>>6715 >"Fucker." "Life's tough." >Midnight shifts around on the couch, laying on her belly now. "You know, we should try to do something more than our own separate things in the evening." >"What do you mean?" "Like how I'm usually flipping through the channels on the tube or fiddling with my phone, while your eyes are glued to that computer screen," you explain, gesturing to each piece of technology. >"Okay, humor me - what do you have in mind?" she inquires, her attention piqued. >Shit. >Maybe suggesting that now wasn't the best idea. >You actually don't have any ideas... >"You don't have any ideas, do you?" "I do, I'm just thinking which one would be best to offer up first." >"Holy shit, do you think I'm retarded enough to believe that lie?" "Miracles happen," you say with a shrug and a sheepish grin. >Midnight possesses a distinct lack of enthusiasm with your answer.

>>6716 "Honestly, it's something that is hard to put into words," you admit. "There's just something being around a fire ring with others, listening to the crackle and the smell, the warmth it gives off... I'll see if I can't get some firewood to burn, we're going to do that one of these nights. Maybe try to cook on it, too - definitely brings a different flavor out that the stovetop or gas grill won't do." >"Alright. I'm game for that, I suppose." "I'll just need to get a bare rim from out back, that way I'm not burning the whole junkyard down." >"What, afraid that sand is flammable?" "With the number of crapwagons that have been hauled in and out of here and the leaks they possess, I wouldn't be totally shocked, Middie." >She clearly didn't expect that answer, but nods regardless. "Maybe someday we'll do a double date with Teddy and Starla." >"Okay, *now* you're getting too far ahead of yourself," Midnight scolds. "I said someday, not tomorrow," you reiterate. "Though it's good to know you're not opposed to actively dating in the public eye." >You are teasing her. >Sort of. >"We're testing the waters right now. You're also testing your luck." "Maybe," you say, reaching over with your left hand and ruffling her hair up even more than it already is at this point. "But it's fun seeing you all worked up, little wisps of steam coming out of your ears..." >"Oh, shut up," she says quietly, doing her best to hide her head from you while she undoubtedly fights off embarrassment. > It's funny to see her like this.

>>6717 >"Well look at you being responsible and thinking fiscally," she gushes. "But you know, there's plenty of cars to pull out of the yard..." "Maybe. But that reminds me, you wanted to go to a car show at some point. We ought to do that soon." >Her eyes light up at that - in the figurative sense this time. >"Yeah? Know of any shows soon?" "Small ones, which are probably best suited for us. I know Sunday morning once a month, there's a little gathering at a coffee shop in town. Want to go to that next time?" >"Trust me to be well behaved?" "Just don't bite anyone, I think you'll be good. Maybe a bit of alcohol will help you out." >"Yeah, let's not bother with that last suggestion," she says, sticking her tongue out in disgust. "Fiiiine. Gonna have to do it sooner or later, so I can hear that singing voice draw me in like a siren again." >With a smirk and a blush, Midnight lightly bodychecks you. >"How about we just do our normal thing tonight. I'll even let you share my laptop." "You mean my laptop?" >"Same thing." >One again, Midnight rests her head upon your shoulder, while the computer screen scrolls under the work of Midnight's 'magic.' >This is a situation miles beyond anything you could have anticipated months ago.

Thank you, Blondie and Auto! Your stories always a treat to read. Also congrats everyone on the first bootleg bump limit on this board!

New bootbread has been baked >>6721 see you in the next one

>>2470 She looks sad. Now I'm sad.

What could have been..

>>6282 She should have been the one to create, organize, and lead Twilight's royal guard.

>>6118 Changelings everywhere. You get changelings sticking their heads out of your mirror cabinet. Probably some spot where there's an odd leg or body part sticking out from where one part of the roof meets another. And at least one wall that's mostly faces and or butts.

>>6119 >Changelings turn themselves into giant legos Any giant monster that tries to attack the hive is going to have to be weary of their step.

>>6120 >one wall that's mostly faces and or butts better be paying attention while the house is being built, lest you end up with a wall of changelings staring at you in the bathroom, or a living room and kitchen made of butts.

>We've hit bump limit >Again

NEW THREAD! >>6132

>>5787 Damn so high? If it was that high for me I could not post there either I only filter on OP image and/or if there is something retarded in the preview text And this approach has not changed but the number of filtered threads has increased incrementally

>>5789 You better have a good hobby to spend your time on then. >>5799 I doubt you're the guy I replied to but still. Do you browse or care about all (or most of) the threads shown on your catalog or not? I hide stuff that I'm never going to open and never going to reply to. It's actually mostly generals, so I still manage to catch those spontaneous threads that sometimes turn into something decent, which is the only downside I can imagine to hiding so much stuff. >If it was that high for me I could not post there either Why not?

>>5802 No I don't browse the majority of the threads in the catalog. I pretty much nuke human and g5 pony life etc on sight and thats the number it comes out as. I try to catch those spontaneous threads like you said, but I don't mind if they end up sticking around like snowponies.

>>5806 I only hide G5 and human as well, the number is usually 20-30 on good days, so I guess I still find worthwhile posts more often than not.

