Quick Notice on pony.exe · 4:22am Oct 7th, 2015
Just a quick little blog for you guys, I made a few changes to the chapter once titled "Sotrm.exe". I figure that I tell some of you now before you miss it or not get to see the change notes in the author's notes in the chapter that I will try to get out by tomorrow.
First of all, I changed the chapter title. A user helpfully told me in a comment that it made no sense to post a chapter that had an acronym for a title that no one could guess because there were no hints in the text as to why it might be named that way. As such, I changed it to "Storm.exe", because that makes the most sense. For the record, Sotrm stood for Storm-of-the-real-machine, but as I said, there was no way anyone could have figured that out.
Second, originally Twilight was very surprised when hearing that ponies in the human world didn't talk. However, she had already figured this out earlier when she and David talked about Equestria and Unicorns. I changed that section to more accurately represent Twilight's memory.
I should really read my own damn work before I update it.
Finally, I've re-done the ending to Storm.exe. It's of the smallest of ret-cons. There are more important descriptive elements to the chapters that will become important in the next, so you might want to take a look. Don't worry, it's not any sort of big or long change, only the last four or five paragraphs are really affected. Check it out. It really does matter in the long run.
And that's all for now. This information is already on the author's notes in the chapter, but no one who's already read the chapter is going to notice, so I wanted to make sure that I could get some kind of message out so not everyone would be totally confused by the next chapter.
Thanks you for your patience through all my fixes and I apologize for any inconvenience.
I realy love your story, but the more chapters I see the more I wonder "Why are ponies programmed exclusively with interconnected executable files? Where are the dlls, cfgs, and ifo files?"
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I've gotta be honest with you here. I don't know jack about computers. And as I've said in the past before, the limit of David's knowledge and equipment is the limit of mine. If I miss something technology-related, it's because I don't know about it. Thank you for reminding me that an .exe file does not function by itself like that, and I will try and mention something about dll cfg and ifo files in the future, but it is most likely that I will miss more details like that in the future. I could try to study about the subject a tad bit, but, well, I don't know where to start, and it is, in fact, a broad subject. I could get an adviser on how to go about the technological bits in my story, but that would limit me on how often I get chapters out and it would have to be someone willing to give me the advice on a timely basis. I would need a proper work schedule so to not screw with my adviser, and everything would get much, much more complicated.
I'm passionate in my writing, but I'm not that passionate. I'm writing fan fiction here, not a novel I'm going to publish. You guys deserve the best I can deliver, but adding another person to the project is just going to add more stress for me.
3449448 Sorry about that, I was just making a joke to get a smile out of you. You seem a bit stressed. Trust me, no one who knows computers (like me) will give a crap about nitpicky little details like file types in the chapter names.
Edit: FYI, you would actually see just a list of EXEs which CAN work on their own if they do simple things which windows can handle on it's own natively (which is a LOT actually.), if you were looking into the system32 folder. This folder is bacily the heart of Windows and what lets the whole thing work, so your chapter list is unintentionally a clever analogy for Twilight being in the "heart" of a machine.
3449448 well you don't need to make it a research project. Just some real basic concepts are all you really need.
For example, a CFG file holds configuration info. our protagonist can tinker with this and maybe give Twilight a bigger "room".
A DLL file (for the purpose of the story) can be equated to a tool or other manipulation-capable object. They're typicaltypically used by programprograms to help do a given task.
Not sure about ifo files, I think that was a typo, but these could reference some kind of note or other piece of information.
Armed with this information you can expand the story as you like, for knowledge is power.