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    It'd be a pointless endeavor to discuss the actors, but I think at least part of it is in the way that the money is funnelled after the fact. If you don't like Scientology, well... I doubt Tom Cruise is making a cent when you pick up a copy of Top Gun in Walmart's clearance bin. Someone like Rowling is still the nerve center of it all, still churning out material, and H.P. a type of IP that has enough Merch, you'd think it was coming from Disney. Are any of these "pedo" actors out there on Twitter doubling down on their position saying that sex with children is O.K., to the point that they've turned it into their personal crusade? But to compare it to something like Walmart or Amazon? They already have the world by its gonads, so they know they can do whatever the heck they wants. Any attempt to boycott at the level in which it would have an impact, would do far more harm to the consumers than it would to the company, because nobody can afford the time or the fuel to drive to ten places to do their shopping anymore. A good parallel for that might be a recent increase in gas prices, due to the "boycott" of an entity that has a comparable grip on the economy. It's not a monopoly situation, but it's sure as heck close enough to one. On the other hand... I don't agree with some of Hobby Lobby's corporate practices. But that doesn't change the fact that their stores are far superior to Joann's or Michael's. In fact it's probably one of the only stores left that I can walk into at the start of December and actually feel the holiday spirit. As for whether or not it's OK to support an IP if the creator goes all rogue berzerk... I'd ask everyone in this thread: After having your lives transformed by it, what would you do with MLP if Hasbro or Lauren Faust suddenly went dark-side?
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    The episode very non-coincidentally-called, "Could Shredder kidnap Bowser?"
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    I... guess.... it depends on who he was depicted with? I've got nothing against lewd images. As long as they: A. Depict activity between consenting adults. B. Don't completely break the personalities of the characters to accomplish whatever is going on.
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    I thought Grogar was inspired by the "Red Bull." Not the energy drink. The scary-powerful spirit monster from "The Last Unicorn." Yeah, goat, not bull, but there's the common thread of unicorns mysteriously being snatched away to an unknown location.
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    Go figure. The Goths were the only group in school who never gave me any crap and treated me like a human being, in spite of me not being one of them. Noy buying it. But I think they're wrong. Clearly these ponies were Vampires. That explains the state we find the unicorns in. They're obviously missing a few pints of blood.
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    Lyra Heartstrings: "Hey, can I get some of that?!"
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    Hey now, Hearthswarming Week also contains Luna's night. This is Solstice. The night of the Winter Moon Festival and I shant let this go unacknowledged!
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    I feel like a better question is, where the heck do you find them? I've seen ornaments on Ebay but they're usually hackjobs of the toys. There seems to be a tremendous lack of official ornaments, which seems really surprising given how hard merchandising is pushed with IP's. The only ones I even know of were the lower-grade Hallmark ornaments that show up in Walmart every year. And now the two inflatables, if you can count those. Hallmark even has an official keepsake line of G1 Ponies, they come out with one every year. But they haven't even started on the Mane 6.
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    Ah yes, the classic, "I'm not a sheep, you're a sheep" attack. Don't take it out on these folks just because, JFK Jr. didn't rise from the dead in Dallas. That was solely my fault. Well, the Ghostbusters may have helped. Both the oldschool ones, and the ones from 2016. And then we all went to a concert and worshipped Clone-Bieber.
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    I agree it was probably a charity thing. Cops and firefighters have been known to sell "sexy" calendars from time to time for one cause or another. As for Sprout though, I don't think it had anything to do with looks. Sprout was rocking his "tyrant" outfit. I think it had more to do with Sprout not exactly being a "people person." I suspect he had a tendency to over-react to situations; whatever the family-friendly version of "shoot first and ask questions later" would be. The last thing Hitch says to Sprout when he leaves is, "Try not to start a war." I don't think that was just foreshadowing. I think Sprout kind of had a reputation for flipping out before the situation has been properly assessed (and really, who can blame him, considering who his Mom was?)
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    It was sort of a gateway drug as far as cartoons was concerned. It really made me go back and watch some things that I might have let pass by when they first came out. My taste in animation is definitely a lot zanier now than when I was younger. This fandom also got me into EDM, which I'd really never heard of before. I had never been to a rave before going to one at a con. Now I make it a point to be there at every con I go to.
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    But wasn't Twilight a college graduate when she went to Ponyville?
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    Look at how long dragons live. The old Dragon Lord could easily have been hundreds of years old. Pretty sure the same was implied of the dragon that was sleeping in the mountains near Ponyville. Yeah, Spike could easily be a baby from that regard. Though to be fair, there's a lot of evidence that his growth spurt came late; and yeah, that could possibly have been influenced by being in a non-native environment. Also, given the interaction, it seems pretty clear that the other dragons who are picking on Spike when he visits the homeland, are roughly the same age as he is; yet they act much more like juveniles, and are considerably taller.
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    I was fed up with humanity when I was in high school. Granted this was the 90's when the internet didn't even exist yet, so my perception of the world was just the microcosm that was the screwed up backwards-thinking county that time forgot. For a long time, I got over it. But in the past decade, a lot of those old feelings have crept up again as I've seen how the nation is moving backwards. It feels like the same kind of jerks who ruled the school are now ruling the country; wanting to turn the world into a "Hunger Games" death-sport. Human is just a shell to me. You can argue that to be human, is to have compassion, but I've seen far too much evidence to the contrary. Every time people fight for their "civil rights," it somehow can be summarized as the right to not give a darn about others. Humans evolved from an ecological system of "survival of the fittest" and "kill or be killed" I'm supposed to be proud of that?
