I have quite the habit of timing my finishing of a video game – be that the main campaign, 100%’ing it, or just to the goal or stop point that I’m satisfied with: whatever I’m gunning for at the time – right as the next game that will be my big one for a while comes out. I’m sure that’s hardly unique, many folks probably do the same, especially when direct sequels of the game they’re currently playing are on the horizon. But it can take many forms, I find.

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Ghost Mike, Ponyfic Review Monday Musings #66, 12^th June 2023:

we’ve reached that point in the generation where everyone internally knows the writing is on the wall and are already refocused on the future. […] The lack of announcement of further content for G5 beyond the initial episode orders […] only further intensifies this.

Well, that aged well.

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What’s this? Halloween, you say? You know, it used to be an exciting time for me. Even as an adult, the last few years, I’d look forward to a little pumpkin carving, at the very least. But eh, lately I haven’t even done that. This year hasn’t really broken that trend. It’s not alone – most one-day holidays tend to glaze right by me these days, over in a flash. Honestly, though, it doesn’t bother me much. I certainly want to get back to carving a pumpkin every year, but otherwise, it’s fine, I

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Some minor but important housekeeping this week: I finished adding the word counts of every reviewed story to the spreadsheet Archive. Somewhat annoyingly, despite double-checking the story lengths and accounting for the two de-listed stories (I’m sure my fellow Ponyfic reviewers will baulk that only two of 250 have been removed), the word count is still off of that in the Reviewed bookshelf here… by forty-nine words.

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When I started out these Ponyfic Review Monday Musings, I didn’t have any definitive goals, beyond reaching the end of that calendar year. Which I did, evidently. And truth be told, both before achieving that and after it, I didn’t see a situation in which I didn’t make it to the one-year milestone. So even now, it doesn’t feel like that big a deal.

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As reported by Equestria Daily, Gillian Berrow recently disclosed at Ponycon Holland that one contributor to the minimal direct generational crossover in G5 is that Discovery Family still partially owns show content rights to G4. Worth remembering that Hasbro only partially owns FiM’s base tv channel – the rest formerly belonged to Discovery and now Warner Bros. Discovery after the 2022 merger.

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Don't deny it... you all have them as much as I do... a character you think is pretty/handsome, or is like you in many ways and that you can ACTUALLY relate to, and would be your ideal match.

Well I have them too, but before I go any further, I should point out...

It's okay to have them, it's not like it's a bad thing or a crime... provided you have a firm grip on the REALITY of things.

-They are not real
-You cannot have a real relationship with them
-Try not to overobsess.

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November means one core thing for me, least as Fimfiction is concerned – Jinglemas is open again for signups! Okay, really, it’s more of a December thing, as you don’t get your characters to write to until November 25^th. But it’s in the air, and while the random nature of what you might get to write makes it not for everyone (they do group relevant gens and characters together, though), it remains worth consideration.

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Well, that was a pleasant weekend. Picked up one of those “loss of appetite” illnesses during the week, and it peaked on Saturday. Nothing more pleasant than being perpetually hungry all day while only about to chow down small quantities of simple, plain food. 

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…Well, thanks to the first botch I’ve had from Ryanair in donkey’s years (despite their reputation, they are very reliable for short European flights), one that forced a different plane to be used three hours and twenty-five minutes later, I arrived home just late enough from UK PonyCon to miss Monday Musings going up on Monday. Least by British time – it’s still on time for the Americans in the crowd!

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In what is an actual first for this series (just before hitting three digits too!), I am not here to post this week’s blog. However, thanks to the magic of tab synchronisation and Google Docs, Fimfiction’s lack of an upload scheduler altogether and a New Blog button on the mobile layout is no issue. Huzzah for careful planning!

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I should have touched on it last week, but Make Your Mark officially ended on November 23^rd*. I could have addressed this with my usual “the show ended on exactly the whimper we all expected” sentiment. But instead, I figured, why not celebrate it, for what it’s worth? And after my love of animation, I am a gamer. So, I took the opposite direction, and played some MLP. Scratch that, it wasn’t played, it was streamed.

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In Monday Musings’ early days, if I was lacking in a suitable blurb opener, I would often reach for whatever I’d been watching or playing lately. I kind of retired that after a while, mostly because they tended to not be what my regular readers are interested in, and largely only elicited shrugs of the “I don’t care for it” variety. Well, this time, it’s too dear to me to hesitate: on Friday, I saw the musical adaption of my favourite Disney Animation film, Aladdin.

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What? I'm not crying. YOU'RE crying.

Ponies will ease the pain

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So, Cartoon Network recently put up a pilot on their YouTube channel for a show called Infinity Train, and I'm really REALLY hoping it becomes a show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY6kfVWv01k

I already want more and totally love it! (I even made a forum for it http://infinity-train.proboards.com)

Also, here's a petition to try to help make it into a legitimate show! https://www.change.org/p/cartoon-network-make-infinity-train-a-full-show

We all have a specific one, and we have it for our own reasons

Mine is "Romantic Comedies" preferably where the GIRL lusts after the guy and the guy gets all nervous yet the girl is persistant

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There is a show I want to share. I'm sure some of you are already aware of it, but I would like to spread both awareness of it, and encourage others to watch it. The show is called The Owl House. It's a 2D animated series by Disney. The main story is a quirky teen girl finds herself in a world of magic and monsters, where she wants to stay and learn real magic to be a witch. The pilot has even been uploaded to Youtube as an official and full episode by Disney. Here:

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In the villain critique series, I critique villains from any form of media. This includes movies, cartoons, video games, comics, books, even OC villains and antagonists. Any of these villains that you can consider your favorite, you can show or tell me and I will happily critique them.

Anyway, sorry about that and have a great day.