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HI guys It's me from like 80 pages ago. I haven't really had time to post here because about three months ago I decided to really start making music and now I want to know what you guys think of it!

so here it is, my very first pony related song. Instrumental, kinda dubstep with some guitar bits thrown in there. I was going for the feeling of a large magical battle with dark magic being thrown around. It's supposed to be about the first war for the crystal empire, the one Sombra was defeated in and placed the curse.

This is my very first, so I have a long way to go, and I'm only going to get better if I work a lot on this stuff and get feedback, so please criticize so I know where I can improve.

Since I know some people really don't like dubstep, my next project I'm working on right now is southern rock, for some AJ love.

Please tell me what you think!

@Blind follower

I didn't like it, but that's the way I feel about all dubstep, so I guess that means you did it right! If it's any consolation, it doesn't sound like it was done by an amateur. Even disliking dubstep as much as I do, I can still tell that you didn't fuck it up. The piece is in a rough ABA structure (Downward synth arpeggios, wubs, downward synth arpeggios) with smooth transitions between the parts, so that's something to be lauded for.

Really, the only criticism I can think of (besides that it's dubstep) is that the percussion could use a little tweaking. I don't like how you've got the snare playing on every eighth note. Add a few gaps to create some generally more compelling percussion. Your bass drum on the other hand has a little bit too much rhythmic freedom. When I'm at the club I'm there to dance, and for that I need something with a steady beat to keep in time with. That's typically what the bass drum is there for.

Come back when you've finished that southern rock piece, I'll be able to be a lot more helpful then :)

Needs moar Sambra. it could use a few breaks with dialog from the episode mixed in. other than that the song is great don't change a thing

@Sombra no speak English joke

Is it possible his lack of Coherent speech is a side effect of his Dark Magic?

After all, it does seem like the kind of thing that could garble up information. Darkness and the destruction of information are often thematically linked. And what is speech but a way of delivering information?

But maybe I'm just thinking in Homestuck Terms… Really need to stop doing that outside of my mega crossovers.

At around 15-16 seconds (and later again at 20 seconds), that sudden harder sound that jumps out but then quickly disappears, might be better to either leave it out or lower it down a bit. It's a bit too dominant to use so early and so shortly at that point. I would place it around 1:15-1:20.

The "drop" was done nicely, no real complaints there. Some of the overall tunes after that aren't my personal liking, but that's a matter of taste.

Starting at 1:48, those two tunes that you hear the most just don't blend in with each other perfectly, yet you keep using it for so long after that. It starts mixing a bit better at 2:28 when one of them lowers down.

The end is too sudden from still music to hardly anything at all. Either just end it there or give it a bit better flow.

Overall it was a good tune, and for a starter it's certainly not something I'd call bad. EDM in combination with guitars is not the easiest thing to do, but these didn't exactly sound like extremely difficult to give a good flow. With the right changes it can certainly be a decently ok track. Remember though that I currently listened to it through laptop speakers, not headphones or anything, so my review is certainly not flawless.

@Blind follower

Never mind Fifths, he doesn't even listen to electro. But I exclusively do, so here's my take:

First of all I think you need to use much less distortion. You've got a constant scraping noise going on throughout the whole thing and it doesn't sound good to me at all sorry.

Meanwhile you must use more bass. I could be saying this because I am a bass addict but I am pretty sure that all of that scraping noise in the piece could have been replaced with a nice deep bassilicious growl.

I know that Dubstep is defined by the 2-step beat but IMO Dubstep should be about bass and if it doesn't have bass then it isnt Dubstep.

On the other hand, you got the beat just fine. Perfect. That's how it should be in Dubstep.

I also like your use of the guitar. Very rare to hear in Dubstep and very novel. I think you should experiment more with the use of it. I can imagine a guitar solo leading up to a bass drop. That would be sweet.

I second Randomman: your drop is fine and overall you have a rhythm that can work. I just think you gotta make it dubsteppier and you need to improve how it flows and blends from one melody to the next. Some more variation would help too.

