First topic: A picture thread with an international theme. Ponies saluting to flags, ponies visiting Earth locations, practically anything that has even a slight international feel to it.

I've also decided to put the thread in the directory very soon to give it some focus, even with possible unfortunate implications that I would be using the directory to give focus to my own thread. If that's how it goes, I apologise on forehand.

>>162475
>ponies visiting Earth locations
Oh boy... There are a lot of very awkward images on deviantArt of ponies interacting in the real world.
http://ponies-in-real-life.deviantart.com/
http://mlp-gets-real.deviantart.com/
http://ponies-2-life.deviantart.com/
http://mlp-comes-to-life.deviantart.com/

>>162478
I took a quick peek at Ponies-in-Real-Life's gallery, and while there were a few good ones, most of them must have set some kind of record in having the oddest art style crash I've seen in a while.

Though it doesn't have to be a "Pony in real life" pic in order to qualify here, as it can merely be something as simple as this.

I don't really have much pics that can qualify for this thread, actually, but I'll still try to keep it up.

>>162479
Beret on a pony's head => instantly French.

a Belgian or Nederbro found this town

I've found a few more pictures, though it wasn't easy to find them. Initiating three-pic dump.

>>162482
She'll be the toast of the society, she'll be the type of french pone, every french pone, every french pone should know (Pronouncing pone as one syllable to make the lyrics work properly).

>>162486
>Filly
Heheh. That one got a good laugh out of me.

As a random note, in Norway, it's a semi-national sport to take a look at Danish road maps and laugh at place names that look odd in Norwegian; examples include Over Slemming (Over meanie) and Eltang (Electric hair curler).

2/3

And the last one in the dump.

>>162490
>As a random note, in Norway, it's a semi-national sport to take a look at Danish road maps and laugh at place names that look odd in Norwegian; examples include Over Slemming (Over meanie) and Eltang (Electric hair curler).

There is a great book about funny place names from Douglas Adams http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff

>>162493
>There is a great book about funny place names from Douglas Adams
I need to remember the word shoeburyness, but that would leave everypony completely confused if I ever were to use it anywhere.

Liked that pic by the way, regardless of how little it has to do with the topic. Saved.

>>162494
Your nickname reminded me of the TV series.

>>162495
Well, I did model my username after that show, actually. I thought me and a handful of Brits were the only ones who had heard of it. In a few rare, but not unheard of, cases, I had posted a Sam Tyler pic, after which posters had mistaken it for the Master (or alternately Samson) from Doctor Who.

I couldn't find any more fitting pictures at the moment. I've been searching for "flag" and "salute" on Derpibooru to find a few pics, but are there any other searchwords that could provide international pictures? i miss the ponibooru tag list...

Also, having only three posters here does limit the fun somewhat, so I hope there'll be more posters in this thread.

>>162497
The show was broadcasted in Germany too so I got to know this series and fairly soon I downloaded the English original and watched the entire thing.

How can someone mistake Sam Tyler with the Master? They are quite different in their look.

I do prefer bronibooru over derpibooru. Although bronibooru hasn't as many picture as derpibooru it is better organised and is clean.

>I hope there'll be more posters in this thread.
They will come. perhaps

>>162497
I could be here from time to time, although I doubt I would add much to "fun".
Calling my storywriting awful would be massively euphemistic.

>>162487
Lol.

>Ponies saluting to flags

hmm I only got a pony saluting with a flag in its mane

>>162499
We in Norway got the English version with subtitles right off the bat, and I pretty much watched the whole thing and loved it. I was around 13 when the show was broadcast (2007/08?), and aside from House MD, it was the first really deep drama comedy I watched properly.

The fact that both Sam and the Master were played by John Simm may have been at least part of the reason behind the confusion.

>>162501
Don't worry; nopony said that there would be any quality requirements for the (planned) storywriting topic. Be as bad at it as you want to.

