>27699714

>>27699832
>Where ponies get axes
Canterlot. They buy them from civilized dragons and other 'monstrous' humanoids.

>>27699856
>sociopath
I don't think that word means what you think it means.

I also don't see the logic behind him acting like a bigger and bigger attention whore because you guys are giving him attention and him going out grope some chick.

>>27699744
I was promised a fanfic on your DA. I'm dissapoint in you

Because I fucking can.

And nobody can stop me.

Well, look at that. I was told to expect hell in the morning, but everything's in one piece. Big suprise.

>>27699847

>the season ended, that means it doesn't exist anymore!

And don't say that everything there is to discuss has been discussed, because that's like saying everything there is to have been invented has been invented. /co/ just has a terrible shortage of imagination.

>>27699858

I feel like ponychan has better discussion of the show than us right now.

Despite all the hugboxing that happens.

Let's talk about the show instead of this bullshit meta discussion.

>why no discuss fanon?
>>27699858 cynicism
>>27699855 season ended
>>27699852 season ended
>>27699847 season ended

And that'll teach me not to come to day threads.

I despair for the discussions we'll have in August.

>>27699929
This.

Mods ban for meta now.

Ey-yo. I'm streamin' me drawing if you wanna come watch.

Be prepared for boredom and bad music.

http://www.livestream.com/jackNflow

>>27699898
Oh, uh... grown-up stuff.

>>27699744
Hmmm... So, the longer Sweetie Belle doesn't have her cutie mark, the better she will be at singing?

>>27699887
Mine is better you asfewfsgw3g fag

>>27699932
Hey, don't get me wrong, I'd love to talk about crazy shit

I guess me and you are the only two left

>>27699906
Zombie request? Unlike these threads, I only post finished works there. However, I'll get a partial update out soon since you mentioned it.

>>27699932
Then you're probably taking ponies too seriously

>>27699941
Where's the punch line?

>>27699872
>Rarity or kneesocks?
I prefer Rarity IN kneesocks.

Smoke a dick Duplex Fields, you're worse than Faceless.

>>27699860
No, of course not. I love megasweet and in no way hate him or anything like that at all i swear and I am being completely serious right now.

>>27699990
Make that 3.

>>27699932
One guy gives you a blatant troll response and you spin off into a depression? Chill bro.

>>27699996
But who will take ponies too seriously if we don't?

>>27700027
I would RATHER do those stuff with you than her. It's kind of complicated.

>>27700035
Aw, I'm sorry!

>>27700022
4

>>27700035
if i get doubles then you must stop bitching about ponies and watch an episode

>>27700034
Ponychan, obviously.

>>27700058
Once is a dud, twice is just getting droll. I bet you're going for thrice.

>>27699929
Well duh. Anyone who's actually spent more than five minutes in the discussion board could tell you that.

>>27700058
Oh god, he's gonna try this until he gets doubles, isn't he?

If I get cocks you all need to shut the fuck up.

>>27700079
yep. fortunately, doubles posts are reportable.

If there was a FiM game like this, you would probably play it.

If doubles than i will delete my pony folder and never watch another episode of MLP again.

>>27700035

>>27700085
Yup, a third time.

Let's NOT start with doubles posts?
last thing we want is a mod rebound like yesterday.

If I get doubles they're completely meaningless because it's just a number denoting in which order the post came.

How much of a newfag do you have to be that you can't even get doubles on demand.
Fuck, lurk for 100 more years please.

>>27699823
i didn't want to fap to ponies, but you sir have forced my hand

If doubles then I'll post my dick on 4chan.

>>27700142
>Implying you aren't the only one who doesn't want the mod back

>>27700142
Given that the mod was telling us to stop being meta and actually discuss the show, that's exactly what I fucking want.

Shit, if this gets doubles, we all have to watch an episode together.

>>27700155
>pony fuckers
I don't think any of us have ever actually fucked a pony.

>>27700142
If I get doubles I'll give the slightest shit what Faceless thinks before ignoring him, instead of just ignoring him.

Why can't an OTP contain 3 or more ponies?

>Meta everywhere
>More pointless Nathan shoops
>"Threads suck now"
>"They always sucked"
>Mod's rules don't last 24 hours
>Bashing tripfags that contribute
>Hate everywhere
>Next to no show discussion.
>Doubles faggot

This thread needs to be condemned.

>>27700021

Oh ok.

>>27700166
Time to post your Scootaloo.

God damnit.

>>27699722
Scootacluck

>>27700183
>otp
>one true pairing
>true pairing
>pairing
>two

>>27700183
It's one true pairing. A pair is two.

>>27700184

Let's talk about the show.

How do you think the economy runs in Equestria?

>>27700200

>>27700183
Oh look, it's a retard who can't count. Good job, public school system.

All of my dicks.
Disregard the caption.

