• Nightly Roundup #3

    Cereal gave me a name for these,  so without further adieu, introducing Nightly Roundup #3, where small news gets compiled like everything else!

    All news after the break!



    Brony Facebook Ad
    This new ad is popping up over on facebook lately.  It's pretty awesome to see the hub fully embracing the term "brony".  I am really psyched for season two.

    I know a lot of people are worried that including some of our fanon may ruin the show, but as long as they do it with the maximum level of subtlety , we should be fine.  I don't know how many of you were around when Derpy first popped up, but the response was unbelievable, and positive. 

    Facepunch Bans Ponies
    A huge following of bronies found themselves out on the street after moderators at the Facepunch forums decided pony was now a bannable offense.  Where have I seen this before?  Anyhow, refugees from the site have a new forum building up, which you can find here.

    FiM animator spotted 
    A storyboard arist from the Friendship is Magic animation team has popped up.  Not a whole lot to say about it, but feel free to give her your support at her blog! (Don't raid it with stupid questions though!)

    Jason Thiessen (FiM Supervising Director) Posts on Cartoon Brew
    I am not sure how many of you have been following Cartoon Brew.  I just learned about it's existence two days ago, but apparently it's a pretty big hub for this stuff.  Here is a direct quote from a comment he left over there...
    "As Director of the show, I know first hand how many sleepless nights and blood sweat and tears go into making the show for all involved. Yes it has corporate money behind it and yes it’s a mainstream commercial property, but does that mean we shouldn’t try to make it the best show we can? Good entertainment doesn’t have a demographic, anything can be awesome if the people making it simply try. I know it’s not perfect, but we do the best we can with what we have to work with, which is all anybody can do. I for one am proud that there is such a strong fan-base for the show. The worst thing would be if no one noticed it at all. Thank you Bronies! (and I include girls and boys of all ages in that)"
    Pinkie Pie's Print-Out Mask Pops Up on Hasbro's Website.
    This is the mask from "Party of One" I'm too tired to write anything witty about it, you can download and use it here.

    FiM Game Petition
    Another thingy for you guys to all /sign.  That can be found Here!

    Flankbook Leaving Beta / Synchtube Celebration
    The social networking pony website Flankbook has officially exited beta and is celebrating with a Synchtube marathon tomorrow at 8EST.  You can find the channel for it here!

    Equestria Daily Alexa Rankings
    Apparently this community is getting pretty huge!  Equestria Daily is now the 37,070th most visited website in the USA, and 133,734th most visited in the world.  I am not sure how significant that is, but I'm sure there are billions of websites... so hopefully its cool?  Anyway you can find that, as well as all sorts of neat statistics here!


    Seattle News Blog Posts About the Interview
    Not much else to say!  You can find the link here.

    1000 Posts of RP
    Apparently RPers were driving Cereal crazy in comments... so I gave them a spot to do it at, and they ran with it.


    And that is it for this issue of the Nightly Roundup! I didn't have time to dig for a drawfriend post today... so expect a big one tomorrow assuming I can find time for that.

    57 kommentaari:

    1. Autor on selle kommentaari eemaldanud.

      VastaKustuta
    2. *Ahem*
      Again Seth?
      I'm seriously starting to think you're the spawn of Gabe Newell...

      VastaKustuta
    3. Our forum aint that, our forum is www.broni.es

      VastaKustuta
    4. Facepunch is a terrible forum anyway.

      Also the link is broken.

      VastaKustuta
    5. im so sleep....

      WHY AM I UP!!!

      Oh right, cause Luna is up.

      Luna <3

      VastaKustuta
    6. Never heard of Facepunch before, what kind of forum is that?

      VastaKustuta
    7. Well that's a douchey thing for Facepunch to do. Oh well, I'm sure this new place will be cooler anyway. I'd barely even heard of Facepunch before this post.

      Also, that Facebook ad is totally rad. I'ma go like the Hub now.

      VastaKustuta
    8. The geographic split on those stats is kind of interesting. Roughly 40% USA, 20% Germany, 20% Finland, 10% UK.

