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@TSG

What me and Verbose were essentially getting at is Rule 7:

Be friendly. We want our forums to be welcoming place for both old and new users. Please keep your comments and posts constructive and considerate in tone. If you observe a user breaking a rule, try advising the user in the right direction instead of posting insults or harsh criticisms. If the user persists, contact a forum moderator.

So Tara, You claim Equestria Girl's 2 will be adorable. But will it be good? Speaking of Equestria Girl's 2, I can't see how they'd do this movie without Twilight Sparkle. So how the fuck would they get Twilight in this movie? Have this movie take place 30 moons after the last movie (Cause the last thing we need are Timeskips) and so Twilight Sparkle comes back through the mirror to and end up battling some badguy with whatever shit the Mane6 receive to protect Equestria since the Plot device forced them to give up the Elements. Or are they going to have "That World" Twilight Sparkle join the group and since they aren't magical it'll JUST be another highschool story.

I can personally see some loophole that causes the mirror to be opened forever or something. That way they can make Equestria Girls movies forever!

Also apparently today is the day we fight back…..If I fight back can I get that advertisement off my screen?

>2014
>hating Luna
You join the ride and then you go and shiggy it all up?

Is it worth mentioning that it kinda weakened after watching the pilot? I mean, I haven't stopped yet but I definitely wasn't all "Oh great, they saved her…" like I was expecting, I didn't actually mind that part watching the episode for real.

If you think she’s pissing you off now, just wait until Feeling Pinkie Keen, aka “The Episode That Ensured Pinkie Would Never Get Into My Top Three List.” She’s been stuck fighting Rarity for Worst Pony ever since.

Oh yes, I heard about that one, I could image she's really gonna wrinkle my sprinkles n that one… (Also I noticed that one wasn't on your list, is that an implicit suggestion to watch 'em all on the first run?)

Oh good, just in time for Crash’s joining of the ride.

Already knew, my only comment is that I'm ambivalent over Vinyl's sudden importance (I hate her, but I'm happy for her fans), but I already went into that several pages back.

Also apparently today is the day we fight back…..If I fight back can I get that advertisement off my screen?

Nope, I signed it but it's still here.

I mean being politically correct isn't a bad thing in itself. Most anything can be taken too far, including the hatred of being politically correct. For reasons theoretical and practical, you shouldn't always say what's on your mind.

Words have implications that most people in your culture understand. Calling me black, African-American, or a slur all mean different things. The implications don't vary that much from person to person. Such is why we can talk to other people who speak English in the US. "African-American" is more accurate in ways than "black," but I personally prefer "black" because it's a simpler way of identifying me by race/how I look (besides, I'm hardly African-anything at this point). Calling me a slur for a black person means you're trying to be offensive. There's no reason to use it unless you're trying to start trouble.

The considerations above all revolve around political correctness. I think you know this. But just because it dampens the mood or ruins fun doesn't mean it should be ignored, and it certainly doesn't mean it should be criticized.
 
As for the user, I think it was obvious that the user was either a troll or had no intentions of having a civil discourse on the matter, so being politically correct wasn't even the point. They were just trying to stir up trouble. Calling them such words and using such language is exactly what they wanted in either case.

• For one, you're calling a supposed woman a slur (i.e., twat). You've basically set the foundation for their "argument."
• Second, if they're just trolling, using the f-bomb as an adjective or adverb almost always means somebody's jimmies have been set to over-rustle.
• Third, you're setting the tone that no one can ever strongly disagree with your stance. They deserved all of the downvotes they got, because they were outside of forum protocol (which isn't too strict here anyway.)

I've been told that circlejerks are not a bad thing. I disagree, but that's not relevant. But it is bad if you can't accept a radically different opinion from yours. That leads to people not feeling free to give their opinion, and it leads to not really having any interesting conversation. According to your response, you didn't get upset because they broke rules. You got seriously rustled, because you disagreed with their stance.
 
You never go overrustle on the Internet.
 

• Fourth, there are too many moderators who frequent this thread to let them continue those sorts of posts. We could just as easily delete the post and suspend the user, but I don't like to use powers unless I have to. I simply have faith that users will ignore the problematic user, perhaps throw in a quick, light-hearted jab, and continue as if nothing happened.

@xTSGx, BSOD to a lesser extent
Feeling Pinkie Keen is one of my favorite episodes.

First off, I never thought I liked slapstick, but maybe I liked it, because it happened to the protagonist as opposed to Spike.