Can I ask what your inspiration is? Judging from your sample, it sounds to me like your inspiration is Skrillex and Far Too Loud (that's what it reminds me of). But those guys make House. You need inspiration from exclusive Dubstep producers such as Ital Tek, they will show you how it's done.

Also please don't do this:

it could use a few breaks with dialog from the episode mixed in

Sorry Vazquez, but this is bad advice.

Throwing in lines from MLP will reduce your target audience to hardcore bronies. People will think your music is just a fan gimmick and pay it no further attention. Frankly it does sound campy and gimmicky to me when I hear Pinkie Pie interrupt my rhythm. Your song doesn't need it.

(If it were me, I wouldn't make brony music, I would just be a brony that makes music.)

Throwing in lines from MLP will reduce your target audience to hardcore bronies. People will think your music is just a fan gimmick and pay it no further attention. Frankly it does sound campy and gimmicky to me when I hear Pinkie Pie interrupt my rhythm. Your song doesn’t need it.

If you are remixing one of the show songs, then do whatever you like to make it sound like a nice remix. But don't go randomly throw in lines to songs that only use MLP as an inspriration, it just lowers your audience by a lot.

Going off the topic of music for a moment:

Someone used the name "votecheck" in the analytics on the poll, which might throw off the results depending on how Verbose decides to add them up (basically you just said you hated everything).

Here are the analytic results.
Please use that link in the future when you feel curious as to how things are going.

Pony:

Ponies.

I love you guys. Thanks a lot for the feedback.

@5ths Thanks. Drums are something I have difficulty with, as I'm not really a drummer myself so I have a hard time understanding how to use it. So you're saying I should have a more four-on-the-floor style beat?

@Vazquez I was thinking about putting vocal clips from Celestia before the drop but it just felt forced and awkward. I wanted more vocal bits from sombra, but he doesn't have much to work with in that department…

@RandomMan I cleared up the harsh sound in the beginning. The volume problem in the ending I tried to fix, but you're right, the two sounds definitely clash, and now that I fixed the volume it's even more obvious. I'm probably gonna scrap one or the other. And don't discount you're review cause you're listening through laptop speakers. If my mix doesn't sound good through any set of speakers that's bad mixing on my part.

@BSOD Hey now, 5ths may not like dubstep, but he's still very knowledgeable about music. I removed the scraping moise you were talking about and just doing that made the bass much more obvious. thank you. As for my inspiration, I hadn't heard of Far Too Loud before. I looked them up and they're pretty good. I do love some skrillex every now and then, but my main influences are more from Celldweller, Phutureprimitive, and The Prodigy. Well, most of my inspiration comes from not having the money to buy expensive software and thus having to get creative with freeware.
I had thought about whether I should make brony music or be a brony that makes music, and I Decided I want to contribute to the fandom that has treated me so nicely. Seriously, you guys are awesome.

@Blind Follower

Hey now, 5ths may not like dubstep, but he’s still very knowledgeable about music.

That is true.

my main influences are more from Celldweller, Phutureprimitive, and The Prodigy.

Phutureprimitive and The Prodigy? Excellent. Great artists.

I Decided I want to contribute to the fandom that has treated me so nicely

Sure, it's entirely up to you. I'm just saying this fandom will love you back, even if Sombra isn't monologuing through the whole thing. We know what you dedicated the song towards ;)

You don't need to choose between us and everyone else. You can please both camps

not if you do it right. it can add to the song.

@BSOD
we are the target audience. he made an MLP based song for bronies in the first place so your point is moot. Oh and Pinkie would like a word with you two

@Vazquez

That's what we are trying to say: If you are going to use voice samples; it's gotta fit/blend and not detract from the song. In the case of brony music, that means it shouldn't scream "HEY GUIZE THIS IS A PONY SONG". Even people in the target audience actually don't like that.

