>>3485
Nice job with the new general. May Tournevis come and see irory one day.

dead squad rules!

Alright, now I will give a minor status report. Email problems haven't been resolved but I have finally made my attempt to contact the Nextchan admin basically gave up on my old secondary email provider . There is also a secondary project coming this week that will be a prep test for a couple of other things in the future

Now that's outta the way, lets have take a bow to seaponies and there still somewhat unappreciated beauty!

>>3492
>Nice job with the new general.
yeah. I had to reorganize the descriptions a little bit even though the main scheme was already made in the previous thread.

>May Tournevis come and see irory one day.
I hope he gets to see this too. Just that one doesn´t know where he is these days nor he would care for a shitpost he made in a matter of seconds. I think we give him more credit than what he actually did at the time.

>dead squad rules!
we blew the last thread completely in the last posts: you with the ponies dancing, the BO fixing the screaming with multicolored letters and me for setting up the chaos.

That song I quoted and linked was the most danceable tune I have posted over here and also one that kind of fit to ponies (when it comes to parties). Giving a happy contrast (even if one resorts to the autism method) feels refreshing in a sea of pessimistic/down to earth bibles. The most ironic thing is that the lyrics were written with this line: "everybody is swinging their hips" and for pic related, it would have worked but I had to change it for "shaking their heads" instead in order to fit them more into the party.

But yeah, /endpone/ has delivered and it shows that it´s capable to reach the bumplock in a short period of time (relatively speaking in the altchans league).

I don´t know if it rules but the dead squad did it again. It shows that even those who are theoretically dead in the eyes of everyone, out there in a small corner where no one goes nor bothers to visit that place.....they are dancing.

>>3492
>Email problems haven't been resolved
well, I thought that recovering the email would have been as easy as getting the password back.
Unfortunately what you are describing doesn´t sound as instantaneous as it might seem and that s*yay*ks.

>I have finally made my attempt to contact the Nextchan admin
anything interesting?

>basically gave up on my old secondary email provider
well, that´s where the alternatives begin to play. Not always the first plans are going to work.

>There is also a secondary project coming this week that will be a prep test for a couple of other things in the future
nice. it seems that you have more ideas to show than me at this point and I welcome that.

>>3492
>lets have take a bow to seaponies and there still somewhat unappreciated beauty!
well, I basically asked in the last thread what you would have liked to see in the OP. You said that either Dolores, Cadence or seaponies would make the cut and spotlight what the /end/ likes posting around.

Are they unappreciated? They are indeed beautiful but I mostly try to hide my praise about them most of the time and attempt to talk about them critically because a blind vision doesn´t encourage any outsider for what you like. Not saying that I am fanboy (dangerously close to that though) but as soon as their designs were shown back in 2017, my eyes seemed to have seen the glory. It´s like it´s almost impossible to go wrong. Whoever designed them, I have to give them my biggest congratulations for the effort.

They are more appreciated these days and for sure, you can fill a quarter or even half of a thread with just great pictures of them. Back when I tried to post them in 2017, you had to be really original with the little content around them and because of them....I started to spontaneously write and the most important event, shitposting them over here because I didn´t have the chance on /mlp/ to do whatever I wanted at the time.

And funnily enough, all of this happened....

there is a certain irony (as you say) about the line in the OP yet self aware and dark at the same time.

It admits that /endpone/ cannot handle Equestria, That doesn´t seem to make sense at first but when you see the /go/ thread and apply it to the fandom, it gets a different meaning that appears inside the subtlety.

The names are indeed similar and the shitposting style comes directly from /mlp/ yet it doesn´t feel like you are there (like a copypasted board). Others are trying to fit a certain niche that isn´t offered in the main sites but this place doesn´t know exactly where it wants to land. It simply goes and goes without looking further than the usual day after day mindset.

Also, Seaquestria. You know that water to most people eyes doesn´t land in the most desirable place and one doesn´t even bother to check nor feels encouraged to that at first. Water is either too serene or too scary (and I commented about that last year). However, that´s the secondary meaning behind this.

The main intention with this line is that I realize and announce that /endpone/ gets hidden and stuck in a hellhole. When someone says that it´s going downhill, it doesn´t imply anything good. The deeper you go, the least satisfactory it becomes and more of a distorted hell appears. Everyone wants to end in heaven but no one wants to find relief while looking at themselves with a sight focused to the underworld, under their bodies. It puts this board in the place where it belongs.

Basically, what I am saying is that it will never get relevant, /endpone/ has been autodefined as a squad that it´s about to repeat the same mistakes other fans did in the past, so many fans trying to become relevant yet they fail miserably after all. This place in the /end/ is something irrelevant to the public whose creators have left on its own luck. A little corner and not an entire world as one would like to imagine.

/endpone/ won´t rise save in its own site but that´s like turning on a lightning in the middle of a gloomy forest.

The advantages of it however, is that acts like the party that happened yesterday or thoughts that you wouldn´t usually show over those mainstream places. Not many will judge them, you feel a weird sense of liberty for doing them.

No one will care and I suppose that finding some comfort according to your own circumstances is the actual key to move forward and feeling satisfied with what one does to himself.

Boy oh boy, now I not only get to make a backlog from one thread, but TWO!
Heh heh.

>>3493
>I think we give him more credit than what he actually did at the time.
Nah, we were just joking around. The point is that this simple shitpost from somebody who is MIA ironically became the thread that is the fulcrum general for this board inherently going against it's nature for such a post.

>we blew the last thread completely in the last posts: you with the ponies dancing, the BO fixing the screaming with multicolored letters and me for setting up the chaos.
I know... I can't wait to see what I'll blow this one with.

>That song I quoted and linked was the most danceable tune I have posted over here and also one that kind of fit to ponies (when it comes to parties). Giving a happy contrast (even if one resorts to the autism method) feels refreshing in a sea of pessimistic/down to earth bibles.
Indeed... speaking of pessimistic

>>3496
>
The names are indeed similar and the shitposting style comes directly from /mlp/ yet it doesn´t feel like you are there (like a copypasted board). Others are trying to fit a certain niche that isn´t offered in the main sites but this place doesn´t know exactly where it wants to land. It simply goes and goes without looking further than the usual day after day mindset.
It's a rainbow in the dark. It's fluid and if one lets themselves think about it, perhaps almost a little scary. At least if you fear aberrations and want to shy away from something that sends mixed signals and feels like both and neither. Being defined is comforting...

> Everyone wants to end in heaven but no one wants to find relief while looking at themselves with a sight focused to the underworld, under their bodies. It puts this board in the place where it belongs.
This board is in the unknown. Not hell, not heaven just floating in a void. And...

>Basically, what I am saying is that it will never get relevant, /endpone/ has been autodefined as a squad that it´s about to repeat the same mistakes other fans did in the past, so many fans trying to become relevant yet they fail miserably after all.
Who said becoming relevant was every boards endgame? It was never it's purpose to. I don't believe we are about to repeat those places mistakes and tbh, some of them the jury is still out because it is our path to choose, and one that still lacks definition and has still gone far past it's initial goals.

>The advantages of it however, is that acts like the party that happened yesterday or thoughts that you wonldn´t usually show over those mainstream places. Not many will judge them, you feel a weird sense of liberty for doing them.
Indeed, it feels like a laboratory of experimentation. Free from the harsh judgment of /mlp/ and allows you t refine things. Indeed, I would not post even my wonky proto-fic there. But I do have plans to post another.

>>3494
>Unfortunately what you are describing doesn´t sound as instantaneous as it might seem and that s*yay*ks.
Yeah. Everything acording to the admin was nuked by a hacker... Everyone's acounts...

>anything interesting?
No reply as of yet. Though the admim is sometimes inactive from time to time. I'd figure I'd email first than try ta hop in if I saw him or one of the board volunteers post if I don't get a reply in the next week or two.

>nice. it seems that you have more ideas to show than me at this point and I welcome that.
I do, believe or not. Though this bit is but a simple underwhelming prototype of a couple at least I have an idea of something.

>>3497
You don't have to reply to everything. None of us have been perfect in that. Just reply to stuff that you have a few bits to say, even if you only reply to a post it's better than trying to come up with stuff on a subject you don't care and rather move on from. Heck, you could even reply to nothing if you just wanna move on. No need to fret over it.

>>3495
>Are they unappreciated? They are indeed beautiful but I mostly try to hide my praise about them most of the time and attempt to talk about them critically because a blind vision doesn´t encourage any outsider for what you like.
Yeah, I still sometimes see a shitpost or two but nothing that substantial at this point.

>Not saying that I am fanboy (dangerously close to that though) but as soon as their designs were shown back in 2017, my eyes seemed to have seen the glory. It´s like it´s almost impossible to go wrong. Whoever designed them, I have to give them my biggest congratulations for the effort.
They are appealing. Not simplistic enough to be over marketed like the minions, not over designed like the "harmony power" ponies from the season 4 final, and not drawing too much from IRL seahorses to be kind of bland and or creepy. I can understand how'd you feel that way considering the other paths that could've been taken.

>I started to spontaneously write and the most important event, shitposting them over here because I didn´t have the chance on /mlp/ to do whatever I wanted at the time.
That's the advantage here. Even with...

>And funnily enough, all of this happened....
side effects...

>>3498
>The point is that this simple shitpost from somebody who is MIA ironically became the thread that is the fulcrum general for this board inherently going against it's nature for such a post.
yeah, I suppose that comes from all the experiments that this board does. Normally a shitpost doesn´t contribute at all but when I saw that we reached the bumplock, I knew I had to make a general like MLPG, just that they had an established name and this board didn´t. I simply copied his line and voila, there you have a general with its acronym. Thanks for contributing with your shitpost....

honestly, a shitposter/troll wants attention but I think he would have never expected this and most likely if he came back (which I highly doubt it because as Spy Kids 2 would say: God stays in heaven because he too lives in fear of what he´s created), he would think twice before opening a thread like that.

From a shitposter to the antinatural productive post to remember...

That´s how the /end/ works. Pretty funny, I don´t think if I have seen this on 4chan save a Hi Anon thread that turned into an unironic Cadence thread.

>I can't wait to see what I'll blow this one with.
well, I see that you have liked it. I simply threw that song because of inertia and I said to myself: "To the hell we go, this thread is lasting more than it should. Autistic or not, I feel like doing this right now". And that was it, I was in a happy mood and saw the chance to bomb it with full caps for it. The best for last, that trend should happen more often and reward the users for keeping the interest until the very end I hope the show does the same

As for the next one, I...I have to think about something for that in the meantime.

>>3499
>it's a rainbow in the dark. It's fluid and if one lets themselves think about it, perhaps almost a little scary.
not going to lie, you have to reread the first posts from the first thread. The posts show signs of awkwardness and that´s because no one at that time thought that this was going to happen. I had fear but as time went further, things were getting developed.

>At least if you fear aberrations and want to shy away from something that sends mixed signals and feels like both and neither.
that´s a double edge weapon. Serves as memory tool that you use at your will. I would have liked to rethink the first posts of the personal project but even those aberrations can lead to something else....so, nothing is discarded. Hell this thread has in its title a line from a shitposter that mindlessly opened a thread with a random image reaction.

>Being defined is comforting...
ironically enough, I think /endpone/ has some definition attached to it but for a certain period in it, not a permanent one.

>Who said becoming relevant was every boards endgame? It was never it's purpose to.
and that´s why I admit that handling this site as a great pillar to carry on the fanbase would be not only delusional but also it would lead to drastic changes. Even if I look like I am complaining, I am basically admitting that I have to look for the mundane posts and directions for it and leave fake expectations aside, simply focusing on what one faces as usual. Sometimes, I have to confess that I kind of shitpost as if I were thinking loudly and not messaging necessarily to someone else. Part of me wants that success because my young spirit wants to eat the world because in the future, I won´t be able to do it.

However, I have made these posts just to take that idea away and instead of aiming so high, I aim to the places that I like or feel like doing spontaneously (in short, being myself) and so, what´s better than a place that resembles a little corner?

Even if I managed to get that high, what would happen next? What do I gain? One thinks that one will reach the heavens but there´s only space in which you are floating around instead too much of a Spiritualized fan for not referencing them.Not to mention that one can die of success,so I suppose that the successful philosophy doesn´t always work.

>I don't believe we are about to repeat those places mistakes and tbh, some of them the jury is still out
indeed,some of those are alive and with relatively recent peaks in activity

>because it is our path to choose, and one that still lacks definition and has still gone far past it's initial goals.
wise words. As I said, I have ambitions and as young individual, I feel that the energy and my nonconformist spirit will get consumed after a while.

But those are pretty wise words that defy destiny, I cannot deny that.

>it feels like a laboratory of experimentation. Free from the harsh judgment of /mlp/ and allows you t refine things.
if we repeated and copy-pasted all the aspects from /mlp/, this board would become another one of the bunch in a million (there are not that many pony boards but I wanted to bring more intensity to the term average). If this board felt like that, would you have any reason to visit this if you already have it with more IPs and activity?

And there are not that many people to be that harsh because you cannot hide that easily, pretty easy to detect the shitposter over here and discover the intentions behind the actions.

>Indeed, I would not post even my wonky proto-fic there. But I do have plans to post another.
you mean, the Revolution fic or one that you have prepared?
But yeah, the only way to learn is by trying and failing....and most importantly, showing ideas that you wouldn´t usually try but could lead to something else. The base is important to appeal someone else but once is established, only the creator or the leader knows how to carry on that creation.

>>3500
checking those sweet digits (already 3500 posts, phew lad, what a ride)


>Everything acording to the admin was nuked by a hacker... Everyone's acounts...
I can access with my account....weird. Anyway, one that knows about technology should know that everything is hacked at this point. Just that certain attacks are pretty annoying to deal with, which sadly seems to be your case.

>No reply as of yet. Though the admim is sometimes inactive from time to time. I'd figure I'd email first than try ta hop in if I saw him or one of the board volunteers post if I don't get a reply in the next week or two.
well,that should work. Don´t worry if you don´t get an answer soon, Nextchan is nothing more than a backup place and the state of that board isn´t going to change that much unless there is some activity around.


>a simple underwhelming prototype of a couple at least I have an idea of something.
well, that could serve. One isn´t born knowing until it keeps trying and focusing on how to improve it. I already know that you can handle the usual narrative structure with ease so eh, it´s already been proven before. Go for it or recheck it if you don´t feel that confident.


>>3501
I am guessing that the BO did this >>3497 and my advice is that one should not feel forced about replying to anything. The replies are mostly content to reply and a tool to keep this active or you can go on your own way without feeling the need to pay attention to them. Hell, you can even bring up a past topic from previous threads to the spotlight again if you feel like doing so.

So many choices out there...
the only posts that I have felt (morally/ethically speaking) were about the review of the Revolution fic. That´s where I felt like I had to reply with a more serious tone or putting a more reflective tone for feedback, reading the fic like 4 times before jumping onto the keyboard. Well that and when things enter into a private zone, a place that I take with lots of respect.

>>3502
>side effects...
side effects that filled my 2018 with lots of entertainment and ideas I wouldn´t have thought to apply. That and a huge confidence gain when it comes to posting on the internet. There´s nothing to fear I guess.

>That's the advantage here
funnily enough, the fic I have posted over there: Novo´s and Midnight Radiance´s fics were pretty well received. The implication about DWK happened without glory nor pity, no replies came about that one.

But yeah, that advantage is one of the biggest reasons why I should aim at what one can afford without those harsh consequences.

>I still sometimes see a shitpost or two but nothing that substantial at this point.
if I told what I did to make them a little bit popular on /mlp/, you would be pretty surprised. Now there are almost 2700 images about them but back then, in 2017....imagine how to run a thread without being a sad bumpfest nor a lonely circlejerk for reaching the bump limit.

Fortunately, the fanabse feels less alien (and I mean, /mlp/ mostly) towards them, so everything should go with a less rough path.

>They are appealing.
indeed.
>and not drawing too much from IRL seahorses to be kind of bland and or creepy. I can understand how'd you feel that way considering the other paths that could've been taken.
you cannot believe how much of a relief they brought when they were shown in the teaser trailer. Or even the Skystar pic with her VA, as soon as I saw her design, I found relief and left my fears aside (considering that they come from gen 1) with that aspect. I honestly don´t know how I would have made them better than what we´ve got (even though those alternative designs are pretty sick as well). I can complain about lots of things but as for these designs, I have not found anything that worries me. They feel really natural and translate pretty well to the FiM settings as far as I am concerned.

>>3503
I've seen you fags mentioned on /sp/ before.

Funny enough this is probably the most organized board I have seen under 10000 post. There are boards far larger than this that have less OC. I still think you're fags but I have to tip my hat to the autism.

>>3507
I didn´t know that /sp/ still cared about endchan, considering that they have left it on its own luck after last spring, much less about a pony board.

And yeah, /pone/ has stayed in the top 10 most of the time. It hasn´t reached the first place yet on this site though, so we get the silver medal instead.

>>3508
>Funny enough this is probably the most organized board I have seen under 10000 post.
the tracker wouldn´t tell you about that. Not everything big delivers the best but thanks for the compliment.

>There are boards far larger than this that have less OC.
Ponies are magic and still have some steam over the chans (where they actually belong and were born in the first place whethere you like it or not).
They hold up over the years because they have to deliver something over here, aren´t they?

>I still think you're fags but I have to tip my hat to the autism.
thanks, the fanbase(not only here) is pretty well organized in general, darling.

if you actually checked the content deeper posted in the OP, the fag tag would change but eh, I am okay with that

>>3503
>honestly, a shitposter/troll wants attention but I think he would have never expected this and most likely if he came back he would think twice before opening a thread like that.
I almost want to say it would be the equivalent of the awkwardness of the primitive natives worshiping trash you through out as a deity. Not quite the metaphor I'm looking for but I think you can get the point.

> I simply copied his line and voila, there you have a general with its acronym. Thanks for contributing with your shitpost....
Honestly not much different than how the fandom can take one superficial trait of a character (Derpy's eyes) and can turn it into something with meaning. Not quite the same thing, but close enough to count for what I'm saying. One may not be able to call it genius but one can call it fun to do.

>>3504
>The posts show signs of awkwardness and that´s because no one at that time thought that this was going to happen.
Oh boy I don't think I've looked back there in months. They do I bet. My original thought was that I'd just reply as long as somebody else did, but as stuff started to arise I started to take things somewhat seriously by the months end.

>nothing is discarded.
That maybe /endpone/'s motto in a way. Dolores from a word filter, our general from a mindless shitpost, etc. It's all things that we took to the next level from the simple jokes that existed. Since the end was so sparse we took what we had.

>and that´s why I admit that handling this site as a great pillar to carry on the fanbase would be not only delusional but also it would lead to drastic changes.
The closest thing I could see the end being established as would be that shadowy place where a few fags simi-circlejerk and occasionally post OC from I fully intend to post a fic or two on /mlp/ proper... maybe elsewhere maybe as an underground archive if /go/ works out. All of which could at most bring perhaps a few more regulars but nothing pillar level. For us to be a pillar would require significant changes and some bending to the whim of the mass opinion (not to mention I don't see a path forward to that anyway unless one of us became a ridiculously good content creator and several other boards collapsing.) It could break down a lot of the experimentation and one of us would have to step up to be a leader where choices have significant consequences and scrutiny.

>However, I have made these posts just to take that idea away and instead of aiming so high, I aim to the places that I like or feel like doing spontaneously (in short, being myself) and so, what´s better than a place that resembles a little corner?
Indeed. I think of here as a little town (maybe a simi abandoned) or restaurant with a few regulars and the occasional drifter that stops by. It's free from prying eyes and random experiments are welcome.

>Not to mention that one can die of success,so I suppose that the successful philosophy doesn´t always work.
>part of me wants that success because my young spirit wants to eat the world because in the future, I won´t be able to do it.
Don't tie abundance to success and don't simply give up once you reach a future state of responsibilities that you believe will be constrained with age would be what I'd say.

>But those are pretty wise words that defy destiny, I cannot deny that.
You can be grounded without giving up. I certainly see this board as no pillar, but I'm not going to think this board is bound by the destiny of being a failure, wherever it goes.

>But yeah, the only way to learn is by trying and failing....and most importantly, showing ideas that you wouldn´t
Oh yeah, I certainly have a few strange ideas that I want to try. The simplistic homemade art style in th story I just posted may not seem so stupid in a dream themed story. Prototypes like I just posted are just training. I'm fully prepared to post an oddball story or concept that may fail completely but I want to assemble the ideas together and get my bearings a bit.

>you mean, the Revolution fic or one that you ha

>>3505
>checking those sweet digits (already 3500 posts, phew lad, what a ride)
Halfway to 4000 already... better get my shocked cadence ready.

>I can access with my account....weird.
It's not endchan but my email provider. Small company, had an attack that supposedly nuked everything on there servers.

