This is a big one, hope you are prepared for my inevitable typos.
Molded Hair Pony Guide
For those looking to swap the brushable stuff out for some much needed, show accurate, molded manes on your ponies should probably consult this guide on how to do it! It centers around Rarity, but she deserves some love right?
Meetups/Groups/Guilds Looking for More
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Armegeddon Expo Brony Meetup
When: October 29th
Where: Auckland, New Zealand
Website
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Akron Ohio Meetup / Halloween Party
Akron, OH Meet Up
Date: October 22nd and 23rd
Link to blog info - http://ohiobronies.blogspot.
Halloween Meet Up Party
Date: October 28th-30th
Link to blog info - http://ohiobronies.blogspot.
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Joplin, MO Brony Convention
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Joplin MO is planning a Brony convention for the month of march 2012, and we still need donations, volunteers, and stores and booths to attend! any contribution you can make will be appreciated, and we will credit you or your business in the awards ceremony. if you would like to reserve ahead costs will be cut, plus you get a free convention name tag. our face book is: Brony-Con Midwest, and we would love to have you attend! as you may know, on May 22 Joplin was hit by an F5 tornado, we are going to donate all profits of the con to the rebuild Joplin fund, and to Stained glass theater west. again we still need donations to make the convention possible and everything is appreciated! Send Questions to [email protected]Website
Brony Talk Show
More radio bronies are looking to spread their vocal chords radio style. This one is scheduled to run every Thursday, with a toll free number to call in with for anyone that wants to join. Check out the website for it here!
Rainbow Dash Guitar Game Updated with Chords
Headline says it all, go hit it up if you were a fan of the old rendition, for a bit more depth.
Advent Calendar Showing Up In Sweden
Over in Norway, the Advent Calendar with all the blind bag pieces/toys has popped up at BRIO. Go grab one if you live there I guess!
Flutternet IRC Open
Another pony IRC network is now open for business! Hit up http://flutternet.org/ for more information on how to connect and use it!
So You Think Your A Brony Episode 8
Another week, another episode.
General Mumble / Pony Feature from the Advertising Student's perspective.
A new article has popped up from someone working on his Advertising degree, featuring pony music remixer General Mumble and his use of social networking to expand the audience for his tracks. Check it out here!
New Celestia Pillow at Canterlot Displays?
Ponymon Game Mod Demo
>Scootaloo is Pidgey
All my bits. Download link is in the description.
Parody Song Seeking Singers
Another music project is under way. Right now it needs pretty much everyone from the mane 6. Check out this page for more information on it.
Pony Fridge
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Christian TV Reports that My Little Pony is "Possibly" Satanic
Behind the humongous anime eyes and marshmallow hooves, a new theory has popped up on Christian television. While it is still unconfirmed, their is a "possibility" that Friendship is actually Satanic in origins. Check out the video below for more information.
In other news, Smurf plushies apparently possess small children, so bust out the lighter fluid and get to burning those old toys of yours! BY FIRE BE PURGED!
New Website Dedicated to Letting YOU Know if FiM is Airing this Week
Nice and simple
Japanese Kids Respond to Pony
Someone translated a bunch of comments of first-time Friendship is Magic viewers in Japan. It looks a lot like /co/ back when the first episode aired... ahh nostalgia. We were all so confused.
Check it out here.
Big Book of Brony Collaboration Seeking Artist Permission
Have some copy paste!
" The Big Book of Brony is a massive project aiming to collect, archive and organize everything brony. We will include materials created and done by the fan community and not only that, everything that has some connection with the fandom and our beloved pastel colored ponies. Our collection will hold material ranging from fanart to comics, fancitions, reviews, podcasts, meetups, cosplay, custom toys, game mods, everything ponified, clothing, charts, maps, reaction images, icon sets and forum signatures, etc. (This list is just a small example).
Once the collection is complete, we will publish it as a tribute to the brony fandom.
Hereby we would like to ask everypony who has ever contributed anything to the fandom, to send us an email whether they allow us to include their work or not. Please send us an email (titled PERMISSION) with your name (artist name you are credited by), webpage (if you have any) and a clear declaration of permission (or prohibition).
(Given the vast amount of creative bronies and overall nature of the fandom, we are taking permissions are automaticly granted after two weeks if not receiving any withdrawal of permission.)
We will credit everyone dully and never claim to own any of the material presented in The Book.
The Big Book of Brony is a fan tribute to the fandom, will be freely available and that will never change.
Contact us at: bigbookofbrony [at] gmail [dot] com
Ponychan thread: http://www.ponychan.net/chan/collab/res/21431+50.html
Song/Poem Facebook Competition
Another competition is looking for entrants, check out the copy paste below.
Hello Fillies and Gentlecolts! I am doing a competition, or more like 3!
1st: Design DJ-N1GHTM4R3 a new picture! (these can be hand drawn as well, I don't discrimate =)
2nd: Make a song! It can be as long as short as you like. Any Genre! As long as it is pony related =)
3: Write a poem! It can be in any form you like, be about anything pony related and be as long or as short as you like!
The events shall be judged by DJ-N1GHTM4R3's admins and Discord Fluttershy. (More judges may be added)
Prizes: The winner of each category will receive a set of custom badges featuring the Mane 6's cutie marks!
Website
How to Take Pictures of Pony
If you followed that Rarity guide further up, and want to show off your new pony for all the internet to see, check out this guide to learn how to take a picture that would make even Photo Finish jealous.
WWE Webcomic Posts Ponies
Yep.. More ponies in webcomics!
Frame Rate Pony Productions Asking for Fan Recommendation on Next Video
Frame Rate wants your feedback on what their next show should be about. Hit up this video for more info, and vote in the comments section of it.
Subtitle Compilation Doc
Another document dedicated to pony subtitles has been created. If you have cousins/aunts/illegitimate siblings/pets that can't speak English, check it out here.