>>162508
Hmm... good enough. I only have a flag with a pony saluting with a flag mane (and with the wrong shade of blue, too thin stripes, and a mane that looks Dutch, but that's another story).

>>162509
>We in Norway got the English version with subtitles right off the bat
Really? That's odd because there IS a Norwegian dub.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB1Jsz1Ll1g&list=PLEC7DA80537F700BC&index=1

Also: German Rainbow Dash.

>>162511
He meant that they got the original version of "Life on Mars" on TV.

>>162511
>>162510

(Edit note, just for the sake of it: I'm pretty sure he's supposed to be a Danish pony, but he looks more Swiss than Danish to me.)

Last edited at Wed, Mar 20th, 2013 10:42

Next topic: Write a short 50-word story of a pony visiting your home country.

You can write several stories, and you can write sequels to stories, but they have to be stories in their own rights. Being good or bad at writing is not important.

Bonus mention: Since I'm not good at all with Synchtube, and one of the planned upcoming activities was to stream Pluszcz's Top 15 Fails videos, it would be a good thing if someone could stream it at some point tomorrow or the day after.

>>162540
And yes, we do accept highly illogical nonsense-fics that would have got you hanged, drawn and quartered on FiMFiction, such as this following attempt:

Pinkie was in Norway to eat chocolate, then got lost because she couldn't understand the signs, and she walked in circles, and then she did the robot dance for no reason and failed, and screamed "Noooooooooooo", and then Pinkie wasn't Pinkie anymore. Or is she?

(Not sure if this counts as an unnecessary bump or not, but I'll try anyway.)

>>162540
>Synchtube
Synchtube is dead.

>Pony in the human word, a fic written in first person
Oh what is this kind of shop there? It is called "Butcher's Shop". Lets go in there.
They sell beef! They sell horse meat! AAAAAA! Aaaaaah! AAaaa! Aaaaa aaaaa! Aaaaaah! Aaaaaaahhhhh! AaaaHHHH!
AaaaAaaa! AaaAaaaaa aaaaa AAAAAA! Aaaaaah! Aaaaaaahhhhh! AaaaHHHH!
AAaaa! AaaaaHHHaaaaa! Aaaaaah! Aahhhh! AaaaHHHHaaaaa!
AAaaa! Aaaaa aaaaa! Aaaaaah! Aaaaaaahhhhh! AaaaHHHH!

>>162546
Okay, so if Synchtube is dead, do we have any good alternatives? I know that /oat/'s Top Hat/Positively/Artee streamed a few episodes on Synchtube one or two weeks ago, but I cannot remember if there were any viewers there.

Also, short and well written story, if I can say it. I think I'll have to write another and more logical story later on to keep up the activity here, but I'll be busy for at least an hour now.

>>162559
I could offer livestreaming

>>162572
Okay, are you able to do it tomorrow or in one of the upcoming days? I had the "Write a speech about a pony in your third language" as an alternate back-up topic for tomorrow just in case there wouldn't be any streaming.

>>162559
>I think I'll have to write another and more logical story later on
(Edit: Completely managed to forget the point of the topic, so let's assume she's at a beach somewhere along the Norwegian coast.)
Ode to Celestia

Plip plop
Celestia swimming in the river flop
Flop flop
The river is full of gravel and sand
Sand, so much sand
And sand
And gravel
It spoils her swimming vacation
So much hope
And so little result
Plop plop

Last edited at Thu, Mar 21st, 2013 09:32

>>162576
Tomorrow in the early afternoon, or WE anytime basically.

Seeing as we don't really pick up yet I'd suggest not overdoing it with topic changes.

>>162576
>Seapony

Sorry but I couldn't resist

>>162577
Would tomorrow at 17:00 be a good time, or should we do it another day for reasons explained in the paragraph below? I've got lots of time to spare tomorrow (Although I won't be commenting much on the stream itself; if I have any comments, I'll post them in the Ponychan thread, like I do with /oat/'s fanfic readings) to watch it.

