My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

[Skykid]

Is this really acceptable entertainment for grown adult males?

[Drum]

Watch Adventure Time instead, shit is awesome.

[rancor]

If it doesn't hurt anyone and doesn't become an annoying personality trait, I don't see why not..?

I remember the question 20 years ago was "is it acceptable for normal adults to play video games?"

[neorichieb1971]

Hey, I'm only asking what the appeal was to watch it in the first place.

[AliceMargatroid]

Hey, I'm only asking what the appeal was to watch it in the first place.

What's the appeal of playing video games then?

[Skykid]

If it doesn't hurt anyone and doesn't become an annoying personality trait, I don't see why not..?

I remember the question 20 years ago was "is it acceptable for normal adults to play video games?"

That's a scary retroactive comparison! By the fact that it's now perfectly acceptable for adults to play video games, that means in 20 years it's going to be perfectly acceptable for grown men to live in princesses castles?

I'm never having kids.

[AliceMargatroid]

If it doesn't hurt anyone and doesn't become an annoying personality trait, I don't see why not..?

I remember the question 20 years ago was "is it acceptable for normal adults to play video games?"

That's a scary retroactive comparison! By the fact that it's now perfectly acceptable for adults to play video games, that means in 20 years it's going to be perfectly acceptable for grown men to live in princesses castles?

I'm never having kids.

Nobody who watches MLP want's to live in a princesses castle.
Just like you don't want to be PALM.

[CMoon]

that means in 20 years it's going to be perfectly acceptable for grown men to live in princesses castles?

Dude, grown men have always wanted to live in princess castles, it's just not socially acceptable to talk about it.

[Drum]

Just saw the first ep. It's just a cartoon for little girls. With all the internet going retarded for it I at least expected some kind of annoying meta-humour or something. This is nothing, but it looks fun for its target demo - which is not me. Will not watch again.

[Vyxx]

My 2 year old daughter watches the show.

You guys watch Barney too??

[Elixir]

This is the first time in 12 years of Internet that I've actually been annoyed at someone for liking something.

The Touhou fanbase is in similar vein as well, but it's not self-degrading or creepy or weird. Vocaloid fanbase as well, but they're the most condensed Japanophiles in the world and can easily be disregarded. It's not something that I can say "this audience isn't meant to exist" to, which does apply to MLP. I realize that half, if not more of the Touhou fanbase, consists entirely of people who don't play the games, enjoy buying Yukkuris and Touhou figures (made by the incredibly awful Griffon company 90% of the time, but that's another story) and talking about how cool Reimu's armpits are. It's shitty but it's just as idiotic as collecting Cave PCBs and barely playing them, or sealed game collecting, or collecting Youtube subscribers. It isn't actually being a fan of the material, but rather, being a fan of acquisition which also happens to be an active sport everywhere, see the shmup collection thread for more.

I love buying * that I'll never use or play or enjoy!

It isn't so much the "oh well, it's their choice" path that I could take, but rather, how people are so easily sucked in by this kind of material. It's bandwagoning in full form, usually by word of mouth. I don't think the adult male fanbase would exist without other adults encouraging them to watch the shows (see evidence in this very thread). In similar vein I could take ye olde American tradition with "If I can't see it, it's not there" but that isn't going to solve anything. Ignoring the problem doesn't make it go away.

I wasn't actually sure of the adult male fanbase until I stumbled across this thing, which explains it all. This is the fanbase that enjoys drawing such material as:

http://e621.net/data/sample/fb/eb/fbeb3 ... 808e68.jpg

and

http://e621.net/data/b3/df/b3dff7c9126f ... 992205.png

Oh but the adult male fanbase is watching the show in a dignified and respectful way. Of course.

It's creepy and weird and on the same self-degrading levels of furries. I don't mind, until it starts weeping into everywhere I browse, forcing me to adblock people's avatars. It isn't like it's something that I could simply ignore, it is fucking everywhere. I don't mind forum in-jokes like Ketsuihats or Everyone Has A New Zealand Story Avatar but they're usually forum-specific and people of said forum can relate as such.

There's also the whole issue of the characters being stereotypes, which I brought up in the previous thread. It's really obvious. I'm not going to dig into a cartoon character's personal traits like some people have.

In short, the chances are if you've seen an episode of MLP, it isn't through your kids. If you like it, that's fine, but either keep it to yourself or join one of the many pony forums available. Don't cart it into other forums and expect a positive response.

[Sly Cherry Chunks]

pinkie pies the best one

[Obiwanshinobi]

When grown up males who play games about little girls with bosoms of grown up females pick on fellow forumites who watch cartoons about ponies with horns, that's shmupforum for ya.

[Skykid]

When grown up males who play games about little girls with bosoms of grown up females pick on fellow forumites who watch cartoons about ponies with horns, that's shmupforum for ya.

