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.

[Fifthfiend]

This is kind of a dogpile though.

[Fifthfiend]

Like none of you fucks ever contributed to COMCOL

[Krylo]

I'm not seeing the dog pile to be honest, unless you're talking about the attempt to get snake to understand why getting all defensive isn't doing anything but make people think he's over sensitive?

I mean, it's not like half the people who put things in COM;COL didn't get five + posts of people suggesting they may not be quite right in the head.

[Solid Snake]

Originally Posted by Fifthfiend

Jesus Christ Snake you are Buckleyboxing like a motherfucker.

What is Buckleyboxing, anyway?

[rpgdemon]

This.

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Krylo

I'm not seeing the dog pile to be honest

Three people posting "seek help, fffffffffffartz" is objectively shitposting

Again, not saying Snake couldn't have responded better.

EDIT: Like the first one or two times dude plainly made an effort to treat it as a joke. When people respond to that by continuing to post the same shit, it's pretty douchey. So I can't totally blame Snake for going off the rails a bit.

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

What is Buckleyboxing, anyway?

BRB, I have to photoshop out the second and third panels of each of those posts.

[Locke cole]

Can we... just... make up?

Seems to me like nobody meant to be as harsh as they came across as being.

[RobinStarwing]

GROUP HUG! *grabs everyone into a group hug*

[Fifthfiend]

Can we put off making up for a few more posts? I am pretty sure I'm still in the middle of coming across much more harsh than I mean to be.

Haha but no, you're right. The pony thread shouldn't be a place for bad feelings.