Seems I've joined the herd

[Ashbad 969]

Hello, fellow bronies;

 

I'm glad to be a part of these fora, as I have recently "joined the herd", as you might say. I finally got myself to watch past the first two episodes of the series a week ago (I honestly didn't enjoy the pilots), and I enjoyed episodes 3 and 4 on season 1 immensely. All because I was sent a link to SHED.MOV and DRESS.MOV by a trolling friend of mine; either way, ended up for the better, since those two parodies got me interested in the show.

 

I'm 16, mildly artistic, decently musically gifted, but I excel greatly with computer/embedded programming. For those who are interested in my experience, I'm able to write fluently in C, Java (shudder), Ruby, and I know 3 assembly languages (Zilog z80, Renesas SuperH 3, and x[86|64] assembly). As for musical background, I can play Piano/Electric Bass decently, but I'm not the greatest with music composition, though I'm trying to work on it so I can try and make some MLP chiptunes. Artistically, I specialize in pixel art (mostly retro-looking sprites and tiles, nothing large or fancy); I suck at drawing by hand, though (but I can make a pitch perfect cartoon of Spike! and I'm working on learning to draw other ponies so I can draw them on tests and troll my teachers). I plan on eventually making a MLP platformer of some sort once my more demanding programming projects die down later this coming spring. As for forums, I thrive in them; my posts in various forums throughout the past 3 years has probably exceeded 10,000, so I know internet culture very well and I doubt you'll have any behavioral or netiquette problems with me.

 

Long winded introduction, sounded more like an interview for a job than a introduction to a MLP:FiM forum, really. Oh well, you'll live I'm sure.

 

P.S, I am quite amused by the design of the emoticons here.

 

EDIT: and I didn't even say what my favorite pony is! Tie between Fluttershy and Applejack at the moment. However, One does not simply pick a favorite pony, since I seem to be changing my favorites all the time. And, I'll be sure to hit up your TF2 server eventually, I got that game 5 months ago and it's fantastic

Edited March 16, 2012 by Ashbad

[Proailurus 214]

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Well, welcome to the herd then I geuss =P My favorites are Rainbow Dash Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie but they keep changing when I rewatch the show =P
I hope you enjoy the most awesometasticest forum ever =P Edited March 16, 2012 by LightningWing

[Ashbad 969]

Interesting greeting sequence, happy to say that was probably the most entertaining one I've received yet on the internet. I'll be sure to enjoy this "awesometasticest" forum (sorry if that was a MLP reference and I didn't get it -- I'm only up to E09S01 right now)

[Proailurus 214]

No it wasn't I just like saying it =P

 

It isn't a reference I mean =P

[Gingerpotato 889]

Hello and welcome to the forums! We have a great community and I'm sure you'll fit right in

 

That's the longest welcome thread I've seen since HAL joined, it's nice to know more about the new members then just their favourite pony!

[Ashbad 969]

Indeed, when it come to introductions, I try to make it as descriptive of me as possible :-)

 

just curious, are there any rules about avatar/sig sizes (once I get past this 5 post barrier to make them)? Is cussing allowed (I'm no sailor mouth, but an occasional colorful metaphor adds spice to a post)? I don't remember seeing these two in the rules.

 

EDIT: I am curious, as I like being the goody-twohooves on forums

Edited March 16, 2012 by Ashbad

[Key Gear 6,664]

Hello Ashbad, welcome to the herd!

 

 

 

 

It is not surprising to me that you didn't enjoy the pilots. I didn't really like them very much myself. To me, the fourth episode of the first season is really when the series starts to shine. After that, every episode is really good.

 

I think that you will like it here. This is a really nice forum. Feld0 is a great admin, and the moderators are all awesome. The other members are very friendly as well.

 

I do some programming too. At present, I mostly do web development and statistics stuff. I use Javascript and Python now, but I hold a special place in my heart for Ruby. I salute your assembly skills! Java... Well, I share in your dislike of the language. Do you have a favorite programming language?

 

Yeah, I gave up on picking a favorite pony a while ago, but I find myself having a consistent Pinkie Pie/Applejack bias these days.

Edited March 16, 2012 by HAL 9000

[Proailurus 214]

Indeed, when it come to introductions, I try to make it as descriptive of me as possible :-)

 

just curious, are there any rules about avatar/sig sizes (once I get past this 5 post barrier to make them)? Is cussing allowed (I'm no sailor mouth, but an occasional colorful metaphor adds spice to a post)? I don't remember seeing these two in the rules.

 

EDIT: I am curious, as I like being the goody-twohooves on forums

 

Rules here,

Keep the foul language down. Swearing is not forbidden on MLP Forums, but we kindly ask that you keep it to a minimum. Not only is swearing out of place in the My Little Pony universe, but some fans who visit this site may be much closer to the target age than you and will not enjoy seeing the F-Bomb drop on their screen. Swearing is strictly prohibited in topic titles and tags.

