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Live Reveal! / Re: ID Reveals!
« on: May 26, 2019, 01:33:58 pm »
I guess it's good I didn't end up with multi-page walls with ceph this game. Haven't not done that since doctor who

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Live Reveal! / Re: ID Reveals!
« on: May 26, 2019, 01:25:16 pm »
Needs more Derpy

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Live Reveal! / Re: ID Reveals!
« on: May 26, 2019, 01:06:57 pm »
I am surprised I managed to wake myself up

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode FTC!
« on: May 24, 2019, 05:47:59 pm »
Coco had the best closing speech because there's no AtE there.
(I lied earlier, I have read everything)

I'm expecting Coco to win 5-2-1
(Chrysalis, Rainbow & Pinkie to vote the others)

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode FTC!
« on: May 23, 2019, 05:16:23 pm »
Probably that he knew he was being taken to the end as a goat.
Therefore he was having his say as to who he thinks should win as he didn't believe he would end up on the actual jury.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode FTC!
« on: May 22, 2019, 10:26:28 pm »
REQUEST TO RAINBOW DASH AS WELL:
Please pretend that sleeping is something we can do.

SENT USING PONYPHONE
No sleep is bad. We don't need another thread to be annoyed by ponies posting about it.
Clearly I know what I'm talking about when I'm currently lying on bed posting this

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode FTC!
« on: May 22, 2019, 07:49:27 pm »
The Chrysalis elimination is still the one that pointed all things Coco. (Although during that episode I said it as I suspected the parasprites to leave the game with her)

Rarity needed to be in charge of the boot after Rainbow went, but that round was all Coco.
With Pear immune that round it might have been a tough sell on somepony else, but it was still the one that offered the most.

Also imo be less scared of idols. If you know about them, you can get them out without hurting your own game. A worthy quest for everypony.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode FTC!
« on: May 22, 2019, 05:14:13 pm »
I will be sad if Pear ends up with more votes than Rarity, as at least Rarity had the potential to shape the game, and quite possibly would have acted somewhere had she not got fed up with Soarin.
Pear never took any agency to change the status quo.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode FTC!
« on: May 22, 2019, 05:08:03 pm »
It's not going to win over Soarin/DJ, but Pear's move in the merge was actually getting Pinkie out.
It's just sad he's fixated on it being that Soarin & DJ needed to go because they voted him at some point. Because this is strengthening Rarity's case rather than his own, as both times those two voted Pear it was in part because of Rarity (although the first one was more Rainbow, but it was because of Rarity they ended up getting blindsided on both occasions)

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode FTC!
« on: May 22, 2019, 04:22:31 pm »
I can still see Starlight's confessional btw.
(I assume you've hidden the jury confessionals because Pinkie already voted?)

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode FTC!
« on: May 22, 2019, 04:19:51 pm »
I guess we here in spec land are a little bias because the confessionals show how strong Coco's game was, but then it's also because Soarin & DJ had the most active confessionals, and we know their votes are likely going that way

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode FTC!
« on: May 21, 2019, 10:38:08 pm »
Chrysalis claiming to have been going full loyal to Coco is interesting. I guess that makes it even earlier that Coco has had this game won.
(No wonder I couldn't flip chrysalis on wonderbolts, same traits as pinkie. I personally would have flipped had somepony asked me to help vote out Coco, or at least I feel like I would have played the flipflopper game had I processed further)

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode FTC!
« on: May 21, 2019, 05:38:36 pm »
Rarity's speech reads much more like a sparknotes of what happened in the game than an argument for why Rarity should win the game
this isn't what opening speeches are meant to be?

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode FTC!
« on: May 21, 2019, 02:19:56 am »
DJ what ya gotta know is I wasn' jus' a motionless lump of social, I'm a motionless lump of sweet delicious crispness! <3
Who let Granny cover herself in cameral sauce again?

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode FTC!
« on: May 20, 2019, 11:04:57 pm »
This format probably means I won't bother reading the final tribal at all. Normally I'd just skip the speeches, but when there's going to be 15 different conversations having in one thread at a time, I don't think I'm going to care enough to try to sort through it.

I'd even prefer a one thread FTC to this, well provided it was also done live with a jury question order.

I guess that just means I might as well just not come online here until the live reveal of Coco winning.

At least have it kick my confessional out of the top 10 list though please.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Horse Race Betting Game
« on: May 20, 2019, 10:46:07 pm »
I think I want more money than those that went bankrupt at the end.

