Twilight Sparkle: Let's think about this, then... What are our problems, and what tools do we have? There's the cotton candy clouds, the popcorn, the apples, the horse-rabbits…
Fluttershy: Nooooo…
Twilight Sparkle: Maybe, just maybe, we can take care of them all in one fell swoop!
DM: See? See what I mean?
Twilight Sparkle: The first and biggest step is clearing up the chocolate rain. The pink clouds are sticky and erratic, right? Could Rainbow Dash at least corral all the clouds into one clump?
Rainbow Dash: ...CAN I do that?
DM: With a high Athletics roll.
Rainbow Dash: Heh, you mean that one thing I always do?
DM: No, I don't mean saying "Hey, wait!" or "Hold on!" every quarter-hour.
Rainbow Dash: H– … …h-hey!
At the risk of explaining the joke, this is a bit of an inside joke. I've noticed over the course of the comic that Rainbow Dash has ended up holding the conflict ball whenever I need a character to interrupt the DM, put a halt to things, and bring up a problem to discuss. It occasionally falls to other characters, but Rainbow Dash is kind of the go-to.
Though, since I'm the only one who works on this comic and has that internal knowledge, I guess the inside joke is... just for me. I wrote a joke just for me.
Bah, sometimes you gotta amuse yourself.
Happy April Fool's Day tomorrow! Don't worry about any shenanigans from me.
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Maybe for you. I never got far in OOT (3D Zelda is just not my thing, I've learned) but the short bit I did play was a neverending stream of wanting to kill that blasted fairy.
Minecraft's April Fools joke is to make the texture graphics so terribly poor in the game that I can't play more than a few minutes before m eyes burn.
It's kinda amusing, but it wears off quickly and now I have a day I can't play the game.
Oh, well that explains a lot. I started up minecraft today for the first time in ages and thought that I had somehow screwed up updating it when I saw the glitchy textures, and deleted everything and started reinstalling it right before I read this.
I kinda remember a similar joke at some time in WoW that made annoying buzzing sound, so I understand what you're saying. But in webcomic format the option of harmful jokes is limited.
I don't play 'vanilla' Minecraft, so I don't know if the modpack had different textures for the joke or if you're just exagerating.
The ones I saw didn't seem THAT bad - it was a mediocre-to-bad texture pack, but they were all reasonably colored and not too blurry. I mean, stone was pretty bad, as it looked like a bad clay texture, but the rest was fine, even grass.
Might have helped that I was in a 'skyworld', but still, I had a nice mix of textures around, I feel like I'd have seen it if there was anything eye-gouging.
...Weird, I've watched this episode a few times and I don't remember ever noticing the cool little umbrella/saddle combo thing. I mean I guess on some level I registered she had an umbrella but I just never thought about how it worked or thought Twi was holding it with her magic?
Though, since I'm the only one who works on this comic and has that internal knowledge, I guess the inside joke is... just for me. I wrote a joke just for me.
Bah, sometimes you gotta amuse yourself.
Happy April Fool's Day tomorrow! Don't worry about any shenanigans from me.