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  1. @Pr3datorTaco @ParsoOfEquestria After a long period of silence, Felix still hadn't worked out what to say, and letting his curiosity get the better of him, and took a look inside the box. Unsure who he was actually asking, Felix blurted aloud, "So, what is all this stuff about, and why is it in a box? For that matter whose box is it?" Mindlessly, he began to rummage through the box, and while he meant no harm never had it crossed his head that this stuff was not his to rummage through. It was after he paused for a period of ten seconds that he rocketed a good five feet backwards with a guilty look on his face, "OhmygoshimsosorryInevermeanttotouchanything!" While almost unaudible, the tone itself seemed to come up to one's face and declare boldly, "I am very sorry." Perhaps an overreaction, though that was the thing bullies used to beat him up for, and as such he had a brief rush of bad memories.
  2. I'm not sure... I think I'm probably a bit of a shy introvert. At lunch I like to talk with close friends then go to a quiet empty classroom and do my work. I used to DESPISE music (probably was severe over stimulation). I am told I'm a great listener and I love to think. At the same time I get anxious around others, so in all probability I probably have a bit of both introversion and shyness. Oh, I also have an extreme lack of confidence, so much so it's a problem so I have found I do need to be a bit more extroverted.
  3. Honestly, I'm not sure myself. Some days I just don't know, some days I hate everyone, some days I love everyone, some days I feel more attracted to one gender or the other, I'm a teenager and this really isn't the time for me to make a judgment call on my sexuality.
  4. "Oh, my apologies, yes, I was just getting the creative juices flowing! As a matter of fact, this would be my first day off my personal studies, it's been a year and I want to get out, meet new ponies, see new places... Speaking of meeting new ponies, let me introduce myself, my name is Felix Steamheart, I am an inventor set out to make flying reality for earth ponies like myself, without the use of magic! I'm currently doing study thanks to a fine philanthropony I met a few years back. It's a pleasure to make your acquaintance!"
  5. It was a brand new day for Felix Steamheart, this commemorated the first year of his self studies on the properties of steam, the properties of metals, and aerodynamics. His project: create a working glider, using steam, to allow earth ponies to fly. He still had a good four year of studying before he could really start trying, but this was his first big moment in his carrier. Being that he had studied, with almost no breaks for 364 days, this would be his first real, full day off. This was his opportunity to really get out in Ponyville and meet new ponies. This day was going to be good, it had to. With a deep breath of outside air Felix took a hardy breath and trotted out the door. With a quick stretch and snap of the neck, he was off. Where to go, where to go... Nobody knows, and neither did Felix, he simply trotted off a random direction through Ponyville. Never sure of his goal, window shopping, meeting new ponies, whatever it was he had a look in his eyes, the look of a mission... Even if the mission may have been to find a mission. It was only then Felix began to think to himself, "Hmmm... Well, I've seen lots of nice little shops, trinkets and fruits... lots of ponies... maybe, maybe I should say hi, after all, I haven't seen anyone but my friends and family for a whole year now, but who to talk to? So many faces, some of them look really friendly, and well, others I can say now I better avoid. Oh bother, what to do?" Lost in his pondering the poor pony didn't notice he had begun to walk in circles, right there, in the middle of the street. No conscience effort was made to address this until some stray pony bumped passed him, at which point he choked to say, "excuse me," however in his bewilderment nothing actually came out of his mouth. So far wasn't a great start, but that didn't mean much, "of course," thought Felix, "this can still be a splendorous day!" With nothing but a sense of extreme optimism Felix resumed his perusing. What could he do but explore Ponyville. Maybe if he found another inventor's shop they could talk, but no luck yet. It was at this point where, in frustration, he paced slowly to the nearest wall and banged his head, perhaps even more strange, softly. By sheer coincidence his location was mere feet away from the door of which stood Dusk moments ago.
