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Well going to bed. I'm working again next week I have to be up at 3:30am leave at 4 to be at work at 5 then work for 12 hours. Good night all, probably will not be on much. No more fighting or I swear to god I will turn this car around!! Post ponies or else dammit!

Sadness is a central component to the show. It's not as important as, say, friendship and happiness, but it is one of the main sources of conflict. So, I definitely think there will be more sadness in the show. Also, I think Pinkie has been singled out as one of the saddest ponies (sometimes) because it's so antithetical to her normal personality, and thus provides good storylines.

I look forward to more sadness in the show; I think they deal with it very well.

INB4 Dac rage: This is why I don't go to Wal-Mart.

Dac wrote:

Why am I labeled as a hot head?

Let's see here….

RANT MODE:
I am tired of the fucking degenerates hanging out at wall mart at night. Honestly, a bunch of Gang bangers and jackasses. I just went to wall mart to get some stuff and this dumb bitch had a cart in the middle of a the parking space I wanted to use, I asked her why she wouldn't move it and then she tolled me that she was going to remove the cart. I then politely tell her that she could move it and still report it, her and her fucking inbred dumbass family starts giving me shit so I just walk to the wall mart. When I get in, her stupid 16-17 year old brother wants to fight in the middle of the wall mart! So I start yelling "get the fuck out you Goddamn degenerate, I just want my Dexter, and you better not be waiting for me outside you bitch" and then security comes. I explain calmly that I find it unacceptable that people like them be allowed in here. They get kicked out and aren't allowed in there anymore. I actually practice submission grappling and muy thai, so the whole time I was contemplating just teaching this loud mouth a lesson, but I took the higher road( also the one that doesn't get me in legal trouble for beating up a minor) whole time I was thinking…
Seriously though, Why should people like them be allowed to breed? Honestly, why.
RANT OVER

@ Verbose
Why am I labeled as a hot head? Id say I'm usually quite calm. Ive argued a couple times, but thats it. I usually just joke around here

4 ninjas

@phoneix

Excellent because I think we've got a discussion topic right here:

*The fandom is beginning to focus more on each other than the show.

The above quote made me think about the life cycle of a star.

We have stopped burning hydrogen and now we are burning helium. Feeding off ourselves to keep burning?

Is our fandom already at that point where its just about us now as a community? Or is this specific to our community on KYM here only? Either way does this mark the autumn years of our fandom?

Where are we at in the life cycle of the fandom and what could we be in store for in the future?

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ninjacount = 5: but I cheated. I started writing, then halfway through this I stopped to post something else on another thread, then came back to this

@Dac

I think your above rant is exactly why you are labeled as a hot head but I'm guessing you wrote that ironically.

I think it was something you did back in the 2nd Pony General that earned you that impression but I do not remember what it was

@Verbose

More sad episodes are on the way for certain, they work so well in the show. You will most likely get diabetus, sorry.

@dac

Comparatively. opspe, BSoD, phoneix, Algernon and other discuss and debate things on occasion, but I would rarely take offense to how they go about it. If I was at the end of one of Citation's more angry posts, I'd probably feel like a goofy duck with no bill.

Speaking of the goofy billless duck make-feeler…yeah, I usually make fun of Dash to get your goat. But I sincerely like that image. kp-shadowsquirrel has a different approach to FiM ponies' expressions and bodies, but I like most of them.

<img src="http://img.ponibooru.org/images/25f42689363d61c1db5a9d02acf0014d/106498%20-%20artist%3AKarol_Pawlinski%20artist%3AKP-ShadowSquirrel%20Chancellor_Puddinghead%20Clover_the_Clever%20commander_hurricane%20fluttershy%20pinkie_pie%20Princess_Platinum%20private_pansy%20rainbow_dash%20rarity%20twilightsparkle.jpg" height="300" / >

<img src="http://img.ponibooru.org/images/3ca28cc8c8603d20ecb04d771daa9ca0/84061%20-%20artist%3AKP-ShadowSquirrel%20fear%20rarity%20SweetieBelle.jpg" height="400" / >

<img src="http://img.ponibooru.org/images/0434d0d0ba55ef6e058c75b44dd07ec4/72204%20-%20artist%3AKP-ShadowSquirrel%20doll%20Smarty_pants%20twilightsparkle.jpg" height="300" / >

<img src="http://img.ponibooru.org/images/cec97ff868f4ed46d2b4305b283b851b/63488%20-%20artist%3AKP-ShadowSquirrel%20twilightsparkle.jpg" height="300" / >

Well, the ones that don't involve shipping. Those are kinda weird.

