I'm even more concerned about G5's diversity issue, here's why

[Plonkett 341]

The new She-Ra is yet another example of diversity over quality. Plus, I'm just hoping that G5 won't go for the kind of art style you'd see on Tumblr.

[Goat-kun 2,498]

Is H-Bro getting red pilled? Perhaps there's hope.

[Steve Piranha 28,782]

8 minutes ago, Goat-kun said:

Is H-Bro getting red pilled? Perhaps there's hope.

Oh yeah, you know you did some good shit if people talks about it . Good thing too, as the SJW agenda is dominating the media  

[Midnight Solace 5,129]

Dafuq's goin on with MLP...

[Plonkett 341]

21 hours ago, Goat-kun said:

Is H-Bro getting red pilled? Perhaps there's hope.

This is a great sign that Hasbro is against the SJW culture. Hopefully they'll hire a show runner who's actually competent.

[Goat-kun 2,498]

22 hours ago, Steve Piranha said:

Oh yeah, you know you did some good shit if people talks about it . Good thing too, as the SJW agenda is dominating the media  

No marketing like having a moral outrage mob disseminating your product far and wide over the social media in a desperate attempt to shut you down. Well concern-trolled lefties. You've become Westboro Baptist Church and soccer moms. Goblin Slayer appreciates your enthusiasm. Even some big brain EQD shill had to crawl out of his dank hole to perform top notch mental gymnastic about how Gob Slayer isn't as dark as pony villains. Now that's a long reach. That's a damn long reach.

 

And since we're on the subject of "muh diversity" let's get in a few words about She-Ra and her/his triggered band of snowflakes. There's a clear difference between body type diversity and fat, flat, and ugly face of feminist agenda. All the characters look like lazy SU cosplayers straight out of Tumblr. These princesses were not made for little girls. They were made for millennial champagne socialists fighting heteronormativity or some other imaginary white whale concept that got lodged inside their hollow heads by their gender studies educators. I hope H-Bro is watching this mummer show very closely, especially the sales. Personally, I'd have all the team leaders write me an essay about why this shit always fails.

[Goat-kun 2,498]

1 hour ago, vgmaster9 said:

This is a great sign that Hasbro is against the SJW culture. Hopefully they'll hire a show runner who's actually competent.

They should also not renew the IDW contract. After Aubrey Sitterson G.I Joe debacle and trans Transformers there's no reason why they'd keep this decrepit nest of regressives afloat.

[BornAgainBrony 2,395]

On 11/18/2018 at 1:14 PM, Goat-kun said:

Is H-Bro getting red pilled? Perhaps there's hope.

Every arm of the octopus has no clue what the other ones are doing.

And this here, is also a perfect example of how Hasbro never realized how powerful MLP really was. The studios got it. They gobbled it up. They dove right in with the fans and played with them.

Occasionally a 3rd party was interested, licensed the characters, and created something aimed at adult fans, but Hasbro themselves did nothing. The merchandising part of the company is still living in the world where MLP is just for kids. And among kids, just for girls.

Since the focus of this thread seems to be whining about liberals, this is what conservative thinking gets you. An acute inability to adapt to new things. It is the mentality of those who will go so far as to bully, assault, or even kill that which they deem as deviating from the status quo. The Salem Witch hunts never end. "Witch" is now a variable and its value gets set to whatever the newest deviation from the status quo happens to be. And in the case of a toy manufacturer such as Hasbro, it means you have completely failed to understand your consumers by perpetually-thinking it's the year 1975, where it's still trendy to give wedgies to the D&D players and tell them they're never going to get a date.

A show designed to sell their toys ended up speaking to Millennials more than practically any other. Or at very least, a kids show that spoke to them more than any other. And this was well before Season 8 so you can't blame much of anything on leftist/SJW/DeepState/Illuminati/conspiracy theory whatever (unless you're the kind of person who thinks "Can we try NOT wiping out all life as we know it?" is a strictly partisan issue). But they never understood it, or even made an effort to try. Psychologists have been at work since the beginning trying to unravel the mystery. By complete accident, they ended up doing something good and remarkable. But instead of analyzing it and trying to determine what more they could do with it, they just disregarded it as a lucky paradox and went right back to 'business as usual.' Coincidentally (since they are always described as the "wing" who cares about money), conservatism resulted in Hasbro making FAR less from MLP than they could have. Was it still a success? Sure. But when you fail to even try selling your product to half of your audience (and the half that has most of the money, since adult fans tend to spend more than parents will spend on their kids), that's an abyssal failure.