  6. Felix Steamheart
  7. PS2: I have the original kingdom hearts and kingdom hearts re: chain of memories, coming in at 84%, 80% GBA: Legend of Zelda the Minish Cap at 84% Game Boy: Castlevania: The Adventure, clocking in at 71%, and Plain 'ol Tetris at 70%. That's all the rare stuff I have
  8. Alright, I've been thinking, so I go to school with a pony shirt, I get all compliments. I wear my sock monkey hat. Compliments. Spider-Man tie. Pokemon. Mario. Your stereotypical american nerd with Marvel comics, video games galore, at least as I have seen, no longer gets insulted. On the contrary, people seem to like it. If It's not just me, perhaps, could what was once looked down upon become something to respect? Why, I dress up as Aang (from Avatar, The Last Airbender) for superhero day, and people seem to respect me MORE. Some people will respect it for being gutsy, and some people are mature enough not to be insulting, most in my experiences, so what about the people who seem to simply like it? They seem to be in great number. Has nerdy become simply ingrained into pop culture? Minecrafters, bronies, whovians, is that the modern norm? Food for thought... opinions?
  9. Memes, avatars, it was a slur of images, then some videos in the recommended area, and finally I just said, "I liked the old one... so if there is this much hype about the new one I've GOTTA like it!" and I watched it. Mom walked in on me watching it, she asked if she could watch it with me xD So with that I eventually looked for a forum after a thread on preexisting forums yielded no results. Bought the toys... Then I started meeting mew bronies and... BAM, all the sudden I was an engaged fan with a collection.
  10. Me hugging is a rare occurrence. They are uncomfortable, and awkward. The main times I hug people is when my family, whom I see seldom, is leaving or meeting me, I will give them a hug... So maybe twice a year will I hug one given person, probably no more than ten, really. But for me, that makes the few I have more meaningful... Who would I want to hug the most? Twilight, I relate well to her and I think we'd both have similar feelings about it haha.
  11. Personal stipulations: Nothing too commonly used Nothing like immortality, invincible, ect. No telekenisis No absolute control/infinite money. Nothing that affects the whole world/moves you to another one. Okay them let's get started shall we? Wings... Why wings? Why not wings!? I'd love to be able to fly, I'd get famous for my unique anatomy, it'd be marvelous... in my opinion. Flying would just be awesome. I'd fly instead of swim team. Fly home. Fly to school. Flying is awesome.
  12. I'm an atheist, in short there is no evidence for god, so no reason to believe. I don't want to get too contentious, so I'll try and avoid saying any more. Also, just going to be a knit picker, atheism isn't a religion, it's a lack of religion.
  13. I Canterlot (can't) stop myself from posting in this thread, call me a maneiac (maniac). I saw this thread and said "I hoof (have) to come up with some ideas." I'm equine (a queen) of puns. I won't stallion (stall) to make up anything cheesy, I won't stirrup (stir up) anything inappropriate though! I'll pony (pown any) pun that comes my way, whip (with) pizzazz too! I behoove (hoove) you to watch ponies! It's a nightmare (night mare) waiting or season 3! Those puns were incredibly corny, but they are all I got, so... For the sheer level of cheesy I earn the "Carlos!" badge... If you don't know I mean magic school bus, if you still don't know your childhood must have been lackluster xP
  14. Easy, the community, everypony I meet, in reality and on the internet, has been wonderful. It's been a social adventure where I meet new people and developed my skills. Some people I already knew, some I didn't, but it's always been a help to expand my horizons. There isn't much to say, bunch of nice people, new conversation topics... Other than the show and art it's one of the three main pros to being a brony, all of which you can have without even being a brony! You can be a non brony and have brony friends, like the show and art, and as long as you don't consider yourself a brony, you aren't! Being that nothing is exclusive is a beautiful part of this fan base, it makes it easy to integrator, acculturate, and assimilate. A reason why our fan-base has grown so well, and stayed for the community. I can't really think of any major cons, it's been all jolly for me. New friends is always great. New entertainment is good. Nothing to complain about! Well, there is the r34 community, giving us a bad name, but heck to it, if people can't understand that's a subculture than good day to them! [media]http-~~-//www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDW0ZnZxjn4[/url[/media ]
