All the Barcast questions that didn't get answered. · 7:01am Dec 1st, 2019
So, uh...wow. You guys asked a lot of questions tonight. Really friggin' flattering, honestly. Like, mega flattering. Tickled rosy, and all that.
That said, running out of time was a thing that happened. Which kind of sucks, because - looking back at things - there were a lot of questions that would have been fun to talk about.
So I'm gonna talk about 'em here. Because when am I the sort of person to pass up on rampant self-indulgence?
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G5 just got revealed: it's Fallout: Equestria and Littlepip is the main character. What's your mood?
Better than My Little Pony: the Calarts Dreamworks-face edition Honestly, I'd still probably watch it. Fan content and canon content are different, which means different plots and different takes on characters. It could theoretically be okay, and i've got nothing implicitly against FO:E's post-apocalyptic setting, i really don't. plus littlepip possibly having a personality now would be nice
Which pony would make the best corgi?
corgis are wonderful, but so are ponies. It'd have to be a pony that has the temperament of a great corgi, but which you'd prefer to not have talking a fair amount of the time.
In other words: I need "Corgi Pie" fanart, and i need it soon.
How much shipping that was "hinted" in the finale do you want explicitly shown in the "Season 10" comics?
I'm pretty sure the comics are already all but outright stating that discord is boning fluttershy at this point. But hell, watching andy price trying to figure out the right facial expressions for gallus-on-twilight romantic relations could be funny.
Tell us how you really feel about Blackjack.
It's like somber figured out that it's possible to make a waifu that people are okay with seeing abused (for narrative reasons,) but still want to protecc regardless. This is probably because hecc i love blackjack so much she is perfect 12/10 deserves hugs
Do you have any favourite Christmassy foods?
I have the best mom in the world. Perks of having a grandmother who emigrated from Croatia, which I'm guessing is where the cultural spillover was close enough to overflow.
Have you ever put anything weird in a sandwich but it's actually turned out kind of good?
Does a roasted chicken, pineapple and curry sauce sandwich sound good? Because it can be good.
What is your funniest/weirdest memory you have of a convention you attended?
Long story short, me and a friend got an entire Steak 'n Shake in Indianapolis to sing "The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny" by accident. That was at Gencon, though, not Bronycon. Still not something that's easy to forget.
Do you think we could someday terraform Mars (Make Mars a second Earth), and how do you believe we could accomplish this?
After generations and generations of work? Yes. And I think there's enough public interest that eventually some institution with enough money will, as a PR stunt if nothing else, make a genuine effort to doing the immense amounts of groundwork necessary to make it so. As for "how we could accomplish it," I'm unqualified to talk about all the technical aspects, since i have very little background in the sciences in general. That said, sustained public interest is making the terraforming of mars seem like something that the influential might eventually want to pursue, so keeping potential constituents in love with the idea of turning a new world into an idyllic paradise is a good way to increase the likelihood of dedicating funding to the R&D of artificially creating a strong magnetic field on mars, boosting the oxygen content of the resulting atmosphere, heating the planet using some combination of kinetic impact and really frickin' big space mirrors, etc.
If you had the chance to be one of the first civilians to travel to Mars, would you do it and what would you like to experience most on the red planet?
It'd be dangerous, possibly unsafe. But I don't value my body for all that much, anyway, nor my ability to contribute meaningfully to society, so I'd be okay with passing earlier. And being able to see Olympus Mons, just...I couldn't even begin to think about what being in its presence must be like. Humbling wouldn't even begin to cut it.
Who out of the Barcast do you think is the most qualified for space travel? Would they be a national hero or lead us to our doom?
If mars is full of the sort of saurians that have - according to tabloids - been infiltrating the earth for decades, then it's only sensible to send pencil up there. I'm not sure you could properly punch the shit out of them without being able to channel the right amount of rage, and spike does look kind of reptilian, so...
On the other hand, if the space lizards are friendly, we're probably all fucked.
What has been the happiest moment in your life, and please include all the touching moments.
There were a lot of touching moments. Figuratively, I mean. I suck at keeping close with people, but I really do try to. That said...there was a day, in the summer of '13. I lived in an apartment with friends at the time, and all of us had the day off from our respective work schedules. We wound up getting lunch together, then dinner together, then making a late night ice-cream run together. And in between all that, we watched anime, played games, and just sat around outside, talking about pop-culture philosophy and our childhoods under a brilliant blue sky, then a breathtakingly gradient sunset, then the dazzling lights of thousands of stars.
