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This can apply to any form of media, but music is the biggest one for me. I was born in 2001 and find my childhood to be mostly linked to music from about 2003-2012. That being said, while it doesn't make me flat-out hate my own generation, 70s and 80s music (most of which you can listen to on YouTube) is pretty damn good. Yet for some odd reason, I feel like they have a nostalgic connection to me, even though they were released 20 or so years before I was born. Maybe it's because my parents played them every once in a while, but I can't be too sure.

 

Is it just me, or is it just good music?

Mules.

They are to Equestria what black people were to early 20th Century America, IMO. It's just that a lot of Equestria's nations are segregated.

Barely. The people working on the show VS those who are making the Movie are now almost entirely different groups, and seeing how the last attenpts at bridging their respective eras went, I think it'll just be an innocent little adventure that doesn't have much of an impct on the show itself. That is if the show survives to Season 8, and there can be a definitive Post-Movie era of MLP:FiM.

I say there should be at least some recognition of the fact that Scootaloo's still essentially a chicken.

 

 

Because plot…and the fact that the systematic flow of seasons means that they're idiots nowadays for not predicting a new threat every 24 weeks.

Just look at that cute face.

They'd have to be really, really, really good to appeal to me. I'm definitely not one for the public fan community, at least not yet, so this sort of stuff is creepier than it needs to be.

Hmm, sounds interesting.

Well he is Twilight's assistant brother companion pet slave I don't even know what Spike is anymore!

The merit of video games being an art form is a serious debate, with some claiming that since the beginning and end is up to the players' skill, it can't really be a complete piece of art, while others, like myself, compare the games themselves to marbles that the gamers sculpt their own experience out of. However, when did video games start to become more like mass media? What year was the one where people were having second thoughts over gaming being some sort of fad? 1985, 1992, 1998 and 2006 are all contenders for me for various reasons:

1985- Super Mario Bros., 'nuff said.

1992- Mortal Kombat and Night Trap gave gamers their first real inappropriate scenes and prophecised games needing a content rating system like movies/TV (though American TV didn't have ratings for it's shows until 1996).

1998- There were so many hit games this year (Mario Party, Pokémon Red/Blue, Ocarina of Time, Metal Gear Solid, Half-Life, Sonic Adventure (at least at the time)) that it would be impossible to view video games the same way again once 1999 came around.

2006- The Wii coming out definitely pointed to a further divide between hardcore gaming (PlayStation and XBox) and casual gaming (Nintendo and later more advanced smartphone gaming).

 

Through all this, I see 1992 as the starting point and 1998 as the ending point for this evolution into a standard form of entertainment. I believe the 1990s may very well be the most important decade for video games and how we see them today, and 1992-1998 especially confirming that gaming is an art form.

 

So what do you guys think?

Pinkie Pie may be adopted. Look at how different she is to the rest of her family, and notice how she's the only one, not only to have a destiny and all that, but to be a different colour scheme other than a bland rock colour.

Don't stop dreaming, Don't stop believing.

I'd actually like to see more Fluttershy clones. It seems like an easy character to replicate.

I just really hope they appear in a decent amount of episodes together. I know I should be counting my blessings that the show returns to prominently featuring the Mane 6 again, but if they're going to be the main characters in the finale (again), I want more reason to support them. Remember, if Super Mario were a TV show, you wouldn't give Mario only 2 or 3 episodes (out of 20) before Peach gets kidnapped by Bowser. Conversely, giving Peach all the other episodes would make it hard to relate to her afterwards once she's kidnapped. You can see the parallels with the Mane 6 and Starlight's gang, can't you?

Did the fart joke anger anyone back when the episode came out? I wasn't around here for it and I'm too lazy to go through this topic and check.

Do something to make others happy and get instantly promoted to royalty. Seriously, their system of monarchy is pretty corrupt, even if Twilight had a prophecy and Cadence…is Cadence.

