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BronyWriter


I write pony words. Millions of them. Some people actually think they might be worth reading. I am very thankful for that. Also, I have a Patreon now?

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  • 4 weeks
    So I asked Gemini AI...

    To summarize the story TD the Alicorn Princess. The result I got was... interesting.

    1. Fimfiction story: This story involves Peter Westmoore, a responsible college student, who is transported to the magical land of Equis and transformed into an alicorn princess named TD. He faces challenges adapting to his new life and ruling his nation.

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  • 15 weeks
    So...

    As many of you well know, I'm a father of three. A four-year-old, a two-year-old, and a one-year-old. It's pretty great. Can be difficult, but overall a pretty big blessing. How my wife takes care of three kids five days a week is beyond me, as I have a hard time taking care of them two days a week when my wife goes off to work.

    So yeah...

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  • 26 weeks
    Editing help

    Yes, I'm calling out for editors again. I want to submit a story to the Cozy Glow contest, and I want to make sure that the story I just wrote for it is good, or "wow, that's a jumbled mess of ideas, far too mean, and the ending is terrible."

    Let me know if you'd like to help. Any extra eyes would be highly appreciated.

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  • 33 weeks
    I totally forgot

    To mark this as a "sequel" to the original story. So, if you're in the mood for more TD/Comet...

    https://www.fimfiction.net/story/515715/the-eventual-daughter-of-a-non-brony

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  • 40 weeks
    Bluey

    So I'm sure a lot of you have heard about the Aussie preschool show Bluey. It's a show largely aimed at small children that a lot of adults like, too. Even ones without kids. It's... ugh, I can't think of a good parallel for that kind of thing.

    :rainbowwild:

    So, is it actually that good? I've been watching it with my kids, so I should have a good idea.

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Mar
30th
2018

Far Cry 5 (some spoilers ahead) · 9:51pm Mar 30th, 2018

So I've been waiting years for the release of Far Cry 5, ever since I finished Far Cry 4, which is my favorite video game of all time. So, with the game hyped up for me that much, was it worth the wait? Was it everything I've been hoping for?

...

Yes and no.

The game certainly hits all of the typical points of a Far Cry game. Or, at least, the 3rd and 4th, which are the only ones I've played other than the excellent and underrated Blood Dragon. You have all of the same weapons for the most part, there are a lot of the same little moments from the previous games that made it into the game, such as running through the jungle from dogs and soldiers shooting at you at the beginning, enemy camps you have to take over without raising the alarm, and drugs. Lots of drugs.

Now, I didn't really want it to be a clone of 3 and 4 just set in America, and in a lot of ways it wasn't. It removed some of the typical Far Cry things, such as radio towers and crafting from animal skin. There wasn't really a reason to hunt animals at all, really, aside from a few quests.

The main change for the game was that it eschewed the linear story of the previous games. There were three main villains that you had to take out, and you could do that in whatever order you wanted. In the previous game you had to take out De Pleur, Noore, then Yuma, then Pagan. No deviation. Here you have Jacob, John and Faith Seed, and you can fight them in whatever order you wanted. This was a positive and a negative for the game, to me. It lacked a lot of story structure that kept me engaged like the other ones, but at the same time, I had the ability to do pretty much whatever I wanted. There was more freedom in this game than the other two.

However, I found the missions themselves somewhat lackluster for the most part, and the repetitive nature of the missions really got to me. In the game you fought the villains by building up resistance points by taking out outposts, helping the locals, finding caches of weapons and so forth. When your meter filled a third of the way up, you were captured by the villain in the region. Then you escaped after some neat dialogue and story moments. Then you filled up the meter to 2/3rds and you got captured again. Then you got out and when the meter filled up, you were captured once more, but you fight and kill the villain before taking a key and blowing up their nearby bunker which looked exactly the same as the other ones.

That was a huge issue for me. There wasn't anything you could do to stop from being captured. It happened whether you wanted it to or not. It literally happened ten times in the game. Really? It got repetitive and a little boring.

The side quests themselves were pretty typical to the point of being unmemorable unless they were stupid. One of them is herding cows back into their pen. R-really? That's something you want us to do in a Far Cry game? Seriously?

Interestingly enough, in this game you had no real character to speak of. Or at least not a set one. You could be a guy or a girl and that's it. That's the only difference. Well, that and how you dress your character. I kind of feel like it was a bit of a missed opportunity. Jason Brody wasn't too bad, and I really liked Ajay Ghale, so they could have easily had a fun, interesting character here. But nope. You're just a rookie deputy. That's your whole character.

But what good is a Far Cry game without some interesting villains? Can the doomsday cult leaders of this game match up to the brilliance that is Vaas and Pagan Min?

I'm very pleased to say that yes, yes they can. They were automatically going to be better than Hoyt, that's for sure. Were they quite as good as Pagan? Eh. Just a quarter of a step down. But that still makes them highly engaging villains that you just wanted to listen to. It's a testament to the story and the writing that whenever these horrible people, who torture and mutilate all in the name of their wacko leader tell you that you're just as bad as them, or even worse, because you're interfering with their plans and happiness, every now and again you start to wonder. Am I the real bad guy here?

No, you're not, but the line is a little thinner than is comfortable.

Now, I know I mentioned a lot of bad stuff, but I really did love the game and can't wait to play it again. It was a ton of fun, and a few of the upgrades to the story and gameplay were highly welcome and interesting. Although you know one thing they didn't get rid of from Far Cry 4? The fucking eagles. Yep, they're not anywhere near as prevalent, but every now and again you'd get attacked by an eagle.

SERIOUSLY?!

Overall, though, I'd highly suggest it. I finished the main storyline and I know I still have a ton of content left to go through. It was worth the wait, despite its flaws.