That said, the irony of this Millennial Monopoly game is even more controversial than anyone is talking about. The original game which was half-stolen/half-lost-due to patent limitations, was designed to teach the negative impacts of capitalism. So by your definition, Monopoly started out as "leftist propaganda."

But just keep in mind that without liberals to help maintain the balance, we wouldn't even be having this discussion on a public web space. We'd get beaten by thugs for wearing MLP hats, and our cutie-marked cars would be smashed with baseball bats. If we dared have a convention it would end in a shooting spree started by some self-righteous paramecium who wants to remind the world that effeminate men are an abomination and must be purged from the gene pool. We would be convening only on the dark web. Secrecy would be the highest priority like homosexuals fifty years ago, or atheism thousands of years ago, constantly afraid of what might happen to us if the "normal world" found out that we exist. Seriously, conservatives even tried to suppress Rock and Roll music! And what would the newspaper article read if our underground lair was raided by inquisitors? "Something something Pedophiles something something Bestiality something something with a side-order of occultism with the worship of heathen horse goddesses who pervert the symbol of God's Promise into a demonic weapon."

Our freedom to exist out in the open with minimal risk of ridicule comes from the work done by activists and "SJW's." Yes, sometimes they overreach. And time will tell if the movement will survive with its core morals or will degrade into a dogma of its own and become just as "conservative" in its own way. But it's also wrong to ignore the progress that has been made because of their efforts. We're all enjoying that progress right now just by being here.

Edited November 19, 2018 by BornAgainBrony

[Clod 8,293]

Diversity in a show needs to be a thing, but you should let it speak for itself. Have diverse characters, but don't mention it every chance you get. If they pull that off, cool. Because the message you should be spreading is that it just shouldn't matter. People are people.

And for staff, it should just be the most capable people. If that means there ends up being a majority of one kind of person in there, oh well. Don't care what color their skin is or what they have in their pants. Can they do the job? That's the most important thing. Don't choose not to hire one person because it isn't split evenly. You have 50 of x, 49 of y. You need to hire one more to make 100. You have two people you're considering to hire. One's an x, one's a y. The x is much better at the job. The x gets hired, because the x can do the job better than the y. It's now 51/49, but oh well, it doesn't matter.

The issue I'm seeing is that they made sure they're 50/50, and even 100% female for the writers. I mean, they can hire whoever they want, but they shouldn't be turning anyone down because they want more men or women. And the writers being 100% female seems pretty discriminatory against males. Why can't men write for the show?

 

I doubt G5 will go the same way. The example shown is very... super hard left, for lack of a better term. Like instead of trying to be accepting of everyone, they became very strict about who could be hired, which isn't really how you become accepting and open. Looks like they tried to be very equal by making it 50/50 instead of being equal opportunity, which means anyone gets a chance. And this studio, with this type of mindset, is going to create a show that reflects that. It's definitely very "look how diverse we are!" rather than being chill and accepting. Of course, I haven't seen the actual show used for the example so I can't say if it's as bad as I expect.

But G5 is a show about ponies, not people. It's yet to be created, so we can't say how it'll be. Their mission may be to show acceptance as a friendship lesson type thing, since it's a show about lessons for kids. And honestly, if there's some episodes about accepting people for their differences, as they should learn irl, that'll be pretty cool. That should just not be the main focus, because that'll get old easily. Gotta change things up a bit. Real world issues like LGBT and racism, though some might argue they "don't belong in a kids' show", would be totally appropriate. People will say they don't belong, but they're scared of kids learning these lessons of acceptance. If they can teach kids to accept one another, rather than just going "haha we're diverse!", then that's awesome. 

TL;DR: Be diverse, but don't make that the only thing the show is about. Diversity's cool. It's needed. Don't be annoying about how diverse you are. Just let it speak for itself.

[RDDash 18,866]

All of my info dump on She-Ra comes from other people on the internet, I myself never seen the show and can't safely say if it's bad as people say it is. I've seen maybe a few promotional clips but that's it.