The original plan was to change topic once a day, keeping it going for about a week, and then hand the thread over to somepony else with fresh ideas. So does anyone have any ideas for how often the topic should be changed?

>>162578
The seaponies were swimming calmly in the North Sea. Swimming carelessly, singing and playing together, living the life below the sea. Hypnotically wiggling their tails so that everyone forgets the entire point of this very story. Including the writer himself. The end.

>in-before more "Kill it with fire"
>even though it was pretty much the reason behind the story

>>162581
I hate seaponies. They are the abominations of the sea.

>>162582
and of ponies ofc
>>162581
nope, got a class then. Weekend seems a good idea due to >timezones.
My wild guess would be a new topic every third day or so.

>>162584
It does sound good with every third day in theory, but I remember that yesterday's topic simply went bust after a few hours, with no activity for about sixteen hours. I'll see how it goes through the night and early morning and then we'll take it from there (Although I doubt I'll change the topic tomorrow, at least).

>>162582
If you thought seaponies were strange, then who knows what you'll think of G3 Standard's Breezies. Practically a mix of a pony and a fairy, though they don't seem to be doing much else than botanical stuff and randomly flying around.

okay nignogs, I'll probably be putting on the failures Euro Saturday night/American Saturday (after)noon then.

>>162618
Okay, sounds good. By European Saturday night, are we talking early night (20:00 to 22:00 CET), late night (22 to 24), or dead-of-night (past midnight)?

>>162619
hmm starting 21 CET seems fair, I'll bump and promote tomorrow anyway.

>>162620
Okay, time to formalise it as the next topic:

Tonight: AustroSpike streaming Pluszcz's Top 15 Fails videos (of which there are 5), tonight.

Timeslots (all times Saturday 23rd of March):
21:00 Central European
20:00 British
4:00pm Eastern Daylight
1:00pm Pacific Daylight
times may not be exact or set in stone.

(Was it good enough, Austro? And which streaming service will be used, by the way? JustinTV, perhaps?)

>>162651
yeah.
I have this baby http://www.livestream.com/bockmist

>>162663
Okay, if I have any comments for the stream, here's where my comments will be. And without pictures, to keep up the speed of the comments.

Good Italian opening, by the way. I need to listen to it more often.

>>162672
I do notice that many of the bigger errors weren't known by the time Volume 1 was made, and that the production values (in lack of a better term) for Volume 1 weren't very good.

>>162673
Dat Spanish Fluttershy scream.

However, I usually tend to like the Danish Fluttershy better (keyword: usually).

And the Czech and Romanian dubs couldn't lipsynch a song properly if it meant the firing squad.

>>162675
I'm noticing some streaming problems (the videos slowing down, and then speeding up to catch up), but I'm not sure if it's on my or your end.

Also, I was singing along to the Norwegian Sweetie Belle.

And I really hope that pistol shot during Volume 3 Clip #5 wasn't actually in the dub.

Romanian Singing Telegram sounds like GlaDos on crack.

And is it a bad thing if I consider the Danish-ish Show Stoppers to be the best episode of the entire show?

>>162676
At the point of the Green And Purple PMV, there was exactly 1 viewer on the stream. If I'm that one viewer, that cannot be a good thing.

And the Turkish dub lacks common sense when it comes to double-songs.

>>162677
So the French dub had Valentine's Day. The Norwegian dub had Christmas, not only once, but twice.

While the Hungarian This Day Aria first version sounds nice, her voice doesn't fit Cadence/Chrysalis in any way at all.

Will there be many bonus videos after the stream, or is it only a short aftershow?

>>162678
iunno let's see the demand

yup it's you and me I guess

Last edited at Sat, Mar 23rd, 2013 13:43

>>162679
I'll watch the Diamond Dogs video, but then I'll call it a day for me, unfortunately.

Was alright, I wonder how he put together the fails. With that much need of whistleblowers, unless he speaks all the languages, you're destined to have a lot beneath your radar.
There are e.g. much more infamous transfailtions than "Schönheitsflecken" in German. I found that one of the better original translations.
Oh and the Ukrainian version was still missin', so we bound to see more fail videos.

