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Finally a new chapter. Of all the stories I'm currently tracking this is the one I look forward to seeing updated the most.
So... Is this supossed to be another library that exist in Ponyville? After all I was thinking that Twilight was the owner of the library.
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I thought that at first, but then I remembered Twilight is still off at the excavation site.
Is this another library or a library run from the castle?
Really? Mr. Child genius has never heard the term bachelor before?
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Stop! My virgin ears!
But no, even stupid geniuses can completely blank on a word, especially if it contradicts their inner dialogue. Good catch!
Wasn't her entire point that you can be a child genius and still suck, if you have other problems besides smarts?
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They're in Ponyville, still. I'm trying to expand upon the idea of a tree library.
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Bingo! That's exactly what I'm getting at. Sorry if it wasn't clear. I thought I mentioned the last time she was there how Twilight's absence had been filled by others... maybe should reiterate that a bit.
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Thank you. I will try my best! This is one of the stories I struggle with the most, so it's kind of hard to update quickly sometimes. Stupid heart songs...
So, when's the next chapter? Can you publish within the next five minutes, because I've got nothing to do.
The picture at the end made me laugh. Does that make me a bad person?
This is so deliciously awkward.
good
6525337 Maybe you mentioned but we forgot, think about it... After a month you are not going to remember every detail.
This chapter can be summed up in one video:
I'm not trying to sound impatient or anything but abit of plot progression would be nice.
Still a good chapter though.
I forget which anime it's from, but if you're thirty years single you're called a wizard. And this statement was literally followed up by "It's like a reward." If you're stringing a bunch of ladies along like Ranma, then you are a 'foul sorcerer' assuming your rival is delusional, jealous or both.
My best guess is that it's either in Oreimo or Haganai.
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/30-year-old-virgin-wizard
and
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Hello there, I've made this roller coaster for you. Won't you get on? I'm sure it'll be quite a wild ride!
Yes, I really should move things along faster. Trouble is this is more a story about being Sweetie Belle, than it is about plot progression. I'm much more fascinated with having the protagonist experience Sweetie Belle's life, rather than clear up this little issue about meteors and curses and possessions. I will say that I do intend to bring things to a head some time around the end of summer vacation.
So far, I've gotten through about one week.
I removed a 500 word block from the latest chapter, that was carefully describing the particular nature of Sweetie Belle's sandwich.
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It made me laugh too... until it really hit me that Sweetie's trying to teach herself how to read. How many of us would look dumb and retarded too, if the only way we had to learn how to read was to get laughed at for being stupid, then just left alone to try and figure it out all on our own?
Gavalanche's Sweetie Belle was a very chilling insight into just how horrible it can be, that silent monster called childhood neglect.
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Theenks.
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Sure, I'll add something maybe about it. Hum...
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I actually did not know that meme had such a traceable history. Very interesting. Thankfully I have the excuse of a flawed protagonist, so I can pretend I knew all about it all along, and was just trying to stay true to their own in-character ignorance. Wait shoot, did I say that out loud?
I find it funny that he considers himself smart just because he has a good vocabulary. Truly intelligent people are problem solvers and are able to comprehend things faster than others.
Being able to comprehend that some things can be dismissed or accepted based purely on logical contradictions is also a good skill. An example is what is the chance of something being supernatural? Zero. You know why? Because supernatural by definition is beyond nature, and by definition everything in the universe is nature, therefore everything is natural, or else there would be a contridiction. So, using the term supernatural for anything outside of fiction is a logical fallacy. But things that are said to be supernatural might still exist within this logic, because it is only the term itself we have dismissed, therefore if something said to be supernatural was discovered it wouldn't be supernatural anymore.
They are also able to question things and to not accept things at face value, as well as not disregarding something because it seems contrary to previous experiences. But they also shouldn't get too carried away and make up explanations for things. I would do a religious example, but I'll go for the next best thing; ancient aliens. They are a good example of making something up because they didn't have an answer. They didn't have enough puzzle pieces, so they analyzed what puzzle pieces there were and manufactured their own. The biggest problem with that is they only had edge pieces, no middle or semi-middle pieces, so they had free reign on what the middle pieces were. They were able to mold the semi-middle pieces to the edge pieces to get a good idea of what they looked like, but then they made up middle pieces, aliens, to fit the semi-middle ones to make the puzzle look perfect. A massive mistake in any scientific field. You never make up pieces, you only fit molds over existing pieces and have a rough shape of what piece connects to that piece. Technically, it could be right, but it could just as easily be wrong. Just not enough data.
Wow, I got off topic.
