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Have you watched any of MLP G5? If so what are your thoughts?


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It’s pretty weak, I honestly have mixed-to-negative feelings on most of it. The initial movie was great, but they clearly frontloaded it with overly-expensive animation and an all-star cast and never had any intention of bringing all that forward, so it’s hard to even count it towards what came after. And what came after was stiff low-grade animation, wooden writing and literal years to catch their footing, and I’d dropped out long before it started getting even remotely good. Make Your Mark and that 2D show where they all have CalArts mouth were both really bad when I checked them out, and in general I don’t think any of it lived up to Gen4 even at it’s lowest points.


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Yup! Great film, part of Pixar's classic repertoire. I didn't mind Monsters U either honestly


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What do you think about Anthropomorphism?


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Lol I'm a furry so I'm obviously a fan :P My primary character in the Into the Black RP series on this forum was an anthro fox, a corrupt police officer named Emilena. She was fun, I improved a ton as a writer through playing her over those years.



I think anthropomorphism is great for taking some of the restraints off storytelling and exploring more specific facets of the human condition under a microscope. Animals are very one-track for the most part, and so many exhibit their own specific personality traits that make for wonderful characterizations, it's a very useful medium for learning the nuances of writing and having fun at the same time.


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Do you think that Dogs and Cats could have actually began to evolve to have Human like qualities if Humans went extinct early on in Human history around 800,000-900,000 yeas ago?

Thus leading them to be the new Humans of today instead of us.


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Sadly I don't think so. Humanity had two things going for it that allowed it to evolve into the game-changer they became; an incredibly high brain-to-mass ratio and opposable thumbs. Brain size plays a huge role in determining the cognitive capabilities of a species (to the point we can extrapolate about long-dead species like Troodons just by comparing their brain size to modern-day ancestors like birds) and opposable thumbs gave us the dexterity necessary to create tools and interact with our world however we see fit. Cats and dogs lack several of the biological factors that would spur a species towards evolutionarily advancing their intelligence to the point of true sentience.

Now, if humans had never evolved and I had to pick who might have taken over, I'd say octopi, on a hypothetical Earth that was entirely covered in water. They have big brains, prehensile tentacles, and have been observed creating tools, solving complex puzzles, and forming strong emotional bonds with their handlers. In another timeline I could totally see them as having taken over the planet instead of us.