Merch/Ebay Stuff
Luna Painting
Pony Buttons
Christmas Tree Ornaments
4,947 comments:
@Dan
ReplyDeleteoh i see...
hang on-
ReplyDeletehow do we choose new posts?
@Dom W
ReplyDeleteUsually we just move on to the next non-story post, which in this case would be this game demo thingy.
Another quick history lesson of this group:
ReplyDeleteGetting the "premier comment" is what destroyed BROHOOF and forced SALT to form in its place. Jelfes was the first one to realize what it had turned into, and dublio was the only one who had never once even tried to do it.
I'll admit, it's a bit different with IntenseDebate, but it is still quite the same. I used to rule the comments, but got flamed from both sides. For some reason, I read that sentence like Viva La Vida (i just watched CaptainSparklez Minecraft parody of it). Okay, back on topic- I an very curious as to what Jelfes would say about MyBoyJ and his "Ancient Chinese Secret".
B.R.O.H.O.O.F. was an acronim just like SALT. Brohoof was actually formed with the express purpose of stopping firsters. In fact, the acronim itself (now long forgotten) stood for exactly that- preventing firsters.
Tread carefully. 'Tis a dangerous game you play.
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteI remember when that was first posted! I downloaded the demo, but I could never get it to work right!
Grrr.
@millennialdan
ReplyDeleteahhkay
@pianoman
ReplyDeletefirsters..
i hate those guys
(that was an indiana jones reference)
Sorry to jump ship for a moment, but if any of you haven't seen the Avengers yet, you need to fix that. Seriously, that movie was like a concentrated dose of heck yeah!
ReplyDelete@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteI seem to get flamed only when someone beats me to it and mocks me at the same time *cough Schmaltzy cough* otherwise, it seems to be okay.
It's not all I do in the comments, either. I post links when people ask for them and I try to help out wherever I can. I think that's why I'm not flamed very much.
There seems to be a handful of us who do it regularly. Starfall, Sir Le Flour, Wolveon, Sweetiebot occasionally.
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteMy sister just got back and said the same thing.
I don't remember the last time I went to the movies. I know that I tried to see the last Pirates of the Caribbean movie, but the only theater where it was playing (this was weeks after it came out) was having some kind of problem so they weren't showing it anymore.
I just looked it up, and that movie came out almost a year ago. I haven't been to the movies in over a year.
I guess I'll check out The Avengers when it's on TV.
@millennialdan
ReplyDeleteseen it
that movie
is so awesome
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteIt's just like wackypony (wackyteen back then), WizardShy, applebloomismywaifu, and several others all over again. I also commented a lot other than just top comment. I provided links, and I also replied to many comments.
Holy crap, i'm watching history repeat itself.
@Dom W
ReplyDeleteQuite often, I can't open YouTube videos you link. I just get a page with five related videos on it and if I click one of them, it says "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address because its protocol isn't associated with any program."
Maybe it's the time difference or something. Your Space Future YouTube doesn't like my Stone Age YouTube.
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteHe's using the mobile form of the link. If you scroll down, there should be an option that says "desktop", click that and it should solve it.
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteAh thanks, that fixed it.
I read a news article about how Avengers just completely blew away the box office with sales.
ReplyDeleteI think that the last time I went to the movies was also with the last Pirates of the Carribean movie as well. Weird. The movie and the fact that it was my last time as well.
I mean, seriously? Half the time, you don't get what's going on or what they're talking about in the Pirates of the Carribean movies, and this fourth one was a prime example of that. Also, sure enough, there was a small cutscene after the credits. My respone to it- SERIOUSLY?!?!
Also, I just saw Iron Man for the first time. It was on tv, so I thought why not and watched it. I remembered how there's often cutscenes after credits, and sure enough, there was one. It was talking about Avengers. It was made in 2008. O.o
Is cutscene the correct term?
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteThey've been foreshadowing the avengers movie since 2004 I think, the Hulk had a scene, Iron Man... All of the characters that had their own movie had a scene...
@myboyj
ReplyDeleteah, from now on ill link desktop versions
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteI know what cutscene refers to in video games, but not really in movies.
Also, you finally saw Iron Man? I loved that movie too, very entertaining!
As for POTC, my opinion is that they would have done well to strike the entire cannibal island arc from the second movie. If they has used that wasted time to build up the actual story they were trying to tell, maybe the whole thing wouldn't have been so confusing.
Also, yeah, Avengers has definitely had a LOT of foreshadowing.
Iron Man, Iron Man 2, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, and Thor all had after-credits scenes that referenced Avengers in some way. The one from The Incredible Hulk was completely ignored, though...
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteI think "cutscene" usually means a non-interactive portion of a video game. Wikipedia calls it a "post-credits scene" among other things.
They've been planning this movie for years. Both Iron Man movies, Captain America, Thor, and the most recent Incredible Hulk movie were all the "puzzle pieces" they built The Avengers from.
There are supposedly little hints to other movies within each of them. For example, I've heard that Captain America's shield is in Tony Stark's lab in Iron Man 2.
@Dom W
ReplyDeleteThank you kindly.
I'm off to bed, here's a song. (Not the title, but my favorite line)
ReplyDeleteMan must pay for all his misdeeds when the treetops are stripped of their leaves.
Goodnight.
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteGood-night J!
Only 125 comments left for this page, guys. Once we get down to 50 or so, someone will have to go harass Dr Discord on Skype ;)
I'll do it. Leave it to me.
ReplyDeletehmm..
ReplyDeletecan the three of us, plus discord, finish tonite?
Wait until at least tomorrow.
ReplyDeletevery well
ReplyDeleteill be gone for then end most probably, so see you on the other side /)
@Dom W
ReplyDeleteIf that be so, see ya there. (\
I needed a sharp reminder.
ReplyDeleteGuys, this is only a sample of how excessively I commented. This, this right here is why I stopped commenting on the main posts of EqD. Remember, this is only just a small glimpse of it all.
@pianoman
ReplyDeleteyeah, but your posts are cool
im back -.- noone else is home, so...
