Post by Sylocat on Apr 19, 2014 20:34:38 GMT 1
Here's the transcript of our livestream. Dad couldn't make it today, and the regular spectators didn't show either for some reason, so it was just me and Froborr commenting.
A few notes:
1. We always start with a time delay, at 3:00 PM EST/2:00 PM CST, in our own IRC channel.
2. I've added a couple annotations in [bold italics, brackets and CAPS] to clarify a couple things. The transcript starts a few minutes before the episode.
3. ADVANCE NOTICE: Some of our commentary got rather political in nature. Kind of unavoidable in an episode dealing with Equestria's economy.
[13:54] == Froborr [[IP REDACTED]] has joined ##rabbitcube
[13:54] <Froborr> Heyla!
[13:54] <Sylocat> Hey
[13:55] <Froborr> I have found a secluded corner of the LOC where I am unlikely to be spotted.
[13:55] <Sylocat> Ooh, clandestine, I like it
[13:55] <Froborr> I don't know if I would actually get in trouble for watching ponies in the library, but better safe than sorry.
[13:55] <Froborr> And the ep is buffering.
[13:56] <Sylocat> Okay then
[13:56] <Froborr> Also it feels disrespectful to watch pirate YouTube in the actual library part of the world's largest library.
[13:56] <Froborr> Random side passage? Not such a big deal.
[13:57] <Sylocat> That helps, I imagine
[13:58] <Froborr> Also, I finished tomorrow's article last night, which is nicely freeing.
[13:58] <Sylocat> Glad to hear it
[13:58] <Sylocat> Looks like it's just us today
[13:58] <Froborr> Yeah. Not that surprising. Holiday weekend and all, people are probably stuck with their families.
[13:59] <Sylocat> Dad is running errands, mom is hosting a little egg-dyeing party in the next room (which I barely broke away from), and draftpunk is unavailable as well
[13:59] <Sylocat> 1 minute
[13:59] <Froborr> Heck, I'm going straight from the library to my sister's for a Seder.
[13:59] <Froborr> Yep.
[14:00] <Sylocat> Click [EPISODE BEGINS]
[14:00] <Froborr> Go.
[14:00] <Sylocat> More continuity!
[14:00] <Froborr> Don't recognize that town?
[14:00] <Froborr> Oh, Rainbow Falls, right.
[14:00] <Sylocat> She's excited about going to a trading-post celebration... oh.
[14:00] <Sylocat> Applejack sarcastic?
[14:01] <Froborr> That's technically not sarcasm, it's ironic understatement.
[14:01] <Froborr> Which unlike sarcasm, is literally true.
[14:01] <Sylocat> whoa
[14:01] <Froborr> It's a giant swapmeet?
[14:01] <Sylocat> Ah, so "deadpan snarking" instead
[14:01] <Sylocat> Wait, what IS this place?
[14:01] <Froborr> Yep.
[14:02] <Froborr> It's a giant swapmeet.
[14:02] <Sylocat> Wow
[14:02] <Sylocat> This says quite a bit about Equestria's economy
[14:02] <Froborr> ...so Equestra-nauts was prophetic?
[14:02] <Sylocat> Oh, she's gonna sign autographs
[14:02] <Sylocat> Wait, why doesn't Rainbow Dash just ask Daring Do for an advance copy?
[14:03] <Froborr> Really? The AUTHOR doesn't have a complete set of first editions?
[14:03] <Sylocat> The background ponies in this episode are... eclectic
[14:03] <Froborr> Yes, yes they are.
[14:03] <Froborr> Ah, I see where the disaster is coming.
[14:03] <Sylocat> Capitalism is magic? Or wait, since it's done without money involved...
[14:04] <Froborr> Is... is Applejack deliberately swindling Rarity?
[14:04] <Froborr> Her facial expressions in that scene were... odd.