Edited November 19, 2018 by R.D.Dash

[Steve Piranha 28,782]

7 minutes ago, R.D.Dash said:

All of my info dump on She-Ra comes from other people on the internet, I myself never seen the show and can't safely say if it's bad as people say it is. I've seen maybe a few promotional clips but that's it.

Seen many review tittles with the SJW agenda on the headlines, however, I’m not interested in verifying it mainly because I’ve never grew with neither He-Man nor She-Ra

 

[Goat-kun 2,498]

59 minutes ago, BornAgainBrony said:

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You're missing the point. This is a small demonstration of immunity to internet tantrums that are done by regressives. These do not deserve to be called liberals as they hold no liberal convictions. Difference between right and left? The greatest difference is between those who want meritocracy and reason to rule over a bleeding heart, and those who let their raging emotions dictate their entire belief system. There are people on the left who are real liberals who advocate for freedom of speech and cooperation with the right. People who have infiltrated entertainment are not such enlightened individuals.

 

And just to be clear: activists are both on the right and on the left, as are SJWs, in a way. Once these latter virtue enthusiasts have burned people at the stake. Now they burn them with false accusations in the spotlight of legacy media. Being dehumanized and cut from your income due to some nebulous hate speech law or a baseless accusation might not seem so bad, until it happens to you. Do not mistake these people for those who fight for equal rights and freedom.

 

As it stands, the left has already degraded. You have become the witch hunters you hate so much. The problem is that you are supported by the system you also hate; useful puppets for those who do not care for anything but money and power. On the bright side, the liberals you think you know still exist. Some left the left; some endure, with problems of crime and poverty they want to address drowned in the sea of regressive stupidity. I want them to retake the steering wheel. I want them to succeed in their mutiny against the corrupt 1% and socialists alike. Do you?

 

On the subject of H-Bro's selling strategy: I am not convinced that marketing MLP to adults would be as profitable as some Bronies would have you believe. MLP is not that attractive to older audience once it has to compete with games and other franchises. I mean, can you go against Pokemon? I dunno.

1 hour ago, BornAgainBrony said:

But just keep in mind that without liberals to help maintain the balance, we wouldn't even be having this discussion on a public web space. We'd get beaten by thugs for wearing MLP hats, and our cutie-marked cars would be smashed with baseball bats. If we dared have a convention it would end in a shooting spree started by some self-righteous paramecium who wants to remind the world that effeminate men are an abomination and must be purged from the gene pool. We would be convening only on the dark web. Secrecy would be the highest priority like homosexuals fifty years ago, or atheism thousands of years ago, constantly afraid of what might happen to us if the "normal world" found out that we exist. Seriously, conservatives even tried to suppress Rock and Roll music! And what would the newspaper article read if our underground lair was raided by inquisitors? "Something something Pedophiles something something Bestiality something something with a side-order of occultism with the worship of heathen horse goddesses who pervert the symbol of God's Promise into a demonic weapon."

Really? How about a MAGA hat, or is beating those people allowed cause they're (whatever)? How many Bronies and effeminate men not dressed in black get attacked by right wingers? And I really want to know what kind of an awesome villain cult is comprised of pedophilia, bestiality and fertility worship. That's some dank seinen shit right there. Watch and learn, Alex Jones.

 

[Jordan D 149]

10 minutes ago, Steve Piranha said:

Seen many review tittles with the SJW agenda on the headlines, however, I’m not interested in verifying it mainly because I’ve never grew with neither He-Man nor She-Ra

 

I'm not one to scream "SJW agenda" but yeah, I couldn't really get into the new She-Ra cartoon. Super generic, unappealing character designs with no rhyme or reason and  bright pastel colors that legitimately hurt my eyes half the time. Only watched an episode before I stopped so I can't say if it got much better but it's not something I want to keep up with. 

I'm confused as to why people are saying it's such a monumental thing for She-Ra to get her own show...when she had her own show in the 80s. 

[Odyssey 5,713]

Honestly, I don't think G5 will go that far with their diversity, because A. the main demographic of the MLP franchise has never been the SJWs, and B. this is about a world with talking horses, not people. And as for HGS, I honestly don't care that it exists. I'm not trying to defend it, but this stuff is honestly to be expected, consideing how much "SJW content" is appearing so much nowadays. And with all this kind of content appearing so much nowadays, it's just easy to ignore. It's like a teen's/young adult's goth phase - both goths and SJWs make a huge fuss over how much they're sad outcasts to society and hope that they can find people just like them. But the phase always comes and goes because they find out that people really aren't as judgemental as what they think. besides which i'm unironically more upset with Thundercats Roar than with HGS

[Mirage 24,136]

Since the "Sound of Silence" was basically a fierce excoriation of SJW rage culture, I have little worry about the future of the show.