I don't really know the details about the size restrictions for avatars and sigs although I know there is a limit.

[Key Gear 6,664]

Indeed, when it come to introductions, I try to make it as descriptive of me as possible :-)

 

I think that being more descriptive is always a good thing. I'm pretty biased though... I am a bit long-winded myself.

 

just curious, are there any rules about avatar/sig sizes (once I get past this 5 post barrier to make them)?

Your avatar can be up to 150x150. Your sig can contain images up to 600x100.

 

Is cussing allowed (I'm no sailor mouth, but an occasional colorful metaphor adds spice to a post)? I don't remember seeing these two in the rules.

I'm going from memory, but I think that swearing is prohibited in topic titles and tags. Other than that, it is expected to be kept to a minimum but not completely prohibited.

 

EDIT: I am curious, as I like being the goody-twohooves on forums

 

You are in good company!

[Ashbad 969]

Cool, someone else who's a computer nerd! As for a favorite language, I would love to say C, but I can't since every programming language has their own pros and cons (except Java, with more cons than pros!) As for my assembly skills, thanks they actually hitched my a highschool internship this summer, since I was the only applicant with the knowledge of them and OS theories. I like programming for all sorts of things, and in my project stack right now I'm writing a kernel for z80-based embedded systems, a zelda-esque game in C using SDL, and I'm part of the unoffical team hacking the Casio FX-CG10/20 calculator.

 

EDIT: thanks for throwing me the rules! the ones I was thrown when I agreed to terms here were a lot more compact.

 

EDIT2: and, might I inquire if these forums have an official IRC server/channel? I'm also an IRC type of guy

Edited March 16, 2012 by Ashbad

[DJ MUFF1N D3RP 323]

Welcome to this awesome forum! You're going to love it here and have a great time!

[Key Gear 6,664]

Cool, someone else who's a computer nerd! As for a favorite language, I would love to say C, but I can't since every programming language has their own pros and cons (except Java, with more cons than pros!) As for my assembly skills, thanks they actually hitched my a highschool internship this summer, since I was the only applicant with the knowledge of them and OS theories. I like programming for all sorts of things, and in my project stack right now I'm writing a kernel for z80-based embedded systems, a zelda-esque game in C using SDL, and I'm part of the unoffical team hacking the Casio FX-CG10/20 calculator.

 

That is a very nice set of projects that you have going right now, and C is a good choice for a favorite language. I agree with you on every language having pros and cons. (Especially because I still have to do some java coding every once in a while. The horror! Scala, Clojure, and Jruby make life with the JVM a little less painful though.)

 

There are so many programmers and artists here in this forum. I wonder if eventually everything will line up and some of us could work together on a game of some type. That would be cool!

 

EDIT2: and, might I inquire if these forums have an official IRC server/channel? I'm also an IRC type of guy

 

Hmm, well there is no IRC server or channel, but there is a forum chatroom that you will be able to join once you have more than 5 posts.

Edited March 16, 2012 by HAL 9000

[MissDo 195]

Thorough and highly informative! I am a programmer too! Welcome to the herd and the forums!

[Ashbad 969]

Thorough and highly informative! I am a programmer too! Welcome to the herd and the forums!

 

Cool beans! While I know this is my intro thread... I will ask, what languages do you know?

[XXVYNIKK 145]

Another brony made each day.

Welcome aboard.

[Dragonshy 2,305]

[hawkflame 3,315]

Welcome! Another comp sci guy, huh? I'm not as far along as you, only knowing some Java, SQL, and ARM assembly language. It depresses me a little that you're half my age and know twice as much as I do on the subject.

[MissDo 195]

Cool beans! While I know this is my intro thread... I will ask, what languages do you know?

 

Python, C++, Java are my mains...

Processing, Lua, and RobotC are reserved ones I use, but nothing conventional.

[Ashbad 969]

Thanks for the receptions

 

Hmm, well there is no IRC server or channel, but there is a forum chatroom that you will be able to join once you have more than 5 posts.

 

While I know this is an early proposal... why don't we set one up? ;-) We could get something like #mlpforums up on freenode pretty quickly, and I could also quickly draft some bots to hold our foot in it. Of course, with admins/mods here with the ability to become halfops/ops.

 

There are so many programmers and artists here in this forum. I wonder if eventually everything will line up and some of us could work together on a game of some type. That would be cool!

That would indeed be cool. I've actually already thought up some ideas for one, perhaps I can make a discussion thread about it soon where everyone can discuss concepts, and break up work accordingly. And we could make it easy to revise by plopping it either on my SVN server or on Google Code's.

 

Python, C++, Java are my mains...

Processing, Lua, and RobotC are reserved ones I use, but nothing conventional.

 

Not bad. I assume you use RobotC for FIRST FTC competitions? Or just for fun? I dabbled in it a while ago, but lately I've switched from our team's FTC to FRC head Java programmer.

Edited March 16, 2012 by Ashbad