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Yeah, rock on!

Always been partial to 70s, 80s, and 90s era rock and punk over anything else.
I have no idea how that qualifies as 'hipster' since the bands I listen to regularly were huge a couple decades ago.
Not exactly unheard of.
(KISS is okay in my book, but I have to check out that Hello Kitty thing. I laughed my ass off when that came out as a real thing!)

And I'm in the exact same boat as you with Brony music, too.
I remember listening to just about everything I could find when I first got into ponies, but it all trended toward Dubstep and very heavy electronic which I just can't get in to.
I seriously tried on at least a dozen occasions, but 'bass drops' just irritate me.
I Now I very rarely listen to Brony music simply because my personal hit-to-miss ratio was far too low to want to continue.
Ah well, just stick to some good ol' electric guitars and I'm happy!

Honestly, though, outside of dubstep and rap, I tend to be pretty flexible in my music tastes.
I can listen to and enjoy just about anything with some level of competence to it.
Now, if you'll excuse me…

PAN FLUTES FOREVER!

@Kewln00b
Why do hipsters have rock-a-billy tattoos? None of them where ever rock-a-billy. So am I a hipster for having rock-a-billy tats? (the hello kitty Gene Simmons is tattooed on my right butt cheek)
Hipsters are douches and have no connection to metal other than they think wearing an AC/DC shirt makes them look cool.

I don't think I like any particular kind of music, but the 80s and 90s are probably my favorite eras of music.

@Kewl

Oh and apparently that makes me a hipster…..how does liking bands that used to be hardcore mainstream/sold-out to a whole new level (Catch KISS Hello Kitty on the Hub coming soon! Not joking) make me a hipster? I just don’t understand that.

Wait…who's going around saying that awesome 80's bands are for hipsters? And since when?

According to the hipster stereotype: hipsters only listen to very modern and recent indie prog-rock bands. You know the ones.

But previous generation music should be the exact opposite of that. Whoever thinks the old stuff is for hipsters obviously has no freaking clue what a hipster is supposed to be

@Kewl and DP

Dubstep is the big thing amongst kids these days……you know for the next few years until they replace it with something else in the future.

I remember listening to just about everything I could find when I first got into ponies, but it all trended toward Dubstep and very heavy electronic which I just can’t get in to.
I seriously tried on at least a dozen occasions, but ‘bass drops’ just irritate me.

I still blame Skrillex and Deadmau5 for that. Since they became popular with the kids, all fanworks followed suit and they all tried to replicate his style…which is precisely the loud irritating 'bass drops' you've heard:

Get ready for the roughneck bass!
Get ready for the roughneck bass!
Get ready for the roughneck bass!
Get ready for the roughneck bass!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

…good Lord. How do you listen to that?

But usually these stars blow over in a few months so expect people to find new inspiration in due time.

Thing about dubstep is that it seems easy to make: You just make a buildup, add a drop then continue with wobbles…right?…well not really. If you want to make good dubstep that doesn't piss people off, you have to do more effort than that. And it turns out that decent and pleasant sounding dubstep is really hard to master.

So even I couldn't get into Brony music. Their dubstep sounded too juvenile. Bass drops made of treble? No variation? Farty tones? Scratchy tones? Pop influenced melody? Random breaks? Distortion? Hammy sound effects? Pinkie Pie talking halfway through it?

I'll pass.

@Derpy: Isn't AC/DC too mainstream for them? I mean, your average layman might've heard of them! D:

Musically yes. As a fashion statement no. And they will tell you (over and over) how they where into them before they went mainstream.

Ah right, I see!
Yeah, that sounds about right…

@Vazquez

Which is funny because not a single hipster was even born back when AC/DC wasn't mainstream

Blue Screen said:

Also the idea of having pneumatic hooves that work exactly like that granular jamming machine doesn’t make sense. It’s safer to assume they just have flexible muscles in the hoof that can grip things similarly to granular jamming

>Magical talking ponies
>Making sense

>that feel when you realize you're having a discussion over the biological abilities of brightly colored equines.

@Dubstep

I like dubstep, but only if it blends into the song. Nothing's worse (okay, rap and country are) then a song that has a bass drop into something that has nothing to do with the song. That, and intros that take up a third of the song can cause some serious jimmy rustling.