[14:04] <Sylocat> Is this going to be the anti-capitalist episode? I thought they did that with SSCS6K
[14:04] <Sylocat> Ahahahah
[14:05] <Froborr> And Secret of My Excess and Just for Sidekicks.
[14:05] <Sylocat> Ah, an adventure-game fetch-quest!
[14:05] <Froborr> Oh gods it's one of those awful Zelda trading sequences.
[14:05] <Froborr> Although the Deep Space Nine episode about one was actually pretty good.
[14:06] <Sylocat> Lesson Zero expressed through consumerism
[14:06] <Froborr> Things I did not expect to learn when I started this project: The best approach to Spike episodes is Marxist criticism.
[14:06] <Sylocat> Older? Doesn't that mean it's out of fashion?
[14:06] <Froborr> *facepalm*
[14:06] <Froborr> No, she said vintage is in.
[14:06] <Sylocat> Shell game
[14:06] <Sylocat> Ah, forgot
[14:07] <Froborr> Shell game, the vintage one is in Applejack's hat.
[14:07] <Froborr> Rarity just accidentally stole a vintage broach.
[14:07] <Sylocat> Dang, this one is intense
[14:07] <Sylocat> Fluttershy to the rescue
[14:07] <Sylocat> Only two heads? That's a step down from when they dealt with Cerberus
[14:07] <Froborr> Fluttershy = the best pony (always and of course excepting Maud)
[14:08] <Froborr> Cerberus was also a LOT bigger.
[14:08] <Sylocat> Ah, Rainbow Dash is trying the old adventure-game trick of using one item on everypony until she finds the one who wants it
[14:08] <Froborr> lol ,it's the lamps Discord made!
[14:08] <Froborr> Antique... chicken..?
[14:09] <Sylocat> I swear, they're playing a video game
[14:09] <Froborr> Definitely.
[14:09] <Sylocat> AHAHAH
[14:09] <Sylocat> Found the first link of the chain
[14:09] <Sylocat> Uh oh
[14:09] <Sylocat> Accidentally trashed the key item
[14:09] <Froborr> Meanwhile, the mare's all "BWAHAHAHA, the horseshoe is mine! Now the ritual can be completed!"
[14:09] <Sylocat> She'll have to reload from her save
[14:10] <Sylocat> Yikes, Pinkie is scary today
[14:10] <Froborr> Pinkie Pie is a rules stickler now.
[14:10] <Froborr> The best part of being Chaotic is that you can be Lawful whenever you feel like it.
[14:10] <Sylocat> Wait, she's cosplaying as the Flim Flam Brothers?
[14:10] <Froborr> Barker Pinkie!
[14:11] <Sylocat> Ahahah... it was SUPPOSED to be broken
[14:11] <Froborr> LOL, he just wanted to break it!
[14:11] <Sylocat> Everyone who's ever played an adventure game can relate to this one
[14:12] <Sylocat> Ah, I was wondering what AJ and Rarity were up to
[14:12] <Sylocat> Oh no, it's the "I'm sorrier" game
[14:12] <Froborr> This is actually a pretty complicated episode for this show.
[14:12] <Froborr> I don't think we've ever had a "C" plot before.
[14:12] <Sylocat> Except The Best Night Ever
[14:12] <Froborr> Oh yeah, good point.
[14:13] <Sylocat> Ah, she was going to dump them for a broken quill just to prove she wasn't better than anypony else
[14:13] <Froborr> Crystal Pony!
[14:13] <Froborr> Hey, is that a disabled pony?
[14:14] <Froborr> That's a pony wheelchair, right?
[14:14] <Sylocat> Yep, a classic video game obstacle
[14:14] <Sylocat> Complete with mini-game
[14:14] <Froborr> Cooking minigame, a classic!
[14:14] <Froborr> Spike trading comics in background.
[14:15] <Sylocat> Yikes, that's a lot of slobber
[14:15] <Sylocat> Ooh, a timed event at the end, of course
[14:15] <Froborr> And now a Frogger-style minigame.