Now here's a montage of Far Cry MLP pics.














Too many, some might say.

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Comments ( 25 )

What's intresting about Far Cry 5 it shows how people acted during the late 80's to early 90's

I’ve been playing it since I got it at 9pm Monday as an early launch... been playing up until today (had to travel out of state for a family emergency). I’ve been enjoying it immensely!

Definitely waiting for the three pieces of Season Pass DLC (Vietnam, Martians and zombies, oh my!).

And not sure why folks keep turning up their noses at Far Cry Primal, because I found it to be loads of fun. Definitely should give it a try at some point.

Been to the 8-Bit Pizza Bar yet? It is in Henbane River region northwest of the Hope County Jail. All your Guns for Hire *both Specialists and Fighters* gather here!

It's a shame, as I wanted to like this game but I can't bring myself to buy it. I'm done with these publishers for a while. I'll stick to stuff like 7daystodie, Warframe, and Subnautica. Oh, and if you like Dwarf Fortress style but a bit less obscenely complicated, Rimworld has been awesome to me. The storytellers make for great multiple playthroughs.

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I would suggest it, really. I has multiple endings and it is a lot of fun, despite its glaring flaws.

I hated the ending.

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Same here. I don't normally say this, but the endings damn near ruined the game for me. The lack of a more cohesive story structure and the complete black slate of a main character didn't help.

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The story plot points and blank slate main character wouldn't bother me as much IF the endings actually had Seed pay for his crimes.... NOPE. FUCKING NUKES EVERYWHERE!

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I actually picked the "walk away" ending, which was pretty darned good.

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I still think it's upsetting that the only 'good' ending is to walk off.

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The messages the endings send are pretty fucked up too if you stop and think about it. Either leave extremists/cults alone even if they're doing active harm, or you should listen to them because it turns out they've been right the entire time.

I had a lot of fun with Far Cry 3, and a little less so than with 4 (the main character was so bland that the game might have been better served with him being a silent protagonists), even if it was an overall enjoyable experience. I've just been worried about actually getting it because I heard it has microtransactions built into, which makes me worry they're making it deliberately more grindy to make people put money down to make the game move along faster. Which I'm heavily against when I'm already slapping down $60 for a single player game. Given recent practices of companies like Ubisoft, it says something when I'm so reluctant to put down money on a game series I've had consistent fun with.

Still think one of the best small touches they added was labeling the jetskis “boatercycles”

Any one else think that the “Good” ending was just a hallucination? I mean if that explosion was an actual nuke, and the characters were that close to it, they all would have been flash-fried. It wouldn’t have been possible for Joseph to survive long enough to get you to the bunker.

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I've played most of the game and haven't even remotely needed to use a microtransaction.

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That's what I'm going for. Plus when you hit continue you're put back in the world and Joseph's portrait has an X through it like the other Seeds.

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The microtransactions are completely optional, only for the laziest of folks: Silver bars you can use in place of in game money for purely cosmetic items or weapons that you can get anyways doing missions, side missions, prepper stashes, and hunting/fishing.

Hell, you can find silver bars now and then in the game for free!

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Plus, for me, it just makes more sense that way. I don’t really understand what the point would be if you just take the ending at face value.

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That is literally the only thing I wanted a definite answer on.

Thanks!

I was so close to buying Far Cry 5, until a friendly internet stranger spoiled the ending. I know Far Cry loves its ambiguous endings, but there ought to be one way where you sort of win and defeat the crazy Jesus man. :ajbemused: I could take some of the issues you've described, but the story for me was the straw that broke the camel's back. That and the villains were just a total step down from the likes of Vaas of Pagan Min. I was so thrown by the way the end tries to portray them in a sympathetic light. :rainbowhuh:

Yeah, the story was a big miss for me. The fact that, no matter what, you were forced into a bad situation time and time again no matter how well you were doing is rather disappointing. I mean hell, at least with the other games there was a shot at catharsis or genuine struggle regardless of how ambiguously good or bad the story/route you got was, since even the bad endings were at least fairly warned about or lampshaded in some way without shoving your face in it(Vaas turned out to be actually not full of shit when he warned you about getting too cozy with his sister for good reason, but when he's being such an asshole the rest of the way, it's kinda hard to be inclined to listen to him). Some way, somehow, you can never prove John Seed wrong, and it's infuriating; Makes a certain phrase a certain Sheriff is fond of hit a little too on the nose because of it, and not in a good way.

The protagonist is like a male Princess Peach. He gets captures every other day and for some reason no one's decided to kill him yet.

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Well you can choose for the protagonist to be female, but the comparison is apt anyway.

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Yeah, I keep forgetting you can choose to be a girl. My bro and I just always choose lads .-.

You know, I'd figure someone would make a AU story of Hope County, Manetana, but it seems like the game's not popular enough for it. It would be perfect: Five ponies of the law (Four of them will be from the Background 6. The last will be an unamed oc mare/stallion who they nicknamed 'deputy'.) will have finally 'cornered' Maud Pie in her church to arrest her for numurous crimes. Events will run the same as always (The chopper crash and allies being captured by Pinkie Pie (Just say YES!), Marble Pie (Welcome to the Bliss...), and Limestone Pie (Cull the herd.), though the soon to be army will consist of the Apples and various characters from the show (Twilight will always be the Pastor in my eyes.) The meat of story will be of the war between 'Adams Apples' (Yes, everyone in the story gets the joke.) and Edens Gate, though side stories can be about some of the other events, like the legend of Iron Will, greatest stunt devil in Hope County, or my favorite: WHY IS EVERYTHING TRYING TO STOP ME FROM BRINGING A PREGNANT CADENCE TO THE DOCTOR!!!

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