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  1. I am resurrecting this thread because Meghan did it wrong. Assuming that these numbers do indicate the episodes with at least one song in them... One of them is wrong. Or skipped. Leap of Faith, episode 20, has a song. So either 21 is a typo, or she forgot to put 20 on the list. I'm guessing typo. Next episode is about Rainbow Dash taking a Wonderbolts test and that doesn't seem like an episode that would have a song in it. Am I the first person to notice this? Hmmm... not sure what this says about my obsession with the show.
  2. People in our world wouldn't take Celestia seriously. Celestia trying to explain what the accuser did wrong would fall on deaf ears. People in our world would not respect her authority nor would they like to admit that they are in the wrong.
  3. This season has been amazing for Rarity. Rarity Takes Manehatten and For Whom the Sweetie Belle Toils are two of the best episodes of this season by far. I liked her in Simple Ways a lot - even though she had a meltdown and needed to be slapped in the face by Applejack (who was fabulous, by the way), it was good characterization for her nonetheless. Filli Vanilli shows a great side to Rarity as well. She and Fluttershy make great friends (as you can see in my avatar ) This season has been best season for Rarity. Now I feel like people can stop voting for Rarity in those "who represents their element of harmony the least" polls.
  4. I will be interested in them if there are particular white and yellow cards that would make my deck better. Otherwise I won't bother with them. My husband and I haven't played the game in so long... I also haven't bought any cards in a long time. Budget. :/
  5. I don't think so just because the evidence that is out there is inconclusive at best and fabricated at worst. Saying that the government is hiding alien evidence is giving too much credit to all governments worldwide. lol It's not impossible, but unlikely from what I can gather at this time. I am going to write a story about aliens in the form of ghosts who possess the bodies of people who are depressed and have no hope for life and eventually take over the entire body - and that there is an alien treasure hidden on earth that can bring someone to life by killing another sentient being, so the alien race wants to use that to their advantage and rebuild their civilization. And of course the main characters (human teenagers) are the only ones who can stop them. It does bring up ethical issues because the aliens are just trying to regain the civilization and see the humans as aliens. But the humans need to save the world to protect their families and friends and stuff. But none of that is real.
  6. I am not sure if that would have helped. My friend is half black half white, so to this SJW, by the other posts I have seen in her blog, she may think that anyone who has any bit of white in them is at least half-told that she is superior to other races? Or that because she is half-white that she is told that she is better than 100% black people but not as good as 100% white people and that's still bad? I went back to her blog to look for some of the posts and I really wish that this interaction was the only mind-blowingly terrible thing that I saw on there. I wrote this blog post because there is another SJW on Tumblr right now who said that a grown woman committing statutory rape multiple times to an 8 year old boy is actually the victim because the 8 year old boy is male and it couldn't be the woman's fault for having sex with the boy multiple times. So I wanted to rant about SJWs and use an example of a personal interaction. But it just kinda made me angrier. :/ I just literally cannot fathom living life like you are fighting a battle against oppressive people, and in this battle, you are constantly making the first attack. I do understand, as a woman and as a religious person on the Internet and as a brony, that battles do need to be fought. But wisdom and experience have convinced me to always be on the defensive and to be honest and frank but not cruel. Because that is likely to win friendship, or at least respect from people who are different from yourself. These Reddit posts help: http://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/comments/1fuis5/ http://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/comments/1pbj39/why_do_sjws_bitch_so_much_about_diversity_and/
  7. I know what you mean. It also makes me wonder if some of these people have undiagnosed mental disorders like bipolar. I have no intention on using mental disorder as an excuse to wave away people's concerns ("Oh she thinks white people are racist? Well I hear she has bipolar disorder so that just makes her crazy!") but rather finding out if that is the case to be the beginning of solving a problem... Yeah I think that people these days are being encouraged to "be yourself" and if "you can't handle me at my worst then you don't deserve me at my best." I am thankful for a family life that fostered individual growth and maturity, along with a supportive community and good university sources that did the same. I am also thankful for Internet communities like this one that do the same. I hope the young people here learn how to be better people.