[14:15] <Froborr> Or Quicktime event, point.
[14:15] <Sylocat> Uh oh
[14:16] <Froborr> Chekhov's bearcall!
[14:16] <Sylocat> That bear call is important
[14:16] <Sylocat> She sold it already?
[14:16] <Sylocat> AHAHAHAH... the mission requirements changed? That's low even for a video game
[14:16] <Froborr> She wants a bearcall.
[14:16] <Froborr> Tht's my guess.
[14:17] <Sylocat> Oh... so it worked after all?
[14:17] <Sylocat> I too was expecting the bear call... OH MY GOSH
[14:17] <Froborr> Old pony from Heart's and Hooves Day in background a couple of shots ago.
[14:17] <Sylocat> She's selling herself into domestic servitude?
[14:18] <Froborr> No, Rainbow Dash is selling her into domestic servitude.
[14:18] <Froborr> Oh, they'll trade Fluttershy for the books.
[14:18] <Sylocat> And she realizes her mistake just a nanosecond too late
[14:19] <Sylocat> Ah, so THAT'S the (first) message
[14:19] <Froborr> Wow, lots of callbacks.
[14:20] <Froborr> D'aww.
[14:20] <Sylocat> And now Fluttershy keeps the Orthros
[14:20] <Froborr> I like the rainbow gavel.
[14:21] <Sylocat> And now Rainbow Dash lectures THEM about friendship?
[14:21] <Froborr> Awww.
[EPISODE ENDS]
[14:21] <Sylocat> That was a good one!
[14:21] <Froborr> That was a good one!
[14:21] <Sylocat> ...Great minds think alike
[14:21] <Froborr> Lol, great minds.
[14:22] <Froborr> ...Ruth Bader Ginsburg!
[14:22] <Sylocat> Okay, that's just scary
[14:22] <Froborr> Damn, couldn't keep it up.
[14:22] <Froborr> Anyway, yep. Good ep.
[14:22] <Froborr> I gotta get back to work right away, unfortunately. Library closes in an hour and a half.
[14:22] <Sylocat> Alrighty then... see you around
A few notes:
1. We always start with a time delay, at 3:00 PM EST/2:00 PM CST, in our own IRC channel.
2. I've added a couple annotations in [bold italics, brackets and CAPS] to clarify a couple things. The transcript starts a few minutes before the episode.
3. ADVANCE NOTICE: Some of our commentary got rather political in nature. Kind of unavoidable in an episode dealing with Equestria's economy.
[13:54] == Froborr [[IP REDACTED]] has joined ##rabbitcube
[13:54] <Froborr> Heyla!
[13:54] <Sylocat> Hey
[13:55] <Froborr> I have found a secluded corner of the LOC where I am unlikely to be spotted.
[13:55] <Sylocat> Ooh, clandestine, I like it
[13:55] <Froborr> I don't know if I would actually get in trouble for watching ponies in the library, but better safe than sorry.
[13:55] <Froborr> And the ep is buffering.
[13:56] <Sylocat> Okay then
[13:56] <Froborr> Also it feels disrespectful to watch pirate YouTube in the actual library part of the world's largest library.
[13:56] <Froborr> Random side passage? Not such a big deal.
[13:57] <Sylocat> That helps, I imagine
[13:58] <Froborr> Also, I finished tomorrow's article last night, which is nicely freeing.
[13:58] <Sylocat> Glad to hear it
[13:58] <Sylocat> Looks like it's just us today
[13:58] <Froborr> Yeah. Not that surprising. Holiday weekend and all, people are probably stuck with their families.
[13:59] <Sylocat> Dad is running errands, mom is hosting a little egg-dyeing party in the next room (which I barely broke away from), and draftpunk is unavailable as well
[13:59] <Sylocat> 1 minute
[13:59] <Froborr> Heck, I'm going straight from the library to my sister's for a Seder.
[13:59] <Froborr> Yep.