Second, I just found it to be a simple, fun episode. I like it for the same reasons I like (read as "Love") Spike at Your Service. The morals are nice, but I don't care if the morals don't make sense (Feeling Pinkie Keen) or if the continuity is loose (Spike goes from nearly adult-like in competency in just about everything to ruining Applejack's life by helping her.)

But it was also the episode (or contained the clip) that made me objectively interested in the show and the fandom. Derpy, a brony-grown character, was pretty much given her own clip in a show for little girls. That made me wonder just how much the creators and staff loved the periphery fanbase just as much as the periphery fanbase loved the show.

It wasn't a sort of interaction I had seen before (although, I don't watch much TV and certainly not children directed towards little girls.) It was too interesting to not look at further.
 
So yes, Derpy is the reason why I'm here busting your chops on half of the posts you guys make.

I don't get the hate for Pink Pone. Sure the writers think that she exists to eat away at our sanity's these days but when given the right episode I'd definitely put her in the top position, before the next episode comes around causing me to put the next pony in top position.

Also Crash, I just have to say you REALLY need to stop judging characters all about how the fandom places the characters in the "Top Ponies list" and just judge them for yourselves. It's why I kept hoping you'd jump into the show a lot earlier than just spending time around the fandom (as they place characters like Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Vinyl Scratch and Luna on the highest of all pedestals). I really think the amount of attention given to those characters are clouding your judgement as it seems like you're just hating them for their popularity and not their characters. Because after seeing all the episodes all I can say is those characters that you hate so much aren't as bad as you've convinced yourself that they are. Titty Sprinkles.

I'm going to have to agree that spending too much time in the fandom without seeing the show is a bad idea. It'll do crazy shit to your head – you'll come out blathering madly about aliens and time travelers and how Applejack is best pony. You don't want that.

He's got a point… I don't know what you could do about Vinyl, though. She hasn't even spoken.

Good lord, sir, I implore you to polish up on your grammar

Our response to this in a nutshell:

↑↑↑ That and not make broad stereotypes about all bronies. Seriously, why don't you go rage on the furry sites for a while. That will rustle your jimmies more so than any brony content. And all of the "R63" content really only makes up about maybe 2% of the total produced art content out there. You really have to be searching for it (or on /mlp/) if you want to run across it. Besides, most of the kids that would be on the internet looking for ponies should be under some kind of adult supervision. It's way too easy to run up on bad things on the internet. I was 10 when I first experienced "that side" of the internet. It seems a boy can't search for "Dragon Ball Z" without running across some crazy pr0nz. (mind you I had bad spelling at the time.) Your rage is highly misguided sir (or ma'am).

Wait a minute, you haven't seen the episode where Vinyl spoke in Season 2? Jimmy I am disappointed in you, I thought that was the episode you would've seen 22 1/2 times already tsk tsk.

Le Troll with a new sock account every other day rambled:

Ugh! I absolutely hate all MLP rule 34/63! I mean if you look at them all you see are , hyper-sexualized, big eyed, sexual formed, cartoon horses that can be easily looked at by children by just typing in there name on google fucking images! I mean we all know that Bronies are absolutely terrible at tagging there porn. They do not give a single fuck if a child who loves MLP can see a picture of Pinkie Pie or Rainbow Dash giving a sexual favor, or if you just look at the rule 63 you just see feminist role-models being white, big-chested, big eyed, and wearing a bikini or nothing at all. In short, Bronies are misogynistic racists who don’t tag there porn.

What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on Al-Quaeda, and I have over 300 confirmed kills. I am trained in gorilla warfare and I’m the top sniper in the entire US armed forces. You are nothing to me but just another target. I will wipe you the fuck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of spies across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your life. You’re fucking dead, kid. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can kill you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hands. Not only am I extensively trained in unarmed combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the United States Marine Corps and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable ass off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

@Sobcow
If you don't like bronies, then why are you in this thread?
@Iamslows cute Derpy and Coco


and then I'll just add this for good measure

@Sobcow

They do not give a single fuck if a child who loves MLP can see a picture of Pinkie Pie or Rainbow Dash giving a sexual favor

1: As Cute :3 already said, kids shouldn't be on the internet while unsupervised, simple as that.
2: You can easily find pictures of whatever character on google images that are not really 'child friendly', whether it's an overly detailed still shot from Spongebob, or a zombikachu. MLP is not nearly the only cartoon / kids program that gives those sort of results on google images.

or if you just look at the rule 63 you just see feminist role-models being white, big-chested, big eyed, and wearing a bikini or nothing at all

After this small 'troll attack', have some cute pone:

@Verbose: I guess I could say some more about the PC stuff, but I'd rather not, as I might risk getting in trouble or starting shit (probably both).