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    Equestria Girls wasn't a thing yet. Reading this thread now... that gives me a chuckle.
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    Those who have read the story about how I arrived in the fandom, or the backstory behind my Team Moon video projects, probably won't be surprised that this is a thing. I won't waste time reinventing the wheel, and will just copy/paste what I wrote on Youtube about it. Suffice is to say, that every verse, reflected wonderfully what I told 4Everfree Brony about what I was feeling during those dark months. For anyone out there who thought this song wasn't sad enough on its own... I approached 4EFB about this project at the last Bronycon. I had only discovered MLP about a year prior and dove head-first into the fandom. For how my entire life had gone, MLP:FiM was nothing short of a miracle; a shimmering island oasis in a sea of toxic decay and spiritual pollution. BronyCon was closing, and I also knew that S9 would be the final season. The fear that some fundamental idea; world; community, that I had dreamed of for so long, would die in front of my eyes such a short time after I found it; it was too much to bear. Had I the musical talent, I would have transformed those feelings into a song for sure. But since I sorely lack that gift, I turned to the Brony musician who I felt would be the most suited to completing such a project, and by Celestia, 4EverFreeBrony and Bronwyn pulled it off magnificently. My heart was falling in a maelstrom of emotions, and this tempest is what served as the premise for the piece.
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    *shrug* According to recent surveys, somewhere between 60-80% of Americans believe in fictional characters, so... why single out Bronies?
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    It might not have been anything. But we're given so little to go on about how far along the trail Argyle was. I'm going to lean towards him NOT knowing about the crystals though, because what we got in the movie wasn't "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade." Argyle surely would have told Sunny about the crystals if he knew about them, and would have wanted her to try and finish what he started. But she didn't even know what was in the lamp. As far as she knew it was just a night light that he built. Also, that's far from the only magical thing that was in his keep. Check out the "WMD" just sitting in the corner. I rather doubt he'd even leave that out in the open if he knew what it was capable of.
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    I feel like this glitch has been around for a long time. Or at least I remember seeing such a thing happening years ago with some of my posts. Weirdly enough, I could sometimes see the post there if I was logged out. That would probably be the "protecting kids" protocol. That pretty much got forced on youtube by privacy concerns involving collecting data on children, and quickly spread to a weird attempt to prevent children from posting personal information on the internet because youtube was apparently being frequented by pedos. The extremely broad solution to this problem (age requirements for sign-in was inadequate because so many kids use the accounts of their parents) was to remove the comment section from any video targeted at children. If you're wondering why your favorite Brony video disappeared last year, this law was likely the culprit. While it's still legal to post Brony videos and say they're NOT targeted at children, you have to still be active to flag your videos as such, because in the absence of that, youtube's algorithm went around trying to identify child-targeted videos and automatically flagged them as such; with occasional hilarious results (such as Rainbow Factory/Pegasus Device ).
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    Might be useful in S.M.I.L.E then. "Special branch of the royal guard (secret service). Sniper, political assassin, spy. Gosh, "Spy" could have been a good fit for Cozy actually.
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    I agree with most of what was said in this video. I'd also like to add that this "prophecy" about "Nightmare Moon's return" doesn't necessarily mean ONLY that. Prophecy is ALWAYS tricky. Just ask Anakin Skywalker. For for that matter, just Twilight trying to avert a temporal crisis that she herself created. What you think you're seeing might not be the whole story. For instance, there are other "stars" at play in all of this. The first time I looked back at that image of the stars moving towards the moon, after watching more of the series, I realized there was something interesting about it. It's oddly reminiscent of Twilight's cutie mark. Furthermore, the idea of "stars" loosing Nightmare Moon, has a parallel with what the Mane 6 did. In terms of "exorcism," you could easily say that Luna and Nightmare Moon are being 'released' from one another. Curiously in Twilight's cutie mark (one central star, surrounded by five others), fate and destiny are already metaphorically describing Twilight and her friends as "stars."
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    If such a Pony existed, the cutie mark wouldn't be a give away. Serial killers tend to rely on not getting noticed until it's too late. A cutie mark with a bloody knife would kinda be a dead give-away, like tying a bell on the cat who keeps leaving too many mouse carcasses on the porch. Unless that Pony was Michael Myers, cuz you could get away with having a "temporary tattoo" on Nightmare Night. So I guess the cutie mark would be less obvious. A chess piece, perhaps? "If you hear her say check mate, you're already dead."
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    I never heard them claim that they stopped, considering that they gained popularity by NOT stopping, since they made themselves out to be a martyr in the "war against stuff that doesn't hurt anybody." I'm curious about the food though. I've never been a big fried chicken person, mostly because it seems like all fast food establishments who have classic southern-style fried chicken, serve it so dry (probably after being kept warm for an hour) that you could literally scratch your throat on the breading. Will probably try it at least one time, just to see if it's any better than KFC or Popeyes.
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