MLP Liveblog Chat Thingy: "Trade Ya"

How to participate in the liveblog chat:

Option 1: Whenever you watch the episode, comment on this post as you watch with whatever responses you feel like posting!

Option 2: Go to http://webchat.freenode.net/. Enter a nickname, then for the Channels field enter ##rabbitcube, and finally fill in the Captcha and hit Connect! We'll be watching the episode and commenting there starting at 3:00 p.m. EST. And I'm actually going to be here for this one! (Assuming everything works from the Library of Congress, which initial testing suggests will work.) Afterwards, I will update this post with the chatlog.

Chatlog below the cut!

[15:00] <@Sylocat> More continuity!

[15:00] <Froborr> Don't recognize that town?

[15:00] <Froborr> Oh, Rainbow Falls, right.

[15:00] <@Sylocat> She's excited about going to a trading-post celebration... oh.

[15:00] <@Sylocat> Applejack sarcastic?

[15:01] <Froborr> That's technically not sarcasm, it's ironic understatement.

[15:01] <Froborr> Which unlike sarcasm, is literally true.

[15:01] <@Sylocat> whoa

[15:01] <Froborr> It's a giant swapmeet?

[15:01] <@Sylocat> Ah, so "deadpan snarking" instead

[15:01] <@Sylocat> Wait, what IS this place?

[15:01] <Froborr> Yep.

[15:02] <Froborr> It's a giant swapmeet.

[15:02] <@Sylocat> Wow

[15:02] <@Sylocat> This says quite a bit about Equestria's economy

[15:02] <Froborr> ...so Equestra-nauts was prophetic?

[15:02] <@Sylocat> Oh, she's gonna sign autographs

[15:02] <@Sylocat> Wait, why doesn't Rainbow Dash just ask Daring Do for an advance copy?

[15:03] <Froborr> Really? The AUTHOR doesn't have a complete set of first editions?

[15:03] <@Sylocat> The background ponies in this episode are... eclectic

[15:03] <Froborr> Yes, yes they are.

[15:03] <Froborr> Ah, I see where the disaster is coming.

[15:03] <@Sylocat> Capitalism is magic? Or wait, since it's done without money involved...

[15:04] <Froborr> Is... is Applejack deliberately swindling Rarity?

[15:04] <Froborr> Her facial expressions in that scene were... odd.

[15:04] <@Sylocat> Is this going to be the anti-capitalist episode? I thought they did that with SSCS6K

[15:04] <@Sylocat> Ahahahah

[15:05] <Froborr> And Secret of My Excess and Just for Sidekicks.

[15:05] <@Sylocat> Ah, an adventure-game fetch-quest!

[15:05] <Froborr> Oh gods it's one of those awful Zelda trading sequences.

[15:05] <Froborr> Although the Deep Space Nine episode about one was actually pretty good.

[15:06] <@Sylocat> Lesson Zero expressed through consumerism

[15:06] <Froborr> Things I did not expect to learn when I started this project: The best approach to Spike episodes is Marxist criticism.

[15:06] <@Sylocat> Older? Doesn't that mean it's out of fashion?

[15:06] <Froborr> *facepalm*

[15:06] <Froborr> No, she said vintage is in.

[15:06] <@Sylocat> Shell game

[15:06] <@Sylocat> Ah, forgot

[15:06] <Froborr> Shell game, the vintage one is in Applejack's hat.

[15:07] <Froborr> Rarity just accidentally stole a vintage broach.

[15:07] <@Sylocat> Dang, this one is intense

[15:07] <@Sylocat> Fluttershy to the rescue

[15:07] <Froborr> Fluttershy = the best pony (always and of course excepting Maud)

[15:07] <@Sylocat> Only two heads? That's a step down from when they dealt with Cerberus

[15:08] <Froborr> Cerberus was also a LOT bigger.

[15:08] <@Sylocat> Ah, Rainbow Dash is trying the old adventure-game trick of using one item on everypony until she finds the one who wants it

[15:08] <Froborr> lol ,it's the lamps Discord made!

[15:08] <Froborr> Antique... chicken..?

[15:09] <@Sylocat> I swear, they're playing a video game

[15:09] <Froborr> Definitely.