  8. They just wanted to mention it because drama. But there was no room to explore it in the movie because it probably was required to be 72 minutes long. If they were allowed to do a full-length feature film then the relationship could have probably been explored a bit.
  9. I started actively engaging in the Tumblr thing a couple of months ago. I had had a Tumblr for quite a while but became disinterested while I was planning my wedding. I got back into Tumblr and, while I do enjoy what I see, certain parts of it have become... interesting. Anyone who has been on Tumblr long enough knows about the Social Justice Warriors. The people who write blogs about discrimination and reblog others' posts about it who spend so much energy on the topic and direct their opinions is the totally wrong direction (to the point of extremism, or worse), and it drives all of the sane Tumblr users nuts. I encountered my first SJW quite a bit ago when a friend of mine (who would be an SJW if she didn't have a brain) reblogged a post from one of these kinds of people. It said: So, I can understand where this person is coming from... except, of course, usually my reaction to hearing, "All straight people think that gay men are drama queens" I would say, "Um, no, pretty sure that's not true?" My friend, who by the way is biracial and female, responded: Things got interesting after that. SJW: Friend: Bravo! Totally agreed. I wanted to let her know that I was on her side, so I decided to chime in: So I thought that was pretty intelligent, reasonable, and kind. I gave myself a pat on the back for that one. Too bad SJW had other things to say: Um. So SJW sees one post from me and assumes that I must plug my ears whenever I hear people talk about oppression? Gosh, either she's the greatest Internet psychologist ever for being able to deduce my behavior through one Tumblr post, or there's something wrong. F'd up indeed, Friend. This entire thing would have made better conversation if: 1. It wasn't a strawman 2. Or a false cause 3. Or if the whole thing wasn't an appeal to emotion 4. The SJW never used a personal attack against me because of my post, otherwise known as an ad hominem 5. She could take criticism and didn't have to rely on tu quoque 6. She didn't think that white straight men are by nature oppressive - genetic 7. She could admit that these issues aren't black or white 8. She didn't laugh at the idea of being compassionate and reasonable - essentially dismissing my argument/suggestion without a real explanation why. It goes on. Someone else chimed in at this point, agreeing with me: Look! Reasonable person has reasonable thing to say! But SJW chimed in again: White people from birth are told that they are better than people of color??? I have never been told that in my life. If she is using hyperbole here, it's not helping her case. Oh, and she responds to my "compassion and reason" comment... Ugh. 1. If they are supported by facts, give us facts, not just anecdotes. 2. We are listening. And counter-arguing. If you think that everyone who legitimately listens to what you have to say automatically will agree with you, HAHAHAHA you naive narcissistic peanut - I stopped believing that before I got into high school, and here you are, a young adult woman, still believing that everything that you type on a keyboard is magic truth? 3. You are allowed to be wrong. So are we. But you need to actually argue your points without resorting to half of the logical fallacies that exist. 4. Hey, I have compassion for the oppressed too. I hate racism, sexism, and homophobia. It makes me facepalm, and I call people out on their racism, sexism, and homophobia if I can find a way to speak to them that will help us see eye-to-eye without calling them names or telling them to fuck off or that it has to be us vs. them. Why can't we all just be human? 5. Oh and basically you are putting words in my mouth. Because if one white person said it, then all white people think it, right??? So I pretty much ended with this: SJW never responded to this one. So. I think one of the worst parts about all this is that the original blog post got over 15,000 notes. Why is shit like this popular. See, this scares me. I mean at best these people are teenagers and arrogant college students who will grow out of a phase. At worst people are learning about the world and how to argue beliefs and logical claims from effing Tumblr, and what they learn about critical thinking in Tumblr will stick with them forever. SJWs are a thing because people are not taught how to make logical, compelling arguments. These people learn about oppression and learn that everything about oppression is the fault of the straight white man and then their critical thinking stops there. These people are narcissistic adolescent and young adult women who are bored with lives or bitter about past experiences with certain individuals that they involve themselves in Tumblr drama and mask the drama as fighting for minority rights. I was going through this particular person's entire Tumblr to find some of these posts and holy shit. There is just so much wrong with what she says a lot of the time. She even insults bronies and says that we all sexualize cartoon horses and ruin the show for little girls. I just, how do they function in normal society? Doesn't everyone hate them? And are they completely unable to see that the reason for other people's hate is because of how they approach others who are part of these "majority" groups? Now generally I believe that people are decently good at figuring out their own problems and being self-reflective and choosing to learn from mistakes and whatnot. But being literally blind to your own faults must be so debilitating. Well, you know what the Bible says: Matthew 7: 4-5
  10. Wanna make a recording of me singing Stop the Bats... with the bit of a sore throat that I have, it's hard for me to get in AJ's range and my recordings have all been super flat. Maybe I should just sing the soprano-type songs.

