The Island of Equestria Project - Thoughts?

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Post by numsOic » Sat Jul 07, 2012 9:54 am

please do not ever let this thread die

If this shit ever gets off the ground, here's my own quick mockup of a flag design:

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The design is a fimbriated tricolor with a ratio of 2:3. The band colors take after three of Celestia's hair shadow colors (blue, pink and green), while the separating stripes take the remaining color (indigo)'s corresponding stroke color for higher contrast (see Kefka's guide for exact specifications). The stripes are 5% of the total height wide each; all the bands are equidistant. Charged in the center is a dark green cannabis leaf, no exact color because it's literally a slightly darkened weed icon stolen off the Internet, its sprouting point the center of the lower separating stripe.

If that's too serious for you here's a redesign

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Re: The Island of Equestria Project - Thoughts?

Post by brakeless » Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:30 am

Screw islands, islands are lame. I have decided that what I really want to see is a pony seastead built by bronies4ronpaul.

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Re: The Island of Equestria Project - Thoughts?

Post by BartonFink (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:58 am

Kickstarter update: with 58 days left, they are now at $41

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Re: The Island of Equestria Project - Thoughts?

Post by CosmogenicLily (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:00 am

nuke ponygoon island

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Re: The Island of Equestria Project - Thoughts?

Post by Quanta (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:03 am

The Doctor wrote:Equestria Land: Where nothing can posibly go wrong!
I'm predicting a zombie apocalypse involving horses within a year. :twonk:
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Re: The Island of Equestria Project - Thoughts?

Post by Scuderia (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:11 am

Frosthawk wrote:

Eyes affixed on the horizon, waiting for that foretold glimmer of white in the vast expanse of blue. Though the days fall by the wayside, his resilience only strengthens. Any minute now, all hope will be realized.
Pfft! You think the princess will come if you just put down a landing pad?
What we need here is a more or less full size reconstruction of Canterlot castle so that the princess, flying by, will think "Oh there's my castle!" And land.
And it needs to be a realistic reconstruction of Canterlot. The herd of ponies you'll have living in it must be dressed to the nines.

What I'm saying is that the kick starter should have be at least a hundred million.

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Post by Blarghalt (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:19 am

Guys if we want to protect the independence of Ponygoonia, we're going to need an army too.

I nominate kefkafloyd for generalissimo.

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Post by ROBOT B9 » Sat Jul 07, 2012 11:35 am

Kefkafloyd is always right!

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Post by Daikatuna (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:19 pm

Blarghalt wrote:Guys if we want to protect the independence of Ponygoonia, we're going to need an army too.
An army of unicorns and pegasi (backed by aircraft and tanks, just in case).

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Re: The Island of Equestria Project - Thoughts?

Post by Gloomy Rube (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:24 pm

Weed smoke gives me a headache so I'm backing out of this incredibly serious and important project, sorry guys.
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Post by numsOic » Sat Jul 07, 2012 12:56 pm

BartonFink wrote:Kickstarter update: with 58 days left, they are now at $41
You know those freakishly accurate calculations you do? Do one for the approximate date the project would actually reach its funding goal.

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Post by Hyper!!! » Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:09 pm

Grilox wrote:Weed smoke gives me a headache so I'm backing out of this incredibly serious and important project, sorry guys.
What about heroin? Does that grow in a field? The Wikipedia article says nothing about headaches.

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Post by PonyAught » Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:14 pm

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Improvement, complete. :racis:

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Post by Daikatuna (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:40 pm

Hyper!!! wrote:What about heroin? Does that grow in a field?
Well yeah, it's made from a plant called the Opium Poppy. You can make all kinds of drugs from it, as well as tasty poppy seed rolls.

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Post by Ragnar (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:50 pm

Tailspin wrote:poppy seed rolls.
How's that work out with coconut? Do they mix well, is what I'm asking. Do they bake real good together and stuff. In a food-eating kind of way.
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Post by Mechanical Ape (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 1:59 pm

My great-granduncle toiled 16 hours a day in the heroin mines. :applejargh:

e: By week's end his lungs were full of the stuff. Never heard a word of complaint from him, though.
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Re: The Island of Equestria Project - Thoughts?

Post by ROBOT B9 » Sat Jul 07, 2012 2:00 pm

Say, when we build this fine soverign land, will we eventually declare war on all other nations unless they accept the one true country of Ponygoonia?

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Post by PonyAught » Sat Jul 07, 2012 2:04 pm

Are we gonna' end up an imperialistic society?

All will join us, or suffer the consequences! :twonk:

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Post by Artificer (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 2:38 pm

Make like Nanoha and continue the grand tradition of making friends with gratuitous violence.

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Post by Luneshot » Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:12 pm

how are we going to get internet
this is a very important question

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Post by Daikatuna (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:19 pm

Ragnar wrote:How's that work out with coconut? Do they mix well, is what I'm asking. Do they bake real good together and stuff. In a food-eating kind of way.
Never tried it, the only ones I've ever eaten were the classical ones (roll with a poppy seed filling). :pinkieshrug:
Herr General wrote:how are we going to get internet
this is a very important question
Satellite uplink.