>Don´t worry if you don´t get an answer soon, Nextchan is nothing more than a backup place and the state of that board isn´t going to change that much unless there is some activity around.
Yeah. If the boards here are going to get nuked I'd think they (or just he now?) would at least have the courtesy to tell us. Though I have seen several boards and sites, even active ones go offline sometimes without any warning.. so I'm always a little bit paranoid.

>I already know that you can handle the usual narrative structure with ease so eh, it´s already been proven before. Go for it or recheck it if you don´t feel that confident.
This introduces a concept but was more of a test construction. Early alpha. Next one can be thought of as early beta and will have more to offer even if it doesn't resemble what I plan ta do.

>The replies are mostly content to reply and a tool to keep this active or you can go on your own way without feeling the need to pay attention to them. Hell, you can even bring up a past topic from previous threads to the spotlight again if you feel like doing so.
See BO, don't sweat it. We both chill.

>>3522
>you mean, the Revolution fic or one that you have prepared?
Technically neither of them (Revolution fic I may post sometime though). First prototype only as a shitpost. The second prototype may qualify in its own right in a somewhat rewritten form. I have a far different endgame at the moment.

Didn't see the end was cut off there.

>>3506
>The implication about DWK happened without glory nor pity, no replies came about that one.
Which is weird as you'd think the whole, on the verge of suicide saved by ponies would go there considering other things you see with that tone all the time.

>Now there are almost 2700 images about them but back then, in 2017....imagine how to run a thread without being a sad bumpfest nor a lonely circlejerk for reaching the bump limit.
We live in better times now well in reguards to seaponies
>>3509
>As for the overdesigned aspect, the design department was planning about making Queen Novo blue and the hippogriffs were much more alien to the spirit of this show. Sure, they would have been more outstanding....but more outlandish and too complicated for the world established (like the previous pic)
Oof. Yeah. Though if they brought in a high fantasy style creature or two that were overdesigned I wouldn't care but as for a fellow pony that would've not worked for me.

>So, about the Minions. They have been exploited to death, they have had astronomical waves of marketing to the point in which it gets obnoxious for those who are not looking out for them (FiM seems like an educated angel when it comes to commercial strategies)
It sure can be obnoxious though I'm not prone to complaining it can be annoying when they show up in your back yard.

>and its movie is the 2nd highest grossing animated film of all time (I think?)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_animated_films#cite_note-minions-8
You're right until a few months ago. Didn't know that. Don't wanna complain but the way the mainstream treated our somewhat generic pony movie compared to them...

>can you tell me about a single aspect unique of each one? Or hell the main three ones? Any character trait? Anything that stands out above the other one?
I actually ran into this point when reading/watching martial analyzing the minions in there own film. The star characters had no different personalty than each other or the supporting minions. Minions are what soulessness looks like to an extreme. They were designed purely on viral appeal and adaptability in a way few others can compare, even toy cartoons back in the 1980s themselves.

>why is it harder to get confused by who is who than the Illumation franchise? what makes them different?
I maybe about to through out word vommit here, but I say it's reductionism vs simplicity. I was about into a mini essay explaining what I mean but I'm too sleepy at the moment.

>That and a huge confidence gain when it comes to posting on the internet.
me too

>>3524
>First prototype only as a shitpost.
I am implying that the first prototype you are describing is what you posted yesterday.
>The second prototype may qualify in its own right in a somewhat rewritten form. I have a far different endgame at the moment.
and this one seems to hold bigger standards...

well, let´s see how it goes.

>>3522
that picture is either modern or contemporary. I am having my doubts where I would tag this "masterpiece"

>it would be the equivalent of the awkwardness of the primitive natives worshiping trash you through out as a deity.
there are worse things to worship out there but hey, everyone has to start somewhere.

>not much different than how the fandom can take one superficial trait of a character (Derpy's eyes) and can turn it into something with meaning
that´s true.
>One may not be able to call it genius but one can call it fun to do.
exactly, I was about to mention that the point was not about being genuine (even though it served as an excuse to continue all of this) but having random fun without expecting anything else in the long term.

>My original thought was that I'd just reply as long as somebody else did
literally the same.

>but as stuff started to arise I started to take things somewhat seriously by the months end.
it all happened without thinking too much. Just replies and replies, several thoughts thrown at here and maybe at a certain day, you would catch me writing greens. At what point did this get really serious? I would say that for a point of reference, the bat pony fic is mostly remembered but I think it happened earlier.

>That maybe /endpone/'s motto in a way.
>Dolores from a word filter, our general from a mindless shitpost, etc.
and Luna´s banner straight out of the old Canterlot Daily. The day /endpone/ doesn´t let this kind of metaposting and going beyond the things were originally intended...to the point where outsiders believe that we have more original content than other boards.

>It's all things that we took to the next level from the simple jokes that existed. Since the end was so sparse we took what we had.
you wrote a little bat pony fic surrounding Twilight because of a random spammer. I think that´s the prime example of what you are describing.

>>3522
>The closest thing I could see the end being established as would be that shadowy place where a few fags simi-circlejerk and occasionally post OC
honestly, I don´t see it going further than that....it started with a circlejerk and it will end as one most likely.

>It could break down a lot of the experimentation and one of us would have to step up to be a leader where choices have significant consequences and scrutiny.
sweet mother of Celestia, that would require some moderation that cannot end up well. Experimentation is what has driven this board to go forward and develop a joke to a concept. So yeah, basically a few regulars at best....and even then, poni.fun isn´t having that fast rhythm as I was expecting at first. It´s really unlikely to attract a big group over here and convince them to bring some activity daily.

>I think of here as a little town (maybe a simi abandoned) or restaurant with a few regulars and the occasional drifter that stops by. It's free from prying eyes and random experiments are welcome.
you are point with your replies today. Nice /)

>Don't tie abundance to success and don't simply give up once you reach a future state of responsibilities that you believe will be constrained with age would be what I'd say.
I know and that doesn´t sound as a bad advice. Just that everything seems to be so uncertain and one correlates easily success with having a good base in the youth for having better times later, mostly because age could prevent from doing more actions that would restrict me. Maybe life is longer than I expect and there are little twists down the path that will define it without overthinking too much.

>I'm fully prepared to post an oddball story or concept that may fail completely but I want to assemble the ideas together and get my bearings a bit.
just tell me if you want some a few ordinary comments or a serious review whenever it comes. Just like experiments in science, I have to see the recipe and check how it goes. I will tell if that´s odd or not to my eyes at least.

>The simplistic homemade art style in th story I just posted may not seem so stupid in a dream themed story.
MLP has got rid of several cliches and the most important parts about a story is about its execution. It doesn´t matter if it´s SoL, a piece of action/adventure or a fantastical themed story, the biggest pillar for any story in this franchise is what you want to make out of it and how you deal with the intentions behind it.

MLP requires to be more open minded than most shows. It doesn´t have filler because even the smallest interactions, dialogues or details could bring the key of that story onto the table. Even girly stuff that seems uninteresting like dresses can deliver a powerful message to the video game industry (Canterlot Boutique)

>>3523
>better get my shocked cadence ready.
less than 500 posts to go, sweet heart!

>my email provider. Small company, had an attack that supposedly nuked everything on there servers.
oh, well that sounds fucked, even more when there are few people working on it. If the big companies like Valve cannot handle completely their problems, imagine a little one.

>>3523
>I'd think they would at least have the courtesy to tell us.
considering that even Sportschan notices us and we are in the top 15, I would find it pretty odd not to tell that.

>I have seen several boards and sites, even active ones go offline sometimes without any warning so I'm always a little bit paranoid.
we know but I am one of those that doesn´t get scared of that. If it´s over, well it´s over. I would waste my energies at being scared about health or if it were MLP related, I would have those fears about this gen ending well. The rest will come and go naturally.

>Early alpha. Next one can be thought of as early beta and will have more to offer even if it doesn't resemble what I plan ta do.
it will be certainly interesting to see the evolution and judge the steps taken through the process.

>>3525
>Which is weird as you'd think the whole, on the verge of suicide saved by ponies would go there considering other things you see with that tone all the time.
well, I posted it on the Rarity thread once (in the first posts by the way, anyone could have seen it easily) and there were no comments at all. I thought I would get a reply because of showing Rarity saving someone and how anons around there love their waifu but it seems that I posted that material at the wrong time.

Oh well, it doesn´t matter, it´s there anyway. I have reflected those thoughts with that story and available to read at anytime.

>We live in better times now well in regards to seaponies
which I honestly welcome. Those times were pretty annoying, much more when Derpi applied the MLP Movie pictures as spoilers and all the seapony material was hidden behind the thumbnails. Pretty annoying unless you browsed with the +18 filters. That also lead to the problem that people would be less encouraged to look for that content. As for kirins however, they got rid of the spoiler tag in their period of hype and that helped to spread content easily and share them over the different sites.

>if they brought in a high fantasy style creature or two that were overdesigned I wouldn't care but as for a fellow pony that would've not worked for me.
I would put those designs on high regard for having the will to go avant-garde in this franchise, breaking barriers and go almost to the PKMN route when it comes to original designs. The problem is that they wouldn´t work because they clash and would feel too exotic for the average body structures you see frequently.

>It sure can be obnoxious though I'm not prone to complaining same. I don´t bother nor I give them attention. I have the mindset of seeing them as the average character you see in kid friendly places. Nothing else.

>Don't wanna complain but the way the mainstream treated our somewhat generic pony movie compared to them
the 2017 movie may be generic but it was properly executed at delivering good entertainment. Pretty standard and traditional but it carried its charm in it. A 3.5 from IGN and a 47% rating in RT
between the Minions and the Emoji Movie having more success,I wonder where this society wants to go. Like Stanley´s narrator would say: "I find this very concerning"

>They were designed purely on viral appeal and adaptability in a way few others can compare, even toy cartoons back in the 1980s themselves.
even in the worst gens of MLP you could point out different ponies because of their color and their different degrees of innocence/girlishness.

>The star characters had no different personalty than each other or the supporting minions.
in reality, they were meant to be the funny part of Despicable Me but making an entire production out of it, it seems wrong. At least, the villain was more unique but that´s sad when you can´t tell the 3 protagonists. Take a shot whenever you see a Minion toy or any product related to them and get confused at telling who is in that product.

>it's reductionism vs simplicity. I was about into a mini essay explaining what I mean but I'm too sleepy at the moment.
you were tired when you posted this but yeah, that could sum it up for the most part.

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>>3531
Dab right back at ya BO? PoLSP for now.

Okay. Good... Endchan back online. Will be posting later tonight but have a PoLS for now.

>>3537
We truly live in the darkest timeline.
Didn't we want for the /end/ to be its proper thing and having fears of the site disappearing? It truly shows its purest nature.

the site doesn't disappear but the servers,well,I think that you can be actually worried about that...

500 errors and migrations.Yay!

>>3538
>the site doesn't disappear but the servers,well,I think that you can be actually worried about that...
I am fam I am. Never know if the host could decide ta knock thm off or fail at there job. I mean, with what happened to m old email service provider didn't make me paranoid enough...

>>3539
>It was only appeared when trying to access the .xyz domain.
that happened to me when I was trying to make it with the .org domain instead (on mobile btw)

>They've I guess he changed it from old times and it only has one board suggested now. The site looks like a board I've encountered on boring old tor or i2p before.
considering that you can access this site with Tor,I am not that surprised that they tried to back up the maintenance period with an archaic design like that.I haven't noticed it until I saw your screencap.

>>3540
>I am fam I am. Never know if the host could decide ta knock thm off or fail at there job.
the servers problem is nothing new for this site. In fact,I am surprised that it's been running without many mistakes during these months. Last spring,it was certainly unbearable.

>I mean, with what happened to m old email service provider didn't make me paranoid enough...
that provider must have been Derpy or something. That's fucked up and pretty annoying,one understands that.

However,I don't think that one reason for such paranoia justifies the actual cause to be like that for a different case. There are two things that you should consider in the land of darkness and doom that you are projec
ting.
First,endchan's twitter account has been active this month and /operate/ cannot get claimed.
And secondly,we are the first to shitpost in record time in this site. If one cared about endchan coming back,the other one wouldn't fall short on his interest either.It basically means that you and I have simultaneously posted as soon as the servers came back. Haven't you stopped for a second just to think about it? If the BO replied tonight,you've got the full party recovered.

If that's not loyalty,I don't know what else could fit to that term.

I can't believe I'm late to the party

>>3544
what the heck is going on here right now?

>>3544
I guess this means, that for the moment, we are number one. I can't believe it.

From endchan's servers demise, see /pone/ arise!

>>3529
>honestly, I don´t see it going further than that....it started with a circlejerk and it will end as one most likely.
Normally I'd mostly agree, but >>3544 >>3546.

>sweet mother of Celestia, that would require some moderation that cannot end up well. Experimentation is what has driven this board to go forward and develop a joke to a concept. So yeah, basically a few regulars at best...
yeah It'd be nightmarish. This boards nature would be at stake and it's nature would be destroys it. Likely taking on so many would destroy the board culture and if we tried to keep the spirit it would cause division itself. Fortunately I do not see that happening.

>Just that everything seems to be so uncertain and one correlates easily success with having a good base in the youth for having better times later,
It indeed does. Though it ain't impossible to turn it around later. I mean, to be frankly honest, I am even on more shaky ground than you right now and things are far more questionable in planning. Perhaps it's a matter of perspective, my state is too personal to fully explain and I'm not sure I'd makes sense with the bits I've said when looked at together, living without running water for several months and under various other different types of strain for most of my life being at the mercy of various different forces at various different points of my life. There is another side to that too, as somehow in all of that I still consider some parts of my life privileged and it'd be very hard to explain all the sheer strangeness
so I what I consider an improvement or an opportunity may not be to and I may have a strange perspective, as my state right now even would probably be seen more negatively.

>less than 500 posts to go, sweet heart!
This is bad because I have 3 Cadences to work on!

>>3530
>we know but I am one of those that doesn´t get scared of that. If it´s over, well it´s over. I would waste my energies at being scared about health or if it were MLP related, I would have those fears about this gen ending well. The rest will come and go naturally.
That's a healthy view. I just want to maintain a /bunker/ just in case it's need or at the very least to touch base one last time Though my /go/lden oaks I plan on maintaining Indefinitely regardless of endchan's or even /pone/'s state.

>Oh well, it doesn´t matter, it´s there anyway. I have reflected those thoughts with that story and available to read at anytime.
I actually may revisit it, though it's a side priority right now, I have a special small reason to.

>As for kirins however, they got rid of the spoiler tag in their period of hype and that helped to spread content easily and share them over the different sites.
Am I sensing salt? Yeah I can understand that.

>I would put those designs on high regard for having the will to go avant-garde in this franchise, breaking barriers and go almost to the PKMN route when it comes to original designs. The problem is that they wouldn´t work because they clash and would feel too exotic for the average body structures you see frequently.
I'd be more open too them as side stuff but I can understand the reluctance/distaste.

> between the Minions and the Emoji Movie having more success,I wonder where this society wants to go. Like Stanley´s narrator would say: "I find this very concerning"
#metoo

>in reality, they were meant to be the funny part of Despicable Me but making an entire production out of it, it seems wrong. At least, the villain was more unique but that´s sad when you can´t tell the 3 protagonists.
Spinoff with comedic charaters really work because they were usually part of a success of something and can't really stand well on there on. Minions are even half this, because they were just kid memebait that worked too well.

>you were tired when you posted this but yeah, that could sum it up for the most part.
I suppose so, but I may revisit later still.

>>3542
It's okay anon. We it wasn't too much of one though tbh, perhaps on a weekend or something we could all be live, that could be fun

>>3541
>If that's not loyalty,I don't know what else could fit to that term.
That is true. Very true, though I can still see scenarios in my head

>>3555
Than we will greet him with a wolf in sheep's clothing...

>>3546
>We are indeed number one. Somehow...
Robbie Rotten would be proud of us. Some legacies never die I guess.

>I mean it looks like hardly anypony else is here.It feels like Detroit.
that was the point of the /end/, wasn´t it? Seeing and imagining how things would be if we witnessed how the times of decadence happen in front of our eyes. And even if everything is dead, nature always offers some free energy out of nowhere. The night-blooming-cereus blooms at night and offers a nice view at an unusual time.

I suppose ponies are the remaining path and resource to post over here even if only 3 posters care about them, it´s proven to be strong enough to carry the lead for a while, especially on post-maintenance periods.

>From endchan's servers demise, see /pone/ arise!
9 years after their appearance and despite that tiring run, they manage to get there. Same thing happened with Amore, only 4 posts and this board blew up to the 4th position. Nothing new for this board to have these ups on the ranking but I never expected to reach the gold medal anytime soon.

>Normally I'd mostly agree, but >>3544 >>3546.
someone should remind me to shut my mouth up at times. I wasn´t that optimistic yet it happened. Never say never again.

>Fortunately I do not see that happening.
Agree on what you say...

unless a big company does an AMA on this chan and gets its spotlight on mainstream media. Let´s see if you know what I am referencing to.

>I am even on more shaky ground than you right now and things are far more questionable in planning.
>living without running water for several months and under various other different types of strain
holy molly
well, like the BO said, I prefer the stable times if that´s the price in order to live in "interesting" times

not to mention that the uncertainty you may be referrring could be at professional level and temporal jobs and things like that consume your brain way more than they should.

>what I consider an improvement or an opportunity may not be to and I may have a strange perspective, as my state right now even would probably be seen more negatively.
not everything new means something good.It´s fine to stay skeptical about the new waves that could interfere more than you would be capable of.

>>3547
>This is bad because I have 3 Cadences to work on!
that implies her, her daughter and....I don´t know, let´s say Fleur de Lis or Sassy Saddles.

>>3548
>I just want to maintain a /bunker/ just in case it's need or at the very least to touch base one last time
yeah, a solid backup whenever things go wrong so that brings a sense of relief (for the worst case scenario). We have had it all this time since last May. However, if this board disappears, endchan will have a pony mark stuck with its death.

>Though my /go/lden oaks I plan on maintaining Indefinitely regardless of endchan's or even /pone/'s state.
more than the posters, it´s more about the influence and what you can take out of it. If you can carry that project, go ahead wherever you go with it. I think that it approaches an interest for the fandom in general. It would be awkward that other fandom pages block you or don´t catch the interest from a certain group inside the community.

>I actually may revisit it, though it's a side priority right now, I have a special small reason to.
that´s funny because I wrote it after watching Blade Runner 2049. I don´t know if I could write that today. Any review or reflection about it is what intends.

>Am I sensing salt?
sort of. I don´t hate kirins, in fact, you could change any new species (let´s say that they introduced lamia,plane or snake ponies whatever X species) and I would react the same way. It´s not about the content itself and I hold Sounds of Silence at the top of season 8. So what´s the problem exactly? Mostly about Derpi´s organization/mindset with the spoiler tag.

Everyone saw the movie at that point, only China was left I think. It took one entire year to remove it. It didn´t help that I was a fool and I could have used the Rule 34 filters to reach them easily. They were the promoting material from that film. If you overshadow it, it brings less attention and the hype runs out and gets less diffusion over the community. Picking the images without seeing the thumbnail first is sort of a handicap for that material.
The hippogriffs have stayed relevant but if someone was a Celaeno fan, it would have been even more frustrating.
Fortunately, I have seen signs of the community posting them as if they were traditional picks along with Tempest. At least, in the long run, they have made the cut.
Kirins however, have exploded too soon. Their hype was abysmal and I think that the fanbase has taken a little break from their material until this season brings them a new life.

>Minions are even half this, because they were just kid memebait that worked too well.
it´s not like the first spin off that does this, I agree. It´s just that it has taken off and blown out of proportions when it wasn´t intended to bring that much substance to begin with. All they had was like you say, a meme status between kids. I suppose that childish comedy works but like MLP, one cannot avoid shame when a cashgrab becomes more successful without any effort.

They are harmless anyway. Just that I am criticizing harshly that business practice/model which companies could follow for thriving and repeating in the future (like Shrek for example. While the movie itself was a joy to watch, its clones....well...you know where I am getting at)

>>3549
>perhaps on a weekend or something we could all be live, that could be fun
that would require a different site to log in...

>>3554
>though I can still see scenarios in my head
one can imagine lots of things and scenarios. I have had visions about throwing myself or other people around me to the subway rails lots of times and here I am. One is free to think whatever they want, I cannot interfere to those thoughts.

But yeah, consider that these acts of instant replies are not the most usual between random anons. which means subtly that these acts have a subtle charming meaning that one doesn´t want and to reveal in front of the gallery.

>>3556
>Than we will greet him with a wolf in sheep's clothing...
LOVE WILL GET YOU DOWN!

Woah, we are talking about the "innocent" pink princess that made Sombra stay in a mostly dead state. That´s a big bet to draw upon.