  15. Dear sir or madam this is a wonderful question. First thing first, being ethnocentric, and following my therapy, I'm giving myself a 10/10. There is one main reason for this. Nobody is perfect, so what really matters is you try, and that I do. I am gifted to do well mentally and hindered to do less well athletically, I still try. I'm not the fastest swimmer, or the nicest person, though I try to be kind, and work hard. That's what really matters. If you are rude and nonathletic but you don't even try to improve, it doesn't make you a bad person, but you can't be great when you don't try. All lives are beautiful, really. Now I have my negatives, but despite them I still think of myself as a good person. It helps my social anxiety, too. I embrace my flaws, because it helps me. I have a number of mental disorders asthma, I'm lazy, but I try, and that's what really matters. Now if you asked me how skilled and kind I think I am I'd say 8/10, but skill isn't a measure of how good you are of a person. Man I'd probably give everypony here a 10/10, ya'll such a sweet bunch. In a while I'll be hangin' with ya in skype.
  16. Haha, perhaps there is the reasoning of supporting the artists, but even if that case was the new gen, and I was feeling very generous, I'd pay maybe $15 without shipping. Maybe. Even then, that's pushing it a lot being the tight wad I am. Sure, it's neat, it's novelty, but it isn't $400 of glory. It's absurd, obsessed people do crazy things, I suppose one could even call love an obsession with a person, to some extent. Ere go love makes us do crazy things. Basic psychology, the more strongly we feel the stranger things we do. Ah, but what does this mean for artists? Art is a hard industry, but if an artist loves the show they can take advantage of a massive fanbase (that sounds way bad, it isn't though) and do what they enjoy while making a fair price. At the same time the enthusiastic customers get something unique. Often times the buyer gets an absolute bargain, but with fan bases the artist get's a little wiggle room with money, rather than the ramen-and-rice plan. Maybe I'm being a bit biased, but I really do think these crazy people are doing a great favor to the artistic world... Anyone who works independently has to work very hard, just how it normally is. That said as nice as it is for the artist $400 is still absurd in my opinion. In the end though, whatever floats your boat, I guess. As long as they didn't actually mean to type "40" it's all good, one person walks away rich, the other gets what they want with a blazing passion. Even if that passion dies down you know they you won't regret "what if I really did want to get it?" There's not much logical about the situation, pros and cons, but totally illogical. Just how people are. But it's the imperfections that really make us perfect. Obligatory complimentary image below.
  17. Haha I hate ASL so much, gonna give a little sample platter of my omegle trolling experiences. The grand platter of my troll tactics. Enjoy. I collected some of these fresh some of them from old copies.
  18. Well, aside from the act they live in a primarily land-centered place, ere go less pegasus, pony genetics may provide a good answer. Okay, sure this seems okay, but... horses have more chromosomes, to resist adverse effects of inbreeding. With that. and alicorns, there is a good chance pony genetics would be a bit more complex, still it would work. Realistically, that's probably not the reasoning the producers used, rather that was simply what they came up with. Nothing deep or complex, just what they felt would make for a better show for whatever reasons.
