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Well it seems my departure didn’t go over as quietly as I thought it would… To be honest I’ve been going through some stuff lately and I’ve felt extremely disconnected from most areas of life in general and since I’m not really able to be on here as much as I would like, the feeling was amplified. The other day something just broke and… I dunno, I’ve just got some emotional problems, alright? I just don’t really like making a big deal out of stuff like this… But if you guys really don’t want me to stop posting, I’ll come back.

Its up to you Stargazer. But yea, we did like having you around.

Besides, if you are having trouble maybe there is some way we can help?

Don't leave uuuuuuuus.
We love you, seriously. Don't go.

Yeah StarGazer, please don't leave, we all love you. We'll help you work out your problems if you want help.

And now for something completely different:

I dunno, I’ve just got some emotional problems, alright?

Had mental breakdown
Went to Russia (oh god….why)
and now im back.

Plane tickets are very expensive. Worst mental breakdown ever.

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Pls come back StarGazer

Well, this surely is ironic.

It's gonna be one of those days again, isn't it?

The picture you posted remind of this vid for some weird reason.What if trololo and godzilla will team up to become one ?

Now imagine this with giant trollestia destroying the city while singing trololo (should be Discord but anyway).I guess it will be one of the most akward thing i will ever see
in my life (maybe a good crossover movie).

Ima go to bed now.
HAVE A DERPY HUG!!

:3

Well, it looks like Twilight actually visited me and Applejack. She was mostly reading the comics I'm in, Apple was sleeping, and I was on the internet.

Also Twi said that the others will be visiting me soon.

I could type up a rebuttal, but I'm not in the mood to get in an argument with a mod, so I won't.
Yes, I have self control, believe it or fucking not.

Come on though, you can't deny the irony. You saying you love someone is like verbose posting one sentence. It never happens.

Citation and stargazer sittin in a tree, k-I-s-s-i-n-g!
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes a baby in baby carriage!
Lol, umad bro?

Derp shot first

Alright then, I'll just reiterate what I said on Twins' page.
You think I wanted Ideological to leave?
I didn't.
You think I'm happy he's gone?
I'm not.
You think he'll be gone for more than a week?
Don't.
And once again, you think the only thing I can express is blind rage?
Seriously, just shut the fuck up.

Dude! Take it easy! You know me, I just like to give you a hard time. I just like to have my fun and all. I don't mean anything by it. Try not to take me so seriously.

Then stop being an asshole about it.

Listen, if I am really bothering you. Just pm me or whatever, and I'll stop. My intention was never to hurt you, just to have fun.

I'm sorry Charlie Murphy, I got out of hand…

>Implying we ever take you seriously.

@dac and cite

I GOT POPCORN


So when the show start ?

I like how Carrot Top and Derpy aren't shipped as much as other pairings. It's just friendship!

Don't really care about Lord of the Rings though.

@ Conner and Epicus
I'm not really fighting, I was just messing around but he got mad. I think we're cool though, right cite?

Self control.. An effective tactic indeed.

Wish I didn't feel the need to write up a massive TL;DR every time someone disagrees with me.

dac-attack!!! wrote:

Come on though, you can’t deny the irony. You saying you love someone is like verbose posting one sentence. It never happens.

verbose wrote:

I like how Carrot Top and Derpy aren’t shipped as much as other pairings. It’s just friendship!

Don’t really care about Lord of the Rings though.

Verbose wrote:

I like how Carrot Top and Derpy aren’t shipped as much as other pairings. It’s just friendship!

No, no, I didn't really need that heart anyway.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
And then his ship exploded.

Ignoring that one sentence post by verbose aside, THIS. IS THE MOST BIASED, HAPHAZARDLY WRITTEN ARTICLE I HAVE EVER SEEN.

While i respect the author's opinion that the "#savederpy" campaign is a bit of overreacting, the only thing he seems to do is blast the brony community for the R34 fags out there.

Right off the bat, he includes the picture of some undisclosed individual, probably himself in his sickest fantasies, kissing a pony he probably knows nothing about (Pinkamena). You can tell he's trying to incite a shitstorm out of that very first picture, and if it's a shitstorm he wants, a shitstorm he'll get. FULL SPEED TL;DR BATTLE ARRAY ACTIVATE!

He's calling us out for hypocrisy for "[maintaining] a character's developmental disability-- only to have it be laughed at by a nationwide audience." Yeah no. No one is. Derpy is the most endearing character on the show, and although we do poke light fun of her clumsiness and slowness, we are not laughing at her directly. That's like the greatest compliment to mentally-deficient (sorry if that ain't the politically correct term) people ever- despite being different, she still manages to become the most important and celebrated character on the show.

And then the rest of the article is about LOL MORE HYPOCRISY R34 BIATCHES. "And this fact is celebrated. This actually occurs in our world, today, in the year 2012, online, and it is apparently an accepted part of the culture by many individuals." Yeah. It does happen. In ever fndsjfjslking fanbase in the fndsjfjslking world. He actually thinks bronies and R34 is an isolated case, and uses it against save derpy, even though they have nothing in common.