Well of course, we know they're full of crap anyway…

OK! Page 34 Everyone! I'm gonna start with the intro (which will apply to ALL of our characters except Bionicle), and then post each subsequent encounter as we go along. Oh yes, the encounters ARE NSFW! You have been warned…

Will post the next part introducing our characters, and then the encounters. But for now, what do you think?

EDIT: TFW the only reason you're going off is for Bionicle… post them… do it…

@TSG

that feel when you realize you’re having a discussion over the biological abilities of brightly colored equines.

Hey, stay focused. Understanding pony anatomy is important. Just chalking things up to cartoon physics and magic wasn't good enough for Pythagorus when he invented math homework and it sure isn't good enough for us

I like dubstep, but only if it blends into the song.

That's one of my biggest problems with the brony dubstep too (and most other dubstep). People get this idea that Dubstep doesn't have to flow smoothly or mesh well with other sounds/lyrics. It does.

Then again, I'm really fussy with Dubstep

@Mark

TFW you were serious about putting all of us in an NSFW fanfic…featuring Bionicle

^Wait, where's Fluttershy in that first pic?

Sure dude, you know I'm just giving you a hard time. Honestly, whenever you find a legitimate classical music elitist talking about how all other genres are terrible compared to the symphonies and sonatas of the true masters, mmmmmm yessss

Well, they're kind of full of shit and probably don't really know that much about music honestly. Art music isn't about getting down on your knees and sucking Beethoven's dick, it's about pushing the envelope and exploring new techniques and concepts. Accordingly, today's serious academic composers, the guys who are the equivilants of yesterday's Beethoven, are very much interested in exploring electronic music and electric techniques. I remember last year going to a symposium for modern composers at my school and half the stuff they showed was electronic in nature. Now keep in mind, it was significantly different from what you think of as electronic music-and in my opinion, significantly worse. Seriously, as much as I like to complain about popular electronic, that stuff sounds like the singing of angels compared to the bizarre shit that academic electronic gets up to- but still, this is what the serious composers are doing.

It's impossible for me to be a musical elitist and say Art music uber alles because when it comes to the cutting edge of art music, well, I really don't like it. The stuff modern composers are producing is too weird and challenging for me, I like my simple Bach and Mozart better.

I don't really buy the whole "All art is subjective" thing, at least not completely. We can have some measure of objective intelligence in music in the same way that a piece of literature like Milton's Paradise Lost shows more objective intelligence than Harry Potter. I think that if forced the decision, we ought preserve Paradise Lost over Harry Potter even though more people today might prefer the latter just because Paradise Lost is actually important, it has great historical significance and will be much more appreciated in generations to come. In this same way, I believe that some of the great music does have a value not stemming from the mere sum of popular opinion. Additionally, I think a lot of today's modern music reflects a culture that has become sick, confused, and pretentious, and therefore itself bares those qualities. I find these qualities to be astoundingly negative/ I don't like them. Regardless, it's the job of good art to reflect the time, so I can't begrudge it that, and yes, whether a piece of music in the end is good or bad will ultimately be a subjective call.

I still don't like electronic, but I can certainly respect that other people like it. I'm sure the genre has a lot of outlets for creative expression and true musical intelligence, and even where it doesn't, even where it is at its most unsophisticated and raw, I realize that it has some charm that just appeals to some people.

Edit: Oh hey, look: Page 34.

Obligatory.

Page 34?

I missed a couple of threads, but does that still mean what I think it means?

(Revs up saucy-but-not-pornographic folder internally)

Back when I was in highschool everyone would be listening to their Lil' Wayne, Soulja Boy, Linkin Park and that one band that did all that music for Twilight (Another reason for me not to like them!) as Dubstep didn't….really get popular until I graduated (thank Buddha) but according to everyone at school my musical tastes made me a hipster.

Also yeah, that's another thing that always irritated me with Brony Music, it would be an instrumental (a Dubstep instrumental) that sounds like it has NOTHING to do with MLP (like most Poni threads) but to make it MLP oriented they'd just shoehorn poni (just like in most poni threads) and just add Pinkie Pie yapping through the song. Just one other reason why I think Dubstep is the WORST music to use for MLP songs considering…..well it's a bunch of bass drops and all that shit, you can't even tell it's pony related unless the 'musician' has to hold our hands the way through saying "Don't worry, this is totally an MLP song, see Pinkie Pie is talking about not breaking her Pinkie Promises!"