Sell 3 Rarity, buy 1 Pear.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 19
« on: May 20, 2019, 01:30:39 am »
If I trust the word of Rarity answering the princess's questions in the lead up, it's likely it does end up being Granny vs Pear, which will just be a sad end.

I'm now wondering if that happens if Granny throws the firemaking to Pear so she doesn't have to go through the FTC and end up defeated. (I doubt it, but it's a possibility I'm reading in her post)

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Horse Race Betting Game
« on: May 18, 2019, 10:56:28 pm »
sell Pear and go all in on Rarity

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 19
« on: May 18, 2019, 08:45:04 pm »
Reading through these torchwalks and I'm realising how little people actually told pear, like if his opinions of why things were happening were more the case, I think he'd actually have a shot of winning. So if he can word those correctly, and somehow avoid the reason behind him being targeted by DJ & Soarin was Rarity (that's going to be the sticker, the lack of him helping the alternate vote at all, it might work pre-merge to allow yourself to be considered the "easy-vote", but it's not something you want actually happening post-merge, as it shows your alliance is with you only because they think you're an easy beat at the end.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 19
« on: May 18, 2019, 05:52:00 pm »
I think people should get whatever they pick pesonally
I assume she means when you have competing choices.

And presumably you had a way of choosing Thorax for me.
(Which now having seen all of his episodes (I think), feels like it was deliberate)

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 18
« on: May 16, 2019, 07:05:50 pm »
Soarin actually goes out pretty much in the same way as rainbow, playing too big the previous round.

but with Coco winning that immunity, Pear and rarity are voting Soarin (probably would have been anyway), and Coco knows Soarin is the one most likely to defeat her if it came to the firemaking challenge from the practice she's been doing, so that's a majority anyway even if Soarin could convince Granny to go after pear/rarity. (and soarin's pleas to rarity to take granny out last round aren't going to work this time either)

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 18
« on: May 16, 2019, 05:54:56 pm »
I'm sad that Soarin is using the phrasing "IF I ever play again". Soarin, you've been doing fine. Play again.
I am worried that he's got the wrong idea of why he feels he's game lacked favor.

I think anything like that now is that they know they've all let Coco reach the end as the biggest threat. Well besides the goats they tried and failed to kill.
The only real attempt at getting rid of Coco was from Derpy, and that failed because it was too early.

But as i said two episodes ago, this game was decided when everypony followed Coco into getting rid of Chrysalis.
Although I'd like Coco to somehow lose the firemaking challenge, I don't think that's going to happen.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 18
« on: May 16, 2019, 03:11:00 pm »
Coco didn't even try last challenge, she was getting about double what she actually submitted as a score. (Soarin would have won anyways!)
I hope at FTC somepony brings up they had all the tools to bring her down and just didn't. It sucks to see people calling Coco ruthless though, its p clear that Coco's social game is super on point to the point her allies are like 'guess coco wins yaaaay'
EoE Spoiler
Who is going to give up immunity to take out Coco in fire making?
[close]
I figured that was likely the case, saving the ID spoiling from being good at flash games. (I assume she also did the horseshoe throw deliberately slowly as well)

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 18
« on: May 16, 2019, 03:08:07 pm »
Current scores are Coco 40, Granny 44, and Rarity 68.

If future mods want to run this challenge in a game maybe throw in a rule about obsolete chiefly British alternate spellings of other obsolete words.
I decided those didn't count while I was looking through the words, as this rule does need to exist.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 18
« on: May 16, 2019, 06:07:15 am »
I want to do this challenge :( But I know there's almost no chance of me having got this far if I'd managed to survive wonderbolts. DJ would have wanted me out too much.
I'm going to do it anyway, obviously not valid because I've already viewed rarity's entry (and stolen some ideas from it, and then adjusted so I'm not only improving her chains where possible, but I know I've ensured all of them are at least equal to her entries. (only word I feel I directly stole was sees into seek (I couldn't work out any other way of getting there), and any other words from slow are just too slow, I rid myself of the poop that came went I stole goop.

Spoiler
Turn HEAD into TAIL.

HEAD
HEAL
TEAL
TELL
TALL
TAIL

Turn HARD into EASY.

HARD
HART
FART
FAST
EAST
EASY

Turn HIDE into SEEK.

HIDE
SIDE
SITE
SITS
SETS
SEES
SEEK

Turn TEARS into SMILE.

TEARS
REARS
ROARS
SOARS
STARS
STARE
STALE 
STILE
SMILE

(this is obviously faster if you go from tears - sears - stars, but I wasn't stealing directly from Rarity)

Turn SLOW into FAST.