      VastaKustuta
    9. "I know a lot of people are worried that including some of our fanon may ruin the show, but as long as they do it with the maximum level of subtlety , we should be fine."

      THANK YOU!

      If anyone can do subtlety, the FiM team can. 77% of the references went so far over my head that I wasn't even aware that a reference had been made.

      VastaKustuta
    10. There are around 4.3 billion unique ip addresses (that will change soon) so yes, that is awesome.

      VastaKustuta
    11. Silly Seth, that's not how you spell "Griffon the Brush-off."

      VastaKustuta
    12. You've got to be bucking kidding me Seth...

      VastaKustuta
    13. 37,070th most visited website in the US, and 133,734th in the world?
      That's incredible! Especially since its up against search engines, news, social media, and a glut of porn sites.

      For comparison, Google and Facebook are #1 and 2.

      VastaKustuta
    14. Oh, and...
      >133,734th most visited in the world
      >133,734
      >1337
      Hehe...

      VastaKustuta
    15. Yeah Pinkie Pie wore that in the Gilda episode...

      VastaKustuta
    16. @Thattagen

      You didn't take it in the right direction...

      >133,734
      >1337 34
      *clop clop*

      VastaKustuta
    17. I hate Facebook. I have not logged in for 2 weeks and I don't miss it. Its almost as worthless as Twitter

      VastaKustuta
    18. "we do the best we can with what we have to work with, which is all anybody can do." I read that as anypony... heh.

      VastaKustuta
    19. So did the Facepunch mods came up with a somewhat legible reason for banning you guys or it's just the usual "eeeww girls cartoon has cooties I ban u".

      VastaKustuta
    20. Eh. Facepunch has been banning for pony stuff outside the designated for a while. A new megathread will pop up when season 2 starts. People are only banned if they post pony stuff where it's not allowed.

      VastaKustuta
    21. @Anonymous

      In short the majority of the forum did not like the idea of us being around, in fact they despised us.
      Moderators would mostly ignore any trolling from other members that happened in our thread and a very large stigma from other members against us.

      Our thread gradually decended into an un-moderated cesspool to the point that moderators were just sick to death of getting reports from our thread (there was a LOT of ignored trolling going on in the final days.)
      One of the more reasonable moderators came into our Steam chat and stated outright that our thread was on the verge of being closed anyway; we were all sick of the trolling happening in the thread so a large number of us requested for the thread to be locked for a little while to give people a chance to cool off.

      The original plan was for us to bring the thread back when there was a significant amount of information regarding Season 2 for us to discuss.

      However the forum's owner- Garry- ruled that Ponies were to be banned outright from now on. He also called us a name :(

      So yeah, in an attempt to keep the community of Facepunch Bronies alive we founded Pony Central (www.broni.es.) That's not to say we wouldn't be accepting of people from other places too, but there you go!

      VastaKustuta
    22. @Anonymous

      Nah, Garry said that we weren't to make any new threads. Not even when Season 2 starts.

      VastaKustuta
    23. Well I hope he like the new downloads for his mod once they get made.

      VastaKustuta
    24. Basically Facepunch decided that fanfics and pony toys are not really the series discussion, so until season 2 comes they think we'd end up discussing "not ponies", which is what the rest of the forum is for.

      Sure whatever, www.broni.es is better anyway.

      VastaKustuta
    25. I guess Cartoonbrew posted an article that disparaged grown men who enjoy the show. Found out thanks to Randy Milholland (of Something Positive), who tweeted about the hypocrisy of deriding people who enjoy cartoons on a cartoon-centric blog.

      I wonder if that article is why/where Jason Thiessen made that comment?

      VastaKustuta
    26. The funny thing is, though, if you were a brony, you'd already know how to watch MLP everyday.

      VastaKustuta
    27. @Captain British

      I remember the fall of the thread. In fact, I made one of the final posts. I did not know that garry banned ponies permanently. When did this happen?

      VastaKustuta
    28. @Anonymous

      Setieki linked a chat log in which Garry insulted us and basically gave permission for the moderators to ban anyone who made a new MLP thread.