I don't have a camera anyways

>>27700183
Because polygamy is wrong, unless it's Mormon ponies

>>27700183
Then it's an OT3+

>>27700025

Despair as in "What is this shit, fuck this, imma gone" not as in "bawww why are all my friends being horrible?"

4chan/co/ is not where I go for friendship. It's where I go for less hugboxy (hugboxxy?) discussions. I've posted on ponychan when the topic is good, and I get warm feelings from some of the threads. It's a true community.

But this is where I come to get quickfic requests and post fanfic. And that's not gonna change because the day threads suck hard.

So where did that giant inflatale Applejack come from? Did Lauren Faust have a birthday or something?

>>27700218
Judging the few instances of currency we have seen, it is gold based. If it is a typical fantasy economy, there would be silver and copper denominations too. Maybe platinum as well, but not likely.

Ponyville is obviously an agricultural community that thrives on crop yields such as apples and whatever they were planting in the fields during WWU.

>>27700239
Fics also suck hard, so you're just part of the problem

>>27700239
All the threads suck. We know that. We persist because the alternative is that ponychan shithole. It's like choosing between fucking sucks and fucking blows.

>>27700239
>BAWW THEY DON'T ADORE ME. BUT MOMMY SAID I'M THE BEST!

Grow a pair and stop whining. And get back to Ponychan. Scum.

>>27700165
Well, I didn't explain the things I wanted to do with you, just that I would do it with you. And Scootaloo.

>>27700292
>roleplaying
Why?

Posting my double ponies.

>>27700273
Only if you do what she did. Star in a cheap porn movie.

>>27700304

It's not like it's going to change anything in this thread.

This thread is a trainwreck.

>>27700265
How did that become typical in fantasy? It's retarded. I want complex coinage and barter systems, and labour trade, and shield taxes and grain price and cattle counting! Cheese trade goddammit! Salt wages!

>>27700292

Knock it off, faceless.

I would rather have an entire dubz thread than this.

dangit faceless not again!

>>27700304

>>27700254
>>27700232
>>27700225
>>27700200
>>27700174
>>27700169
>>27700166
>>27700155
>>27700148

How many reports does it take to get a mod in the thread of the post?

>>27700273
Sadly, you won't become a fashion designer.

You have to be Smart, Sweetie.

>>27700341
ABLOOBLOOBLOO

>>27700341
dubs are better then pedophilia rp

>>27700341
...well played

Is Faceless online? We were wondering on /mu/, after having a spammy thread full of pony, what sort of music does he listen to?

>>27700347
The world may never no.

>>27700347
Mods don't work that way, retard.

>>27700353
>yfw Sweetie becomes greatest fashion designer in Equestrian history

>>27700364
It's a force null, either both or none of the things.

If doubles I'll change my legal name to Fluttershy

>>27700170
I still remember the thread where "neighsayers" debated how to call us. I kind of like "ponyphiles".

Fluttershy and Twilight co-destroyed Ponyville in Swarm of the Century, which pony is most likely to destroy the town again?

>>27700142
Hey faceless, /mu/ wants to know about your music taste

>>>/mu/18661065

>>27700239
>mfw I made that
>mfw I won't reveal my face

>>27700376
>Mfw

>>27700325
Well, ponies do like salt. I bet soldiers in Equestria get paid with salt wages, like Romans and Umbrians and Italian Celts and some Greeks.

>>27700404
Sweetie Belle.

Because stupid.

>>27700404
Applebloom, obviously

>>27700421
Did Romans and Umbrians and Italian Celts and some Greeks get paid in wine?

>>27700369
>sorts of genres
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j95HbhTl60k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smoLvMukdNA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-tNUur2YoU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGFcIYBGqXw

I like a variety of stuff, sampling from here and there.

>>27700409
Cease is a furfag.

>>27700459
>Goldfish

>>27699790

So was Derpy. Those ponyville ponies just cannot into high society.

>>27700409
>>27700369
>>27700409
>>27700369
>>27700409
>>27700369
>>27700409
>>27700369
>>27700409
>>27700369
>>27700409
>>27700369
>>27700409
>>27700369
>>27700409
>>27700369
>>27700409
>>27700369
>>27700409
>>27700369
>>27700409
>>27700369


HEY FACELESS

>>27700404
Trollestia.

>>27700325
A salt economy actually would be kind of neat.

And it would totally explain the Rock Farm Pinkie Pie's family ran.

>>27700481
learn to refresh before you post, idiot.

>>27700498
Salt economy would mean whichever ponies own land near oceanfronts would be filthy rich

>>27700265 economy
>>27700325 complexify this economy plees

Celestia's treasury commissions the coinage from miners and crafters, and the Secretary Of The Treasury is a unicorn who personally enchants all the coins after they're minted. If it doesn't have her signature enchantment, it's counterfeit. Shaving the metal results in broken enchantment.

