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Explain to me this pony thing

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Village said:
NOPE. Easy to learn hard to master,
or shall introduce you to mr EV and IV.

And I would say he is missing something I happen to enjoy pokemons
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You sir need to start learning to judge books by their covers.

If you're knowledgeable about the thing you're insulting you're doing it wrong.
 
Toparaman said:
You started this thread with good intentions, that is, trying to understand your teammate. I'm pretty sure you're nowhere closer to gaining that understanding. Thanks Internet! Now, how can we inject Obama into this discussion?

What I've learned: don't try to have a serious debate on the internet. It's like having an in-person debate where the participants leave every few minutes, and new participants join in the middle of the debate.

Now, let's all hold hands and sing Howard Stern's version of the My Little Pony theme:
My little boner, my little boner, gets real hard when Robin speaks...
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You seem to enjoy lumping everyone together under one banner in your posts. It's a little insulting throwing around "you guys" and "the Internet" like everyone thinks the same.

I give two shits what people jerk off to in the privacy of their own homes. Doesn't make it any less odd to me.
 
Einbroch said:
You seem to enjoy lumping everyone together under one banner in your posts. It's a little insulting throwing around "you guys" and "the Internet" like everyone thinks the same.

I give two shits what people jerk off to in the privacy of their own homes. Doesn't make it any less odd to me.
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Your avatar is really cute.
 
Einbroch said:
You seem to enjoy lumping everyone together under one banner in your posts. It's a little insulting
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A fucking LOT of people seem to like to do that in this thread..

There are probably literally 10 people in the entire fandom who are similar to what the OP describes, people in here are acting like it would be everyone who ever wore a pony shirt ever.
 
Toparaman said:
Guys, guys, guys. You're taking the pony porn "clopper" stuff way too seriously. That shit was started by /b/. It's their sense of humor: take something wholesome and make porn out of it. I can't believe I have to explain this stuff on a gaming forum.

I mean, if that's the basis of your argument that bronies are sick pedos, you've been trolled. Go make friends with the gaffers that thought Joakim Mogren was CG.

Don't give me the Howard Stern video as evidence either. The Howard Stern Show is all about entertainment. It's not where you go for accurate depictions. And I'm saying this as a casual (once diehard) fan of Stern.
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You sound like Fox News.

"Everyone else is lying to you!"

Devolution said:
This is a weird tangent. The issue for some of us hasn't been the watching of the show it's been the lack of self-awareness with people who wrap their identity up in the show.
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Methinks a few people in this thread fall into the category we're referring to and are upset with us.
 
Just saw an episode in the hopes of helping explain the appeal to you, OP. (Episode 16, where Rainbow Dash enters a flying competition.) I still have no idea. I didn't think the story was anything special--pretty generic, really. And for all the talk about the animation it looks like it came from Newgrounds. Seems like a nice show for little girls but I didn't get much out of it. I could just be missing the deep meaning hidden beneath the surface (like Pokemon)
 
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Tempted to post dat Trixie butt picture...but that's probably too nsfw
 
Dear Boyfriend,

We've been going out for over 10 years now and I love you dearly. I've never wanted to be the type of girlfriend that restricts you and tells you what you can and cannot like. What you do on your time is your business. But we are slowly going down a road where I might have to put my foot down.

Stop it with the My Little Pony shit. It's not a particularly clever or funny show and frankly, it is extremely annoying to watch. So, the fact that you are spending all your money and creative efforts towards it continues to astound me.

I can deal with the fanart and fanfiction.
I can deal with the brony t-shirts.
I can deal with the shitty pony re-mix music in your car.
I can deal with the fact that you've spent hundreds of dollars on plush animals.
I can (barely) deal with the fact that you spent $10,000 on a documentary that got you 15 seconds of screen time, gave you a useless producer credit and you had a dinner with the creators who ignored you all night.

But now you want to cosplay as one. A female horse.
And you're telling me, "What's wrong with that? It's no different than a mascot or costumes in an animal-based stage production".

Fuck you and your stupid fucking pony show. Hopefully it will get cancelled soon and we never look back at this dark period of your life.

-Muggs
 
jaxword said:
Dear Boyfriend,

We've been going out for over 10 years now and I love you dearly. I've never wanted to be the type of girlfriend that restricts you and tells you what you can and cannot like. What you do on your time is your business. But we are slowly going down a road where I might have to put my foot down.

Stop it with the My Little Pony shit. It's not a particularly clever or funny show and frankly, it is extremely annoying to watch. So, the fact that you are spending all your money and creative efforts towards it continues to astound me.

I can deal with the fanart and fanfiction.
I can deal with the brony t-shirts.
I can deal with the shitty pony re-mix music in your car.
I can deal with the fact that you've spent hundreds of dollars on plush animals.
I can (barely) deal with the fact that you spent $10,000 on a documentary that got you 15 seconds of screen time, gave you a useless producer credit and you had a dinner with the creators who ignored you all night.

