Anyone Else Getting Sick of MLP?

[Casual Shinji]

This too shall pass.

One day we'll all look back and think,"Oh yeah, bronies - I remember when that whole thing was going on."

 

[Saulkar]

MLP shoved in porn is tolerable, kudos to Anyone else in a willing overdose of MLP directed at your face.

HAHAHAHA!!! I could not resist!

On that topic I seriously do not care what other people draw, animate, or imagine when it cums to my little pony. It is all fan fiction and none of it legitimate. On the note about your f(r)iends pressuring you, you just need the right words. If words alone do not work, they may not be very good friends.

Now that I got that out of me I need to go clop to something.

 

[One Shot wonder]

Go and read Fallout:Equestria.

Come back.

That's why.

I don't know how that was a response to what I said. If you where unaware that was a rhetorical question. If that was meant to be a smart statement, I don't get it? That was one of the things I was complaining about. So. . . . What?!

From a Fallout fan, I'm going to go ahead here and say Fallout:Equestria is bad. It's not adding anything new or valuable to what was already a coherent and (for gaming standards) really rather deep piece of work. No, Ponies do not count as new. If your only reason for writing something is to make everyone ponies so you can enjoy it because for some reason deep and engaging characters who happen to have opposable thumbs and bipedal motion don't appeal to you. It's taking something that was a great thing as it is, and inexplicably adding something else. If Fallout:Equestria is a good piece, then I propose that I shall paint you a true work of art. I call it Constable's Haywain with some Transformers. It's Constable's Haywain, a romanticised view of the English countryside expressed through a canvass ...with big transforming robots, because I can't appreciate art without giant robots.

The point of Fallout is that the world is by and large pretty miserable, but the humour emerges from this setting by contrast against the expectations of pre-war society, by the sheer lunacy of the survivors or by the hilarious happenstance only a retro-futuristic apocalypse can offer. Putting something as innately 'happy' as Ponies in as characters loses some of that. There is no denying that whereas humans can go the full spectrum of (funnily enough) human emotional messages, something about ponies makes them worse suited for especially grim or unhappy tones. This is detrimental to a setting like fallout where half the humour and value is to be found by contrast with this rather miserable backdrop.

If you want to use a piece as an argument, to simply direct one to the piece is insufficient, one must explain the reasoning. In short, you must show us the argument between your premise and the conclusion, to state one and go "it's self-evident" is merely begging the question and poor form.

This too shall pass.

One day we'll all look back and think,"Oh yeah, bronies - I remember when that whole thing was going on."

Fingers crossed.

 

[Eddie the head]

From a Fallout fan, I'm going to go ahead here and say Fallout:Equestria is bad. It's not adding anything new or valuable to what was already a coherent and (for gaming standards) really rather deep piece of work. No, Ponies do not count as new. If your only reason for writing something is to make everyone ponies so you can enjoy it because for some reason deep and engaging characters who happen to have opposable thumbs and bipedal motion don't appeal to you. It's taking something that was a great thing as it is, and inexplicably adding something else. If Fallout:Equestria is a good piece, then I propose that I shall paint you a true work of art. I call it Constable's Haywain with some Transformers. It's Constable's Haywain, a romanticised view of the English countryside expressed through a canvass ...with big transforming robots, because I can't appreciate art without giant robots.

The point of Fallout is that the world is by and large pretty miserable, but the humour emerges from this setting by contrast against the expectations of pre-war society, by the sheer lunacy of the survivors or by the hilarious happenstance only a retro-futuristic apocalypse can offer. Putting something as innately 'happy' as Ponies in as characters loses some of that. There is no denying that whereas humans can go the full spectrum of (funnily enough) human emotional messages, something about ponies makes them worse suited for especially grim or unhappy tones. This is detrimental to a setting like fallout where half the humour and value is to be found by contrast with this rather miserable backdrop.

If you want to use a piece as an argument, to simply direct one to the piece is insufficient, one must explain the reasoning. In short, you must show us the argument between your premise and the conclusion, to state one and go "it's self-evident" is merely begging the question and poor form.