ReplyDelete@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteWhat, only ten or so on that page? Pish posh!
Nah but really, it's so interesting sometimes to see those old posts and all those familiar names. Not long ago enough for me to call it nostalgia, but certainly fascinating.
@RavensDagger
I hope I haven't missed you, because I just realized it'd be a shame if the SALT blog went quiet for that long. Perhaps I could take you up on that offer from forever ago to be a mod over there?
@Dan
ReplyDeletehey do ya mind if you give me yer Email? When i finish my chapter i want to see your reaction before everyone else
I know that you are a good pre-reader, and i want a good, brutally honest opinion
since it is my first time attempting a fanfic this is probably how it will turn out (i changed it to desktop mode, HOPEFULLY it stays that way)
ReplyDeleteWow, only 113 comments left? It seems like only yesterday we took over this post...
ReplyDeleteAlso, yeah, I know I've been inactive recently, but I've been reading everything here.
But now, I'M BACK!(hopefully for proper this time) (Flutter-yay)
@Dom W
ReplyDeleteWell, I don't know about the brutal part, but I'd be happy to look it over! My email's pretty straightforward, it's millennialdan@gmail
Send it over whenever you like!
Oh, hai there ThunderIce.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the last stretch......again
ReplyDeleteWow. We are gonna cap off another post? Look at us go. :3
ReplyDeleteWe are slowly taking over Equestria Daily. And once we do, we move on to taking over the world!
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDelete@Millennial Dan
That'll work. Just wanted to give Millennial Dan the views if he had a clip already. I was frustrated with work yesterday and was looking for that clip but I was stuck on my cr@pberry; er blackberry, and was having a hard time completing YT searches. Which of course only punctuated my frustration so I just said 'buck-it' and left all technology alone last night.
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteThat`d be brilliant!
The brony sat there. The bright sun burning his head as the desertic wind blew a lukewarm breeze that carried the sand dunes. It had been minutes, hours even, since he had last seen life. The wait was unbearable.
ReplyDeleteThrusting down with his hand, he grabbed some sand, uselessly throwing it into the mercy of the winds, watching it spiral away.
His attention was drawn to an irregular round form that bounced and rolled intermittently across the hot ground.
“Thar them tumbleweeds,” he whispered.
@RavensDagger
ReplyDeletenotbad.jpg
That was epic. My mornings are often filled with dull networking meetings, but I'm back now.
Anyway, cool, let's do that! It would also give me good incentive to do even more proofreading, which would hopefully help me pick up the speed a little bit. Good stuff all around.
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteWhere DO you work mate?
@RavensDagger
ReplyDeleteThe man wandered through the desert, as if pulled by an invisible force. He didn't know where he was going, how he got there, or why he was there but he knew to keep walking.
After hours of walking, he saw a shape sitting on the ground. As he walked closer he realized that it was another person; this was what he was being pulled towards, companionship in the vast desert that he thought he was alone in.
"Hello?" he said to the man.
The man responded, "Are you real?"
"I'll always be here, lurking in this desert"
@Ben Gibson
ReplyDeleteAnd that's how SALT was made!
The End.
@RavensDagger
ReplyDeleteEXACTLY!
@RavensDagger
ReplyDeleteSelf-employed, yo!
I self incentive gifts to businesses.
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteself employed networker?
Lol, is it unnecessarily epic comment time? :D
ReplyDeleteI used to work at a café, but that story has been told already. Quite sad, actually....
whoo, 90-oddcomments to go!
ReplyDeletenow hace fun capping it, im off to school
brohoofs, yall /)
@Ben Gibson
ReplyDeleteIndeed, quite true.
@Bombedrumbum
Epicosity is never unnecessary!
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeletethat's pretty sick, fun stuff. did you go to school for that? or self taught as well
@Ben Gibson
ReplyDeleteSeminars, books, meetings, audios, internet resources, some mentoring, etc. etc. But no, no school, my degree is laughably inapplicable to virtually everything.
@Dom
We may not have capped it by the time you're out, but we'll see! (\
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteself teaching is pretty sweet, what's your degree in?
@Ben Gibson
ReplyDeleteAS, General Studies. I specialized in calculus and physics, and also took several fairly worthless requirements like anthropology and art history. I did mostly enjoy the English courses, like college composition 1 and 2, and The History of Video Games, which was surprisingly intense on the writing end of things. Also some web design and office software stuff. That's basically my college education in a nutshell!
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteOOH PHYSICS?whatkindofphysics????
@Ben Gibson
ReplyDeleteSimple calc-based physics are what I understood best. I'll be honest, I struggled with physics concerning higher level electrical stuff...
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteoh bummer.... still pretty interesting though! I prefer quantum, theoretical, and nuclear. And lots of other things
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeletePhysics, how do they work?
I never really took any kind of physics. I was good at science in school and the most advanced science I took was chemistry for a few months in high school, until I ended up being home tutored when I couldn't walk again.
Well, unless you count the biology and "multidisciplinary science" (a bit of biology, geology, a tiny bit of physics pertaining to light and water) I took as requirements in college.
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeletephysics is the most fun of all the sciences
@RavensDagger
ReplyDelete@Ben Gibson
The scene was painted in my mind. Well done! Ya'll make me proud.
@Millennial Dan
I do believe I've received such gifts before. I think I still have a couple as a matter of fact.
@Ben Gibson
ReplyDeleteYep, those were all definitely outside my scope, I don't think that college even offered too many of them in fact. I would have probably gotten into it even more, if my instructor wasn't a total deadpan that looked exactly like this, only a lot less friendly.
@ClosetBrony
ReplyDeleteO, rly? That's awesome, actually. I rarely come across anyone else who markets this stuff, for whatever reason.
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteThat's pretty funny, most of my science knowledge is self taught though, because I know I'm not smart enough to get an actual job in one of those fields, so I self teach and go to school for something more tangible
@Ben Gibson
ReplyDeleteI'd take more science courses, but while I think I could get into a hard science field, I probably wouldn't enjoy it much.