>>3559
>The reason why I think I love this picture is that it feels like how all these over designed OCs from the fandom's early days were supposed to look like.
over complicated just to throw a big contrast to the show´s innocent nature. Those were the edgy times.While Koveliana cannot be considered as the 8th wonder, those pictures sure offer a visual pleasure.

Either way, in retrospective, MLP should have never reached those levels of quality yet the fans, in this case, an artist goes out of the theoretical way and makes this....

gen 4´s style is magic.

>This feels like that over designed elaborateness actually developed rather than a mistake that is relegated to noobs.

Any good artist can jump onto what whatever it wants (pony, human, anthro, different species/body types....), the artstyle and level of care is what will appeal its material by nature.
I mostly felt attracted to that picture because it reminded (and still does) of Milotic, an elegant pkmn by excellence. I would have never approached this picture like you do.

>that was just me getting to random art related thoughts outta the way.
art is meant to transmit that. Maybe you have had time to stop and appreciate those little details that while one may not take out at first, after a while, it grows in an unexpected way.

A really beautiful picture at first, it still is.

one last thing, season 9 is happening soon. Hasbro has dropped the teaser during this week.

When do you think we should make a new thread about it?

quick meta post and it´s mostly about the site.

You may have noticed by now but I am saying it either way. The .net and .xyz versions of this site run really slow for its own good. The org. domain is what normally works after these maintenance periods as a backup and it´s the only one that seems to be working for me.

Just a quick note for everyone because it might seem that the site is still inaccessible while it´s actually working.

>>3567
Yep, I'm getting authentic 56k experience ever since that downtime, which is why I dropped out of posting for a while.
lol like I need another excuse not to post
56k was still way slower than this page, but hey, I got what I wished for, didn't I?

>>3560
>Robbie Rotten would be proud of us.
WE ARE NUMBER 1!

>And even if everything is dead, nature always offers some free energy out of nowhere. The night-blooming-cereus blooms at night and offers a nice view at an unusual time.
I love that description. Makes it feel both /confy/ and a little haunting. Which is one of my favorite feelings. Reminds me of a couple of fanfics with abandoned ruins.

>I suppose ponies are the remaining path and resource to post over here even if only 3 posters care about them, it´s proven to be strong enough to carry the lead for a while, especially on post-maintenance periods.
Forward, who cares about downtime with cute ponies anything is possible.

>unless a big company does an AMA on this chan and gets its spotlight on mainstream media. Let´s see if you know what I am referencing to.
What? Only thing that comes remotely to mind in the chan world is the ongoing hiro vs jim drama and formers attempts to possibly corporatize 4chan nal . Than again I'm been a little out of habit of my usually sleuthing around the net the last few months. What is going on?

>>3560
>holy molly
TBH I feel quite split on my life and how to view it and probably shouldn't have mentioned that little fact there, at least in that way. Basically I've been in a wide variety of situations and to fully explain it would require to go far into the personal.
Because victimhood and introversion are desired and reduced so much on the net as a way to be cool and gain social status, so it makes me a little aloof in such matters unless something comes up
I could present myself in such a light, and has I've had some very significant down points. It be dishonest to present it as just that though. Even if I could select experiences that I could give the impression of a poor kid who lived on the rough side of town (Drugs, gang violence, one guy tried to set my family's house on fire from the back alley, etc). And that little bit really paints a picture, but it ain't a full one (the drugs were usually tame, by my teens the gang violence had died down to the point where I hardly ever run into shady people in my neighborhood, and that setting house on fire was one incident, I'm not the only one who had to deal those crazy neighbors, I once spent awhile in the countryside away from town, etc). I will say that I am unsure how to characterize it all, and there is a lot of strange forces and situations that I would certainly say were probably not very comparable to others, but were too mundane to consider truly amazing or bad, just strange enough to raise questions in a way. I don't wanna join that social media game, so I won't raise any issues again unless something really relates to the topic or I drawn on some life experience for a fanfic
Not that I've been misleading y'all, just that I don't wanna come across the whole victumhood/my amazing odd life pie

>not everything new means something good.It´s fine to stay skeptical about the new waves that could interfere more than you would be capable of.
Actually I was meaning that I had somethings that I considered victories/opportunity from what others would see as a constrained environment, and I wasn't sure if my perspective was a little wonky do to the unstable environment. Speaking of which...

>well, like the BO said, I prefer the stable times if that´s the price in order to live in "interesting" times
Wise advice, my only add on to it would be not to giving up improving your state or having fun when in a state of mundaneness, other wise you stop living life.

>>3561
>yeah, a solid backup whenever things go wrong so that brings a sense of relief (for the worst case scenario). We have had it all this time since last May. However, if this board disappears, endchan will have a pony mark stuck with its death.
Speaking of which, the admin is having one of his disappearances again, and can do it for months at a time do to work. The lone global vole said he can't transfer the new board but can archive the old and allow me to make a new one from scratch. Should I take his offer or play th waiting game since I had some questions on whether nextchan not be would be keen on hosting pdfs and zip files from /go/.

>If you can carry that project, go ahead wherever you go with it. I think that it approaches an interest for the fandom in general. It would be awkward that other fandom pages block you or don´t catch the interest from a certain group inside the community.
If I'd must I'd either continue /pone/ in some form some where or form my own golden oaks themed board.

>Mostly about Derpi´s organization/mindset with the spoiler tag.
Yeah, I can see that be frustrating. Cute seaponies did't get the hype phase fully exploited to establish status but these cute super ponies are getting special treatment.

>that implies her, her daughter and....I don´t know, let´s say Fleur de Lis or Sassy Saddles.
You'll see what I mean.

>>3563
You are clear for launch. Repeat you are clear for launch. This is general quarters, all hands man your battle stations, preparations for the final season has begun.

FRIENDSHIP CONDITION 2

>>3567
Yeah I noticed and am currently on the .org domain. Man it seems like this site is limping again.

>>3575
Dial up is fun with the right tools and images under 100kb.
It's all right /bo/ we know you're still here.

Welp, it's getting late. Night /endpone/!

>>3562
>that would require a different site to log in...
/nextpone/ bunker live posting event?

>I have had visions about throwing myself or other people around me to the subway rails lots of times and here I am. One is free to think whatever they want, I cannot interfere to those thoughts.
This is one of those things where one's first reaction is to think you're a little nuts but when one stops to think random thoughts like this are natural, even if it feels wired to talk about. I reminds me of thinking about jumping off tall buildings in a non-suicide but just wondering what it be like.

>over complicated just to throw a big contrast to the show´s innocent nature. Those were the edgy times.
That was part of the appeal. Cupcakes, Rainbow Factory and th other creepy pasta's , Princess Molestia, Various edgy fics, Luna Games, etc. It was interesting and in some cass quite toxic with all the attention some of those works got outside of the fandom and was an entry point for many.

>.While Koveliana cannot be considered as the 8th wonder, those pictures sure offer a visual pleasure.
Indeed. That's all I have to say. Those pics are quite nice and shows that being elaborate is just a noob mistake.

> Either way, in retrospective, MLP should have never reached those levels of quality yet the fans, in this case, an artist goes out of the theoretical way and makes this....
Yep, it just keeps going on to places we didn't expect, even here...

>I mostly felt attracted to that picture because it reminded (and still does) of Milotic, an elegant pkmn by excellence. I would have never approached this picture like you do.
I can see the resplendence.

>art is meant to transmit that. Maybe you have had time to stop and appreciate those little details that while one may not take out at first, after a while, it grows in an unexpected way.
Ran it to it again when looking through the bat thread for other reasons.

May not have time to post anymore today but wanted ta at least finish the one last reply in this thread

>>3576
it seems that I am not doing much tonight either. Only a proof of life shitpost but I have to reply a little bit about this question (I also hide your bold lines from the main board page)

>Than again I'm been a little out of habit of my usually sleuthing around the net the last few months. What is going on?
basically what you are going to see and what has happened this last week is what actually gives any chan a big quantity of newfags or outsiders that check it out of curiosity.

Without the help of mainstream media,nothing would have happened and there were several AMAs like this before on 8chan.
Anyway,just browse: "8chan Thq Nordic AMA" and you will see that all the headlines point out the same drama: child pornography on the site; and because,it brings a bad name and or publi city to the company.

Almost all if not all the mediums point out this as the most problematic and unique aspect about 8chan ,by adding an edgy touch that the site is actually banned from google's browser.

So basically,for an event like this,all the video game journalists and then youtubers jumped onto it and this example serves on how a chan earns lots of newfags overnight.

I will try to reply properly tomorrow

>>3575
>I'm getting authentic 56k experience ever since that downtime, which is why I dropped out of posting for a while.
>lol like I need another excuse not to post
well, that sure serves enough for a PoLS as usual. Either way, we all know that you are checking this. Only by checking the post after the maintenance period gives an idea that you are lurking over here.

>>3576
>Makes it feel both /confy/ and a little haunting. Which is one of my favorite feelings.
as if you were the only one. In fact, I have looked for those feelings as well, finding comfort and beauty in those places that in theory, shouldn´t happen. Not the flower that shines the most but for sure it gives you some hope and relief.

>Reminds me of a couple of fanfics with abandoned ruins.
you don´t have to go that far away or at least that´s what I imagine with pic related.

>who cares about downtime with cute ponies anything is possible.
well, for sure I needed them for shiposting over 1400 posts or so over here. I don´t know their actual power but for sure, they lead us to this post number and staying together after one entire year. Is friendship magic or is the fact that Fim is what makes it magic? *thinking emoji

>Only thing that comes remotely to mind in the chan world is the ongoing hiro vs jim drama and formers attempts to possibly corporatize 4chan
that movement sounds way softer than this. Receiving money for making it more company friendly? That drama wouldn´t come with any surprise left, much less these days.

>What is going on?
mostly I tried to post it yesterday >>3582. THQ did an AMA thread on 8chan and the mainstream media (internet press) have tons of articles (including ones from my country), repeating the same 4 things over and over about how controversial is when someone posts on website that is known for having CP. That´s like the most repetitive argument that you will find whenever you search it along with the Google ban. They think that 8chan is some kind of underworld or a close website to the (so scary for normies) Deep Web.

By doing this, they have exposed 8chan for the first time by getting lots of headlines as if they were talking about a /pol/itical phenomena. THQ got away with all this controversy, they have earned more fame by doing this marketing strategy....but so 8chan, which has turned into a mainstream imageboard (as if it didn´t reach that status before)

Now getting more into my view: what stands out the most is that there is a certain difference between the journalists and the comments. The users say that 8chan has little to no difference in terms of CP because they will ban you (which is true and don´t think that you can get with it on Endchan either. Any site would get shut down if they allowed it openly)

And that´s what I agree with them but I wonder if journalists are offended that THQ didn´t do an AMA in the usual sites for it (Reddit, Facebook...) and chose an alternative path for it or that they have short brains by not thinking that Tumblr, Youtube and the mainstream social media have also had CP. Should they ban those sites as well? We all know how well they solved it up on Tumblr...right?

So yeah, both parts have received a boost of popularity and a few people claim that 8chan /v/ has had AMA´s before from indie developers....

>>3577
>not to giving up improving your state or having fun when in a state of mundaneness, other wise you stop living life.yeah, I think that serves pretty well for closing the advice. Even one can find joy with literally anything and none of us appreciate those little things...

>I had somethings that I considered victories/opportunity from what others would see as a constrained environment, and I wasn't sure if my perspective was a little wonky do to the unstable environment.
every little factor counts and I suppose that in the eras of rushed events and such, one would try to self celebrate little things that aren´t seen as victories. I suppose that those conditions would drive you to think so when in reality, they wouldn´t be as meaningful if you were having ordinary conditions.

As for your personal story, I am leaving it out for now because that part of your post touches more private things that one has to think about before giving random cheap thoughts. Those intimate zones give me lots of respect.

>>3578
>the admin is having one of his disappearances again, and can do it for months at a time do to work. >Should I take his offer or play th waiting game since I had some questions on whether nextchan not be would be keen on hosting pdfs and zip files from /go/.
I would try to get all the info first and after that, see how you would do it. As for now, we are stable so there is no need to rush so you can either oscillate between an essential task or keep it on a secondary background. Whatever you plan or do, you have room for everything for now.

But yeah, having the backup before anything else happens would bring a little bit of relief. Anyway, in the end....

>I'd either continue /pone/ in some form some where or form my own golden oaks themed board.
you already answered to yourself

>I can see that be frustrating. Cute seaponies did't get the hype phase fully exploited to establish status but these cute super ponies are getting special treatment.
eeeyup, basically that. On the other hand, Tempest received the hype and the movie showed some hype. Not as much as one would desire but hey, she and the seaponies have had a good reception. What I feared the most (and was the most annoying part) was introducing the first images. The /mlp/ side isn´t certainly the most attracted one to new content and you have to introduce them subtly in order to convince them.

The movie has been a slow burner instead of a big hit but anyway, its status is better today than on its release (part of it at least)....and I cannot complain about that. There is enough content, they post them as if they weren´t exotic characters(this fandom works more with the usual and meme characters instead of characters that aren´t shown) and the pictures go on.

I guess you cannot get further from there.

>You'll see what I mean.
for now, all I see is Candy showing "interesting" faces...

>>3579
>preparations for the final season has begun.
already created, mein princess!

>>3580
>it seems like this site is limping again.
well, one out of three hooves for moving this site forward isn´t the best diagnosis to be precise...

>>3581
>/nextpone/ bunker live posting event?
whenever the site improves and the mods give you an answer (I have seen your replies by the way, very formally made). I would need also to adjust some settings out there. It´s a board that needs some sort of cleaning these days and tons of feedback.

>one's first reaction is to think you're a little nuts but when one stops to think random thoughts like this are natural, even if it feels wired to talk about.
most people would basically do that. I tend to make fun of it with a couple of friends who have also thought about that as well. Far from a crazy mind, more people have had worse thoughts than they are willing to admit. Some of the worst ones are those who don´t say a single thing about that.

>I reminds me of thinking about jumping off tall buildings in a non-suicide but just wondering what it be like.
the brain is curious. Pandora opened the box for a reason. /co/ and /b/ jumped onto this show to see what could happen next despite its girlishness in it. We are in general, curious about feeling or doing anything even if we know that those actions would lead to such consequences. Now, you could ask a trap question to this logic and it would be about how killing would feel like. Without even doing it IRL, just play the Russian Roulette game and you´ll see how interesting or fascinating it is when you shoot the bullet and the game is over and it closes the tab by itself. Purely one dimensional and there´s no room for going beyond that. There´s nothing else.

>It was interesting and in some cass quite toxic with all the attention some of those works got outside of the fandom and was an entry point for many.
that´s what happens when you want to throw edginess all the time, you end up repeating some of the mistakes like the Sonic fandom did. I find it really funny when the time keeps going, fans start getting more lax and less dramatic as the show goes on. From desiring epic action to slice of life petitions from the fanbase. No seriously, after delivering Twilight´s Kingdom and episodes that are relatively restless to the show, fans have turned over and look for other things that didn´t fit in the typical fanservice at first. I suppose the fanabse has checked that the show proves that is capable to deliver what they want so the petitions change for future wishlists.
How many people wanted to see AJ´s parents or a slice of life episode from the princesses? This fanbase did and if you take a look at the favorite episodes from season 7.....well, I don´t need to explain the rest.

>Those pics are quite nice and shows that being elaborate is just a noob mistake.
yep. In fact, your statement gets more strong when you stop and think that some of the greatest songs remembered or acclaimed are also pretty simple. Only by having 2-4 chords, they are capable to deliver amazing results and anybody can do that. Same for ponies. Derpy is a very well liked pony and she´s basic as hell.

So, there it goes.

>I can see the resplendence.
truly majestic. Other words don´t make any justice.

>Ran it to it again when looking through the bat thread for other reasons.
huh? nice.

>but wanted ta at least finish the one last reply in this thread
you sure did.

So do I tonight with this one.

>>3586
>I would try to get all the info first and after that, see how you would do it.
Yeah that what I'm leaning towards as well. If endchan goes dark we at least could still meet at /nextpone/ to touch base (or poni.fun I suppose).

>The /mlp/ side isn´t certainly the most attracted one to new content and you have to introduce them subtly in order to convince them.
Preaching to the choir.

> The movie has been a slow burner instead of a big hit but anyway, its status is better today than on its release (part of it at least)....and I cannot complain about that. There is enough content, they post them as if they weren´t exotic characters(this fandom works more with the usual and meme characters instead of characters that aren´t shown) and the pictures go on.
In some ways that can be better to have something slowly spread than have a quick high and slow collapse lik som mny things nowadays.

>>3588
>I would need also to adjust some settings out there. It´s a board that needs some sort of cleaning these days and tons of feedback.
Yeah, blazechan certainly still is in beta.

>(I have seen your replies by the way, very formally made)
I always try to be polite in such matters, though for some in the chan world I'd imagine it is a much of a turnoff for many as it could be a breath of fresh air.

>We are in general, curious about feeling or doing anything even if we know that those actions would lead to such consequences.
Indeed. Not much more to add ta that one.

>yep. In fact, your statement gets more strong when you stop and think that some of the greatest songs remembered or acclaimed are also pretty simple. Only by having 2-4 chords, they are capable to deliver amazing results and anybody can do that. Same for ponies. Derpy is a very well liked pony and she´s basic as hell.
Opps, actually meant to make a point about how elaborateness "doesn't" have to be a noob mistake always, but that statement is still true.

>truly majestic. Other words don´t make any justice.
It's a nice Pokemon, isn't it. I can see a patter here with it and the seaponies that you also like.

>huh? nice.
very nice indeed

>>3585
>every little factor counts and I suppose that in the eras of rushed events and such, one would try to self celebrate little things that aren´t seen as victories. I suppose that those conditions would drive you to think so when in reality, they wouldn´t be as meaningful if you were having ordinary conditions.
Yep. It's kind of more complicated than just that in my head do to me having a more positive point to make but I'm not sure it make any sense at the moment to myself.

>As for your personal story, I am leaving it out for now because that part of your post touches more private things that one has to think about before giving random cheap thoughts.
I suppose so. Though I will say that I am not easily offended by things like that, so you don't have to worry on that front. I mean, truthfully, as I said, I"m not even a 100% sure how to present my experiences. The only reason I brought it up because that is my relation to such adversity and overcoming it and trying to note that my perspective is probably a bit strange from the average joe or Jose .

>>
>already created, mein princess!
Awesome!

>well, one out of three hooves for moving this site forward isn´t the best diagnosis to be precise...
Yeah... far from best. Still sustainable in theory but people jumping ship isn't a good sign.

>>3577
So, let´s dive into it:

>TBH I feel quite split on my life and how to view it and probably shouldn't have mentioned that little fact there, at least in that way.
honestly, I would take those existential thoughts into something more abstract and hidden in between the lines that you could write in a fic. What you (and I) have done is quite risky (in theory) and there are people that could take advantage of it but hey, it says a lot the fact that you are telling us this. I still repeat that this is risky as hell because you are telling it to some random anons that you don´t know who they are behind the screen , maybe there are ponies typing on these keyboards, I will leave it at that.... The only saving grace is that there are more common cases than one would believe but they don´t make it public.

>Basically I've been in a wide variety of situations and to fully explain it would require to go far into the personal.
either simplify it into a more ordinary situation or just don´t give that info if you don´t see yourself confident enough...which is pretty understandable and the most logical choice.

>Because victimhood and introversion are desired and reduced so much on the net as a way to be cool and gain social status, so it makes me a little aloof in such matters unless something comes up
basically, the natural reaction that one gets towards those teenagers that shitpost: "Lol I am depressed this week" and practice the ATTW skills just to have replies and more attention. Those who are actually fucked up...don´t show it as a sport very often.
They hide it and pretty well from the outside and those adjectives go beyond from the the stereotype built in the net. I cannot point out a single group for claiming any guilt for such bad image (probably emos in the 2000s but even then, there´s not an uniform sample for that) but most likely, those who cried the loudest surely damaged the image of such emotions/behavior, especially if they bring something negative.

As for being aloof on the topic, I....well, you can see my obsession on drawing the line of what´s edgy and what it isn´t. The stigma still applies even after a decade. For describing such thoughts, you would have to go further than 140 characters and sadly, it requires more effort out there to prove a genuine sign of it.

>>3577
>I could present myself in such a light, and has I've had some very significant down points. It be dishonest to present it as just that though. Even if I could select experiences that I could give the impression of a poor kid who lived on the rough side of town (Drugs, gang violence, one guy tried to set my family's house on fire from the back alley, etc).
Well, that´s like selling and overexaggerating a past that you distort so you can reach more people and selling those drama bait events for getting more sympathy. A pretty common practice. That doesn´t work for me because it´s really hard to find genuine misery behind those stories. Life is fucked up but to an extent, it doesn´t go to a well without reaching the bottom as most people claim but it´s pretty easy to fall into that sense.

