anonymous asked:
I’ll always be astonished at how much a fandom’s attitude towards particular characters can change over time. When Flash Sentry first appeared, everybody hated him. He kept being called “the worst character ever” or “a waifu stealer” pretty much every day. But now, after more recent EG specials and shorts, those same fans now fight amongst themselves over things like whether or not he should be with Twilight or try to rekindle his old relationship with Sunset. It’s just fascinating to me.
Flash Sentry was a knee-jerk reaction, similar to Shining Armor.
“Pretty Boy” + Bronies = “I fucking hate you for no reason.”
For all the faux criticism about him just being nice, pretty, and shy, there was always the elephant in the room: That also applies to Fluttershy and you idiots fucking love her.
Flash Sentry was a manufactroversy, as was Cadance and Shining Armor being “too perfect” or any moron who whines about Equestria being a Matriarchy.
I am not saying it wasn’t overreaction to Flash but really you going all Pretty boys+Bronies=I hate you for no reason. I mean that sounds like a jab you would do at anime fans not Bronies.
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miss—mystery asked:
Vent art: art depicting imagery of ones mental issues. Can include personifications of depression all the way to depictions of cutting and suicide. It can be very helpful as you can release frustration and negative feelings while doing something with your hands that isn’t destructive. I’ve found it useful in the past.
Fun Fact: Venting is to anger and depression what gasoline is to fire.
If you’re habitually venting, FUCKING STOP.
It doesn’t actually help. People just think it does because they think negative emotions are natural buildup that needs to be released. Emotions don’t work that way. Venting without addressing the problem is only going to make said problem worse because you’re wallowing in your misery and turning it into an activity that provides mental pleasure.
What happens when you make misery something that your brain finds pleasurable? It wants more.
Problem Solving > Venting
So her performances weren’t played, and that preceded playing petty poltergeist on the pitiful patrons of the pub? Hey, I’ll take petty paranormal pranks over the power-crazed and pernicious petulance of the ponies any day. That’s pretty problematic when you start to ponder it.
— The Wrath of Ruthless Ruth
wierdvividdreamer asked:
Do you think people that choose not to vote have the right to complain about the outcome?
We need to stop thinking in terms of “right to complain” and more in terms of “well maybe you’ll get off your ass and vote next time.”
anonymous asked:
My aunt absolutely loves when I play your Glass of Water videos, especially Bug Spray. She says it’s so hard to find someone who is absolutely honest, straight to the point, and doesn’t rely on name calling when someone is being a jerk. She hopes you don’t get actually angry when making these videos.
Angry during the script, not so much during the drafting, recording and editing.
One of the hardest things is mimicking the anger I had during the writing of a particular segment in the recording.
anonymous asked:
“The concept of picking your targets is an extremely basic ethical standard.” I believe it was actually the other part of the tweet that caused dumb people to cry over it. Regardless, I already grew out of hating the quote. The earlier mention simply reminded me that that drama was a thing that happened.
Oh yeah, I remember it. Some idiots twisted it into a version of “The ends justify the means” when in reality it was a form of “Make sure the person is guilty before you execute.”
But of course it’s Moviebob, so petulant crybabies love to twist his words in all sorts of ways. He referred to Gators as “subhuman” once years ago and they still haven’t stopped crying about it.
Funny Peet how you mention people not getting over being called subhuman and yet you keep on crying about Josh
and Republicans and Bronies and every other person who doesn’t agree with you.
http://archive.is/KOFUQ
anonymous asked:
why are so many nazis anime fans? Like doesn’t liking anime go against the whole “white power” bullshit?
Most anime fans don’t watch anime to appreciate Japan’s rich culture. They watch anime because it has gone hogwild with perv pandering.
Peet you just going to ignore the fact a person was talking about Nazi anime fans? I guess the archiver just
didn’t want to archive the post where Peet calls some anime fan a Nazi. Oh and Peet want to give examples or do
you just think all anime is hentai or something?
http://archive.is/qoEyX
Freedom of Speech doesn’t matter if you can’t trust your police force to not shoot you anyway and get away with it.
— Glass of Water - Inferno
anonymous asked:
As you like to toot your own horn about, you tend to put noticeably more effort into your analyses than the majority of the other folks trying to do the same thing. That doesn’t mean I agree with you one hundred percent of the time either though. Sometimes I watch you just to see to what excess you’re going to take a given topic. You’ve got some good, scathing insight, but I think reality lies somewhere between your cynical hubris and Wolf’s rose colored optimism.
My work isn’t cynical in the slightest. I’ve rarely expressed distaste in an episode without detailing why it could have been done better. A cynic is someone who asserts that nothing can ever be good. Explaining where something fucked up is the opposite of cynicism.
