BornAgainBrony

42 minutes ago, Nitobit said:

A4 is empty

A5 and A6 have confetti.

A 4, 5 & 6.                      

On 2023-06-08 at 11:26 AM, Cash In said:

Looking at the results, it's clear my vote doesn't matter anyways. Isn't that right, Team Moon?

It's not Team Moon's fault that you keep betting on the wrong horse.

2 hours ago, Rikifive said:

@Nsxile I did vote for Cloudsdale, but unfortunately none of the teams I voted for are doing well. 

I guess that's enough of cup for me.

Because she knows better than anypony how it feels, Luna forgives and welcomes those who have made past mistakes.

20 hours ago, Shiny Silvermoon said:

"Everypony! Once again, the Team Moon and the Friendship School need your votes! The match of Cloudsdale vs Friendship School and Ponyville vs Team Moon just started! I'm ready to do crazy things for every creatures to vote for the Team Moon and the Friendship School! Things so crazy that I never did them before! Like not changing the toilet paper roll after finishing it! Crazy things! I also offer free hugs and croissants!"

Team Moon changes you; makes you stronger; pushes you to take the extra mile against all odds. The dark is not inherently evil; merely the place where things happen that are incomprehensible in the light. Bathed in the aura of the moon, the light and the dark can come together... to vanquish the evil that is on our doorstep.

21 hours ago, Cash In said:

ow, here's the big one. Team Ponyville vs Team Moon. I'm already with Ponyville to begin with, so I won't hide my bias, but I still haven't forgotten what happened five years ago.

There's a LOT of "happened five years ago" regarding the world cup. Of which fiasco do you speak?

13 minutes ago, Grogar said:

"Have you checked who won that match? Or are you the one delusional?"

( Can we stick to the RP it breaks immersion. if you haven't noticed @BornAgainBrony tartarus cheated "again" technically  team moon won. But we cheated and in the RP of things tartarus won. But so it wont mess up much in reality hence team tartarus left the match and forfeited it to team moon. Which will have a bit of a twist in the rp.

id also like you to inform that we are Role Playing here. Plus i don't mind the attitude it helps make the battle field and forums chaotic.... Which is the goal of the villains! Muhahahaha!)

Delusional is thinking you're the mightiest warrior ever, and all it took to bring you down was a little human girl.

(I'm aware, and gamer Luna is being a troll and calling Grogsy out on the cheating)

51 minutes ago, Grogar said:

"We have successfully extracted every prisoner in tartarus! We continue to phase 3 of pur plan. So atop messing around with these ponies and get to work. We free the nightmares next.

And with that we will need Princess Luna for that. @SharpWit are you ready?"

Didn't you vortex into the Aperture Science facility at the end of the last match to avoid the humiliation of defeat? What happened? Did GLaDOS kick you out already? 

14 hours ago, GeneralDirection said:

Aaaaaaaand it seems the kirin are off to an amazing start, putting up a huge lead right out of the gate! As they should be. Also, who could forget about Izzy and Sunny? Both tremendous new additions to the team!

I suppose you could say... the Kirin are on fire?

On 2023-05-22 at 6:09 PM, Cosmos said:

" Oh dear... You've become a joke... You should stop hanging around with these ponies or else it would be the end of you... I have sensed it before you know... I felt it... You almost vanished before. I may be evil and chaotic... But that does not mean i do not care for you, you gave me great joy and happiness... Be wise Discord and join us in eternity." The draconicous offered.

"I have become a joke? I'm not the one getting mooned on global television. Oh, you sound just like King Sombra did when I was turning his attacks into confetti. I appreciate the offer, I truly do, but I've been down this road with Lord Tirek before. My troubles came when I betrayed my Pony friends, not when I joined them. Besides, I'm wat--

On 2023-05-23 at 1:04 AM, Grogar said:

"The fool thinks he has won... Has not the previous fight thought you anything? You cannot beat us. You can only.....join us."

.......  I'm watching the score board. The Moon is flying circles around you. Hmm. Does that classify as an orbit?