A short dark gritty sample from Nightmare Moon that blends in with the rest of a dark gritty track works fine. But don't do what Alex.S did and stop the rhythm to add a complete sentence from Pinkie Pie (Sorry Pinkie, you might hate me for saying that, but that song contained way too much Brony to swallow)

If you know how to make it work, then make it work. But otherwise it's safer to avoid it

Now Blind Follower can do what he wants. I'm not forcing him. But I'm speaking with his best interest in heart, even when I say "appeal to more than just us". The Brony community won't love him any less if he does.

@Crazy
Why on earth does Rarity General have the most "13" votes?

I am very disappointed…very.

@Advance

Well, you win some, you lose some. Rarity is still Best Pony despite any results of a poll. (Speaking of, I love the campaigning.)

I think I'm going to go ahead and count up the votes just to have it out of the way. I think there were 28 responses, so I don't expect anymore. But:

I'll make another link to the poll itself just in case

Also, news that may or may not undermine this thread, Derpibooru now has forums.

I already dropped a phat post there, so I expect to be banned for tl;dr'ing them. It appears I may have to instill a culture of articulating one's self fully and with no room for misinterpretation.

@BSoD

Don't be disrespectin, there's a thing or two us classical farts can still teach you wubbers.

@Verbose's picture

Oh my God it's cute!

Hey, it's better than Yes Another One, Deal with It. That has the highest number of "Uhg. Never!" votes.

Verbose wrote:

Also, news that may or may not undermine this thread, Derpibooru now has forums.

Oh my.. Pony General is doomed now. I mean, the pony gallery on KYM is obviously inactive with Derpi..booru…

uhm..

Er, well, we obviously don't post news here with places like Equestria Daily.. and.. Derpy Hooves..

News..

I, uhh..

…

Y'know what? I think we'll be fine. Noting how absolutely rude some active Derpibooru users are, some of us might avoid the forums there just to keep away from that kind of negativity. Also, I kind of like the people here, and know not all of them are on Derpibooru.

I don't even use derpibooru. Whenever I go there there's always people being assholes, which really doesn't happen. Sure it's not as bad as /mlp/ but it still seems pretty bad.

And I thought "Rarity General" and "Yes Another One, Deal With It" were both very fine names, they just don't beat out the obviusly superior "Live Free or Twi Hard"

Yeah, upon looking at the threads so far and the responses, it seems to be a lot more shitposty than I had figured.

I never thought that users here would abandon this thread for an entire forum on another site with a different userbase, but by "advertising" another thread, it potentially undermines this one still. If I were really concerned that you all would leave me then I'd ban you before you left then I wouldn't have posted it here.

Also a note on voting, each choice you choose needs a unique number. So if one choice is ranked "3," then no other choice can have the rank of "3." Nothing can tie on your ballot.

I kept the directions as short as possible while making sure everyone knew what to do. I can't abbreviate it any more without omitting something. Most people understood them and responded properly, so I don't consider them to be bad instructions.

That being said, I do appreciate users voting properly on the whole. I really do.

So if those couple of users want to send me a PM with a new ballot, then please do. Since I can't see the URLs in the poll, I would prefer to get the rankings via PM (or you can just post them here.) Otherwise, I'll just throw those couple of ballots out before I do the final count.

Hey, guys. Haven't been on in a while. I did the poll and I think "We're Out of Star Wars Movies" was mine, so thanks for including it. Feels good to be acknowledged.

New Topic: Do you ship OCs with canon characters? I have one – I ship my OC Ace Spade with Vinyl. Then I go to le moving picture building and watch the Octavinyl fans rage.

Time Warp Poni:

@OC ships

What? No, of course not! The only OC I have is the ponified version of Deadparrot I did, and it's not like I would ship him with anypony. That would be absurd! Heh heh…

BigmacINparrot OTP 5ever!

This runoff voting stuff is insane. The choice that you think is awesome will inevitably lose to some other choice that is universally considered "hokay" and given a token vote anyway.

