Brony Podcast

What’s up everypony! As you all know by now, I am a brony. And I love this community! Especially the content generated by this great fandom. I’ve also been listening to two podcasts as of late:

The Brony Show

Bronyville

These two have basically inspired me to start up my own podcast! However, I don’t want to be alone in recording this. So I need two things:

1. I need a way to record skype conversations on Ubuntu
2. I need a fellow brony to record with me!

If anybody wants to be a part of this, just email me misterboab@gmail.com. Please comment below if you have any good ideas on recording skype conversations!

Once this gets started, I’ll probably start up a new site for this.

UPDATE: Objective One complete! All I need is someone to podcast with!

How I became a brony

Gilded Shield, a pony that I created

Hello readers! This is my first personal post! Hope you find this story interesting!

If you had read my recent update or the fanfic post I decided to take down, you probably guessed I was a brony. Yes, I have transformed into a pony loving abomination! Haha, but really this community isn’t as bad as you think or as I thought it was. I first heard of this several months ago. I think it was in July. I was trolling around on youtube, looking for a video to watch. I refreshed my sub box for the 5th time when a new video from rocketboom showed up:

I clicked the video with nothing else to do. When I finished watching the video, I thought that the whole pony thing was strange. I exited out the tab and forgot about it and the entire fandom for a couple weeks.

The next time I heard of bronies was on memebase. I was reading ragecomics when I noticed the new little tab on the menu bar of the site:

I had, as I mentioned previously, completely forgotten about the bizarre community. So I went back to youtube, remebering seeing a video on bronies. I watched the video again and was curious. MLP had become so popular it has its own page on Memebase? So I decided to give it a try. I went on youtube and searched for the first episode.

Here it is if you want to watch:

I watched it and was intrigued. The first episode had ended in a cliffhanger, and honestly, I wondered what happened next so I watched part 2.

I thought about it and I decided that it was actually pretty good. The characters were interesting and the story was engaging. I decided, “Hey, I already watched 2 episodes, might as well watch the third.” So I watched the third episode. Then the fourth. Then the fifth. Before I realized it, I had watched the entire first season in one night! I was addicted! Before I knew it, I was looking at fan art, listening to podcasts, and reading fanfictions. I had become a brony.

I realized that I, a seventeen year old male high school senior, was watching a show directed at girls ten years younger than me. I kind of fell into a little breakdown, believing myself to be wierd and wrong. I thought that when people were to find out, they would shun and insult the crap out of me. Then I saw this video:

This was an okay thing to be in to. So I continued to be part of the community until this day!

Quantum Entangled Diamonds

Quantum entanglment was described by Einstien as “spooky action at a distance.” This means that when two particles are entangled, what ever happens to one particle, happens to the other instantaneously. Scientists have only been able to entangle small particles because it gets more difficult as you try to entangle larger objects. Recently, physicists at Oxford University entangled two macro-scale objects: two diamonds. They were able to accomplish this by exposing them super short, super fast pulses of light.  This synchronized the vibration of the atoms in both diamonds. The process gets very complicated from here. You can check out a more detailed description at popsci.

This development can help with quantum computers and many other quantum processes. I’m thinking using this as a communication means across vast regions of space. You can alter the states of the atoms in a diamond that will be detected by a computer and translated to code. Since this happens instantly, this would be a better option of communicating with future ships than light.

There’s a Penny Jar RIGHT THERE!

Minecraft Full Release is Out!

Minecraft 1.0 has come out! At long last the full version of the game has been released. You can update it now! Why are you reading this? Go! Upgrade! If you don’t have minecraft, buy it!

True 3D Holograms

Yes, this isn’t a hologram that’s trapped in a glass container like the ones revealed so far. This one works without the constraint of a screen and can work in mid air and in water. So far it can display images and moving images at 12 – 15 fps. It works by exciting the oxygen and nitrogen molecules in the air with a laser, causing them to emit light. Here’s actual video showing the water version (green lasers) and then the aerial version.

Myr Machine Gun!

Reanimate to load the machine gun!

Here’s a little combo/infinite loop I found that deals infinite damage. It can win on turn 4, providing you draw a good hand.

Turn 1: Play forest, then Birds of Paradise
Turn 2: Play Heartless Summoning, then at least 1 Perilous Myr
Turn 3: Play BloodBond March
Turn 4: Play another myr. Return a myr from graveyard to play. Rinse and Repeat. Infinite Damage.

 

Main Deck (60 cards)  Draw sample hand

Artifacts
4x Perilous Myr
2x Wurmcoil Engine
Creatures
4x Glissa, the Traitor
2x Grave Titan
4x Birds of Paradise
Enchantments
4x Bloodbond March
4x Heartless Summoning
Land
2x Buried Ruin
4x Woodland Cemetery
7x Swamp
7x Forest
Spells
4x Doom Blade
4x Bump in the Night
4x Unburial Rites
4x Naturalize

 

Estimated Deck Value

Low: $88.54 Mid: $121.68 High: $198.86  [Breakdown]

Sideboard (15 cards)

Sideboard
3x Memoricide
3x Nihil Spellbomb
3x Autumn’s Veil
3x Rampant Growth
3x Ghost Quarter

Type Breakdown

Artifacts:	6 (10.00%)
Creatures:	10 (16.67%)
Enchantments:	8 (13.33%)
Land:	20 (33.33%)
Planeswalker:	0 (0.00%)
Spell:	16 (26.67%)
Other:	0 (0.00%)

Mana Symbol Occurrence

White:	0 (0.00%)
Blue:	0 (0.00%)
Black:	28 (58.33%)
Red:	0 (0.00%)
Green:	20 (41.67%)

Mana Curve

1 Mana:	8 (20.00%)
2 Mana:	16 (40.00%)
3 Mana:	4 (10.00%)
4 Mana:	4 (10.00%)
5 Mana:	4 (10.00%)
6 Mana:	4 (10.00%)
7+ Mana:	0 (0.00%)

If all else fails, beat face with Wurmcoil, Grave Titan, Glissa, and Bump in the Night! Unburial rights for any creature. Flashback is available for bump and unburial rights because of Birds of Paradise. Buried ruin to return perilous myr cheaply, just in case.

However, there’s a problem with the loop. If all the actions in a loop are mandatory (this is the case for this loop) the game ends with a draw. I’m unsure whether or not this applies if the loop deals damage to a player as well. So, just in case, I put in Naturalize to destroy the Bloodbond March or Heartless Summoning and break the loop after sufficient damage has been dealt.