  19. On the internet I am a bit more outgoing, as expected. Most people open up when they can think to type rather than on the spot face to face confrontation. That said face to face confrontation is very good for developing one's skills. Though I can be more loving online that's not all that opens up, my contentious side that is more voiced, sporadic, and aggressive I can come off as a bit of a jerk. Sometimes. Other times I'm far kinder online. It depends on my mood, really. In real life rather than being vocally outgoing, or writing, I am outgoing in what I dress. I can't talk on the spot and that is what makes me less outgoing in real life. On the internet I have crazy avatars and talk about anything, so I tend to be generally one of those people you either love or hate. In real life I dress in pony and pokemon shirts and what not, but I don't do anything offensive, so having mature peers people don't usually have a negative opinion of me. Lately I've been in a great mood, but I still haven't been quite kind as I could be, so even then it isn't just mood, but also what people say and who I encounter. Can't say I am proud of my social inadequacy, but at least I am honest about it, including to myself. People here seem extremely kind, heck, I think even I calm when I go on this site. The atmosphere, pony theme, people, it wraps up nicely into a warm community... other places I have been have dull backgrounds, loads of harsh debating, a lot of things that while making me a little less warm, metaphorically, made me far more resilient to what people say. This has been a bit of a tangent, and that is one thing that is true of me in real life and on the internet, when I do things in conversation I jump around like an autistic kangaroo, metaphorically. A metaphorical analogy, I use weird things like that in both too. Also I can be a dyslexic, ocd, autistic, paranoid, all around mentally abnormal person. And I pride myself in that.
  20. If you want to skip all three paragraphs, short answer: The Adventures of Link. Nes? Oh lawdy, that's a hard one. I love the original final fantasy, the adventures of link and contra were wonderful, Super Mario Bros 3 was such a classic, the nes was a truly beautiful generation of gaming. Indeed! I find 8-bit music quite appealing! I love my gameboy, I find the games intensely more appealing. Of course I have good games for it, or at least what I consider good. Pokemon, FF1, 2, and 5, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, alas, that is not NES. The only NES games I own that I like with a blazing passion are the adventures of link, legend of zelda, and contra. The NES final fantasy is splendiferous however I do not own it. Of what I own my favorite is the adventure of link, it is the one game to utilize leveling and I am a total sucker for level grinding. It's such a beautifully simple system, boost one of three stats: attack, magic, or life. This means you can, essentially, adjust the dificulty on yourself, something that people like me, who suck at gaming, may enjoy. Contra was incredible, however I only beat it with help, and it was rather short... Yet not so short as to be a bad game, no, it was the perfect length. The legend of zelda was so long, but you can grind rupys and get various boosts like the big shield and blue ring right off the bat. I know, I'm a cheapskate. Sue me. Mario was too hard or me, but it was fun. In the end without the restriction of what I have I either like Adventures of Link or Final Fantast I (at the time just Final Fantasy), they both utilize leveling, and have good gameplay. The story of both are a bit substandard for today, but screw the storyline, Kingdom Hearts has a good storyline but it makes it so hard to get into. Zelda is guy kidnaps princess, you get cool sword and magical triangles to kill him. Final fantasy, bad dude wants to rule world, you get crystals and kick their booty-batooty. In the end I like the simplicity and dynamic of The Adventures of Link, so I must place that as my top with FF, SMB3, and LoZ, and Contra, as honorary mentions.
  21. Whatever floats your boat, darlin'. Look at my avatar, it isn't the most self explanatory o avatars but I like it for my own reasons, and that is satisfactory. It makes me happy to express my individual interests even if others do not understand. Why, might you ask, does this make me happy? Because! I enjoy the content (Pokemon nuzlocke, it came off a page of that), and because that one thing makes me happy, seeing this specific frame that I love whenever I post makes me even happier. Self-centered? Sure! Who gives a care, you aren't hurting anybody, and if you are they are far too easily offended, so they need toughen up a bit. Furthermore, I like your avatar. It suits you, you have an interest in... whatever it is, or perhaps you just like the image, that's a great reason too. For people like me the avatar is more of a system of recognition than the names themselves, names are torture to me, so if you want to be represented as you in my eyes and others like me, you need to have a bit of individualism. I'm recognized as a thumb, that's not what my avatar is, but heck with it, thumbs are awesome! More specifically, I like your avatar for the proper size. I hate when people butcher large images into things meant to be small, it's heresy. Lol, perhaps not that bad, but the head shot is +points in my opinion. Perhaps it isn't creepy, even as late at night as it is, but it has a certain edge to it, it is unique, memorable, interesting, catches the eye, it's quite perfect in a way. It does not suit the forms too, I like that. On such specific forums things get boring if you don't broaden off the original intention, so live it up a little and have fun with your avatar as you please.