Sorry, I was thinking of the wrong episode, had "A Friend In Deed" in mind when replying to that, got them mixed up (I'm not sure how I'll react to Pinkie Keen, I guess I'll see when I get there).

@Kewln00b: Fair point, trying to judge more based on the show.
It could have an effect on my opinions of Vinyl (More on that later) and Princess Luna (who admittedly mostly angered me because of fan over-obsession and a backlash against the "Dark Is Not Evil" theme she has, and if she endears me in the show itself then the latter certainly won't be an obstacle).
However, that's probably not really going to stop me hating Pinkie and Fluttershy, they've genuinely being pissing me off in the show proper and from what it sounds like, the stuff that irritates me is core to their character and won't ever fully go away. I'll certainly try to keep an open mind (and Shy hasn't pissed me off THAT much, if it stays like this or improves I might bump her up to mild dislike or indifference), all I'm saying is that if I come out with the same opinion that I went in with regarding them, this is why and so on.
Also, while the fandom factored into my feelings on the other three, it didn't effect my feelings on Pinkie. They were actually fairly neutral to her, some love her and some hate her and that's fair too balanced a view to cause real backlash.
As for Vinyl, I don't think it's awful to judge her based on fandom since that's where her entire character is. The main factor for her is that as much as I seem to like hating her… I can't remember why and it's really hard to hate something when you don't know why you hate it. The show itself won't do much of anything since seeing her stand in the background and play music probably won't have much of any effect on me.
Though I'll say it again, I'll definitely try to keep an open mind about it.

Oh and Last time I'll ask this, I swear but any more thoughts on following the list and backtracking versus watching the whole thing in one run? If not, I think I'll just go for the latter option like DeadParrot and possibly TSG suggested but I just want to make sure first if at all possible.

@Troll:

(Silly responses like this are still okay right? If not, I'm sorry and I'll shut up about it.
If it's not okay because I've posted too much Twiface, I'm also sorry and I'll try to hold off until I see Swarm Of The Century)

(also sorry if I'm sounding insulting or bad, I'm tired and worried about a screwed up beyond belief homework for one of my modules at Uni)

What the buck did you just bucking say about me, you little foal? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Magic Kindergarten, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret raids on evil forces threatening Equestria, and I have over 300 confirmed friendships. I am trained in friendship warfare and I’m the top spell caster in the entire Royal Guard. You are nothing to me but just another foal. I will wipe you the buck out with precision the likes of which has never been seen before on this continent, mark my bucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit to me over the ponynet? Think again, foal. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of friends across Equestria and your PP is being traced right now so you better prepare for the friendship, my little maggot. The friendship that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your flank. You’re bucking gone, foal. I can be anywhere, anytime, and I can friend you in over seven hundred ways, and that’s just with my bare hooves. Not only am I extensively trained in hoof-to-hoof combat, but I have access to the entire arsenal of the Equestrian Royal Guard and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable flank off the face of this continent, you little mule. If only you could have known what unholy retribution Your Little Comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your bucking tongue. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you bucking foal. I will shit fury all over you and you will drown in it. You’re bucking dead, kiddo.

so there's flappy bird but with ponies now

Best I could do

Let's get back to cute, some Ponymon perhaps?

@Lunar Protege
Ooh, cute! My favorite!

@Iamslow: That rating system is too off! It's way harder to score with Fluttershy than it is to score with RD, however I did manage to get to here:

Would have gotten further, but it kinda gets to be a strain on the eyes after just a few seconds.

@Ponymon Eevee-lutions: Yes plz! All of my yes! This is awesome!

@Cute Ponies: Did I ever mention I love Dreatos/Valcron's works!

Sorry for all that. I just am a little bit of a fan-boy over his works. That and Amy Merberson's are like my two top favorites. I was extremely happy when I found out the Past Sins copy I ordered had a cover that was made by him.

He just does some really good work! (ok! ok! Here, have something non-Dreatos.)

@Verbs

Hey! I liked Feeling Pinkie Keen too, you know. I know that people hated it because some people were all like "Eww defense of religion" but knowing what the actual intended message of the episode was supposed to be, I really thought that was a hysterical and overblown reaction that the episode did not deserve. It by no means made Pinkie worst pone

Also I just want to clear something up here

I’ve been told that circlejerks are not a bad thing. I disagree, but that’s not relevant. But it is bad if you can’t accept a radically different opinion from yours. That leads to people not feeling free to give their opinion, and it leads to not really having any interesting conversation.