[14:00] <Sylocat> Click [EPISODE BEGINS]
[14:00] <Froborr> Go.
[14:00] <Sylocat> More continuity!
[14:00] <Froborr> Don't recognize that town?
[14:00] <Froborr> Oh, Rainbow Falls, right.
[14:00] <Sylocat> She's excited about going to a trading-post celebration... oh.
[14:00] <Sylocat> Applejack sarcastic?
[14:01] <Froborr> That's technically not sarcasm, it's ironic understatement.
[14:01] <Froborr> Which unlike sarcasm, is literally true.
[14:01] <Sylocat> whoa
[14:01] <Froborr> It's a giant swapmeet?
[14:01] <Sylocat> Ah, so "deadpan snarking" instead
[14:01] <Sylocat> Wait, what IS this place?
[14:01] <Froborr> Yep.
[14:02] <Froborr> It's a giant swapmeet.
[14:02] <Sylocat> Wow
[14:02] <Sylocat> This says quite a bit about Equestria's economy
[14:02] <Froborr> ...so Equestra-nauts was prophetic?
[14:02] <Sylocat> Oh, she's gonna sign autographs
[14:02] <Sylocat> Wait, why doesn't Rainbow Dash just ask Daring Do for an advance copy?
[14:03] <Froborr> Really? The AUTHOR doesn't have a complete set of first editions?
[14:03] <Sylocat> The background ponies in this episode are... eclectic
[14:03] <Froborr> Yes, yes they are.
[14:03] <Froborr> Ah, I see where the disaster is coming.
[14:03] <Sylocat> Capitalism is magic? Or wait, since it's done without money involved...
[14:04] <Froborr> Is... is Applejack deliberately swindling Rarity?
[14:04] <Froborr> Her facial expressions in that scene were... odd.
[14:04] <Sylocat> Is this going to be the anti-capitalist episode? I thought they did that with SSCS6K
[14:04] <Sylocat> Ahahahah
[14:05] <Froborr> And Secret of My Excess and Just for Sidekicks.
[14:05] <Sylocat> Ah, an adventure-game fetch-quest!
[14:05] <Froborr> Oh gods it's one of those awful Zelda trading sequences.
[14:05] <Froborr> Although the Deep Space Nine episode about one was actually pretty good.
[14:06] <Sylocat> Lesson Zero expressed through consumerism
[14:06] <Froborr> Things I did not expect to learn when I started this project: The best approach to Spike episodes is Marxist criticism.
[14:06] <Sylocat> Older? Doesn't that mean it's out of fashion?
[14:06] <Froborr> *facepalm*
[14:06] <Froborr> No, she said vintage is in.
[14:06] <Sylocat> Shell game
[14:06] <Sylocat> Ah, forgot
[14:07] <Froborr> Shell game, the vintage one is in Applejack's hat.
[14:07] <Froborr> Rarity just accidentally stole a vintage broach.
[14:07] <Sylocat> Dang, this one is intense
[14:07] <Sylocat> Fluttershy to the rescue
[14:07] <Sylocat> Only two heads? That's a step down from when they dealt with Cerberus
[14:07] <Froborr> Fluttershy = the best pony (always and of course excepting Maud)
[14:08] <Froborr> Cerberus was also a LOT bigger.
[14:08] <Sylocat> Ah, Rainbow Dash is trying the old adventure-game trick of using one item on everypony until she finds the one who wants it
[14:08] <Froborr> lol ,it's the lamps Discord made!
[14:08] <Froborr> Antique... chicken..?
[14:09] <Sylocat> I swear, they're playing a video game
[14:09] <Froborr> Definitely.
[14:09] <Sylocat> AHAHAH
[14:09] <Sylocat> Found the first link of the chain
[14:09] <Sylocat> Uh oh
[14:09] <Sylocat> Accidentally trashed the key item
[14:09] <Froborr> Meanwhile, the mare's all "BWAHAHAHA, the horseshoe is mine! Now the ritual can be completed!"