The only national tax is a flat sales tax on all retail products, and none on services, wholesale, or investment. The budget is public for all to read freely, and there is a process to request spending on specific items.

Local taxes go toward buying weather from Cloudsdale for the crops, public fire insurance, etc.

>>27700459

You'd go down nicely on /mu/. Why not pop by sometime?

>>27700498
>salt
>somehow correlates with rocks

inb4 rock salt because that's not rock salt.

>>27700459
You may like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Tt65SdtKeQ

>You will never be so famous on an anonymous imageboard that people will want to know your music tastes

Time to kill myself.

>>27700036
Oh that KC, I just can't hate the guy

>>27700527
Which is why we moved away from salt economies when we discovered how to take it from the sea.

Going by the show, it's based on precious metals.

>>27700265
>>27700325

Keep in mind resource scarcity is fucked up beyond belief in equestria. Precious gems litter the ground like ordinary rocks. Precious metals are probably not that precious in equestria either. Gold is probably more like iron to them.

>>27700533
What about neighboring countries though? Going by Everfree forest rules, there's no reason to assume pony weather has any effect outside Equestria

>>27700453

Wine and alcohol in general was more part of rations usually.

Good wine, mead, beer, etc., would be distributed at big feasts, but one was rarely PAID in booze; it was a necessity anyway (most water sources being unsafe to consume).

Salt was also less vulnerable to a volatile market; it was a preferable source of payment, since its relative value changed very, very slowly. Once you returned home, you could trade it for relatively the same amount it was worth as when you left. Rock salt wasn't really a cheap, easily available commodity until nearly the modern era, and it was extremely valuable (food preservation primarily).

>>27700560
>he thinks thats what fame is

>>27700218
>Economics
If I wanted to get into economics about a cute series, I'd go find a Spice and Wolf thread.

>>27700560
>implying that the tastes of some /mu/ furfags actually matter.

Faceless being famous ... hah.

>>mfw Deerpy destroys my computer over nothing

>>27700592

Would you rather have bullshit meta discussion?

>>27700555
Could've balanced the bass a bit more, but it's decent.

>>27700533

Equestria is an absolute monarchy. The budget would be none of the subject's business and would not be public. Celestia has no one to answer to, especially not her subjects.

>>27700574
Yes, gems are common. They need to be, otherwise dragons would not be able to eat them and Rarity wouldn't use them in clothing.

Precious metals still seem to be precious though. You'll notice that Rarity was quite keen to get her hooves on some of that red dragon's gold in Dragonshy.

The ship from District 9 appears over Ponyville, what happens?

>>27700286
>Whining

>>27700654
Nope. Go peddle your Princess Tyrannia bullshit somewhere else. I heard Ponychan might like you.

>>27700677
Chaos.

>>27700674

What I noticed was that she grabbed regalia, no coinage or any large metal objects. She grabbed what made her feel more classy/important, not what was just made of gold.

>>27700682
slowpoke.txt

>>27700560
I've been in a stream a while ago where they discussed the origins of Faceless' scat fetish. He seemed to show a human side.

>>27700693

hey retard, google absolute monarchy. It has nothing to do with her personality, its a form of government under the crown. One that happens to be exactly what Equestria is.

>>27700654
>implying Celestia is anything but perfectly nice and benevolent to all of her subjects
>in 2011
I seriously hope you guys don't do this.

>>27700674
I think she was more interested in jewelry than coins. She also says she wanted to grab some particularly impressive diamond.

>>27700572
Actually, even after we began harvesting sea salt, rock salt was still valuable (I don't remember exactly why though...). The Irish in the middle ages would harvest enormous amounts of sea salt in these big stone cisterns, drying it out and scraping the caked on salt out.

It led to an issue with the Normans, who were still using rock salt as campaign-currency, since the Irish were giving them sea salt (Gaels never used salt economy and seemed confused by it, but figured, screw it, they want salt; Gaelic economies were based on cattle value primarily, all things being compared to the value of a grown, healthy bull). When they realized it wasn't rock salt it led to some border skirmishes, and they drifted to coin-based trade even on campaign (which was relatively more cumbersome but ultimately less prone to misunderstandings).

>>27700560
Hey anonymous
what music do you like?

>>27700705
A fair point.

I still stand by the precious metals remaining precious. They exchange coins frequently during several episodes.

The question is what metals are labeled as precious or marked for currency, and how valuable are they?

Economy extends beyond currency folks, let's get some production/import/export discussion going too.

>>27700731
Fetishes have origins?

>>27700036
What are you complaining about? There's nothing worth bitching at there.

>>27700731
There are various kinds of humankind.
Faceless is none of them.

>>27700731

>>27700577
Good question.