[15:09] <@Sylocat> AHAHAH

[15:09] <@Sylocat> Found the first link of the chain

[15:09] <@Sylocat> Uh oh

[15:09] <@Sylocat> Accidentally trashed the key item

[15:09] <Froborr> Meanwhile, the mare's all "BWAHAHAHA, the horseshoe is mine! Now the ritual can be completed!"

[15:09] <@Sylocat> She'll have to reload from her save

[15:10] <@Sylocat> Yikes, Pinkie is scary today

[15:10] <Froborr> Pinkie Pie is a rules stickler now.

[15:10] <Froborr> The best part of being Chaotic is that you can be Lawful whenever you feel like it.

[15:10] <Froborr> Barker Pinkie!

[15:10] <@Sylocat> Wait, she's cosplaying as the Flim Flam Brothers?

[15:11] <Froborr> LOL, he just wanted to break it!

[15:11] <@Sylocat> Ahahah... it was SUPPOSED to be broken

[15:11] <@Sylocat> Everyone who's ever played an adventure game can relate to this one

[15:12] <@Sylocat> Ah, I was wondering what AJ and Rarity were up to

[15:12] <Froborr> This is actually a pretty complicated episode for this show.

[15:12] <@Sylocat> Oh no, it's the "I'm sorrier" game

[15:12] <Froborr> I don't think we've ever had a "C" plot before.

[15:12] <@Sylocat> Except The Best Night Ever

[15:12] <Froborr> Oh yeah, good point.

[15:13] <Froborr> Crystal Pony!

[15:13] <@Sylocat> Ah, she was going to dump them for a broken quill just to prove she wasn't better than anypony else

[15:13] <Froborr> Hey, is that a disabled pony?

[15:14] <Froborr> That's a pony wheelchair, right?

[15:14] <@Sylocat> Yep, a classic video game obstacle

[15:14] <@Sylocat> Complete with mini-game

[15:14] <Froborr> Cooking minigame, a classic!

[15:14] <Froborr> Spike trading comics in background.

[15:15] <@Sylocat> Yikes, that's a lot of slobber

[15:15] <@Sylocat> Ooh, a timed event at the end, of course

[15:15] <Froborr> And now a Frogger-style minigame.

[15:15] <Froborr> Or Quicktime event, point.

[15:15] <@Sylocat> Uh oh

[15:15] <Froborr> Chekhov's bearcall!

[15:16] <@Sylocat> That bear call is important

[15:16] <@Sylocat> She sold it already?

[15:16] <@Sylocat> AHAHAHAH... the mission requirements changed? That's low even for a video game

[15:16] <Froborr> She wants a bearcall.

[15:16] <Froborr> Tht's my guess.

[15:17] <@Sylocat> Oh... so it worked after all?

[15:17] <@Sylocat> I too was expecting the bear call... OH MY GOSH

[15:17] <Froborr> Old pony from Heart's and Hooves Day in background a couple of shots ago.

[15:17] <@Sylocat> She's selling herself into domestic servitude?

[15:18] <Froborr> No, Rainbow Dash is selling her into domestic servitude.

[15:18] <Froborr> Oh, they'll trade Fluttershy for the books.

[15:18] <@Sylocat> And she realizes her mistake just a nanosecond too late

[15:19] <Froborr> Wow, lots of callbacks.

[15:19] <@Sylocat> Ah, so THAT'S the (first) message

[15:20] <Froborr> D'aww.

[15:20] <Froborr> I like the rainbow gavel.

[15:20] <@Sylocat> And now Fluttershy keeps the Orthros

[15:21] <@Sylocat> And now Rainbow Dash lectures THEM about friendship?

[15:21] <Froborr> Awww.

[15:21] <Froborr> That was a good one!

[15:21] <@Sylocat> That was a good one!

[15:21] <Froborr> Lol, great minds.

[15:21] <@Sylocat> ...Great minds think alike

[15:21] <Froborr> ...Ruth Bader Ginsburg!

[15:22] <@Sylocat> Okay, that's just scary

[15:22] <Froborr> Damn, couldn't keep it up.

[15:22] <Froborr> Anyway, yep. Good ep.