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteEeyup, I got a single cup coffee/tea maker one year (which I still have). Various pen/pencil sets, desk organizers, paperweights, etc.
Interestingly enough, my employer has a division that does custom embroidery. They do a lot of work for incentive gift companies. What a small world!
@Trotsky
ReplyDeleteThat's one of the main reasons I didn't pursue it further, even though math comes fairly easily to me. I actually kind of despised the tedium of lab work and such. Sad, really, I was always fascinated with the sciences far more BEFORE I went to college. Like Ben, the I find the information to be interesting, but the actual testing and studying? Nope.
@Trotsky
ReplyDeletesee the thing is, getting into the field in general probably isn't that hard as long as you get a good degree, but the chances are that unless you are literally a genius, you're probably not gonna get the job you think of. I wouldn't want to end up analyzing some data all day every day, I would want to be the one making discoveries, but you have to be REALLY smart to do that.
Well, I wrote about half of my entry for the "Quill" competition and it's kind of going all over the place.
ReplyDelete@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, I forgot about that...
Yeah, I'm probably going to have to opt out of that. I don't have the inspiration to to any writing right now.
Going through yet another life crisis....
Aw, no! Sir Hero, what's going on??.. If you don't mind my asking..
ReplyDelete@ZeroHero
ReplyDeleteAnother crisis you say?
@MissGoldenDragon
ReplyDeleteNothing much. Just that Im generally unhappy with my life and where it is right now...
You guys would all enjoy physics a lot more if you had my physics teacher :D
ReplyDeleteI told so many storied about his awesomeness and his eccentricities, that it even made Discord jealous.
That, and my AV class of three. The teacher is also a student and we trololololol through the school.
Before I forget, TF2 again this Friday?
ReplyDeleteIs that going to be our regular game night?
@Sir Hero
ReplyDeleteOh...I'm sorry.. :(
Well..
@ZeroHero
ReplyDeleteDitto what MissGoldenDragon said.
Plus
Smile, Smile Smile ?
you have plenty of good listeners here.
@ClosetBrony
ReplyDelete*sigh* That right there, that song, is the reason I love Pinkie Pie so much. She always knows how to make me smile.
But I'm still not without problems, and no amount of Pinkie's musical stylings can fix them... :(
@ZeroHero
ReplyDeleteMake your problems go away it will not.
Help calm your mind it will.
Focus your thouoghs you can.
Solution to a problem you'll find then, Hmmm?
@ClosetBrony
ReplyDelete*thoughts
Gah! Stupid fingers!
@ClosetBrony
ReplyDeleteYou can do it, Zero. Really mate, I'm sure you'll be fine, now would you mind sharing just what it is that's not right?
@RavensDagger
ReplyDeleteWell, one way to say it is it feels like I'm being ignored. Not by you guys of course, just in my town.
I've been at the job hunting game for over a month now, and despite hading out resumes and applications to everyplace I could see, most of them with sign that say "Help Wanted", I haven't heard anything back. And my funds are starting to run thin.
Not just that, but I am just not too happy with what I've done with myself up to this point. There's alot, and I mean, ALOT of mistakes I've made in the past. All of them I regret, and despite having paid my dues for them (at least I think I have), I still feel like some of them come back to bite me.
I have also seem to have little to no friends IRL, I only talk to people online, so I'm almost always alone.
Add that onto the fact that I'm constantly judging myself for every little thing about myself that I feel isn't perfect or at least good enough...its like I've taken my philosphy of "glass half-empty" and just applied it to everything.
I have very little that beings me joy, but nothign to make me truly happy. I haven't been what soemone could consider "truly happy" in years. Not since before High school, cause none of those years are plesant. So for almost 10 years I've not had that feeling of happiness or pride. That's basically what's got me so messed up right now...
@ZeroHero
ReplyDeleteOh, damn.
I can sympathise on a few points, I too have no real friends, and work is scarse. I know what that's like. As for something to derive pleasure from. Well, I have my religion, that always gave me pride and something ot look forward to. I don't want to get all pleachy...
People need goals to live by. No matter how stupid they are.
I wish I could give you some honest, good advice, but my methods of coping with depression are... depressing to most.
@ZeroHero
ReplyDeleteI feel much the same way.
I've been looking for work for about nine months at this point, even terrible office work I despise, and haven't heard anything back from anywhere I apply.
I'm also completely devoid of friends in real life. You guys are pretty much it for online.
I have people criticizing me for what they perceive to be "laziness" and an unwillingness to work, but they don't see the effort I put into trying to find something, anything.
Add to that the fact that I was incorrectly diagnosed as Manic Depressive (Bipolar Disorder) when I was 12, and a lot of my family considers me crazy. I'm not Bipolar, but I am depressed, and I have been for about 14 years now.
It's mainly a combination of physical disability, social isolation stemming from physical disability, and lack of freedom/independence, also stemming from physical disability.
What I'm saying is, having bad knees sucks. HARD.
It's been the cause of most of the problems in my life. (my father, who I'm convinced has Borderline Personality Disorder, is the cause of the others)
If you have your health, and a good relationship with your parents, everything else can be sorted out fairly easily.
The economy is a bitch. I won't go into my opinions on the economy because it would just lead to pointless impotent rage.
Something will come up eventually. You're in school, right? That's something that can really help you at this juncture.
Well, my high school years are only just beginning, so....yeah. I mean, if there's one thing that i've learned from you guys, it's that these years really matter. Seeing people through various stages of life, it's really motivating.
ReplyDeleteI too have pretty much no friends IRL. I seriously wonder what all of our lives would have been like if THIS all never happened.
@MyBoyJ
ReplyDeleteYeah, that true.
It's funny though, and please please please don't take this personally Jim, but I have seen/heard this time and time again. Every time I try and voice my problems to someone, in the hopes I can get some clarity to my emotional issues, they always come back to me saying somethign about themselves that is in some way worse off than me, thereby making my problems seem insignificant and pointless. In short, making me feel even worse and also pissed off.