20 hours ago, White Light said:

"We have finally released Day Breaker from the dream world into reality.... Even if we lose... Hehehehe.... You wont see the last of us. 

With our powers combined...we are.....CHAOS."

*appears in a flash of white light*

Oh, my word, I find your implication that you can bring "chaos," to these festivities to be highly offensive, especially when attempting to do it with the help of... her. Trollestia might send you to the moon with no bananas for the mere suggestion; I mean really.

All that conceited X-100 Solar Flare wants to do is burn everything to the ground and turn it into a barren and lifeless wasteland. That's not Chaos. That's boring. Not fun in any way.

Now, turning everything inside out just to see what colors are in there... making pies rain down from the sky... enticing all of Twilight's books grow wings and fly south for the winter... THAT's fun. Oh, but not to Fluttershy. I would never do anything to hurt Fluttershy.

You wouldn't be thinking of doing anything to hurt my dear sweet Fluttershy...

...WOULD YOU?!

I'll be watching you very closely from my usual box seat. Ta ta...

*poof*

On 2023-05-21 at 3:17 AM, SharpWit said:

Speaking of butts, enjoy the fullmoon while we leave you behind in a trail of lunar dust! 

PSA: Do not inhale the lunar dust.

13 hours ago, Sombra said:

" Haa! The yaks are pushovers...you better not lose or you would tarnish our name."

... I ship it?

This match has proven to be far less smashing than I expected.

19 minutes ago, Tirek said:

" NO, but i will sing everyone's fall in darkness."

We shall see. I remember the last time you tried. The darkness was burned away in blood, bathed in the light of Princess Luna's WarMoon.

9 minutes ago, Ganondorf8 said:

Please ignore the fact that the actual World Cup was last year. Granted, we do things at our own pace around here. So, our World Cup is happening now.

There's some odd time dilation between worlds. How long have the Equestria Girls been in highschool?

2 hours ago, White Light said:

" he actually has a good singing voice....

2 hours ago, Tirek said:

EVERYONES TRUE COLORS WILL SHOW!!"

... does this mean you're going to sing "True Colors" by Cyndi Lauper now?

On 2023-05-07 at 12:44 AM, Kujamih said:

@Skylight Scintillate

" Well one things for sure mr commentator.... When team tartarus is around.... You best...

Tirek, stop singing and get back to your own match.

18 minutes ago, Rising Dusk said:

"HOIST THE COLORS!"

You now belong to a greater good, and you answer to a higher call!
You are part of the best and greatest, and there is no room for failure!
You will leave behind all weakness! You are no longer a mortal!
You are a indestructible Soldier of the Night!

Once again, the crimson war moon rises.

Manehattan vs.  ..... Applesoosa?

Nearly seeing Rainbow Dash sucked into the ether the first time is what pulled me into the last World Cup. And then we ended up having AJ on our team. I am SO conflicted now.

*glances at the crowd* No sign of the old spiritual leaders of the "SCU" team so far?

@Denim&Venöm @Sparklefan1234

Will Las Pegasus fall in the first round before a rivalry match against Team Moon?

So, wow. I'm amazed to see, from what some folks are saying here, how much trouble there is that not all of us are noticing. Kinda funny so many are saying, "thank goodness it's gone," without realizing this is only temporary. I wasn't going to say anything about it, since I had already made the decision to get myself removed, but since I also care about how this may or may not impact the community, here goes.

On 2023-04-23 at 6:31 AM, Crystal Mirage said:

Riiiight. It ends up balancing out rather quickly as certain types of people find out their shenanigans are met directly, their vitriol returned right back, and aren't able to cause the drama they intend. 

There are many levels of "troll." Some just don't even care if another troll fires back at them. The first era of trolling typically involved taking a political position you don't even have, just for the sake of causing chaos.

On 2023-04-23 at 6:31 AM, Crystal Mirage said:

It is a risk to the community either way. Without a place to debate, people will create topics, status updates or hijack other topics to express themselves. With a place to debate, people will bring up these frustrations, fears, or questions which are inherently challenging/controversial and go all out.

