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Art (C)MLP: FIM (C) Hasbro/Lauren Faust
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It seems you enjoy me getting tossed around like a ragdoll.
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Ohhh unbelievably~
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Twilie, don't be so angry. Think of all the good times we've had.
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TWILIGHT!!! NOO!
It's so sad! He/she is flinging her around like a ragdoll!
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fluttershy you need to be more assertive and help twilight
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I shall be the link bringer!
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I am hoping that she lost consasness before that slam into the dood.
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I love how you drew Twilight in those three frames, she just looks so... limp.
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I don't even know where you get that.
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the floating rocks when they go super sayian
meh
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stop using twilight and fluttershy atleast look outside your window silly
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FUCK!!! HE'S USING STEALTH ROCK!!! (I think)
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This isn't too violent just yet, but a bit disturbing that he's slamming Twi against the door.
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dude, this is nowhere near gory. i have a game that can make my dad sick just by playing it for half an hour or so.
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Serious Sam: The Second Encounter. Although he apparently doesn`t really have the stomach for really gory stuff.
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The filter is labeled "Violence/Gore". Not just "Gore".
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Well, that`s just my opinion.
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OH YES! My favourite type of magic, the kind that launches insanely large amounts of tiny projectiles at high speeds!
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It's technically basic levitation magic... but I imagine said levitation would also be the most VERSETILE of magic in the right hooves. x3
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Yeah I know, but it really bothers me that people don't use it that way more often.
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It's hard dividing your focus like that.
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Heh, true dat probably. But it should become second nature after a while no? When you're holding something in each hand, you don't think about it at all. Magic should be about the same I think.
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When you're holding something in each hand, you're not doing anything. Of course that's easy. But consider, for example, juggling. It also only involves two hands, but it requires practice to develop proper coordination. Or patting your head and rubbing your stomach at the same time; that gives plenty of people trouble.
Have you seen Doctor Horrible? You know that thing he does at the end of the first chorus of Brand New Day, where he basically does the wave with his fingers? Have you ever tried doing that? It's really hard, even though you're not moving your fingers all that independently. I'm pretty sure I don't know anybody who can do it, though that could presumably be remedied with practice. Now imagine trying to do that, but your fingers have wildly varying weights. Throwing even ten rocks simultaneously would be really hard, unless your magic is powerful enough that you can make a big hemisphere of magic force containing the rocks and throw them at a useful speed despite all the air resistance. And even then, your accuracy throwing them like that would probably be abysmal.
Rarity could throw a bunch of rocks, of course. She's been observed levitating a couple dozen objects of diverse weights at the same time, after all. But she's presumably been training her focus and precision with dressmaking for the past decade or so. It's no small task, gaining the requisite skill, and she worked hard to earn it.
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Eh... I didn't want to mention juggling... When you master juggling, it doesn't matter what you juggle or how many you juggle anymore, you gain complete control over your throws, you don't even have to look at what you are doing because you KNOW where it's going to land because you threw it there. There is a man that juggles ANYTHING. He juggled three chainsaw WHILE THEY WERE ON.
The reason I didn't want to mention juggling is that you don't actually have to keep track of multiple objects at once, you're basically just throwing one up at a time in quick succession but once it's in the air you don't track anymore, you KNOW where it's going to land.
I play piano so that finger thing isn't too hard for me (Not that I can do it perfectly at all. It'll take practice)
Why I used hands as an example is because when I think of magic, it's just an extension of your will, the same as your hands. If you stop thinking about holding your cellphone and your homework, you will drop them. Your hands don't magically hold onto things, they have a relaxed position. Magic when released just disappears, but it's the same kind of control brought along by your thoughts, it shouldn't be too difficult. I'm sure it'll require practice but I can just as easily hold multiple things in each hand, my elbow, my mouth and even my toes pretty easily. IF they were cups filled with water however it would be much harder because I'd have to make sure their orientation always remained upwards but just holding and throwing multiple things shouldn't be too hard I think.