But again, please don't take that personally, it's happend before, and you didn't make it worse. I feel bad for you too, having a disablillity can't be easy. And feeling depressed is something I can easily relate to.
The worst I got that treatment was my old job in the restaurant, when every single time I tried to voice a problem I had, whether it was late nights, several work days in a row, whatever, they were all met with someone saying they've had it worse, making my problems meaningless. And that really, really, really pisses me off.
Sorry if I sound upset, because, well, I am. I'm tired of being ignored, tired of being put down, and tired of trying to get my life to actually be worth something, only to have it thrown back in my face.
The question I've been asking myself for years now, "When's it going to be my turn?"
@ZeroHero
ReplyDeleteI understand. I'm sorry if I made you feel worse. I'm in much the same position you are with people saying they have it worse, etc.
I don't really know how to help you. I wish I could help you find a job, or something, but it's beyond my means.
Just know that it will get better. How long that takes is anyone's guess, however.
I don't have it as bad as you, Jim, or anybody else really. I'm normal student leading a normal life. What matters is that we do something with our lives.
ReplyDeleteZero, you aren't a zero. You can be a hero.
Okay, enough with the lame motivational jokes. This is serious. Now, I know that you've been looking for a job, but if you give up it will all be over for you. Keep going, and eventually I guarantee that tou will get one.
Dr. Seuss is a seriously undercredited man, he was a genius! In one of his last books, Oh, The Places You'll Go!, he talks about the journey of life. The reason I say this is because it is VERY deep, and it kinda applies to your situation. He admits that life isn't fair, and that sometimes you won't succeed. But he promises and guarantees that if you don't give up, you will make something of your life.
@ZeroHero
ReplyDeleteI agree with Bombe.
Here's a link to "Oh, The Places You'll Go!
It really is inspirational.
@ZeroHero
ReplyDeleteI know exactly how you feel. Depression is a complicated beast, and one to which I am well-acquainted. I know J empathizes, as many of us can. I've said before that sometimes it's hard to know what to say, and perhaps much harder still to know what to do.
Like RavensDagger, I have ways of dealing with those issues. There's at least one thing in my life that feels reliable, stable.
That issue of having no close friends to hang out with is also certainly a familiar one. It's funny how the internet has allowed people like us to locate others with similar interests, but they tend to be completely scattered abroad. I'm grateful for any of it, though.
I don't know what can do to help you, but I can try to offer at least a couple of pointers, if that's not too presumptuous. For one, I agree with the others; if nothing else, press on. If you're in a rough spot, the most detrimental thing you could do is stay there.
If finding employment is a way to move forward, than go after it with a vengeance. If education is another, then make the most of it. Those things aren't the end-all, be-all to finding purpose in life, I believe, but they're not a bad place to start either.
I know of some good ways of getting a job. But even better than that, I think, is knowing that somewhere out there, someone is on your side. I know we are, and that's a good feeling.
And, because this silence is not always golden, I'm posting this. I wonder if amddude would appreciate Discord's feelings on the matter. :P
ReplyDeleteThanks everyone. It's good to know someone out there is looking out for me. :)
ReplyDeleteToday was not one of my better days, that's for sure. My biggest problem with my situation is that im got so many problems, and not quick solution to them. Everything takes time, and I want out faster than that. I just keep having to endure all of the crap that gets thrown at me.
Here's a random cute thing.
ReplyDelete@ZeroHero
ReplyDeleteI know exactly what you mean. While the saying is true it doesn't change the fact that whatever is troubling you is significant for you. It's also the reason why it is difficult to gain the clarity you seek because that clarity is also unique to you. You can get advice and opinions and the beauty of it all is that you get to decide how take what you've heard/learned and apply it to yourself. It will get better and you will be able to walk away a better person. It'll just take time. (I know, I know, another one of those 'yeah, that helps' sayings but it's true.) Just don't give up.
Dr. Seuss did sum it up pretty well. Here's a well done YouTube video of Oh, the Places You'll Go!,
you havnt finished yet??!
ReplyDeleteIn completely unrelated news, I have been selected to play David in the Through The Eyes Of Another Pony audiobook, and have been asked to play David in the animated TtEoAP project, which I of course said yes to.
ReplyDeleteIT'S GONNA BE SO AWESOME.
ah
ReplyDeletei see it's depressing past day
and present....
welp im out
not to be a fag, but my life went from total crap to i couldnt of had it better
i used to have ZERO friends
including online
now i have plenty...
Including you guys..
welp im here for one and all. well, i can do whatever i can from the other side of the world...
@pianoman
ReplyDeletehuh. You're probably younger than me. Strange. i look up to you, so i kinda pictured you as older than me. But hey, whoever said i cant look up to someone younger than me
@MyBoyJimmy
ReplyDeleteSounds cool!... You're doing what, now..?
@Dom
Right?? I feel the same way! I guess Bombe is just that awesome.
And to think, i'm only the same age as OmniPony. Same month, in fact.
ReplyDeleteIt's already been said before, but what the hay, i'll say my age again.
@MissGoldenDragon let's not forget Jelfes!
@miss.g.dragon
ReplyDeleteindeed. Bombe is a bawws
although, now that i think of it i made an unwitting pun
im kinda short so... (seriously. im friends with the two tallest people in my school and they give me soo much crap for bring short -.-")
@MissGoldenDragon
ReplyDeleteI'm going to be playing what I think is a villain in this story. It's going to be an audiobook of the story with me playing the part of David, who, as far as I can gather, looks exactly like Harry Potter.
I admit, I've never read it, but it seems to be kind of legendary. Held up alongside Past Sins and Fallout: Equestria as one of the best pony fanfics. Of course, I could be completely wrong, but it is still well known.
They're also making an animated version of the story, and I've been asked to play David in that, as well.
