Katana

I'm completely fine with the fact that many people didn't really like this. No need for everyone to be excited over it. I'm still not clear myself on whether I "enjoyed" it, but it was somewhat witty. Gore like that tends to give a reaction of "How far is he willing to go" sort of thing. It's like a train wreck - you see it coming, and you know you shouldn't watch, but you can't look away. I also have to admit I made a video in which one of people's favorite ponies got their head blown off as part of the joke. There were definitely a few mad bronies in the comments (and a bunch that said they laughed at it)

To be fair, if, during an encounter, one person doesn't like another, and that person posts on the internet about it, they'll probably (intentionally or unintentionally) phrase the encounter in such a way that everyone sides with them. Once in a while, there's actually a bit more to the story, not that it matters much. Mainly, I'm just trying to say that you need not be so concerned about another person's opinion in any case. If tomorrow someone says something that makes you sad or angry - you can start to learn to go with your instincts. Ignore them as being dumb if you think they were, or if you think they have a point, talk it out. The fact that it stayed on your mind until you came home and went on the internet says something, but those things don't really need to stay with you. People do a lot in school just to try to get reactions, so if an action doesn't deserve a reaction, don't give it one.

Hmm. An interesting take - my initial reaction was a negative, "oh what a loser with no life" type of thing (we all like the show - but who would put it on a resume? Did he show it to other people first?) And it's important to note that for an HR person, that initial reaction, even for the first second, is very very important. However, another point is that even if he slightly reduces his chances of being hired at any one particular place, for "professionalism", the places that WOULD hire him with a resume like this would probably be pretty cool and tolerant places to work.

Opinions: Everyone has them, and they're all wrong. I don't think you should need the validation of people on the internet to know when someone's being rude. Just blow them off - no one's forcing you to talk to them. You draw because you like what you make, and thus you're accomplishing what you're setting out for.

The most ironic thing is that what many would consider to be "anti-brony" artwork is stuff that bronies just find funny. For instance, an MLP comic where the punchline involves someone's head getting blown off with a shotgun; I grant there's plenty of bronies who would find that offensive, but still, at least as many would laugh. Just don't go on some sort of all-out offensive or draw attention to them; far better to just laugh from a distance.

As someone who likes the show, but A: Refuses to make an OC, B: Still distances himself, C: Really didn't like stuff around season 3, I can try to offer my mid-way opinion. 1. Bronies tend to talk solely about ponies. Even fans of many other genres are not so tunnel-visioned. Everything has to be themed around ponies, and it's weird to see fanfictions and videos that stand perfectly well on their own, and yet every character is a pony just because the author likes them - not because there is ANY thematic relation to MLP. Did you know there are Homestar Runner lemon-fanfictions? Yeah, making a love story is okay, but I feel like there are areas where you just have to admit you didn't want to come up with a wholely original world (or base something on the real world) 2. Bronies react fast. Understand that people make jokes about all crowds - Emos, Call of Duty players, furries, etc. But bronies tend to take it personally and have a "Accept it or get the heck out" attitude. For instance, one time I posted a YouTube comment on someone's pony video curiously asking "Man, how is it that all bronies gather this sort of artistic drive that would never have existed if they were fans of something else"?, perhaps worded differently. I assure you there was nothing inherently offensive about it. Regardless, after a few replies it seemed people had assumed me to be some anti-brony, and my comment was downvoted so much that I think eventually I was blocked from future posting, and so couldn't explain myself. 3. Many people are afraid of twisted gender roles. We're just coming out of that phase of reiterating to people "being gay is okay", so when it's one specific lesson, they can accept it. However, I think there is in fact some inherent phobia in many people of the way gender roles twist. I even admit that there are some transgender people I know online, and it's kind of a weird thing to deal with. They get offended each time they're referred to by their "incorrect" gender, and you'll note that I put that in quotation marks - I'm still not sure I accept the idea behind it, though I have to acknowledge they've put up with a lot more humiliation and cruelty in their lives than I have. 4. I'm sure plenty of people just see it as a meme used to annoy people, not quite understanding the show itself to be funny or well-presented. When they see it in so many YouTube related videos, it can get annoying if it's not what you're looking for. Just my advice for avoiding hate, though some people are gonna be jackasses anyway: If you know someone is disinterested in ponies, don't bring them up needlessly. If they're simply unaware, there's no reason to shove them in their face, or hide your interests from them either. And be sure that you are spreading your interests out; liking just one thing is going to make you a vicious, hateful person when Season X?X turns out to be horrible. Maybe MLP has twisted your love of Gears of War or Mass Effect, but maybe there are other animated shows that you might like? (Adventure Time, or Gravity Falls for instance)

To me, thematic coherence is very important - for instance, if someone were making a really awesome game with great gameplay, it wouldn't necessarily be better just by slapping the MLP brand on. So many of the games we play are based around violence, and yet we've seen some really great alternatives (lawyering, doctoring, business/city-managing, using-random-items-with-eachother). I'd really like to see an MLP game that, much like the show, is not based around violence. An example I thought of is a clone of Mario Party, basically making itself out to be a party game fun for friends. Actually, this was probably my biggest issue with Fighting is Magic; for all that's present in the mood and theme of the game, it seems so weird to have each of the characters fight each other to the death. That is, unless they're all cross-eyed and occupying gm_flatgrass.

I always considered the whole trope of "violence is perfectly okay, sex is an absolute no-no" with parents to be mostly just humorous. But this is pretty much it, taken to a ludicrous extreme. Absolutely not saying that bronies and sex are somehow directly linked, but a lot of people have that dumb misconception. I guess in part it's tied in with that fear of homosexuality. I'm sadly considering it likely that this same scenario has likely happened for a parent finding out their child is gay.