[14:09] <Sylocat> She'll have to reload from her save
[14:10] <Sylocat> Yikes, Pinkie is scary today
[14:10] <Froborr> Pinkie Pie is a rules stickler now.
[14:10] <Froborr> The best part of being Chaotic is that you can be Lawful whenever you feel like it.
[14:10] <Sylocat> Wait, she's cosplaying as the Flim Flam Brothers?
[14:10] <Froborr> Barker Pinkie!
[14:11] <Sylocat> Ahahah... it was SUPPOSED to be broken
[14:11] <Froborr> LOL, he just wanted to break it!
[14:11] <Sylocat> Everyone who's ever played an adventure game can relate to this one
[14:12] <Sylocat> Ah, I was wondering what AJ and Rarity were up to
[14:12] <Sylocat> Oh no, it's the "I'm sorrier" game
[14:12] <Froborr> This is actually a pretty complicated episode for this show.
[14:12] <Froborr> I don't think we've ever had a "C" plot before.
[14:12] <Sylocat> Except The Best Night Ever
[14:12] <Froborr> Oh yeah, good point.
[14:13] <Sylocat> Ah, she was going to dump them for a broken quill just to prove she wasn't better than anypony else
[14:13] <Froborr> Crystal Pony!
[14:13] <Froborr> Hey, is that a disabled pony?
[14:14] <Froborr> That's a pony wheelchair, right?
[14:14] <Sylocat> Yep, a classic video game obstacle
[14:14] <Sylocat> Complete with mini-game
[14:14] <Froborr> Cooking minigame, a classic!
[14:14] <Froborr> Spike trading comics in background.
[14:15] <Sylocat> Yikes, that's a lot of slobber
[14:15] <Sylocat> Ooh, a timed event at the end, of course
[14:15] <Froborr> And now a Frogger-style minigame.
[14:15] <Froborr> Or Quicktime event, point.
[14:15] <Sylocat> Uh oh
[14:16] <Froborr> Chekhov's bearcall!
[14:16] <Sylocat> That bear call is important
[14:16] <Sylocat> She sold it already?
[14:16] <Sylocat> AHAHAHAH... the mission requirements changed? That's low even for a video game
[14:16] <Froborr> She wants a bearcall.
[14:16] <Froborr> Tht's my guess.
[14:17] <Sylocat> Oh... so it worked after all?
[14:17] <Sylocat> I too was expecting the bear call... OH MY GOSH
[14:17] <Froborr> Old pony from Heart's and Hooves Day in background a couple of shots ago.
[14:17] <Sylocat> She's selling herself into domestic servitude?
[14:18] <Froborr> No, Rainbow Dash is selling her into domestic servitude.
[14:18] <Froborr> Oh, they'll trade Fluttershy for the books.
[14:18] <Sylocat> And she realizes her mistake just a nanosecond too late
[14:19] <Sylocat> Ah, so THAT'S the (first) message
[14:19] <Froborr> Wow, lots of callbacks.
[14:20] <Froborr> D'aww.
[14:20] <Sylocat> And now Fluttershy keeps the Orthros
[14:20] <Froborr> I like the rainbow gavel.
[14:21] <Sylocat> And now Rainbow Dash lectures THEM about friendship?
[14:21] <Froborr> Awww.
[EPISODE ENDS]
[14:21] <Sylocat> That was a good one!
[14:21] <Froborr> That was a good one!
[14:21] <Sylocat> ...Great minds think alike
[14:21] <Froborr> Lol, great minds.
[14:22] <Froborr> ...Ruth Bader Ginsburg!
[14:22] <Sylocat> Okay, that's just scary
[14:22] <Froborr> Damn, couldn't keep it up.
[14:22] <Froborr> Anyway, yep. Good ep.
[14:22] <Froborr> I gotta get back to work right away, unfortunately. Library closes in an hour and a half.
[14:22] <Sylocat> Alrighty then... see you around