As far as diversity - nobody cares. Nobody cares about race or gender anymore. It's so 100 years ago. The grand illusion is that a small number of activist pretend it's a problem. And that is why people are disgusted in the 'diversity' agenda - we're all past it for crying out loud! It's an insult to people's intelligence. So what do they do - they don't buy it. Or if they do, they buy it for reasons other than the diversity content (ie, Marvel). It's so fecking CHEAP to use an established, successful franchise then taint it with really weird and subtle accusations of racism and sexism that just doesn't even belong in the content. Or even more nefarious - accuse content of sexism and racism even though it does even exist!

Name one show, movie or book that is popular right now that has racism as its agenda? Who is pushing racism and sexism? Who is telling you in subtle ways you should hate people that aren't like you? What show or character is doing this on purpose? None! 

What we are going though as a culture is FAR beyond 'liberals' and 'conservatives'. I am a classic liberal, and I totally believe in progressive societies. SJWs do not represent any sort of intellectual inquiry into the human condition at all though. What more can be said of a 'movement' that, instead of open debate and exchange of ideas, they create 'safe spaces' for those who feel so offended by opinions they need instant therapy? And on the college campuses no less! If there was ever a place and time for intellectual and civil discourse over opposing ideas and exploration of culture and history and the human condition it would be in a university environment. Instead, the tactic is isolation and propaganda in the media? As a liberal, I require debate, examination and open inquiry from both sides to come to some conclusion about what the problem is and more importantly, how it should be solved.

Come on now. Look at the writing on the wall. It's not a healthy movement for anyone - especially those most involved.

[Concerned Bystander 2,901]

On 8/24/2018 at 9:01 PM, vgmaster9 said:

With diversity being mentioned in the leaks for G5 makes me very nervous, that the show could be run by these types of people. Anyone else agree?

Diversity in itself is not inherently a bad thing, of course you could equally argue that it isn't inherently a good thing either.  When it comes to something like a TV series or film, if the creators gush from the outset about how diverse it is before anything else then that certainly causes the little red flag to rise.  Like so many other things it is perfectly fine when it comes about naturally but if it is played on too heavily, or is too forced, then it can certainly be detrimental.

Regarding the next series, Hasbro seem to have avoided politicising MLP this far, and having found a winning formula that has appealed not only to girls but also boys, and even adults, I doubt they will be too keen to tamper with that.  Ultimately, I will simply take it as I find it.  If it is good I'll watch it, if they decide to go down the 'get woke, go broke' route, then I'll give it a hard pass and take my disposable income elsewhere.  Regardless, we will always have G4, no matter what the future has in store they can't take that away from us.

[BornAgainBrony 2,395]

7 hours ago, Goat-kun said:

You're missing the point. This is a small demonstration of immunity to internet tantrums that are done by regressives. These do not deserve to be called liberals as they hold no liberal convictions. Difference between right and left? The greatest difference is between those who want meritocracy and reason to rule over a bleeding heart, and those who let their raging emotions dictate their entire belief system. There are people on the left who are real liberals who advocate for freedom of speech and cooperation with the right. People who have infiltrated entertainment are not such enlightened individuals.

And just to be clear: activists are both on the right and on the left, as are SJWs, in a way. Once these latter virtue enthusiasts have burned people at the stake. Now they burn them with false accusations in the spotlight of legacy media. Being dehumanized and cut from your income due to some nebulous hate speech law or a baseless accusation might not seem so bad, until it happens to you. Do not mistake these people for those who fight for equal rights and freedom.

As it stands, the left has already degraded. You have become the witch hunters you hate so much. The problem is that you are supported by the system you also hate; useful puppets for those who do not care for anything but money and power. On the bright side, the liberals you think you know still exist. Some left the left; some endure, with problems of crime and poverty they want to address drowned in the sea of regressive stupidity. I want them to retake the steering wheel. I want them to succeed in their mutiny against the corrupt 1% and socialists alike. Do you?