But now you want to cosplay as one. A female horse.
And you're telling me, "What's wrong with that? It's no different than a mascot or costumes in an animal-based stage production".

Fuck you and your stupid fucking pony show. Hopefully it will get cancelled soon and we never look back at this dark period of your life.

-Muggs
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woah....story?
 
Darkmakaimura said:
Probably compared to MLP, I would imagine. I honestly never played a Pokemon game but isn't it a bit stat heavy. I was thinking of the Pokemon games and not the animation, so my mistake as I failed to mention that.
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just wait until fighting is magic comes out then we'll see who has depth and who doesn't.
 
RawkHawk2010 said:
One thing I do seriously appreciate the Pony fandom for is their ability to make some crazy awesome "ponified" versions of popular characters. Granted a lot of them look awful, but other times...
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Yeah, indeed.

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Protoman, from the Mega Man Classic series

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Morrigan, from Darkstalkers

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Raphael, from Soul Calibur, in his SCV outfit (and echoing a piece of his official art, too!)
 
This is an... interesting thread.

The guy mentioned in the OP sounds genuinely terrifying. I'd be comfortable in saying that that particular guy is at the very end of the most extreme part of the fandom. He might literally be the last person you encounter before you fall off the chart into oblivion.

RawkHawk2010 said:
One thing I do seriously appreciate the Pony fandom for is their ability to make some crazy awesome "ponified" versions of popular characters. Granted a lot of them look awful, but other times...
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I thought this one was pretty well done:

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I went on YouTube and watched a random part of a random episode. IIRC it was some sort of "I'm sad because people are scared of me" scene. I won't be watching any more.

Then I checked the thread and saw MLP compared to other forms of media. Nope. It doesn't even compare to anime. I would have no problem with telling people I watch things like DB(Z), Fullmetal Alchemist, or Marvel animated stuff, but this? I think it's one of those situations that you can get enough of an idea of what it's about just from "It's a show about ponies".
 
SixFourMike said:
I went on YouTube and watched a random part of a random episode. IIRC it was some sort of "I'm sad because people are scared of me" scene. I won't be watching any more.
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It certainly isn't for everyone, but do you think you really gave it a fair go?

Then I checked the thread and saw MLP compared to other forms of media. Nope. It doesn't even compare to anime. I would have no problem with telling people I watch things like DB(Z), Fullmetal Alchemist, or Marvel animated stuff, but this? I think it's one of those situations that you can get enough of an idea of what it's about just from "It's a show about ponies".
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Is it though? I wrote this a while back on the subject:

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Here's the thing though; MLP isn't about ponies; it's about people.

Let's get one thing straight here; a pony is a horse. A horse is a large, not particularly bright animal whose claim to fame is being... transport. They munch hay. They wander around the place. The sometimes do tricks, if you train them.

It's only on a very, very superficial level that the characters of MLP are actually ponies. They kinda look like ponies, in that they're quadrapeds, and they have some of the basic features, like tails and manes. In almost every other respect however, they're people, like the robots in Transformers are people, or the lions in The Lion King are people. They live in houses, They have cities, with railroads and buildings and government. They have jobs, and they design clothes, and they make jam and pastries. They pick apples to sell, and they borrow books from the library. They particpate in races and obstacle courses and festivals, and they celebrate Halloween and Christmas and Valentines Day. They argue like people, and they work together like people, and they solve problems like people. They come to the aid of their friends like people and they celebrate and party like people.

MLP is about people. It might be hidden under the charming candy-coloured veneer of cute character design and funny pun names, but it's a fact. The interesting thing is that the "pony" trappings are at the same time one of the things that makes the show so endearing, and also one of the things that makes it so divisive. A male, or even an adult liking a show about *people* isn't nearly as scandalous as if it were a show about *ponies*. People are people, but only girls like ponies... right?
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PaulloDEC said:
Is it though? I wrote this a while back on the subject:

Here's the thing though; MLP isn't about ponies; it's about people.

Let's get one thing straight here; a pony is a horse. A horse is a large, not particularly bright animal whose claim to fame is being... transport. They munch hay. They wander around the place. The sometimes do tricks, if you train them.

It's only on a very, very superficial level that the characters of MLP are actually ponies. They kinda look like ponies, in that they're quadrapeds, and they have some of the basic features, like tails and manes. In almost every other respect however, they're people, like the robots in Transformers are people, or the lions in The Lion King are people. They live in houses, They have cities, with railroads and buildings and government. They have jobs, and they design clothes, and they make jam and pastries. They pick apples to sell, and they borrow books from the library. They particpate in races and obstacle courses and festivals, and they celebrate Halloween and Christmas and Valentines Day. They argue like people, and they work together like people, and they solve problems like people. They come to the aid of their friends like people and they celebrate and party like people.