Oh shut up Peet you once got triggered by the critic pony from Spice Up Your Life and you also acted like that
pony with the Glass of Water cutie mark was all about you. Do I even need to mention all the times you spend time
out of your life attack people over drama that is old news?
http://archive.is/uziBJ
anonymous asked:
Wolf is so ridiculously lenient and optimistic that at this point the only reason I watch his reviews is to see how the hell he’s going to try to sugarcoat the next dumpster fire. I skip his “Moment With” content without exception, since I think it’s absolutely pointless to watch a layman with objectivity issues armchair-psychoanalyze anyone or anything.
I’ve never seem “Moment With” as psychoanalyzing. Dr Wolf’s examination of people is on the same level as mine when I talk about jealousy, bitterness and the persecution complex. It’s the psychology equivalent of treating a common cold. Everyone can do it.
This is especially true considering that most of the topics are in relation to the fandom: Quality control, dealing with fights, dealing with bad criticism, ect. Only one or twice have I seen Moment With try to tackle a subject that Dr Wolf is clearly not equipped to handle: “Anger Management” and “Safeguarding Your Thoughts.” In both of those instances he’s dealing with someone who is gaslighting themselves and is in dire need of an actual therapist.
Everything else is pretty banal Social Interact 101. If you object to that, why are you on this blog where I do effectively the same thing?
My only objection to the majority of Dr Wolf’s work was the lack of a conclusion. I never really followed most of his reviews or his two dozen videos about the MLP Movie because I couldn’t be bothered. I’ll take sugarcoating over anti-intellectualism any day.
anonymous asked:
It doesn’t help matters that Dr Wolf, a figure in the fandom I greatly respect, has just planted his flag in the “I think this episode is great” camp. He’s known as one of the most thoughtful and intelligent people in the entire fandom, and if HE’S saying it’s good, that just makes me feel that MY position is all the more unreasonable. After all, I can’t come up with arguments anywhere NEAR as good as what HE can typically do, so by comparison, I just look like I’m TRYING to hate it.
Dr Wolf also thought Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep was a really good look into metal illnesses. I like Dr Wolf, I think he’s a respectable person, but as a critc I don’t think he’s very good. My frustration with his “Moments With” series is why I started doing Glass of Water.
It’s important to think about WHY an episode is good or bad. Many people say it’s good because “lore.” I say it’s bad because it exploits the obsession with lore to avoid having to put in real effort. Of course a lot of Analysts are going to be saying it’s good. They’re the REASON it isn’t.
Odd I thought her Glass of Waters started before Dr. Wolf even came around?
anonymous asked:
Lily, has there ever been a moment where you had a really strong dislike for an episode, one that everyone else seemed to love or consider fantastic, and you felt so alone in your views on the matter that you felt that, perhaps, you might have just been wrong about it? Because I’m honestly feeling that way myself with the airing of the season 7 finale. I didn’t care for it, yet everywhere I look I see people hailing it as “the best thing ever”.
If you saw the Top 5 of Season 7, you’ll know that I have Shadow Play the #1 Worst Episode of the Season.
I’ve never had that conundrum because I’ve been doing this job long enough ad have thoroughly taken apart enough episodes to know that by and large the community’s standards are in the toilet. It’s not that hard to figure out why the fandom loves Shadow’s Play: It’s a finale, it references lore, the Pony of Shadows is in it after being mentioned in Castle-Mania, Starswirl is in it, the Five Pillars are in it.
That’s all they paid attention to. I hated this episode because it was forsaking a good story in favor of making as many references to get easy cheers from that crowd of people. They don’t notice it because they’re the ones being condescended to.
There might have once been a time where being alone in an opinion would give me pause for though, but I know better than that now.
anonymous asked:
What are your thoughts on Misanthropony’s old rants and the subsequent series of confessionals that followed?
I’m of the opinion that Misanthro Pony beats himself up way too much over them, and the rants as a whole were over-reacted to.
I suppose that’s the benefit of hindsight since How Not To Brony has given us a look into the mind of an extremely petty and vindictive asshole and several larger creators have since revealed how prone to sulking they are. MAP’s series of “This creator sucks because they suck” looks quaint in comparison.
Yes it’s good that it stopped, but I think going into a Princess Luna-esque guilt complex over it is unnecessary.
Yeah a lot of people can agree the MAP did beat him self up and I do admit it was a while since I saw his rants
about bad creators. But didn’t MAP go after the well known horrible people with only GoldenFox and
LethalAuroraMage being the only times he crossed the line because of them not being as bad as the others? Also
when was the last time MAP beat him self up?