"there is bound to be some overlap in those who sexualize ponies such as Derpy, and those who wish to see Derpy's mental shortcomings "saved" on the program." Again, yeah, there are people like that. IT'S NOT LIMITED TO FNDSJFJSLKING BRONIES GOSHDARNIT TO HECK. In fact, I'd say the majority of bronies look down upon that sort of stuff. And why wouldn't we want to save her shortcomings?

I'll admit, bronies are overreacting, but derpy is already fndsjfjslking established within the show continuity as a clumsy pony. Must we change her for political correctness, as Johnny "DocEvil" Titanium so ineloquently states? Might as well uproot the whole of the children's show industry, take out all of the characters that are offensive, to conform to Johnny "DocEvil" Titanium's idealized portrait of a children's show.

And worst of all: "Please spread the awareness of the troubling nature of the #SaveDerpy campaign by clicking this link, which will use Twitter's functionality to tweet a link to this article."
Way to push your own agenda, sir DocEvil. Like anyone will support you. I'm sure there were some people on your side before, but I'm glad to say, you have safely converted them to the opposite side, in fear of being associated with such the likes of a human being as you.

TL;DR (imma start including one of these from now on): DocEvil from SomethingAwful works for Fox News, and instead of confronting the overreacting nature of the #savederpy movement, calls bronies out because he believes every fndsjfjslking one of us is a R34 fag. Then he tells people to spread his sensationalist message because he actually thinks anyone agrees with him.

I'm sorry. Verbose had convinced me that overreacting to the derpy change thing was stupid, but this guy has almost completely converted me back to the opposite viewpoint.

Then again:

Could it be, the elusive troll?

It's been a while since I've posted in the thread, because I find myself losing interest in a lot of the shit that goes on here. And I have other means of communication at my disposal, so the thread is becoming less important. That, and I have a ton of schoolwork coming up. But, I'll still be around.

In response to Twins' essay, and the article.

First, my thoughts about Save Derpy; I agree with Twins in that the bronies are overreacting.

Twins wrote:

DocEvil from SomethingAwful works for Fox News

Right of the bat, I'm just going to say that that's a stretch of the imagination in every sense of the word. Just because someone is critical of bronies does not instantly indicate that they work for Fox News. Not that I'm defending Fox News; I just don't think it's ever a good idea to jump to conclusions.

I agree that the article has an entirely unnecessary focus on R34; most of the non-introductory content, in fact. Despite the problems with R34 (that have been beaten to death on the thread and are not worth bringing up again), it's unfair to bring this up, and especially to this extent and in this context. I can understand the desire to shed light on the brony community, but this really doesn't have much to do with Derpy.

From the article:

If you have any children, siblings, or friends that show an interest in brony culture-- especially if they're to the point of owning physical merchandise-- you may want to consult someone who has experience dealing with obsessive disorders.

Including this phrase is clearly indicative of the author's motive in writing this article. And again:

[…]a disturbingly large portion of the adult males who enjoy the show do it in ways that are sexual, and logically, there is bound to be some overlap in those who sexualize ponies such as Derpy, and those who wish to see Derpy's mental shortcomings "saved".

The author claims to have "parts" of his article based on "original research" done by some twitter users, but provides no links to any sort of report. In the scientific community, we call this "fraudulent." And what is more, his implications are clear; he believes that the push to save Derpy is wrong because those who wish to save her are doing so just so that they can make more R34 with her.

To me, this article indicates that the author had a clear agenda to marginalize the Save Derpy movement (if it can be called that) and bronies as a whole, by making unnecessary and unwarranted links between the movement and the sexualization of the show. The front page of SomethingAwful has the following blurb:

Exploring the nature of the #SaveDerpy campaign with a well-trained eye.

This would seem to indicate an objective analysis; however, the article reads as an op-ed piece. Therefore, it can be said that both "DocEvil" and SA are so blinded by their bias that they cannot fully understand the brony community.

About what Dac said below me:

I feel the same way. As the saying goes, Haters gonna hate.

@twins
Though I find him to be quite stupid, I don't concern myself what people say about the brony community. As long as the People around me are ok with me then I don't care what a couple faceless people on the Internet think. Dont let yourself get frustrated with idiots like that guy.

Edit: opspe, if you agree, y u no give me karma!?!?
Anyways, you're back! Where you been bro-siden, king of the brocean?

And here comes ospse to save this thread from becoming a shitstorm again. And while my post was mostly unbridled (ha) rage, yours seems to provide actual, scientifically valid reasons why this guy is being idiotically stupid.

Yeah, the Fox News analogy was pretty stupid, all things considered. Usually I find such comparisons as stemming from the belief that "conservative=bad" mentality we have today. However, I felt justified using it here because of the way Fox News handled their supposed "investigation" on bronies. Go check that out on YouTube if you want.