Assuming anyone even realized what they were doing. TBH the idea of a "Millenialopoly" game had crossed my mind a number of times and I was very seriously considering trying to make one, with some "Game of Life" tossed in, but it was going to be an absurdist satire about trying to survive "the expected traditional way" in the modern economy, rather than a game about living in a millennial utopia. The game would be borderline impossible to "win," with the victor simply being the LAST one to go bankrupt.

By meritocracy, there could be numerous meanings behind this and I'm curious to know which you're talking about? Merit as in the support of some people receiving non-livable wages because they don't have enough mad skillz, and/or should be punished if they can't find a job that supports them? And sorry, but we've never had a meritocracy. Not before Millenials. Not before EOE. Never. The entire resume/interview process isn't even a test to see if you can do a job, it's a test to see how good you are at convincing someone you can do a job. The former favors people who can do a job. The latter favors con-artists and sociopaths. Know what else favors sociopaths? Success. And elements of the success system are little better than any contest, where in order for just ONE participant to win, hundreds or thousands of others have to lose. What we really have is a "jerk-ocracy" for lack of a better word, a system that favors the most cold-hearted manipulators. We've always known it to a degree, but now it's become ridiculously prevalent. I could start giving all sorts of examples of this pattern but that would make all of this far too tldr. But even were all of this not the case, the concept of a meritocracy becomes a joke in a world of supply & demand. Everyone racing to become more valuable can only result in those people becoming LESS valuable; you're flooding the market with valuable people. Encouraging every person to go to college was the best way to devalue the degree (no, not just "liberal arts, all degrees... even Silicon Valley has tent cities now, some of the population being people with seniority experience)."  In other words, the harder everyone works, the less their work is worth. This is why after pushing everything else to its limit, the one remaining contest in capitalism is companies racing to see "who can treat their workers the lousiest while still getting away with it." The dehumanization of the working class (not just one sex or color or whatever, all of it) is running full speed ahead, even after the "holy grail" tax break for the wealthy that was supposed to magically fix everything and create tons of jobs. But, the blanket statements like "they're just lazy and entitled" will continue to be repeated ad nauseum.

I'm not going to debate what accusations are false and what ones aren't though, because now we're just going get into a debate of "what feels right to us on a personal level," since there's no way to get more solid evidence than that.

Puppets? Another thing there's no point in getting into is, "Sheep." "I'm not a sheep, you're a sheep." "I know you are but what am I?" But I'll just leave the most overt example I can think of. Again. A certain reality show celebrity ranted in public that he could murder people if he wanted without becoming less popular, and he received thunderous applause for saying it. He proxy-called the people his sheep right to their faces, and they cheered. How much more puppety can you get than that?

Generally though I'm much more pro-free-speech than a lot of the extremists. In the cases of people losing their livelihoods over certain incidents though... it's the corporations who ultimately make that decision, not activists. I'm also not a fan of thought-policing what a person was thinking when they get caught doing something that offended someone (though there are certain glaring examples where it's painfully obvious what a person was thinking).
 

7 hours ago, Goat-kun said:

On the subject of H-Bro's selling strategy: I am not convinced that marketing MLP to adults would be as profitable as some Bronies would have you believe. MLP is not that attractive to older audience once it has to compete with games and other franchises. I mean, can you go against Pokemon? I dunno.

Eh... you don't know until you try? I suspect Disney wouldn't have much of a problem successfully marketing it to adults. For all the problems I have with the company, I certainly give credit to the mouse for figuring out a solid "childish fun for ALL AGES" strategy.

7 hours ago, Goat-kun said:

Really? How about a MAGA hat, or is beating those people allowed cause they're (whatever)? How many Bronies and effeminate men not dressed in black get attacked by right wingers? And I really want to know what kind of an awesome villain cult is comprised of pedophilia, bestiality and fertility worship. That's some dank seinen shit right there. Watch and learn, Alex Jones.

Yeah, you definitely missed the point of that. The point is how they WOULD be getting treated were it not for social justice activism. And the kind of "awesome villain cult" comprised of pedophilia, bestiality, and fertility worship doesn't actually exist, but it certainly could and would exist in the minds of the paranoids who just don't get it and have no interest in getting it, once the rhetoric had enough time to spread. It's why I mentioned Dungeons and Dragons. To all except those who played it, it was a gateway drug to devil worship, and part of a vast conspiracy by the Church of Satan to undermine the American family unit and lure children away from God. It's pretty much guaranteed that Bronies a few decades prior, would've gotten a pretty scary reputation for all manner of despicable things that threaten life in 'Pleasantville,' and that's without even bringing Rule 34 into it.

