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From what I heard EP 1/2 of Season 4 are supposed to continue the finale.

And rewatching it for the first time since the morning, it is a good episode, but again, rushed. If only they just ended the episode with the camera panning out from the scorch mark, cliff hangers FTW. But overall Thank you MA Larson, you gave us a decent EP out of a bad corporate idea. I just hope they can keep Season 4 up.

Ps: DEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERPY

*Edit*
Also, the liveaction promos were painful.

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I'm going to be a rebel here and say the finale was absolutely amazing (and this is from someone who wasn't really fond of the rest of S3, and pretty much hated Wonderbolts Academy). I thought that the premise and execution were spot on, if a little bit underwhelming. There was just a lot more they could have done with it. I have high hopes for S4, especially if the speculation I've read ends up being true.

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Swag.mov just came out!! :D

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Yeah, that made me laugh quite a bit. It also had a nice story line! "You're in my shed."

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Season 3 Finale < Swag.mov

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Season 3 Finale < Most fanmade stuff... :P

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Well, although the season three finale wasn't super. There is some serious awesomness in it:
- Celestia's Ballad
- Progressive story line
- Overall awesome M.A. Larson work
- Ponies**
So, ya... let me quote Rarity on this one, "[M.A. Larson] (I) made it work."

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THE MAGIC OF FRIENDSHIP IS STRONG AT FIM WATERFORD!!!! If you should be at Waterford tomorrow, come to Team 1701's pit and ask for Bubba. I want to brohoof you!

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Didn't see this post until after I left Waterford, but still got brohoofed. Hehe.

Just happened to be talking with you during alliance selection. "So what team you from?"
"1528."
"Oh, do you know a Dean... no, Devin Wiley?"
"Oh, yeah, that's me!"
I was trying tp figure out if I was famous or something and didn't know it. until you said "You're the brony from Chief Delphi!"
I found it too funny we happened to be chatting then. :p OH, and our pits were right by eachothers the whole time

Edit:
Any FiM West coast bronies? 1528 will be at St. Joseph next weekend. Perhaps we could give one another a hand or chat.

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One of the many extremely great moments at Waterford!

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hello :) I'm a girl :P

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well... Ok then...

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"A girl!?! On the internet!? LIES!"

Welcome to the thread!

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I'd have to agree with this guy and his abnormally sized font.

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I DON'T BELIEVE YOU! STOP LYING TO ME!

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Well then considering all this bashing though.... I probably suggest we quit it before she's scared off :[. Anywho welcome :3. :D

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I for one welcome our new mare with love and tolerance

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Who's gonna be at the Long Island Regionals/Hofstra?
Anypony?

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BRONIES OF MICHIGAN, UNITE! Find me (Bubba) if you're going to be at the Detroit Regional this weekend!

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Anyone going to San Jose?

I just came from Madera, didn't see any bronies there. What's worse is that our swerve drive programming failed miserably. :(

Yes

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Or me, if you're at St. Joseph. I'm chilling out in 1528's pit tonight working, just ask for Devin.

So, anybody else have troubles with their bot? We've had quite a bit both this week at St. Joe and last week at Waterford. I won't lie, we were unprepared and under-tested this year. Waterford we were broke the entire comp, had a single W. A tad bit more lucky here at St. Joe's, actually much, much better! We went 3-1-8, ranked 35, but hey, at least we could move! The first six matches (0-6) we had a bad router. We were dropping from 12 to 6 volts when we played, and we still managed to play excellent defense and even pushed a few bots like they weren't even there. One of the CSAA's or TSA's or something came over to shake our hands saying he had never seen a bot run on 6 volts, let alone play well. Anyways, we didn't do too bad the second half, still rushing on work and fixing this thing and that. (3-1-2) We weren't picked, but hey, I had fun, and that's what I'm here to do! Love FIRST! Stop by and say hi if you're here!

Oh! And I got to dance! I was in the pit too much at Waterford to get the chance, sadly. Oh, and our pits near the entrance closest to the matches, but not the one the robots go out to the matches through (That aisle though!).