I remember one remix I saw that I thought I would've liked…..see it was a remix of one of the songs from the show The Cutie Mark Crusaders theme from Show Stoppers. The Remix completely removed the background music and replaced it with….generic electronic music (don't know if I'd call it techno or Dubstep or something). and…..it was just so bad. I always hear people talking about how fanmade music is better than the show's music but….I don't hear it, it must be the lesser known fanmusic or something because I find it a little hard to consider all the Skrillex clones better than the actual show….well I guess I wouldn't if I were a Dubstep fan.

Here have a shoehorned poni

@markhaox's non-understanding of his "moosey fate". (from previous page)

Regrettably, your punishment shall be eternal.

NSFW media is NSFW media and should be spoilered.

The page number of a SFW thread isn't relevant.
 
I'm not going to want to send out warnings or spoiler everything myself, but please don't be "that guy" who posts R34 without spoilers just because a number inevitably came up (same goes for page 69.) You'll just run off some users (me included) who don't want to see that content.

So if it would be considered NSFW for the image gallery (which would be NSFW based on the NSFW guidelines,) the please cover it up.

And as a point of reference if you don't think the Spitfire image from Fifths above is "that bad," then if this cute, anime fairy image gallery (something that you could see from a buxom and excited woman IRL) is mostly NSFW, then the "naughty face," sweaty (do horses even sweat?), plot-shot of Spitfire would be as well.

I'm not warning/banning for the slight difference between this:

But don't intentionally try to find the point just before the NSFW threshold to make a statement or in order to avoid spoilering (you can also just link to the images). I'm also not warning/banning for that, but it would make you a bit of a jerk.
 
I don't have a problem with a page with spoilered NSFW media. Heck, the whole thread could be that. Just give me the option to click it before I see it.

Incredibly, I am still here. I just spend more time reading because I don't find myself having much to contribute.

@OC

I like it! It looks really good. I like to think that my OC really shows how to handle dark colors on a pony well. I wish I had a decent name for him, though.

@Electro and WUUUUBWUBWUBWBWBWB

While I enjoy a lot of musical styles, I've been listening to more electronic music lately. While my interests always waver towards smoother styles, and Daft Punk-style… Electrofunk? I suppose the correct genre is more like house, but I've always called it electrofunk with all of the disco sampling – I've dabbled in a lot, even finding some modern dubstep that I like. Just like with any other genre, it's all about what I enjoy more than other things (although the screaming, whining tones of Skrillex make me want to shoot my computer, usually). I prefer stuff that flows really well, with just enough distortion – stuff like liquid dubstep, drum and bass (liquid and vanilla), but my current favorite is glitch hop/pop like Glitch Mob. There's just… something about it that's a perfect medium between smoother styles and dubstep that I really enjoy.

Electropon? Electropon.

@Mark: My jimmies are more than ready

On the subject of not spoilering saucy images, I think we need to remember that * cough * there are some females in this thread

Don't make me post sexy SoarinXBraeburn, cus I will.

@Verbose

Just to be clear, I wasn't suggesting that we turn this into a NSFW page – I was thinking more along the lines of the images you posted (properly spoiler-tagged, of course). My bad for not making things clear.

@Fifths

I don’t really buy the whole “All art is subjective” thing, at least not completely. We can have some measure of objective intelligence in music in the same way that a piece of literature like Milton’s Paradise Lost shows more objective intelligence than Harry Potter.

True. A line must be drawn somewhere.

Art can be absolutely anything. There are no rules. One can organise a pile of trash, and as long as it took a lot of clever effort to make; it still makes it into a museum and perplexes people. But we can't just let someone submit a scribble on a used napkin to the Lourve and have it get the same treatment. This applies to music as well. So it's okay to permit a level of scrutiny…in the context where it matters, that is. This thread, however, is not really such context

As they always say: ones mans trash is another mans treasure.

Since literal trash is being used in museum art pieces now: this saying very much applies to all artistic forms and everyone must be mindful that what you see as a mere scribble on a napkin, could very well be another users perplexing pile of artistic trash, or vice versa

Anyway, it's all good dude. No hard feelings.