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No, don't rush it. I love the slow pace, as long as the updates keep coming.
HumanSweetie telling Rarity why she was scared. Telling RealSweetie why she's grateful. RealSweetie wanting books about stallions touching her. Descriptions of magic and references to the LHC. That part about open land in the last chapter... these are the kind of things I enjoy the most. But also all the stuff inbetween.
The LHC is the biggest waste of money in science history. But we do have one thing somewhat similar to a pony hoof, which is that gecko inspired grippy stuff. Tons of tiny little hairs, so when you press down and then slide sideways on something the hairs lay down, and the large amount of surface area touching the object creates huge van der waals forces to grip. Slide back sideways to stand the hairs up, and they release. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_setae https://derpibooru.org/316954
But I'm more disappointed with the lack of flight technology. Back to the Future said we'd have hoverboards by now Or at least, within the next week. Though pegasus wings are what I really want. Something that enables taking off and landing in tight spaces, quietly and without deadly danger to anyone nearby, and can be worn at all times rather than a vehicle that needs to be parked somewhere.
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>Yes, I really should move things along faster.
I'd rather you don't. I very much enjoy your current pace and a lot of exposition. The slice of life you manage to put in each passing day is precious, there will be a time you can start doing timeskips, but as of now - a lot of mundane day-to-day activities are still not explored and don't have a full circle of sexual fristration and cuteness built into them. I don't want to miss a thing. Keep it up.
Huh.
I'm glad stuff happened.
That picture in the author notes just reminded me of Poopy Belle...
I hope you're happy with yourself.
I don't get the stallion joke at the end.
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I didn't either, but this other comment explains it 6525962
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There are 2 possibilities to your above quote.
(1) You dismiss the LHC as "not achieving anything practical", in which case you're just one of countless millions who are ignorant of how science functions and progresses.
(2) You are disappointed that the USA did not finish its own LHC in Texas, which would have been 3 times the size of the one in Europe. You feel true discoveries would require the size of the Texan collider, and that the European one is just a smidge too small, hence a waste of money. In which case you have a good point.
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I don't understand why Lyra fits the bill for "smart pony who understands magic who would be excited about this event." Lyra is a goddamn musician, full stop. What "secret project"? I don't know what you're referring to. Are you using some headcanon involving Lyra?
Why didn't Sweetie just say Zecora??? With all the lead-up qualifiers our Protag was listing, I thought for sure that's who you were thinking of. A discreet reclusive Shaman who is friendly but not too close, who deals in spirits and mysteries? How did either of them forget her???
Someone please tell me this "human" is not going to let some child keep being "vanished mysteriously" while he has fun with her life. While he is doing nothing to help the said missing child. I literally want to jump in the story throttle this miserable excuse of a human.
From 1.5 chapters i read he has not given single thought for this. I really really like the story but i just feel physically bad reading this as it is...
*Falls down and starts frothing from mouth.*
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Read the comments due frustration and i see what the story is about a bit more now. But still, DAMN this is exactly the same as "Do you leave a child drowning in a fountain" question but just a bit of uncertainty added to the mix.
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Oh yes, unlike regular intelligence, true intelligence does indeed make your argument unassailably correct. I don't really... get what you're saying about supernatural, but I don't think the character has many any strong claims as to the unreality of their current situation, only felt very strongly about it.
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Saddest thing is you'd live a better life if everyone just accepted you were dumb and let you settle into some nice stable vocational or social field. Dilbert's garbage man, for instance.
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I love descriptions of these stunning landscapes the pony show has given me. If only I could get over all this need to write elaborate dialog, and actually describe it once and a while.
I don't know if the LHC is the biggest waste of money in human history. (There is the space program! *dodge*) I mean, what else are we gonna do with all that time and effort? Build more clothing factories?
I'm more disappointed in lack of advances in bioengineering. We already have the capability to make flying cars, but what we need is to change ourselves to be able to drive the things without crashing. All this technology, and we're still stuck in bodies that were cutting edge technology 6 million years ago, and haven't advanced since then.
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Well, okay then!
But no seriously, I really appreciate that. It's hard to tell whether I'm doing good or not just looking for problems on my own; easy to see things that just aren't problems at all.
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...'kay. Hope I'm not putting you off too much. I do feel a little bad for this whole chapter, and not even being able to fit an entire library visit into it. I'm totally not sorry about the fake-out with Scootaloo though.
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Sweetie Poo Gavalanche did do quite a bit of those, including one that I can't link from here due to it being the most hilarious Sweetie Poo conception that has ever existed. Watch out evil doers! But when he wasn't making fun of incontinence, his non-poopy Sweetie Belle was very heart wrenching, especially with how funny it always was at first.