>And that little bit really paints a picture, but it ain't a full one (the drugs were usually tame, by my teens the gang violence had died down to the point where I hardly ever run into shady people in my neighborhood, and that setting house on fire was one incident, I'm not the only one who had to deal those crazy neighbors, I once spent awhile in the countryside away from town, etc).
when the explanations and backstories happen, then the conclusions change a lot. I have gone through that gang violence period without taking part, just being in the background, for a couple of years. About drugs, well I am pretty tired of musicians falling into them and have shown way worse symptoms than that (and exposed into the press) . Nothing extraordinary, especially when they got massively popular around the 70s (before even).

About the fire incident, if that guy caused a problem indifferently to you, then he could have perfectly set up that same situation to any other neighbor. In fact, it seems that one has only problems with problematic people when others also have to deal as you say with those people.

Lastly, about the escape to the countryside, I have met a contact that also did that during the night. Her mother was so worried that even the police was looking after him and he ran away for a few hours. Nowadays, that person is perfectly fine and has earned a pretty upbeat mood these latest years. That event happened because of tensions with the family. That subject gave up and showed those frustrations by doing running away to the outskirts.

>I will say that I am unsure how to characterize it all, and there is a lot of strange forces and situations that I would certainly say were probably not very comparable to others
if nobody was different and never had different circumstances, why bother if everyone was the same in the first place?

>but were too mundane to consider truly amazing or bad, just strange enough to raise questions in a way.
well, a brony praises this show for mundane lessons...maybe those little details are what make life special.

>I don't wanna join that social media game
well, you aren´t showing these thoughts with just 140 characters. That by itself detours from a very popular social site.
>so I won't raise any issues again unless something really relates to the topic or I drawn on some life experience for a fanfic
well, making your personal thoughts artistic is a pretty damn fine filter for describing those feelings. In fact, I would say that recontextualizing them and setting them up properly requires some effort behind the process. So yeah, that medium or basically any kind of art, filters those thoughts.

Now, my replies do not come from an expert on psychology, I am not studying that exactly. Just a random faggot who gives a few thoughts/observations about these lines.

>>3596
>honestly, I would take those existential thoughts into something more abstract and hidden in between the lines that you could write in a fic
That what I prefer to do. Though sometimes it does help to give a little background when explaining a fic do to some... stranger mindsets.

>I still repeat that this is risky as hell because you are telling it to some random anons that you don´t know who they are behind the screen
A partial risk anyway, though, facebook has way more on the average joe than I have alluded to a few anons. The only reason I made this post >>3557 was because of >>3547.
> living without running water for several months and under various other different types of strain for most of my life being at the mercy of various different forces at various different points of my life.
It was both poorly worded and certain have mentioned that one detail with the water. It felt too much like a begging of attention. Perhaps I'm too sick of social media. I'm actually not fully against disusing such since those topics havw came up before... but I didn't like how it was worded with this one insistence of mine. Those other facts I mentioned were merely to show how someone often exaggerates there hardships/problems a little. Everything was true but it wasn't an intimate details that really worry me speaking about and only brought up as examples of striping context and compounding several insistences to form a narrative to sell.

>>3597
>Well, that´s like selling and overexaggerating a past that you distort so you can reach more people and selling those drama bait events for getting more sympathy. A pretty common practice.
Yep. It's what I'd say 80% of even minor media influencers do to a little bit nowadays (and a lot of normal people). It's something that I both detest and fear and never want to even be remotely associated with and or mistaken to be doing.

>I have gone through that gang violence period without taking part, just being in the background, for a couple of years.
Yep, samee never did. Closest thing was random gun fire once near the house and seeing people walk armed with boards and bats that I'd just hide from. I knew a few people who thought they were hot stuff for cussing and smoking weed... but overall I stayed away from even that low level idiocy.

>Lastly, about the escape to the countryside
Not even an escape in that way. My other grandparents died and we briefly moved into country property. I only mentioned that as an example of that there was some mobility/fluidity of things as opposed to always hurting, but I should've specified that.

>Her mother was so worried that even the police was looking after him and he ran away for a few hours. Nowadays, that person is perfectly fine and has earned a pretty upbeat mood these latest years. That event happened because of tensions with the family. That subject gave up and showed those frustrations by doing running away to the outskirts.
Good for him. I have also have know stuff like this though it didn't always end happy of course

>>3597
>well, making your personal thoughts artistic is a pretty damn fine filter for describing those feelings. In fact, I would say that recontextualizing them and setting them up properly requires some effort behind the process. So yeah, that medium or basically any kind of art, filters those thoughts.
Indeed. In fact I'd say I've had a few thoughts swirling in my head as of late for fic ideas that I think are drawing on stuff.

>About drugs, well I am pretty tired of musicians falling into them and have shown way worse symptoms than that (and exposed into the press) . Nothing extraordinary, especially when they got massively popular around the 70s (before even).
It becomes boring after a certain point, not saying that some of LSD inspired stuff isn't fanstastic but most of it was this cycle of addiction and depression and death depeding on the drug Speaking of the 1970s drug scene, Lynyrd Skynyrd had a song specifically about that point in about the state of things at that time in music and themselves . That's always haunted me a bit.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=J4j7ggZqbiU [Embed]

>if that guy caused a problem indifferently to you, then he could have perfectly set up that same situation to any other neighbor. In fact, it seems that one has only problems with problematic people when others also have to deal as you say with those people.
Yeah, he and his brothers were just wild kids. They'd do all kinds of stuff and where one of several neighbors that were a bit wild that I knew and not the ones that I worry bout moved away, along with several other families that cuasd most of the gang trouble in the neighborhood.

>Now, my replies do not come from an expert on psychology, I am not studying that exactly. Just a random faggot who gives a few thoughts/observations about these lines.
We both are.

>>3598
>certain have mentioned.
"Shouldn't" have mentioned. Not certain.

>>3589
>Not much of a different impetus but swamp out most of the lonely and abandonment for a more subtle /confy/ and a haunting aura that has a mix of emotions that could be attached to it.
that sounds way nicer indeed.

>Here what I imagine, the cover art for the fic The Sun Whispers Your Name.
>I read this fic a long tim ago and don't remember the full details but they sadly didn't spent more than a chapter in this city travling inside Celestia's mind .
only one chapter of that part. Do you remember if there were more dramatic or happy moments before and after that part? Just curious about the writer´s dynamic with that story.

>I've ran into other fics that also had fantastical places like this and it always makes feel quite haunted.
the pic definitely looks like it. That building brings a strange feeling that the first thing that comes into your head is why it is located right there, in the middle of a blue field.
It doesn´t help much to avoid that strange feeling of comfort when Luna and Twilight are staring patiently at it.

>Not sure how much of a spike they are having now considering weekend activity.
honestly I haven´t cared all that much about the boards nor I have noticed how much it has increased. I simply reported it because of giving a warning sign and expose a clear example on how to become popular overnight. Sure it´s an isolated case but they have balanced it with the drama that the news have arisen pretty loudly during those two days).

>also saw EQD trixie in /v/ and no one freak out at her appearance
8 /b/ has traditionally had a pony thread every now and then and they were used to seeing it. It becomes really apparent that the mindset shown over there isn´t the same as the original root of it, which caused property damage.

It doesn´t surprise that they show between little to no reaction at all, much less when it´s reached a point to qualify it as "another" reaction image that you would expect.

>Have ya heard of th whole mattishatitis drama?
nope. The one I have heard was the controversy about those random videos about popular characters and brands doing all kinds of fetishes and weird stuff (including MLP). That content could be defined as Deviantart turned into a Youtube video (and not exactly its brightest side).

If that drama has come up around these last two years, then I have not noticed it until now.

I wanted to say that The True 56k Experience™ is gone, but turns out it isn't.

Also, that uncomfortable realisation that lists of favourite ponies are identifiable information.
Pulling some numbers out of my ass for some model, sharing top 2 ponies is unique enough to identify one person out of 1024. I'd say I underestimated by far, but I didn't put much thought beyond 3 seconds coming up with the numbers.

And fuck not having organised image folder.

(Also, I like to live dangerously and haven't read anything from this thread save few posts)

*Disappears into the distance*

>>3591
>It's kind of more complicated than just that in my head do to me having a more positive point to make
well, if you cannot find the explanation,one can leave it at that for now.

>I am not easily offended by things like that, so you don't have to worry on that front.
it´s not about getting offended. it´s more like a mindset that I have when I get into this private zone that I sense as sacred. As long as there isn´t anything extraordinarily wrong that I have to point out or the transmitter asks for it, I tend to listen to the story that I have no idea until it´s explained completely.
And even then,in other topics I jump onto them naturally and even anticipate the words that I am going to receive yet for this one, I am more reserved. Giving an external view without understanding at all the backstory feels like manipulating or influencing over the other, hence I have to think a little bit more whenever I have to give my view on that.


>The only reason I brought it up because that is my relation to such adversity and overcoming it and trying to note that my perspective is probably a bit strange from the average joe or Jose.
well, not everything is cut by the same pattern. There are slight variations that rely on exclusive circumstances more than anything.

>Still sustainable in theory but people jumping ship isn't a good sign.
well, I am using .xyz (by incident) and it seems that it´s working as usual (2 hooves out of 3). Maybe they have fixed it now. There are like 8 boards left with a little bit of activity. I suppose ponies were meant to see the /end/ before their innocent eyes.

>>3598
>sometimes it does help to give a little background when explaining a fic do to some... stranger mindsets.
yeah, that´s what critics call "originality". Maye the path for trying to explore those thoughts is more interesting than the ending flag itself, who knows.

>facebook has way more on the average joe than I have alluded to a few anons.
that´s true. Not so risky and one advantage you have is that people are lazy even for spying. If it doesn´t have a profile on those mainstream social media, then you are kind of dead in terms of digital identity (in social terms). Also, you are covered by a barrier of normie people who are exposing what they do 24/7 all the time.

>The only reason I made this post >>3557 was because of >>3547.
probably because of unexplained context that didn´t give the full story and also you were more or less hungry for posting after the maintenance period (I am implying this part).

>It felt too much like a begging of attention
well, definitely if you can live without water, then you are God under the skin of a MLP fan who shitposts in an alt chan.

>Perhaps I'm too sick of social media.
you tell me, I complained about them from the very beginning, not to mention that I deleted my Twitter account around 2016. One can complain about 4chan a lot but the posters that stay there also admit that there is no better place/alternative to go.

>but I didn't like how it was worded with this one insistence of mine.
well, you simply posted it trying to go into the middle ground, testing the waters and you ended up giving a clickbait? shitpost. I didn´t take it with much importance because I needed more info to judge. I simply posted about the interesting times topic until you mentioned the big part >>3577.

>Those other facts I mentioned were merely to show how someone often exaggerates there hardships/problems a little.
basically trying really hard to be a postmodern journalist or average user of Twitter. That happens when you have something to say yet the words kill all your intentions to reflect it properly. What you have said and fixed now.

>it wasn't an intimate details that really worry me speaking about and only brought up as examples of striping context and compounding several insistences to form a narrative to sell.
yeah, the middle point in order to give a sense of accessibility. It´s certainly genuine if done well. I have tried to do that as well and I am telling you that giving it more form with something else, makes it even easier to digest.

I suppose that the subtlety (maybe omission is the correct word) just didn´t fit that much for what you wanted to expose.

>It's something that I both detest and fear and never want to even be remotely associated with and or mistaken to be doing.
well, these days one has to adapt that strategy in order to draw attention these days......in order to become famous quickly and get some sort of attention out of one in a million. One gets bored of this and fed up because there are so many users trying yet they fail miserably. I kind of (even though I had to explain lots of things) did it with the first posts of my personal project and well, the thing I love the most is that those two fics exist.

One doesn´t earn fame nor sympathy so quickly. I suppose one gets it over time even though you aren´t in the best format to do that long term move.

So...it´s sadly kind of difficult to adapt an alternative path considering these common trends extended to the entire globe.

>>3598
one thing I should add about that drama bait and middle truths that end up being fake and tricky. A very famous writer said: "In an era full of lies, truth is a revolutionary act". I´ll leave it at that.

>overall I stayed away from even that low level idiocy.
then you are unaffected and you most likely forgot about it as soon as you didn´t see them anymore. I know those feelings because I barely remember or even spend a neuron that I was there with those kind of people. I suppose those fuck ups make you immune to do wrong things in the future because you know how people would do it.

>I only mentioned that as an example of that there was some mobility/fluidity of things as opposed to always hurting
well, then you definitely worded this wrong. You were talking about a short period of move instead of an escape. Then, it´s pretty ordinary to feel kind of homesick and have mixed thoughts of those changes of place. If you combine that personal friction with psychological confusion, that can perfectly make you feel devastated.

>I have also have know stuff like this though it didn't always end happy of course
it makes you wonder if one has a boring life by witnessing events like these.

>>3609
>I like to live dangerously and haven't read anything from this thread save few posts
local man stays based as hell and disappears like a ninja

>*Disappears into the distance*
you don´t have Lyra in the top o the crown. You lied to us. You are more into the secret agent Sweetie Drops.

>And fuck not having organised image folder.
organization helps,amazingly well by the way

PoLS for today.

>>3609
Disappearing, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
You think I cannot find you?

>>3606
>only one chapter of that part. Do you remember if there were more dramatic or happy moments before and after that part? Just curious about the writer´s dynamic with that story.
Dramatic I'd probably say. It's been a long while since I read it so I don't remember all the details. the city was supposed to be dated prehistory before equestria and it was back when Celestia and Luna were considered to be deities so there was a mythology theme with it. I don't remember what the ultimate reason why Celestia was sleeping though I loved the imagery in the earlier parts, though some of the later explations I remember making the world feel a bit colder to me than mysterious but I don't remember exactly what. Still I always loved the city regardless.

>It doesn´t help much to avoid that strange feeling of comfort when Luna and Twilight are staring patiently at it.
It's calming and haunting and almost a little creepy. Makes one feel like they are staring at something beautiful, yet holding a lot of secrets and makes the world feel mysterious. I've gotten lost in the pic so many times...

>8 /b/ has traditionally had a pony thread every now and then and they were used to seeing it. It becomes really apparent that the mindset shown over there isn´t the same as the original root of it, which caused property damage.
I remember seeing pony reaction images on one of the few times I took a glance at their /b/ and being surprised at the lack of freakout.

>nope. The one I have heard was the controversy about those random videos about popular characters and brands doing all kinds of fetishes and weird stuff (including MLP). That content could be defined as Deviantart turned into a Youtube video (and not exactly its brightest side).
Actually somewhat similar category, though over the last couple of weeks. Relates to non explicit videos of children in swimsuits and such being shared and commented on by pedos . A yt channel called mattiswhatitis randomly had a vid go viral about this topic. Youtube randomly started deleted channels and shutting down comment sections in panic, though it was understandable it hit a lot of otherwise innocent channels (like ones relating to pokemon). If that wasn't enough to create a storm, matt started to have random livestreams about it and trying to really supporters to contact advertisers to pull content off YT until they got it fixed. Several have and it caused a lot of Yters to go after him, since they were pissed off of possibly having another "adpocalypse" (YT's last major controversy with unsavory content which led to a mass ad boycott, though that one was a much darker rabbit hole). Apparently it was found that matt had done some comedy skits in the past that were of a questionable invovling minors but not quite damming nature and that he may have lied about things (keep in mind that this info was found by keemstar, though I've seen more sober headed people saying that it appeared to be true) and that's the last I know. Yeah... just stupid YT stuff.

>>3610
>And even then,in other topics I jump onto them naturally and even anticipate the words that I am going to receive yet for this one, I am more reserved. Giving an external view without understanding at all the backstory feels like manipulating or influencing over the other, hence I have to think a little bit more whenever I have to give my view on that.
I can understand tbh. I'd have that fear too with some people. It's good to be careful, wise even I'd say, though I also say that the scared realm I tell anywhere online I fully understand are open to scurrility and mockery, and even being a bit more liberal with such places can be interesting as well. Thanks for the respect though a as I've said in the past, if ya ever need ta just vent or something I'd be all ears.

>>3611
>that´s true. Not so risky and one advantage you have is that people are lazy even for spying.
Exactly, though security through obscurity is ill advisable unless one remains obscure . But as for the threat model I have. A few allusions to sensitive personal topics sometimes mixed in with mlp contnet is not much for me to sweat over.

>well, you simply posted it trying to go into the middle ground, testing the waters and you ended up giving a clickbait? shitpost. I didn´t take it with much importance because I needed more info to judge. I simply posted about the interesting times topic until you mentioned the big part
I only posted it because it was the first thing in my head as a relation. The big part was when I realized how it sounded like I how I hated how I had worded it and thought it felt a little too much to allude to and the fact that it was such a social media thing to do.

> One can complain about 4chan a lot but the posters that stay there also admit that there is no better place/alternative to go.
Yep. Though their are topics that I would like to be discussed with more sincerity and such, I would take 4chan over the main social media sites anyday. Besides, I've got smaller alt chans and other rabbit holes Internet communities that you can go to fill out social media topics in a healthier atmosphere.

>basically trying really hard to be a postmodern journalist or average user of Twitter. That happens when you have something to say yet the words kill all your intentions to reflect it properly. What you have said and fixed now.
This.

>So...it´s sadly kind of difficult to adapt an alternative path considering these common trends extended to the entire globe.
Indeed. Even on smaller sites you can find those to an extent. I have giving long thought on my long term net presence plans and it be a hard road to walk without joining up in at least some of the things in social media that I despise. Even if I avoid the larger sites if I took a name I'd be prone to end up getting caught up in some circlejerk or group with in group out group dynamics that could lead to stupid drama. And if I failed to pertispate by it's rules I could be shunned, unless I tried to really my own group around my displeasure of social media, which would just be a repeat of the problems with me at the helm. Not saying it would happen, but that it always would be a possibility, even with a small online presence.

>>3613
>yeah, there´s always that. One can improvise perfectly with those choices.
Or even derpibooru or mlpg.co now that I think about it. and I might as well set up a derpibooru account. Yeah, that's why I never linked one, because I have never bothered to...

>So yeah, you are right about letting things to grow slowly. and that´s how you can avoid the clickbait mentality as well because of staying loyal to what you post or think.
Few things that have hype usually are relevant more than a few years. I mean, one could name Star Wars as an example, or even this franchise considering how it exploded but still has a much larger than average core fandom. But most things that are popular are just that, trends. I'd rather slowly gain vitality and build to a point of larger cult following with a just under mainstream recognition (Touhou, independent animator Don Hertzfeldt for a more strange example) that is sustaining and growing over a hype bobble that pops.

>I paused the episode and I thought I was seeing the cousin of Xerneas or something.
>Maybe these two pics make these impressions less ridiculous.
Nah, I can see why from the get go. I guess we should start calling it PONYmon eh? I could say the same for a good bit of the deisgns now that I think about it. I'm looking at you kirin

Dolores it seems has a rival. Ponychan is now our greatest enemy. this is a ponychan banner btw

>>3608
True. Though always posting lyra is a pattern as well that I can track with you too pal. tell me your 5th fav then

>>3607
Alright then. Lyra with lobster claws fighting using arch linux to edit reality.

>>3632
>Dramatic I'd probably say.
right, I think that I can imagine a few things about it.
>the city was supposed to be dated prehistory before equestria and it was back when Celestia and Luna were considered to be deities so there was a mythology theme with it.
no wonder it haunts the reader, considering that lore wise (back then), it was serious stuff that the show barely brought onto the table.

>I loved the imagery in the earlier parts, though some of the later explations I remember making the world feel a bit colder to me than mysterious but I don't remember exactly what. Still I always loved the city regardless.
it looks like a strange wild city that contributes for a scenery like that. Eeeeyup, it seems that this is one of those pictures that offers more in terms of thinking about yourself and why they are there than the next chapter of that fic.

>Makes one feel like they are staring at something beautiful, yet holding a lot of secrets and makes the world feel mysterious. I've gotten lost in the pic so many times...
definitely. Also despite being a city, it makes you feel lonely for some reason.

>I took a glance at their /b/ and being surprised at the lack of freakout.
8chan knows the old news that came from the well known site and keep in mind that /mlp/ was already created before 8chan saw the light.MLP had aired for three entire years by that point.

