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(?) · by **Teru** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 4:05 am

Artificer wrote:Awww yeah, fresh blo- new members! Welcome!

Fresh blog? :v:

I forgot to do something!

*hugs new people* Just because Aramek isn't here doesn't mean we can spread the love he'd share! :crack:

(?) · by **Crow** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 4:59 am

Despite my avatar, I'm thrilled to see new people! :crack:

(?) · by **Teru** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 5:12 am

Well, April One Sentencing is over :fluttersmith:

I giggled when I saw that it was locked, and when I refreshed the page, no more posts, so I was thinking about just how bummed out some people might've been to not be able to post a mega-troll post :gotcha:

(?) · by **Stuff** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 5:17 am

PonyAught wrote:Hey everyone! I've been lurking for a while, and finally decided to make an account, so I may as well introduce myself.

You have the best avatar here. :awesomedash:

ARGH Reporting wrote:Greetings, lads and lasses!

Hey, I see that daily oat thing from time to time on Ponychan.

I'm sure your rose smells better since, after all, it is Nutella. :vogue:

(?) · by **DasNasty** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 5:39 am

Teru wrote:Well, April One Sentencing is over

I giggled when I saw that it was locked, and when I refreshed the page, no more posts, so I was thinking about just how bummed out some people might've been to not be able to post a mega-troll post

Is this thread like your personal blog or something? It's full of your heartfelt quotes about the forums and your reactions to everything.

ARGH Reporting wrote:Greetings, lads and lasses!

I am ARGH Reporting of the wondrous and always relevant My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic newsletter, The Daily Oat! You all seem like a nice bunch, so extending myself outside of Ponychan and Ponibooru to make my acquaintance with you, Ponygoons. It's been a LONG time since I've been a part of a forum, but I think I still have this thing down.

Feel free to reach me if you'd like to discuss anything, whether my site, http://thedailyoat.com/ , or just the occasional jib. I'll check in here as much as possible (the forum, I mean) to get my feet wet in your community, so I hope to meet a few friendly faces from the lot of you. I'm not too shy, but I'll speak softly in my mannerisms.

Anyways, nice to be a part of your whimsical little forum, and I hope we can all get along, whether it be user or community. We're a rose by a different name, I believe, except mine smells like Nutella

See you soon!

-ARGH Reporting

Oh yeah, your news thing on the board I almost never went on was where I first saw APPLE.MOV, so I guess I owe you one. Actually, your news thing was the only good thing about /oat/. :pinkieshrug:

(?) · by **Lazy** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 5:48 am

Right at the end of season 2... you people got here right at the best worst time, when we slowly spiral into madness wait for new poni.

(?) · by **Pinkemon** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 9:36 am

ARGH Reporting wrote:Greetings, lads and lasses!

*Stuff*

-ARGH Reporting

And then a part of Ponychan comes back to haunt me. :v:

Hehe. Seriously, though, its pretty interesting. I remember your threads from back when I was still active there. Never thought I'd see you here.

Have fun here!

(?) · by **Ashenai** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 10:40 am

PonyAught wrote:Hey everyone! I've been lurking for a while, and finally decided to make an account, so I may as well introduce myself.

So yeah, what should I say, err; my story is pretty boring, I started watching this show last year, I started seeing pony avatars on a bunch of forums I frequent.
I brushed it off for a while... and one boring evening I caved and decided to see what all of the fuss was about, so I fired up the first episode, brushed it off as a decent enough show, and that was that.

Well, about a week later I finally decided to give it another go, something about it just clicked, and in the span of a few nights, I had watched nearly every episode. Everything after that is history.

Sounds like my story, word for word. Welcome

(?) · by **ROBOT B9** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 12:53 pm

Funny, that's exactly how I discovered the show too... (I started by watching Episode 3 because I usually skip the first episode of television shows until I've seen other episodes.)

(?) · by **Mad Surge** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 1:33 pm

Lazy wrote:Right at the end of season 2... you people got here right at the best worst time, when we slowly spiral into madness wait for new poni.

Oh don't worry, I'm already pretty off the deep end on my own. :v:

Did I mention that Youtube Poops played a big part on my conversion too? Specifically, "The Grand Galloping Collab". After seeing how many locales and situation the ponies found themselves into, there was no doubt this was no ordinary girls' cartoon. And I'm a fan of stupid YTP jokes too :crack:

(?) · by **Crow** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 5:37 pm

Mad Surge, What game is your avatar from? It looks like a Final Fantasy, but I can't put my finger on it.

PS new folks, remember to check out our news site The Round Stable (driven by community members) and image board (Bronibooru) (both links up top!) and stop by the IRC!

And remember, if anyone asks you who the best pony is, the answer is:

(Bronibooru)

(?) · by **Mad Surge** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 6:32 pm

Crow wrote:Mad Surge, What game is your avatar from? It looks like a Final Fantasy, but I can't put my finger on it.