  11. Only thing I didn't like about this episode was that when Pinkie Pie was in trouble, I was expecting Rainbow Dash to fly in and save her. I would've liked to see an attempt at her saving Pinkie, only to have Maud get to her first. Not sure if it would have worked though, it's just weird that RD wouldn't try, you know? But that is nit-picking. This is quite a solid episode. I loved the humor - it's comical how boring Maud is. The more I think about it, the more I realize that there is probably a lot more about her than she lets on, and that's first seen when she saves Pinkie and talks about how she isn't meshing with Pinkie's friends, on top of the conversation with Pinkie on the train ride back to the rock farm. The conversation was just deeper compared to what you would expect from a kids' show. I really liked how Twilight's solution after initially meeting Maud is to have each pony spend one-on-one time with Maud. That is such a realistic understanding of how introversion works, and Twilight is definitely one to understand that - not just because she became a princess because of her understanding of friendship, but that's because that's how Twilight herself operates. In the first episode of the series, you see Twilight meeting the rest of the mane 6 individually, and is overwhelmed by the Apple Family and annoyed after a long day of socializing by Pinkie Pie's party. I just really really appreciate this show understanding that some people are introverted and have different needs, because I feel that there aren't many shows that acknowledge that. My favorite part was the scene with Applejack. I think it's hilarious that we were able to directly compare Maud's love of rocks with Applejack's love of apples. Something worth noting: Maud is Pinkie's older sister, but she doesn't have her cutie mark yet. Pinkie is the first of her sisters to get hers. I just find that interesting. It also looks like all of the girls are very very close in age, which is the only family of the mane 6 that has a series of siblings that close in age. I imagine Shining Armor being a fair bit older than Twilight (since I'm guessing he and Cadance are the same age and Cadance was old enough to babysit Twilight), although I can see Big Mac and Applejack being fairly close in age. I haven't read the Pinkie Pie book yet - Pinkie Pie's Party Palooza, I think? I hear there's more information about her family in that book. I'll have to read it sometime. Maud isn't in Pinkie's Cutie Mark Chronicles flashback, which is weird. The writing staff just added Maud for some reason instead of using one of Pinkie's already-existing sisters, maybe because the book was already being written and the other two sisters were being established characters. I can forgive this, though - since it's a flashback, and not an actual account of what happened, it's possible that when she was telling her cutie mark story, Pinkie Pie couldn't remember if Maud was there when she had her party, or if Maud was off doing other things or running a large errand. Or maybe Maud was late to come outside to do chores and showed up to the party later. Actually, the latter makes a little more sense, because with Pinkie it'd be more likely that she would put Maud in her memory of the party even if she wasn't actually there.