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Also! Congrats on being finalists at Detroit! You guys did great! We did wonderful after we fixed that router problem. We arched our Crio in one match and attempted at a new strategy in the other. Anyways, congrats!

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6 volts and still moving... That's rather impressive.


Anyone gonna be at the 10k Lakes regional?

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Thanks so much!! It was an amazing weekend. So many wonderful stories and people.

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This is a thing?

I love this site.

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Chief Delphi has a brony thread :D
is anyone here gonna be at the South Florida regional next week?

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Cant say i will be, but ill be in Cleveland next weekend for any folks at the buckeye

Also, we. Got to quarter finals in Queen City.

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Welp, we just won Central Washington and will be going to St. Louis in a month or so.

Anyone else?

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Hopefully we'll win the San Jose competition since we've gotten more practice with our swerve drive. Hooray for old parts and a wooden robot frame!

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We will be going to St. Louis, can’t wait to see how many FIRST bronies will be there.

I had 5 or 6 people comment or ask about the pony button Keyreaper gave me; Oklahoma, only a few.

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Reporting in. Also going to St.Louis. Don't know about more buttons but we'll see. I may purchase them off our team. They are not cheap by any means.

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I really wanted to go to worlds this year, we finally had everything working: drive system, shooter, CAN jaguar, etc. All ready for the next day.

And then our robot went, "What a nice day! I think I'll stop working."

Oh well, I had fun, and I hope you guys did too, fellow bronies. /)

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Thought you guys would like to see our 2013 driverstaton Here

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I might be going to St. Louis, and I'm really hoping to see some bronies out there! If you're going to be giving out buttons with ponies on them, please let me know!

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So I have been working on our team website for a few weeks now (before now it was just Google Sites...) and I thought you guys in the Brony thread would think this is cool. Go to https://frc2879.com/ and just type "pony".

(The konami code does something fun too!)

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I had to look at the source code in order to figure out what it did. (Speakers were on mute :P)

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I of course unknowingly had my speakers at full blast. Still made my day.

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Well, coming back to this thread makes me feel like I missed a lot! I'm happy to say that I'm back and team issues look to be smoothing out! Thank you guys so much for your support!

Side note: If anyone wants to code their robot in FiM++ next year, we're looking for a way to add WPILib functionality to it. Good idea or no?

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What is this FiM++ you speak of?

Ponified programming language. (as in C++)

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No FiM++ isn't really for something serious. It's more of a proof of concept kind of thing.


In other news, I found out about conky. Oh the fun I will have with this program. :cool:

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Oh man, looks like we're all in Galileo together! Gonna be some intense competition.

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We need to pick a spot or something at St. Louis :D

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What hotel(s) are we all staying at?

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Hello, long time reader, first time posting. I'm staying at the Drury Plaza myself (its right by the arch) and wouldn't mind meeting up with some fellow First Bronies. Anypony wanna make lunch plans or something?

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Sounds like a good plan! I'm staying at the Hilton, and it's not a long trip! Are there any restaurants nearby?

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There's a steakhouse place or something right by my hotel, haven't checked it out yet, there's also a McDonald's about four blocks down from the arena, any places you know of? Maybe a bit before 12 we should find a place to meet and decide where to go from there?
Hopefully other people see this thread by soon and we could start a little meetup.
Note to self, make pony posters to attract bronies to a single area next year.

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OK, next year we need to plan something in advance. That would be fun!

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Speaking of future events, anyone going to IRI? Team 234 (who I believe hosts it more or less) has a couple bronies that I met last year, and met back up with during the Einstein Finals. They're pretty cool guys and the rest of the team is pretty nice too.

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>tfw i'm leaving this year.
Sometimes It's tough being a senior and having to say good-bye. :(

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You could always become a "junior mentor."

We had a few guys who graduated as seniors that came back as such, and it was great having them around. I think just then being there knowin we weren't at a total loss human-resource wise and allowed us do a lot better than last year, when we had no upperclassmen with experience whatsoever.

