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2012/08/11 04:49:00
Subject: Re:The DakkaDakka OT My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Thread
.... Have you ever heard of W.I.T.C.H, Winks, .... or just about any Shoujo-Manga? (the two mentioned are west-made, not manga, by the way.)
When you aim to get different characters, you easily end up with different variants of stereotypes.
It's as simple as that ....
....
Unless i have misunderstood the meaning of the word "expy"......
Was once trying to make a 2D action-strategy scroller based on a mix of WH40K & MLP FiM .... but is no longer.
2012/08/11 05:34:45
Subject: Re:The DakkaDakka OT My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Thread
Expy: Several
From Buffy the Vampire Slayer, we have Tiffany Winters(Of Buffy herself) and time will tell if Dusky(her brother) is of Dawn(Buffy's sister).
From Ranma ½, we have Ash, of Ranma himself.
From My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, we have the whole Mane Six: Chastity of Rarity, Skye of Fluttershy, Rosie of Pinkie Pie, and, according to the tags, Rain of Rainbow Dash, AJ of Applejack and Sparkle of Twilight Sparkle
Doubt it will be cancelled. There was a thing from a dude that works on the show saying that there would be more seasons, this one is just going to be shorter.
Pretre: OOOOHHHHH snap. That's like driving away from hitting a pedestrian.
Pacific:First person to Photoshop a GW store into the streets of Kabul wins the thread.
Selym: "Be true to thyself, play Chaos" - Jesus, Daemon Prince of Cegorach.
H.B.M.C: You can't lobotomise someone twice.
2012/08/11 09:17:04
Subject: Re:The DakkaDakka OT My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Thread
Pretre: OOOOHHHHH snap. That's like driving away from hitting a pedestrian.
Pacific:First person to Photoshop a GW store into the streets of Kabul wins the thread.
Selym: "Be true to thyself, play Chaos" - Jesus, Daemon Prince of Cegorach.
H.B.M.C: You can't lobotomise someone twice.
2012/08/11 16:39:50
Subject: Re:The DakkaDakka OT My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Thread
Pretre: OOOOHHHHH snap. That's like driving away from hitting a pedestrian.
Pacific:First person to Photoshop a GW store into the streets of Kabul wins the thread.
Selym: "Be true to thyself, play Chaos" - Jesus, Daemon Prince of Cegorach.
H.B.M.C: You can't lobotomise someone twice.
2012/08/11 17:17:27
Subject: Re:The DakkaDakka OT My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Thread
Expy: Several
From Buffy the Vampire Slayer, we have Tiffany Winters(Of Buffy herself) and time will tell if Dusky(her brother) is of Dawn(Buffy's sister).
From Ranma ½, we have Ash, of Ranma himself.
From My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, we have the whole Mane Six: Chastity of Rarity, Skye of Fluttershy, Rosie of Pinkie Pie, and, according to the tags, Rain of Rainbow Dash, AJ of Applejack and Sparkle of Twilight Sparkle
Just thought this would be interesting to MLP fans, even though it is a bit tasteless.
Ok, it is obvious i spoke before i had read enough ..... XD
However, I'd say that Tiffany is WAAAY too different from Buffy to be an expy of her.
It is possible she started our more Buffy-like in another of those comics, but in the comic you linked to, she is nowhere near as Buffy-like.
I also spotted what i think is another notable expy, namely an adult variant of "Magister Negi Magi", that is, Negi from Negima!.
I mean, glasses, genlemannic, (almost?) alone male teacher in a school full of girls ....
... Makes me think ...
I must check out if there are any "My little Negima!" ....
Was once trying to make a 2D action-strategy scroller based on a mix of WH40K & MLP FiM .... but is no longer.
2012/08/12 00:30:19
Subject: Re:The DakkaDakka OT My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Thread
Red Comet wrote:Just because you buy the toys doesn't mean you are screwed up in the head. Aren't we on a forum right now dedicated to plastic toys you paint?
Playing a war game and collecting ponies because you are obsessed with a little girl's show are two wildly different things.
Its an excellent cartoon. I've watched every episode. Lauren Fast is extremely talented. That said, collecting the toys, writing or reading pony fanfiction, putting ponies in everything, etc, is weird.
If you enjoy it, don't justify yourselves to me. I find collecting scantily clad anime/manga figurines equally disturbing.
Red Comet wrote:Just because you buy the toys doesn't mean you are screwed up in the head. Aren't we on a forum right now dedicated to plastic toys you paint?