SLOW
SLOT
SOOT
LOOT
LOST
LAST
FAST

Turn GOOD to POOR to RICH

GOOD
MOOD
MOOR
POOR
POOT
SOOT
SOOK
SOCK
ROCK
RICK
RICH

(not the definition I was expecting to find for sook, but the fact it was in there is enough for me, poot & rick were also ones I checked)

Turn WEAK to FIRM to SOFT

WEAK
WEAN
LEAN
LOAN
LOAM
FOAM
FORM
FIRM
FORM
FORT
SORT
SOFT
[close]

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Horse Race Betting Game
« on: May 15, 2019, 11:41:48 pm »
I think I'll just have to stick with where my shares are, at least one of those two will make FTC, and therefore it's a chance.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 17
« on: May 14, 2019, 05:34:06 pm »
the parasprites must have taken the form of ants in Rarity's house

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 17
« on: May 13, 2019, 05:53:17 pm »
Although it also sounds like whatever the next tribal council will be is Coco/Rarity/Pear putting 4 votes somewhere.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 17
« on: May 13, 2019, 05:46:38 pm »
But flash game for immunity, Coco's not even going to need to play the idols. (If parasprites don't get played, which I assume will be the case)

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 17
« on: May 13, 2019, 05:45:23 pm »
And whatever else we just wasted

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 16
« on: May 13, 2019, 11:19:29 am »
Coco getting Queen out here probably seals the win though, as I can't see Queen passing on the paraspites.
Which means Coco goes out next round because of them if she can't succeed.
(Inb4 Coco wins immunity)

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 16
« on: May 12, 2019, 04:09:13 pm »
Grand Pear immunity steak is nice and rather unexpected.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 16
« on: May 09, 2019, 09:43:33 pm »
Love seeing Starlight in the jury forums think her position in the game was a lot better, I think she suffered the most of lack of tribals in Crystal Empire to fully know where ponies stood.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 16
« on: May 09, 2019, 09:41:41 pm »
I wouldn't say their necessary in a hole, although I expect this round to be splitting up either the granny/Coco pair or the Soarin/DJ pair.
If it's the latter, then the remaining will be in a hole.
one of those pairs has two idols
and for the reason it would likely end up with votes against Granny if that was happening.

It's only Chrysalis and Pear that don't know Coco has (at least one) idol, which does mean that others are actually going to be afraid to put their hoofs up for starting the wagon against Coco.

Chrysalis is the only one that knows what the paraspites actually do, so while they exist and will enable Coco to be voted out, they're unlikely to come out as nopony is going to tell Chrysalis about said idols. Coco is a threat, that's all the reasoning that is needed to get people against her, no mentions of idols or anything.
I assume the paraspites being activated just has Coco shift those idols around a bit, which would be interesting to see where they actually end up.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 16
« on: May 09, 2019, 05:51:19 pm »
I wouldn't say their necessary in a hole, although I expect this round to be splitting up either the granny/Coco pair or the Soarin/DJ pair.
If it's the latter, then the remaining will be in a hole.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Horse Race Betting Game
« on: May 09, 2019, 05:45:07 pm »
Sell a queen to buy a rarity

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 15
« on: May 09, 2019, 07:05:04 am »
But I assume Rarity has activated the ring now because she believes she'll be losing her second vote (rainbow) this round.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 15
« on: May 09, 2019, 07:03:49 am »
The swing on this vote will potentially come from Coco & Chrysalis. I guess if Coco does swing she might take Granny with her though.

Should be rainbow & pear voting Soarin (although they might do DJ because of derpy's assumption of soarin knowing who has an idol being DJ) and as we already have seen DJ & Soarin voting rainbow, that side isn't going to change.

Rarity's figurative vote is also against Soarin/dj

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 15
« on: May 08, 2019, 04:24:16 pm »
How is everypony actually so good at art

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 15
« on: May 07, 2019, 04:10:24 am »
She's got the conflict of Soarin being 100% against her now though

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 15
« on: May 06, 2019, 07:37:22 pm »
I think they're all actually starting to think about who actually threatens their games a bit more though. Or at least they're paranoid enough that they're not giving a performance worthy of winning at the moment.