>Relates to non explicit videos of children in swimsuits and such being shared and commented on by pedos
those ingredients usually lead to...
>pparently it was found that matt had done some comedy skits in the past that were of a questionable invovling minors but not quite damming nature and that he may have lied about things (keep in mind that this info was found by keemstar, though I've seen more sober headed people saying that it appeared to be true) and that's the last I know. Yeah... just stupid YT stuff.
basically Youtube problems and drama except for this part

>they were pissed off of possibly having another "adpocalypse" (YT's last major controversy with unsavory content which led to a mass ad boycott, though that one was a much darker rabbit hole

a friendly site they said. Out of shutting down channels and messing up with algorithms (which doesn´t surprise me at all), this aspect sure sounds more extraordinary. After reading this post, I´ve remembered that pedos use Youtube to trick minors and ask for little minors to do X stuff.

So yeah, maybe the wolf isn´t the one who the media tells you who in theory should be. Maybe the innocent sheep is the one who gives you the poisonous bite in the end.

>Thanks for the respect though a as I've said in the past, if ya ever need ta just vent or something I'd be all ears.
this is one of the reasons I don´t use mockery and I respect the privacy a little bit more. Those who prove that they are actually open minded and serious unironically....are the ones that one should take care.

By the way, I have vented a lot of things and talking and seeing propaganda everywhere just bores me to death at this point. I will get affected by it anyway but without an appetite for it, much less about getting offended (unless the people behind it are incompetent, that sure angers me more). It sells a lot and it gives you a topic to talk about but I´d rather talk about Filly Funtasia or whatever, mostly because of feeling tired about it.

>>3599
>I've had a few thoughts swirling in my head as of late for fic ideas that I think are drawing on stuff.
that process is for sure the most mysterious and thrilling one that defines a story. Having visions about feels like you are watching a movie for you that isn´t even painted clearly. Somehow, when you get to write the story, it feels like you are cheating because you are wording what you see in your head.

>It becomes boring after a certain point, not saying that some of LSD inspired stuff isn't fanstastic but most of it was this cycle of addiction and depression and death depeding on the drug
basically, an artificial need of them in order to keep yourself active with the price of doubling the downturn that would come afterwards.
>Speaking of the 1970s drug scene, Lynyrd Skynyrd had a song specifically about that point in about the state of things at that time in music and themselves .
the 70s were a weird period actually, especially after the middle of that decade in which people complained about lots of things in terms of music consumption (disco, punk movement, no wave....and tons tons of f*yay* drugs that affected almost all the artists out there even ones like Nico or Bowie ).
It´s almost confusing, like that period was mostly dedicating their work to drugs and weird hallucinations that came in their heads. Sure, other decades were more explicit and more direct to that topic but not as much as the 70s in terms of dealing with them. I didn´t live them but in retrospective, young people were pretty encouraged to taste them for the sake to know what pleasure those substances offered to them.

as for the band, the record of that song in particular had released before they had the airplane crash that would change the spirit of the band forever

All in mind, it´s scary to think a little bit deeper. Sure one condemns one self about what he could have done for the best, but as for the worst case scenarios, one has to appreciate that one passed the test.

I suppose that´s a silent victory which nobody will remember.

>he and his brothers were just wild kids. They'd do all kinds of stuff
you tell me, there were a couple of brothers that were marginalized because they caused fear to all the school and they were gypsies of course.

and there are people defend Cozy´s intentions with the arguments of children not being intentionally evil...

>and where one of several neighbors that were a bit wild that I knew and not the ones that I worry bout moved away, along with several other families that cuasd most of the gang trouble in the neighborhood.
goddammit, what a mess. That sounds like it brought tensions around that period. Also it was the 70s, an era in which a recognized city like New York had pretty high crime rates around that time and the communication and entertainment wasn´t very present.

What you are telling me isn´t all that desirable honestly.

>>3634
>Dolores it seems has a rival. Ponychan is now our greatest enemy. this is a ponychan banner btw
well, it fits to the canon events. Dolores learned from Twilight so I suppose this is one of the lessons that she would put in practice.

Also, I love how the BO has a sense of humor towards it.

>>3633
>security through obscurity is ill advisable unless one remains obscure
the risk exists obviously but it´s simply that you have a lesser chance to get noticed out there. Also, one would have to read entire paragraphs for a good while. Good luck if they spend time on reading these posts.

>A few allusions to sensitive personal topics sometimes mixed in with mlp contnet is not much for me to sweat over.
well, if there is something that I have learned from ponyposting is that they soften the discussion a lot, hence /mlpol/ still exists and found an unexpected dynamic with them. So yeah, there is always some kind of entertainment in between the lines.

>The big part was when I realized how it sounded like I how I hated how I had worded it and thought it felt a little too much to allude to and the fact that it was such a social media thing to do.
self criticism and fixing the problem one set up. I mean, social media´s method has been pretty successful at what they do. However, you are not willing to do that and that´s alright. If you are tired of social media, you know that you can use that method any day.

>I would take 4chan over the main social media sites anyday.
it´s the alternative social media these days, systematically speaking.

>I've got smaller alt chans and other rabbit holes Internet communities that you can go to fill out social media topics in a healthier atmosphere.
yeah, that´s why forums and imageboards exists. Also they show another side of the coin that people wouldn´t show up so often on social media.

However, I think social media have caught up pretty fast and are wilder and edgier reactions at a certain events (especially political ones) than you would get from these small places. In theory, one uses anonymity to express more anger and frustrations but what I have seen from certain accounts, they just blow out of the park the usual shitposts you see on 4chan, to the point where one gets to investigate them and could perfectly report it to the police.

And let me tell you, I have cringed and seen crazier people around there than the imageboards. Unless we talk about /b/,/pol/ or /tv/, political reactions beat the rest of the boards. I am setting myself fire to the public but in 4 years and a half that I´ve stayed in the community, I have not seen that edge or chaos here than on Twitter...in theory bronies are the cringy people. That´s true for the sexual/lewd jokes around random threads and certain autistic reactions that shitposters repeat again and again but most fans filter those emotions through art (ships, OCs, fetishes, etc), the show or fanfiction which is respectable.

As for the rest, even at their worst, the main sites I know from this fanbase are pretty mild in comparison.

That´s saying a lot and you won´t see me saying these words all the time.

>>3633
>ven on smaller sites you can find those to an extent.
every standard has been set pretty fast and it feels like we are moving at a really fast pace in general. This might explain why everything on the internet gets old after a short period of time.

>I have giving long thought on my long term net presence plans and it be a hard road to walk without joining up in at least some of the things in social media that I despise.
there is always something that you can learn or extract out of them. Don´t take them as the ultimate poison but analyze but it´s worth getting from there. In the end, you are the only one who decides to be selective with them.

>Even if I avoid the larger sites if I took a name I'd be prone to end up getting caught up in some circlejerk or group with in group out group dynamics that could lead to stupid drama.
well, but it´s kind of a private drama that only a few notice it. Unless it jumps onto the new (pretty difficult by the way), there are dramas happening everywhere. They may not happen on the street but instead, keyboards cannot catch a break these days.

>And if I failed to pertispate by it's rules I could be shunned, unless I tried to really my own group around my displeasure of social media, which would just be a repeat of the problems with me at the helm. Not saying it would happen, but that it always would be a possibility, even with a small online presence.
you will find out. Like you felt about Ponychan, you will discover where you see yourself comfortable or fit in without problems.

>I might as well set up a derpibooru account. Yeah, that's why I never linked one, because I have never bothered to...
do it. I have had one for 2 years and it serves me to click like and the fav buttons in order to ask for more content that I like. Instead of shitposting all the time on 4chan, I prefer creating a belief to those content creators that X type of content is well regarded and encourage them to keep going very subtly.

What I have described sounds masonic as hell and it certainly is but it works and what´s even more amazing, it´s that it becomes true after the quality content drops.

So yeah, go for it if you want.

>Few things that have hype usually are relevant more than a few years.
in the internet age, definitely.

>I mean, one could name Star Wars as an example, or even this franchise considering how it exploded but still has a much larger than average core fandom. But most things that are popular are just that, trends.
what´s even funnier is that MLP exploded in 2011 and after that, it has gained the unironic cult over time.

>I'd rather slowly gain vitality and build to a point of larger cult following with a just under mainstream recognition (Touhou, independent animator Don Hertzfeldt for a more strange example) that is sustaining and growing over a hype bobble that pops.
yeah, it´s definitely the most consistent method to thrive and those two examples are pretty on point to that statement. In fact, I have checked Don Hetzfeldt and he says:

<You never want to lie to your audience... you can trick them, you can disturb them, you can annoy them, but you can never lie to them. To me commercials are nothing but lies.
I like this guy.

>I guess we should start calling it PONYmon eh? I could say the same for a good bit of the deisgns now that I think about it.
yeah, we are talking about the most profitable franchise ever and one cannot deny the subtle influence it has had around the globe, especially now with the mobile app. I wonder what other designs are similar or recall you something out of MLP. I can imagine the OCs of IDW or the changeling but it´s harder for me to tell how other characters are similar.

>I'm looking at you kirin
I cannot match nor correlate their designs to any mon in particular. I suppose their designs come from taking the Twilight ponyta mode way too seriously and apply it for an entire race. I suppose the nirik mode would remind me of something but I don´t see it. Do you have in mind anything in particular?

Proof of life.

proof of life in case I can' post soon again. note: the reason for the delay is do to me trying to finish my prototype fic, which has turned into a bigger project in its own right.

>>3649
>trying to finish my prototype fic, which has turned into a bigger project in its own right.
oh....oh dear. It hasn't even begun and one knows what the real deal is behind those words.

another day,another proof of life

with a cute hug between mother and daughter edition

>>3640
>it looks like a strange wild city that contributes for a scenery like that. Eeeeyup, it seems that this is one of those pictures that offers more in terms of thinking about yourself
Oh yes. Because it brings me back to a few years ago, yet even than it haunted me. There are several images come to think of it that do that, but this has been one i've always been drawn to.

>So yeah, maybe the wolf isn´t the one who the media tells you who in theory should be. Maybe the innocent sheep is the one who gives you the poisonous bite in the end.
My thoughts at this point. There is always risk out in the countryside but that doesn't change the fact that most people live in the cities, good or bad...

** >this is one of the reasons I don´t use mockery and I respect the privacy a little bit more. Those who prove that they are actually open minded and serious unironically....are the ones that one should take care.
**
I understand. As long as it doesn't extent to walking on eggshells and limiting you discussion. Thanks fam.
I have the same respect for you

>It sells a lot and it gives you a topic to talk about but I´d rather talk about Filly Funtasia or whatever, mostly because of feeling tired about it.
Besides, their are more things of interest on the sideline anyway. TBH, I having stopped trying to keep track of th myriad of factions and what not, but more from a maintenance standpoint. Weird internet stuff and ponies are more fun.

>>3641
>that process is for sure the most mysterious and thrilling one that defines a story. Having visions about feels like you are watching a movie for you that isn´t even painted clearly.
I get this feel. Only problem is which idea to follow sometimes.

>the 70s were a weird period actually, especially after the middle of that decade in which people complained about lots of things in terms of music consumption (disco, punk movement, no wave....and tons tons of f*yay* drugs that affected almost all the artists out there
I'm surprised how simplified it is in the public consciousness at times, at least from a US perspective. the 70s primarily remembered as Disco with the other notable music movements and art being not brought up much. I guess it was unlucky being in between the 60s with the war protest and the psychedelic scene and the 1980s with the full advent of music videos and mainstream recognition of techno and other later movements. I'm not saying it's all forgotten but I often see it reduced to just a disco aesthetic while even in more limited portrayal of 60s and 80s having a bit more nuance and least mishmashing several styles from the period together.

>even ones like Nico or Bowie
wouldn't be able to say much on nico but I know of the great white duke

>they had the airplane crash that would change the spirit of the band forever
Actually that is one of the reasons it haunts me but I wasn't sure if you'd know much or not and I didn't want to make my sentence long and awkward from being tired that day though in relation to the crash, freebird haunts me the most, don't know why

>you tell me, there were a couple of brothers that were marginalized because they caused fear to all the school
One pair of two brothers and a sister that I know was certainly marginalized from being more scary than simple teen stuff and they still scare me as adults but that's a different rabbit hole and it certainly hurt them all later in life. That's my closets thing relating to that anyway.

>and they were gypsies of course.
oof, that's a whole other layer of baggage.

>What you are telling me isn´t all that desirable honestly.
Yeah, I suppose it wasn't. But it's where I grow up. TBH, this is one of the reasons why I'm so split on how to describe things. I didn't reguard my area as the worst side of town and in some ways reguard my life as pretty sheltered yet whenever I've mentioned details I've had people be freaked out by some things I considered everyday occurrences or not bad
But I can get to that in another time, right now FiM final season is upon us.

>>3644
>the risk exists obviously but it´s simply that you have a lesser chance to get noticed out there. Also, one would have to read entire paragraphs for a good while. Good luck if they spend time on reading these posts.
That is also true. At least of lower level adversaries that I'd worry about most of all.

>well, if there is something that I have learned from ponyposting is that they soften the discussion a lot, hence /mlpol/ still exists and found an unexpected dynamic with them. So yeah, there is always some kind of entertainment in between the lines.
Ponies make everything better.

>it´s the alternative social media these days, systematically speaking.
Or the anti-social media, depending on how you look at it.

>In theory, one uses anonymity to express more anger and frustrations but what I have seen from certain accounts, they just blow out of the park the usual shitposts you see on 4chan, to the point where one gets to investigate them and could perfectly report it to the police.
>>And let me tell you, I have cringed and seen crazier people around there than the imageboards. Unless we talk about /b/,/pol/ or /tv/, political reactions beat the rest of the boards.
It's ironic, twitter, facebook, youtube and especially discord can have worse stuff going on than 4chan and our little corners of the net considering how it's portrayed in media.

> I am setting myself fire to the public but in 4 years and a half that I´ve stayed in the community, I have not seen that edge or chaos here than on Twitter...in theory bronies are the cringy people. That´s true for the sexual/lewd jokes around random threads and certain autistic reactions that shitposters repeat again and again but most fans filter those emotions through art (ships, OCs, fetishes, etc), the show or fanfiction which is respectable.
Well, as someone who has been in this fandom for nearly... 8 years. I have always wrestled with the question of our public perception. Sometimes we'd be seen as better or worse than furries, if not considered same thing, albeit with a bit more mainstream acceptance/curosity for awhile. We've had some pretty crindgy figures in the past and I still need to do some investigations how dominate some forces in the fandom are/were and there influence, but I think I might agree with you. At least for the latter half of the fandom's existence. That's food for thought for sure.

>>3645
>every standard has been set pretty fast and it feels like we are moving at a really fast pace in general. This might explain why everything on the internet gets old after a short period of time.
It seems like there is this split between a group that's trying to consume the newest stuff all the time ("meme culture", mainstream animation fandoms, movies, etc). And another side that is in the past and more fragmented (our fandom, most weeb websites outside some of the largest ones, various other niches that got there start before social media, etc).

> Don´t take them as the ultimate poison but analyze but it´s worth getting from there. In the end, you are the only one who decides to be selective with them.
Wise words right there.

>you will find out. Like you felt about Ponychan, you will discover where you see yourself comfortable or fit in without problems.
I suppose so. I'm just very distrustful, even with the smaller areas. I'm not really looking to be social as much as forging a few connections and fallout areas to get /confy/ when 2020 happens. if I find any places that are good I'll pass it on here

>What I have described sounds masonic as hell and it certainly is but it works and what´s even more amazing, it´s that it becomes true after the quality content drops.
Interaction is key. Sometimes there can be something with a half decent viewer base but no one would tell from there being no comments or feedback at all. I should know, I kept one MLP tumblr blog going for a year being almost the only one asking questions

>So yeah, go for it if you want.
Yeah, probably will once I get a few things settled.

>I like this guy.
Though I've never bothered to shell out cash yet to see his work and am not sure it's even my taste, I've always respected him for standing on such ground on his own and being truly independent and uninfluenced despite all nearly mainstream recognition he gets from the awards and the imitations of his style.

>I suppose the nirik mode would remind me of something but I don´t see it. Do you have in mind anything in particular?
Not anything in particular but a general sense with the more overdisgned look and nirik. Maybe it's just me but my first thought was pokemon when I saw them.

>>3650
Yeah, tbh. I won't call it the biggest thing in the world but it's much larger and a bit deeper than a surreal one off I'd thought it be. Still consider it a prototype because it doesn't factor into my endgame and still will be a bit bumby. Right now it's either 50% or 30% done depending on if I decide to include one sequence or not.

>>3666
check those surprisingly family orientated trips.

>>3646
hi BO

Been up into the late hours tracking a rather tragic event and would rather make the last thing I did on the net be posting a pony or two.

well not much else to say... goodnight /endpone/.

>>3680
and now good afternoon/evening.

>>3681
you sure posted way earlier than usual Pinkie. That energy doesn´t come as easy as one may think.

>>3682
Maybe it was Pinkie's clone?

>>3642
Oh boy he does. Nice work BO!

>>3635
*ahem*
ATTENTION!
DEAR ESTEEMED PATRONS OF THIS BOARD MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION!
*cough cough*
I HAVE A VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAKE! PLEASE LISTEN CAREFULLY!
THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!
*ding ding ding*

PLEASE, ALLOW ME
*ahem*

I HAVE COME TO SAY THE G WORD




GDPR

>>3704
Hmmmm. Never thought of it that way.

>>3704
>>3705
Classy BO classy move... first you invoke European bureaucratic and than dabbing.

BUT I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY AS WELL

First Amendment

Unless you are subtly telling me Bon Bon or GDPR is your 5th fav

>>3700
as long as it isn´t the gen 3 clone, we are fine.......I guess. That Pinkie looks chubby but I have to check those pink digits anyway.

>>3704
Bo´s 5th favorite pony is Sweet Drops....

maybe I should submit my CV and seek for seer´s jobs. >>3614

Also, the picture is already pinned. Yep, that was an important announcement.

Funnily enough, if we were in 2018, it would have turned out to be an actual announcement because it´s been applied since May 2018.

>>3705
the princess doesn´t want to admit that the secret agent messed it up with the year.

>>3713
>3D racing cars simulator
it´s /o/´s year baby!

it seems that a certain user loves playing Rfactor 2 or Iracing. If I only had a wheel...

>>3714
that´s how inverted color works.


>First Amendment
it seems that you want to claim your own roots. Well, you sure are tempting me to do it...

alright,
I am proceeding to say it in a classical way. ehem* ehem*


ATTENTION, LADIES AND GENTLECOLTS!

DEAR USERS OF THIS SITE THAT LOVE USING CAPS SO MUCH!

MAY I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION!

FOR ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MEMES THAT YOU CAN FOLLOW FOR YOUR COUNTRY OR ANY IMPORTANT HISTORICAL FACT

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT AND YOU WILL SEE IT STUCK ALL THE TIME SO YOU DON´T HAVE TO REMEMBER THIS MESSAGE....BECAUSE THIS MESSAGE WILL FOLLOW YOU

PLEASE, ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE YOU TO THIS TIMELESS LINE

I HAVE COME TO SAY A LINE FROM THE PAST THAT CAN AFFORD HAVING PONIES IN IT

IT SAYS...:=

and with that, I think this is it for me tonight.

Goodnight /endpone/

>>3667
>because it brings me back to a few years ago, yet even than it haunted me. There are several images come to think of it that do that, but this has been one i've always been drawn to.
there are so many images related to ponies that one wonders where the actual root is which brings that haunting aspect. I suppose it was bound to happen that one would feel attached to the material that impacted you back in the day.

These stories are more valuable to a personal level than an universal one.

>that doesn't change the fact that most people live in the cities, good or bad...
about 70-80% of the population is bound to live in the cities but I suppose that most of the danger relies upon our decisions more than anything else.

>As long as it doesn't extent to walking on eggshells and limiting you discussion.
don´t worry. I can certainly have subtle ways to drive the discussion to the direction I want. Just because it has a formal touch doesn´t mean I always have fears of entering over that danger zone.

About the spoiler lines...yeah,it´s nice to hear that but one has to keep that over time, not just today. This is just like my take on birthdays, you don´t simply appreciate one person for one single day, you have to do it all the time in order to prove it.


>I wasn't sure if you'd know much or not and I didn't want to make my sentence long and awkward from being tired that day
nah don´t worry, I simply looked around the context of that song and after that, a little bit of info behind that record. It didn´t take me more than 2 minutes to notice that such event would happen almost immediately after its release.
>though in relation to the crash, freebird haunts me the most, don't know why
fair enough, I suppose that other fans would also theorize about its concept, not to mention that it´s way more popular so without checking any comments, I am sure more people would associate both things.


>I didn't reguard my area as the worst side of town and in some ways reguard my life as pretty sheltered yet whenever I've mentioned details I've had people be freaked out by some things I considered everyday occurrences or not bad
I imply that your neighborhood was basically a mid to low tier one that didn´t cause anything extraordinary in terms of crime but you couldn´t throw fireworks or feel completely safe either. The details that you describe would be placed in a grey zone that show the uncomfortable aspects of living in working zone, moving out and not feeling good either....

it could sound scary if those people got surprised easily or if you told your little stories with a good narrative, much more when you don´t show much to the outside.