Don't you wonder, my streams seldom attract more than 2.

>>162681
For his Fails videos from Volume 2 and onwards, he mostly relied on people who were writing fail suggestions on the comments of the YouTube videos. You find an error in a dub, you write about in the comments if it's big enough, and then he may consider it for an upcoming video.

The Ukrainian dub debuted after the release of Volume 5, and considering their "songs", I have a strong feeling that they'll end up somewhere on the upper portion of Volume 6.

There are some medium-sized errors out there that he may not know about. If one choose to fully believe every single line of dialogue that has been dealt in the Scandinavian dubs, they have telephones, electric tools and pay cards in Equestria. Additionally, the Norwegian dub had Christmas, the Danish dub introduced western movies as early as Applebuck Season, and the Swedish dub had Opel and computers.

>>162682
Dub?

>>162688
The dubbed dubs doesn't have any dub within the dubs. In fact, no dub has the dub-dub to dub along to, and the dubs has yet to have a dub in the dub.

Dub dub dub dub dub dub dub dub *Scratched disc on repeat*.

>>162691

>>162688
+s

>>162694
(Oh, right, I forgot that meaning. I attempted a Buffalo Buffalo sentence earlier with translated dubs, dubstep and dub-dancing, but now there's a new meaning in town:)

If you get dubs, the dubs will show the way to the dubbed dubs that has dub-dub dubs you can dub along to while dubbing. Dubs and dubs will be revealed by the power of dubs, dub and dub.

Also, I declare today a "Do whatever the bloody goodness you want to do here" day, since I wasn't really planning anything here today.

>>162697
I do in fact not know what I want to do today. But what I know for sure is what i have to do.

Next topic: Write a touching and eloquent speech about one of your favourite ponies... in your third language, with no dictonaries or spellchecks allowed, which may lead to odd results. The nature of the topic means that most posters won't understand each other, which was something I didn't really think through, but it'll still be interesting.

I'll start with a speech about Pinkie Pie. In Danish.
Det har gået nogle år siden jeg først stødede på dig, gennem YouTube Poop-videoer og den norske dub af FiM. Du var den ene, der altid fungerede som den sjove, hyperaktive ponni, der lavede mine aftener og eftermiddager til noget sejt. Og til og med i tiderne hvor du rotede dig ind i skræmmende barnepas og slemt irriterende sange, holdt jeg din gamle personlighed inni mig. Det tog nogle månede med fortvivlelse, før Too Many Pinkie Pies gravede dig op fra graven, og nu skal du ikke i den grav igen.

Hejsa igen, Pinkie Pie, og skal der blive mange hejsa å prale om i lang tid fræmover.

Applejack è un pony contadino. In inizio forse credi che si svolge soltanto di miele, mà è tutto insieme: gentile, gioiosa, lavorosa, va a gamba tesa, ha un buon senso intuitivo, etc.
Se la nessuno non ferma, vorrebbe occuparsi di tutte le affari.

Pinkie Pie est une pony extra et aussi extraordinaire, specialement en regards des boums oû comme Twilight dites: en regards des fêtes. Avec Pinkie les sont toujours le choc. Avec elle les petites cheveaux ont beaucoup de plaisir. Pinkie aussi a une talente de sense des situations dangereux.

>>162785
Translated it to English with google for good measure:

Pinkie Pie pony is extra and extraordinary, specially in booms looks like Twilight oû say in regards parties. Pinkie is always with the shock. With her small horses have a lot of fun. Pinkie also has a sense of Talente dangerous situations.

>>162786
Interesting method. Let's see how it would end up if I took my earlier speech and ran it through Google Translate:

It has been some years since I first stødede at you through YouTube Poop videos and the Norwegian dub of FiM. You were the one who always acted as the fun, hyperactive ponni who made my evenings and eftermiddager for something cool. And even in times where you rotede you into scary barnepas and bad annoying songs, I kept your old personality Inni me. It took some month with despair before Too Many Pinkie Pies dug up from the grave, and now you're not in the grave again.