In terms of video games (sorry for going back to that, but it's rather interesting), Sega believed that continuously adding multiple peripherals onto the same console would make it last longer, when nowadays it would make it's outdatedness more apparent and, in most cases, sour it's legacy.

You know how whenever you look back on the 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s how there were different pop culture icons that you immediately associate with those decades? Do you think MLP:FiM will be an icon of the 2010s?

 

I mean, of course it will, but do you think it'll be the definitive animated series? I know stuff like Adventure Time, Gravity Falls and Steven Universe are good runner-ups for defining the decade, but if you were to devise a Top 10 list of the most significant cartoons of this decade (at least, so far 7 years in), do you think MLP:FiM would be Number 1?

 

Then again, if this show makes it to 2020 and beyond, would you call it a 2020s show as well? I most certainly wouldn't, as I still associate The Simpsons with the 1990s and SpongeBob with the 2000s, so it won't be any different for MLP:FiM with the 2010s.

If. Only.

 

I feel as though anti-bronies are just intolerant towards how attatched it's fandom is to the show, and don't want to risk having to explain bronies to their real life peers. If we could turn back time to 2010 and prevent the fandom from being as big as it is, I doubt anti-bronies would have a problem with the show today. I mean, if it were just another 65-episode cartoon that came and went, I don't think they'd mind as much, but since it's a pop culture phenomenon, they seem to be ignorant of it's success even more.

So what, do they replace it with another, less "offensive" word (eg "Not so bad? Why they're a bunch of meanypantses!"), cut it out entirely (eg "Not so bad? Why they're a bunch of …") or place that memetic censor sound over it (eg "Not so bad? Why they're a bunch of [beep]!"), which inadvertedly makes it sound even worse for older viewers?

There was that whole different-parts-of-your-tongue-taste-different-things chart.  You know:  sweet was in the front, bitter in the back, sour and salty somewhere between them...science has since debunked that and showed that you have all kinds of taste buds, not only on your tongue, but all over the inside of your mouth.

 

But I remember being taught that taste-bud chart in school.

I actually remember a Simpsons episode that came out in 2004 (Smart and Smarter I think it was called), and it used that as a joke. I also remember our Year 6 (5th Grade for you Americans) teacher reading us a book for storytime concerning the main character's lack of taste buds, and literally the first paragraph debunks the sweet/sour/salty diagram. That was in 2012, so that means that scientific joss must've happened around 2004-2012.

 

That is unless The Simpsons is just unbareably behind the times nowadays. Can you believe they made a musical number about "swag" in a 2013 episode?

This blast from the recent past.

I doubt that they would do it. After all, they have Lyra and Bon Bon as a canon lesbian couple now. However, if for some reason they want to do one, I'd devise it like this.

Rarity is clearly heterosexual, so she won't be part of it.

Applejack would definitely shut off any coming out, but I wouldn't necessarily call her homophobic.

Twilight has Flash Sentry, and even if the EQG movies aren't canon, they simply wouldn't market her as gay with Flash in mind. Her behaviour in a spin-off, even if it's a non-canon one, should at least be parallel to show the show proper, as should her sexuality.

Fluttershy hasn't had a lot in the way of romance, and I wouldn't immediately just say she should be with Discord because he's a boy that hangs out with her, but they seem to have a nice asexual relationship going on, so that's inconclusive for the meantime.

Therefore, the ship that I would hypothetically call canon is Pinkiedash

Rainbow Dash continuously turned down Zephyr's flirting in Flutter Brutter, and even if it's just because he's a creep to her, it kinda shows that she isn't into men.

Pinkie Pie is definitely one of the more gay ones in this sort of theory. She's a lot more touchy-feely than the others, and let's not get started on that infamous pose in Pinkie Pride.

Thanks but I was really looking for someone who could draw something for me my only artist is currently out of commision

Okay well here's Clever's design anyway (done by Toyminator900).

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