You may or may not be referring to comments I've made in the past in defense of circlejerking. But in case it you are, I feel you should know that I now realize that this was a misunderstanding and a mistake on my part. The definition of a circlejerk is when a community becomes unanimous on an ideal, even if incorrect and through self supporting of this ideal, it rejects all others. This is of course terrible for reasonable discussion and must be avoided in any stable community.

However this problem is that this phenomenon, as I see it, was being blended in with the other phenomenon of hugboxing. Both existed in this thread but were being confused for each other. Hugboxing is a bit different from circlejerking which I can go into detail of later. But I believe that whatever I it was that I was trying to defend, it better suited the description of that, not circlejerking.

Anyway, were doing cute, yes?

I like cute. It's why I got into this fandom. I favorite a lot of the cute images that come by the MLP gallery

I suppose we cute now?

Cute:

Since nobody had anything to say, I'll resume my quest through MLP tonight after homework with the next episode on the "watch everything" scheme! Hope to have a nice update later tonight for it.

Now, cute?
How about my favorite OCs in their younger days?


And how about some more weird/silly cuteness?

@Trolling business

Nice to see this is still being practiced on a more pragmatic level, because I remember back then some bronies took this a bit too seriously and became punching bags for the trolls. It's only courteous to love and tolerate those who try to oppose our preferences and opinions, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be happy to have the parasprite banned for misbehavior.

@Flappy ponies
Ehhhhh… I love ponies as much as the next brony, but I really dislike Flappy bird's repetitive and boring gameplay. I bet the change of scenery is nice though.

Yo, pony people. Looks like one of Lez's posts backfired;

This isn't trolling material at all! Pretty cool actually.

^Funniest part of all, it's from FCKH8 and is still awesome!

Valentines day is nearing!
Here are some valentines gifs to celebrate it:

Valentines… The one day of the year that reminds me that the closest thing I have to a romantic interest is myself.

…Right before gorging myself on chocolate I "gift" to myself.

I kid, I don't eat chocolate that often.

Have some half done valentines update.

Now excuse me while I figure out when Valentines day actually is.

(The fact I was making this update at around this time is a fluke.)

Speaking of romance… I think its worth noting that the notion of romantically awkward nerdy guys who are afraid to talk to girls is not the complete state of awkward nerdy romance.

….There's also the romantically awkward nerdy girls who are afraid to talk to guys.

I think at this point… It's hard to deny that the difference between the actions of each are negligible… Since the stereotype of writing "slash fics" and the like theoretically applies to both genders.

(Of course, neither of these stereotypes are necessarily accurate.)

Guys, it happened again…

Yep, once again, that sphere in the sunglasses is me. And once again, I can't prove it so you guys will just have to trust me. It's clear, though, that I have made it to the big time now. Sure, I didn't actually do any art and I doubt anybody outside of you guys would even know those two questions were asked by the same person, but… shut up. I feel important now. Don't take that away from me.

So what news could be better than Stunthead getting twice the attention from butt pone? Well, not much, but this might beat it by just a little…

Our good friend Michael is making a recovery!

Hooray for Michael! Let's all hope for a speedy recovery. Here's a thing from EqD:

Apparently Michael's body functions are improving with his mind slowly starting to function again! Neurological improvements have been seen that were not present before and he is also off IVs and sedation now it seems. While they still don't know yet what functions he will retain after this ordeal, plans for now involve moving him into a wheelchair for the time being.

I would just like to point out that I was right. Sobcow was indeed that exact same troll we've suspended 3 times already. I wasn't fooled for a second

I demand my 10 dollars!

Oh I'm sorry! I just ran out of money! Would you accept this LOVELY cherry instead? It's worth like 10 whole bits!

@Crashgordon94
I wasn't suggesting you watch it. The only reason you really need to see it is for context for the Pinkie Sense.

@Verbose
I totally forgot you were black African American of an ethnicity that is not Caucasian, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, Asian, Arabic, or Native American. Personally, I've always found "African-American" to be a silly term. We don't call those descendants of Europeans "European-Americans" or those from Brazil "South American-Americans" or those from Australia "Australian-Americans." Why don't we just stick with "American" and cut out the hyphens?

@Pinkie Keen
It really did ruin Pinkie for me. Her complete inability to understand the context of what was going on and her ignorance was just baffling. /mlp/ may complain about her lol randumb XXXD behavior, but I'll take that over scatterbrained ignorance any day.

@KYM Feminist User

Lez, you don't have to use a sockpuppet to join the forum. I know it's a little scary going here at first, but we're eventually warm up to your shitposting. I can understand how the image Gallery must be getting a little lonely as of late. Just be yourself, is what I'm saying.