Yeah but TITS > PONIES

[PC Engine Fan X!]

The new MLP is currently in syndication on the HUB network. Quite different with the CG aestethics compared to the hand-drawn animated episodes that hail from back in the early 1980s. I used watch She-Ra sometimes (considering that it was done by the same folks whom did the He-Man series, the "old-school" Funimation production company). It was a different era to watch Saturday morning cartoons in the U.S. back in the early-to-mid 1980s. Even the production company, DIC, made some interesting cartoon series including "The Littles" during that time.

You might recall when NBC showed only just one season of "The Mighty Orbots", yet it did not have any proper related toy merchandising to back it up financially -- it was purely an OVA (Original Video Animantion) series geared for the U.S. Saturday morning cartoon audience -- still hasn't been properly released on DVD nor Blu-Ray formats.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Obiwanshinobi]

But, those of us who aren't pastel-pony-and-pedo-anime worshipping weirdos don't specifically play games BECAUSE of little girls with bosoms.

Well, I suppose some of the MLP adult fans are into it because of the involved storytelling dealing with grand themes, compelling character development and all that. I can see why for people raised on Warner's Anvil Chorus this here show with ponies can be refreshingly substantial, serious shit.

[Minzoku]

[AliceMargatroid]

But, those of us who aren't pastel-pony-and-pedo-anime worshipping weirdos don't specifically play games BECAUSE of little girls with bosoms.

Well, I suppose some of the MLP adult fans are into it because of the involved storytelling dealing with grand themes, compelling character development and all that. I can see why for people raised on Warner's Anvil Chorus this here show with ponies can be refreshingly substantial, serious shit.

Too bad that some equals something about 5%.

And I like it because the kids finally get shows with some meaning behind them.

Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEqXkBx4e3o That is just hilarious

[Drum]

I don't like either ponies or pedo-fodder, but liking one and making fun of the other is not hypocritical in a meaningful sense - as if liking both would somehow be more acceptable. Nay, it is not acceptable, and it is absolutely worse - not better - to like both.

[Obiwanshinobi]

How come liking ponies makes anything worse?

[Drum]

I watched an episode and it was mostly unremarkable children's entertainment. It's not really offensive - but fetishising it is.

[Skykid]

I don't like either ponies or pedo-fodder, but liking one and making fun of the other is not hypocritical in a meaningful sense - as if liking both would somehow be more acceptable. Nay, it is not acceptable, and it is absolutely worse - not better - to like both.

Well said sir Drum.

Warner's Anvil Chorus

Tokyo Movie Shinsha isn't it?

Ah, when cartoons really meant something.

[ncp]

the people who like it are just attention whoring pseudohipsters from 4chan ("look at me i ironically love this random unknown children's show lol im not afraid to admit it!!!!")

but really though, who gives a damn

[Smraedis]

It's just a cleverly made, successful kids cartoon, which internet kids have just latched onto.
It isn't my sort of thing, but it can be a bit boring seeing people go crazy over it, but then people usually go crazy over the stupidest things.

[Elixir]

[Specineff]

Intolerance and prejudice FTW. Too bad the thread is now not going to produce anything positive, informative or at least trivial.

[Ex-Cyber]

By the fact that it's now perfectly acceptable for adults to play video games, that means in 20 years it's going to be perfectly acceptable for grown men to live in princesses castles?

I'm pretty sure that's already socially acceptable, provided that the man in question went to the trouble of marrying the princess. Her furniture probably wouldn't fit in his place anyway.

[Obiwanshinobi]

I heard on the radio (it was a broadcast run by male and female homosexuals) that most homophobic bunch are homo dudes themselves (various homo subcultures against each other, since not everybody can afford to be gay, not everybody feels like wearing Tom of Finland style outfits and so on). Things going on these boards remind me of that broadcast every now and then.
By the way, there was a time when riding a bicycle outside of a circus arena was considered indecent at best and a symptom of mankind's degeneracy at worst. Piloting an airplane up until the year 1910 or so wasn't becoming of a gentleman either (it was a domain of all sorts of misfits, a suicidal fad rather than something any sane human being would do for the living).

[Specineff]

It's understood some don't like it. It's been made clear time and again. It's okay to express your dislike of something.

There is no need to hammer the point any further and crap on the thread, making assumptions and judging others (over the freaking internet, countries away, for crying out loud). There are plenty of other threads on the forum for your perusal. (in which you won't see anybody expressing their dislike of androgynous characters/little girls with big boobies, cross-dressing witch-boys [Deathsmiles] over and over, or making assumptions about other forum members based on their playing of such game.) You're free to click on them and ignore this one. Dig?

(That dude's got some sick moves, Never_Scurred. I wish I could dance like that. )

[Drum]

I am definitely gay though.