@Kewl

We both very much agree on something.

I remember those days when everyone was into rap too. It was the only music you would ever hear about. Rap was kinda like the Brostep of that time. And man, it was just as annoying

@Twilit

I agree on the OC colors. I'm glad we had a chance to settle on a nice shade of grey for your OC months in advance. Definitely allowed your OC some extra refinement. Personally I think yours came out the best

And I believe the more common term is "House" for styles like Daft Punk.

Interested in more electro? Just ask me.

@Crimson

Braeburn and Soarin you say? I think you will find that is not much of threat to some here…if you know what I mean

@OC's

Finally. Last OC's finished

Anything I should change here before I submit the final compilation?

@Music discussion: Since Daft Punk was brought up, I just want to say I'm really quite fond of them, they're one of the few techno/electronic-type groups I listen to, I don't really hate any genre because it's really about execution for me.

@Spoilering suggestive images:

>:P

This is the first time I've posted a Pony in this thread, huh.

When it comes to pony rock music, I prefer to listen to some good old Pantera. I bet Applejack is a Pantera fan.

BSOD wrote:

@Crimson

Braeburn and Soarin you say? I think you will find that is not much of threat to some here…if you know what I mean

True, I was going on the mentality of the pony image gallery. Lesbian ponies? Let's give that 30+ karma! Gay ponies? NEEEEEGG!

WARNING: NSFW WARNING: NSFW WARNING NSFW!

Some jimmies will be rustled, two mods will trap and beat me again, and their stories will be up live!
Punish me, I've been a naughty mare! Bwahahahahaha!

Oh, I forgot to mention…
NSFW NSFW NSFW!
So Verbose can't ban me… well, he can, but it'd be corrupt since I warned everyone.

All right! Everyone came just for Bionicle, but will they get what they wanted? Most likely not… but our first encounter will be posted soon! I'm gonna get the threesome out of the way as quickly as possible, so Blue, Vin, and Platus… prepare your jimmies.

Markhaox wrote:

>two mods will trap and beat me again
>"Punish me, I’ve been a naughty mare!"

I have part three of your fanfic ready right there.

Where would Ace be during all this?

You know what, I don't really wanna know. I really wanna know.

Like I said for two or three posts four pages ago…

"Remember, use code word 'Freeloaders' for a pair, and 'Dominance' for a threesome. Mods can edit the list as they like…"

Sorry, but I already made the pairs and threesome stories. Wanna sign up for Part 2 on Page 69?

I'll say it again, so no one forgets… WHO WANTS TO SIGN UP FOR PART 2 ON PAGE 69?
Because one part isn't enough…

@Music preferences
I shudder to think what happens when you guys go on EqBeats. I swear that bad music saps my sanity far more than bad fanfics do.

@NSFW
I've always wondered, why are there two NSFW cover images (one red and one blue)? At first, I thought it was to differentiate the sexy pics from the gore ones, but that isn't the case.

@Forum Shipping Clopfic

You do realize that when I post my nightly fanfiction reading update on Fimfiction, this will have to be included, right?

@Music

I know it's not cool to say I listen to AC/DC or Metallica, but damnit I like rock music both new and old.

@Clopfics starring Platus

That was amazing.
Though I'm not that flexible in real life.
Or am I?
I guess you'll have to find out.
(winks internally)

“Remember, use code word ‘Freeloaders’ for a pair, and ‘Dominance’ for a threesome. Mods can edit the list as they like…”

>that feel when you used my image macro (as in I made it)

>tfw you are the center of the story

>tfw you realize you are about to become a robot sex toy

@Music Discussion
I don't know why people hate rap and country so much. Country is okay but I don't know any good ones to listen to. Rap would be more listenable to me if it didn't have a lot of swearing and sexual stuff. My favorite genre is house (which I dabble a bit in) but I want to listen to more kinds of music though. I mean I want to listen to genres that doesn't sing A LOT about being in love and more inappropriate stuff like that. Which is why I also listen to classical and romantic music because it's not overbearing to me.
And I also like to listen to really weird stuff, like this:

Oh and thanks for everyone, especially mods, for taking the fun out of page 34.

Dear lord Daniel, do you wish to be fucking banned?