We can all agree that we hate R34, and I wasn't bringing it up (hopefully).

And good Celestia, that diction… "implications", "clear agenda to marginalize the show", "unnecessary and unwarranted". Can't compete with that. Sometimes I wonder why someone with such a limited vocabulary like me was cursed to write TL;DR.

Ospse proves himself to be top tier brony yet again.

I posted here because the site wisely left out commenting on their article. Genius on their part; the things I would do to that page…

@dac: Yeah, I probably should have. Strange, I associate myself with being close to Pinkie Pie in terms of personality, yet I take these kinds of things to heart. Maybe I get all Pinkamena when I see a disgustingly non-professional, biased, agenda-pushing article.

There, Dac, I krama'd you. Prostitute.

Or does that make me the prostitute?

But how can a prostitute be Alpha as F**k? Nah, it's you.

As for where I've been, I had last week off, so I was at home playing Mass Effect most of the time. And like I said, I have a lot of schoolwork going on, so that's keeping my attention for now.

Twins:

You've shown yourself to be the type of person to react emotionally – there's nothing wrong with that. And as sexist as this may sound, it's probably because you're female. I mean, let's face it.

And about the Fox News "investigation," I haven't actually watched that, but based on previous knowledge (see here, I definitely understand where you're coming from with that conclusion, even if it is premature.

Also, there are so many new posters that have cropped up in the past week or so. It's hard to keep track of.

Welcome to SomethingAwful.com Twins. Yet another one of the Internets many anuses from which nothing but waste material ever excretes.

The author of that article was doing to us exactly what they did with the Furries: overemphasize a single negative aspect (R34 in this case) and correlate all purposes of the fandom to that aspect alone. They do that either maliciously or ignorantly, it's hard to tell.

SomethingAwful has nothing to do with Fox news, but I think that is actually a good analogy. You see, SomethingAwful needs something awful to write about every now and then in order to keep viewers interested. They are not afraid to vilify things in order to give them more to write about and to get peoples attention. You just witnessed one of the ways they do it.

One of the most important rules of the internet apply here: Nothing is to be taken seriously.

Feminist senses tingling:

You’ve shown yourself to be the type of person to react emotionally – there’s nothing wrong with that. And as sexist as this may sound, it’s probably because you’re female. I mean, let’s face it.

• Wheatley
• Olivia
• Trick Lobo
• Mellow

• Pyro
• Citaiton
• Falcon

Just Saiyan.
 
 
But…you are kidding about that, right, opspe?

…I mean…it just can't be…

I need to find something nice…maybe a random Twilight Sparkle filly we cheer me up…

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
F*CK.

Regarding the SomethingAwful Article:

I find it funny cause they have a very large Brony community on their forums. So jokes on him I guess?

tons of lols are vomitted.

Huh. Just when I thought the fuss over Derpy had died down a bit.

But seriously, people just can't seem to leave her or the brony community alone. Ah well, such is life on the internet.

I don't really feel comfortable laying out all of my problems so publicly, but thank you guys for the offer.

Yeah, I think I'll start posting again. I'm feeling a little better lately anyways. That was just a spur of the moment thing really.

Well, I just all of the article. And…

That article was just really odd

@dumbshit article

I didn't get to read it yet, but from the parts you've quoted, it sounds quite stupid.

@Stargazer

We'll be here for you if you ever want our help.

You guys do know that Something Awful are just a bunch of trolls doing it for the lulz, right?

@Connor

I didn’t get to read it yet, but from the parts you’ve quoted, it sounds quite stupid.

You can take our word. Don't bother reading.

Phoneix knows whats going on. Like I said; Somethingawful always pulls stunts like that just to draw attention to itself

Verbose wrote:

…I mean…it just can’t be…

It was a joke.

I swear, you people need to stop taking everything I say so seriously. Maybe I should add "I'm kidding" after everything.

Also, Stargazer – good to have you back.

We have to take everything seriously.

totally unrelated stuff:
8 days – 25 pages. This is so far. If we continue at this rate:
16 – 50
24 – 75
32 – 100

100 pages in 32 days. If we continue like this, we will hit 200 pages in 64 days. Just over 2 months.

A wise guy eh? But yeah, I tend to put "I'm kidding" so I'm not offending anybody by accident.

I can't believe you people actually thought I was being serious.

That article, oh the stupidity, it burns so much that I could fuel the DeLorean many times over, but then it's SomethingAwful, much like Encyclopedia Dramatica, I can't take them seriously, and that article is just another thing that I can, neigh, I won't take seriously.

No sense getting upset over a writer who has NO clue what he's talking about.

Humna humna humna humna humna humna humna humna humna humna humna humna humna humna.

2/10 would not bang. Her lips aren't full enough and her face is too fat for my taste. Too pale, fingers are kinda chubby. 4- head? More like 5- head. Not enough boobies. Eyebrows are shaped weird, seriously, I could go on for days.
Umad?