Valve's Gabe is a brony

[w00tage]

This is news?

Okay. Stop the planet; I want to get off.

Can't, sorry. You'll just have to jump.

OT...

1. Big fucking deal if he does. I don't know anything about his personal life, but if he ever has to endure children's television for a child or grandchild or whatever, MLP is like a goddamn serene oasis in a desert of vapid, corny, awful bullshit. Whenever I have to babysit my cousin, I pull it up on YouTube and we watch it together.

About the same as Avatar then, but for younger children. Ok, now I understand it more.

 

[CatsAttackAgain]

So has Gabe just turned his interviews into some kind of blog?

 

[DasDestroyer]

hence I usually will often stay away from brony threads on the escapist, because that's what usually ends up happening.
I don't enjoy it, I avoid it. Simple as that.

That's great, but what happens when MLP is brought into nearly every other thread on this website in one form or another? Sure, you can avoid the blatantly obvious MLP threads (such as this one) but what is he supposed to do when people bring in brony memes and crappy pony youtube vids into completely irrelevant topics? Just as you're entitled to speak in favour, he is entitled to speak against it.

As an aside, what are the merits of people who watch MLP as opposed to those who don't? What inherent quality do they have?

I'm not saying he isn't entitled to speak against it, he's even entitled to insult people over it, but he is not entitled to not be subjected to it if he does nothing to avoid it. Obviously it's impossible to completely avoid both pony images where they are irrelevant and pony hate where it is irrelevant, but if it is just a single occurrence, it is easier to ignore it than to fight it, and often ignoring it works better in terms of fighting it. If he sees a pony thread and thinks to himself "I don't want to see this" then the obvious solution is to not look at it, rather than click the link and start arguing and insulting people.

There is no global merit that all people who watch mlp share, but each person has done something other than watching ponies, and usually those things tell you more about the person than "watches ponies" does. To be a bit more on-topic, the fact that Gabe created Valve along with all of the great games they made and the Steam platform, speaks volumes about him, whereas you would never know that from a conversation that goes like:
"Hey, have you heard of this Gabe Newell guy?"
"No, what about him?"
"He watches ponies."

 

[LilithSlave]

That show is a cancer on the internet. Everywhere I turn someone on some forum I'm on is shoving images of that show down my throat. I am sick of that shit being strewn all over the net. I just wish this damn fad would end soon. It makes all he damn Chuck Norris jokes, Spiderman images, and other overused memes tolerable by comparison which is sad considering most of those overused memes (note most) are crap as well and to make them seem good by comparison makes my eyes bleed.

Something you don't like is popular. You poor thing.

 

[MagmaMan]

I think we need to make a distinction here: Is he a brony... or does he simply watch and enjoy MLP? I mean he said it but it doesn't necessarily mean he is actually part of the Brony community.

Hope not. Bronies aren't very respectable to me. It's respectable to enjoy a show like that and not care what anyone thinks because your free to like what you like but it's ridiculous that people get so obsessed over that show. I watched five episodes when I was bored, and while I will admit it wasn't bad, I didn't find it to be particularly good either. Meanwhile, a show on the same channel, Transformers: Prime, continues to be over-looked. I'm assuming this is for the same reason War for Cybertron is over-looked: "Transformers are stupid and nerdy" or "hurr-dur I dun like the michael bay movies and am going to judge the entire franchise by them" Transformers: Prime is extremely well written and is one of the few tv-shows that genuinely got me excited or got me to laugh several times. The character design is excellent with characters you'll both love and hate, with the only flaws for me being the crappy visual style and the three human teen characters. Particularly Miko. They really should get rid of that character.

Anyway, I'm done with my rant. Please continue all of you.

 

[lacktheknack]

I think we need to make a distinction here: Is he a brony... or does he simply watch and enjoy MLP? I mean he said it but it doesn't necessarily mean he is actually part of the Brony community.

Does it matter?

OT: ...Does it matter?

I'll admit that the rage is pretty spectacular.

 

[grimgor42]

There's people who watch the show, Gabe, and then there are the utterly depraved subspecies of furry, bronies. There's a difference.

 

[repeating integers]

If someone posts something you don't like, you don't have to read it, or even visit that site at all.