 

Edited November 20, 2018 by BornAgainBrony

[Goat-kun 2,498]

13 hours ago, BornAgainBrony said:

Assuming anyone even realized what they were doing. TBH the idea of a "Millenialopoly" game had crossed my mind a number of times and I was very seriously considering trying to make one, with some "Game of Life" tossed in, but it was going to be an absurdist satire about trying to survive "the expected traditional way" in the modern economy, rather than a game about living in a millennial utopia. The game would be borderline impossible to "win," with the victor simply being the LAST one to go bankrupt.

By meritocracy, there could be numerous meanings behind this and I'm curious to know which you're talking about? Merit as in the support of some people receiving non-livable wages because they don't have enough mad skillz, and/or should be punished if they can't find a job that supports them? And sorry, but we've never had a meritocracy. Not before Millenials. Not before EOE. Never. The entire resume/interview process isn't even a test to see if you can do a job, it's a test to see how good you are at convincing someone you can do a job. The former favors people who can do a job. The latter favors con-artists and sociopaths. Know what else favors sociopaths? Success. And elements of the success system are little better than any contest, where in order for just ONE participant to win, hundreds or thousands of others have to lose. What we really have is a "jerk-ocracy" for lack of a better word, a system that favors the most cold-hearted manipulators. We've always known it to a degree, but now it's become ridiculously prevalent. I could start giving all sorts of examples of this pattern but that would make all of this far too tldr. But even were all of this not the case, the concept of a meritocracy becomes a joke in a world of supply & demand. Everyone racing to become more valuable can only result in those people becoming LESS valuable; you're flooding the market with valuable people. Encouraging every person to go to college was the best way to devalue the degree (no, not just "liberal arts, all degrees... even Silicon Valley has tent cities now, some of the population being people with seniority experience)."  In other words, the harder everyone works, the less their work is worth. This is why after pushing everything else to its limit, the one remaining contest in capitalism is companies racing to see "who can treat their workers the lousiest while still getting away with it." The dehumanization of the working class (not just one sex or color or whatever, all of it) is running full speed ahead, even after the "holy grail" tax break for the wealthy that was supposed to magically fix everything and create tons of jobs. But, the blanket statements like "they're just lazy and entitled" will continue to be repeated ad nauseum.

I'm not going to debate what accusations are false and what ones aren't though, because now we're just going get into a debate of "what feels right to us on a personal level," since there's no way to get more solid evidence than that.

Puppets? Another thing there's no point in getting into is, "Sheep." "I'm not a sheep, you're a sheep." "I know you are but what am I?" But I'll just leave the most overt example I can think of. Again. A certain reality show celebrity ranted in public that he could murder people if he wanted without becoming less popular, and he received thunderous applause for saying it. He proxy-called the people his sheep right to their faces, and they cheered. How much more puppety can you get than that?

Generally though I'm much more pro-free-speech than a lot of the extremists. In the cases of people losing their livelihoods over certain incidents though... it's the corporations who ultimately make that decision, not activists. I'm also not a fan of thought-policing what a person was thinking when they get caught doing something that offended someone (though there are certain glaring examples where it's painfully obvious what a person was thinking).
 

Eh... you don't know until you try? I suspect Disney wouldn't have much of a problem successfully marketing it to adults. For all the problems I have with the company, I certainly give credit to the mouse for figuring out a solid "childish fun for ALL AGES" strategy.

Yeah, you definitely missed the point of that. The point is how they WOULD be getting treated were it not for social justice activism. And the kind of "awesome villain cult" comprised of pedophilia, bestiality, and fertility worship doesn't actually exist, but it certainly could and would exist in the minds of the paranoids who just don't get it and have no interest in getting it, once the rhetoric had enough time to spread. It's why I mentioned Dungeons and Dragons. To all except those who played it, it was a gateway drug to devil worship, and part of a vast conspiracy by the Church of Satan to undermine the American family unit and lure children away from God. It's pretty much guaranteed that Bronies a few decades prior, would've gotten a pretty scary reputation for all manner of despicable things that threaten life in 'Pleasantville,' and that's without even bringing Rule 34 into it.

