Talk:Earth ponies/@comment-99.182.205.108-20121021024234

earth ponies are problem-solvers. Pegasi often create new problems, and unicorns just make them worse. An earth pony's way of doing things may not be as flamboyant or powerful as a unicorn, but the earth pony's way is probably significantly more efficient. It's like the difference between shooting a sleeping deer with a gun that has a 75% chance of jamming, and just walking up to the oblivious thing and caving in its skull with a single strike from an 120lb sledgehammer. The latter takes more effort, but it works every single time without failure.

If you are building a castle, would you use steady, stable, well-chiseled stone blocks, or would you use cleverly-placed thin stone bars that use as little of your resources as possible (allowing for a bigger, roomier, prettier, "better" castle), but have a chance of collapsing and taking your entire castle down with them?

I thought so.

Earth ponies FTW.