Playing a war game and collecting ponies because you are obsessed with a little girl's show are two wildly different things.
Its an excellent cartoon. I've watched every episode. Lauren Fast is extremely talented. That said, collecting the toys, writing or reading pony fanfiction, putting ponies in everything, etc, is weird.
If you enjoy it, don't justify yourselves to me. I find collecting scantily clad anime/manga figurines equally disturbing.
In what way is collecting plastic pony toys different to collecting plastic space marine toys? Not everyone who buys the models plays the game so to assume that people buy the plastic space marines solely for the purpose of using them in a game is fallacious.
How is writing or reading pony fanfiction any different to writing or reading fanfiction based on any other subject? If it is well written then I see no reason not to read it. If reading about anthropomorphic animals is weird then everyone who read Watership Down or The Wind in the Willows is weird.
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2012/08/12 02:15:31
Subject: Re:The DakkaDakka OT My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Thread
Red Comet wrote:Just because you buy the toys doesn't mean you are screwed up in the head. Aren't we on a forum right now dedicated to plastic toys you paint?
Playing a war game and collecting ponies because you are obsessed with a little girl's show are two wildly different things.
Its an excellent cartoon. I've watched every episode. Lauren Fast is extremely talented. That said, collecting the toys, writing or reading pony fanfiction, putting ponies in everything, etc, is weird.
If you enjoy it, don't justify yourselves to me. I find collecting scantily clad anime/manga figurines equally disturbing.
Its not different things.
Just because one is teaching little children that are boys about war,
doesn't mean its different from teaching little children that are girls about friendship and kindness.
Why are you trying to justify your obsessions? Nothing you can say will make me consider hardcore bronies to be any less weird. That doesn't mean you're a danger to anyone, or a menace to society. You're just weird. It's not really a big deal unless you allow it to alter the way you live and interact with other people.
Amaya wrote:Why are you trying to justify your obsessions? Nothing you can say will make me consider hardcore bronies to be any less weird. That doesn't mean you're a danger to anyone, or a menace to society. You're just weird. It's not really a big deal unless you allow it to alter the way you live and interact with other people.
Why would I justify anything? Im merely pointing out both crowds are obsessing over same thing.
By making the false assertion that 40k and MLP are somehow the "same thing" you're attempting to justify your MLP obsession under the basis that it is no worse or better than 40k.
Amaya wrote:By making the false assertion that 40k and MLP are somehow the "same thing" you're attempting to justify your MLP obsession under the basis that it is no worse or better than 40k.
In what way is it false? How is collecting pony toys different to collecting 40K models?
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The Laws of Thermodynamics:
1) You cannot win. 2) You cannot break even. 3) You cannot stop playing the game.
Colonel Flagg wrote:You think you're real smart. But you're not smart; you're dumb. Very dumb. But you've met your match in me.
2012/08/12 04:21:27
Subject: Re:The DakkaDakka OT My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Thread
While I have yet to buy the toys( I do have a couple shirts though), I see nothing wrong with people doing so.
You usually support franchises you like by buying stuff. If you like 40k, you usually buy 40k stuff. You like MLP, a show designed to sell merchandise, it doesn't seem too farfetched that you would purchase said merchandise to support the Franchise.
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2012/08/12 04:28:02
Subject: Re:The DakkaDakka OT My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Thread
I don't see how 40k and MLP fans are all that different. Society looks at both fandoms as if we are the scourge of the earth. Are all people who play wargames neckbeards and socially inept people? No. Are all bronies weirdoes who read the bad fanfics and typify the sterotype of a nerd? No.
Right now you are labeling some MLP fans as our culture labels wargamers. I don't see what's wrong with collecting the toys of any franchise. If you enjoy having them and displaying them then go for it.
The line is crossed when you become the actual stereotype, which most nerds never fall into. The actual stereotype being a creepy person, but fandoms don't make you creepy. Those nerds are the one who gives each fandom a bad name. Those people are already creepy before they enter the fandom. Labeling someone just because they buy toys is ridiculous simply because you don't know what they do with them. Until you actually know what they do with their toys don't sit there and say they are weird.
2012/08/12 04:46:53
Subject: Re:The DakkaDakka OT My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Thread
I haven't played a game in a FLGS this year simply because I find most of the other people who do play 40k weird (and the fact every FLGS is filled with card games and stripperiffic manga/comics doesn't help) so using that argument doesn't really sway me.
Something I've learned is that 90% of people aren't swayed by any argument so I wasn't expecting you to suddenly change. I'm merely pointing things out.
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