Sunday, February 19, 2012

Nightly Roundup #245


Suddenly I want to play Okami!

Have some news!


Parasrpite Laser Mod!





LASERS and Parasprites!


VLC Pops Ponies! 



I'm sure a ton of you use this program to play your pony episodes, and on their official website, one of the screenshots is filled with pony! This isn't a fan submission, its actually official.  We really do invader everything.


Brony@Home Update

After almost two months of dedication, our Brony@Home competitors are on their final week. Congratulations to those who have participated, both for the competition, and for simply helping out the team. The winners will be announced shortly after the deadline for the final week, on Sunday the 26th, at 00:00 GMT. Winners will have three days to claim their prizes before a runner up is chosen.

We may or may not hold further competitions in the future, but for the time being, if you wish to help out, or just want to know what this project is, check out the link below:

http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/54588/t1713298-brony-home-iv/



Finland Article Translation! 

This article popped up on the Finland news site Aamulehti.  Jussi has translated it for us, with a bit of nonsense cut out! Check it out below:
The term 'Brony' stands for 15-35 year old, generally male, fans of the animated TV series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, a show originally meant for young girls. The Brony community also includes women, although they are a minority. For example from the almost one hundred participants in the meetup in Helsinki in February only ten were women.

Apart from watching the show the bronies also maintain blogs and forums and produce fan art, make remixes of the musical numbers in the show, make custom figurines, do their own fan animations and write fan fiction about their favorite characters. For example, one of the most popular pony fan fictions, called Fallout: Equestria, stands over 620 000 words long, and is therefore longer than Leo Tolstoi's War and Peace.

Friendship is Magic promotes important values such as caring and accepting difference, as well as having a general positive outlook on life. The message of the show sits well with older audiences as well, says a pony fan from Tampere in an interview for Aamulehti.

-For many the community is much more important than the series. It's not about the ponies, but the people


Brony Article in Another School Newspaper


Can't stop the invasion!


Friendship Express Is Widescreen

On the Amazon Page, they apparently had it listed as Fullscreen instead of Widescreen.  For those that were put off by that, it was apparently an error! So... Charge!


Brony Thesis Survey 

This one requires that you be 19 or older! So only take it if that's the case. 

Go here!


Rarity Cake! 





Cake!


Podcast/Vlog Updates

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French Podcast Episode 3

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Brony FM Podcast 

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Bronies on Saturday Radio 


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Successful Meetups

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Houston Meetup

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Howdy from Houston EqD! The Rice University Brony group hosted this meetup, where we played
Pony Jepordy, with categories like "What are you, a Dictionary?", "Things Pinkie Says", and 
"Obscure Unicorn History". After that one of the Brony artists among us explained how he made
this Rarity poster used for the Winter BroNYcon, and we finished out the night with some episodes of
MLP and pony youtube vids. It was a blast! 
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Bronies of Austria


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We, the Bronies of Austria(https://www.facebook.com/broniesaustria ), had a Meetup last weekend (4 of February) in Vienna. We celebrated in a Hookah bar and watched the newest episode.

First of all: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U41JHVJvRqs&feature=player_embedded
This video is a MashUp of everthing.
Also, we have two galleries with fotos from the meetup.
Random derping brony: http://forsake.bplaced.net/meetup/zwielichtfunkel.png

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Zagreb Meetup


No copy paste on this one! They brought ponies though.

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Denton, TX 

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We had a very successful meetup at Mini A-Kon V at the Denton North Branch Library.  It almost didn't happen, myself a few other bronies began running around rounding up roaming bronies for a meetup.  We all had a great time.

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Boston Meetup


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The Boston Bronies had our monthly meetup today, with around 30 bronies in attendance with a lot of new faces, including an emissary from the pheonix group.  We hung out, sang some songs, ate some food, and friends were made.


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Groups/Meetups/Guilds Looking for More

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Pony RP Forums

BronyTale is a My Little Pony Roleplay which allows you to be all kinds of ponies in the world of Equestria. All sorts of adventures are possible with all kinds of ponies! There's also places to showcase artwork, fanfiction, or just chat with other members. We'd really like to let you share the magic with us, so please visit BronyTale!