Thousands of Diamond Dogs in the colony near Ponyville pay the green dragon in the Everfree Forest in gems.

The green dragon trades them meat for gems. He's the apex predator in the Everfree, and he harvests lesser predators for trade.

Gold is not rare, but it's valued for its use in magic and decoration. It's shiny and channels lightning particularly well, you see.

While Rainbow Dash is my most favorite, I just like her as a friend sort of thing. Flutter Shy on the other hand... <3

>post relevant to topic at hand

>>27700755
Is cloudsdale the only weather factory? Is it state run or private?

Weather is absolutely necessary, so if they have a monopoly on it (From the looks of the factory it'd require heavy investment to do it on those scales) I'd hope it was state run

So /co/, how do you hide your ponies?

>>27700782
Fuck not The Dogs eat eachother's semen

>>27700782
If all their trade is based in food, do the Diamond Dogs then exchange meat amongst themselves for services? How is the exchange rate between meat and gems determined?

>>27700764
Don't deny it. We both know it's true.

>>27700810
I shall use my super internet hax skills to find out your folder name!

>>27700746

You are stupid, and should feel bad. Absolute monarchy is a type of government in which the monarch has sole decision making power, and whose right to rule general stems from "the divine right of kings" It has nothing to with their personality- they can be benevolent or despotic. Go read a history book.

>>27700810
It's C:\Users\MyName|Ponies

hiding one's pony folder is for people who don't encrypt their hard drives

>>27700731
>Faceless
>Human

>>27700640
Yes.

>>27700810
>>27700829

... It's untitled folder 49!

What do you think Rarity's vagina really tastes like? I'm looking for serious answers. None of this candy bullshit.

Which pony would you not give a Reach Around to?

>>27700852
How did you get that?

Pardon the macro.
>>27700878
>>27700881

>>27700810
Why the fuck would I hide my folders?
It's my own fucking computer, and if someone touches my computer I turn my Neckbeard Rage mode on.

Seriously, grow up and stop sharing a computer.
It's not 1999 for fuck sake.

>>27700810
Hidden well enough?

>>27700800
The weather factory is likely state run, as all weather manipulation seems to be strictly scheduled and organized by local government officials such as the Mayor.

It was constructed to regulate weather in Equestria in order to augment the economy of the agricultural areas and probably even set up a few areas that are permanently one kind of weather for tourism or a specific crop.

The fact that it only covers Equestria is why the weather functions normally everywhere else.

>>27700878
Like salty coins.

>>27700823
It's simple barter economics, the most common economic form in history.

Each time trade occurs, parties involved redetermine how much of their goods they are willing to give in exchange for what goods they wish to take, and they discuss until they come to an agreement.

>>27700810

Why would I hide my ponies? It's my computer. Nobody else uses it.

>>27700894
motherfuckin' popsicles.

>>27700878
Taste your skin. Taste your hair. Taste your armpits.

Something like all that.

>>27700837
Hurr look at me being smart ovar da internets.

I don't get it, how do you pay some one in salt? Do you just have a little baggy of salt for them?

>>27700823
The Diamond Dogs obviously have a hierarchy of some sort, and they don't have any qualms about slavery. I would assume the three scouts we saw are alphas.

Notice Rarity didn't even try to make a moral argument about slavery. She immediately set to work tricking them.

Ceasar is the best pony.
End of.

>>27700908
Hmm. No fishiness? I... hey!

>>27700905
>playing Minecraft
>in 2011

>>27700942
More or less. You use a scale, determine the salt's weight to the person's pay, put it into a container you've corrected for (like a leather sack), and give the individual the salt when it's weight on the scale matches the amount they're owed. It's not hard.

>>27700914
Retail prices set by stores without haggling are a recent development. Cashiers used to be authorized to haggle.

>>27700967
He's got Hamachi as well, so it's a pirated version.

>>27700810
I don't. I also don't see the need but, eh.

>>27700906
makes sense, weather control would be a huge economic boost.

Specific weather areas would be awesome, too. Like a constant lightning storm over a scary theme part and stuff.

>>27700533
>Secretary Of The Treasury is a unicorn who personally enchants all the coins after they're minted
All by himself? Damn, that guy must work himself to death. I would imagine he'd work behind a desk and there'd be dozens of unicorns enchanting the coins.

>>27700967
Playing doesn't equal to having it. Folder apparently chose it as icon, because.
Also, >>27700996 no, it's original, I use hamachi for CnC Generals and EE multiplayer.

>>27700934

>hurr durr look at me being so stupid I will attempt to distract from my error with 4chanisms

>>27701017
If enchanting coins was his special talent he'd probably be able to do dozens of containers at once, though.

>>27700995
They still are. They just don't.