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Y-yes that's right. There's no real joke, except maybe her inability to avoid teaching Sweetie Belle about sex.
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Sweetie Belle only knows Zecora indirectly through Apple Bloom. And they have already come to the brilliant conclusion that Apple Bloom couldn't possibly have any way to help them. The protagonist is going to suffer a head injury at this rate from beating her head against the wall. But yes, if the "sneaking into an expedition to the Badlands to investigate a meteor / archaeological discovery" thing didn't clue you in, this story doesn't precisely conform to the plot of the show. You have much to learn about the world she's in along with the protagonist.
Incidentally... I don't recall Lyra ever actually being seen in the show playing a lyre.
Also the argument "if you claim X, then you're too ignorant to possibly have a valid claim," is something of a fallacy.
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Yes, leaving a child hypothetically drowning, in a fountain you aren't sure even exists, without any indication she's in trouble, aside from... well... you being in her body. I don't think it's as bad as you think. You're reading the protagonist's worries about what might be wrong, and thinking that must be what is wrong, then forgetting that it was the protagonist worrying about it in the first place, subsequently condemning them for not caring, by their inability to act on these unfounded worries. She hasn't exactly been presented with an ultimatum to reveal her secrets or Sweetie dies. Plus she's a very gimpy Sweetie Belle, so not exactly in a position to take much action, or even go for help.
I'm not saying you have no reason to rage over this ...situation, but I hope I can help at least somewhat ease your mind over the protagonist's culpability in this.
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No he is GUILTY as charged. He does not have any information about the actual safety of the said child.
The TRUTH does not matter, the actions of people matter with data given. The 'hero' of this story found himself in a body of a child and failed to report that this child could still be in danger. He also failed to tell the people searching about information he gathered just after his awakening. If story conveniently later makes it all better it DOES NOT MATTER. He failed a a human being in the eyes of humanity's laws, Social agreement and "general sense of morality" many people on this planet agrees with. I am sure there is some hard philosophical answer too but what do i know i study society not philosophy.
(http://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/crime-penalties/federal/Failure-to-help.htm Just for fun, according to USA law failure to render aid could be 10 years in prison, i am sure that since there is child involved there would be modifiers. While law in this case does not matter i thought it would be good to add this here.)
Even if he would know that SB will not be believed he should present the case fully, he had many things to work with in that first chapter, but he CHOSE not to do so.
He failed as human and is a kind of a person who would leave a child to a unknown fate by his delays. I understand him in a way, but only in context of him being mentally unwell. We all fear things but i am fairly certain most of humanity would be ready to take a leap of faith to make sure child will be helped. (Or maybe i would freeze in such position, who knows, but i would like to consider myself as a person who would not leave a child to an uncertain fate and walk out as her. Damn that would just kill me other ways if i would fail like that...)
Only real defense he has is that his mind is currently residing in a brain of a child. But based on the comments i read that might not be something that is exactly true, but i have not read the story fully so i would not know.
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That's not the argument, that's the diss.
I didn't make any arguments in that post. No need to raise a debate where there is none.
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Especially a child he "knows" and "likes", and would like to see have a happy ending.
A child who is a statistic, I can see ppl ignoring. But this protag is ignoring the welfare of someone "important" to him.
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Maybe keep up to date with state of the art advances then? Bioengineering is advancing at a steady pace, and there are so many separate advances and technologies that are complimentary to bioengineering as well. It's going as fast as it can with the funding they have. Honestly, molecular machines are going to be what actually changes our DNA and fixes us, much more precise. I guve it a few decades. Fifty years or so.
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please I'm dying
I give up. Hate her all you like. She's going straight into the clink, see! She don't get no respect, see!
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It's difficult, since all that research is locked behind secret corporate Non Disclosure Agreements, and paywalls blocking off laypeople like myself from reading scientific journals. But, last I checked there's still no effective treatment for arthritis that doesn't just sort of stop helping until your every moment is an agony again. With the baby boomers all senior citizens, even the rich ones, the fact that that ailment has no treatment really makes me less than confident that our grasp of our own biology is so amazing as you might think.
But you're right. I don't keep up with that stuff actively anymore. I would think if they could engineer some bio that was useful, such as a way to make us grow more collagen instead of just having paper thin skin in our old age, that would be in big bright letters on every pharmacy's shelf, but maybe I just missed it. When all you see are big, bright advertisements claiming that it's new, revolutionary, and more, without actually saying what it's being compared to, that doesn't really inspire confidence that there's any substance to their claims.