@Lunar: It's February 14th, currently tomorrow.

@TSG: Oh, right… Well, I think I need to stick with my decision for the moment, but if you or anyone else thinks I should go back to following the list, please let me know.

@TSG

Lez, you don’t have to use a sockpuppet to join the forum

It's not Lez. Irrational feminism is not his trolling style. Also Feminist User uses the same IP for all his socks and it doesn't match Lez

@Valentine's Day
I know that I've got my very special somepony all lined up this year!

~sniff
I love you, discounted, post-holiday chocolate!
You never judge!

@Pinkie Keen
Oh, I remember the little storm that surrounded that episode.
I'll admit that its ending bugged me more than any other season one episode, but it wasn't so much the 'religion' aspect as it was Twilight deciding to stop investigating because the answer wasn't immediately clear.
She's this super science nerd who is faced with this seemingly-inexplicable phenomenon, so she obviously goes all-out trying to figure out the mechanics behind it, but then she just kind of gives up after one day of investigation?
Even if she had reworded her letter to say something closer to 'I don't understand it yet.' it would have felt a little more in line with her natural curiosity and perserverance, but the way it did come out felt a little weird.
I should stress though that I absolutely love Feeling Pinkie Keen as it is one of the most Looney Tunes-esque episodes in the series and is fantastic all he way through with only those couple lines right at the end being iffy to me.

@Cute
This is a two step process:
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First, apply water to pony.

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Next, apply towel.

Voila!
Cute, in two easy steps!

@Troll

(Okay, this is mainly just an excuse to post that face! In an episode with all kinds of Rarity and Applejack, Dash snuck in with this gem of adorable confusion!)

OH SHIT GUYS!!!

Not into minor Equestria Girls 2 news/spolers? Have a gif!

Not into gifs?

And I thought I'd seen everything.

@Hearts and Hooves Day:

Yes……..bring on the jimmie rustling!

Vinyl's dancing… eh… at least she's in it. If she isn't voiced by Nowacking or someone similar sounding, though, fuck it. She needs that tomboyish quality to her voice.

Just watch as she gets voiced by Justin Bieber.

DAMMIT, STUNT.

Stunthead wrote:

Just watch as she gets voiced by Justin Bieber.

>Jimmy's face when.

@EqG2
Well, at least I can enjoy the shitstorm, since it'll be the only real enjoyment I get out of the thing.

Goddamn, if they come up with some bullshit to explain why Twilight's back there again. I'm already finding massive issues and I haven't even seen anything yet! I didn't think they could come up with a plot as cliche as the "prom princess" one, but then they go and do this.

I guess we'll finally get to see if the "Rina-chan voicing Vinyl" rumor is true. It seems to be /mlp/ just trolling itself, but you never know. It would certainly ramp up the shitstorm into "levee breaking."

Oh, God, I just realized. More Flash Sentry. And even worse, they'll probably whip out the romance tumor and try to beat its gelatinous mass over our heads while it does nothing to the plot. I never thought I'd yearn for the day when I can watch Pokemon over ponies former ponies that have been hideously anthropomorphized.

do we know for a fact that it's twilight- as in the Equestrian Twilight? Because There IS a version of twilight native to the EQG Verse… The explanation might just be "the girls met & befriended the Twilight from their world"

@EQ2
………..Time to rip my hair out once again (Its a joke, you know my pure hatred for this shit, But I haven't done it…..yet)
Just, For the love of anything in the fucking world, Just have these three attributes, Entertaining, Funny, and Awesome. You can go far with those 3 things, for many people, including me!

And back then, I thought the first one, was like the mark of where it all goes down, because if Hasbro just forced this shitty concept onto them, then most likely, they would be also forced to make shitty decisions/episodes in the show (and The Alicorn things is in my opinion, is a good decision). But Season 4, Wow, Again, I fucking love S4 so far, Its an incredible bounce they've made, from, one of the worst things I saw in 2013, to a season that already is better than the first and third (Has it passed S2, well, Until S4 is done, I'll fully make my opinion on that).

My worries were gone, UNTIL the rumors of this shit started to float about. Seriously, Just make an ACTUAL MLP movie! Have something like the S2 finale, but longer, a bit darker, and exciting through-out, PLAIN AND SIMPLE!

Sorry, I just needed to let it out, it just seems like the most obvious thing to do for a movie, is always just pushed aside for this abomination.

Please let Metallica be in the film. They can save it.

>inb4 Fuel plays when the Scratchmobile makes its appearance

Page get, ah? Well… uh… I'm running out of ideas for these things. Have some party.