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13 Post author: magfrump 13 May 2011 02:13AM

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Comment author: magfrump 14 May 2011 11:59:32PM 2 points [-]

I agree that this might cause difficulty in testing, however I suspect it could be done via, say, letting the cutie mark crusaders try to harvest all the apples in Applejack's orchard. Lots of things would be falling in presumably dangerous and unpredictable (and thus tail-twitch-inducing) ways.

Of course, what algorithms work to induce twitching is the first thing to be studied in any case.