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It is good that you have chosen to do so, i am after-all always right. But i cant really say i know what is so funny about that part of the reply.
And good, but odds are he could successfully appeal for medical reasons and be diverted to medical care instead.
I am getting q tad scared of gow scared the formed human is.
6542256 You have a strange idea on how advancements are made. Sometimes it's massive leaps and bounds that suddenly appear, but not for this kind of thing. The tech won't be around for decades until machines are the size of blood cells, maybe even viruses, but it's only a matter of time before we have molecular machines able to cut and paste our very DNA like Microsoft Word, curing aging and genetic diseases such as cancer. Heck, the Nobel prize in chemistry this year went to three scientists in breakthroughs of how our own bodies repair DNA using proteins, and exactly how it works. Stuff we have been researching already, but have plenty of new data for now. Such research is what you need to look out for when trying to predict what we will be able to do in the future, because if the body can do it, then logically it can be done artificially. Without fail this has held true.
There is no one tech being researched that will lead to this, but there are many small pieces that will one day lead to it if you know where to look.
6536826 I too am disappointed that we never built the SSC... A real shame, we could be decades ahead in particle physics if some 'rednecks' weren't fucking idiots and pulled funding to pay for their beer and guns.
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Except that it discovered the Higgs Boson, which means it already paid for itself in my book. The Higgs Boson existing means the Higgs field exists, and that means we now know the mechanism for how matter gets mass, which is a big freaking deal. And that was only after about a year or two of activation, imagine what new things will be discovered in the next decade? Discovery should have no price tag, because you never know where you will end up.
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Oh wow, I just looked it up NASA has a budget of about two Large Hadron Collders per year... so nevermind. Not the biggest waste. 9 billion just ain't what it used to be.
But what else to do is study the possibilities of electricity. Not what happens between single particles, but what emerges from complex interactions. Plasma physics is one of the big areas. Also complex electric waves, like what you get in Tesla coils. There's a crazy guy somewhere out in the Nevada desert named Eric Dollard who could probably teach us more with 9 million than the LHC can with 9 billion. And he's almost done it twice already with large facilities in Bolinas, CA and Landers, CA, but both times the land was seized and all equipment destroyed by mysterious groups of people.
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Yes, as Neil deGrasse Tyson had eloquently spoken about it... It's more than just a matter of "Darn, (generic) we could have had more science." It's actually a matter of "Wow, (the USA) we are steadily losing our place in the world as a relevant power." The fall of an empire is often preceded by a stagnation in technological and scientific innovation, hand in hand with a fall in STEM competency and interest in the national cultural milieu, with reactionary ideology and religion filling the void, eventually leading to 3rd-world status for the nation and its people in the long view of history.
Basically, willful stupidity is unpatriotic.
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Technically the fall of an empire is often preceded and postceded by a dramatic stagnation in technological and scientific innovation. Rome was long gone for centuries when Europe was in the Dark Ages, and the military industrial complex was psyching them up for a Holy Crusade.
The way I interpret it is to look in history at the corellation between a healthy middle class and the culture's level of technological savvy. The model is that a wealth disparity puts more wealth in a few hands, and specifically into the hands of people who benefit from stagnation. Innovation is only a needless risk, for their individual self interests. Whether there is an empire, or a democracy, or a ramshackle bunch of Germanic city states, at any time in history, the level of technological innovation, or technological adaptability might be a more appropriate term, is inversely proportional to the size of the wealth gap between the rich and the rest of us.
So, it's not the fault of stupid, uneducated hicks fighting for beer and gun money, but rather the very brilliant and successful businessmen who operate megachurches down there to poison the well, while undermining the school system, either crippling it entirely, or just replacing it with test based curriculums geared at producing disempowered corporate slaves. If you want to know the most dangerous man in the room, don't look at the idiots shaking guns over their heads; look long and hard instead at the quiet guy behind them, who convinced them to act that way.
6544112 while i know this isnt the point of your comment, i just wanted to say most gun owners aren't insane lunatics, and most deaths via a gun are actually suicides. in short, America has a mental health issue disguised as a gun issue, which is also caused by a corporate greed issue.
those are the same thing. Ms. is an abbreviation of miss; Mrs. is the abbreviation of missus.
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Aren't these all terms for a sexually promiscuous male?
I gotta ask "Hey, Einstein, Why don't you just have Sweetie teach you to read?" Most languages aren't as messed up as English. Spend a few hours learning the alphabet & hopefully you can do your own research.