(my unintended pun was im short irl, so id be looking up to bombe in two ways)
ReplyDelete@Bombe
ReplyDeleteWell, I didn't actually get to know Jelfes. I think we barely exchanged a hello over Skype. :/
@Dom
I bet you're taller than me. XP haha
@MyBoyJimmy
Oh, how cool! :D Sounds like a lot of fun, have you ever done any voice acting before?
@MissGoldenDragon
ReplyDeleteNo, but I'm trying to get into doing it professionally. I've done funny voices and accents for as long as I can remember, so I might as well try to make a career out of it.
Here's a link to my voice demo on YouTube.
@missgoldendragon
ReplyDeleteim 1 metre 70-somthingcm
i believe that is 5 foot 4" roughly
@MyBoyJimmy
ReplyDeleteThat is SO COOL! 8D
Man, I kinda wish I could do that... I hear voice acting is a lot of fun, and my brother(s) actually wants to get into it.
@Dom
HA! Told ya. XD
Yeah, I'm a nice round number (probably not in the metric system, though :P ) of 5 feet. hahaha.....
@MissGoldenDragon
ReplyDeleteIn somewhat related news, my mom went to high school with John Moschitta and she's friends with him on Facebook (for whatever that's worth).
She's planning on directing him to my voice demo and asking him if there's any way he could help me with voice work.
I told her that she probably shouldn't demand things of a moderately famous person she hasn't talked to in 40 years (or ever, since they weren't in the same class), but she's doing it anyway.
We'll see how that goes.
@Bombedrumbum
It seems like Dr. Discord is going to be needed soon.
@MyBoyJimmy
ReplyDeleteOh, he has one of THOSE voices. Made those commercials so much more fun. That's cool. :)
Well, it wouldn't hurt to ask, right?
On it.
ReplyDeleteOkay, everybody, listen up: this is the time when we restrict our comments and post our reaction to the above post. Critique, comments, the works.
Um, last post incoming?
ReplyDelete...This feels like a New Year's celebration..
ReplyDelete@missgoldendragon
ReplyDeleteheh. My friends are 6'3 and 6'4"
or 1 metre 95cm and 1m 97cm
freaking monsters..
@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteOkay.
*Cracks knuckles*
That Lyra picture as a header is kind of creepy. There's just something off about it. Maybe it's the lack of eyelashes.
I'm torn between wanting show accurate hair and the ability to brush my ponies. That's right. I brush my ponies' hair. Especially Dashie. And my Derpy custom I made myself. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair, etc.
Armageddon Expo meetup! Dom, did you go?
So many Brony radio shows!
I love that Dash guitar game. If only I could actually make music...
I remember seeing that Advent calendar when this was first posted and I was considering ordering it online from Europe. I mainly wanted the Rainbow Dash blindbag inside. (this was before you could get blindbags in the US.
I never knew what Flutternet is, and it doesn't seem to exist anymore. Or maybe it does and I don't know how to use it.
Yes, I do think I'm a Brony.
General Mumble is best advertising major. (or whatever)
I always check out Target and I don't think I've ever seen one of those Celestia pillows.
And now we finally have a more complete Ponymon game to play.
Too bad I can't sing.
As soon as I get my own place, the first order of business is making a cutie mark refrigerator. Forget power or water. My fridge needs cutie marks!
My Little Pony is exactly as satanic as Anton LaVey. Oh, wait.
That website is awesome, but it doesn't seem to be updated anymore.
Oh, Japan, your responses to American TV can't be any worse than American responses to Japanese TV.
Organize everything Brony in one book, you say... Well, in one of my fics, Twilight makes a book that contains everything, ever. Therefore, it would already contain that book.
I'm not on Facebook, so I couldn't do any of that.
I really should have followed those guidelines for the above picture of my Derpy.
Always good to see ponies invade webcomics.
I wonder which video selection got more votes.
Subtitle ALL THE PONIES!
That Luna painting looks kind of weird, I think one of the front legs is positioned incorrectly.
Eh, pony buttons, I already have the BEST PONY BUTTON.
Those ornaments are classic. I love that type, painted wood, I think they are. Fantastic.
I've got one more post to make, please don't let Dr Discord cap it before that.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, that's fantastic, Jimmy! Finally some awesome news!
@MyBoyJ You sure about that, bro?
ReplyDelete@MissGoldenDragon
ReplyDeleteWouldn't miss it for the world...
ohhkay time for some reaction times:
ReplyDeleteLyra's being Lyra in her human pose. She seems to be modelling (ie; paint me like one of your french girls)
Hair molds- never gotten into pony models. Perhaps nows the time when ponys are in NZ mcdonalds?
Armagedon Brony meetup-
@Myboyj
no i didnt go to that one as i was just becoming a Brony at that time-plus it was in Auckland..
this year i went and joined the brony meetup as SOMTHING FINALLY HAPPEMED IN MY BORING LITTLE CITY AND ARMAGEDON CAME HERE
*ahem*
Brony talk show? now if i knew some songs i might go and sing for them- if yowling cats are what they need
THERE'S A DASH GUITAR GAME? so. much. WIN!
Lucky swedes with their epic event calender..
Heh. Celestia cloppers just got lucky, you can sleep with Celestia (read: molestia) under yer head!
PONYMON? EPIC!
Parody song singer? id like to do that; if i know the song
Cutie mark fridge! that fridge is epic, i would love to have that fridge! I know the pun has been made, but i bet that frige is about 20% cooler than mine
Satanic? Ponies? Whats next? smurfs possesing-
Crush. Kill. Destroy. Swag.
That big book of Brony seems like a good idea.
New to the herd? Don't know bg characters? Consult the book
Poem compitition? my poetry can be described as this:
roses are red, my poems lack subtlty
Webcomics! Ponies! Put together! = addictive substance x 9001
welp thats me
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@Bombedrumbum
ReplyDeleteWow, Dr. Discord was on the show? That's pretty cool.
I got the first question right, I named one from Iron Will and about 4 from Fluttershy, so I think that counts, and I definitely got the third one right.
How big of a Brony does that make me?