>>3668
>Only problem is which idea to follow sometimes.
eeeyup. Basically this.
>I'm surprised how simplified it is in the public consciousness at times, at least from a US perspective.
I know more about the musical phenomenons around Europe but there is some information I´ve gathered here and there about the US.

>the 70s primarily remembered as Disco with the other notable music movements and art being not brought up much.
the US had waaaaaay more than that. In fact, most of those artists had to go to the UK in order to thrive and get a chance to show their philosophy.

During the 70s, hip hop was getting the first popular sketches (there were a few aspects shown back in the 60s) and the first songs from the actual genre came around 1978 (I think?) because of the combination of funk and R&B.

Also, one seer of a band was Devo. They knew how to make new wave and show that weird look before any other band from the 80s. In fact, its most acclaimed record was released in 1978 and that´s because Bowie brought them to Europe.

Another big one,punk. Sure disco had its gems but that caused a reaction that didn´t satisfy the kids. Either you had easy listening pop like the Carpenters or you had really complex and sophisticated music like progressive rock. People were tired and that lead to events that you know better than me. But if it weren´t because of the provocative simple concerts from The Ramones,nor the Sex Pistols nor the Clash would have been created in the first place. That brought not only punk, but a very broad genre that was derivative and unique to each band around the late 70 and early 80s: post punk and derivative genres from it. That included from artists like DNA to a jangle pop band like REM. There is a pretty good post punk flowchart that shows how broad the scene was. That period between the late 70s and the early 80s was one of the most creative and effervescent eras of music one can imagine.

Also, the no wave genre. This one sure sounds underground as hell and the only popular thing that saw the light was the album that Brian Eno organized: New York No Wave compilation. Sure, those bands didn´t thrive and had to do more things in their lives but for sure one has heard about these two maximum exponents of that genre: Swans and Sonic Youth. You would have to wait until 1983 in order to get the first record from those bands.

>I guess it was unlucky being in between the 60s with the war protest and the psychedelic scene and the 1980s with the full advent of music videos and mainstream recognition of techno and other later movements.
yeah, the Cold War and the Detroit scene in which poor people would buy the same machine like Kraftwerk had and the city had nothing but sharing rhythms for hours and hours. That was their entertainment and the explosion happened around the late 80s, bringing techno to the mainstream in one year.

>I'm not saying it's all forgotten but I often see it reduced to just a disco aesthetic while even in more limited portrayal of 60s and 80s having a bit more nuance and least mishmashing several styles from the period together.
yeah but that´s the memory people want to make out of it or reduce it to that because of the information they are getting about it from a popular perspective.

>>3670
>It seems like there is this split between a group that's trying to consume the newest stuff all the time.
>And another side that is in the past and more fragmented
yeah, basically that spontaneous division that has been established gives a pretty well idea of how the dynamic on the internet works. I personally fit in the 2nd group. I have no idea what the hot memes are but for sure, I consume content of this franchise with patience. Maybe I will pass through a hot meme or two like Bowsette or something but for the most part, either I don´t care that much about them or I notice them after their hype ended.

>I'm just very distrustful, even with the smaller areas.
for very good reasons one has to keep that mindset all the time.

>I'm not really looking to be social as much as forging a few connections and fallout areas to get /confy/ when 2020 happens. if I find any places that are good I'll pass it on here
but keep in mind, using a social platform to communicate with other users is already a social act so despite not looking for the former aspect, it inherently comes by nature to a certain degree. However, I agree that finding one self comfortable at where one browses is important as well. The only problem with getting too comfy is that you get the news from the same site (Facebook) or try to see a partial truth. Not a problem for you fortunately.

>Interaction is key.Sometimes there can be something with a half decent viewer base but no one would tell from there being no comments or feedback at all.
I know but I, as for now, want to stay as a background user that judges from the second row. I have made a few comments on Derpi about certain images but when one image gets a little bit popular, comments start to arise from nowhere on DA or the same Derpibooru. Just that I prefer comparing the likes among the other works and I don´t see the need to comment all the time. If I do that, either I get too tired of saying something to very specific pictures or users start getting a little bit sick of the same old one commenting all the time.

Again, this is probably the only place that I have commented most of the things that should come out over there yet I don´t feel like sharing them in the main pillars of this fandom. I have those places in less than two clicks, I could perfectly do it at anytime


>I should know, I kept one MLP tumblr blog going for a year being almost the only one asking questions
that shows some dedication from your part but that also sounds awkward because you were the only one doing them


>I've always respected him for standing on such ground on his own and being truly independent and uninfluenced despite all nearly mainstream recognition he gets from the awards and the imitations of his style
if he has survived the test of fame, then he´s not going to change his views. It´s very unlikely he does that but I suppose that the internet fame allows you to be yourself (keeping your way of thinking) while also being popular at the same time.

>a general sense with the more overdisgned look and nirik. Maybe it's just me but my first thought was pokemon when I saw them.
well, yeah. Looking at that pic, the nirik seems to offer very similar patterns and characteristics that you can get from the Japanese franchise. If you faced one in a battle, pretty sure any player would take them as a monster with 4 moves.

>I won't call it the biggest thing in the world but it's much larger and a bit deeper than a surreal one off I'd thought it be.
well, who knows. Just try and we´ll see.
>Right now it's either 50% or 30% done depending on if I decide to include one sequence or not.

as Trixie would say:"It´s a working title".

Anyway, ideas happen spontaneously. One of the most well known Spanish writers from the 20th century said that he sat down many days for 5 hours in front of the typing machine just to have the proper ideas and write them right at the time they occurred around his head.

So yeah, it seems that nothing is clear for your prototype yet.

PoLS

>>3724
>about 70-80% of the population is bound to live in the cities but I suppose that most of the danger relies upon our decisions more than anything else.
I didn't word this clearer as I was trying to make some metaphor relating to the large social networks and smaller websites being a virtual countryside... at least I think I was aiming for something like that. Mind is kinda fuzzy right now.

>This is just like my take on birthdays, you don´t simply appreciate one person for one single day, you have to do it all the time in order to prove it.
Then I will do the same for you /)

>>3725
> That brought not only punk, but a very broad genre that was derivative and unique to each band around the late 70 and early 80s: post punk and derivative genres from it.
Not only that, it basically influenced the whole idea of what rough and edgy look/act were in the first place. I mean a lot of motifs, things and ideas are still taking and heavily remixing cues from it from hipsters to actual underground movements. Even if you could call a lot of it just aesthetic and imitation from that being the popular ideas of what the underground looks/acts like you still can't give that sort of multigenerational influence to most previous counter culture being still actively used unironically outside the generation.

> That period between the late 70s and the early 80s was one of the most creative and effervescent eras of music one can imagine.
This.

>>3726
>eeeyup, he didn´t remember barely anything that he did in 1976 because of the hard substances.
oof.

>if you are in a big board, these sites fit into that term. If you are into constant circlejerks and in addition, in a community, then it doesn´t hold that meaning.
I say it depends on the type of circle jerk and how much of it is based on IRL or interest but yeah a lot of chan ad like groups probably do fit that bill.

>What I know is that its format hasn´t changed at all over the years and people still use them so there is a charm (besides anonymity) that social media don´t offer.
I probably say it's a bunch of factors that keep it going. The contrarinism prevented it from just bleeding users to new technology. Curious users either from hearing the hushed whisper in the mainstream pretending we are the darkweb and secondary migrations from fandom or groups that have a large presence on imageboards (anime, though it be less in 2010s but still a factor, some corners tied to boards like Warharmer for /tg/, bronies, along with politics ,etc). Among a dozen smaller things that I could probably think up if I really focused on it.

>well, that site has harmed a lot and look how fucked up it is that /mlp/ rejects with disgust any link about it. That should make us think for a little bit.
Plenty have been hurt by Discord in a way that you can't blame migration from sites like reddit. Mass migration may make a place lose it's culture but ultimately still you'll have a bunch of fags who are still posting on the site and and even significant groupings that the imageboard becomes there primary website. Discord? It discourages posting to the board. Those who fall in will probably be on a bunch of Discord servers and rather than you having your own house, your now in a convenient yet constrained apartment with neighbors that could always move in and bring a bunch of stupid IRL drama. I can even think of a couple of /pone/ related websites where at least number 1 happened...

>literally one of the reasons you created the /go/ thread, doing almost a meta journalistic work of it in hindsight.
horse news sober lonely cousin...

>>3729
>yeah, basically that spontaneous division that has been established gives a pretty well idea of how the dynamic on the internet works. I personally fit in the 2nd group. I have no idea what the hot memes are but for sure, I consume content of this franchise with patience. Maybe I will pass through a hot meme or two like Bowsette or something but for the most part, either I don´t care that much about them or I notice them after their hype ended.
Basically me.

>The only problem with getting too comfy is that you get the news from the same site (Facebook) or try to see a partial truth. Not a problem for you fortunately.
Yeah... my problem is information overload from trying to keep track of to many things. Though you'd be surprised how useful it is to have a memory longer than 3 months in the current climate

>that shows some dedication from your part but that also sounds awkward because you were the only one doing them
Wasn't super awkward. It was an ask and RP blog that was primarily text updates and I was just commenting as an anon. I wasn't the only anon either, but I was the only user posting recurrently. The reason why I did it was because it was an Ask and RP blog loosely affiliated with several others that were of a Mentally Advanced Series theme not the biggest fan of MAS either I was shocked when exploring around to see it still trying to be active and took pity on it. It stopped updating awhile ago and I think it was a victim of the Tumblr purge because I the link was dead last I checked.

"test"

<i>test</i>

>>3741
hmmmmmmmm...

now lets see

>>3742
>>3741
Well... looks like I got some editing to do.

>>3741
>>3742
>>3743
>these test posts
it's happening!


well,it seems that I have to put my thinking hat on this week.I hope it doesn't fall off in the middle of the road.

>>3738
again for today but with a couple of pictures

Derpi is getting close to the 2 million mark by the way...

>>3744
It's been a bit bumpy ride. (my mistake in formating being just the latest thing) Providing no outside interference I'm aiming for a window of the next 2 to 5 days Pictures and a possible problem with family being the only thing that could cause me to delay from that

>>3747
Awesome. Whatever gets the 2 million mark I'll certainly mess with well, unless something like extreme fetish clop or something

>>3747
>>3749
It will be a modget. Just you watch.

>>3751
>inb4 an anonymous user uploads a Nyx, clop or anthro pic from /trash/

>>3749
>Whatever gets the 2 million mark I'll certainly mess with well, unless something like extreme fetish clop or something
it would be pretty funny that you get to edit an explicit anthro picture though

>>3739
>I was trying to make some metaphor relating to the large social networks and smaller websites being a virtual countryside
ah alright, I didn´t see that. Either way, the main source of danger is the same one. Fortunately, that leaves the tense parts to those sites while others lurk and check their little places that only a few are actually interested in the topics. I suppose that´s the sacrifice of the mainstream title, that all kind of people take part of it and there is not a single selective process nor any filter for it, much less when it can influence opinions in the large scheme (hence why they have become political platforms)

Anyway...

>Then I will do the same for you
oh boy thanks. but that´s one of the reasons why I avoid promises, because accomplishing and keeping them all the time is really hard despite getting nice details in the long run.

>Not only that, it basically influenced the whole idea of what rough and edgy look/act were in the first place.I mean a lot of motifs, things and ideas are still taking and heavily remixing cues from it from hipsters to actual underground movements.
agreed and it´s one of the movements that I personally appreciate a lot. In hindsight, one looks at it and screams how they were able to do it. They mixed everything and drew the line that people are still exploiting to this day and yeah, what you are picking out of it is the edgy part.

Now, combining darkness, isolation and personal thoughts about the politics of its time isn´t anything new. In fact, that always existed in literature and funnily enough, those musicians weren´t all low class nor uneducated people, in fact, they read books and combined the intellectual parts to the street.

What´s the difference between creating a masterpiece like the dark trilogy and edgy fanics that end up being laughably bad? Mostly because of the ideas behind it. That aesthetic was brought in the 2000s because it looked cool to teenagers but the former was focusing on existentialism that was based around the Albert Camus books (The Stranger) and that lead to something timeless. Not to mention that those teenagers didn´t hold a political message that was deeply serious but the temporal let downs that happen for a week.

So yeah, that edgy scene served for those people and future generations to express their frustrations and emotions.

>Even if you could call a lot of it just aesthetic and imitation from that being the popular ideas of what the underground looks/acts like you still can't give that sort of multi generational influence to most previous counter culture being still actively used unironically outside the generation.
I cannot deny that. In fact, I guess that looking at the past roots would help a lot and make them even bigger (or less of a joke). Its biggest problems is that it´s frequently badly used or people became a little bit tired of it and moved their personal problems to......posting their emotions publicly in social media with their names.

This last line gives a little break that it really needed so I suppose that following a good narrative should be good enough. Nowadays,people may not be so harsh on this practice because of its return to the underground and getting less exposure. That should help its creators to analyze it coldly and not looking at its cringy aspects all the time.

>>3739
also, the more I think about it, I think that writing an edgy fic could be seen with a higher regard that in the past because of social media.

Expressing your emotions through social media is a quick method and sometimes you don´t need to express them but clicking on a button of another person that says the same the discourse as you.

On the other side,looking at the bottom of those undesirable emotions requires more effort when there is a story written for filtering them. You have to think about its aesthetic, engage the reader, bring more topics or subtle details that accompany those thoughts and follow an universal structure of writing. So, we may have laughed at it and still do but I think that the 2010s has driven it to obscurity just to reinnovate itself and find other routes than the ones we usually know. Maybe the edgiest messages are thrown around with a light cover...

>>3740
>oof.
that was the biggest reason he ended up in Berlin. Recovering a little bit his health for a few months and produce the Berlin Trilogy: his 2nd release (Heroes) with Eno (Music for Airports) and Iggy Pop (The Idiot) in 1977. These releases seem unrelated to the topic but are essential to understand the post punk scene. Germany had a lot to do with it in fact.

>contrarinism prevented it from just bleeding users to new technology.
contrarians....contrarians everywhere. Also, isolated or socially marginalized people tend to use it as well.
>Curious users either from hearing the hushed whisper in the mainstream pretending we are the darkweb
oh boy, those were the days. 4chan = Deep Web. In fact, that´s one of the biggest newfag detectors, mostly because of the news they have heard around it. They have become unironically the public that keeps it. Now, newfags try to fit in by posting memes all the time when the veterans say that 4chan doesn´t always work that way.

>secondary migrations from fandom or groups that have a large presence on imageboards (anime, though it be less in 2010s but still a factor, some corners tied to boards like Warharmer for /tg/, bronies, along with politics ,etc). Among a dozen smaller things that I could probably think up if I really focused on it.
yeah, I suppose it has become and always hold the status of a site for discussing anime or entertainment in general. Time has proven what things work nicely and other topics that don´t flow so well and the little communities shine the best (because they need some dedication before posting anything) while the social aspects are left in the background.

>>3740
>Plenty have been hurt by Discord in a way that you can't blame migration from sites like reddit.
Wow,it even affected reddit. That´s saying something.

>you'll have a bunch of fags who are still posting on the site and and even significant groupings that the imageboard becomes there primary website.
that will always happen. Even with 3 faggots, you can create culture if there is some dedication behind it. You can have millions of people posting but the ideas are what make the cut in the end. Popularity brings more attention and spreads the content out much easier than a little circle. /mlp/ has lost a lot of anons in the way (and I am not explicitly talking about alternative sites) and they are still posting the old memes from the early years. Not everything is going to stay the same but those memes aren´t going anywhere.

>Discord? It discourages posting to the board.
say that to that anon who came to check this board. He was worried about Discord as well.
>Those who fall in will probably be on a bunch of Discord servers and rather than you having your own house, your now in a convenient yet constrained apartment with neighbors that could always move in and bring a bunch of stupid IRL drama.
nice analogy and it´s sad because despite having all you want....it´s not a place that you can call home. That apartment has cameras and those bots that interact with you on the chat, they are not posting with that personalized info out of nowhere. Normies don´t realize and I wonder if they have read their policies in the first place.

I am adding a little conversation with a contact of mine that lurked on /b/ around 2013-15 and he is using Discord for gaming purposes.He said more or less this: "Imageboards have died because they have failed at attracting people". I was going to argue with that statement but I simply shut up, he didn´t lurk other boards nor bothered to check the culture aspect behind the boards. Understanding that requires moving from /b/ to somewhere else and spending time lurking on how the thing works. If I put this argument on the table, I think he wouldn´t care nor understand it all that much.

Ironically, he introduced me to 4chan and described me how it worked in Autumn 2014...I´ll leave it at that.
>I can even think of a couple of /pone/ related websites where at least number 1 happened.
nobody is safe from it.

>horse news sober lonely cousin...
hey, any info is welcome and the world is not stopping at anytime. Reporting stuff serves as an excuse to comment on something.

>my problem is information overload from trying to keep track of to many things.
yep, we are living in an era in which we have reached the oversaturation point of information. I´ve heard this from an analytical chemistry teacher back in October by the way.
>you'd be surprised how useful it is to have a memory longer than 3 months in the current climate
people just go around and memorize certain things but not always the important ones. Memory is complicated and you see people pointing out things that you didn´t notice or even get to surprise you and change radically your mind after checking that. That short term memory is the best tool for politicians, forget about their mistakes and move onto the next headlines. Old people don´t fall into this pattern (normally because they have seen more events and have more experience) but the youngest ones tend to fall because they are not used to the politics game.

>it was an ask and RP blog that was primarily text updates and I was just commenting as an anon.
ah, I get it, fair enough.

>I did it was because it was an Ask and RP blog loosely affiliated with several others that were of a Mentally Advanced Series theme
I see why it would encourage you to do it.

>It stopped updating awhile ago and I think it was a victim of the Tumblr purge
Tumblr bots at their finest, ladies and gentlemen. Purging things that are not exclusively NSFW. It has lost like 20% of its users anyway and they are going to regret that decision.

>>3748
>Providing no outside interference I'm aiming for a window of the next 2 to 5 days
then I am going to be pretty entertained. I prefer having it on Thrusday because I will have more time for myself after that day so there is no need to rush it personally.

I don't know if this image fits in this thread,the /go/ one or the season 9 discussion thread but this picture is so ironic that it would have been awesome for the 2 millionth mark on Derpibooru.

>>3753
>agreed and it´s one of the movements that I personally appreciate a lot. In hindsight, one looks at it and screams how they were able to do it. They mixed everything and drew the line that people are still exploiting to this day and yeah, what you are picking out of it is the edgy part.
I'm probably a bit more ambivalent but certainly gets my respect for its impact.

>What´s the difference between creating a masterpiece like the dark trilogy and edgy fanics that end up being laughably bad? Mostly because of the ideas behind it.
This.

> Nowadays,people may not be so harsh on this practice because of its return to the underground and getting less exposure. That should help its creators to analyze it coldly and not looking at its cringy aspects all the time.
The main threat for it is it getting too strongly tied to a era or single type of person , which with the as of right now death of us classifying decades so sharply and media being so fragmented that it's hard for single treads to have as much impact has lowered that for right now.

>but that´s one of the reasons why I avoid promises
Don't promise unless you extremely serious about something. I didn't promise, merely affirm that I would try to do the same
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>also, the more I think about it, I think that writing an edgy fic could be seen with a higher regard that in the past because of social media.
That could be true. Social media in its worst form has not only lowered the quality of discourse, but maybe in the newer generations, the ability to even think beyond the tweets and likes. So maybe an edgy fic, in all its angst, is at least an expression of something more whining and victimhood.

>>3754
>These releases seem unrelated to the topic but are essential to understand the post punk scene. Germany had a lot to do with it in fact.
Really? Cool, I may look into it at somepoint for that reason just to understand it if I have the time.
Though for all I know I may have at least heard of some of it before
My random blind spots in knowledge show why I could't be a good /mu/ poster.

>>3755
>Wow,it even affected reddit. That´s saying something.
What I was saying with "migration from reddit" was about redditors flooding chans vs Discord outright draining them. Not that Reddit has suffered a migration (that I know of, don't visit there much). Though from what I here on censorship I could see that happening in the future. ot saying Discord is a good place to go but it'd be a lot of normal people who don't any better first choice as idoitic that is for the long run
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/discord-is-top-im-app-among-dark-web-cyber-criminals/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/01/29/discord-the-2-billion-gamers-paradise-coming-to-terms-with-data-thieves-child-groomers-and-fbi-investigators/?utm_source=TWITTER&utm_medium=social&utm_content=2108057929&utm_campaign=sprinklrForbesMainTwitter#702267473741

> Not everything is going to stay the same but those memes aren´t going anywhere.
At least when they don't get banned that is.