MLP is about people. It might be hidden under the charming candy-coloured veneer of cute character design and funny pun names, but it's a fact. The interesting thing is that the "pony" trappings are at the same time one of the things that makes the show so endearing, and also one of the things that makes it so divisive. A male, or even an adult liking a show about *people* isn't nearly as scandalous as if it were a show about *ponies*. People are people, but only girls like ponies... right?
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That's a lot of words for "it's anthropomorphism."

None of this is unique to MLP, and it's also approximately zilch to do with what puts people off of hardcore fans. Of course MLP is "about people," the same way that any story with characters that speak a human language is. Do you think The Brave Little Toaster is literally about appliances? Of course not.
 
XANDER CAGE said:
That's a lot of words for "it's anthropomorphism."

None of this is unique to MLP, and it's also approximately zilch to do with what puts people off of hardcore fans. Of course MLP is "about people," the same way that any story with characters that speak a human language is. Do you think The Brave Little Toaster is literally about appliances? Of course not.
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Sure, I agree with all of that. I never claimed to have written something profound, I just find it interesting that something so superficial can colour peoples opinions so absolutely. (As a side-note, most of MLP could be rewritten to be about humans with little more than the Find/Replace command, which is more than could be said about The Brave Little Toaster, The Lion King or Transformers.)

I can see why people find hardcore fans annoying. I can see why people find hardcore anything annoying. I'm a fan of a shit-ton of things (including MLP), but I'm also acutely aware of how annoying fanaticism can be, so I'm sure to keep things on the down-low in social situations. Easy.
 
So I was over at this guy's apartment tonight because I'm pretty good friends with his roommate. We were doing some programming and he was in a Skype call with his pony club. They're staffing the local pony convention for the Seattle area and the conversation they were having seemed normal for a bunch of 13 year olds if you replaced every other word with pony. I heard them morph other words to have "pony" in them.

I left with a headache.
 
Look man, I don't really care if you enjoy the show or buy merch or whatever...

but if you go out of your way to demonstrate to everyone that you get all hot and bothered when you look at an anthropomorphized cartoon horse and enjoy fucking a pony plushie I'm gonna think less of you. I'm sorry if that makes me a bad person.
 
GrizzNKev said:
So I was over at this guy's apartment tonight because I'm pretty good friends with his roommate. We were doing some programming and he was in a Skype call with his pony club. They're staffing the local pony convention for the Seattle area and the conversation they were having seemed normal for a bunch of 13 year olds if you replaced every other word with pony. I heard them morph other words to have "pony" in them.

I left with a headache.
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Like "everypony" rather than "everyone"? Yeah, it's cute when they do it on the show. Kinda weird in general conversation though.

I'd say at least they're not hurting anyone, but I'm not sure if your headache counts.
 
There was a glass on the table with a pony etched into it. The wallpaper on his laptop is ponies. On the couch, a Rainbow Dash plushie. Across the top of the fireplace, an arrangement of small pony figurines - some boxed, some not. Every inch of the walls in his room is covered by pony posters and fan art. Lastly, a pony plastered on the ceiling directly above his bed: the last thing he sees before sleeping, and the first thing he sees when waking up.

I know it sounds like I'm just trying to make fun of him, but.... fuck.
 
This thread:

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Carl Sagan.. Could even you have forseen this? Or the founding fathers? The ancient greeks? Or the young turks?



I don't believe human beings have ever been perfect. Maybe Humans won't ever be perfect until they merge with machines, becoming horsemen metal unicorns of doom.
 
I do try to be tolerant/inclusive of all kinds of people with...alternative lifestyles. But damn the character in the OP takes it way, way too far, if all that is true.
 
jaxword said:
Dear Boyfriend,

We've been going out for over 10 years now and I love you dearly. I've never wanted to be the type of girlfriend that restricts you and tells you what you can and cannot like. What you do on your time is your business. But we are slowly going down a road where I might have to put my foot down.

Stop it with the My Little Pony shit. It's not a particularly clever or funny show and frankly, it is extremely annoying to watch. So, the fact that you are spending all your money and creative efforts towards it continues to astound me.

I can deal with the fanart and fanfiction.
I can deal with the brony t-shirts.
I can deal with the shitty pony re-mix music in your car.
I can deal with the fact that you've spent hundreds of dollars on plush animals.
I can (barely) deal with the fact that you spent $10,000 on a documentary that got you 15 seconds of screen time, gave you a useless producer credit and you had a dinner with the creators who ignored you all night.

But now you want to cosplay as one. A female horse.
And you're telling me, "What's wrong with that? It's no different than a mascot or costumes in an animal-based stage production".

Fuck you and your stupid fucking pony show. Hopefully it will get cancelled soon and we never look back at this dark period of your life.

-Muggs
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A my little pony fan would never have a girlfriend so this story is wrong.
 
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