And this break in constant TCs is probably something that is needed to allow that a bit more.
I guess that's why other sites have the breaks from activities every weekend. (but those are more likely to do live challenges as well)

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 15
« on: May 06, 2019, 05:19:30 pm »
I know DJ/Soarin got played but I'm still kind of surprised how mad they are.  I wonder why that hurt so bad.
Derpy deserved better.
No idea how she could have done it, but i still wanted her to win.0
Now I'm not sure who I actually want to cheer for. I think it's either Rarity or Queen, but I'm also bitter at both of them from my elimination.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Horse Race Betting Game
« on: May 06, 2019, 05:27:07 am »
Purchase two queen and 1 pear.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 15
« on: May 05, 2019, 07:40:37 pm »
Maybe I'm just misreading people but I think Rarity would have a terrible matchup against Coco, so I doubt Rarity would actually do it?
Coco is massively underestimated.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Horse Race Betting Game
« on: May 05, 2019, 06:48:25 pm »
Sell rarity. (I don't expect that value to last)

I'll figure out what I want to buy closer to deadline for trades.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 15
« on: May 05, 2019, 06:40:41 pm »
Derpy stop mentioning me everywhere. I'm not allowed to reply :(
(Even though I can post in ponyrosa apparently (according to the fact the quick reply is there, I'm not going to)

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 14
« on: May 05, 2019, 04:34:09 pm »
The idol from the cutie map they're saying Derpy has was Starlight's that she gave to pinkie.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 14
« on: May 05, 2019, 03:45:24 pm »
I feel like we're going to end up with odd votes somewhere again, and somepony complaining about trying to do things at the last minute and the last minute not being long enough again (Soarin)

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 14
« on: May 04, 2019, 05:01:47 pm »
I mean that was when their friends were alive
but aren't the social threats meant to be friends with everypony

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 14
« on: May 03, 2019, 06:51:07 pm »
idk, Derpy has the right idea with choosing Sunburst, everypony knows the way to win is to not play

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 13
« on: May 03, 2019, 05:14:29 pm »
Quote from: DJ-Pon 3
So I'm refusing to help split onto QC but also enabling soarin to find somepony whod be likely to do it with him.
I feel like this should go badly, but then with Soarin's idol paranoia it's probably going to work.
But I imagine it hurting the DJ/Granny relationship slightly.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 13
« on: May 03, 2019, 05:04:56 pm »
Pinkie tried to blame me in the same way for my elimination.
and really that's the type of cracks everypony is going to try when they're being closed out. This pony has "offered to help", maybe I can use that to split the rest of their group away from them.
Unless the work has been done before the bottom player is doomed to maybe actually work with them, said bottom player is not going to trust any "hey you're doomed, suggest stuff to me for me to ignore" attitudes, and will try to use them against the one supposedly offering help.
You've got somepony that knows they're on the bottom, and can't see how their way out, throwing any unexpected offers to "help" under the bus is the idea that will come out first in their mind if you're not actually pushing another agenda to save them.
If you want them to throw names out to see if there is an alternative, you actually think of that name yourself for them to attempt a push against. Otherwise don't bother asking, you're going to vote them out anyway.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 13
« on: May 03, 2019, 02:52:07 pm »
I think Pear's going to be the only one to successfully attach himself as a third wheel to one of the duos. But he also b thinks Granny/Coco are fully with him, and I'm not sure.

I believe Derpy will try getting picked up by DJ/Soarin again, but Chrysalis is probably going to bring her down by making her own doomed duo.

Rainbow/Rarity need to make a move with the other three next TC though, as the Coco/Granny/DJ/Soarin group probably aren't splitting. Queen and Pear are likely to leak and blindside attempts though, so rip.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 13
« on: May 03, 2019, 02:47:00 pm »
I only wish she did it in wonderbolts.
I'd probably have tried to betray her by now, but the game would have been better from my perspective. (Well until I go in one of these recent tcs because dj had control)

At least Soarin's paranoia is making this simple vote still bring some interest.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 13
« on: May 03, 2019, 09:05:17 am »
Which I assume will happen soon if she lets skip she has two of them.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 13
« on: May 03, 2019, 09:03:05 am »
Now I think I want Coco blindsided. Two idols is too many.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 13
« on: May 02, 2019, 11:19:12 pm »
I did the thing Twilight found.
Spoiler


I think it's more readable, although the main thing I did was not have an error in the third column
[close]

I'm assuming at the moment Derpy is trying to bus starlight for towncred.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 13
« on: May 02, 2019, 07:03:28 pm »
It's more that challenge results go up at 1 am their time. I.e once challenge results are up they go to sleep. But gor east or west coasters it seems like they just logged off.
More people need to wake up for challenge results. It's much healthier.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Episode 13
« on: May 02, 2019, 05:14:53 pm »
Nice to see a challenge advantage get used correctly.
Probably overkill in how big the advantage was, I think it would have been better on the timer.

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BronyCon 2019 / Re: Horse Race Betting Game
« on: May 01, 2019, 10:20:44 pm »
put the queen money back on derpy.

keeping the one rarity share though.

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