Actually, it's a Tempura Wizard from Kid Icarus Uprising in RPG style. According to the URL it comes from Something Awful.
I'm actually a Pinkie Pie/Fluttershy-ist, but hey, Rarity's hammy moments are great too. :gonkity:

(?) · by **numsOic** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 8:48 pm

Crow wrote:
(Bronibooru)

I never noticed... is she crossing her back legs there?

(?) · by **Koan** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 9:10 pm

My name is Michael or Koan. Looking forward to wasting time on this forum. Rainbow Dash is best pony. :cool:

(?) · by **Ashenai** (?) » Tue May 01, 2012 11:48 pm

Koan wrote:My name is Michael or Koan. Looking forward to wasting time on this forum. Rainbow Dash is best pony.

Grayscale Pinkie Pie is just... wrong :psygum:

(?) · by **BartonFink** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 12:52 am

Discord spotted.

(?) · by **ROBOT B9** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 10:28 am

Koan wrote:My name is Michael or Koan. Looking forward to wasting time on this forum. Rainbow Dash is best pony.

Your custom title is amazing. :yay:

"Does anyone have a copy of the Love Duck CD?"
"...IT'S FOR MY BABY SISTER! :sweetielarm:

"

(?) · by **Willsun** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 11:00 am

Oh my goodness, I'm simultaneously thrilled that there's still newcomers and pitying all those just joining in the festivities when we're about to go through no episodes in the summer. They go hand in hand though, because we need new people to post with!

We also just recently popped open the new subforum "Foreign Lands" for all the other cool shows we like to watch while we wade through the poniless summer. Please do join us there too! It's our little alternative to geeking out about each new episode airing and having reaction posts.

(?) · by **Crow** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 4:13 pm

numsOic wrote:I never noticed... is she crossing her back legs there?

Yeah I believe she is. Maru is a ridiculously good artist.

(?) · by **Aramek** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 4:37 pm

Crow wrote:Yeah I believe she is. Maru is a ridiculously good artist.

(?) · by **blasmeister** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 5:11 pm

That is exactly where my mind went too, Aramek.

(?) · by **Artificer** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 5:27 pm

I uh...don't get the cat .gif. :v:

(?) · by **Pinkemon** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 5:33 pm

^My guess is that the cat is named Maru too. :pinkieshrug:

(?) · by **Mad Surge** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 5:39 pm

Pinkemon wrote:^My guess is that the cat is named Maru too.

And you would be right. It's a cat that loves boxes and gets stuck in a million of them in youtube videos.
Still... that Rarity :vogue:

(?) · by **Kalkkis** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 5:44 pm

Artificer wrote:I uh...don't get the cat .gif.

http://www.youtube.com/user/mugumogu?feature=watch

(?) · by **drunkill** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 5:58 pm

Watch all the Maru clips on youtube, your life will feel more complete. :allears:

(?) · by **numsOic** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 7:41 pm

Willsun wrote:Oh my goodness, I'm simultaneously thrilled that there's still newcomers and pitying all those just joining in the festivities when we're about to go through no episodes in the summer. They go hand in hand though, because we need new people to post with!

I joined two weeks after Best Night Ever aired. Joining forums shortly after seasons end makes sense, since it's when you're most starving of content. :pinkieshrug:

(?) · by **Throbulator** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 7:43 pm

Hey yeah, I joined because pensivepony stopped upping new pony on youtube. Had to prolong the buzz somehow.

(?) · by **Mordja** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 7:48 pm

Throbulator wrote:Hey yeah, I joined because pensivepony stopped upping new pony on youtube. Had to prolong the buzz somehow.

Have you considered meth? It's way more socially acceptable. :smirk:

(?) · by **Crow** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 8:11 pm

numsOic wrote:I joined two weeks after Best Night Ever aired. Joining forums shortly after seasons end makes sense, since it's when you're most starving of content.

I joined after I lurked the hell out of this forum and decided you guys weren't the creepy side of the fandom I wanted to avoid.

That and Aramek and Scuderia cracked me up.

(?) · by **Throbulator** (?) » Wed May 02, 2012 8:13 pm

Mordja wrote:Have you considered meth? It's way more socially acceptable.

Why settle for methmouth when you can have diabetus instead? :crack:

(?) · by **Teru** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 1:15 am

Crow wrote:
I joined after I lurked the hell out of this forum and decided you guys weren't the creepy side of the fandom I wanted to avoid.

That and Aramek and Scuderia cracked me up.