Note: Deep Thought is also in Tetra's group, and he is one of the biggest superbronies out there. He could only answer one.
ReplyDeleteModeled hair poneh guide... Might come back to this if I ever get one of those ponies..
ReplyDeleteis that the originds of THAT brony talk show?
Ponymon's newer version just got out
pony fidge is best fridge
That TV station is purely idiotic!
rest is meh.. Yes I am lazy tonight!
hey i'm FINALLY gunna be around for the end of a post
ReplyDeletewow the EqD pgroup on steam banned arrow to the knee jokes...
ReplyDelete@Dom W
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you will be! It really is a momentous occasion.
I forgot to mention that he wasn't online- WELL FOLKS, COME BACK TOMORROW!!
ReplyDeleteArrow to the knee jokes have actually died down almost as suddenly as they came. It was gradual, then BOOM.
Comment restriction time!!
@myboyj
ReplyDeleteindeed...
i've always been asleep/at school before now
OH FOR THE LOVE OF-
ReplyDeletescrew it. Cya on the other side.. /)
First time I'm actually awake for the end of the post! 8D
ReplyDeleteFirst off, congrats on being selected for the voice acting part MyBoyJ!
Well, honestly, that opening Lyra image looks kind of creepy...
Well, I don't have any ponies to mold manes on anyway.
Halloween party? This roundup was THAT long ago? Wow.
"...with a toll free number..."
Totally read that as a troll free number :P
Rainbow Dash guitar game? Sounds pretty cool.
I may have said it before, but I vaguely remember this post from back when it was posted. I definitely remember that Advent calendar.
Aren't Advent calendars for Christmas? What's with the Halloween Party up there then? Hmm, odd.
Never was a big fan of IRC chatrooms.
Sorry for being "that guy", especially after all this time, but "your" is used for possession, ie, "Where's your hat?", whilst "you're" is the contracted form of "you are". I'm pretty sure the latter was supposed to be used...
General Mumble makes some really good stuff. I'd expect anyone to use social media to get a larger audience.
No comment really.
That Ponymon thing looks really cool. I never really played Pokemon as much as I know other people have played for. (Does that sentence make sense?)
Haha, I can't sing...
I want that fridge. I NEED that fridge! I really like that fridge's mane? Plus, no one would suspect it to be pony related, especially since it has Berry Punch's and Applejack's cutie marks. Fluttershy's may garner some suspicion though...
Probably just trolling and including ponies so they can get more views.
Haha, those reactions! It reminds me of my friends' reactions when I made them bronies. Along the lines of, "WHY DO I LIKE IT SO MUCH?!?!"
I'm pretty sure, with the current rate of pony stuff, that that is going to be a near impossible task, especially since not every pony related thing gets to EqD. But still, it'd be pretty awesome.
I'll just say it again, haha, I can't sing! Or draw... I could do some poems, but I'm pretty sure the contest has ended by now
I still don't have any ponies.
Invade ALL the webcomics! It'd be pretty awesome if someone like xkcd or The Oatmeal posted ponies. Both of them have pretty huge followings.
Frame Rate Pony Productions? Never heard of that either.
The title says "Subtitle Compilation Doc", yet the actual doc is a guide on HOW to create subtitles...
I can't open the merch, so I can't say much about it.
Well, those are my thoughts on the above post. Until next post, fellow bronies!
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I assume you're talking about Dr. Discord? Oh well, we just have to wait for him to show up. I'm pretty sure he's online on Steam most of the time, so I guess you could leave a message for when he logs on. If he's offline on Steam, I got nothing
hey the post is almost over!
ReplyDelete@Ben Gibson
ReplyDeleteI have a modeled pony, but when I tried following the instructions for the hair, it didn't work like I thought it would. Plus, Applejack came with only one hair band, and what am I supposed to do with only one hair band?
Alright, let's get this party done. Here're my thoughts about Nightly Roundup #126:
ReplyDelete1. As the others said, this is a nice enough Lyra pic, and her eyes are a little strange... Other than that, I got nuthin'.
2. A guide on how to make custom molded manes from resin? I may be a brony, but I am nowhere near that hardcore.
3. Meetups and stuff. There's a brony group somewhere around this neck of Colorado, I kin smell 'em. One of these days I'll track those guys down, and we can all... shoot, I don't even know what brony meetups do, dang it.
4. Apparently, the brony talk show website Bronytalk.com is down! It sounded pretty interesting, though, I wonder when they'll be back.
5. That Rainbow Dash guitar game looks like too much work to be fun, but that's just lazy old me talking.
6. That ponified advent calender... It always amazes me that a North American–made cartoon's merchandise is often released first in Europe. Go figure.
7. As for the Flutternet chat, I'm with ThunderIce, I'm not really into IRC.
8. So You Think Your (sic) A Brony Episode 8. I never really listen to those, but I just now listened to the one featuring our own Dr. Discord. 'Twas amusing, to say the least.
9. I read the whole article on General Mumble and his "Social Media Advertising." My inner grammar detailer was a little upset, but overall it's a decent read. The interviewer wasn't really interested in ponies, but hearing from a popular artist like Mumble is always amusing.
10. That Celestia pillow reminds me of the question EqD recently asked, which was: if you just discovered your pillow is a changeling, what would you do? Best answer: "*Looks at pillow. Rests head.* Wuv you, Chrysalis!"
11. Ponymon, then merely a demo, now released, to the joy of pokemon-loving bronies everywhere.
12. A parody song? Man, there have been so many collective songs made, it's pretty cool.
13. We like to just simply call this: "The 120% Cooler"
14. Oh, that. Hardly any of the video is about ponies, but the whole situation is 100% lame. Bringing up harmless cartoons in a show like that? Absurd. Someone was trolling, and Seth jumped right on that bandwagon. It was a dumb post, totally incendiery.
ReplyDelete15. That site says there's a new episode this week... NOPE.avi
16. Actually, this was a lot of fun to read. I liked how most of them acknowledged the cute that is Fluttershy. Yay Japan!