I think you meant to quote the guy I was. You seam to be talking like I said it was good, and I didn't. I think I said something like " Just adding the MLP people to a subject doesn't make it better and sometimes makes it worse." (originality) So yeah I agree with you, but I was talking a little bit more across the board.

 

[thelittleman66]

What I don't get is that why MLP? Why not Strawberry Shortcake or Dora?

 

[Shadowstar38]

From a Fallout fan, I'm going to go ahead here and say Fallout:Equestria is bad. It's not adding anything new or valuable to what was already a coherent and (for gaming standards) really rather deep piece of work. No, Ponies do not count as new. If your only reason for writing something is to make everyone ponies so you can enjoy it because for some reason deep and engaging characters who happen to have opposable thumbs and bipedal motion don't appeal to you. It's taking something that was a great thing as it is, and inexplicably adding something else. If Fallout:Equestria is a good piece, then I propose that I shall paint you a true work of art. I call it Constable's Haywain with some Transformers. It's Constable's Haywain, a romanticised view of the English countryside expressed through a canvass ...with big transforming robots, because I can't appreciate art without giant robots.

The point of Fallout is that the world is by and large pretty miserable, but the humour emerges from this setting by contrast against the expectations of pre-war society, by the sheer lunacy of the survivors or by the hilarious happenstance only a retro-futuristic apocalypse can offer. Putting something as innately 'happy' as Ponies in as characters loses some of that. There is no denying that whereas humans can go the full spectrum of (funnily enough) human emotional messages, something about ponies makes them worse suited for especially grim or unhappy tones. This is detrimental to a setting like fallout where half the humour and value is to be found by contrast with this rather miserable backdrop.

If you want to use a piece as an argument, to simply direct one to the piece is insufficient, one must explain the reasoning. In short, you must show us the argument between your premise and the conclusion, to state one and go "it's self-evident" is merely begging the question and poor form.

He explains it here.

Actually, Fallout:Equestria did preseve most of the "War is Hell" tone, in fact, I would say that it even expanded it. I'm not trying to belittle Fallout with that, it's great at what it is, being an atmospheric game, but the fanfiction's literary medium was inevitably more appropriate for long discussions about ambigous morality, idealism, cynicism, struggles for survival, and the fall of civilization, the nature of tyrannies, not to mention the protagonist's characterization, struggling to find good in herself wheh there is almost nothing good remaining in the world.

Besides, the 50's retro theme itself was used as an intentionally dissonant element in the original Fallout, it's whole point was being a painfully naive andsimplicistic past, so the pony theme kinda replaces that. It has the same effect, with the flasbacks to the pre-war era ponies, with the posters, in-jokes, locations, bringing up the same feeling that "God, how could something so innocent and idealistic go so horribly wrong?"

See, you made the assumption that because ponies are in it, it would take out the Fallout themes. But it wouldnt be a proper crossover if it did.

I wont tell you to read it but, not ever writer makes these things for the "look at these two things being together" one joke punchline.

 

[One Shot wonder]

I think you meant to quote the guy I was. You seam to be talking like I said it was good, and I didn't. I think I said something like " Just adding the MLP people to a subject doesn't make it better and sometimes makes it worse." (originality) So yeah I agree with you, but I was talking a little bit more across the board.

Sorry, I originally intended to make a passing comment on how I agreed that I don't get its appeal and then move on, but I guess I missed it out by mistake. Also my compliments on name & avatar, up the Irons.

See, you made the assumption that because ponies are in it, it would take out the Fallout themes. But it wouldnt be a proper crossover if it did.