Indeed, it is. The floodgates were failing though. Prior to the previous shutdown of DS, political fights leaking out into other sections of the forum were becoming MORE common.

On 2023-04-23 at 10:34 AM, Props Valroa said:

@Crystal Mirage I don't see why the staff should have to spend the extra effort doing something that isn't the focus of the MLP forum. If you want politics or edgier stuff - you can easily go to other forums. This forum was perfectly fine without it for years.

This is the reason I remember being given for why it was shut down the previous time. The highest percentage of moderation activity was needed for the section that had the smallest population. That doesn't make any logistical sense.

On 2023-04-23 at 10:40 AM, SharpWit said:

I haven't participated in as many debates as I used to since they can be quite time consuming and tiresome after a full day's work, but all of my experiences in the latest version of the pit have been extremely civil. Perceptions have been less than positive for those under certain labels, but these always seem to get called out without the vicious back and forth we used to have.

On 2023-04-23 at 10:46 AM, Luna the Great of all the Russias said:

Personally, to the extent that the Debate Section involved genuine attempts at argumentation rather than an exchange of insults, I find that it had very interesting discussions. And I would say that there is much potential for interesting discussions to be had for those primarily interested in ideas rather than those who pursue lesser ends. Regardless of whether I agree with a particular user's worldview, I appreciate those who have put effort into more strictly adhering to discussion and argumentation.

On 2023-04-23 at 6:49 PM, Yakamaru said:

When it comes to the idea of a Debate Pit, the concept of challenging and being challenged, you will be treated as everyone else when you choose to enter the arena whether as a member of staff or as a regular member. I lose respect if a member of staff is going to enforce rules arbitrarily whether they are participants in the DB or not. The second iteration(the current one) is far, far better than the previous one that was quite a mess. When the second iteration initially started up the rules were understandable and acceptable albeit somewhat stricter than what I were ordinarily used to(got used to them arguably pretty fast), but over time things just started to go downhill with rules that make no sense and stricter and stricter rules of engagement to the point of it outright being suffocating to people here, activity and indeed interest outright dying as a result. People have no obligation or duty to stay, and I have no intention of being in an environment where I feel like I am suffocating.

There was definitely a middle-ground where things were running better. I think it was around the beginning of the year. Some of the threads were looking downright professional, like college/university theses.

Around the time Jeric backed away though, I was seeing the usual vitriol slowly seeping back in.

There's a reason that moderators intervene in real-time during live debates; even the professionals have trouble keeping themselves in-check.

I can easily understand why the rules were reaching the point of being "suffocating" though. The civil conversations were at the one extreme of what goes on in there. The other extreme still exists. It's rather pointless when someone can just copy/paste a Tweet without even first bothering to click one layer deeper into the conversation to discover the context; then someone else writes a lengthy reply to it, and either get shrugged off, if not completely ignored. It's just a waste of time at that point. There are far better places for that kind of "debate." And if anyone really needs to have that kind of rapidfire rage-culture but with a Pony slant, there's always 4chan.

I'll say one other thing about the fact that things were better than the previous incarnation though. Maybe the new policies were working to keep things from degrading back to where they were. But it might also just be timing. The political landscape is definitely not what it was a year or so ago. The old Debate Pit died while the world was knee deep in the COVID lock-downs, and stress & paranoia were at an all-time high. But the chaos was already reaching a crescendo the previous year. Would even the current form of the Debate Pit be able to survive the next U.S. Presidential election? Considering how the playing field is shaping up right now, I very much doubt it.

11 hours ago, Steve Piranha said:

Yeah, emojis help in that regard in writing, but apparently there was an user who virtually single-handedly used them in such manner, that they were outright banned subsequently 

That does not sound at all like contributing a reason to bring back the Debate Pit. If you're saying all of your emoji use is sincere, then you are actually laughing (even if just internally) 99% of the time you read any post that disagrees with you, and then laughing again while replying. That suggests you are actually not interested in debate at all, and are just there 'for the lulz.' If you really need a place where you can get all your chuckles at the expense of anyone you don't agree with, there are far, FAR better options to consider.