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Confirmation bias, my dude.

People like to look at the new Teen Titans or Power Puff Girls and claim that it's all going down hill while seemingly ignoring all the other shows that are doing well with most folks. Regular Show, Adventure Time, Steven Universe and so on all seem to be performing well and staying popular. I hate TTG and the new PPG as much as the next guy, but Cartoon Network is doing fine.

The original Tron

It's such a dumb movie but I love it to death

 

I'll start, obviously:

I realize I just set the bar pretty high.

I give it 7 j-pops out of fever dream

All of my favorite weird stuff probably isn't appropriate for this forum, but I do have this.

Does MLP even qualify for a Hugo? I wouldn't exactly call it science fiction.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter. Who cares if a bunch of dudes got it nominated as a joke. I certainly don't require their validation.

I get the feeling that Nintendo is abandoning ship on the WiiU and banking on the NX being a success. If the new Zelda is a launch title, that alone should move some units.

Disco will never die

MLP has blown up enough that even when the current generation ends, it will stick around in some form or another for a very long time. I'm always reminded things like Star Trek, Star Wars and Harry Potter; fandoms that have persisted well after their object of interest had huge lapses of new content or just stopped completely. In the absence of officially sponsored stuff, the fandom will create it for itself. You can already see this at work in the massive amounts of fan fiction, fan art and all manner of fan created merchandise that the MLP fandom generates. This forum is still active, even in between seasons. MLP has managed to create a great deal of staying power and has carved out a nice hole for itself in nerd culture that wont be going anywhere anytime soon.

April fools is over

Letting fan fiction anywhere near the canon is a terrible idea of colossal proportions, regardless of how good it is perceived to be. 

Please keep the trolling to a minimum, this is an extremely serious thread

We know that staff members have said multiple times at conventions that this masterpiece of a fanfiction is good enough to be official canon in the MLP universe.

When the inevitable finally happens, what fic do you think is next? I personally would like to see Snip's and Snail's Excellent Adventure to get the recognition that it deserves by Hasbro.

OK before everyone gets upset yes this is a April fools joke and grammar was intentionally bad..... Yeah

Revealing the joke...

For shame!

No.

It would make me think of Spongebob every time I heard it. Doesn't really jive with MLP's more whimsical style either.

Leafy is the new clickbait king, it's a product of having to make a video every day and needing something to capitalize on. 

 

Although, all this talk about how "awful" he is and whatever else nonsense, is pure bandwagon. He's already pulled the video down and will address it soon.

 

 

 

 

 

People have a choice on how they are going to react to what offends them. It's called having a spine, one thing many on the internet seem to not have.

Some might say that doing nothing and letting people walk all over you constitutes, "not having a spine".  Context is key. 

Saw the movie yesterday. 

The messaging was a little on the nose, but I enjoyed it way more than I thought it was.

Making a satire video about cringey kids making terrible music is not bullying. 

 Laughing at somebody who is doing something "cringey" is one thing. Making a video specifically to scrutinize this person while encouraging a large group of people to also laugh at them is, I would argue, definitely bullying. 

 Again, define ''emotionally unstable'' and who diagnosed these people as emotionally unstable? The many internet doctors that grace our presence?

This is a good point, as I am not a doctor and should not make diagnosis for people. 

 

I never said it was the victims fault once, I said that people should be realistic that there are toxic people out there. If I decided to dye my hair rainbow colour and walk around dressed as rainbow dash, yeah that would be fun, but I am under no illusion that people will laugh, stare and make fun of me, is it right? No, but it is reality. With you talking about leafy hurting people, I have followed his channel close from the near start of it, and twice, this time included has this sort of negativity happened. People only care about when the bad things happen and don't bother to think of the one thousand videos that didn't hurt anyone.

Sure, not every one of Leafy's targets made a video of them crying. Do you honestly think that means that they were all okay with Leafy's videos of them? While it's true that I cant exactly speak for them, it doesn't take a huge leap of logic to assume that people generally don't like being openly mocked by potentially a million people.

Additionally, as much as I am loathe to say, "Think of the children!", think of the fucking children. Looking at Leafy's uploads, a fair amount of them have thumbnails of kids. Kids don't deal with with this kind of thing well. Bullying by a few people can have lasting consequences in their life. Being ridiculed by a large group like Leafy's fans (who have demonstrably been known to harass people) could really fuck them up. I am reminded of the kid who played Anakin in Star Wars, or that viral video of that one guy flailing about with a stick as if it was a lightsaber. You look those people up now, you'll find that their lives have been borderline ruined by the treatment they got.

This kind of thing absolutely effects people in a very negative manner, whether you specifically see it in action or not. 

 I also come back to the same fact than none of the people who are offended genuinely care about this individual, only use it as a step ladder to state that they are offended and force their views. You guys (the ones complaining) want to actually support the victim? Send him a PM, try to contact him with some support, something that is actually helpful and shows actual care.

As a matter of fact, I did.

In some situations that is true, but in many situations people do decide to be offended. I could be playing a game of league of legends, someone tells me to die of some horrible disease, my initial reaction might be, damn that's horrible, I am a bit mad. But then I remember, hey, people are trolls, this community (league of legends) is full of them, I am going to choose to get on with it and not let it ruin my day.  

You're experience is not everybody's experience. 

If somebody tells me to get cancer and die, I don't care. However, let's look at the from the perspective of a hypothetical person. His name is Bob.

Bob's mom is dying of cancer. It really sucks and he decided to play a video game to get his mind of it a little bit. He chooses League. He's not doing so well, so his teammate tells him that he deserves to get cancer and die. Bob is now very upset and it's going to ruin his day. He did not choose either of these things. His specific circumstance, couple with the things said to him, created an emotional response that he does not have control over. He can't just decide to get over it. That's not how emotions work.