It's a bit hard to miss your avatar, for example.

That's the point he's getting at, of course you're having difficulty understanding it as you're a fan thus the almost constant bombardment doesn't irritate you.

I am not a fan. The so-called "constant bombardment" does not irritate me.

I'll never really understand why it does anyone else.

 

[Mird]

This could well be the reason Episode 3 has been delayed for so long...but....strangely...I think I'm okay with this.

 

[MagmaMan]

This could well be the reason Episode 3 has been delayed for so long...but....strangely...I think I'm okay with this.

On a serious note, I think their plan is to either build up the hype for Half-Life 3/Half-Life 2: Episode 3 to an enormous extent to ensure everyone and their mom will buy it when it does come out or they are waiting for their programs to come up with a new engine that would be just as awesome as the Source Engine was when it first came out. Or both.

 

[Lunar Templar]

so .....

he like MLP FiM, or at the very least says he dose ....

>.>
<.<

i'm clearly missing the part of this where it's
1)news worthy
2)worth feeling anything other then 'meh' over.

sides... doesn't he have another 'soon to be highly over rated' FPS to make?

 

[Scarim Coral]

So another famous person is a brony, I wonder who is the next celebrity to admit he/ she is a brony too?

 

[lacktheknack]

So has Gabe just turned his interviews into some kind of blog?

No, the interviewer asked him about his guilty pleasures.

And it was a throwaway line that the internet attached to like a leech because that's what it does. Not very blog-like.

 

[lacktheknack]

If someone posts something you don't like, you don't have to read it, or even visit that site at all.

It's a bit hard to miss your avatar, for example.

That's the point he's getting at, of course you're having difficulty understanding it as you're a fan thus the almost constant bombardment doesn't irritate you.

"Constant bombardment" that doesn't actually occur outside of pony threads. Not much of a constant bombardment.

Unless you refer to avatars, but I'll defend the right to select your own avvie to the death due to the nature of my various ones (you wouldn't believe how many requests I get to change them).

 

[LilithSlave]

sides... doesn't he have another 'soon to be highly over rated' FPS to make?

Good to see I'm not the only person around here who isn't a Valve nut.

I'm not a big fan of first person shooters. Never have been. I don't see why I would make an exception for Valve.

I'd buy the heck out of a My Little Pony game, though.

 

[oZode]

sides... doesn't he have another 'soon to be highly over rated' FPS to make?

Good to see I'm not the only person around here who isn't a Valve nut.

I'm not a big fan of first person shooters. Never have been. I don't see why I would make an exception for Valve.

I'd buy the heck out of a My Little Pony game, though.

Shame zynga is the only possible company that may make one. And it will probably be a cityville reskin.

 

[Melon Hunter]

I'd buy the heck out of a My Little Pony game, though.

Get some aspiring game designers to get a job at Valve and you'll see a triple-A MLP game in no time.

In the meantime, we have Go Fast [http://mixermike622.deviantart.com/#/d4rcb9h]

Some of those fan-made games looks pretty high quality as well. Wasn't there a JRPG-style MLP game being made? Not to mention Fighting Is Magic and Pony Kart.

OT: That's nice, I guess? I'm sure most famous people have some 'guilty' pleasures.

 

[Elate]

You know what? It just makes him 20% cooler.

 

[Neverhoodian]

So Gaben watches MLP...that's cool, if you're into that sort of thing. It's really not a big deal one way or another. Lots of people watch MLP nowadays. Don't know why people are freaking out about it. To each his/her own.

...

Spoiler

 

[Lugbzurg]

So, Gabe Newel likes watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic...? Cool.

I shouldn't be surprised. It seemed like the kind of thing he'd enjoy, anyway. Nice to know.

But, I do agree that a lot of these "bronies"... "phonies" as I call these types, can get really out of hand. When they get to horking down things in people's faces (you should see the Hub's FaceBook page. It isn't pretty...) and putting up so many drawings that turn a complete 180 on everything the show itself stands for, that's when I get upset.

It's a lot like Portal. Valve fans know a lot about that, right? There are those who enjoy it for the intelligent, innocent game that it is and then there are those that just "like" it to make cake quotes that they somehow think are jokes. It's like I've said before... "Every fanbase has its fools."