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I might just get some for a moster race if some of my players ever become any more spiteful than the already are. IMO this is funny enough even though I hate the entire brony tripe with a passion when played straight.

 Davespil wrote:

 Bobaram wrote:
Besides the crazy pony aspect, It would be fun to paint em up and use them as mount models in D&D or something. And absolutely hilarious if you did a biker/calvary conversion for 40k with them.

40K calvary conversions would be fun to see.

I don't think 40K was all that big on crucifixion? Cavalry however conversions could be cool, though I think the minis might be a bit small for that.

BrotherKarr wrote:
UGH! I saw this earlier today on TGN. Groaned then and now. Some times just because it's a clever idea does not mean it's one that should see the light of day. I am no where interested in this one and I hope it does not fund.

See, this is why we can't have nice things. WTF man? Really, I tend to keep 6ft. distance from any bronies at the FLGS as well but how does it affect you negatively, or indeed in any way, if something you don't like gets made? Get your head out of your rectum, man...

...And in the interest of full disclosure I will admit I actually am backing, because I suspect those Cornulae will, when painted in somewhat less of a pastel palet, be pretty nice NPC's someday. The fact they're not really chibi or anything does kind of give some of these minis (I'm hoping for some of the stretch goals, for example) a broader appeal than just the brony crowd.

Still, YMMV

 Alpharius wrote:
NPC's for what exactly?

My settings tend to err on the side of... creative DMing. I'm not above inventing races every now and then (saves me the annoying players digging up some fething obscure 80's resource contradicting what I just told them about $RACE's culture for starters ).
Besides, sentient $WHATEVER isn't exactly that much of a stretch in high fantasy RPG's anyway.

 Samurai_Eduh wrote:
The saddest thing about this kickstarter is that it will probably succeed.

Good F***, look I like being a negative SOB as much as the next guy here (and probably a lot more besides) but what *is* it with some folk? Why do you even care if it doesn't appeal to you anyway?

Since the last guy seems to have just bombed the thread and left I'm going to try again here: Can you explain to me why this succeeding would be sad? How would this materially impact you? What substantive effect on your presumably sorry life would that have? Enlighten me please, I'm honestly dumbfounded here.

 SheSpits wrote:
I am a parent, my boys run around the house pretending to be zombies batman monster and try and eat my brains BOY stuff. If my son crawled on all four and pretended to be sunshine sparkle and issue hugs out and acted all female. Id worrie and worrie a lot!

This is something that just really, really stood out to me. Out of all the idiocy spewed (spat?) in this thread by now this has got to be the one, single most potentially damaging bit of all. It reeks of the kind of child abuse rampant in the eighties and before (and still prevalent in rural evangelical circles in the US, I'm told) of "gender-affirmative corrective therapy" and whatever other pseudo-scientific names had to be attached to the monstrosities perpetrated in the name of conformity.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think there's anything wrong with boys doing stereotypical "boy stuff" (whatever that might be). But really, if they prefer baking and decorating cookies or drawing some (probably god-awful, being kids ) pastel-coloured happy-fun-land that should be encouraged just as much. Kids aren't there to be pressmolded into your narrow-minded vision of what 'ought' to be - on the contrary.
It might seem a bit off-topic but this point, IMO, provides a perfect insight into the mind of the kind of man who is actually insecure enough in his own self-image to have to not only take that out on his fellow man in an FLGS, but on his kids as well.
The kind of mind any right-thinking adult would hope to have seen extinct by now - but alas.

Actually come to think of it, it's not even remotely off-topic. With that one phrase you displayed *so* vibrantly just how much you seem to crave conformity over everything else that nothing, nothing which doesn't fit your exact world-view and preferences, in your mind could ever just be someone else's spot of harmless fun. You know what? Wallow in your own misery all you like but please, please do not force it on others. May God have mercy on those poor kids of yours.

 Krinsath wrote:

 Alfndrate wrote:

Swabby wrote:

 Agamemnon2 wrote:

That strikes me as a rather selfish way of looking at things. Why should what these people do amongst themselves reflect badly on you?

It isn't selfish, it is realistic. If I hang out in a place where people are doing things that others do not like, even if I do not participate, I still have to deal with the stigma that comes along with hanging out in that place.

No it's selfish, you're not going to carry the stigma of what someone else does. I don't carry the stigma of Yu-Gi-Oh players because I don't play the game, I don't carry the historical gamers stigma because I don't really play historical games. JUST BECAUSE TWO SIMILAR EVENTS HAPPEN AT THE SAME PLACE AT THE SAME TIME DOES NOT MAKE THEM THE SAME THING.

Also I do love the mild hypocrisy of "I endured discrimination from the mainstream to become slightly more mainstream...now it's time to discriminate against a group more fringe than my own!"