@Clopfic: Sign up Ace and Vinyl for Part 2.

Find the connection.

Jimmy Lethal wrote:

@Clopfic: Sign up Ace and Vinyl for Part 2.

There's still time to change your OC's name. Just saying..

Crimson Locks wrote:

On the subject of not spoilering saucy images, I think we need to remember that * cough * there are some females in this thread

Don’t make me post sexy SoarinXBraeburn, cus I will.

I'm with BSOD. I don't think you realize how many of us would be really happy perfectly okay with you doing that.

Can we cool it with the large image dumps and videos, guys?
My browser can barely load this page right now.

@Jimmy Lethal
I'll hazard a guess and say it has something to do with the Van Halen song "Hot for Teacher."

Also, is too late to get in on the forum fanfic smut? If not… freeloader.

Blue… Platus… Vin… if you take this seriously, you're jimmies will be rustled beyond all belief. Remember, it's only a story.

Sorry, but I have to get a mod's permission to post explicit stuff, which will involve another player in the threesome scene…

@ Jimmy Lethal

Sure thing! But she's sleeping with Chloe… I'll be sure to add you two to the reservation list together!

@ Level4
Afraid so… but there's the one for Page 69! Would you like a spot in that one?

@ RandomMan

Eh… I'll give Ace and Jimmy their moments, because I enjoy reading and creating porn I'm nice like that.

@ Crimson Locks
I would LOVE like to enjoy seeing Braeburn x Soarin photos… I mean, I am following Braeburn around like a maniac already, thanks to Stunt 101!

@ Braeburn and BSoD
Me too… all the softcore porn shipfic I posted in the spoilers, I think. My bad…

WOW! I already got reservations for my second one! Thanks guys! I'm glad you like the first one so far! I thought everyone would hate it and whip me for being such a naughty mare…, but I'm glad you all like it!

Something on this page is killing my tab on Chrome

Anyone else getting that? I think it's the humongous PNG files people are using.

@Vazquez

Yea, I knew you made it. Thanks, it came in handy.

@Mark

I like where this is going. I mean…how dare you make a clopfic of me!

Keep going

And since I'm already in it, I guess I sign up for part 2 as well. Also can we get someone to redesign Platus so he isn't butt ugly? It would make the story easier to read

@Music discussion

Again folks, we have another thread for posting music. You can talk about your preferences here or you opinion towards music but I'd rather we didn't post any music video's unless it's pony related.

OC's

Alright here's the overview of all the OC's we have so far.

These are all the OC's I'm going to use. If you aren't in it, well too bad I'm not drawing any more.

If you want the full size PNG so you can do your own shooping with it, just PM me

Not sure whether to laugh or feel disturbed by this… interesting fic.

Either way, I want my OC in on the next one.

@RandomMan
Yes I do

Jimmy Lethal wrote:

@Clopfic: Sign up Ace and Vinyl for Part 2.

Look, Jimmy, I'll be straight here, but this is getting annoying. From what I understood Markhaox wants to create a shipfic based on OCs created by users or based on users here. Yet again you feel the need to force your pairing into it. This was the same with the family photo.

We already went through the whole "near-canon" fanon characters in the previous discussion, so I won't repeat that. What we also concluded however was that adding Vinyl in the family photo solely to have her interact with your OC based on your headcanon was a bad case of ego, as everyone has their own headcanon and going with your idea would basically be a huge "deal with it", middle fingers all around, to everyone else. Now again, you're forcing your headcanon in a user-based colab, which is again a bad case of ego imo.

If markhaox is ok with adding Vinyl in combination with you, I won't complain (and this seems to be the case, so carry on). It's his story, so he can do whatever he's happy with. But this was far from the first time you brought up either your OC or the ship, and its forcefulness is getting annoying, so I felt like this needed to be said. My apologies if it sounded insulting, but this was necessary. Even if this time checks out, that doesn't mean it will in the future, and if I don't point it out now this situation will arrise again in the future.

Pony

@Blue Screen (of Death): Those OCs are really nice

SWEETIE SWEETIE SWEETIE

@Markhaox14

Ahem… Yeah sure, might as well make my reservations early for next time around.

Sexy Spitfire

Well, hmm… that was interesting. Can't imagine part two.