I was having a spirited debate with Filly on the subject of completion in video games. Take, for example, the Bioshock series: throughout these games, there are collectible items such as audio diaries that are not required in order to beat the game, but finding them all gives you a clearer picture of the game's story, characters' motivations, etc.

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I've yet to find one that I consider to be really good. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Hey folks! You might recall that BaroqueNexus is creating a soundtrack based on PONY Legacy. Well, he's been busy! Six new tracks are available... and they actually extend past the currently posted chapters. I don't know how much music can spoil the story for you, so think of it as a little sneak peek of where the story's going.

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For some values of 'moved in'. Posting from my laptop 'cause my desktop battlestation is still in pieces. If anyone's wondering why there was no Vault post on Friday, well, there you go. I also still owe at least three of my devoted followers responses to various communiqués, and if you are among them, I beg your forgiveness - each weighs heavily on my mind, and I want to give each the proper thought and attention they're due. Maybe later today, maybe tomorrow.

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>mfw an author I recognize and respect faves one of my stories

In other news, I've spent the last two days almost dying and now I'm desperately trying to catch up on everything, IRL work and pony-related, before I move next week.

I'm tentatively pleased with it because it's either autodetecting my mobile device and scaling appropriately, or there's a straight-up separate mobile site skin thing going on. Makes me wonder what it looks like on a desktop. Not sure when I'll have a chance to look, because I'm spending a lot of time this weekend at my new apartment, getting ready to move in. Super excited about moving from 2.5Mb DSL to 10Mb cable, with 20Mb being an option if I get frisky.

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>mfw someone reports a story in the Explicit section of the Pony Fiction Archive for "zoophilia"

I've been talking with someone who's in the planning stages of putting together a fan-produced, professional-quality documentary about pony fanfiction. He was hoping to get some feedback or suggestions on authors people would like to see interviewed, so he could try to get in touch with them and see if they'd be interested in participating.

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I've spent the last few weeks making a concerted effort to work through my review queue for the Vault. Part of it is thanks to adding a little widget to my user page here that I update every few days, tracking how many stories I have left to read in chapters and words, as well as how long the oldest story's been sitting in my queue. It's a little thing, but it's been really motivating apparently, even if no one's noticed it - at its peak since I added the widget, it was hovering near 70

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I realized I had some of those 11x17 posters WalMart was giving away gathering dust in my closet, so I pulled them out and listed them at the LPU Relief site.

The Map of Equestria
The Season 2 Cast
The Villains

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