@BSoD

NERRRRRRRRRRRD.

Just kidding. I really like that analogy. I feel like we are feeding off of ourselves a bit, but not to its imminent end. And not in the group sense, but in an individual sense. I feel like I could get along with a lot of you individually and not just as a group. Ponies would have little to do with it.

And CitationNeeded doesn't seem to feel like we're dying. I wouldn't say we're dying either, but I feel like the fandom has changed its emphasis from PONY to PONY/Bronies to PONY/friends.

Daniel also said that what occurs on KYM isn't necessarily indicative of what goes on elsewhere, and I acknowledge that point. I don't post on any other forum nor do lurk in many other places, Pony or non-Pony. But I do feel like we've changed. Not for better or worse. Just changing a bit. I don't think many people that have been here for a while are considering leaving KYM or not posting on Pony General anymore.

I'll admit that I did put that there ironically, but honestly, I don't like confrontation. I just call people out and won't back down.

But come to think , I never really started anything on this thread before. I have been really calm lately too. I think its time to not always mention me as the angriest one. So what do you say…

Blue Screen (of death) wrote:

The above quote made me think about the life cycle of a star.
We have stopped burning hydrogen and now we are burning helium. Feeding off ourselves to keep burning?
Is our fandom already at that point where its just about us now as a community? Or is this specific to our community on KYM here only? Either way does this mark the autumn years of our fandom?
Where are we at in the life cycle of the fandom and what could we be in store for in the future?

Well, now I'm kinda depressed. Thanks, jerk.

Oh, don't be like that, Cite.

Can I call you Cite?
 
Anywho, we likely have seen just as many episodes as we will see more new episodes. At least that many. And that's a lot of episodes. And the thread probably isn't going to die just because the show ends.

And I still intend on sticking around KYM regardless of what happens to this thread.

@dac

Fine. Clean slate. But like I told Aerostat, I'm not much of a hugger. If Imma hugging, then it's because I want to annoy someone.

I show affection by posting pictures of Octavia.

@Verbose
No hugs?

@Dac

Well I don't regard you as an angry poster now. That was in the past. Citation is our new angry poster

He even called me jerk to top it off.

@Cite

Now I didn't mean to be negative or gloomy in that post. Only looking for people's perception of where we are in the life cycle of the fandom, at least for this particular forum anyway

Fandoms do have life cycles. They come and go and come again.

Verbose's response was pretty much the answer I was looking for.

@Verbose

That's pretty much what I was thinking, I guess I was just waiting for someone else to say it too.

You don't need to cross out the 'NERD' though. I have come to accept my nerdiness as a part of who I am

@BSOD
Everyone has forgiven me!!!!
Sweet Jesus

all over bill murray

@dac

Hush and enjoy the Pinkie.

@ Verbose

SURPRISE!
Hey guys, just checkin' in.

It's funny Dac should post that Left 4 Dead poster because that's pretty much been my week. My custom map-makin' is coming along beautifully and I should be finished with the first level in a few days. If any o' yous guys got Left 4 Dead 2 on the PC you can try it out when I'm done. :D

Other then that I've been playing Dungeon Defenders till the wee hours in the morning and suffering massive HHHHHNNNNG attacks from Pumpkin Cake's "nom-nom" voice.

I don't really believe we're at the dying star stage or anything silly like that. We're just at some point where we aren't at the perfect storm anymore. Remember back in the old days where the late night debate club would happen? How the fuck did I find enough free time to do that?

(In fact, after this post I'm going to bed!)

Verbose was gone for a while due to family business over the holidays, I have Uni summer term, Planes and Mercs, Liftoff and my work at a gaming website to contend with, not to mention that huge ass fic post a while back really sucked out my tl;dr. (IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ME BEING ADDICTED TO WORLD OF TANKS! NOTHING AT ALL!)

And well….tempers have been flaring for a while here so I stood back and didn't post that much for while simply to let the flames die down a bit so I can go back to overanalysing a children's card game…I mean a children's television show.