>>27701021
>implying the previous post was even mine
>in da 2011s

>>27701007
Think how rough it must have been when they were still working on weather control technology. There could be a no-man's land somewhere in Equestria where a factory's had a meltdown and become the pony version of Chernobyl

>>27701041
Wait, really?

shi-eet.

>>27701007
I read a fic once where they're unionized. So when they go on strike they cause shit weather.

First of all, Equestria is a monarchy, its probably not going to have secretaries of anything, its going to have appointed ministers.

Secondly, its a monarchy headed by a pair of gods, they probably don't need any of those ministers.

>>27701059
>pony version of the zone
Just take my money. Take it all.

>>27700995
Quite. Haggling was an extremely important skill to have at one time. Listing prices is kind of old though, it shows up in some plates from sites run by different civilizations, some of which didn't even generally write (like Gallic shops in Bibracte; most Gauls rarely wrote much but inscriptions on temples and religious objects), but it's assumed that was more to give a general idea of the object's value, so you'd have some place to start your barter with.

>>27701017
New coin is not minted all that often. Equestria is only the size of Texas with a sparce population, and they don't want inflation.

Besides, she does it by the bag.
>implying Celestia would trust a stallion to be Secretary.

>>27701019
I don't believe you. You're an autistic minecraft fanboy, aren't you.

And Generals sucked ass, go play Call of Duty like a boss.

why does everyone talk about the ponies having sex? what if we talked about them getting killed?

Speaking of which, there was a Twist story posted a loooooooooong time ago about her getting killed while ice skating, anyone have that?

>>27701059
And the weather is completely fucked up! Lightning, tornadoes, hail, snow, sleet, rain, hurricane winds, gentle breezes, sunshine, and rainbows all happening at once!

>>27701098

>>27700731
does he have fetal alcohol syndrome?

>>27701098
Ponies having sex is more amusing than them being killed. But both are fine.

>>27701073
They can't be everywhere at once, it's only natural to assume they'd want ministers to keep them informed about events happening in various provinces

>>27701098
Gore really isn't as awesome as i thought it would be.

>>27701098
...We're talking about economic forms and structure and how they'd relate to ponies it seems

>>27701126
no no no
no no

nononono no

>>27701059
The best spot to attempt a terrorist attack against Equestria would be the weather factory. Destroying it or causing it to malfunction after so many years of service would wreak havoc upon the ecosystem. Constant storms or droughts, flash floods, unpredictable hurricanes. The entire nation would be in ruins by the end of the month unless the Pegasi/Unicorns/Celestia found a way to intervene.

And they have walk-in tours of the entire facility.

>>27701073
Even if Celestia could do everything, why would she? Delegating gives her time off, and lets the population feel like they have control.

>>27701135
>Faceless being hypocritical

>>27701162
Hey Faceless what's your tripcode?

>>27701073
Monarchs have had many secretaries. Most ministers were roughly the same thing. And they're clearly not omnipotent or omnipresent deities, so they'd need a hand. They're clearly closer in form and function to most ancient deities, who weren't all powerful. They'd need assistance.

>>27701059

This is why Derpy is no longer allowed anywhere near the Cloudsdale weather factory

>>27701164
It looked to me like the factory created the weather, not controlled it. The pegasi did the actual work, the factory just produced the resources for them

Taking out the factory wouldn't cause havok, it'd just mean there would be, for example, no more rainbows except at special occasions, and serious cloud rationing.

>>27701197
How is that hypocritical?

>>27701126

Thanks! glad to see someone screenshotted it

>>27701067
Yeah. I know somebody who went into a Fred Meyer, found a hat that had the top dented and got it for half the price.

You are still legally allowed to haggle prices, most big retailers just won't put up with it though.

Mods are all up in this thread. I know it are so.

>banning someone
>in 2011

>>27701244
Yeah, managers will often do it if somebody fucked up your customer service.

Have we settled on an economic form yet?

>>27701047
>>27701021
Being anonymous on the internet sure is confusing.

>>27701215
#|偕t{S[園


Hope you have your unicode up to date!

>>27701098
Well, obviously it's matter of time before Pinkie gone mad and kills CMC with an axe.

>>27701166

Its all going to depend on the actual size and population of Equestria really. We really need to see more of it on the macro scale. Its worth noting however that Canterlot is awfully small for a national capital. I think Equestria is much smaller than people assume it is.

>mfw sticky

>>27701236

You could set the factory to produce an overabundance of dangerous weather though, in fact an overlord of just about any type of weather could cause a natural disaster

>>27701164
>Terrorist attacks
This is a world where territorial disputes are fought with apple pie as ammunition.

>>27701272
kidscartoononomics.

>>27701243
your welcome. If you liked that, this might cater to your tastes.