  12. I completely agree with your first point. People who let their initial judgments or let the negative opinions of another group completely shut them off from learning more about them, generally, are judgmental and self-centered, at least in some way. It doesn't necessarily mean that they are automatically all horrible people - it just means that they should probably grow in empathy and understanding. The second part, though, isn't about so much whether or not the stereotypes are true. After all, there are legit reasons that stereotypes exist in the first place. In fact, a lot of the time, stereotypes allow us to see something and move on with life rather quickly. So in some ways, it doesn't really matter if a person who learned about bronies learns about them in a negative light as a stereotype as long as they don't have to deal with bronies in person or if they do not have relationships with bronies. The thing is that there are bronies who do exhibit those negative stereotypes. The list given by MLPForums Phanatic could easily be cherry-picked by many of our own forum members (the what's everypony's religion thread... makes me feel a little bit alone not being an atheist, lol). It's not that having only one or two of those traits is bad (depends on what they are and how people perceive them), but it does make people reluctant to see bronies in a positive light if they have ever experienced a brony who portrays these stereotypes in a negative way. It only takes one or two, in many cases. It's not so much that these stereotypes are untrue - it is that people are unwilling, for one reason or another, to see bronies beyond what the stereotype tells us that we are like. Good people who call themselves bronies have the ability to shatter people's perceptions of bronies by just talking to people and being honest with them.
  13. *nods* It's all well and good to try to be understanding of other people's beliefs and actions... but tolerance can only go so far. There are beliefs, fetishes, and actions that genuinely hurt other people, sometimes including the people who have/do them. It does the fandom no favors to be tolerant of the actions of those who are willing to hurt other people for their own gain.
  14. See, there's your problem. You feel like it is just an expensive extension of high school because you are not doing what you want to be doing. Why did your parents "force" you to get a bachelor's when you didn't want one? And why did you let them get away with that? You are an adult and you make your own decisions now. The fact that your parents are seemingly still treating you like an adolescent may be contributing to your misery. BTW, the fact that people are being told left and right that they have to go to college is so bad. People waste so much money going to college when they really don't have to. I graduated from university and I loved it while I was there. But that doesn't mean that that's everyone's path. I wish that people realized that.
  15. I really appreciate your post. I think you bring up a pretty valid point. But I have a question regarding this part: How, in your opinion, would you respond to the kind of people who are convinced, based on "bad bronies'" actions, that people in the brony community are perverted, creepy, neckbearded losers, etc? I mean, I know that it is impossible to have a real conversation with some of these people. Haters gonna hate. But when you add in the fact that there are bronies who have done bad things, and those things can catch public attention, it complicates things. The people who already have that pre-established negative bias towards bronies now have proof that they're just a bunch of messed up creepy losers. To the haters, it just solidifies their opinion. Generally, the people who aren't just out to insult bronies because they can, usually relate back to experiences with them - whether they know one personally who is obnoxious, or they have encountered a few online and didn't like interacting with them. The bad experiences with bronies stick. So the people tell their stories, others who have heard their stories believe them, they generalize bronies, and the list goes on... I just think that if we have more "good" people who are not afraid to call themselves a brony if the subject ever comes up, maybe some minds can be changed, and the way that people look at bronies as a whole can change. Instead of conversations about bronies being like this: "What? A grown man who likes a little girl show? Oh, so you sit on your computer all day and talk about the show incessantly to people who don't care, and you get all weepy when someone who doesn't like the show tells you off on it. I see, you're just a man-child who is contributing to the downfall of the Internet." The conversations can start like this: "What? A grown man who likes a little girl show? But you are cool to talk to, you have really good opinions about controversial subjects, you don't care for petty arguments, you hang out with your friends on Friday nights, and you're writing a novel in your spare time? So... why do you like this show?" Of course, that latter line depends on whether or not the person you are talking to is decently reasonable and open-minded. Do you think that people knowing to be a good example is enough? Or is there no hope for our kind? Or is there, and it takes some other form?