I went to bed at 2:30 in the morning - they stayed up a little later, drinking. But my last thoughts before I fell asleep were: "I wouldn't mind if every day was like this, for the rest of forever."
Two of the three friends now live in different states from me, and the third one killed himself in the spring of '14, so that's not happening again. Still, hard to forget something so insignificant and so immeasurably perfect.
Where would you like to see yourself in the next 3 - 5 years both personally and professionally?
A different me. The current me lacks the ability to move upward, and i don't like the current me very much. Professionally, this me could probably go on to become a marketing agent for a medical consulting firm if i tried hard and played my cards right, but i think i'd only get that far if I was able to work through brain damage and a pile of neuroses and complexes, and I'm not sure how to go about getting the money in order to get something that might possibly help with any of that.
But if i was a different person, with different personality traits, i might be a more successful person, or more capable of achieving success. That guy would probably be better for everything involved, even if he wasn't me. I'd like that.
What is the biggest or weirdest fear that you have?
As far as weird goes, I'm pretty sure I've mentioned the Hornet Coffin nightmare elsewhere. Biggest fear, though, realtalk, is being abandoned and rejected by everyone I know and care for. I'm very touchy about rumors because I know the effect that they can have, how it's generally impossible to put genies back in bottles, and how it doesn't take much effort to stain a reputation permanently. The idea of something happening, or doing something i didn't see ahead of time, resulting in everyone despising me to the point of not even wanting to talk to me?
Fuck, I think I might try to kill myself with a method that could actually work.
Why is Bagged Milk the Best Milk?
Because sometimes the alternative is no milk at all, and that's just a great american tragedy right there.
What is your one annoying habit?
I never stop finding the same few things funny, and i constantly requote and repost them endlessly. I kill whatever memes i come into contact with that tickle my fancy. This isn't out of malice, but because I find the dumbest shit really funny every single time. It's like my brain doesn't have an off switch to tell me that i need to take a chill pill and stop talking about making poopies on our friends or OOF FUH
Watch Anime by chance? If so, what are your favorites? -- Bonus points if you're a fan of Durarara!!
holy fuck Durarara!! is top tier shit, good call
I do watch some animu, but not tons. I used to love Steins;Gate, but that was at least partly for sentimental reasons. Ditto Higurashi. Within the last couple of years, though...I really like a bunch of different parts of Shokugeki no Soma, and i'd recommend it just about everywhere if it wasn't for all the gratuitous breast and ass shots and nudity like jesus enough with that already and get back to the fucking food
Just how big is your porn stash?
Just big enough and kinky enough to fill me with intense amounts of shame.
Who is your Wafiu or Husbando, and why are they shit? Note - Can Be From Any Fandom.
Blackjack is perfect eat pants as far as canonical stuff is concerned...fuck it, Silverstream is bae. Even if she is just beta pinkie, and looks like someone slapped a baby nursery paint job on a glorified catbird and injected it with a healthy dose of FAEC
(then again, FAEC disease seemed to become the sort of chronic illness that spread as time passed between seasons, which is partly why they need to standardize immunization procedures in equestria already. Damn it, Celestia, thousands are having their faces twisted into mockeries of the normal range of expressions and their blood is on your hooves!)
What's it like to write?
Different for every person. For me, writing is just live-action catharsis: channeling an internal response (of whatever nature it takes) to some outside event and attempting to transcribe it in a way that expresses the sensations developed as a result of said event. Ergo, when i'm trying to "force it" it feels like trying to paddle a canoe on dry land, and when i can just "let it happen" it's like taking skydiving with your personal fantasy, interpret that as you will.
If you were given 33 drinks of your choice every week, would you give Knighty
a place to stay at/near your home?
Knighty seems housebroken, so sure. Hopefully he doesn't mind his diet varying based on whatever's on sale, though.
Has the disappointment kicked in yet?
ha-HA! I had that disappointment before I walked in the room!
You like to bring fancy cheese and beer from your state. What are things from other states you enjoy being given? A Michigan must is Vernors, and Koggel Meats.
I don't actually get a whole lot of state-representative gifts from other folks. I'll keep vernors and koggel in mind, though!
whoo! :D