@Derpibooru

It brings out the jerk in a lot of people for some reason, so I definitely hove little interest in their forums.

@Shipping with OCs

Smells of self-insertion-fantasy-projection-Sue-ishness, so I avoid it like the plague. Of course, I can't stand most fanon shipping pairs either, so OCs really don't stand a chance.

@Lunar's insanity

What? He said I could…

And grr, I really don't approve of unfaithfulness…

Jimmy Lethal Wrote:

New Topic: Do you ship OCs with canon characters? I have one – I ship my OC Ace Spade with Vinyl. Then I go to le moving picture building and watch the Octavinyl fans rage.

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: Usually only if said canon character is already in a relationship with another canon character.

… What? My concept of romance doesn't include a concept of exclusivity, although it does have a concept of commitment.

There is a reason my relationship charts always seem to be needlessly complicated you know. And that's mainly cause Trying to do it the conventional "Line between pairings" way makes it look like a freaking Spirograph. And a conventional Grid would have literally every square filled.

…

However, I will note one thing… Often I tend to choose one paring that acts as the Primary Pairing, while other pairings are more to the side of the plot. And rarely if ever would I consider making a CanonXOC pairing into the primary pairing.

Unless of course it's not so much the real canon character so much as a genetic spin off through timey whimy balls of stuff. Like Twilight Sparkle's half cat ancestor or something.

…I'm not even joking, that's a thing I'm working on. But feel free to laugh at my insanity.

Millenial Dan wrote:

Smells of self-insertion-fantasy-projection-Sue-ishness, so I avoid it like the plague. Of course, I can’t stand most fanon shipping pairs either, so OCs really don’t stand a chance.

I don't have a soul, therefore I can't properly project myself into a self insert fic, even as a fantasy.

Who I am is literally stolen guys, if I try to write any OC, then it inevitably ends up being not me because even if I give that character a trait I may have at any given point, it is a trait I stole from someone else or some other character, so it becomes an insert of them since that trait is more strongly associated with them than I would find it associated with me.

Seriously, I made like… 14 OCs and none of them felt anything like me. And they all slowly morphed into Ponified versions of JRPG characters (Or at least fans of those characters.)

…I… Am Nothing… A blank slate…

I added a random 13 for Rarity General in my list even though I didn't list everything, I just wanted to give it a place 13. You can ask Verbose, it'll be confirmed.

New Topic: Do you ship OCs with canon characters?

@OC Shipping If I had an OC I'd ship him with Rainbow Dash……………….or Background pony #2 (if I point her out people will probably be like "Oh that's (insert name of fan name here)") so I may in one way live out some sick and twisted fantasy I have deep inside of being romantically involved with a candy colored talking pony that can break the sound barrier or that pony that's in the background every once in a while.

I mean OC's are gay, shipping is gay, I'm above those kinds of thing cause I'm cool. I mean look at how cool I am, here's a picture of me and my dog

One day you'll be mine best pony.

@Music Lols I can't music. I can play drums, that's about it.

@Derpibooru forums Lols I can't Derpibooru. I made an account there a while ago, not expecting it was full of porn. I stay away from porn like it's the plague so……yeah, the only time I show up on that website is when I type in 'birthday game' because I can't get enough of those things. Although I always get the shitty birthdays that always get me paired with Diamond Tiara or Silver Spoon or I get paired with Applebloom and Sweetie Belle. Now you maybe wondering why I think that's bad being paired with two of the CMC's well I'll tell you why, It says I do HORRIBLE things to them and vice versa now you know, and knowing is half the battle.

@OC shipping
No I don't, mainly because I don't have an OC. But even if I did, I would never ship it with a canon character. That is just wrong.

@Derpibooru forums
Well it was nice knowing you guys, it's been fun, really. See you all in Rarity General.

OC shipping Really isn't an easy thing to pull off in a fanfic, and it will only work if your OC isn't a self insert. Self inserts will generally kill any fanfic anyway. I don't personally ship my OC with any canon character cause I know it would just be stupid and not work.