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Re: The Island of Equestria Project - Thoughts?

Post by numsOic » Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:34 pm

can we legally reform the orthography of ponygoonian english sos we dont have capital letters

or punctuation

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Re: The Island of Equestria Project - Thoughts?

Post by Artificer (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:46 pm

numsOic wrote:can we legally reform the orthography of ponygoonian english sos we dont have capital letters

or punctuation
no

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Post by Nightfire » Sat Jul 07, 2012 3:55 pm

We need a counter terrorism unit, a coast guard, a national defence,and nuclear missile silos.
Nobody will hoof with us if we have nuclear missiles.

We will start a cold war against the uh..um.. The Muppets?
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Post by PonyAught » Sat Jul 07, 2012 4:00 pm

numsOic wrote:can we legally reform the orthography of ponygoonian english sos we dont have capital letters

or punctuation
everyone should speak in limericks

everyone

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Post by numsOic » Sat Jul 07, 2012 4:01 pm

PonyAught wrote:everyone should speak in limericks

everyone
lead by example smart aleck

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Post by odmv7 » Sat Jul 07, 2012 4:05 pm

Our first law should be "No fun allowed."
PonyAught wrote:Image

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Now this is something I can get behind. :golfclop:

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Re: The Island of Equestria Project - Thoughts?

Post by Pocket (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 4:35 pm

Gravenstein wrote:http://www.privateislandsonline.com/Ilha-Caetano.htm $79,500, and it comes with 172 coconut trees :-I
Dang. That's less than you'd pay for a cheap old house in the sticks these days. I guess it makes more sense when you factor in typical property values in South America and the fact that you'd probably have to become a citizen of Brazil to move there. I guess your typical obscenely-rich-guy private island is somewhere that's technically US soil like the Virgin Islands, and the relative scarcity is why they're usually so expensive.
numsOic wrote:can we legally reform the orthography of ponygoonian english sos we dont have capital letters

or punctuation
Or whichever letters happen to fall off our shoddily-built statue first.
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Post by Luneshot » Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:08 pm

PonyAught wrote:Image

Improvement, complete. :racis:
We will invent a way to print .gifs onto fabric just so we can have this as our flag

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Post by Daikatuna (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:15 pm

I'm starting to wonder if our policy on weed is going to affect our ability to run the island.

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Post by reidransom » Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:39 pm

Tailspin wrote: Satellite uplink.
You and your modern satellite uplinks. We'll use packet radio and we'll like it! Sure it'll take two weeks to load something on youtube, but just think how happy you'll be to watch whatever it is once it's done. And in the meantime, weed.
odmv7 wrote:Our first law should be "No fun allowed."
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Post by PonyAught » Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:52 pm

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Never die, thread

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Re: The Island of Equestria Project - Thoughts?

Post by SlateSlabrock (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:53 pm

Pocket wrote: Dang. That's less than you'd pay for a cheap old house in the sticks these days. I guess it makes more sense when you factor in typical property values in South America and the fact that you'd probably have to become a citizen of Brazil to move there.
One should probably think carefully before making a move like that.

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Post by Crow » Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:55 pm

SlateSlabrock wrote: One should probably think carefully before making a move like that.
During the raid, McAfee and 11 of his employees were arrested and detained, his research lab was ransacked, his dog was killed, and his passport was taken.
his dog was killed
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Post by Headless Horse (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 7:56 pm

Tailspin wrote:I'm starting to wonder if our policy on weed is going to affect our ability to run the island.

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Post by Princess Flufflebutt (?) » Sat Jul 07, 2012 8:52 pm

his dog was killed
The cruel bastards! :applejargh:
Also, if we're going with weed production I say we also have opium farms. It's a part of my retirement plan. When I hit 90 I was going to smoke opium till I'd die.
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Post by Durandal (?) » Sun Jul 08, 2012 2:15 am

his dog was killed
Willsun isn't going to like this

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Re: The Island of Equestria Project - Thoughts?

Post by Momo (?) » Sun Jul 08, 2012 2:20 am

ComradeCosmobot wrote:nuke ponygoon island

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Post by Hyper!!! » Sun Jul 08, 2012 2:27 am

I've been doing more drug research.

Weed gives people headaches and smells like raccoon shit, but no one seems to be opposed to Opium. The only major side effect seems to be constipation, which we can use to our advantage to save on plumbing.

Wikipedia is also very skilled in the opium trade, providing us with all sort of good information.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/e ... utemap.gif
Wholesale price $3,000 per kilogram
Retail price $16,000 per kilogram

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Re: The Island of Equestria Project - Thoughts?

Post by ROBOT B9 » Sun Jul 08, 2012 6:54 am

So we're going to be like some Middle Eastern countries and support ourselves on drug money? I'm down with that.

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