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Oxymoron wrote:PS : yes, I watch the show, read some of the fanfics and appreciate most of the fan-arts ; but call me a brony and I'm going to punch you in the face. I do not associate myself with this fandom : I just appreciate shitty entertainment on a general basis.

I'm not afraid of the Brony "title" (well, obviously, since I have a MLP avatar) though I kinda consider myself "Brony-lite".

Inasmuch as I do not and have no desire to create fan-art, -fiction, -music or anything like that. I just like to watch and discuss the show, and of course I appreciate the various fan-made things because many of them are of rather high quality.

Of course, I don't really do my own fan-made stuff for any of the other things I am a fan of, except for an aborted attempt at a GTA fanfic and unrelated GTA webcomic. But that's the closest I've ever come. So it's not like I especially exclude (or include) MLP in that regard.

And sure, I'll discuss the show if/when it gets brought up (like it has been now) but I don't go out of my way to preach the Gospel of Ponies or anything like that. And in all fairness, I don't see any of the bronies/pegasisters on SDN do that either. They will when someone mentions it or in the threads dedicated to it, but that's about it.

I can hardly speak for the rest of the Internet, of course. But honestly, fanboys of all sorts of shows, movies, games and so on will often try to 'preach' and 'convert' people into liking what it is they like. I really don't think the "Bronies" are any worse in that regard (same with some of the more...questionable elements of the fandom, like clopfics and shit; it ain't just MLP that generates that sort of thing, Rule 34 and slash/ship fics existed long before this show) yet people seem to go after the MLP fans with extra venom.

Maybe it's just because MLP is still relatively "new" and all, and maybe if there'd been an Internet in the 60s and 70s, Trekkies and Warsies would have gotten the same amount of shit when their shows came out. I like to think that, anyway.

Better than closet sexism/misogyny because "OMG guys like a GIRL'S show???"

oooooooh boy another Battletech thread :D :D :D :D

RogueIce wrote:Better than closet sexism/misogyny because "OMG guys like a GIRL'S show???"

I'm pretty sure it's really this simple.

Furries and anthros probably don't help things much though.

Zod wrote: I'm pretty sure it's really this simple.

Furries and anthros probably don't help things much though.

This. At least for me, anyway.

Flagg wrote:

Zod wrote:Furries and anthros probably don't help things much though.

This. At least for me, anyway.

It's not like they're exclusive to MLP, though.

For what it's worth, I don't particulary like that aspect of the fandom either, and do my best to avoid it.

so my nuke aint one of those oven types


and i just warmed up my whole oven to bake 6 breadsticks

am i going ot hell?


i think i'm forced to make cookies in it now so the heat doesn't go all to waste

Ahh. The MLP Hate thread. What amused me was evilsoup going 'why don't you just ignore the three MLP threads if you dislike it then?'

Which I though was a fair point. But then i came to realisation; its just as easy for a brony to just ignore that hate thread.

i r an genius?

Look the thread is lame, mlp is lame etc

But nobody really cares that anyone is into anything

They are maybe just tired of smug hipster idiots crowing about how cool they are for being brand slaves

And frankly if people on the Internet ignored things they didn't like sdn wouldn't exist

or this thread :<

starku wrote: And frankly if people on the Internet ignored things they didn't like sdn half the internet wouldn't exist

fixed

In other news : Thanas is back, still has an irrational hatred of all things pony-related, and continue to use the seal of disapproval I made for him and my own entertainment.

My feelings are mixed.

Well, I guess we all have our way to relieve ourself from the stress of a hard day of work.

Welcome back, Thanas. It's good to see you again.

oh man the lols

after like years of hyterical scaremongering (which doubtless profited her directly lol)

j has now upper the 'i am awesome' and toned down the 'world is doomed' only to run straight back to BUY GUNS OH EMM GEE

imagine if anyone had listened to her

j is intelligent, beautiful and a profit prophet

Ralin wrote:Because I think it would be fun. Because I don't like Christianity and I enjoy mocking it. Because I think that backing down and letting people like that rant in a public space is ceding a victory to them on some level. Take you pick.

Because you're a confrontational prick who would make a scene for no good reason. Because you're a loser trying to gain points with the fundamentalist atheists of SDN. Because you're a moron who thinks somebody preaching on the subway is an actual battle that must be won. Take you[sic] pick.

EDIT: So I thought of a third "Because" after all.

RogueIce wrote:

Ralin wrote:Because I think it would be fun. Because I don't like Christianity and I enjoy mocking it. Because I think that backing down and letting people like that rant in a public space is ceding a victory to them on some level. Take you pick.

Because you're a confrontational prick who would make a scene for no good reason. Because you're a loser trying to gain points with the fundamentalist atheists of SDN. Because you're a moron who thinks somebody preaching on the subway is an actual battle that must be won. Take you[sic] pick.

EDIT: So I thought of a third "Because" after all.

I just put on some deathklok and turn up my headphones as loud as they'll go when I run into preaching assholes. If they want to be annoying shitpales, I'll be annoying right back.

just what is the future
the things we've done and said
let's just push the button
we'd be better of dead

cuz i hhate you
and i berate you
and i can't wait to get to you

the sins of all our fathers
dumped on us the sons
teh only choice we're given is
how many megatons?

so i eschew you
and i say SCREW YOU
and i hope you're blue too

we're all bloody worthless

adr wrote:the sins of all our fathers
dumped on us the sons
teh only choice we're given is
how many megatons?

a true masterpiece tbh

hav thinks we need to start a company selling t-shirts with the best sdn quotes on them

i'd buy a t-shirt that sayd 'there is no stigma against the use of nuclear weapons'

i bet sherry would buy one that says 'I KEEP FORGETTING WHICH REALITY I'M IN SAID BART BLADE'

Is that what we're calling him now? I rate it.

starku wrote:hav thinks we need to start a company selling t-shirts with the best sdn quotes on them

i'd buy a t-shirt that sayd 'there is no stigma against the use of nuclear weapons'

i bet sherry would buy one that says 'I KEEP FORGETTING WHICH REALITY I'M IN SAID BART BLADE'

I'd buy a shirt with "CUNTS FOR EYES!" on it that's for sure.

You'd totally get arrested for obscenity though

Zod wrote:

RogueIce wrote:

Ralin wrote:Because I think it would be fun. Because I don't like Christianity and I enjoy mocking it. Because I think that backing down and letting people like that rant in a public space is ceding a victory to them on some level. Take you pick.

Because you're a confrontational prick who would make a scene for no good reason. Because you're a loser trying to gain points with the fundamentalist atheists of SDN. Because you're a moron who thinks somebody preaching on the subway is an actual battle that must be won. Take you[sic] pick.

EDIT: So I thought of a third "Because" after all.

I just put on some deathklok and turn up my headphones as loud as they'll go when I run into preaching assholes. If they want to be annoying shitpales, I'll be annoying right back.

Damage own hearing! That'll show 'em.

i can't even imagine how loud my headphones would have to be to be audible to others

i think my head would explode first

the big bad bat wrote:If you didn't want people commenting on it maybe you shouldn't have posted that fluff commentary then.

oh you

Why not something evocative of the inherent risks and dangers associated with early space travel like the 'Laika'? (first animal in orbit, if not the first in space).

Did I miss the joke, or did this dude just suggest the Federation name a starship after a dog that was sent into space to die?