Technological progress is so sporadic because when something is seen as good enough, like steam trains or film reels, it's simply settled on as a near unchanging standard. Sure, some places may have more advanced stuff present, but that's because a local pony had enough ingenuity to make something better and share it with their friends. Whether it then spreads from that localized area comes down entirely to if ponies from elsewhere both happen to see/use it and like it enough to want to bring it to their friends as well instead of just seeing it as something special this particular place has to itself. On a similar note, I think the feel like the tech-based aesthetic that would have the best chance of catching on and really sticking in Equestria would be cassette futurism. I base this on nothing more than it somewhat fitting with the notion of finding something that works well then leaving it alone I stated prior and its 80s era connection coinciding with the era that my little pony as a franchise started.
>>3396
Like real life, facial expression will go a long way to helping make body language much clearer.
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>Think how many other small valley towns like Ponyville there must be that the mane characters would have no reason to know about or reference.
The tabletop gaming player in me sees this as a good thing because it leaves plenty of space in the setting for writers to carve out their own little spots. When deciding where one of my steel donuts came from I decided he hailed from a mountain village in the crystal mountain range about directly above where Manehattan is written on the map there.