Also, newfoals….newfoals everywhere!

…so I can go back to overanalysing a children’s card game

We can arrange for that too. Now how is it that Seto summoned multiple monsters in one turn? I thought that was against the rules?

But yes, I do remember the good ol' days of the late night debate club…what on earth happened to that?

Saw this in a recent commercial:

And this is all I could think of:

BSoD said:

But yes, I do remember the good ol’ days of the late night debate club…what on earth happened to that?

Motherbucking school happened to it.

I was able to stay at summertime pony levels during first term, but then I got a ass load of stuff to do for second. (That didn't mean I did less, I just stayed up later.)

I'm sure the fandom will 'restart' in some respects as the school year ends and summer vacation starts. Then there will be newfags everywhere.

Even if we are a star fusing (not burning!) helium. We still have several elements to go until we hit iron and explode (twice). Then we help to create other stars and then everyone can have ponies.

Don't do this, Verbose. Please don't. You're going to make me cry. I love you guys and I appreciate the attention. Things are just slow for my blog. I'm not getting a lot of questions or followers. I just want things to pick up. Please don't make me cry.

Last time I tried to play god, Conor, I ended up getting lectured by the ailens who run this universe. Turns out, they don't like it when people muscle in on their business. As for Verbs, yyou are real. I just can't believe that I'm the only one out there who likes ponies. We are bound by something more than ponies. We are drawn to each other by what divides us. With that, we have formed a close knitted group of allies and comrades. I can only hope it lasts.

Thanks Connor. But yeah. Things are slow for me. Most of the updates that pop up on my dashboard are from ponyconfessions. ANONYMOUS!!!

On an unrelated note…

The muffins will last forever!

Up early to work on my fic if anyone wants to see it being made or read the parts I've already done.

Oh right, you guys still have school to go to.

You would be surprised how easy that is to forget when you leave it. You are correct though, this entire forum will pick up during semester breaks. Fortunately I believe we have enough users here (myself included) who don't have academic obligations to worry about and can keep things moving in the meantime.

The debates also heavily depend on new episodes giving us more questions to ask. But nobody has been asking any difficult questions lately in regards to recent episodes.

EG: Didn't anyone bat an eyelash at the fact that Pound Cake achieved flight only a month from birth when canonically ponies can't fly until they finish flight school. Honestly, nobody wanted to debate that? I thought that screwed up everyone's headcanons?

Oh well, I'm going to bed.

PS: I know about nuclear fusion, we say that stars burn their elements as a metaphor. But you know what I meant.

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Hey that image of nightmare derpy is pretty awe- HOLY SHIT LIGHTNING!

We know. You've been throwing everything at it. Cakes, hammers, more cake. We'll be waiting with hugs once you get through.

@BSoD: Just when you didn't expect it.

1. Get Derpy to hate something.
2. Have her threaten something.
3. Have Celestia send her to the moon.
4. Wait a thousand years.
5. Have her come back.
6. ??
7.INFINITE MUFFINS!!!!!

Connor wrote:

Motherbucking school happened to it.

^This. Last week, I was fully capable of staying up until 4 or 5 in the morning in order to get involved with SynchTubes or other conversations. Now that lectures are starting up again, I need to get myself onto a regular sleeping schedule, and that means I should ideally be going to sleep at about 11:30 or 12:00. If you want me to get involved in debates from now on, you'll have to start them at about 5:00pm EST, or else I'll only be able to respond to things the following day.

I'll still be able to get involved on Saturdays though, so please arrange to do things then!

I’m sure the fandom will ‘restart’ in some respects as the school year ends and summer vacation starts. Then there will be newfags everywhere.

I really hope you're right, though I have a feeling that this summer might be disastrous for the fandom. A lot of long-time bronies already suffered through the summer drought last year, and may lose interest completely when it happens again this year. Since the fandom will be quite old by that point, it may not have the same novelty appeal that it had last summer, so I doubt we'll be seeing quite as many new members.

I myself may start losing interest around that point. Last summer I was able to read fanfics to keep myself interested, but I doubt I'll be able to do the same this time around. I hopefully won't be going anywhere though, since as Verbose pointed out, we've reached the point now where we communicate more like friends than bronies on this thread, and I'd hate to lose that.