>>27701236
Going under that assumption, the surrounding areas around Equestria would likely begin to whither as the Pegasi would have to go out of the borders to retrieve clouds for the country. At least until the natural weather flow re-stabilized and returned to managing itself.

oh boy dat sticky


inb4 arrangments are made and we spoiler all the porn instead

hey guys, haven't actually visited these pony generals in a while. just wanted to drop by to ask if anyone has a list of broni profiles on g+? I want to make a broni circle.

>>27701276
Thanks!

>>27701306
So, like before?

>>27701073
Luna was the smart one; she and several hoof-picked philosophers debated every governmental decision before it was decreed. Her decisions maintained peace and prosperity. But she was never the public face of administration, and that bitter gall led to the incident of legend: the rise and fall of Nightmare Moon.

Celestia wasn't as smart as Luna, but she was wise. Upon Luna's imprisonment, Celestia instituted layers of bureaucracy between herself and actual governance. Each Mayor appoints (through decree or election) one representative who carries the needs of the city or town before Celestia's Council. The Council and the Representatives vote on proposals to bring before Celestia.

If the proposal cannot be stated clearly and precisely within five minutes, Celestia rejects it immediately.

>>27701272
Barter system seems most likely, with a base currency in coin.

>>27701297
A localised one, sure, but without any pegasi to actually move the bad weather about...

actually, they would move it, wouldn't they? That much bad weather right next to a city made out of clouds? It'd be an unparallelled disaster. They'd have to spread it out as thinly as they could, and that'd mean bad weather everywhere. Pony terrorism!

I think a quasi-feudal/proto-Georgist economy would work for the general population. Anarcho-syndicalist communes would work for smaller population centers (those aren't just from Monty Python, those are a real thing from the middle ages; most communities, if without a lord immediately present to oversee them, would elect officials in cycles to administer until they were assigned one, so they could trade and manage the local laws and so on).

>>27701126

>mfw someone saved my work

>>27701321
ah hahaaha.

you don't have enough rupees for my tripcode.

>>27701299
And you don't think pie would gunk up the Weather Factory's various devices?

>>27701301
This is why "discussions about the show" suck. They all end up in magic xylophone territory.

>>27701073
Yeah, they most likely don't NEED ministers/secretaries. They are probably there to give the Crown a more 'humane' face, and just generally making administering Equestria easier and less time consuming.

>>27701303
Quite likely, yeah. It'd put a huge strain on everybody, politically, but the nearby civilizations would be mad to attack over that.

>>27701321
>dat tripcode
fanfuckingtastic is what that is.

>>27701281
It could be rather like Luxembourg; it has existed on a specialized hyper-internalized economy because of its relative size.

>MFW the mod is back.

>>27701388
I've a whole bundle of string-letter tripcodes.

>>27701338
>pegasi screw up their weather pattern
>dump it over an earth pony city to save Cloudsdale the damage
>this is what happened in Look Before you Sleep, and probably happens constantly

>>27701406
Do you have a tripcode that says "isuckdick" that I could use?

>>27701414
To be fair, earth pony settlements can take it, but cloudsdale is literally made out of clouds. Bad weather could blow parts of it away.

>>27701423
nope. I meant string as in "DMMMMMMMMU" or "eF22222222"

>>27701363
So? It's just for fun, and it's on topic. And it's not like it doesn't happen with every other show discussed on /co/. Half the fun of watching a kid's cartoon is overthinking it.

>>27701358
Hm... okay.
Still, that'd be something that could be cleared up in a day. I'm sure they could put up with wonky weather for that long while it got fixed.

>go to /co/
>see new stickied thread
>my face

>>27701471
>Half the fun of watching a kid's cartoon is overthinking it
Best quote from MLP general today.

>>27701485
>mods are finally cracking down on the shitty parts of pony threads
oh fuck yes

>reading fallout equestria, up to the end of chapter two

i don't get the appeal in this, honestly. littlepip doesn't have any discernible character traits yet, she just feels more like the narrator, with no real quirks or faults.
the world descriptions are actually very nice, but locked up in huge block paragraphs instead of punctuated by linebreaks for effect, it just looks weird.
the combat scenes are good too, but kind of drag on at times. the plot also lurches forward, instead of simply skipping forward in time, you're given this two or three sentence summation of three other things that happened during the skip. it's rather jarring.

i could understand some attention and a 4.5 rating, but like 6 stars, and dozens of readers at any given moment.....really?

>>27701523
>MFW

>>27699687
BUT THAT'S AGAINST THE RUURRRUUUS

>>27701485
This should be the new MLP General image.

>Discussion over Equestrian Economics

I-it's like it's the beginning of the year all over again! Why can't we have threads like this more often?

>>27701471
But my cutie mark is playing the magic xylophone!

Anyway, as far as the weather goes, I'm betting a large portion of the gross from Sweet Apple Acres goes toward paying her water bill. (How much of IRL farms' gross go toward watering equipment, water rights, and the water itself?)