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Chicagoland Area Meetup

Event: Midwest Brony Division Jam Session and Drawfriend Meet-Up Part 5


Saturday, March 17, 2012
Time: 4:00pm until 7:00pm
Location: McAninch Arts Center at College of DuPage

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Oahu Brony Meetup

Hello Bronies of Oahu come down to Barnes and Noble, Ala Moana on 2/20/12 for a impromptu Brony meetup there will be food, discussion, and art. (warning possible spontaneous song) More info on our facebook page, http://www.facebook.com/events/173909886056763/

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The Return of Harmony on the Big Screen!

Out in Idaho, there's plans brewing to potentially bring The Return of Harmony, and even the pilot two-parter into a private theater this summer! But the organizers need some help getting a sense of interest! So hit up THIS form: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dERJNEhQTDRIZUdiZDJQOUNCRGZ0Vmc6MQ#gid=0 And tell them what you think! Every response helps!

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South-Eastern Maine

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Merch/Ebay Stuff
Masquerade Custom


66 comments:

Arcane Scroll said...

Okami and Lazers, awesome!

Flutterfan said...

Denton, TX

Attend Brony Meetup dressed as Gendo.

Makes sense.

bestpony? AJ ;) said...

Very early roundup. O_o Got to meet Jayson Thiessen today at Animation on Display in San Francisco. SUPER NICE GUY!! MLP is in good hands bronies.

Blaze72 said...

Never played Okami, but I suddenly want to. Also lasers and ponified asteroids are awesome :D

Can't stop the invasion :) It's inevitable.

KronathBekalb said...

Awake when the roundup goes up... I need to go to sleep.

aki1993 said...

early round up! that RD cake is probably the best one ive seen in a while! so, smile smile smile!! XD

Jiggywitit said...

Have you NOT played Okami yet?

You should fix that. IMMEDIATELY.

Space said...

Would pay so much money for a pony'd Okami...

Bombedrumbum said...

Okay, that's pretty good for a Dash cake- HEY, WAIT A MINUTE



OKAY, so the Friendship Express is Wodescreen, good to know.

Arcane Scroll said...

I was thinking, lasers are the closest way to get a true Asteroids gameplay feel since it's so hard to find working vector monitors anymore.

Dragonborn said...

WOW and here I was thinking that Pic of Rarity was going to be some type of MLP Movie

ElMikkino said...

See Roundup, go to sleep.

acsinclair said...

After reading that bit about Fallout: Equestria being longer than War and Peace, I just can't stop laughing. That is so brilliant. I love this fandom.

D-pad Dash said...

I kinda find it annoying sometimes to explain fim to people.A new brony (that i introduced fim to) at my school wanted to show fim to another guy.I had to tell it again.I freaking new every word and talked really fast,thats how much i have to explain it.

DarthMaul22 said...

I'm actually awake for one of these. Confound these ponies, they drive me to insomnia!

(Oh, god, I've wanted to say that for two months now.)

Sebastian said...

Don't care too much for that Rarity cake.

Salculd said...

You SHOULD play Okami. It's the second best Zelda game ever made.

foolmoron said...

Play Okami. Best game on PS2.

BLOK said...

OAHU BRONY MEETUPS!

PsychedelicBrony said...

Just to let you guys know I run the South-Eastern Maine Brony meetup group, so if you're around Cumberland/Sagadahoc/York/ any other South-Eastern Maine county we need members!

Vipera said...

That was a very positive article!

Dread Arkive said...

My favorite game of all time just exceeded all potential boundaries of epicness and win.

Dj-Equestria said...

jeez it 2:55 am i think equestria daily has gone to bed for the night *sigh* im not tired D:

Jon Fawkes said...

Spelled "Parasprite" wrong

I lol'd at the VLC screenshot, go ponies!

Schneeraubtier said...

I prefer Media Player Classic to VLC but still awesome that they have ponies on their site.

Viridian said...
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Twifight Sparkill said...

Bronies. Pegasisters. I don't know why so many people (both genders apparently) find "pegasisters" such a revolting label! I am a PROUD pegasister! If I had a choice, really... i'd pick that over brony ANY DAY. Maybe it's the labels THEMSELVES, serving to curtly identify we entities, that we rebel against for being unfairly sparse due some passing infatuation? I don't know.

All we can do is accept that simple filing helps sustain and identify us all in general terms, hm? The internet and growing social links insist we be categorized! As the saying goes, "you're an individual, just like everyone else!". DAMN the categories I say! We love what we love, do as we do, and feel as we feel via our own particulars!

Rant closed. Whoops!

JiiKoo said...

:o Didn't know we had an article in a local newspaper! That mention of FO:E wasn't on the internet version of the article, though. Maybe they edited it out or it's only in the printed version?