>>5433 I'm going to make it simple for you: generals are threads that are made with the idea that a new thread will be created when the current one is archived. At a basic level, it's just that. It is not so much a topic, because every thread has a topic, be a question, a point of discussion, a joke, or even one that is proposed as random things. Obviously, a general is not a bad thing, that just depends on whether your brain relates it to something bad because in circles that you don't like you hear the word "general" frequently. Actually, this place is much more comfortable for generals, because it's much quieter and with people much more focused on mlp related things and who like "comfy" things. I also don't understand what OP wants exactly, does he want more meme threads that aren't taken seriously? In a place where there isn't much traffic, it doesn't make much sense to have meme threads with few or no responses for weeks, and if you want that funny feedback, literally /mlp/ is the best place because most of the people are there just for meme. Does OP feel uncomfortable that things feel more "serious" and "organized" and therefore less spontaneous than in the old days? Understandable from a nostalgic point of view but personally I don't see the bad side. I think that as long as you talk about what you are supposed to talk about in a certain thread, any "method" is good. Do you want a place to feel "less /mlp/"? Literally don't create conversation topics related to organizational issues and linked to tastes. The more you formalize the idea that "there are problems" around how a board should be organized and act, the more you normalize the fact that things are wrong, and you probably create divisions that didn't even exist in the first place. It's like implementing sex education for children to combat teenage pregnancy or things like that. Sure, in times like this it's surely better than nothing, but it's undeniable that you normalize that children and adolescents are more connected to sex, you are not saying "concentrate on things of their age and don't live thinking about sex, close your legs", you're saying "think about sex all you want 24/7, just don't do it the wrong way." It is not something of "let's not discuss anything", think of it this way: When someone creates a thread that raises a discussion point (whatever it's) and another click on it because the first thing that comes to his mind isn't: "oh, surely there will be the guy who thinks that x is total garbage, the autistic who always puts x topic in every discussion, the doomer who says he hates this place and it's posters but never leaves, the one who doesn't stop treat others as if they were secret spies created to annoy him, all this personalities that you saw in just the last week in other discussion threads". Let's just enjoy ponies and this beautiful show. The old days were good because we all had this mindset and were happy with little. Sorry for the blog, and my shitty english.

>>5808 >is a horrible con with anthro bird mascots We need some brave applefags

>>5809 Took me a minute to get that reference.

I wish I could go, but I've already got plans for those dates, hopefully next year.

>>5609 Tranny jannies ban you?

>>5609 Have some fag reported you guys for GR4?

>>5609 Never got into the pixel canvas thing but it always reminded me of YWOT.

I wanted to post an interesting little upscale I've done today. Pic-related is very pixelated, and the SuperPony models couldn't handle it very well. Until I used "4x_scalenx_90k." It smoothed everything out quite well. https://u.smutty.horse/meemwvdblba.png Scalenx -> SuperPony (new): https://u.smutty.horse/meemwwgaykp.png

>>5320 Very nice. This post both reminded me that upscaling is a thing, and that newer, better models more suited for pony have been made. I think the last time I had upscaled anything was like a year and a half ago. I updated to the latest version of cupscale, grabbed some new models, and gave it a quick test with what I think are great results. Take this Chrysalis pic for example. It was made by one of ((those)) artists who don't release their full artworks, instead hiding them behind multiple layers of annoyance. In this case, the annoyance in question is DeviantArt. The thing about DeviantArt, and what this artist does, is that you can set it so that people cannot view or download the original file. Instead, the site serves you a copy of the original that has been scaled down and had the quality reduced by 25%, introducing artifacts and pixelization. Back in the old days you used to be able to browse the page source to bypass this, allowing you to grab the original file, but apparently this either doesn't work anymore or I'm too stupid to figure it out. What I did manage to figure out, however, was to get the downscaled image, but at 100% quality. So I took that, scaled it up with SuperPony 4x V2, then manually scaled the image back down to the artists original dimensions of 3508x2480. While I was at it, I gave the image a little edit. You can see in the original that Chrysalis has a bit of a frown at the corner of her mouth. I don't like that, it makes her look unhappy with the situation. A slight adjustment gave her a more neutral expression, hinting at a smile. Changes the whole feeling of the image in my opinion.

>>5345 Upscale came out looking pretty good. Your edit, while subtle, I think is very effective. Nicely done.

>>5320 Looks great! >>5345 Oh wow, that's really nice!

>>5345 It's pretty amazing how well the SuperPony models do with fan art. We have more tools to deal with bad decisions from artists or just low-resolution fan art in general.

>>2920 Great, now I just need to acquire a copy of the game to try it out.

>>2927 You could always do what I do and pirate it off IGG-Games.com

>>2948 I prefer rutracker.org

>>2951 Either way, let me know how the episode goes! If you do play it, that is.

Bump for good fun.

If /mlp/ couldn't make an episode while it was at its absolute peak with thousands of users then what makes you think it could make one while it's pretty much dead, let alone a tiny offshoot of it with less than 1/10th the population

>>4075 because, PPP is developing tools that circumvent the labor of 1000 users

>>4208 It's been what, 100 threads and the only thing they've achieved between arguing is a TTS program I don't see how this could possibly replace animators, writers, drawfags, etc.

>>4686 It was never meant to be a full replacement for people, just more tools in hopes that it will make it easier for people to create more pony content.