I only ship myself with RandomMan

Kewln00b wrote:

@Derpibooru forums Lols I can’t Derpibooru. I made an account there a while ago, not expecting it was full of porn. I stay away from porn like it’s the plague so……yeah, the only time I show up on that website is when I type in ‘birthday game’ because I can’t get enough of those things.

You do know that you can go into Settings > Hidden Tag List and block the tags Explicit, Questionable, Suggestive, and so on.. right? Actually, I'm pretty sure the Questionable tags given a cover image by default.

@OC Shipping
Yeah, no…

@Canon shipping

(It can be fun to play the personalities off of each other at times, but actually believing that any of it is 'supported by canon' or 'OTP' stuff is just silly.)

@Fifths

(P.S. Anyone here know how to embed a Flash file in Textile?)

This runoff voting stuff is insane. The choice that you think is awesome will inevitably lose to some other choice that is universally considered “hokay” and given a token vote anyway.

Hey, at least you don't have to count those votes. I'm having to organize two Excel worksheets to keep up with each round of runoffs.

And actually, something that is ranked "2" or "3" isn't just "Hokay." That's the second and third best best ranking, which means if the first choice wasn't there, "2" would have been. Furthermore, if you gave a score to each vote instead of a ranking, then you'd probably find that the ones with fewer "full support" votes make people happier as a group than the one with more "full support" votes.
 
I'll have to count a "point" system later on once we're done, but at the first count…using the Instant Runoff method?
 
 
…I think "Twilight Sparkle and the Deathly Hasbro" may still win.
 
In the most recent round that I'm calculating, both "Live Free or Twi Hard" and "Are you a Princess Too?" had less remaining 1st votes (or distributed votes) than "Twilight Sparkle and the Deathly Hasbro" and ">Implying We Talk About Ponies Here."

Both of those have unfortunate implications, but we wanted a new method, we chose the new method, and the new method gave us those two choices.
 
Of course, I want to run the process again. It actually turned out to be rather complicated to redistribute votes, especially after the next choice for users was already eliminated (poor Advance's ballot was the first to bite the dust.) But I may also ask other users to run the process as well to make sure I didn't make a mistake.

There is also the consideration that there may be more votes coming in. I wouldn't run the final runoff process until I stopped the responses from being entered, so those two may not include the final winner.

I can confirm RandomMan's claim, Advance. If things get that heated (lulz they won't), then RM would have given support to Rarity General…but it is eliminated in the second round of runoffs at the first count.

Blind Follower wrote:

Self inserts will generally kill any fanfic anyway.

Pfft, tell that to the Hetalia fanbase on DeviantArt.

@Verbose
Great, now no matter which choice wins, I'm going to be disappointed with it. What's the point of democracy if I don't get what I want? Thanks, Obama.
But seriously, I'm going to be pissed if Twilight Sparkle and the Deathly Hasbro wins. Did we not just spend days discussing why it's a horrible choice? Was it not the reason we decided to go with the Runoff Voting Method in the first place?

Pretty neat looking
Anyways. Guys, I'm in quite a predicament. It's not pony related, but I don't want to start a thread and you guys are usually pretty helpful. I got drunk the other night and some shit happend with this girl. She was sober and pretty much just took advantage of me(srs). I wouldn't have done anything with her otherwise. Now she has this huge crush on me and someone gave her my fucking phone number and she keeps texting and calling. She's a nice person( more or less)just not my type at all. What should I say to get to understand that I'm not interested, but not hurt her too bad. Seriously though, fuck my friends for not stopping me.

@Kewln00b I'll have you know that I am studying the process of developing portal technology, and once it is finally finished, along with a shapeshifting device, I can finally reach Equestria and be with best pony. She wants none of you. Step off. You shall never find the portal. Because it's government shit and it's classified. hisssss

How does ship?