  22. I can't remember where, but I remember an estimate around 7million. Actually that may have come from my own thinking... I really don't have much to say. I googled it and couldn't find the page I think I saw. Also, google and self research are your best friend, use them! It's admirable!
  23. I think it is increasing, based not only on google search but popularity where I live. Wearing a shirt, a brony shirt and a pinkie clip, a construction worker literally yelled "hey brony," or something along those lines, and I waved back. Keep in mind this guy looked from what I saw give or take thirty. The custom shirt shop, when mom got me the shirt, the lady said that bronies were common and that if I was a brony I probably have a DVD... I do, as a matter of fact. Large celebrities are saying they liked the show, my three examples are Gabe Newell, Bill Clinton (Refer to thread) and notch, who said he was not a brony but liked it. Many articles being published, it is a phenomena, and it's growing. It's made to be a big deal, I think there will be a day where we get as big as furries (if not bigger?) and while the media ruckus is gone, we will still be a large, active fanbase. So considering that we will loose attention, when, and will that halt our growth? I think we will loose growth, but even furries are still growing. As long as the show goes, my theory is we will have sizable growth, then it depends on the fanart. Even Making Fiends (remember that show, it died fast) has a small, small fanbase. We already have the one fan made song that looks official, I think once the show dies a fan series may be started. If so, I think we will grow at a similar rate, otherwise I think it will slow significantly. Tom and Jerry, even, still has a fan base. We won't truly die for an incredible time considering our size. I actually wonder if our fanbase even will die.
  24. I happen to be a public brony, I wear shirts, the clips, I tell people who ask. I find it quite fun. I have many unusual likes, rap, RayWhilliamJhonson (I think he makes good music and has good humor, I laugh with him not at him), I am a furry, I like many games and shows, I'm not afraid to show it. I happen to have a very accepting mom and an obnoxious grandmother, one accepts my intrest and one rejects. Still, even if it is "immature" she does not understand that when I'm not in a strictly formal situation it makes the most sense to be happy, and it makes me happy to hear people interested in my pony apparel. On top of that, I have a very accepting school and peer group. I happen to live in a perfect small town environment where I can comfortably express my interests. Bless our school, you can come out as LGBT and people won't judge. Most teachers are good people, most, but we can't all be perfect. Perhaps had life dealt me a different hand of cards I wouldn't be an open brony, or a brony at all. Who knows, there really is no room to complain, I mean from what I hear and experience our school is a rare gem. One of the nearby schools is two. Two out of three good schools, the beauty of small towns.
  25. I have a sort of split opinion on this. On one hand I feel it is wonderful our influence has been enough for famous people to say that liked it (i.e. Gabe Newell, Bill Clinton, Notch (liked clips he saw, though not a brony because he does not identify as such)). I think it is wonderful to spread our fanbase and as a reason to people that being a brony is not so wrong. It is a sign our community has blossomed into something incredible. On the other hand, they are just people. We follow them and look up to them for their popularity, while in many ways, they are like us. They can have opinions and likes, they have personal friends and lives, they often even have children *gasp* Really, people look up to them (at times, not always) just for how big they are. It's in some ways sad we follow a select few people. On the other hand it has become an incredible tool to get less well known things more well known. As bronies have demonstrated, however, that can happen when large groups of passionate people pop up and rise to the occasion. I really didn't have much to say about it other than that, to be honest it makes me happy to know that he is a brony. It makes me happy it will help spread the word. Logically it just doesn't make sense to put so much control over media in the hands of few.
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