  16. I like unicorns best. So maybe that makes me a sistercorn? Or a unisister? Eh, unisis? Siscorn? Or maybe a Sisny instead of a brony. I quit.
  17. - I share the bedroom with my husband - We sleep on a king-sized bed. It is huge and super comfy. :3 - We have the largest walk-in closet that any cheap apartment has ever had - There aren't any posters or anything in the room - we try to keep that room a little more grown-up (the spare bedroom has all of our geeky stuff). We do have a few other things hung on the wall, though. - We have our own bedside tables - I do keep my 3DS in there so that I can play Animal Crossing right before I go to bed. I think his 3DS is somewhere in the room too - I also keep my Kindle and a bunch of books on my bedside table - I have an alarm clock that has a lamp that grows lighter like it's supposed to resemble the sun rising - We do keep most of our anime/video game plushies on the bed... or fallen into the space between the headboard and the mattress - It's the best place to perform the marital act
  18. OK, I appreciate this video. Applejack just acting the way she did (out of nowhere) just rubbed me the wrong way throughout the whole episode. I agree with everything else he said though. I realize too that I wasn't giving enough credit to just how good the CMC were in this episode. So yeah I still think her acting like that came out of nowhere but I do appreciate the alternate perspective.
  19. Then maybe you won't understand until you have to block someone yourself. First of all, who are you to say that there are people out there who use it wrongly? Do you know of their particular situations in-depth? Are you aware of all or even most of the conversations that the two people were having with each other before the falling out and the blocking? Sure maybe some people are immature and will just block people for no good reason - but it's none of your business if someone chooses to do that. If they are reasonable enough to realize that they were being extreme by blocking, then they will unblock the person themselves. If the person is unreasonable, then user A isn't losing out on anything in the end after all. I have needed to block people (here and other places) for my own protection. Getting stalked and/or verbally abused is horrible and I am glad that the blocking system exists the way it does so that I don't have to deal with that bullshit. If the blocking system was defaulted to only 5 days of being blocked, then that makes me much more vulnerable to attacks and stalkerish behavior. In short: the blocking system is perfectly fine the way it is. If it was any looser, I wouldn't be comfortable going online and talking to people.
  20. Bolded for emphasis. And if no one gives a shit about whether or not an individual calls themselves a brony, that means that people think of you, as an individual, as someone who is just as bad as the "bad" bronies. I hope that clears up some misunderstandings or misinterpretations of what the OP is trying to convey. Can we shift the conversation as much as we can so that we are talking about this particular issue? I know that I would like to know people's thoughts about this particular issue, whether or not the people who partake in this discussion call themselves bronies.
  21. You're right, I am just a little peeved that this episode turned out the way it did. I won't hold this episode against him when seeing future ones, but that doesn't mean that he isn't on thin ice, IMO.
  22. Yes I 100% agree with this. It's not so much that it's OOC for AJ to be overprotective, it's that they took it to the extreme just to make it funny. Had there been more realistic reasons for her blowup and had her antics been a little more subtle, I think that this would have been a much better episode. Also, if the dialogue wasn't so damn repetitive and cheesy in many places. Scott Sonneborn is now officially worst writer of the show. :/
  23. While I agree, the point that Lord Discord was making earlier is that it pretty much doesn't matter whether or not fans decide to label themselves as bronies. Because either way, the rest of the world will know us as bronies whether we like it or not. Which is why it is a shame that good people abandon the brony label because bad people are part of the community. When the good people do that, it lets the bad people define what a brony is, and it lets the bad people define the fandom as a whole, whether or not, again, individuals within the fandom call themselves bronies or not. I think that is the point that this thread is trying to make.
  24. I may try doing what you did and see if that changes my opinion on the episode. The thing is that she didn't seem very OOC at all in Apple Family Reunion. Her motivations had more buildup and believability to them. But I can still try it when I have the time.
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