>it´s not a place that you can call home. That apartment has cameras and those bots that interact with you on the chat, they are not posting with that personalized info out of nowhere
Ideally it suppose to be a place to hangout and socialize with those of what niche/interest but it never stays a sideshow. On all sites I've seen it either has hurt or killed the community there or brought drama from outside. But now I'm just repeating myself.

>Normies don´t realize and I wonder if they have read their policies in the first place.
In my country certainly not. Then on top of that you have all these youngsters whose first experience of something privet is Discord. It's a recipe for toxicity and things you will regret later. Though I cannot say of the people who should no better yet act as if they where naive youngsters themselves.

>Ironically, he introduced me to 4chan and described me how it worked in Autumn 2014...I´ll leave it at that.
And now you're here...

>>3756
Well it seems I've failed on Thursday. Picture which I am making in my retarded homebrew style again are taking me a bit longer than I want to. If you want I could post a preview or a part if I don't get it done soon enough.

>>3759
Now that certainly would be. Maybe even prophetic if a few of the fandom do start circlejerking around it for awhile during the gap between gen 4 and 5.

>>3751
Part of me couldn't blame them bo part of me really couldn't. It's a risky game to let it go on its own and wind up with something utterly crappy and or something trollish against us. But than again, that's part of the fun

>>3752
Too be fair I suppose that make me have to get creative!

>>3759
>I don't know if this image fits in this thread,the /go/ one or the season 9 discussion thread
I'd say any of'em. I mean we were disusing it here in the first place but the topic could've fit anywhere, at least with are standards of free flow discussion.

>>3760
>I'm probably a bit more ambivalent but certainly gets my respect for its impact.
I get that ambivalence. For those that love prog rock, the punk scene basically set up its death with the new wave as the cherry on top of the cake for its definitive loss of relevancy. Everything went onto the simplistic route.

>The main threat for it is it getting too strongly tied to a era or single type of person , which with the as of right now death of us classifying decades so sharply and media being so fragmented that it's hard for single treads to have as much impact has lowered that for right now.
but that has happened to everything, not only this scenes or several subcultures. Internet has combined and reunited everything in just two clicks. It´s practically almost impossible not to get influenced by other unrelated things that add another layer to that tread. If you follow a tread these days, it´s because you accept that circle just the way it is. Following that generic tread 100% is entirely up to one self fault and not from anybody else. Call them purists or whatever but you have already said it.

>I didn't promise, merely affirm that I would try to do the same
yeah, with that detail in mind, one cannot feel bad and it´s certainly better this way. If I promised that we were to reach almost 4k posts over here, I would have probably got tired and see that objective with laziness and apathy. However, I haven´t felt forced about doing anything, so that way to move forward comes from my will instead.


>Social media in its worst form has not only lowered the quality of discourse, but maybe in the newer generations, the ability to even think beyond the tweets and likes.
reading this has made me somewhat uncomfortable. Pretty scary to think that. I mean, it´s better than the analphabet era from the past, but that´ direction doesn´t lead us to a much better place.

>So maybe an edgy fic, in all its angst, is at least an expression of something more whining and victimhood.
Agreed. I would almost define it as the personal diary of the 21st century just that it´s publicly available for those who are interested. At least, you show up emotions and that you aren´t made of stone or high tech.

>Really? Cool, I may look into it at somepoint for that reason just to understand it if I have the time.
if you get to browse this, you will say that I have lied about the Berlin trilogy term. Well, the music press defines that the Berlin Trilogy are the 3 Bowie albums(Low, Heroes and Lodger). The press has brought that term to those albums but I don´t see them as such. David had material of Low prepared before arriving at Berlin and Lodger wasn´t produced in Berlin.
The only Bowie album that was made in its entirety in Berlin was Heroes. He also produced the first Iggy Pop album on Berlin and Brian Eno was creating his ambient record and recorded those ideas in Low and Heroes. So despite having that term applied as soon as you get info about it, the thing is that a few people consider that the three albums released in 1977 from Iggy, Bowie and Eno were the actual Berlin albums.

I haven´t told a lie but more like an interpretation of what could classified as Berlin material.

>Though for all I know I may have at least heard of some of it before.My random blind spots in knowledge show why I could't be a good /mu/ poster.
don´t think that /mu/ goes that far. Sure there are a couple of generals that discuss music and there are people who rec and talk about music news/reviews pretty decently. The problem is that they meme and post album covers at random sometimes and these contextual explanations already appear in other sourced. I only say this because while I listen to music, I also look at the context behind those creations. Sometimes (professional) context helps in order to understand what you are listening to at that moment.

>>3761
>What I was saying with "migration from reddit" was about redditors flooding chans vs Discord outright draining them. Not that Reddit has suffered a migration (that I know of, don't visit there much).
ah yeah, I would expect that answer, especially on the biggest boards (/pol/ the prime example of that). I don´t know much about Reddit itself but I have visited music subreddits and the MLP one for the most part. I used to visit every now and then gaming related subreddits a couple of years ago but MLP and politics have drained all my interest about visiting them.

>Though from what I here on censorship I could see that happening in the future.
and then, they will move somewhere else just like...

>not saying Discord is a good place to go but it'd be a lot of normal people who don't any better first choice as idoitic that is for the long run
that. Why would one have an interest in visiting the Deep Web when you have those people using Discord in order to put the same practices that they do over there?. The superficial web is safe they said.... then they get a heart attack when they get to talk about 4chan as if it fit that role of the villain. As bad as they claim it to be, *sighs* it´s a site that stays consistent in its dynamic and somewhat predictable. Not the most beautiful to look at and have pinkish experiences but it hasn´t brought this level of fucked up moves.

Turns out that the innocent sheep, attractive to look at for the kids and has a general public acceptance as inoffensive, it´s the perfect trap for stealing money and child grooming. Sure it brings a lot of money on the table but, at what price? Splurging a lot of money doesn´t resolve almost anything. Tell that to youtube with the Content ID system:investing a lot of money for getting a complete mess.

The internet is a wild place but honestly, I am thankful that the cringy weirdos that love ponies (that in public, they would call you a pedo) have avoided my interest on that style of gaming. Gaming is a wild industry that all kinds of people focus on and that brings good things and then, the other side of its advantages.

>At least when they don't get banned that is.
whoever decided to ban HI ANON must come from someone who doesn´t like the word "fun" very much.

>Ideally it suppose to be a place to hangout and socialize with those of what niche/interest but it never stays a sideshow. On all sites I've seen it either has hurt or killed the community there or brought drama from outside.
yeah, it created a vicious circle around it to the point it becomes mostly meta. We are repeating the same statements but I wonder where this will end though, becoming an attractive alternative for the undesired people that supposedly should be on this site.

>>3761
>In my country certainly not. Then on top of that you have all these youngsters whose first experience of something privet is Discord.
after seeing this, I am a little bit more relieved that I have been discovering the internet when I was a teenager little by little, lurking on a few safe places with car magazines, F1 and gaming news; then getting to know how fandoms work (Sonic for example), then watching a few disturbing events that happen out there and after that, accepting the fact that lurking and not taking part on every single cool thing out there is the best idea to make it safer.

Then MLP and 4chan have helped me to discover the dirty side of this medium and gain confidence over the years by playing in the same rules that any other anon has to follow. All of this without social media accounts. I deleted my twitter account in 2016 and Facebook.....I am so so about deleting it despite having it completely inactive.

>It's a recipe for toxicity and things you will regret later. Though I cannot say of the people who should no better yet act as if they where naive youngsters themselves.
that´s true, they don´t hold that 100% of guilt for getting involved in those actions. Just that those first mistakes have a higher risk of undesirable consequences but hey, one learns about a lesson after fucking it up.

>And now you're here...
eeeyup. It looks sad but the newfag who was introduced to the chans...has ended up dedicating a ton of time without taking a break. I know how they work, I have become familiar with its dynamic, I know how to play with the rules and I know what I should do at any moment. They have become my home sites and I have /mlp/ as my most visited page, then Derpi and then a Spanish gaming site. /mu/ is up there along with Rateyourmusic...and then this place.

I might be the greatest weirdo of my town for doing this but yes, I am here, posting on circumstances that ten years ago, they would have given me a panic attack and now, I am doing it naturally. Although I have contacted and been racing with 35 year olds from other countries in GT5,back in the early 10s.

I suppose that this "gesture" comes because of giving me entertainment during my university period, accompanying me in several fucked up moments and watching how the ride becomes a personal experience that I cannot forget. I wouldn´t have thought in Summer ´14 that I would end up here, thinking that I was going to get HIV and become gay from this franchise. And in the end, it would give me a reason to live and look at the future,getting a little bit of hope and support.

Life is sometimes hilarious and really really twisted, especially with when you have the wrong expectations.

>>3762
>If you want I could post a preview or a part if I don't get it done soon enough.
don´t worry about that. I personally prefer reading it when the whole thing is done, I am not the biggest fan of previews. If it happens, good. If it doesn´t, that´s fine as well. You set up the deadline in the end.

>>3767
>For those that love prog rock, the punk scene basically set up its death with the new wave as the cherry on top of the cake for its definitive loss of relevancy. Everything went onto the simplistic route.
Yeah, though my thoughts are a bit more complex on that, that is part of it. Though I don't hold simplity do to lack of resources and accessibility in a negative light on its own. It's simplicity from recycling the most addicting rhythms and trying to keep things stale and ultra mass consumable that I don't like. I'm not a music critic so take this with a grain of salt: but the mainstream has become a lot more boring in the music scene in the past 20 years. There is less new stuff and experimentation that gets a hgh profile now. Used to be you'd want to find some new sound because uniqueness and style was part of breaking through. It still might get sanitized and messed with, but the marketability than and now with the stagnant reign of version genres being melted togather into a vapid pop, rap and in my country a sometimes very pop/soft rock influenced country music being the only others that still retain some kind of identity that has been slowly going on the last 20 years or so (there was trends like emo bands and stuff). With some more interesting stuff getting second tier recognition and making it into the lower top 40 sometimes I suppose. Though I think media fragmentation plays just a part as any greed on the corporate side. Their is a lot more you have to compete with for attention now and they think things have to be made with as much mass appeal and basic emotions as possible to have a chance/maximize their returns on any artist they invest or invent .

Okay, I still have a couple of things I wanna say to your other posts but I got to sleep earlier tonight so I'm gonna skip onto some stuff I found regarding the drama you mentioned here >>3770

>>3773
Opps, messed up on that last pic. Will probably make a fixed version with links later... not that I want to raise cain and start a civil war about it Night /endpone/!

>>3772
https://youtube.com/watch?v=cwItD4XQiG0 [Embed]

give me time Bridgefag because I will need it in order to reply properly to that post. I want to bring something else on the table besides an average shitpost. Just remind me if I forget about it.

As for now, here it is an example of what I have in my mind.

>>3775
Take your time. I unpacked a lot didn't I?

>>3769
>don´t worry about that. I personally prefer reading it when the whole thing is done, I am not the biggest fan of previews. If it happens, good. If it doesn´t, that´s fine as well. You set up the deadline in the end.
Thanks. Frankly I'm considering just giving up on one of themes with images if I can't get it done and try going a editing route. It's a little frustrating though because I don't have a high standard yet even then I haven't finished the illustrations as fast as I thought I could. In part from me being fussy but also do to a few delays from outside forces.

>>3768
There is something else that I could say here but considering the drama and it being yet something else to reply, I'll wait for now. Because I feel it could open up another large/deep topic.

>>3776
So the rise of endchan´s popularity begins, isn´it? Imagine these teenagers saying that ponies are Deep Web material and over the edge content that only a few privileged people can access and then, they find clop pictures.

>We are going places far. Soon endchan will maybe be a well know irrelevant place!
if we stay in the top 10, for sure they will notice this board. At least, they have noticed us for once even though I don´t take these kind of videos seriously.

>>3777
>Take your time. I unpacked a lot didn't I?
I will explain it in the next post.

>Frankly I'm considering just giving up on one of themes with images if I can't get it done and try going a editing route.
hey, every cloud has a silver lining. Just try and see how it goes.

>It's a little frustrating though because I don't have a high standard yet even then I haven't finished the illustrations as fast as I thought I could. In part from me being fussy but also do to a few delays from outside forces.
then, it means that you don´t want to treat this as a prototype. About the routine,well, you tell me. I have been really busy since October and I have no idea I have managed to write that 2nd part in November.

>There is something else that I could say here but considering the drama and it being yet something else to reply, I'll wait for now. Because I feel it could open up another large/deep topic.
yeah, for now we are having two big topics. I suppose one can continue that whenever this slows down in terms of discussion.

Also, checking those lunar trips.

going full /mu/ mode:
>>3772
>Though I don't hold simplity do to lack of resources and accessibility in a negative light on its own.
well, I had thought at first that this post was going to be another "typical dadrocker complains about today´s music" or "grandpa yells at sky for no reason" but then I reread the paragraph a few times and yeah, it´s a fairly respectable argument. Keep in mind that prog rock was like intellectual music that the low classes couldn´t reach and they were tired of seeing absurdly complicated stuff around the early 70s (see the King Crimson solos) and they rebelled against that. However,prog rock was also an influence for the next intellectuals.

>It's simplicity from recycling the most addicting rhythms and trying to keep things stale and ultra mass consumable that I don't like.
well, do you think that post punk was all that commercial? A derivation of it yes, but what you are complaining about is something that comes as nothing new. I suppose you are bringing these lines because everything is about pop divas or bands made for the radio that suck (ehem Imagine Dragons). In Spain, don´t think that we have it much better because I have to listen to reggaeton in the street almost every single day. Also, consumable music was also around during that era (hello "Sugar, oh Honey Honey!").

>the mainstream has become a lot more boring in the music scene in the past 20 years. There is less new stuff and experimentation that gets a hgh profile now.
and this is the part that got me the most and I almost flipped the table. sighs*

This is the moment which as a young person should say something in respect about this. Let me say this: music today is ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE to define it. There are so many releases out there every single year that I cannot tell you exactly what defines this era because over time, people will remember a bunch of records that could have been underground at release. Sure I can point out the hip hop trend, a great era for experimental electronic music, the comeback of dream pop/shoegaze, 2015 was a great year for post rock, there are indie bands that are getting into more sophisticated compositions, no wave has become more popular recently...there are so many things happening out there that I cannot even begin. The best music is sometimes found under the garage of a house(see Slint with Spiderland)

So many genres, so much experimentation and genre breaking material that even music reviewers cannot keep up with all the albums released out there in this world. The main reason:Internet.

>Used to be you'd want to find some new sound because uniqueness and style was part of breaking through.
>the stagnant reign of version genres being melted togather into a vapid pop, rap and in my country a sometimes very pop/soft rock influenced country music being the only others that still retain some kind of identity that has been slowly going on the last 20 years or so (there was trends like emo bands and stuff).
that´s because people want more of the same along with companies that make a business. However, more people are getting into music in general and they will reach a point where they will ask about how their bands got famous and as soon as one looks at their influences, you start to be curious. Much more these days in which one doesn´t stop discovering music because it´s right in front of you, in two clicks.

I am not guilty of such practices, I don´t control the market system in order to bring prog rock or music of 7 minutes into the radio. There are radio stations, podcasts out there that focus on those aspects but as always, those end up having a niche public. People just want the simple stuff most of the time, something that doesn´t cause trouble. In the 70s, prog rock found a way to illuminate the masses because people used vinyls back in the day and in order to consume music, either you used singles or you spent a whole side of 20 minutes. Let´s not forget that the UK made prog rock mainstream, the country that has consumed and produced all kinds of music the most for 50 years.

>>3772
>With some more interesting stuff getting second tier recognition and making it into the lower top 40 sometimes I suppose. Though I think media fragmentation plays just a part as any greed on the corporate side.
corporations just want money....big deal. The great stuff doesn´t always reach the top 40 and keep in mind that the same companies will push the same pop songs all the time (yesterday in fact, I had to hear again "I will survive" on the radio because it was turned on in the kitchen). Always the same one hit wonders and singles that serve to pay the bills and keep the money flowing.
However, what makes your argument more plausible and down to earth is that you blame that the top 40 is the problem. Well, yes it is and let me tell you, you are not going to find experimental music with that route, even in rock stations that always put the same 70s songs over and over.

So, that sounds sad and I have to use the internet method as well.

On the bright side, did you know why I had to postpone this post and why I linked that song here? >>3775 and also this one:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=FR4-zgLIJvI [Embed]

Well, I did that for a reason, I could have replied to this as usual but I wanted to bring this picture. This is what...I believe that you want to look at and that my generation can offer in some way. You know, I am trying to answer to you with the same genre that you are sad about: progressive rock. Post punk didn´t kill it and both can coexist perfectly as shown these days. So, how did I make this custom chart? I have made an attempt on compiling the most acclaimed releases of the genre that happened after the neo prog era in the 80s. I have had to search on the 4chan /mu/ essentials around the wiki, some music magazines, a few subreddits, using Rateyourmusic to find their names and pick their most loved albums that fit into the genre and it took me like 2 hours at doing that ask (yes,your post made me jump into the genre). Today in the morning, I have had to check it again and replace 3 or 4 albums and I wanted time to check them even if it´s skimming on how they all sounded.

Again, this is an attempt but not a rushed one at picking the artists just to say that while prog rock is not dead, it has cost me a little bit of time and use the proper sites to make sure that they accomplish what they are supposed to deliver. This is a list of mine (if /mu/ sees this, they will kill me because they aren´t the biggest fans of prog), so you won´t find this anywhere else. Prog rock is seen somewhat badly because people always circlejerk about the same old bands from the 70s and they believe that they are patricians for doing that. Sure, these modern artists cannot beat them but they fill that spot that you would consider nonexistent and it´s actually there.

>Their is a lot more you have to compete with for attention now and they think things have to be made with as much mass appeal and basic emotions as possible to have a chance/maximize their returns on any artist they invest or invent
exactly and one thing about your line. There is a hard rock band that has become popular recently and even won a Grammy. Sounds good right? you know what, they don´t interest me at all and I will let you to think what band it is and how it affects the industry for the worst instead of doing a good thing.

well, I am bit tired today because of the new edit thread and the dedication that I had to take for the chart. If I had wanted to troll and offer bad content, I would have made in less than 10 minutes. I didn´t know almost any single band of those and there are some out there that I can perfectly fall in love instantly. You can do whatever you want with it but hey, I have finally brought this option, besides that annoying top 40 one can complain to no end, from my part so I can sleep tonight with my head high.

There is not much that I can offer tonight. You can end and fix what you wanted to say about the Filly Funtasia drama and I will give my opinion about that topic soon.

I have done my part. Enjoy it and good night /endpone/.

wow, bo you've gone all out this time for Dolores...

>>3819
>typical dadrocker complains about today´s music"
Oh I understand that, though I sit at a somewhat different position.

> Keep in mind that prog rock was like intellectual music that the low classes couldn´t reach and they were tired of seeing absurdly complicated stuff around the early 70s
Oh indeed and it got pretentious. I seen some critics exclude all but the core British bands as not true progressive rock. There was some who could very well be argued to care nothing but the most extravagant as real music. I don't expect such music to reign ever alone, nor do I want to.

>and this is the part that got me the most and I almost flipped the table. sighs*
Keep in mind one thing I said, "mainstream". Music is very hard to define indeed. I think when you look dig a little you find plenty of interesting stuff. That's what I meant with media fragmentation. The Internet been has been good for obscure and off beat. Maybe I just have a closed off negative perspective It just seems like these mainstream styles have dominated things. They still have a stranglehold influence on society. Lots of things that become popular just get that same dumbing down treatment (Modern Rock band being just more pop, look at mainstream dubstep when it was a fad, and other genre agnostic but water down stuff). I will agree that I was being a little too pessimistic, because when you think about it, there is probably more people listing to more genres than ever before. For me it has just felt a lot of things are just melting into this one genre agnostic mess of pop insert genre, and pop pop led by diva queens and a few male artist. (at least in my country). I think it depends how one rates mainstream cultural trends? Is this it's death or a stagnation that will choke out oxygen in the long run? Or as and if social media continues to consolidate and been hearded by the "safe" and the "tame". I don't know, I mean I was quite surprised when vaporwave broke through.

Thats the main points on that anyway. Gonna reply later tonight but I have to do something and this CSS whil awesome strains my eyes
why didn't I compose in text editor?

>>3823
I actually dig it only part I have a hard time with is the teal on yellow. Reading post isn't that bad, only typing them.

>>3820
Oh man, thanks for the list. Even if few of these I recognize a fair bit I don't. Again, as I've said, most of the music I know is random ill defined mix of prog and obscure from my father with some general hits and a few add ons by myself because I've never fully bothered to define my own musical taste. Have things I like, and I know I lean to a lot of stuff up that alley, but I have only haphazardly looked around myself and rarely become a fan of more than some haphazard songs over bands I can say I like.

