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The title says it all, but Middy says even more in the strip itself! Oh, I want to thank 
alozec who proofread this comic page! ^.^
alozec who proofread this comic page! ^.^
Category All / Macro / Micro
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Size 1200 x 2921px
File Size 2.15 MB
Midnight Eclipse grew high. Her shadow cast over Ponyville like the dark coat of the undertaker. Countless ponies ran away in fear, scattering around like insects. "Unbelivable... I did not... think... it'd work.." she said with a lot of efford, the air getting sparse at that heigh. Just then, her face got pale and she fainted of lack of oxygen. Her massive eritrocites could not supply the brain with oxygen, and her massive body collapsed. Her bones broke inidiately, calcium-based sceleton being too fragile for her weight. The collosal body smashed a big part of the forest, making a small crater that will for ever be her resting place.
Funny stuff. Might also want to include the part where the military shoots them with enough ordinance to flatten a small country and it just bounces off.
Also, don't forget the utter disrespect macro/micro stories always pay the Square Cube Law: a ten-story tall pony would collapse under its own weight, and the lungs of a newly shrunken, two-inch tall one couldn't process oxygen molecules and would promptly asphyxiate. But nobody ever so much as brings that up :(
Also, don't forget the utter disrespect macro/micro stories always pay the Square Cube Law: a ten-story tall pony would collapse under its own weight, and the lungs of a newly shrunken, two-inch tall one couldn't process oxygen molecules and would promptly asphyxiate. But nobody ever so much as brings that up :(
Breaking the law of conservation of mass is the bigger point of disbelief for anything involving growth/shrinking ... suspending disbelief over the very bare basic laws of physics ... and chemistry kind of makes it easy to overlook other things.
Easier for me to imagine crazy explanation for mysteries though ... if you put together a really 'serious' detailed, overly specific explanation for stuff like that it's more likely to just make it harder to believe for anyone with a decent understanding of the technical aspects. (intentionally BS technobabble thrown in for laughs is another matter entirely ... that's hilarious and awesome and one of the most fun things to pull with unreliable/self-aware narrators) Not saying it can't be done, more that few people actually care to work out what might be practical/possible ... and fewer people find it fun to do, and even fewer people actually get a kick out of reading subtly dropped hints or inside jokes related to super geeky physics/chemisty/engineering stuff. (come to think of it, Neovid and Sofia.exe probably would XD ... and Arbon, but that's a given)
Things shrouded in mystery tend to hold up much better than 'plausible explanations' that are anything but. (the more fantastic and difficult to something is to prove FALSE, the easier to suspend disbelief ... so mundane, very near reality things are what tend to be much easier to break immersion IMO ... that and characters behaving weirdly/stupidly/obliviously/inconsistently for no apparent reason) Like ghost stories ... treat them realistically and they're mysterious and unexplained but not necessarily impossible or explainable with existing rational knowledge ... same for 'magic.' (the mysterious unknown is awesome ... and exploring stuff like that's what real science is all about)
Easier for me to imagine crazy explanation for mysteries though ... if you put together a really 'serious' detailed, overly specific explanation for stuff like that it's more likely to just make it harder to believe for anyone with a decent understanding of the technical aspects. (intentionally BS technobabble thrown in for laughs is another matter entirely ... that's hilarious and awesome and one of the most fun things to pull with unreliable/self-aware narrators) Not saying it can't be done, more that few people actually care to work out what might be practical/possible ... and fewer people find it fun to do, and even fewer people actually get a kick out of reading subtly dropped hints or inside jokes related to super geeky physics/chemisty/engineering stuff. (come to think of it, Neovid and Sofia.exe probably would XD ... and Arbon, but that's a given)
Things shrouded in mystery tend to hold up much better than 'plausible explanations' that are anything but. (the more fantastic and difficult to something is to prove FALSE, the easier to suspend disbelief ... so mundane, very near reality things are what tend to be much easier to break immersion IMO ... that and characters behaving weirdly/stupidly/obliviously/inconsistently for no apparent reason) Like ghost stories ... treat them realistically and they're mysterious and unexplained but not necessarily impossible or explainable with existing rational knowledge ... same for 'magic.' (the mysterious unknown is awesome ... and exploring stuff like that's what real science is all about)
Yeah, the godmodding "Can't hurt me" is a big pet peeve of mine, making a character "invincible" (Notice how if they pull the invincible, cliche, these almost always happen in violent/rampage stories?) honestly feels like a cop-out to not have to try to write around the fact that the giant walking target the size of a skyscraper would be blown to bits in a modern or futuristic technology setting. It just feels like a way to just write the rampage story they want without having to worry about anything being able to stop the rampage.
Though for the whole physically impossible thing, considering there is pretty much no way around that, I would assume that is just one of those acceptable breaks of reality for the sake of writing an entertaining story. (After all, even if you got around those two, there are a million other issues that also for the most part are overlooked for the sake of the story). After all, any story that has magic in it would also fall under this category even if that is the only thing different from reality about the setting.
Though for the whole physically impossible thing, considering there is pretty much no way around that, I would assume that is just one of those acceptable breaks of reality for the sake of writing an entertaining story. (After all, even if you got around those two, there are a million other issues that also for the most part are overlooked for the sake of the story). After all, any story that has magic in it would also fall under this category even if that is the only thing different from reality about the setting.
I don't think it's because they don't want anything to stop the rampage (though that could be a factor as well) I think it's because of the display of power as in: the giants are so powerful that not even the strongest weapons on earth can lay a finger on them. some most macrophiles seem to have a fetish for that, for them it means that their favorite character has total domination over them and/or the entire planet. =3
Sure I can see why it would bother people who have their minds set into a more real and logical environment but still, stuff like this is simply a power fantasy (like most fetishes out there) even if it's unlogical. For macrophiles bringing logic into their fantasies would be the same thing if your boyfriend/girlfriend suddenly said: "Why should we do it? Sex is only a testosterone ritual imposed by the brain so why even bother lowering ourselves to such a primal need that only makes us slaves of our own body?" or in other words: it would take the fun out of everything. =P
Sure I can see why it would bother people who have their minds set into a more real and logical environment but still, stuff like this is simply a power fantasy (like most fetishes out there) even if it's unlogical. For macrophiles bringing logic into their fantasies would be the same thing if your boyfriend/girlfriend suddenly said: "Why should we do it? Sex is only a testosterone ritual imposed by the brain so why even bother lowering ourselves to such a primal need that only makes us slaves of our own body?" or in other words: it would take the fun out of everything. =P
Wow, this is practically a guide on how to write some of the ultra-cliche stories I have seen, especially with how many have done all of the above in a single short story. Hard to tell which one is the most annoying to see, though personally I think it's #2, which is why I tend to prefer stories that use one's or other's own characters rather than someone from an established series/game/book/whatever. I mean, why even bother to write a story about another character if they will act nothing like themselves to and just be reduced to a Mary Sue based on the theme of the story.... which you kinda covered in #5 really. Hmm, perhaps it's better to say that the combination of #2 and #5 are pretty much the most annoying for me to see.
Hey, wouldn't MLP hooves be soft and flexible? Which still wouldn't help much if there was one massing hundreds of tons on you... Much as I love macro, the amount of effort it takes to hammer any logic into it makes me wish for the simplicity of cartoon physics.
Snerk. Did this flowchart help inspire this at all?
Snerk. Did this flowchart help inspire this at all?
It's transparent for me because I'm into it, but what's stunning is that it is surprisingly equal for everyone: I wouldn't have been able to draw this comic if we didn't all like the same things (more or less), and this is always something shocking when I think of it!
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