The Internet & Blargument: My Little Blog Post

So here we are ladies and gentlemen,  I'm here to post on something that could very possibly tear the entirety of the Internets apart: My Little Pony- Friendship is Magic (And SOPA). Yes, I know, posting about this thing can bee a sort of taboo, but I think that as readers of this blog you should be mature enough to handle this sort of situation. Oh, who am I kidding? None of you care. But, this was a topic I wanted to bring up for the longest of times, and now, I decided to interview a few of my friends to show both sides of the story. One of them is heavily against the movement, the other is a brony himself. I conducted the post over steam, so a big thanks to both Gabe Newell, and my friends.

Santa: Hello gents, thanks for joining me after that last game of LoL, remind me to physically sacrifice my computer to Satan.
Santa: So, Timmeh, whats your view on bronyism?
Timmeh: It's a drain on society.
Santa: Ah.
Santa: And you, Gioff?
Toast: Bronyism is a means to express childhood as an adult.
Santa: Very interesting, what introduced you to the movement?
Toast: I found myself drawn to it after I heard the hype...I watched a few episodes, and was absolutely addicted.
Santa: Timmeh, what makes you want to round up the herd and burn them on a pike?
Toast: It's a silly way to express a desire for the friendships many of us had as kids...
Timmeh: I don't necessarily want to burn them, I like my pony meat medium rare.
Santa: Good point, meat is expensive nowadays.
Timmeh: True.
Timmeh: I don't see much of a difference between bronyism and furryism.
Santa: Santa, your response?
Toast: Being a furry isn't a terrible thing, it's a choice. And the brony movement itself isn't hostile to you in any way, shape or form - why would you want to hurt them? Or for that matter, why would you meddle in their affairs?
Timmeh: Being a furry isn't something to be proud about, furries are trying to be something they aren't, which is pathetic on so many levels. Bronies themselves I have no problem with as long as they don't spam my message box with links to brony youtube videos and wear pony costumes.
Timmeh: Santa -.-
Santa: But timmeh, where else am I supposed to prance around in my self-made pony suit? Isn't the internet a place of free expression?
Timmeh: I meant the youtube links.
Timmeh: -.-
Santa: True, but my point is why can't bronies get an equal cut?
Santa: The internet is the final frontier of free expression,well until SOPA's passed
Timmeh: Not when so called "bronies" are forcing their culture onto other people.
Santa: The internet is the final frontier of free expression.
Timmeh: Not when so called "bronies" are forcing their culture onto other people.
Toast: They aren't, though.
Toast: In fact, it's more the other way around!
Toast: The rest of the internet sees the brony movement as foreign, new, and uninteresting
Toast: and because of that conflict of interests (as happens so often on the internet), everyone imposes their opinion upon one another.
Toast: With the bronies being but a small sliver of the massive internet pie, they face adversity wherever they go.
Toast: No brony is forcing his links in your inbox or his profile on your friends list, you don't 'have' to click the videos, nor do you have to watch them.
Santa: I wouldn't say thats true, if you go just about anywhere on the internet, bronyism is present. Deviant is full of it, boards have popped up like Ponychan, and Equestria Daily has nearly 85 million hits. I see a lot of bronies trying to "assimilate" new members into the herd, any comments on this?
Toast: It's the very same as any other growing movement - people want other people to like what they do. It's harmless to those that don't click on any of the links, and the videos are easy enough to ignore.
Santa: What about spamming?
Toast: Like I said, you can't force anyone to Ponychan or Equestria daily...
Toast: And spamming is a cancer common to all of the internet.
Timmeh: But "bronys" do spam, Santa himself, (as well as others) have spammed links into my chatbox all the while trying to deceive me into clicking them.
Santa: I'm not a good control for the average brony.
Timmeh: No one else has ever tried to do that to me, only "bronys"
Toast: That's simply because your brony friends are trolls.
Santa: Guilty as charged.
Santa: Timmeh, do you think there's anyway bronies and the other 7% of the internet could ever live in peace?
Timmeh: I would say, they are still bronys, and knowing the internet, most bronys would be trolls, since it's an internet fad.
Timmeh: I think they could live in peace with eachother Santa, if they don't try to force their mindless cute pony videos onto everyone else.
Santa: We can only hope.
Santa: One last question.
Santa: Who is the best pony?
Toast: RAINBO DUSH
Toast: WAIT
Toast: BABY PONY
Santa: That baby pony is pretty cute.
Santa: How about you Timmeh?
Timmeh left chat.
Santa: Well, thanks Toast, but we all know that Big Macintosh is the best pony.

