>for the hay of it

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Also, you managed to capture how Pinkie's personality, while silly, can be very logical. Good work!

Thanks!

Yeah, too many people think she's just some total nutcase.

She's just easily distracted by the shiny and eats so many sweets she's in a state of sugar rush, FOREVER!

She reminds me a lot of myself when I was younger. I'd see logical connections and say or do things based on that, and then wonder why everyone else was looking at me strangely. Why didn't they see the logic too?

...that's still how I work, actually, just to a much lesser degree since I've learned to explain things and/or keep quiet, as appropriate. But yeah, I suppose it says something that in Swarm of the Century, I knew Pinkie Pie's instrument-collecting would be instrumental to saving the day right from the start, since she'd been the only one who knew what the Parasprites were.

I love this!!! Pinkie Pie is perfect! And at the end, I can just hear Rarity giving a horse snort. :)

Oooo.. careful with those paradoxes.. :)

This makes perfect sense. It's only missing a ridiculous transformation scene.

So far the only ridiculous transformation sequences MLP:FiM has had are when Rarity gives somepony (usually Twilight) a series of makeovers.

It would be much simpler if they could join to form the giant Pony Bot of Friendship.

HARMONY MAX MEGAZORD ANYONE? XD.

BUT WHAT ABOUT THIS?

TWILIGHT: THEN LET OUR POWERS COMBINE! MAGIC!

APPLEJACK: HONESTY!

PINKIE PIE: LAUGHTER!

RARITY: GENEROSITY!

FLUTTERSHY: KINDNESS!

RAINBOW DASH: LOYALTY!

TRIXIE: FORGIVENESS!

*ELEMENTS COMBINE*

???: WITH YOUR POWERS COMBINED I AM CAPTAIN HARMONY!!

XD.

I totally didn't need to consider that one. *snicker*

XD. YEAH. ALSO I ADDED THE MANE...7 XD. TRIXIE FTW AS THE 7TH ELEMENT! XD.

(snicker) That would be a Colt automatic carbine, right?

When ponies are involved, all guns are Colts.

Um does she think they are Care Bears?

Well it worked fine against Nightmare Moon in part 2 of the pilot!

Calm down! Calm down.

Pinkie, it worked because Applejack believed it would not work. She was mistaken, but that didn't stop what she said from being honest.

I know, it's supposed to be that like attracts like, but that doesn't always carry over. For good or ill, luck happens.

Oh, OK then!

*hops off somewhere to eat cake*

You just ruined the magic! This is a show that needs magic to survive!

Jerk.

Now now, I thought that was an excellent Twilight Sparkle impression!

Exactly--honesty doesn't always mean truth, just as a lie doesn't always mean falsehood--there's an entire set of logic problems based on sets of people who a) believe only true statements and never lie, b) believe only true statements and always lie, c) believe only false statements and never lie, or d) believe only false statements and always lie.

So that last set of people actually make true statements, even though they think they're lying, right?

Exactly! I think the setup was the puzzle author making a trip to Transylvania, where the humans always tell the truth and the vampires always lie, while sane people believe true statements and insane people believe false statements. So you can trust what a sane human or an insane vampire says, but the opposite of what an insane human or a sane vampire says. Be careful of asking them what they believe, though--a sane vampire will lie about what they believe, but end up affirming a truth by lying about their disbelief of it.

Then the author attends a party thrown by Elite Transylvanians, which don't even say "Yes" or "No", but rather say "Ba" or "Dal", each of which means either "yes" or "no", but each Transylvanian picks which is which individually. The final puzzle in the game is to figure out a unifying question, one where if you ask any elite Transylvanian, "Is the truth-value of X equivalent to S?" where S is the unifying statement and X is the statement you wish to test. I forget what it was exactly, but it involved "Ba"/"Dal" and belief in ways that ended up giving you a useful answer regardless of sanity, vampirism, or word preference.

Ahh, I remember now, good ol' Raymond Smullyan and his fantastic brainteasers.

Yes!! I'd forgotten who it was; I was half-remembering Martin Gardner puzzles and thought it might've been him. That section of the Kitsap Regional Library was one of my favorites growing up.

The rupture of the space time continuum may only be limited to their own galaxy.

Hmm... which one is that, BTW?

Probably the one that's got the Horsehead Nebula in it. :}

Statement on down is false
Statement on up is correct

Paradox, paradox, Paradox, paradox, Paradox, paradox....