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So I searched "Animations," looking for those in need of help with 3DS Max, but it lead me to this. Everything leads me to ponies, it seems.

Anyway, hi!

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Oh, I've already thought about that but since I'm going to a college that's about an hour plus away from our town it would be a little difficult to attend meetings in-person. Hopefully I'll be able to rustle up some funds to be able to go to champs again someday because it's super fun.

Howdy!

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While we're on the subject of making the most out of our FIRST experience, I must once again petition this thread for help regarding my "no team" listing. As of last year, I posted a request to see if anyone needed my help because my team had not been the greatest, and I was amazed by how awesome the responses here were. I come again asking for something a little more. My school's only team has decided to ban me from joining this year because I'm "a useless sack of s**t." (I haven't been able to get any more specific than that, but I really want to think that it isn't true, especially considering I had to be physically barred from the shop last year because I was working and refused to leave). Point is, I'm going to be a senior next year, and I really, really, really want ONE enjoyable year out of FIRST, which has so far not happened. (I was thrown out of a moving subway, for starters). I therefore ask you to PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, see if there is any way I could actively help out your team programming-wise next year. It would mean the world to me. I'm familiar with LabView, Java, C++, Objective-C, Ruby, and Python, I can do basic electronics work, I've coded robot autopilots in C++ and Java since I was 8, and if there's a programming task I'm not suited for, I'll teach myself over the summer. I'll be happy to provide any and all necessary references.

Please. I'm counting on you guys for a halfway decent senior year with FIRST, and I figures bronies would be the nicest people to ask.


TL;DR Tossed off team, need a new team to work for, please help.

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Please kindly excuse my ignorance....

Can someone explain to me what a "brony" is? :confused:

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Man, I'm sorry to hear that. I can kinda relate because even though I'm pretty smart compared to some of my teammates I'm nothing, and I'm a bit of an outcast. (I don't socialize much, I'm shy) Because of this I feel left out and unguided 90% of the time. Anyways, I was one of three programmers with any experience still on the team this year, the other programmers we had to teach, and being our first year using lab view it was a bit rough. If we need help this coming year I'd be glad to welcome you as support to our programming division.

Guys and girls (sometimes called Pegasisters) typically aged 16-23 (on average) who are fans of the recent reboot of Hasbro's "My Little Pony" franchise, or more specifically the current cartoon show based on the franchise, titled My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. The show was created by Lauren Faust and the staff is full of all kinds of 90s and early 2000's cartoon and tv writers and such that give the show it's appealing stories and characters. Considering the widespread mention of the fanbase I'm surprised you haven't heard of it. :D

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Thank you very much! I might just have to look into this;P

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Thank you so much! I've felt kind of cheated of my FIRST experience, so it's good to know I'll finally get a good one! Once again, thanks! This really means a lot! (If this thing does work out, there might be some new plushies coming down the Hasbro pipeline. I can try and snag you one of those.)

The show is awesome! Please come back and tell us if you liked it! (We can introduce you to some really cool fan stuff!)

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Will do:D

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Oh, for those who haven't already seen it:

The Equestria Girls Trailer

It is terrifying

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What good timing too!

Because of our (horrible) experiences with labview, we decided to move to Java next year (I voted for C++, but Java will be easier to learn for all the newbies.) The problem is, I only know C++ and Python. I don't know java really well. Or how to program the robot in it for that matter. On top of that, I'm going to be the lead programmer next year. Of course, if you could help, that would be really, REALLY, appreciated. And maybe we could even get you on our team somehow.

Everytime I see EQG, I want to throw up. The character style is horrible, and the characters are going to VERY OOC.

Not to mention the plot is going to be something out of a typical fanfic like this:

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I might need help next season with labview programming. The problem with my team is that most programmers have experience however its more with text-based languages, only two of us stepped up to learn labview (we considered switching to Java however the coach disagreed). I was made head programmer pretty much midseason this year and I managed, however it would be nice if others helped considering the workload (planning much more for next season). I'm letting the guys with text-based skill work on projects such as our site and scouting system. I might need help with labview robot programming this upcoming season so I'll keep you posted :) .