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You have to really zone out to drop things. Holding things does not require any significant amount of attention; all you have to do is not move. Not moving in a coordinated fashion is easy, because it's the same movement for every single muscle. Holding three objects at once is not something that requires practice, and almost anybody can toss a single object from hand to hand; this does not connote the ability to juggle, because coordinating the movements of even just two hands is way harder than holding things.
In summary, holding things is a very poor analogy for throwing things, whether you're using hands or magic.
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Yes but you first have to grasp the object to get it. That's when you use your magic, once you're holding with your magic/hand it doesn't take any contration, no matter how many you are holding.
Launching the stones is just like throwing, it isn't juggling, you don't have to keep track of them all or aim somewhere where you can catch them again, you just throw them full force at your target, with a thought
I'm saying levitating multiple objects doesn't take coordination, you aren't making a choreography, you just have multiple targets for your magic, and one target to throw at.
... Problem here is we really have no idea what it feels like to use basic levitation/manipulation magic. Whether it's controlled by thought/will or by feel though, I can't see it being very hard to do. Either you picture what you want to happen, which is easy, or you reach out to the objects and lift them with the force of your magic, which you should be able to feel since anytime someone tries hard with magic they feel strain, and then you just apply the pressure where you want it.
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Have you ever tried holding an object in each hand, and throwing them at the same time? It's not really an action that feels natural, and for good reason. Sure, it's easy to do, assuming your target is a few feet away from you or that your intention is to miss. But I don't think either of those apply to the case that sparked this discussion.
I mean, juggling is just repeatedly throwing objects at your other hand. It's made more difficult by the fact that the goal is to keep throwing for a while, which is a lot of throwing, but otherwise it's analogous; if anything the closeness of the target and capacity to move it makes it otherwise easier.
People do a lot of actions that they have a great deal of practice at and a long history of evolution to make sure they come naturally. People also spend a lot of time working well below the maximum force available from their muscles, which gives them a lot of spare precision to burn. It leads people to underestimate the difficulty of coordination.
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Throwing two things at the same time is more difficult because of leverage, when you throw something, it's a full body rotation, if you try and throw on each side you can't rotate. Magic doesn't require that kind of ancoring. We also have our less coordinated side because we use it less but once again, magic doesn't have that kind of symmetry going on.
I can't believe that there is much coordination involved in magic at all, just force of will and power to picture what you want to happen. We've all seen movies and played games where multiple projectiles are being launched and we can track them all at once. Just imagine multiple pegasi flying around, it isn't hard to see that kind of image clear as day and then picture them flying towards something.
I just can't associate levitation magic with coordination. Coordination is a muscle-brain problem that requires training because muscles aren't used to being used that way. With magic it's 100% brain, there can't be any conflicting signals/messages.
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Watching trajectories is a different problem from planning trajectories. If you're trying to dodge things, you can largely ignore anything that you can tell is not going to get near you, and you can skimp on brainpower for things that are further away since you just have to make sure you don't leave yourself trapped within a cluster of projectiles. And if you're watching things that aren't going to hit you fly around, you'll only be watching their exact trajectories if there's only a few. Otherwise you have to be watching the general impression, or focusing on some subset, because you can't follow everything at the same time. If you're trying to throw a couple dozen projectiles with magic, though, you can't use these tricks without a significant sacrifice of accuracy. If you dismiss some projectiles as irrelevant, you might as well not have even thrown them.
Though, granted, throwing many things would be easier than I think if magic were unaffected by inertia, since then everything effectively would have the same mass. Inertia is an assumption I've been making that might not apply.
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Even if magic is affected by intertia, I don't think it would affect your cencentration at all. You can make the corrections needed in your vision of what you want to manifest and the magic will take care of it. You'll feel strain on your body with these changes but it won't be hard. Like playing hockey or soccer, you just give the ball little nudges to keep it on course but in this case there's no physical speed involved to make it hard, you just think it and it happens.
I think we're done here though =\ Our differing opinions on how the magic works can't seem to come to an understanding...
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Yeah, I'm getting that feeling too. I was just too stubborn to give up until I was absolutely sure that we were getting nowhere.
Agreeing to disagree it is.
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AWWWWW YEAAAAHHHHH!! Stubborness and rivalry ftw!
(But who's gonna make the last reply? HEUHEUHEUHEU)
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