As to terrorism and war, all wars are economic in nature. To be more precise, armed actions are the final stage in economic war.

>>27701550
>Filename
that faggot left a few days ago, thank god.

How does Cloudsdale manage its waste?

>>27701578

Probably just like how Airplanes do it.

>>27701578
They don't. Nobody lives under it.

>>27701578
Waste? What waste?

>>27701578
Rainbow dash kicks it so hard it evaporates into thin air.

>>27701575

and nothing of value was lost

>>27701533
ponychan has strange tastes. i think it's because it has references to both universes so it gets double the appeal?

>>27701578
They burn it for fuel

>>27701578
Their waste is rainbows and they just dump it over the edge or use it for decoration.

>>27701578
They harvest and isolate the ammonia from liquid waste, and sell it as glass cleanser and bulk chemical.

They collect and sell the solid waste to farms as fertilizer.

>>27701578
Ponies do not make waste, sir. How dare you imply such a thing.
HOW DARE YOU

>generals stay the same
>just remove the overt porn

i can completely 100% live with this

>>27701563
Though given that they don't need any equipment for watering, and the water that does fall will eventually find its way back into the system without their help, the actual clouds must not take much money to create at all. Most of they payment would be to the pegasi moving it about - and at least once it gets to ponyville, that's dash's weather team. Sweet Apple Acres being a major player in ponyville's economy, they've probably worked out a pretty good deal for their weather.

>>27701313
me again
guess no one here cares about g+ enough to bother with a pony circle just yet. Well if you want an invite you can aim me at fakeanon and I'll send you one, otherwise I'm probably back to lurking.

>>27701227

Do you guys think a pony's cutie mark is also an errogenous zone?

>>27701658

they have outhouses to clearly they do

>>27701668
why did the last panel need that much going on

>>27701660
I guess that explains the Apple banner in Town Hall beside the Princess' dais during the Summer Sun Celebration.

I think Nathan's been sending emails to the mods complaining about the porn because he's so butthurt. And they're fed up with him.

>>27701711
What part of NO META DISCUSSION do you not get?

>>27701658

you and I both know that that's a load of

horse shit

>>27701682
Oh god, what episode?

>>27701578
Where do you think the yellow in rainbows comes from?

The red is blood. The blue is Smurf blood.

>>27701745
forgot your spoilers

>>27701751
Winter Wrap Up, Spike suggested Twilight use her birds nest as a bird outhouse

>>27701743
The mods lock meta threads, not meta discussions. Look at you, you're in a meta discussion right now.

>>27701751
Winter Wrap-Up. Spike compares Twilight's nest to one.

>>27701773
You best start believing in meta discussions...

>>27701773
i think he meant no meta as a courtesy thing, we're having more entertaining discussion about rainbows

>>27701752
>Smurf blood
WHERE?

>>27701796
Isn't it ridiculous? Every single person bitching about porn because it breaks the rules is also themselves breaking the rules.

>>27701778
Does this mean that they actually have to have ponies whose job is to clean up all the shit from the outhouses?

>>27701825
Hopefully unicorns

>>27701745

>>27701798
If you wanted to have a retarded ponychan discussion about where rainbows come from, that's fine. You talk about your retarded shit, I'll talk about mine.

>>27701771
I always like to think that he's referring to the legends of when the world was ruled by a species known as "hu-mon", and their disgusting bodily functions.
Or am I just in denial?

>>27701825
Convicts do it

>>27701820
STOP BREAKING THE RULES ANON

>>27701663
what is g+?
>>27701672
yes they are

>>27701547

I suggest you post ponies in this pony thread, otherwise you would be in violation of the RRRUUUUURRRUUUs

>>27701825
they have groundskeeper ponies.

and yeah hopefully they're a unicorn, magic would make the whole job much easier.

but if it is an earth pony how would it be any different then human society.

The meta talk happened right after people started derping about the sticky, and it killed a perfectly good show discussion into metaspeak and pony waste. Thanks mods

>>27701862

You are just in denial. For a baby dragon to know what it is, despite him not knowing even moderately complex words, it has to be a very, very common thing. You can take comfort in knowing they will never actually show us one, though.

>>27701672
Yes. So are wings and horns.

Princess Celestia is the most erogenous creature in Equestria.

>>27701893
I don't think earth ponies can manipulate baggies very well

>>27701825
I'd hate to get that cutie mark.
"Hey, cool, I finally got one! It's... OH FOR THE LOVE OF-!"

>>27701825
Blank Flanks. They pull trains for days at a time without stopping, and haul waste from outhouses, among other menial tasks.

Sapphire Shores sang while she worked. She got noticed by a producer while cleaning a stall one day. It wasn't her true and special Cutie Mark calling, but she was talented, so she took the opportunity to get out of the crapholes and onto stage.