 

See, you can be reasonable if you try.

 

I appreciate the work the past activists have done. Unfortunately, not all activists are good. Not all are left-wing either. Not all SJWs are activists and not all activists are SJWs. Thank the gods. It is clear at this point that you do not have the same definition of SJW as I do. Regressives is a better term. Anti-white anti-male anti-straight anti-capitalist anti-west socialists.

 

Meritocracy is a curious thing. If admission is based on a score, then the score should trump all physical and mental attributes. As far as hiring is concerned, the employer should be free to decide on whichever candidate. A smart employer will base their choice on professional capabilities; however, it is often the case that the choice is also made based on the candidate's perceived ability to function within the company. Teamwork and human relations are something that is often neglected when debating about meritocracy as many do not view these things as skills. Meritocracy as such is then not so much a general guideline of society but a way for would-be employees to be measured against each other fairly in specific circumstances. The last word does belong to the employer, but I see no better method that would treat the workforce with respect and benefit the companies. In the end, making successful hiring decisions is also a kind of merit. I also think that having a degree does not translate into merit. Meritocracy works a bit differently for each and every job out there.

 

And yes, we have a problem with cutthroats and backstabbers and all kinds of people that show signs of personality disorders. We always did. It's not a problem of a civilized world. It's a problem of humanity. As things stand there exists no certain way to solve it, but we can definitely try by pushing for more honest and independent media.

 

Sheep. The best sheep are the clueless kind and the best puppeteers want to convince you they work for your benefit. Eccentrics are a different matter.

 

In my humble opinion, the best all-ages IP of all time was legacy Star Wars. Now there's also Marvel (the movies, not the comics). We'd probably need a whole other thread to deconstruct these franchises and lay out why exactly we think they work for all age groups. To make it short: MLP cannot go all-age cause, unlike the aforementioned examples, it is not a fictional world but a simple stage for lessons and toy commercials. You can hardly have dark lords killing magical princesses and massive battles that would be able to attract general audience. Star Wars can be like MLP but MLP cannot be like Star Wars, if you know what I mean. Change that and it would no longer be MLP. It would become something else entirely. And that's ignoring the companies that would react to new competition.

[Arkadios 91]

Why not just use a coin to determine gender? Names, etc. in MLP are generic enough that you could come up with just about everything about a pony and then the gender last.

As for race, we already know unicorns are the master race.

[RDDash 18,866]

I don't know about them (unicorns) being superior but so far MLP has been your standard RPG

Mage (unicorn), Saber (earth pony) and  Archer (pegasi). There is also Berserker (dragon/yak), and Assassin (changelings).

[Latecomer 438]

What I'm concerned about is the seemingly common sentiment in this thread that diverse shows are bad. If G5 fell into the hands of people who thought like that, I would be quite upset.

[EpicEnergy 22,082]

I wouldn't mind diversity in G5, but I wouldn't want it to be the primary focus.

[Steve Piranha 28,782]

On 2020-05-01 at 5:45 PM, Latecomer said:

What I'm concerned about is the seemingly common sentiment in this thread that diverse shows are bad. If G5 fell into the hands of people who thought like that, I would be quite upset.

Actually, the concern lies in G5 prioritizing delusions of diversity over quality, and is a legitimate concern because it has become a trend these days. And of course High Guardian Spice will be such example due to the creative team not being composed of women, but karens . Kate Leth is specially infamous for several failed Captain Marvel series

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[Goat-kun 2,498]

At first I hadn't thought that H-Bro would go down that path, but that all changed once I've seen the Veritas leak. From workers' rights to racist babies. Boy, those 3d printers couldn't have arrived at a better time.

[Steve Piranha 28,782]

4 hours ago, Goat-kun said:

At first I hadn't thought that H-Bro would go down that path, but that all changed once I've seen the Veritas leak. From workers' rights to racist babies. Boy, those 3d printers couldn't have arrived at a better time.

 

Oh yeah, racist babies. Saw clips of that former employee stating that with incredulity. So yeah, MLP MAY not go deeply into that path because some international markets aren’t too keen on the neon hairdo hipster fans, but Hasbro has shown some degree to appeal to those