No, a proper crossover (as you said) would keep the themes. I wass merely commenting that the themes would suffer some dilution because of changes around them, that although still present they'd be weakened. It'd be like saving private ryan with ponies. Sure Ryan's a pony, he's still some idealistic kid in a war far bigger than just him and his squad whilst undergoing a personal tradgedy as he learns he's the last one alive of his three brothers, the Capitan's still a long-time veteran slowly unravelling at the seams with his past is still a mystery, dozens of men (...ponies, w/e) still get mown down on the beach. However, some of the essence is going to get lost and that's what I'm commenting on. Something is being lost here by taking what is a story of humans, of us, of our very specific nature as (essentially) pack omnivores/carnivores, opportunists by nature, social creatures with a long and blood-drenched past of communal violence. The damning indictment of human nature is a lot less effective when it's damning anthropomorphised herd herbivores for uniquely human and thus opportunistic, tribal and predatory traits. The meaning goes missing, even if all the elements bar the human one are still there.

Also, I thought that post (along with others) had been trimmed from the thread by a mod edit or somesuch, as I couldn't see it in the last 2 or 3 pages, as the topic has moved on more than I anticipated so I apologise for any redundant points.

 

[PirateRose]

You know, the most I've run into the MLP stuff is 1. In the toy section of a retail store & 2. When people complain about the fans.

I must be visiting the right websites.

 

[BiscuitTrouser]

Yet another "I hate MLP" thread. You do realise that these vastly outnumber the actual fan threads don't you? You might be sick of it but I'm getting pretty sick of the hatedom getting shoved down my throat too! Darwin above, the "haters" seem to talk about it more than the fans.

We get it, you don't like a kids cartoon stop yammering on about it.

People take a special pride in disliking or openly hating popular things. They might not hate it BECAUSE its popular but it basically calculates as.... wait lemme write you an equation.

Pride = (How popular it is) * (intensity of the dislike)

And we know pride is proportional to probability of sharing this opinion on the internet. As such youll find more threads asking why MLP is so liked or whats wrong with MLP than you do real threads about it.

Im utterly indifferent. There are several million shows i dont watch and love and its one of them. I can see the appeal and wont judge anyone on anything as puerile as what TV they watch. I mean come the fuck on, what matters LESS than a TV show someone likes. I say put it to rest. The hatedom has some special plinth and we need to just stop talking about the phenomenon. Yeah people love MLP. Im fanatically devoted to firefly. I just seek out firefly and manage to avoid basically all MLP. It isnt hard to avoid. And seeing it with my eyes doesn't induce instant rage because im a balanced human being...

 

[Eddie the head]

I think you meant to quote the guy I was. You seam to be talking like I said it was good, and I didn't. I think I said something like " Just adding the MLP people to a subject doesn't make it better and sometimes makes it worse." (originality) So yeah I agree with you, but I was talking a little bit more across the board.

Sorry, I originally intended to make a passing comment on how I agreed that I don't get its appeal and then move on, but I guess I missed it out by mistake. Also my compliments on name & avatar, up the Irons.

Ahh I see. Also thanks, Up the Irons. I use this name whenever I can get it.

 

[level27smartass]

No its a good show and makes me happy.

Spoiler

The butt-hurt is entertaining too

 

[MrHide-Patten]

Eh, will admit i kinda stayed off deviantart a bit for a while due to all the MLP spam, but really i ignore it because it will die out sooner or later and its still not as damaging for people to like as twilight.

I really wish they would implement some kind of filter, exclude certain pieces that have certain keywords. Probably wouldn't have unwatched Slugbox for it.

 

[MrHide-Patten]

I prefer to live by a simple adage of never ranting about what I hate, because in time I know they'll fuck off to some dark corner of the internet.

But for kick's and clarity I'll list them now: Zack Efron, Justin Bieber (Zack Efron clone), Lady Gaga, Minja something-or-other, screw it basically any "musician" who started in the last five years, My Little Pony, Nintendo, Console Wars, PC Gaming Elitists, Misogynists, Feminists, Fundamentalist Christians/Muslims/insert religion here, the Australian Government and Bob from Accounting.
I'm sure there's more, but I've got shit to do.

 

[jebara]

I'm the same boat, at first I was okay with it but overtime got tired of all the pony stuff posted everywhere.
A lot of the time(if not all the time) the stuff related to this meme feels forced and just comes off as annoying.