>>27701933
Tough luck, kid. Here's your shovel.

>>27701934

>>27701898
A discussion about what ponies poop is still a discussion of the show.

>>27701934
Are there any blank flank unicorns?

>>27701975
Unicorn schooling is better than that


normally

>>27701825
Wasn't there a fanfic about that? Applejack has a coprophagia fetish, and Ponyville discovers her in the act?

>>27701975

plenty if you trust the ponyville crowd scenes

>>27701934
>>27701961
perhaps she has an outhouse cleaning cutie mark and actually uses magic or paint to cover it up when she performs.

>>27701958
You know what? I'm glad I came here. This is fun.

>>27701921
Not to mention she's got the biggest cutie mark in all of Equestria.
Tallest pony, biggest flank, longest horn, largest wings.
Celestia's seriously gotta be some sort of pony sex symbol.

>>27701898
So, back to show discussion.

What are the politics of the Griffons? They're clearly apex predators. Are there prides and tribes? Do they send raiding parties into lands controlled by sapient herbivores?

Would pony politics resemble a herd more than a pack?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJpVddruaGo

>>27702004
Or maybe she's from a part of Equestria where showing your cutie mark is considered taboo.

>>27702042
I'm pretty sure Griffons are rather civilized, given that Gilda was a student at a flying school with Rainbow Dash.

>>27702042

we heard exactly nothing of them so they can be anything we want them to be. They have to be fairly well behaved though for one of them to be present in Equestria and not cause any sort of alarm.

>>27701934
Blank flanks are creepy as fuck.

>>27702032

Well, she did lose her own virginity to herself.

>>27701933
Actually, if that was your special and unique talent, you'd probably love it.

After all, a pony born without a sense of smell can't be a baker, a scented candle maker, a barista, etc..

>>27702042
Griffon politics is basically Dwarf Fortress

Nobles don't last very long in office, to say the least.

>>27702091

this picture gifts me 1 sad

Sapphire shores discovers a young singing sensation in Ponyville

I want that to happen.

>>27702046
>dat ending

>>27702042
Eh, the griffons could be ruled by a *insterttitlehere* chosen from the warlords based on strength and power.

They certainly aren't barbarians, but their society is more "survival for the fittest".

You think all griffons are tensy angry grumpy gus'?

>>27702093
Requesting Princess Celestia 69ing with Nightmare Moon.

>>27702135
Why do some fans have to make things sad? It's like no one can take anything seriously unless there's some element of tragedy in it.
GUH

>>27702097
I don't know how I feel about that tear duct

>>27702135
Poor Ruby.

>>27702229
do you draw sad pictures? I hope not. Your stuff makes me smile.

>>27702229

some people enjoy having their emotions tugged in various directions. This has been the case for pretty much forever.

Also, more menial labor ponies.

>>27702248

Can you please tell me the end of that game?

>>27702229
Why not? Should everything remain sappy like the show?

>>27702211
It'd be like the Yin Yang symbol.

Kind of poetic i guess. 413% TRUE ART.

>>27702283
Why don't you play it? It's like, 10 minutes.

>>27702253
I don't draw.

Because I can't. If I could, I'd never leave my house. I'd pretty much spend every minute drawing MLP or Spice and Wolf.

>>27702229

I like a mix, like that young granny smith, when her sister die, her name was Sweet Apple...

>>27702323
Are you a different Muffins from the artist?

>>27702283

Ruby is murdered for being the first among a town of blank flanks to get a cutie mark. They see it as some kind of curse or demonic marking. Her ghost later helps Apple Bloom escape from the cursed zombie remains of the townsponies that killed Ruby which are now damned to play out the entire ordeal over and over again.

>>27702337
That was Granny Smith?

>>27702283
Dude, it takes about ten minutes to play. Go play it yourself.
http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/573755

>>27702229 why sad?
Because it's hard to create drama without at least a possibility of loss. For example, the show mostly shows us the times they avoid losses, yet Applejack and her siblings are being raised by their grandmother.

>>27702290
>Stay sappy like the show
Yes.

Is prostitution legal in Equestria?

>>27702337
As in Sweet Apple Acres?

Does anyone know how I can resize a picture without making it look like shit? I need to make it smaller.

>>27702418

Big mac.

>>27702365
Yes she was.

>>27702362

Sweet thnx, and applebloom is okay?

>>27702418
Technically yes, but they all give it away for free.

>>27702418

Yes. Equestrian prostitution consists entirely of cuddling however.

>>27702418
As long as there are men and women, the answer is always yes.

>>27702441
Yes

>>27702391
What's the purpose of fanart or fanfics if you only like things exactly how they are presented in the show?

>>27702429

Yes, it was very touchy, at least for me.

>>27702433
Irfanview.