Well, I don't specifically love OC shipping fanfics (OC x Characterfromshoworsomeshit), but I guess second-person fanfics are somewhat my forte, since it's a real pain in the ass to get a good second-person story written.

@Dac

Short of faking your death, all you can really do is tell the truth. You only see her as a friend. (Friend-zoned)

Luckily, it sounds like you've not known her for long so things shouldn't be too painful.

Other things you should do is remind her that since she's only just met you, chances are she has no idea what kind of a person you really are, which is no state to rush into a relationship.

Edit: Also advisable, make sure to adjust whatever you say to accommodate her feelings and words at any given moment. If she's mad as heck at you, you can say that you making her mad is exactly why she shouldn't go for you (Because you ignoring her affections would mean it's an eventuality.)

Whatever you do, don't use text… a phone call is okay-ish, but text is horrible.

@OC Shipping

I would only ship my OC with other OC's

(Or certain KYM forum members if this thread is to be believed [cough])

@Fifths

I take it back man, we cool.

I don't self-insert, but I do have a character somewhat similar to me. Besides that, the OCs usually only play a minor role.

@Dac

Tell her that you went to a brony forum asking for relationship advice, she'll think you must be nuts and/or full on retarded.

@fifths
That's actually not a bad idea, I'll tell her about you even, send her running faster. Haha

@lunar
I know it's always better to say it face to face, but I just can't. I don't consider her a friend, I don't even know her really. Which makes it all the stranger that she acting the way she is. Honestly, I can't help but feel a little mad at the situation. I know it's a dickhead thing to do, but what if I just ignore her? I'd never see her again if I didn't make an effort to. Poor girl I guess, but what is she doing fooling around with borderline comatose drunks?

@OC Shipping

I've never been a fan of OC's (says the guy who's first post was an OC), so OC/canon shipping makes me shudder in disgust.

@Forum Name Election

Good, good. I knew creating that SuperPAC would be a great idea. "The Deathly Hasbro" is one step closer to proving that bribing the Supreme Court is always a great investment.

@Nightmare Advance

Well then, you should have created a SuperPAC.

Tell her you're a brony….not just any brony. One of those really REALLY obsessive bronies that treat the show like a literal religion.

CAUTION: I've never had to deal with a one night stand with a very clingy chick so my advice sucks in this kind of thing. The only other logical thing I can think of is faking your death but that's a little tricky and a little extreme for just trying to get a woman who has only known you for a day or two to lose interest.

I guess if you want to do this in a boring fashion you can just tell her you're not into her….in a public space with nothing she can use to bodily harm you or herself….seriously I'm serious with that one. She sounds like she'd be pretty pissed if you told her you weren't into her. If she continues you might have to do something drastic….involving authorities and restraining orders.

@Dac

Well, Dac, it seems you've found yourself in quite a pickle. If you decide to ignore her and try to avoid her, then that is a completely a-ok thing with me. If this were a circumstance of dating a girl for a week and finding out things aren't working out, I would have said you should at least give her the courtesy to end things cleanly and tell her the truth, but this girl took advantage of you and does not deserve that respect. If there is a way to block her on your phone, then definitely do so. Ideally, you could try to explain things to her and make it clear that you have no interest in a relationship. But if you don't want to deal with it, then I don't blame you.

Also, you should beat the shit out of your friends.

Uh, I mean ponies

@Advance

In practicality, yes, we chose a different method, because people were upset with "Twilight Sparkle and the Deathly Hallows." But I don't think we ever came to any mass opinion that the idea should be just thrown out.

In theory, we chose a different method, because a very quick and dirty "majority" won the day for the Harry Potter reference, and many others were terribly upset with it. The thinking wasn't so much that "Twilight Sparkle and the Deathly Hasbro" was a terrible name objectively. It was that it seemed a lot of users liked it, but many users hated it.

Going by preliminary polls though, most people voted for "Twilight Sparkle and the Deathly Hasbro" over ">Implying we talk about ponies here" in the final runoff.
 