I don't watch the show, though I find the following for it amusing in various ways and puzzling in others. However, I believe everyone is allowed to do what makes them happy as long as they don't hurt another to do it. If someone wants to come into a store and judge something they don't understand, that's their problem and your community is better off for not having their close-minded idiocy tainting it.

That said, I really would only have use for one model for a co-worker who shares a nickname with a characters so I'll be giving this one a pass. Good luck to the creator and I hope the backers enjoy their little toys as much as I enjoy the ones I prefer.

To be fair - and entirely NOT to say that's what any of the detractors here are doing, those are just being arses -, there's something to be said for applying some social pressure to the 'weirder' guys at your average FLGS. Targeting the really unwanted/undesirable (anti)social behaviour some tend to display is something which we, as a group, often tend to shy away from too much. I can understand not wanting to be associated with some elements of the "gaming" subculture (feth, I often tend to avoid the association myself, certainly in "professional" settings) - it's just that while bronies might (and in my area, not just might from what I hear ) be a valid target for some social pressure this is both the wrong reason and the wrong way.


As far as I can tell, the stigma associated in most circles with gamers is not the activity or the subject matter - it's the lack of social skills rather ostentatiously displayed by what are often the most "visible" gamers (you know the type - stopped just shy of replacing their teeth with golden D20's). Of course the idea of folks associating you with that (or actually belonging in that category) is so unpleasant the human mind tends to find a more palatable reason for the distaste others seem to have for one's beloved pastime. "They just don't understand the activity" is of course the most merciful on one's own ego (lack of falsifiability also helps) and therefore the one usually chosen.
Those folk then go on to try to "police" the hobby to be precisely, and not one bit more, divergent from the norm so as not to make the activity even less palatable for bystanders - thereby of course completely missing the actual point.

...Of course what doesn't help either is that, at least around these parts, every FLGS I ever go the bronies have a reputation for not exactly being the most pleasant of folk to be around.
TBH, I haven't seen any which appeared more awkward to me than the average 14-16y old gamer around here (not saying much there) but when they flock together, well, I've heard guys who aren't exactly easily spooked say they've had to physically leave the store out of sheer discomfort. Haven't personally had the (dis?)pleasure of witnessing one such convergence, though I must say it sounds like enough of a trainwreck that I'll be sure to swing by next time anything like that is in motion.

...Oh well, no clue where this is going anymore anyway

Silver lining to these threads however is, that once the dust settles, all it takes is 10 minutes of you, the thread, and copious use of the 'ignore' button to make your future dakka experience just that much smoother again

He's right, though. The WiP's, as is, are something I would have vastly more use for than the overwhelming majority of the "finished" catalogue as well.
Chalk me up for a set if you care to put a few in rubber, too

Didn't think it'd happen
Just saying though, there's some market for anything-but-cute variants - the stuff intended to be cute, but kinda 'off' like these WiPs can be the scariest of all

Yeah, I'd say "pony" and "cartoon pony" tend to err towards the "cute" part of the spectrum though

Not wholley natural.

Which let's face it, talking ponies aren't.

Fair 'nuff.

weeble1000 wrote:

 SheSpits wrote:
In a place where monster machines the undead and demons are played (by grown men). Look to your left and there huddels a group of grown men getting excited about pink,purple and blue ponys on a table while they pony brawl. And debating what pony is there fav, would be super strange and akward. From any point of view even if its just a second that you ponder on it. I am a parent, my boys run around the house pretending to be zombies batman monster and try and eat my brains BOY stuff. If my son crawled on all four and pretended to be sunshine sparkle and issue hugs out and acted all female. Id worrie and worrie a lot! If they are painted as unicorns and horses cool, my deal is them being painted as MLP from the cartoon then thrown onto the table as a DA chap. Or pony wars mocking 40k rules. Im not nocking the brony scene its just very strange. Do as you please just do not get upset when you get a ton of stink eye for using them. Laughs are fun and most who know you will think its funny. Im not trying to cram my view of it down your or any ones throat, Im come across some really nice bronys. The do not even mention it unless you ask, but once you do they will go on and on! Once rainbow dash and other silly girl names come out its hard to understand why this grown man loves this cartoon so much that was ment for little girls. Im not trying to start a fight or anything so ill leave this thread. CARRY ON BRONYS!

Man-O-man...got a thing for firmly established gender roles, eh? Well call me in a few years when you are kicking one of your boys out of the house for being a because he developed a thing for playing fairy dress up.

This is a little presumptuous as I haven't actually seen any research on it, but I would be darn surprised to see any statistically significant correlation between bronies and pedophilia.

Oh, and don't get me wrong, I totally have friends that are black, so I'm not being racist when I say that it is a fact that it looks bad when black people move into your neighborhood. People are going to get the wrong idea, you know?

Heh, I've had exactly that conversation (all three points, near verbatim) with him via PM. let's lay off of him for a bit, I think he's got the point Also, he doesn't seem to be quite as bad as he comes across at first glance.