Hello again, Pinkie Pie, and must be many hejsa y brag about for a long time fræmover.

Next topic, and most likely my last: In an attempt to borrow a quick game from /oat/ and making it fit here, here's what I've got:

There shall be made a new dub of FiM in your language regardless of the quality of the old one.
The last local guy you watched a video of on YouTube, plays the voice of Spike.
The last local woman you saw an interview with, plays the voice of Twilight Sparkle.
The last telly channel you watched for more than 15 minutes consistently will air the dub.
The voice acting is recorded in the break room of the last store you visited.

How great/doomed will it end up?

Well, you gave it a nice shot, Mars. But, I'm afraid that /int/ is dead for good. Even the persistent Germans seem to have lost their activity.

I guess it's a sign that pony is getting old. The long hiatus to s4 and the whole alicorn drama didn't help either.

I wonder how many people met because of /int/ though, how many (friend)ships started here and whether they are long-lasting or not.

>>163008
Well, I'm now getting a feeling that /int/ is in an unrecoverably troubled situation; but while I don't think /int/ is dead just yet, I think it's going to be a slow demise, and that it'll be at the very least four months before it'll reach the levels that ended up deleting /phoenix/. I've been spotting signs of a comeback in the Scandinavian thread, and a small possibility in the Canadian, but most of the big ones has dramatically decreased, and the smaller nationalities are all but gone.

Ponies are still going strong, and while the hiatus may cause problems after a while, the alicorn situation doesn't seem like a dealbreaker to most. /oat/ regularly complain within themselves about being dead, but they have considerably more things going on than /int/ have.

I got to know a small handful of people thanks to /int/, particularly Pantless Ninja, Manatee and AustroSpike. But the handful of friends I've gotten on /oat/ unfortunately surpasses most of the aforementioned ones. I will always remember /int/ as a pretty cool place, but while we can (in lack of a better metaphor) call the funeral company, it isn't yet time to say "Rip in peace".

well the last topic was "my brain exploded and I proceeded to play minigolf with my eyes" hard, so I let it be.

>>163008
as you said with a general ded in ponychan, fandom losng the charm of novelty to more and more people, and the looong hiatus, I'm not surprised /int/ is how it is atm.
I'm startled you said alicorn though. That's petty controversy and petty controvery that vitalized if anything.


NEW IDEA , donut steel
Post some lyrics of dubbed MLPFiM songs in languages others can't speak and watch them try sing it.

>>163014
>Post some lyrics of dubbed MLPFiM songs in languages others can't speak and watch them try sing it.
Well, I don't have any video recording or a microphone to record anything with, but I can try to post some lyrics:

I'll start with the lyrics to the Danish You Gotta Share:
Vi er lidt forskellige
Men mindre end du tror
Lad os alle hjælpes
Ad lige her hvor vi bor

Jo, sagen den er enkelt
Det er slut med al skænderi
For et slagsmål gør dig muggen
Du skal bare klappe i

Drop at spille sej
Hey, det bli'r en leg
For jeg tænker på dig
Kom jeg viser dig vej

Ja, tænk på mig
Og tænk på dig
Så bli'r det hele godt
Ja, tænk på mig
Og tænk på dig og
Så løser vi det flot.

Jeg bør måske lige nævne
Vi er alle vegatarer
Vi spiser nemlig hø
Ka' det få jer til at tø?

Så tænk på mig
Så tænk på dig
For så bli'r det så godt
Og så løser vi det så flot!

Keep in mind that the sounds and letters may not be quite as you know them, which was why I selected this.

>>163012
I was mainly wondering about RL (friend)ships tbh. Not sure if the guys over at the scandinavian thread had a meetup or something (or if the community there is even big enough for something like that to pay off).