I know that this is a somewhat extreme example. Understand, I'm not asking people to tailor their speech in such a way that avoids the possibility of anyone ever being offended. However, when we allow, "Get cancer and die" to be an acceptable thing to say, it becomes the norm. It's going to keep happening. The more that people decide that it's not okay and speak up, the less impact it'l have on the internet in the long run.

It's why seeing videos like the kind that Leafy makes upsets me. Fuck, I don't want they guy to lose his job or anything. I just want him to be a little more considerate. To exercise more tact. 

 particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues."  

The key words. 

Most people consider satire as something that makes a point, not making fun of someone for the sake of making fun of someone.

@@PonyLaces,

 

Why is he a douchebag? and I think most people in the world would love to make alot of money working for an hour a day, besides each video can take up to 5 hours prep, he's making money doing what he enjoys, and apart from the odd times he crosses the line he has millions of fans he makes laugh every day.  

 

Also YT revenue really is not as much as people think it is. 

For most youtubers, "making money doing what they enjoy" does not include bullying children and the emotionally unstable. The dude should at least pick on someone his own size.

I agree that it is getting pretty boring going after kids all the time, they are all the same thing, MattyB and all that lot who themselves will probably look back on it and be like, what the hell was I thinking? x) But people calling leafy a cyber bully who picks on vulnerable people, come on, this is the real world we live in, much worse stuff happens on the internet, and I may be controversial saying this but where are the friends / family of this Autistic guy right now? People know the internet can be a horrible place full of trolls, if one of your family members was severely autistic would you (speaking about people in general) want to risk having him opened up to that kind of abuse? Yes, people should absolutely free to post what they want, there should be no fear of bullies, but at the same time people need to get a reality check and realize, especially on the internet people are toxic. 

That isn't an excuse, man. I understand that the internet is a harsh place and that content creators should be wary, but this kind of reasoning makes it seem like it's the victim's fault for being the target of ridicule. The more that people say, "You just need a thicker skin!", the more this kind of behavior becomes acceptable, even becoming the norm. 

We shouldn't be blaming the victims for having something shitty happen to them by telling them that they shouldn't have been there in the first place. They aren't to blame. People like Leafy, who get their views not from legit criticism but from finding people who can be easily made fun of, should realize that what they are doing legitimately hurts people. 

In a quote I heard sometime ago, I can't remember who it was, one of the famous Athiest blokes : ''It is your decision to be offended''. This statement is true throughout the entire internet. 

No, it isn't. Consider the following:

When people watch a movie and something pops up on the screen, they get surprised. They don't sit there and think to themselves, "Huh, I guess this is the appropriate time to act surprised". Your body is reacting to external stimuli. Being offended works along the same principle. People don't decide to get offended, their minds elicit an emotion response based on something that they encountered. 

Not really, the audience is asked to suspend their disbelief and accept Edward Norton and Mark Ruffalo as being the same guy. You'll note that nobody ever says, "WOW HULK YOU SURE LOOK DIFFERENT". From the character's perspective, nothing changed.

I've heard of Leafy before after he went after an emo youtuber.

Honestly, the autism doesn't even factor for me. What Leafy does isn't "satire", it's bullying. Claiming satire isn't a "get out of jail free" card. He purposely goes after people who wouldn't be able to fight back and then pretends to be surprised when is pack of troll fans start harassing his targets. 

Nobody, especially people like Tommy who are just trying to entertain people, deserves to be treated the way that Leafy treats people. It's disgusting. 

Looking forward to those VR headset price drops. 

THE END IS COMIIIIIING

I'm not one to doomsay, but the amount of writers dropping from the show has me just a tad worried. Larson was one of my favorites and was responsible for many of my favorite episodes. It's a shame that he won't be working on S6, but he did say that it's not impossible that he'll come back.

I have noticed that people tend to be fairly pessimistic about the new season. Maybe it's rubbing off on my, but between this and the whole Flurry Hearth thing, I find myself feeling a little apprehensive. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

*Shrug*

There was a time when people though Rock was ruining music. Music changes, and you aren't always going to like it. Just listen to the genre's you like and move on with your life.

I played it and City of Villians a long time ago. By the time it shut down, I hadn't played it for several years. Still a shame, though.

I played DCUO for a while, it was alright if a little repetitive. When it comes to MMO's I mostly stick with WoW

Not a huge fan of Flurry Heart. However, whether she has a detrimental impact on the show remains to be seen. I'm not optimistic about the premiere, but even if my fears are confirmed and the episode is trash, it won't be a disaster as long as they limit the baby's involvement of the overall show.  

The situation reminds me of Fairly Odd Parents. I don't watch it, but if I recall correctly, Cosmo and Wanda had a baby at some point that because a regular character. I'll be satisfied if that does not happen in MLP. Maybe somebody who regularly watches that show can weight in on that?

In any case, I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

The easiest way to stay drug free is to never start them at all.

I'm the kind of guy that will get carried away and end up eating like 5 cookies when I see them in front of me. I know that if I start taking drugs, I probably won't be able to stop myself. That's partially why I don't drink alcohol either. I know that, with the way that I tend to be, it would be real easy for to fall down a rabbit hole that I don't want to go down, so I don't do it at all save for maybe a sip or two during special occasions. It hampers my socializing at parties and whatever, but it's just not worth it. Most of my friends don't try to pressure me into it. 

That, and the fear of winding up dead in a ditch somewhere.

Me neither, Mayor Mare. Me neither. 

Right now it's Fallout 4 since it's right around the corner.

After that, I guess it's Fire Emblem: Fates. That doesn't come out till next year, though