If you ask me objectively, then I'd actually dislike how the runoffs turned out. (I'm going to regret this as soon as I say it…)

Even though I need to do a recount and ask for volunteers to do the runoffs to check my math, "Are you a Princess Too?" and "Live Free or Twi Hard" were in the next to last round. However, after removing the candidates with the lower preferred vote counts and distributing them to other candidates:

• "Twilight Sparkle and the Deathly Hasbro" – 8
• ">Implying we talk about ponies here" – 8
• "Are You a Princess Too?" – 7
• "Live Free or Twi Hard" – 7

So for that round, both "Are you a Princess Too?" and "Live Free or Twi Hard" were eliminated…by one vote. Had "Live Free or Twi Hard" or "Are You a Princess Too?" had one more vote, then it likely would have won, because they were often ranked higher than "Twilight Sparkle and the Deathly Hasbro" and ">Implying we talk about ponies here" even though they didn't have as many first place votes.

I think the system failed, because overall, I think "Live Free or Twi Hard" and "Are You a Princess Too?" were probably more universally liked.
 
Would I propose a new method though?
 
 
Hahano. That would be ridiculous. It really ain't that serious, and honestly, I'd consider it to be petty. I'm running this at the suggestion of upset users. If more users ask for another method, then I won't be involved. Sorry.

@Dac

Hm…I'd say go with what Crimson Locks suggested. However, I'm not a "eye-for-an-eye" kind of person, so if you think she's genuinely into you, then perhaps she couldn't grasp how drunk you were or she made a mistake (but then again rape is rape. Mistakes are still punishable, but perhaps that should be saved for a court of law.)

So if you cant set her straight, then do so. I think calling her is something between taking time and meeting her in person and texting her. If you ignore a person who's hung up on you then they simply may continue to contact you (unless you block them.)

And poni.

Verbose wrote:

* “Twilight Sparkle and the Deathly Hasbro” – 8
* “>Implying we talk about ponies here” – 8
* “Are You a Princess Too?” – 7
* “Live Free or Twi Hard” – 7

Twilight Sparkle and the Deathly Hasbro managed to win by a pretty decent difference last time. Seeing it get so far again this time, just let it win. Sure, some of us don't like the title, but nobody here likes them all. I disliked it for the possible chance of being disrespectful, but can now see that it's a clever pun. New visitors should be able to see that as well. We were more mad about the outcome than the title itself.

By the simple statement that we can call the current state a tie, combining it with the first poll makes this a win for Twilight Sparkle and the Deathly Hasbro. It clearly has a majority in supporters, something my stubborness cannot beat.

If this is the wish of the users, then let it be the title.

Ponei

@RandomMan

Well, I haven't stopped the votes yet. If Advance really wanted, then he could just recruit users from the image galleries to vote. I'll recognize their names, so as long as I think they could possibly lurk the thread, then I'd consider their vote.

Even without that, this runoff probably has a couple of errors on my end. And a couple of errors can doom an option that would have otherwise gotten pretty far in the process, if not won.
 
It was just a preliminary thing to get an idea of how to do it.

@Shipping OCs

Why, yes, I would insert myself into a canon character.

@DeadParrot's unnoticed and ignored plea

One embeds Flash with the following code:

<iframe width="x" height="y" src="URL"></iframe>

Fuck textile.

I think we should just let Deathly Hasbro be the new title….it's going to win no matter what we do and with it getting close to the thread locking well…..you might as well. Now I'm not a fan of the title at all but then again I wasn't a fan of Obama…..or Mitt Romney (just a battle between a giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich) but hey if it wins….I guess it wins, we just have to make sure whenever someone posts something new we have to type "No offense to Hasbro."

RandomMan wrote:

Twilight Sparkle and the Deathly Hasbro managed to win by a pretty decent difference last time. Seeing it get so far again this time, just let it win.

^ This. Just let it be the title. Doesn't matter.