Yes, the 2 of us that programmed the bot this year were Bronies :D (a Brony and Pegasister to be specific).

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Thank you guys all so much! I would have never expected so many awesome people would come to help! (Which is good, because the situation with my old team is getting REALLY bad, but that's another story.) In any event, if you want to contact me, you could Skype me at alxg833, or email me at goulda@bxscience.edu (I check it more often than my Skype.) Again, thank you guys so much! This is awesome!

(I mean seriously, I recently had a HORRIBLE experience with FIRST, and I didn't even know that was possible! I'm not sure if I can express my thanks in words, so have the whole dictionary.)

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Do you think you could large images in [spoiler] tags? It really helps us with slower computers out.

Also, I'll add you on skype, we can begin discussing things there if you want. :) My skype name is ILikePizza555.

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Gosh, CD just keeps getting better. Robots AND bronies? My day is officially made! :)

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I also added both people who contacted me on Skype. (Sorry about the wait! My Skype is a little buggy.)

So, how's everyone's summer going?

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I had both my Earth Science and Algebra 2 exams today, and they're my last exams of the year. I'd say my summer is going rather well considering I'm only about 2 hours into it.

And how about you? Doing/done antyhing fun this summer?

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I just went to my third Equestria Girls meetup. I loved it, and I can't get the songs out of my head. Anyone else see the movie? What did you guys think?

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One more thing...

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Well, the second trailer put me back on the fence, and the positive feedback kinda makes me want to see it. Idk, probably will when it comes out on DVD.

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Or you could watch it now! (Get popcorn!)

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Well then, I do believe it is less then a month until a new season!

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*Searches online* You're right! I know where I'm going to be the 23rd... Besides the build room if we intend on meeting then, in that case I might DVR it.

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OMG people I relate to! :3

My Little Pony at Ramp Riot's FTC Competition
 

I don't know much about ponies, but I've been in Baltimore long enough to know enough about it.

So it started this morning at Ramp Riot when I stopped by the FTC competition to check out what's going on. Oddly enough, I spot someone with the last name of "Octavia" on the registration sheet that's crossed out and replaced with a real name. :0

Then when I came back during lunch break, I spot duct tape on a laptop referring the the show's protagonist, Twilight Sparkle. It was sitting on the table behind the FTC field probably controlling the music, and had a bucket of mints in front of it:



I also noticed red duct tape on the referees that weren't wearing a black/white striped jacket.

'Twinkie Pie' refers to the pink party animal character, Pinkie Pie, possibly eating a twinkie:



And then there's 'Prancing Unicorn', possibly referring to the ostentatious dress perfectionist Rarity:



I have also seen a random sing language "J" hanging on a wall. I think that this may be a Homestuck reference, but I am quite suspicious that it may have something to do with MLP:



I was pretty much the only person who got the "inside joke", and when I approached the referees about the red tape on the back on their shirt they had no clue what it referred to but liked the "names they were given".

It's either that they're secretly bronies, someone running the event is a brony, or some mischievous brony injected some pony into a FIRST event. Who knows? :rolleyes:

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Very amusing, someone sure had a nice laugh.

And I have no idea what the J sign is.

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I believe the J sign is referring to Wissahickon's J hall

Someone's Doing It Wrong
 

According to twitter, someone's doing it wrong.



I'm not trying to be mean, but you should be watching the kickoff instead of My Little Pony right now. There's a lot of good things being announced right now! ;)

http://www.thebluealliance.com/gameday#kickoff

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The kickoff..... MLP Season 4......


....

GAAH WHY CAN'T I HAVE BOTH?!?!


EDIT:

Oh, and I'm currently swapping between this thread, the Kickoff threads, FIMFiction, and the actual kickoff presentation in Houston....

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I wonder if "BATS!" counts as a bat-pony episode. I really wanted one this season.

Also, I like how no one seems to notice that Twilight is an alicorn. Maybe it's because alicorn exists outside of royalty and are just rare? Idk.

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Perhaps there is some sort of perception filter and only a select few are allowed to know...? Idk...