/sap

And now for Algernon's non-daily question of the day!

If you had the power to change one thing in the fandom, what would it be, and why? Note that saying 'get rid of all of the R34 and Grimdark fags' counts as two things, and is extremely unimaginative.

Personally, I'd give EqD an overhaul. Right now it's just a very well organised blog, but I think it should be updated to become a central hub for all things brony. We should still keep the traditional blog style for the front page so that important new content can be featured, but it would be real nice to see some forums and a better way of searching for art, music and fanfics.

IT KEEPS HAPPENING

You guys better get the reference.

Algae said:

Last summer I was able to read fanfics to keep myself interested, but I doubt I’ll be able to do the same this time around.

Well, it definitely won't be for lack of fics.

If you had the power to change one thing in the fandom, what would it be, and why? Note that saying ‘get rid of all of the R34 and Grimdark fags’ counts as two things, and is extremely unimaginative.

I wouldn't change anything about the fandom as a whole. Each place (site or group) could use little improvements here and there, but nothing major.

One things that I think would be helpful would be a good PR campaign of some type. The only bad things about the fandom is misinformation, and it would be nice if we could show people what we are really about.

I've seen a few of these grown-up pics, but this is the best by far.

Lose interest in the fandom? Sounds like a challenge. To that I say: challenge accepted. I'll still be here by next fall. I would never abandon the ponies. Never.

I went through something similar over last summer. After I first got in to the show around the start of July, I was all starry-eyed, etc. But then it waned. Quickly. So by mid-August I could no longer consider myself a real fan, even if I did still like the show. I didn't get back into it until October, when two things happened. First, I was bored one day, so I played on a TF2 pony server for the fist time. Second, I joined this site after months of lurking, and got sucked into started posting here. And since I've come back, I haven't been as gaga as I was before, but I have a deeper understanding of the show and why I (and others) like it.

So to answer the previous question, I'm not scared of losing the fandom – in fact, I consider it inevitable. It's happened to me before and I survived, and I'm sure all of you will too.

Oh the horror! The horror! Actually, I know somepony who's better at this:

There we go. How dare you suggest such a thing? That is worse than reading SAM. Kidding.

So…..Seeing as it looks like no one is on (hopefully) I'm just going to drop off a question, does Octavia play a cello or a double bass? And don't say "Well x said it was a (input instrument here) so, I'm just going to say x is right." Use some evidence!

I think Thiessen said it was a cello. I recall him stating it in an interview a while back.

Anyway, this:

This is how you do shipping: with style and class.

@fridge logic: I said NOT to say something around the lines of “Well x said it was a (input instrument here) so, I’m just going to say x is right.” Sorry for being rude, I just want some evidence.

Hugging. Cuddling. No sexual intercoarse. This I can get used to. Dammit, iambrony.com. Why must you be offline?

The guy said it was a cello.
Also, the tuning keys are made of wood. Tuning keys on a bass are made of metal and perpendicular to conventional keys.

@Connor: Well for the same argument most people use for the cello: she's small and the cello is big on her. There actually are some 1/2 size and even 1 or 2 3/4 size basses with wooden nobs. It could be one of those.

Even though Thiessen said it was a cello, I trust this guy more:

He uses fancy mathematics and doesn't afraid of anything.

I just dieded.

Not to be rude but all of the ponies are small. Except Celestia and maybe Luna. Also, strength might be an attribute for earth ponies. I mean, look at Applejack.

@Algernon:

Don't deny it. You even said fancy mathematics.

Well yes, that's why I was mentioning the 1/2 and 3/4 size basses. And yes, it is painfully obvious that all ponies are small (My LITTLE pony). Which, thanks to the ponies being small, makes her eligible to play a 1/2 or a 3/4 which have the ability to use wooden nobs, which could make Connors argument invalid.

Again, didn't mean to be rude. There's been some debate on exactly how small they are but luckily nothing has spiralled out of control.

this thread ha become an amalgamation of tl;dr and a few ponies sprinkled in

also spike is best pony

RandomMan, a few years in the future.

he never asked for this picture

He never asked for this. Why'd you do this to him, Flutters? Why? cries You're such a jerk. By the way, is there a list of the most popular Ask a Pony blogs? Jw.