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bronycon 2012

Dewroo

Dewroo

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Jul 28, 2010
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Tilton, NH.
Are there any bronies here that will be going to bronycon this weekend?
I'd be interested in perhaps shaing a drink sometime with people who actually like to discuss technology.
 
Sure, I'm going to have one for dinner.

Oh, no?

Then I'll hang it on my wall.

Oh, that's not it?

I know, I'll buy one for my bedroom!

Yah, that's it. It will go on my bedside table. Should look really nice there!...:D
 

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Dagless said:
Good lord no.
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Are you enlightened? Or should I wiki?

Ok, I Wiki'd, and I knew it was a matter of time before Kickstarter was used for evil. Just didn't think it would involve My Little Ponies!
 
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Yeah...the brony convention.
ha ha ha ha.

well, I should have known this wouldn't be the best place, but i come here so often to lurk and read news. this is one of my favorite websites and one of my favorite forums to look though.

I should have known that there'd be no bronies here.

To clarify, Bronycon is the largest brony convention in the United states. It's being held this weekend near New York City, and i'm going there. It's going to be a lot of fun.

I don't mind if you dislike me or bronies. you guise dislike a lot of things and thats perfectly okay. I just wanted to see if there would be anyone here who would be a brony and would be going.

I laughed at some of these responses. hah.
 
Dagless said:
An adult who *really* enjoys the kids cartoon show/toy brand My Little Pony.
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Thats a simplistic way of looking for it.

To me, it's creative and inspiring. I've made a lot of My little pony related music, and i've gotten a fan base for it. something that would have been hard to do if it wasn't for the Community of Bronies that i'm a part of.

The show is well written, bueatifuly animated, and done by top notch talent in the Voice acting department.

There are bronies who make us look good, and those who make us look bad, as there are with people in the Apple community.

But basically, yeah. A brony is usually a guy who enjoys a TV show called my little pony. Useally in their 20s, usually attending college.
 
Dewroo said:
But basically, yeah. A brony is usually a guy who enjoys a TV show called my little pony. Useally in their 20s, usually attending college.
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Okay, this sheds a little light.

It's a group of guys who are too young to realize that My Little Pony was a line of toys made for six-year-old girls back in the '80's.
 
Wow I can't believe this is a real thing. But this urban dictionary definition seems to capture this thread pretty well:

Bronies simply means people who are of an older age group and like to watch My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. There is nothing particularly exciting about this, but they make a big deal out of it.

Jump on to a forum most places online, and you will see these people often pushing their fandom. As in, you will be on a forum for cars, and someone will have their display picture as a pony, and all their posts will be about ponies. Then when people accuse them of being off topic, they go into a rant about acceptance, as if watching a cartoon is some sort of big revelation.

Subculture is one thing, but it is a totally other thing to push it into people's faces and then get upset. It would be like heavy metal fan jumping on to a My Little Pony forum and spending their whole time talking about metal, and then getting upset that they aren't well received.

As such, bronies are known to complain about acceptance, and about how hard it is to live in a world like this. News flash fellahs, no one really gives a ****. People don't hate that you like My Little Pony, they hate that you won't ****ing shut up about it.
Brony: Hey guys, I know this is a post about motorbikes, but did anyone watch My Little Pony yesterday? Wow!

Regular poster: Umm...that is a bit off topic, don't you think? What is with all these posts about ponies?

Brony: Us bronies just want to be treated like everyone else. Why do you hate us for our subculture?
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Renzatic said:
You're so tsundere, Eidorian.
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Not surprisingly, the "brony" movement is a lot like how moe began in Japan. Unemployed 20-somethings watching little girl cartoons until the economy picks up.

I am, luckily, employed but I hear it is still pretty bad for college graduates. Oh and anime? Yeah I watch that.
 
Eidorian said:
Not surprisingly, the "brony" movement is a lot like how moe began in Japan. Unemployed 20-somethings watching little girl cartoons until the economy picks up.
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...which is pretty odd, you have to admit. But eh, whatever. Maybe it's the kitsch factor that draws some people to it. I dunno. In and of itself it's perfectly harmless, really more a weird hobby than anything...save for those rare few who take it to terrifying extremes.

Most of the cartoons I catch now and again are old ones I used to watch when I was a kid. I'll fire up Talespin or the abovementioned Real Ghostbusters when I get into one of those rare nostalgic fits.

That was when cartoons were good, damnit. Not the crap the kids watch these days. Why, back in my day... :mad:
 
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