My Rise and Fall: How I succumbed to MAGICAL FRIENDSHIP

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

You guys are so rude sometimes, seriously.

There are apparently people -- male, approximately our age -- on the interwebs who have wasted hours upon hours of their lives writing real dozens-page-long MLP: FIM fanfiction, drawing complex and ornate MLP: FIM fanart, dressing up as furries and attending fantasy conventions, and you think I need help because I wasted fifteen minutes writing something as a joke intended to make y'all laugh?

Call me thin-skinned or whatever but given your collective pony crushes you're just pots insulting kettles, and it's starting to feel less like you're trying to be funny or clever in response to my posts and more like you're just tryin' to tear me down, and if that's the case you can let me know and I'll stop fucking wasting time posting here and presuming you're all cool folks who I can consider friends.

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Yeah but I mean there's a fundamental difference between insulting a character and insulting a person.

Like to be frank you can insult Kanaya, Solid Snake (the character, not me), Pinkie Pie, or whatever and that's like fine with me, you'd never see me do one of my classic overreactions to someone saying "Pinkie Pie is my least favorite pony and she is totally a jerk." I'd probably respond in a defense of Pinkie Pie and I might act offended but at no point would I actually interpret it as a personal slight: saying "Pinkie Pie is awful" is something I'd disagree with, and something I'd take poorly, but instead I'd just make some "Nah dude you's gots poor taste, Pinkie Pie is rad" response and we'd move on.

And I have no problem with someone disagreeing with me on Rarity or defending her, in fact my comments about Rarity are often geared towards playfully tickling the sensibilities of those who like Rarity lots, that's not what this is about.

There's just a fundamental difference between all that criticism levied at characters, or even levied at peoples' opinions of characters, and saying "You need help" -- that's a serious statement questioning the psychological health of a person.

And even then I kind of laughed it off and assumed it was a joke the first time or two that someone threw out the "You need help" spiel, but then several others kind of jumped on that bandwagon and it started to feel less like a good-natured ribbing and more like a mean-spirited beatdown.

EDIT: Nah PCD like that's actually a perfect example of the kind of ribbing I actually find completely legitimate. I have no problem exchanging barbs with someone who dislikes Pinkie, or exchanging barbs with someone who loves Rarity, because the ribbing centers on insults directed towards fictional characters, and we just assign different weight and value to the characters and enjoy getting each other riled up over whether we like or dislike them.

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

Yeah like, this in no way whatsoever proves my point regarding peoples' hostility towards me here.

Oh also be sure to include a statement to the effect of "You pretend your Kanaya doll is your girlfriend and cuddle with her" or "You hide in cardboard boxes every day from imaginary guards," yeah, that's not slightly offensive either.

Why questioning Solid Snake's mental sanity is just the new way to playfully rib, we should all enjoy toying with each other by accusing each other of psychological issues.
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Jesus Christ Snake you are Buckleyboxing like a motherfucker.