I have to say, most of the comments on the page were pathetic. :P Then again, what can you expect from "normal" people who can't accept anything different. -.-

Also, yay VLC! :D

Luxin_Nocte said...

OMG, guys, I just noticed, we are gonna see the counter at 123456789 today xD
OCD ftw

bestpony said...

I'm still waiting for my university to have a brony meeting... so if you're in the big apple (and you're from the big apple if you cringed just reading that) and go to a university, make an event already!

What, I could do it?

I'm too lazy.

Danger Smoog said...

I'm almost certain FiM didn't premier on october 11, 2011

But hey that could just be me......

James Corck said...

Okay, let's see this round up, woooow it's big! Let's see what have here.

>There is a screen shot of Party of One on the VLC page.

Oh wow. I think those who are angry at us are actually right. There is ponies everywhere guys, no slow down on the invasion.

TheRike42 said...

Yes! Finally the Austrian Meetup got posted!

Berli said...

That Finnish brony article in the Valo paper was pretty nice. Not just a small strip buried somewhere on the pages, but a full cover picture and a three page article that was wholly positive to boot. Definitely a good one.

Bronyhub said...

That parasprite invaders game is pretty neat!

You guys really should join up with brony@home if you can. Remember you don't need a beefy computer to participate; a Pentium 4 or equivalent processor is fast enough to complete work units on time, and most (non-integrated) GPUs are more than fast enough to pump out points. It's all about time not necessarily power. Plus it's all for helping understand genes and potentially cure diseases.

Kyronea said...

That's not a Rarity cake...

Ulrik said...

Yay for European Bronies

Jordan said...

@bestpony? AJ ;): I got to meet Jayson, too!

WGIJ said...

Invading VLC!? Ponies are getting into more and more random places...
I like that article, explaining the whole thing in a positive light.
Oh, man, as delicious as those cakes look, I probably couldn't bear to cut them up - they'd be in display cases.

The Austrian bronies went WHERE!? O_o

Mike said...

...that Rarity cake... I think it's also R63... 0_0

Mike said...

OMG RICE UNIVERSITY HAS A BRONY GROUP I MUST TRANSFER ASAP!

I already wanted to go there for their awesome nanotech and materials science stuff anyway.

Masquerade said...

... That's not a custom of me.

LaserPon3 said...

Glad u guys like my parasprite invaders games!

Rita Lot said...

Actually, looks more like an Elusive cake

Justin said...

@Flutterfan
I could see Gendo being a Brony, lord knows Evangelion could use freindship and magic

Rubystars said...

Can someone tell me how to contact the Houston group?

Nostalgia Schmaltz said...

Goddamnit, why are there never any central MA meetups? :(

X-13 said...

FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU~

Why is there never any meetup stuff for the UK?

Not that I'd go... I'm FlutterGuy.

jareddm said...

To whoever is running the survey, I'd like to put out there that I'm a PhD student in statistics. If you'd like assistance in analyzing your results, I'd be more than happy to help. Plus I could really use the work.

Eric said...

The Rice group needs to publicize their meetings better. I was even at Rice yesterday...

Al_Skylark said...

@Justin
You sir, don't know how much I just laughed at your comment xD
VERY TRUE LOL

Spiner909 said...

That Okami picture...
awesome = very yes

Mint Baker said...

that cake.... it is just wow....
I MUST GO BAKE SOME THING!

Destroyer said...

Houston meetup!!!! Danget too bad I'm not in that Rice University thing... Well I probably wouldn't have been able to get a ride anyway

4rn0 said...

@WGIJ

we went to a shisha/hookah/waterpipe bar, was really chillin^^

deathfire365 said...

thank you so much for posting my podcast.

Coyote In The Hat said...

That guy looks like Gendo was me and it was indeed a good time! Got to meet some fellow bronies and the guy who voices Captain Ginyu!

Coyote In The Hat said...

@Flutterfan That's me and I'm supposed to be Princess Celestia.

iloveMLP said...

a game where you kill parasprites?
where can i get one!!!!!

Government-Man said...

@the Rarity cake:
"Rarity, get your FATASS OUT HERE.

Akamaru01 said...

Wait a minute, my school paper had a Brony article in it? There are bronies at my school!

AssRapingHorseCock said...

AHHHHHHHHHH! How come I didn't know about the denton meetup? I live just a few miles from there.

Brony4Life said...

I am the guy from Phoenix who went to the Boston Meetup.

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