And on that note, I bid all of you Fillies and Gentlecolts goodnight.

--Santa

Blargument: The rise of New Ideas, and Games

All right, ladies and gentlemen! I have a new idea, and it’s so stupid, it may actually work. My brother and I play a lot of videogames. But, we do not always agree. So, with a name given to me by a good friend, I will start a new series, occurring every now and then, simple called Blarguments. Inside of these simple little ideas, he and I will duke out ideas, and decide who is most right. Winner gets the satisfaction of knowing he won. I will be marked by Santa: and he will be by R.

Question: What will be the game of the year, 2011?

R: I think it will be Arkham City, and you’re lucky I think that too, otherwise your plan wouldn’t work out quite well.

Santa:  Well, I sure am glad that you think so, but it will be Skyrim.

R: It’s not going to be Skyrim, I can guarantee you. Anything that Skyrim will offer, AC will offer as well.

 Santa: What about the uber character customization?

R:  While it is true that AC will not have customization, you do have Batman and Catwoman who are very diverse characters. You will be able to speak in AC, and will be able to have big, glorious cutscenes which are impossible in Skyrim.

Santa: I was more referring to the ability to completely BUILD everything! You build their face, make their class, and build their skills; you don’t get better than that.

R:  While it is true that you can build a huge relationship with your own self-made character, Batman is special too. He is so strongly against killing, that he is completely different. You just can’t re-create a Batman. Catwoman is special too. I can’t wait to see the difference between them, and the new representations of weapons.  Batman will go anywhere, breaks laws, and private property but he won’t break his one rule, probably not even in self defense! He’s just that cool of a guy. He’s a dark vigilante who isn’t afraid of anything.  Not even one of my favorite characters, L, is willing to kill to use it to his advantages. Batman is truly uncorruptable.

Santa: You’re more referring to the building of the lore of Batman. But I find this a bit odd. You do have to realize that your guy just doesn’t get the chance in Skyrim, and to refer to Oblivion, will only get a slight back story. But, in return, you make your own. You decide. You are the judge, jury, and prosecution, similar to Bioshock or Fallout: New Vegas, but with more control. Yeah, you got interesting points in AC, but you can’t beat the wide aspects of freedom in Skyrim, you will have to end up doing the story in AC, there are millions of other adventures in Skyrim.

R: Not at all! It’s broken its shackles of Arkham Asylum. It’s a CITY! Think of the Riddler challenges. Took me hours, and I did it legitimately, even after being quite tempted by the internet.

Santa: There will be only one ending to AC; you will get multiple choices in Skyrim. Oh, by the way, how many hours did you put into Oblivion?

R:  With my one true character, which I did do everything on. I spent around 300 hours. But to be fair I spent over 500 hours in the original Bioshock. I’ll do the same with AC, bumping up the difficulty.

Santa: Do you really think you can beat out Skyrim for gameplay hours? If it’s anything like Oblivion, I will be spending around 1000 hours in the game.  I spent a huge amount of time in Oblivion, and while you will have your bigger world in AC, you’re missing the point that there are factions, guilds, dungeons, the main quest line, and, oh yeah, DRAGONS in Skyrim. Dragons man. How can you say no to Dragons? Imagine flying on one!

R: I am not saying no to dragons! But, Batman can fly! Gliding around the city, you’ll be like a dragon. Batman’s superpower, as we all know, is money. And with that, he will of course have to get out all of his millions of gadgets. You have new villains to get! Riddler challenges to do! We have two worthy games that deserve this GOTY award. You got big bad bosses in AC. The Joker. Mr. Freeze. The Penguin. Who do you have?

Santa: Dragons.

R:  Dragons are big-winged creatures that fly around and go pew-pew with fire breath. Oh no! They’re nothing compared to the villains of AC. They’re more classy, and dangerous.

Santa:  I disagree; some dragons will be able to shoot lighting and ice, too. And they will land and scratch you. They can also eat you, if they so desire too. But, the point is me trying to convince you that Skyrim will win over the AC is like telling a Mormon that you don’t want to hear the good news. Can we at least agree that it won’t be BF3 or MW3?

R: Without a doubt. This will be a battle to the death. I love both Rocksteady and Bethesda to death, and I guess only time will tell.

Santa: Thanks for talking to me today, let’s go eat some Enchiladas.

A special thanks to my brother for putting up with my slow typing.  More debates are to come, and there are games to be played, until next time.