>>163019
Oh, right. There were never enough people there to have any kind of real-life contact; during the time I've been in that thread, we rarely had more than three posters, and never more than about five.

In fact, I've never had any RL friendships as a result of being a brony. It's limited to Ponychan and one Swedish guy on E-mail.

>>163017
fk u and fk everything tho
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1PZdf4lIZvJ

I remember a 40minute documentary on a satanistic sect in Denmark.
I spent 10 minutes wondering what language they are speaking. If they hadn't namedropped at some point I would have never found out where it was.

>>163022
(A bit of a late reply, since I went to watch Wreck-It Ralph in the cinemas this afternoon)

The accent, consonants and vocals were surprisingly accurate and vivid... if the language in question had been Norwegian. You sounded exactly like a normal Norwegian man who read aloud a Danish speech as if it was in Norwegian all along. I'll give you a heap of bonus points for that.

I remember back in the days before I got a grasp of the Danish language, when I often heard 99 Luftballons and couldn't figure out if it was Dutch, German or Danish. Back then (I was about 11 at the time), I landed on Danish. It took me several years before I realised that it was, in fact, German.

>fk u and fk everything tho
Speaking low-pitched like a maniac to myself: don't do an eddie murphy reference... don't do an eddie murphy reference...

>>163020
Too bad, but since you don't seem to plan on quitting ponyrelated activities any time soon, that might change eventually. How long have you been into the show by now anyway?

>>163029
>How long have you been into the show by now anyway?
I got into the show in early September 2011, coinciding with a preview of the then-upcoming Norwegian FiM dub. So it's been a while.

It's been a bit on and off with the show for me (Series 2 was very hit-and-miss for me, and when it missed, it missed big time), but I've been on Ponychan continueously since mid-November 2011, and never having taken a break from the site for more than four days. I'm not much of a social guy, and the little social interaction I need outside of my nearest family and a few friends, is sustained through Ponychan.

>>163028
(whatever, think of your self-given title)
Hah.
So that guy who told me "Norwegian reads like it looks, Danish looks quite the same, but reads very different" had a point.
I'mma go listen to the actual song.

>99 Luftballons
I never got how that became popular internationally.

>>163034
>Series 2 was very hit-and-miss for me, and when it missed, it missed big time
I hear you, it's the same for me. Imo s1 was when the show was at its best, focusing on character development and taking a slower pace, making it a unique show. S2 and s3 just feel like an average cartoon that can be entertaining every now and then, but isn't anything special or worth watching again.
Not being a Faust fanatic here, I just liked the direction they took in s1 better.

>>163035
(Oh, right. I forgot that I had the title there for a reason.)

>So that guy who told me "Norwegian reads like it looks, Danish looks quite the same, but reads very different" had a point.
Yes, it's exactly like that. Any Norwegian can read a Danish newspaper without problems, but listening to most Danes require some solid understanding of the sounds. Compared to Norwegian, all the Danish vocals sounds like they've been switched around at random, and the consonants are either blurred, mute or very soft.

>I'mma go listen to the actual song.
Here's the song if you need some help finding it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5vvcHiJ2Ao).

>I never got how that became popular internationally.
It was the 80's. Everyone either had horrid mullet hair or extremely tight jeans. People did things they shouldn't, and were most likely confused by the entire feel of the era, so there were synthesiser songs absolutely everywhere.

>>163036
I do indeed like Series 1 more, and I've watched every episode at least five times, and a few of them as many as forty, since I had them on my iPod while I was training at a gym.

Series 2 mostly messed with practically everyone and everything as far as I can tell: The introduction of baby ponies deserves special negative mention from me (The less said about my opinions on Baby Cakes, the better. Trust me.), but also how everypony acted like they'd lost 40 IQ in A Canterlot Wedding Part 1, and how Pinkie's character (as had been built up in Series 1) did a 180 turnaround on a pence with the song from A Friend In Deed, were things I'd rather want to forget.

peeny

Ukraine passes through.

>>173453
Nobody likes Ukraine :(