>. Post punk didn´t kill it and both can coexist perfectly as shown these days
Yeah, I agree. Though what I said wasn't based on progressive rock vs punk/everything else more so a lament of the decline of mainstream music as a whole. Even if there is more choice than ever, it just feels right now that the mainstream is just rotting in the same repetitiveness was the main gist of my point. Corporations always wanted to make money regardless of decade but now there is no soul there. You can still find stuff on the net but sometimes I almost have a glass is half empty view do to the lack of variety on top and me considering it a bit unhealthy for society in several ways. Like a lack of real political variety ad meaning, the disappearance of folk music, country being turned to radio friendly, etc.
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exactly and one thing about your line. There is a hard rock band that has become popular recently and even won a Grammy. Sounds good right? you know what, they don´t interest me at all and I will let you to think what band it is and how it affects the industry for the worst instead of doing a good thing.
Maybe I"m just a bit of a fool who lives under a rock, as this has been only my impression over something I can say has been scientifically verified well, there was couple studies...

>so you won´t find this anywhere else. Prog rock is seen somewhat badly because people always circlejerk about the same old bands from the 70s and they believe that they are patricians for doing that. Sure, these modern artists cannot beat them but they fill that spot that you would consider nonexistent and it´s actually there.
Something I can understand tbh. Though most of my knowledge comes from my father from what I've seen in the times I've peaked my head out there there is the 70s circlejerk and then there is various smaller circle jerks with an ever tighter definition of what prog is and can be especially dismissive to other progressive/art and experiential rock of similar spirits from the 70s or otherwise.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xjf6SHSksKA [Embed]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=WjFTpBH56WM [Embed]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VsWl4aciMpk [Embed]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=RFJ59QUkbo0 [Embed]
And by the way. You went all out on that list. Y9u didn't have to put so much time in that endeavor! Anyway I can reply ya?

>>3826
alright, I am giving my views on the songs. That Oko song sure was weird. I´ve checked that is the opener of that album and oh boy, it shows that they don´t sing in English. Despite picking up the shortest song, I don´t feel it that much, not because of the execution but because while I know how prog works, I feel like something is wrong with it and I cannot tell what it is.

About Epiphany, this brings me hope in terms that you are used to listening to prog metal+ epic music with a touch of melancholy and desperation. Now, while this sounds much nicer than the previous one and I am noticing where you come from with that complaint of music today in the mainstream has no message. Combining classical music with a philosophical message with a touch of prog sounds like a combination that well, the hymn for those who listen to it. Now, the whole album is 2 hours long, this band is made for single songs. Pic related somewhat sums up the epic sound of this one.

However, holy shit, that Crack the Sky song holds up and pretty well today. Nothing too complicated but damn, it is enjoyable. I believe that I must have seen that album cover somewhere while looking up for prog rock records. If there was an old forgotten recommendation to rediscover, I would pick this one. Instant favorite and for very good reasons. I think that this album will be discussed as an underrated record form the 70s. This familiar sound might be because I am used to listening to Rush nowadays.

About Gordian Knot, that album was released in 2003 and I am kind of regretting it now looking at the chart. The best thing that I can say is that despite not having the old glory, the former members of Genesis and King Crimson sure made this to bring haunting feels in this 21st century. I think this is the soundtrack that should fit while looking at one picture that you admire... >>3589. The most melancholic of the bunch and I can see why it fits for the introverted mentality. I suppose that one needs more listens in order to appreciate the full joy of this song and comes as downright personal feelings that make this truly shine. I believe that have linked this song because I posted this one >>3775.

>>3824
>I sit at a somewhat different position.
yeah, it´s more humble and less elitist than one would expect. Don´t worry I am used to this and /mu/ has also dealt with people of this kind. It barely comes as a surprise

>some critics exclude all but the core British bands as not true progressive rock. There was some who could very well be argued to care nothing but the most extravagant as real music. I don't expect such music to reign ever alone, nor do I want to.
nor rock, I don´t want it to come back. And you will ask: why? Well mostly because the genres need to breathe, they need some room and let the artist experiment new things without any compromises because of corporate contracts, barely capable of advancing as musicians.
Prog rock was badly seen for some reviewers and used the term "pretentious" in order to mean that they simply didn´t like it. The word pretentious gets badly used most of the time. I would call a few prog albums pretentious(King Crimson or the insane album from Yes: Tales of Topographic Oceans, which was long and overly complicated). Nowadays, I think that people is used to listening to all kinds of styles so there is a chance that it finds its niche with a more open mind (conceptual rock could be a very good term for its tag). Why isn´t it more popular? Well, mostly because of nostalgia of the same bands and that there are very few releases that catch the attention out there and break through an invisible barrier of popularity that keeps you under the radar

>Maybe I just have a closed off negative perspective It just seems like these mainstream styles have dominated things. They still have a stranglehold influence on society.
that´s because the same companies are still in the multi billion dollar business with the same formulas repeated over and over. They don´t experiment, they simply study what appeals to the masses and the more people get together, the better for them. I mean, it´s not a bad concept in theory and for this very same reason, rock has faded in the mainstream eye because it no longer serves to those people who hold the right. They are using hip hop and pop divas for their squeezing out all the money that is out there(it worked for Madonna) and as soon as it doesn´t work anymore, they will make popular another formula that has the same intentions in the end. Now, that doesn´t mean all pop and hip hop suck. I am linking (after these posts) a pretty complicated pop song that is as upbeat as those but has a 5/4 rhythm in the first 2 minutes, changes completely in the middle and the last third pulls out a children choir in order to expose more emotions to the lyrics (from 2005 and it became AOTY and appreciated by /mu/)

>things that become popular just get that same dumbing down treatment (Modern Rock band being just more pop, look at mainstream dubstep

I hated dubstep and I hated electronic because of it and thought it was too artificial.I was a pleb and as soon as I discovered the actual subgenres and the beauty behind the sampling genre,I changed my mind especially these last two years. So look at that, a popular trend made me hate an entire world of music to discover. Glad that it died out and this is what I meant with the corporate staff, that fad ended as soon as they didn´t see the cash flowing as much as they thought.People moved on.
>I was being a little too pessimistic, because when you think about it, there is probably more people listing to more genres than ever before.
I simply cannot count the subgenres/movements that exist out there. You may not be a music critic but despite having lurking 4 years in /mu/ and music pages, I either feel too lazy to go further or it´s way too much to keep up. Hence I can´t say this generation sucks because I don´t know the panoramic view of its definition.

>lot of things are just melting into this one genre agnostic mess of pop insert genre, and pop led by diva and a few male artist.
MTV/Hit TV or those channels are made up for corporate music: Ed Sheeran and all kinds of millionaires celebrating with expensive cars.

>>3824
>I think it depends how one rates mainstream cultural trends? Is this it's death or a stagnation that will choke out oxygen in the long run?
I don´t know but what I know is that managers will kick them and serve as living banks for those companies. See what happened to Avicii, the poor guy couldn´t hold up because he had to run concerts really tired and they wanted to bring him out when he was in the hospital. That´s a crime. He had everything, the money he gained with those festivals was robbed by his manager and his death should make us think how dark this industry truly is. It´s downright creepy how it devastates those people, used as tools for benefits of people who see them as charts of the Wall Street.
>if social media continues to consolidate and been hearded by the "safe" and the "tame".I was quite surprised when vaporwave broke through.
not only that. Internet is sometimes a beautiful thing:
https://www.stereogum.com/2031432/dinosaur-jr-japan-chart-over-your-shoulder/news/
https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8283889/a-meme-pushes-fleetwood-macs-dreams-onto-hot-rock-songs-chart


>>3826
>thanks for the list.
you are welcome but I still give a few spins in my head about those 3 or 4 albums that I ask constantly if I should have put them in the chart.

>as I've said, most of the music I know is random ill defined mix of prog and obscure from my father with some general hits and a few add ons by myself
yeah, I see that you are more into random songs rather than having a series of albums that you love as a whole. I started developing my own taste around 2012 (the Iron Sea was the first record for me.) and after discovering the MLP fanbase and 4chan, I began lurking on /mu/ as well. In addition to this, I have a few songs that I know from my guitar classes that are wildly popular and classic as hell.

>I've never fully bothered to define my own musical taste. Have things I like, and I know I lean to a lot of stuff up that alley, but I have only haphazardly looked around myself and rarely become a fan of more than some haphazard songs over bands I can say I like.
so yeah, you are more into singles than enjoying the full experience and checking the whole quality of the album itself. That´s fine although I will say that most companies used that trick to fool the masses. Most of the time people often bought a record because of its singles and the rest lets down enormously and simply work as filler. I know that it serves to know lots of artists and their hits but is that the best they can offer to a listener? And sometimes, I have loved songs that were in the tracklist but are nowhere popular as their hits and that would have made me lose appreciation about them. For example, I thought at first that The Cure was another pop band from the 80s but as soon as I listened to the dark trilogy, my appreciation escalated quickly and I hold Robert Smith in a very high regard because of not only great singles, but great albums and experiences.

Each to their own. My method is by checking an artist´s most beloved record(s) and enjoy it all the way through or check how it sounds like at least.Now it´s more complicated and it requires a ton of time but the pay off is a worthy experience once it clicks.

>>3826
>what I said wasn't based on progressive rock vs punk/everything else more so a lament of the decline of mainstream music as a whole.
yeah....I mentioned it as the saddest part of it. But not only that event caused this and it´s more like the music industry roadmap for milking cashcows. Mainstream music works like that because of experts at manipulating the feelings of the masses and trying to cover all their material for every situation. Pop music was the easiest way and it will stay like that. I, like Bowie, would sing to Ground Control: "Planet Earth is blue and there is nothing I can do"....except giving recs on my own.

>Even if there is more choice than ever, it just feels right now that the mainstream is just rotting in the same repetitiveness was the main gist of my point. Corporations always wanted to make money regardless of decade but now there is no soul there.
I don´t watch the TV nor the radio. I basically don´t care what they bring onto the table at this point. For me, they can put out white noise in their music channels or whatever, I am not going to care unless I notice it in the news or someone close to me tells me about that. I don´t consume that music because I will always hear it every time I go into a shopping centre or any public area and my apathy would get even bigger to the point I become numb and barely feel anything about it. Background music for me if anything.
>You can still find stuff on the net but sometimes I almost have a glass is half empty view do to the lack of variety on top and me considering it a bit unhealthy for society in several ways.Like a lack of real political variety ad meaning, the disappearance of folk music, country being turned to radio friendly, etc
hey, that happened to disco as well and trust me that there are voices out there that are sick of that trend. You don´t know how many people are desperate of it. So I will say that despite your pessimistic take on this topic, you are far from the only human being getting tired of such saturation.

>I"m just a bit of a fool who lives under a rock, as this has been only my impression over something I can say has been scientifically verified
well, I prefer not explain today but if you ever hear about a X band will remind you of Led Zeppelin (to the point the singer copies Rober Plant´s vocal range), remember what I said. They are not bad musicians technically but conceptually, it´s not what I am looking for.

>most of my knowledge comes from my father from what I've seen in the times I've peaked my head out there there is the 70s circlejerk and then there is various smaller circle jerks with an ever tighter definition of what prog is and can be especially dismissive to other progressive/art and experiential rock of similar spirits from the 70s or otherwise.
oh yeah, the problem of tagging and considering X band prog or not. Those were the days as I see from your posts. That also happens constantly to the metal community even though I haven´t been involved in it.

>You went all out on that list. Y9u didn't have to put so much time in that endeavor! Anyway I can reply ya?
I felt like that because I see that my generation doesn´t get a chance to express itself properly. April Fools or not, the 21st century has a lot of things to offer out there in this world and people still complain because of not bothering and searching a little bit under the iceberg. Steven Wilson with his Porcupine Tree band, Tool, Opeth, The Mars Volta and Phideaux (the first two rows in general) will most likely guarantee some of that material. The rest were completely unknown to me.
What else could I bring onto the table other than claiming that the world doesn´t work like one imagines and sees on the TV? I could also do this for more genres but I wanted to focus on what you sent me in the past and because of that sad reaction you brought with the downfall of prog. Nothing else.

>>3827
https://youtube.com/watch?v=rmJwraC4p5A [Embed]

>y'all have both outdone yourselves
well, for two people, this sure brings a lot of noise to a small chan.

>so it's time for bridgefag to deliver. My fic has been 100% complete and ready to go if was not for pictures.
>Now though, even if it's just stick figures, my story will be up Soon
how will he deliver? We´ll see it on the next episode of DBZ.

NOW, Dolores Umbridge INVITES YOU TO DANCE AND FEEL THE /END/ WITH POP MUSIC

COME ON,BEFORE THE BRIDGES STOP DANCING AND LEAVE US

[autism] Cannot all creation call it celebration?[/spoiler]



[spoiler]I think that you like Christmas music with nostalgia and this is my answer to that lifeless pop you mentioned by the way, what I said over here >>3830
[/spoiler]

>>3833
I am on a time limmit but I am attempting to finally post this story.

we are GO!

>>3862
First place again.

I wonder if a certain mare that inhabited the mountain was behind this leadership....


... and she flew away

honestly guys, this week has been truly active here or at the very least, the activity given to this board seems like it´s turned out to be pretty effective.

A very chaotic layout of the mascot, getting a long fic that reintroduces Cadence (that fortunately wasn´t rushed) and me just...well shitposting about music (with my big mouth) and spending a couple of hours at matching the pictures (my folders aren´t the most organized when it comes to edited pictures) for offering a compilation of edits that sums up the old material.

For three faggots, this board has made a lot of noise (and content) and it´s back at the 1st position for the 2nd time. I simply don´t know what else one can ask from here.

I am just speechless at how simple drawn creatures have led us here after all.

I guess that this is my only post tonight so I give some room for reviewing the fanfic (The Mare in The Mountain I guess that its title),keeping it fresh and Bridgefag gets to post his thoughts about his own creation(even though I have already read it). Not to mention that I have posted a ton of thoughts over here and it looks a little bit saturated of my personal views as for now.


So, congratulations for the golden medal. Keep posting ponies,folks...

...and have a good night!

>>3863
She played a part...

>>3864
>honestly guys, this week has been truly active here or at the very least, the activity given to this board seems like it´s turned out to be pretty effective.
We did good. Even if it was just a coincidence, we did good. After I saw you go all out with the edit thread, with the BO at the same time making a custom Dolores CSS theme for april fools that was also quite over the top, I knew the time was to act then. even if things weren't 100% but I'll explain that in that in the fic thread in the next 2 to 3 days.

>I guess that this is my only post tonight so I give some room for reviewing the fanfic
I will get to posting sometime, but other than a couple of edits this will also be my final post for the next day or two depending on some external plans.

>So, congratulations for the golden medal. Keep posting ponies,folks..
Can't think of a better way to start for the final season...

Good night /endpone/!

>>3865
here it is. I originally got it from the Deviantart source but I´ve found it on Derpi so you know the serial number:

https://derpibooru.org/589838

>After I saw you go all out with the edit thread, with the BO at the same time making a custom Dolores CSS theme for april fools that was also quite over the top, I knew the time was to act then.
that comes from your personal will and I suppose that sense of not leaving the bar low from your part was the main reason you posted the fic. Nobody forced you but well, it seems that it was the last part for joining all the pieces of this board and complete it.

A coincidence after all but one that made this board shine for a while.

>even if things weren't 100% but I'll explain that in that in the fic thread in the next 2 to 3 days.
don´t worry, you can take a break because the important things have been delivered and we are all here after an entire year. I am not posting the review that soon and maybe I have to analyze both parts at the same time: the show and your fic. I could complain about many things but the entertainment for this weekend definitely isn´t one of them.

>other than a couple of edits this will also be my final post for the next day or two depending on some external plans.
alright

>Can't think of a better way to start for the final season...
I didn´t have anything prepared for it and compiling all the edits wasn´t all that special to me (unless you are talking about my philosophical take at opening concepts and the threads), but the BO made this board even more chaotic than usual and you shot the bullet with all that original content.

Just when I thought back in March that this board was slowing down or certainly dying in interest, all of this comes up...

Magic?

quite possibly so

one should dedicate the trips to Cadence as she has been the star of this week. However, I am posting another character that has been accompanying us in a different way for several months.

What happens if you combine anthro, IDW and a non pony species with a suggestive tag? It sounds like nothing good could come out of that combination,right? 2011 vibes or something like that.

However,a few years have passed since then and I think that the furries of MLP can deliver something that deserves my respect.

We are talking about a character that hasn´t received any fanart at all oh high quality.

My trips go to... the princess of chaos (Nightmare Knights).

I am posting a few images that have been uploaded these days though.

and I am finishing my posts tonight with....well, we all know her. Goodnight /endpone/. Have a good time speculating with the premiere!

>>3870
>here it is. I originally got it from the Deviantart source but I´ve found it on Derpi so you know the serial number:
Thanks

>that comes from your personal will and I suppose that sense of not leaving the bar low from your part was the main reason you posted the fic. Nobody forced you but well, it seems that it was the last part for joining all the pieces of this board and complete it.
The magic of friendship is magic

>don´t worry, you can take a break because the important things have been delivered and we are all here after an entire year.
Right now I'm probably going to be more in consumer mode for awhile as I get a feel for the season, with edits and /go/ on the side. But if all goes well the Mare in the Mountain maybe returning a little sooner than you think

>I didn´t have anything prepared for it and compiling all the edits wasn´t all that special to me
It was to me. I just thought you were going to post stuff for the OP, not all of our greatest hits with a almost eerie theme to it accented with a rush quote . Maybe it's not much but for me I know the feel of time being scarce and siting down even for a couple of hours is a lot to me. So yeah, I loved it.

>I am not posting the review that soon and maybe I have to analyze both parts at the same time: the show and your fic. I could complain about many things but the entertainment for this weekend definitely isn´t one of them.
As I said in another thread, take all the time ya need

>>3888
>My trips go to... the princess of chaos (Nightmare Knights).
That ain't a bad choice. I love putting emphasis to minor secodary canon characters and this:
>What happens if you combine anthro, IDW and a non pony species with a suggestive tag?
Turning out like this? Deserves to be highlighted.

>>3907
So it seems we have passed the 2 million mark. Lovely pics you uploaded btw.

>>3751
...Though was it a modd get? Do you think the mods are secretly dashfags and just uploaded it under background pone just to trick us all?

>>3916
This Fluttershy pic is wonderful. My favorite of the batch I think. Though this >>3915 comes close.

May AJ be treated well this season!

And this one is for you BO!

>>3923
Just go read the comments under the image.
Personally, I think it was a modget, but a lowkey one the usual modget flavour to avoid any flak like last time (if there was any last time, I don't remember).

What saddens me is the near unanimous commenters approval to modgets to "ensure that GETs are safe for everyone". I guess I'm like Discord in this case. Let the chaos happen.

What amuses me is that despite all the automation they guy attempting the GET went through, it seems like it didn't occur to him to use different IPs and/or accounts to upload images to circumvent rate limit despite being aware of it. Like, c'mon, it's almost like you wanted the GET to fail.

>>3926
But where's one for Nicola and Bart?

>>3927
That'd make sense to me. It does seem something that is pretty positive and safe. I haven't paid the mods the most attention either. Though with the earlier wanting ta remove downvotes, plus this little incident >>3773 have made me a bit suspicious of them of late. I mean it seems fitting for a hugbox

I guess I'm like Discord in this case. Let the chaos happen.
Yeah, because that's how fun things happen. It could have resulted in something interesting if it had been a unsavory picture or MS paint drawing. Maybe some new memes at the very least. With this all ya have is people saying "yeah, this is nice" and then moving on. When you script reality to cushion and sanitize, it maybe safe and consumable, but not fun.
If that was a mod get of course, will have to go back and look at the others too

>it seems like it didn't occur to him to use different IPs and/or accounts to upload images to circumvent rate limit despite being aware of it.
This. Derpibooru has anon contributions, you can use tor there, etc. It's no walled garden and it's easy to run such actives if you wanted

>>3928
Why do you think there fav ponies be anyway?

>>3930
>anarchists
Easy pick without assessing their characters, asking them nicely, and all that stuff

>>3929
>you can use tor there
I'm pretty sure you have to make an account on non-TOR IP to be able to upload pictures over TOR, but that's tangential to the discussion. It still would bypass rate-limit, I guess. Though on the other hand the overhead from using TOR would be poor for time-sensitive applications like this one. Just use a technology that is over 20 years old that is, use IPv6

>>3932
Tor obviously wouldn't be the fastest but perhaps could be something for a retard to use to add to the accounts posting
Making the accounts over tor may arose more suspicion than a bunch of vanilla background ponies I'd think. Regardless of having to sign up over vanilla IPs or not