I joined right around the week the episode where CMC is trying to help Ms. Cherlyle (I don't know how to spell her name) find that "special somepony"...
I think... :v:

Props for Aramek and Scuderia for doing a supberb job at making this forum, the funniest on this side of the internet, speaking of Aramek, I loved that "This Day Aria" recording you made, made me laugh and smile at the same time :awesomedash:

(?) · by **T-6000** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 7:04 am

Well, I guess I'd better introduce myself. I'm a typical casual fan of the show (I like the show overall, but I don't collect figures & merchandise), but I'm also a devout PC gamer of +16 years. But don't worry, I'm not like those snobbish PC Gamers that like to put down poor people (hell, I'm from a low income family myself) and Console Gamers (especially with the phrase "Console-Tard". Ugh.). :crack:

I think one of the reasons why I find myself liking the show is because I'm actually an 80s kid. Much of my childhood was spent growing up in the 80s (I'd like to think that the first few years of the 90s was actually an extension of the 80s), and thus I watched shows like Transformers, He-Man, Thundercats, and even My Little Pony. Yup, I watched a few episodes of the original G1 series from time to time. I was into fantasy/sci-fi epics even in my younger years so I watched any show that appealed to me that fit into any of those genres (though Ironically most 80s cartoons were little more than 30 minute toy ads). It's actually great to see many 80s shows coming back, but with a more serious tone and better writing which makes most of them feel like they're much more than toy ads. I'm also finding myself becoming a Transfan once again thanks to the recent game "War for Cybertron" and the "Transformers Prime" TV show.

But another reason why I like the show is because of not only the good writing, but also well done characters. Back when I was a kid, I'd read many stories and watch many shows with female characters that are not only dumb but weak, having to rely on strong and/or smart make characters to save them. In other words, the stereotypical damsels in distress. At first I didn't mind this (in fact I imagined myself as these male heroes, rescuing said damsel), but as I got older I started to get tired to this old cliche. I wanted to see stories with strong and smart female leads, but who weren't male bashing feminists and instead humble and outgoing as well. I've held a recent belief that women are stronger, much stronger, than others may think. It's great to see more modern TV shows and stories that make out women & female characters that are stronger and more self reliant. Sometimes even helping to save male characters from time to time. And in the recent MLP show, I'm glad to see that the "Mane 6" are strong (in body and/or spirit. Yes, even shy little fluttershy)and independent female characters that try to solve troubles on their own and get their way out of danger themselves. Instead of relying on a Knight in shining armor (or in this case, Stallion in shining armor. Getting sick of my horse puns yet? :crack:

) to save them and help solve their troubles.

The thing is that....I'm kind of a 'quiet brony'. Meaning that while I'm a fan of the show, I mostly keep it to myself and rarely ever bring up that I'm a fan of the show. Even if it's brought up. The Video Game community I'm from (well, not all of them but it seels like many) tend to not only look down on male MLP fans but also consider them "Manchilds", "Gay", even "Pedophiles". Hell, a couple months ago Rock Paper Shotgun ran a story on a mod that would replace Dragons with a giant fluttershy model. It was funny and Ironic, but the amount of Brony bashing made me sink down and be extra careful not to reveal that I'm a fan of the show. So for a few weeks I mulled about joining this community to give my opinions on the show as a whole, on certain aspects of the show, and ideas for future episodes (I would really love to see some serious science fiction elements in the future. Maybe even an accidental run-in, by the Mane 6, with hostile aliens like the Ceph from the Crysis series. And I say this at the risk of having Horse Shoes thrown at me.).

Phew, well this certainly was a longer intro than I planned out.

(?) · by **Herr General** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 11:33 am

I think you'll fit in just fine. :gotcha:

Welcome!

(?) · by **PonyAught** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 3:26 pm

T-6000 wrote:but I'm also a devout PC gamer of +16 years. But don't worry, I'm not like those snobbish PC Gamers that like to put down poor people (hell, I'm from a low income family myself) and Console Gamers (especially with the phrase "Console-Tard". Ugh.).

We will get along just fine.
Welcome to the forum! :-D

(?) · by **numsOic** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 5:24 pm

There's an entire subforum dedicated to video games and it still manages to leak into the other subforums. That's how big gaming is here.

Welcome!

Actually, Hayrides and Horseshoes is intended for planning play sessions and whatnot, whereas general gamechat should go in other forums.

(?) · by **Mordja** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 6:22 pm

Welcome RPS buddy! :yay:

I've noticed more and more references to the show in their articles. Makes me wonder if the authors are just trolling or if one of them has caught the MLP bug. :smirk:

(?) · by **MilkTea** (?) » Thu May 03, 2012 10:39 pm

Hey there everyone! I'm a pretty boring person.

I got into ponies about halfway through the first season. I don't remember exactly how I stumbled upon it, I'm pretty sure youtube just recommended it to me at some point, and I really ended up enjoying it. Twilight's my favorite.

I think Ponies are some sort of virus as many of my friends who said they hated the whole fad got into it not long after I did, but they're kinda creepy about it, so I came here to escape the creepy and just have nice talk about ponies. :pinkietoot:

(?) · by **diribigal** (?) » Fri May 04, 2012 5:27 am

Welcome, MilkTea. I love milk tea. :vogue:

(?) · by **Pink Himalayan Salt** (?) » Fri May 04, 2012 6:42 am

Milk is pretty okay, I like drinking it while eating something. Not a fan of tea.

Hope you enjoyed some random guy on the internet telling you how he feels about two drinkable liquids.

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