17. The Big Book of Brony. I hear that fell on hard times, lots of criticism for poor communication skills and such.
18. Song/Poem contest on Facebook. Oh, how we all love to be motivated by pony swag. Good times.
19. How to photograph pony figurines. How useful! See, you got your artistic bronies, practical bronies, literary bronies, movie bronies, organizing bronies, cooking bronies, science bronies...........
20. Ponies=win. That webcomic=meh.
21. Frame Rate Pony Productions. Looks like they haven't actually made too many videos over the past few months, what a pity.
22. Subtitle Compilation Doc. For the hearing impaired who need poneh! Looks like quite a few have been done already.
23. Merch/Ebay Stuff. Nice Luna painting, SO MANY BUTTONS, and some very expensive ornaments. Did I miss anything?
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Okay, now for the reason I took so long to get to my closing comments. I had a sudden inspiration that I should upload a new video to a brand new channel on YouTube. Want some happy tunes?
That's going to be my second theme song right behing the one Dom gave me.
So then, another comment section is maxed! I don't know about you guys, but I'm a little relieved to not have to look at that "Smurf everything? Even Smurf me?" comment any more. Victory is ours.
i'll wrap this up when i get back from work
ReplyDeleteDo you need the names list and etc., or do you got it?
ReplyDeleteI'll agree, that Lyra picture is a bit strange. And i'm a huge Lyra fan!!
ReplyDeleteI had tried the Rainbow Dash guitar game on my computer. It was harder than figuring out my fl studio that was right next to it :P
So you think you're a brony? Well, like Discord here agreed with me on a couple months back, we both like the fandom a bit bette than the show. Doesn't mean that we don't like the show, it just means that we aren't the superfans who know everything about every scene.
Ponymon. I'll admit, I only grew up with one Pokémon game, and it was for the n64. But I LOVED the show as a kid (still kinda do). I even have the movies like Mew vs Mewtwo on VCR.....
BY FIRE BE PURGED- ha-ha, I love that line....
Good Morning!
ReplyDeleteLooks like I'm gonna be around for the cap this time. Guess my comment should be last so Discord can do his thing. :) Make sure we all know where we are going to next, and I'll see you all there.
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ReplyDeleteyeh... not going to spend the time to fill post to end also name list would be nice
ReplyDelete@Trotsky
ReplyDelete#bronyproblems
but the voice that I read that in made me laugh
@MD what part of colorado are you in??
... move to next post.... still not done here
ReplyDelete@Dr.Dͪ͊ͦḮ̘ͯS̔̐̓C̹̔Ã’͓͙̫R̀͠͞D͙̫
ReplyDeleteBombedrumbum did a roll call and we came up with this list.
Bombedrumbum, Jelfes, Dr. Discord, RavensDagger, Dubilo, Pinkie Pie, ZeroHero, MillennialDan, MissGoldenDragon, Dom W, The Great and Beautiful Zelos (Cloudy Haste), CityFlyer502, Travis Smith, Ben Gibson, ClosetBrony, Shining Bind (who only seems to have dropped by once), MyBoyJ, ThunderIce, amddude and Trotsky The Master Lurker.
@Dr.Dͪ͊ͦḮ̘ͯS̔̐̓C̹̔Ã’͓͙̫R̀͠͞D͙̫
ReplyDeleteFixed a few spellings...
Trotsky, amddude, Millennial Dan, Jelfes, RavensDagger, Dr. Discord, Bombedrumbum, ZeroHero, Dublio, MissGoldenDragon, Dom W (duskwisp), The Great and Beautiful Zelos (Cloudy Haste), CityFlyer502, Travis Smith the Last Shadowbolt, Ben Gibson, ClosetBrony, Shining Bind, Pinkie Pie, and MyBoyJ.
@Millennial Dan
ReplyDeleteFunny thing is, yesterday you pointed out my name was missing on MyBoyJ's list...
Ok, I know I didn't comment on the above post like I think I was supposed to, but I will at least say this:
ReplyDeleteThat Lyra's eyes freak me out..
Because of that molded hair guide, I now kinda know what Rarity would look like with yellowish hair. X)
That's all.
Now, to some fun stuff. X)
Long story short, I came across the MLP Name Generator, and went a little crazy with the names. So here are some names for you all to enjoy. ^_^
How this worked was, the more names I had to work with (duskwisp/Dom and Zelos/Cloudy, for example) the more name combinations I could do. For some of you, I could get only one.
Millennial Dan: Nickel Aura, Nickel Tempest, Magnificence Trinket, Nimble Trot, Brilliant Dare, Brilliant Dash.
Bombedrumbum: Brother Beard, Emperor Bauble, Prince Mustang, Rainbow Dash (Yes, I said Rainbow Dash)
Dom: Stormy Twister
Dr. Discord: Moonstone Diadem, Doctor Scorch, Southern Vigor
ClosetBrony: Cultured Crown, Sunset Harmony, Chocolate Brownie
MyBoyJimmy: Amethyst Bijou, Milky Bloom, Stormy Boil, Merry Bolt, Amethyst Brilliant, Flame Vision, Nimble Flight
Dublio: Brilliant Lionheart
Jelfes: Steel Tempest, Flame Tempest, Flare Flourish
Ben Gibson: Brother Vision
ZeroHero: Emperor Feather, Zephyr Haste, Silver Feather, Silver Hero, Silver Haste
Cloudy Haste: Lord Treasure, Blueberry Blast, Garnet Band, Gallant Beard
Trotsky: Royal Coronet, Brother Risk
amddude: Duke Smoulder
RavensDagger: Regal Pendant, Darkly Beard, Eastern Dart
ThunderIce: Northern Force
Travis Smith the Last Shadowbolt: Sterling Seethe, Majestic Solitaire, Master Bolt
Shining Bind: Lightning Beard
CityFlyer502: Lightly Smoulder
So, my brony friends, if none of the ones I found please you, you can make combinations of your names to get different results. :)
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