My Rise and Fall: How I succumbed to MAGICAL FRIENDSHIP

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Krylo

See this is what I'm talking about.

I mean, first of all, 'serious' and 'cosplayer' should never be in the same sentence together. Ever. Not for My Little Pony, not for Homestuck, not for Cowboy Bebop, or any other thing someone might cosplay for. Same goes for fan art and fan fiction. They are inherently non-serious subjects, because they are done by fans of a thing as an attempt to have fun with other fans of a thing.

I meant more "serious" from a time-dump perspective. The Snake Pony song thing took me all of fifteen minutes to write. It was not intended to be taken seriously, and as evidenced by my response to Robin's comment I did anticipate some ribbing from it, but I wasn't anticipating a series of folks questioning my mental stability in a way I interpreted seriously and malignantly.

By contrast, "cosplaying" and "fanart" and "fanfiction" that is "more serious" would presumably take hours if not days to craft. My point was that many of you treat me as the single most egregious MLP fan out there, but there are guys out there who are wasting entire hours of their lives communicating their love for MLP in the form of lengthy short stories, artistically appealing projects and frequent activity in an actual MLP: FIM message board community. My sincere love for MLP: FIM aside, I am not that person.

This right here is the problem. That wasn't intended as a bash. It was intended as an educational post so that you can maybe understand why people are ribbing you.

Maybe I should specify then that ribbing me would be totally cool if you did so in a way that didn't seem so hostile as to overtly suggesting you were questioning my mental health.

"Go see a Doctor" or "You need help", taken on its own and without even a winking emoticon to specify the joke, doesn't sound like playful ribbing from a friend, it sounds like you're actually suggesting that I need psychiatric help.

That is particularly true on the Interwebs where it is difficult to gauge things like sarcasm or tone of voice. If you said it to me in person and had a goofy smile on your face, I'd know you were joking.

[Jagos]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Maybe I should specify then that ribbing me would be totally cool if you did so in a way that didn't seem so hostile as to overtly suggesting you were questioning my mental health.

"Go see a Doctor" or "You need help", taken on its own and without even a winking emoticon to specify the joke, doesn't sound like playful ribbing from a friend, it sounds like you're actually suggesting that I need psychiatric help.

That is particularly true on the Interwebs where it is difficult to gauge things like sarcasm or tone of voice. If you said it to me in person and had a goofy smile on your face, I'd know you were joking.

All people that are sane on this board dedicated to an FF parody among other comics, raise your hand...

-E- Also, Never explain the joke!

[Krylo]

I get pretty depressed, and manic depressive disorder runs in my family, but I've never been, technically, diagnosed with anything.

That counts as sane, right?

[RobinStarwing]

@Pinkie Snake> Nah, I'd question your sanity for writing it but I am more insane and declared so.

@Krylo> I'm here hence you are sane in comparison to me.

[The Kneumatic Pnight]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

"Go see a Doctor" or "You need help", taken on its own and without even a winking emoticon to specify the joke, doesn't sound like playful ribbing from a friend, it sounds like you're actually suggesting that I need psychiatric help.

Oh, also, some guy asked me for

And that snow background is a tiny, spiteful nightmare, so that's probably the best quality you're going to get out of me.

[Thadius]

I'm hardly in any position to be questioning YOUR sanity Snake. Especially not over a little thing like the Metal Gear / My Little Pony crossover thing.

But there is a point where even I have to ask you to tone down the extremes in your posting. Just a bit.

For example, I love chocolate and coffee. But if I were to love them to a similar degree as your love of Pinkie Pie in your posting, I would run willy-nilly down the streets proclaiming, "I FUCKING LOVE CHOCOLATE AND COFFEE! DONATE ALL OF YOUR CHOCOLATE TO ME! WHITE CHOCOLATE? ARE YOU CRAZY? ANYONE WHO LIKES WHITE CHOCOLATE SHOULD HAVE THEIR HEAD EXAMINED!"

And so on.

Clearly I don't DO that.

I'm asking you as a fellow brony just, as a favor, tone it down one notch.

From 'over 9000' to '11'. I think we could all stand '11'.

I'm also asking everyone else to stop the ribbing and name-calling if it upsets Snake so much.

Clearly I have no mod powers or admin powers or anything to be enforcing my will with, so I ask it as a show of good faith.

[Bob The Mercenary]

I've had a beer with the guy. He's clearly bonkers.

[Nikose Tyris]

Originally Posted by Bob the Mercenary

I've had a beer with the guy. He's clearly bonkers.

You and I made out. You're in no position to judge.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

You and I made out. You're in no position to judge.

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[Bob The Mercenary]

Originally Posted by Nikose Tyris

You and I made out. You're in no position to judge.

Shhhhhhh. He doesn't know that.