Oh yeah, I forgot to mention it is indeed a LBT rpg. lol. All swimmers would be welcome.I think we'd more often be out in the open ocean, but I don't want to be too limiting so we could go near land sometimes as well. But the emphasis is on being in the deep sea, living in an underwater world.

I'm sort of in disagreement here. I think a community is the perfect place to rant when you're frustrated and looking for support. For example, on the pony island game I play, I entered into a game and the people hosting the game cheated and gave the prize to another person. Now I have no proof that this happened, but I'm pretty sure that was what went on behind the scenes. I couldn't really rant and raise a fuss on that board, because I would look like the childish one and it wouldn't get me anything.

So instead I went to another messageboard that I frequent and posted a rant that I lost in the game and that I thought it was rigged. Yes, it was a childish rant and no one at the other message board really had anything to do with my experience, but I was looking for sympathy so I could feel better.

I completely agree with NewOrder:
"Deleting posts or topics with racist remarks, slander, insults, whatever is ok and the right thing to do, but otherwise it's a sort of censurship, and we're no longer in a fascist world."

It's one thing to take out posts that are full of swears or whatever, but if you're deleting posts just because someone is ranting and trying to vent, you're being a little too controlling, in my opinion.

But that's just me. I haven't even been to the After Midnight section, so I don't know what posts were being deleted or what was being said. But I feel very strongly that people should have a place to go when they need to rant and vent. Playing music by yourself is fine, but sometimes we as humans need social interaction, to know we're not just overreacting by ourselves. Maybe we should make a section just for rants, if you think the After Midnight section is inappropriate for some of the things being posted?

When I went to the other message board and posted, I was looking for a sympathetic ear, someone who would say "You're right, that wasn't fair of them!" Someone to take my side. I can't get that by listing to music or thinking of childhood things. Sure I could cool my anger in some other way, but I can't get a sense of comradary or acknowledgement of my hurt unless I talk with other people about it.

But like I said, I haven't been reading the posts, so I'm just going by what you have posted in this thread. That's my two cents on the matter of censorship and ranting in forums.

How about today, June 8th?

"Air guitar! Neeeenererer! Most excellent!"

(Okay, so I can't do air guitar noises. )

THis is a neat idea! ^_^ I'm convinced that the designers of My Little Ponies 'spy' on the collectors' boards I frequent. There's been many, many times when ideas we talk about actually show up a year later in the stores! Many people say it's just coincidence, but I'm a firm believer that they are 'spying' on us and using our ideas! Of course they can't say anything because then copyright laws get involved. We've never had anyone on the board actually admit to working for Hasbro, but I bet they at least keep tabs on what is being said.

Was this episode ever available for us, or are you guys still working on compressing it? I wish I could help! I don't know anything about putting video files onto computers. I barely understand what compressing is... lol.

Petrie- lol. What 'no parents' means is that you can breed these adoptables by taking a male and a female and asking the artist to draw what the babies would look like. But since this one was a custom adult, it doesn't come from already existing parents. ^_^

And yup! I won first place!

F-14 Ace- the website is called Pony Island (www.ponyisland.net) and it's like neopets, where you raise pixel images of My Little Ponies. But some people make up their own little pixel pets on the side, and you can put their images on your userpage, etc.

action9000- I wrote a fanfic about my other Lunakune, whose name is Ront. Here's the story, actually! Well, it's more of an intro to a much longer story about Ront's history. It's only about a page long, but I'm quite proud of it!

http://www.freewebs.com/ussfantasy/MemoriesofFire.htm

It's titled "It's Cold, and I Have Memories of Fire..."

Awwwww!! Those are really cute! ^_^

Indications that "Cave of Many Voices" was intended to be the first episode of the series:

1.) The very first opening scene shows us dinosaurs that do not have anything to do with the plot. This is a common plot device (a character foil) that introduces us to the world before the characters are introduced. For example, in Disney's Dinosaur (the movie about Aladar) the opening scene is about a baby Parasolophus, which is then not seen again until the very end of the movie. It's a common trick to open a story with character(s) who are not pertenant, and then to show the important characters. Like the original Land Before time, which showed the small water lizard during the credits.

2.) After the opening scene with the dinosaurs that don't have anythign to do with the show, we are then shown the seven children one at a time as they observe the rain. This is obviously meant to be an introduction to each character, showing us their current family situation and also introduces their personalities.

3.) Ruby mentions Red Claw and the reasons why she and Chomper are in the valley, and also that the adults let them stay there. This is important because it introduces the main villain, and also tells the audience why they are in the valley and are now main characters (since last we knew from the movies, they were not).

4.) This episode focuses on Chomper and Ruby a lot. Ruby saves Ducky's treestars and helps her talk big. Chomper is the one who pushes to find a new cave. This is to be expected, that a first episode would focus on the newest characters.

5.) We are introduced to Red Claw and his fast biters in this episode. Red Claw is not in EVERY episode, but he was in this one. It would make sense that they would show us the main villains in the first episode.

6.) Petire mentions to Chomper the 'stinkly buzzers' which he can eat, which tells viewers right away what Chomper eats in the valley. This is an important question to get out of the way, since viewers would wonder what Chomper eats living here with leaf eaters. (We also see Ruby eating the clam thing earlier, so that answers that question as well.)

7.) This episode is a complete story, and doesn't introduce other sub-characters. There are some episodes that leave questions at the end, such as the one with Ali and Rhette (leaving us to wonder, will they still be here next episode? What will become of them?) Episodes like that one bring in sub-characters. Ali and Rhette, also Saur the Story Speaker, etc. These are characters that are meant to only be in one episode, used as a plot foil. There are no characters like that in "Cave of Many Voices," since it would be too confusing to introduce sub-characters when they are working on introducing their main characters.

Of course, these points woudn't necessarily mean much by themselves, but all together it is obvious that this was intended to be the first episode.

Like I said, as a writer, I can recognize these things. I've graduated college with a degree in writing and I now do freelance editing work and also work in a publishing press. I've had a lot of experience with writing, and plots in general. These are things I can see very obviously. I'm sure it's common sense to other people as well. DarkHouhoumon and I have talked about this episode on AIM and she agrees with my points that these are indications of it being a first episode, meant to introduce the series.

I agree, Raptor. (And by the way, just finished watching Trigun. XD Awesome series!)