      But really, we weren't welcome on Facepunch. Moving to our own forum was a wise move, I have no desire to stay where I am not wanted.

      VastaKustuta
    29. @Lovecraft

      It was basically the person who posted the link to the WIRED article and pulled a quote from the person with Asperger saying the show taught him about socializing (it's really touching to hear that) and said something along the lines of "And no, this isn't an article from The Onion". Basically, he was being an a-hole.

      VastaKustuta
    30. Millions down, 37,069 to go.

      ~Scratch

      VastaKustuta
    31. For those of you a bit confused, you need to register on the forums to watch the rest of the forums.

      VastaKustuta
    32. @Anonymous

      Actually I disabled that just so that the EqD chaps could actually have a look at the forum without registering.

      For now, anyway!

      VastaKustuta
    33. I was totally about to post about how you didn't post the image of the ad, but then I realized I had Adblock on and even though it wasn't an actual ad but a repost of one, it still did it.

      Silly BronyMike.

      Also, Griffon the Brush-Off, not Party of One.

      Awesome nightly roundup, though.

      VastaKustuta
    34. If it's the "Nightly" roundup, shouldn't it be a picture of Luna or even that owl instead of Celestia?

      VastaKustuta
    35. >nightly
      >Celestia
      The fuck.

      VastaKustuta
    36. Other than some of the Garry's Mod stuff that I have to go to Facepunch for, I detest visiting that forum. Color me unsurprised that this happened.

      VastaKustuta
    37. I knew FP would get themselves into some trouble that would split them in two sometime. Who knew it'd be ponies?

      Beware, internet communities of all walks and likes! For inbreeding of ideas, that is what'll really kill you.

      VastaKustuta
    38. Celestia handled the nights for a millenium, surely she can handle this one too. :/

      VastaKustuta
    39. >This is the mask from "Party of One" I'm too tired to write anything witty about it, you can download and use it here.
      Aw, Seth, I understand you're tired, but c'mon. Its from Griffon the Brush-Off

      VastaKustuta
    40. @Lovecraft

      Actually, when the show premiered, they wrote an article attacking the show, saying it had brought about the end of creator-driven TV animation (in other words, Lauren Faust had sold herself out by working on it).

      VastaKustuta
    41. I love Jayson Thiessen.

      VastaKustuta
    42. Well according to netcraft there are currently over 182 million sites. So I'd say its quite an accomplishment.

      VastaKustuta
    43. Role-playing?

      I like role-playing as much as the next person, but I usually don't go out of my way to do it.

      But to each his own I suppose.

      VastaKustuta
    44. OMIGOSH! *hugs* thank you Seth THANK YOU!

      hmmm that explains that then. *trots off*

      VastaKustuta
    45. sucks about facepunch personally never heard of it before though

      I am happy to say on the other hand the forum I vist is now like 75% bronys (going by all the pony related avatars anyway)

      VastaKustuta
    46. Glad to see Gary still is an asshat.

      VastaKustuta
    47. @Ivan2294
      Actually, we're doing this mostly to write that fanfic...

      But to each pigman his own I guess...

      C wut I did thar?

      VastaKustuta
    48. EQ queries:
      "Steven Magnet"
      "Pony waifu"
      "derpy hooves minecraft"
      "great celestia of equestria"
      "pinkie pied piper"
      "wingboner"
      "fluttermac"

      EQ might start getting its own "pony effect" soon - any link posted on EQ will get overwhelmed with traffic. The deskop ponies site had 10x the traffic after being posted, which has died back down since.

      VastaKustuta
    49. I visited the Facepunch forums many months ago when things were somewhat tolerable and when the MLP thread there had mod support from at least two mods I think. Personally, I think things started going down hill as the MLP thread became more of a chat thread instead of a thread talking about the show. You should have seen how fast that thread moved when it was in pure chat mode. This eventually led to the threads being placed in the Chat subforum instead of the TV subforum.

      After that point mod support dropped off and they seemed to be more irritated with MLP posters. It was at about that point that I stopped following the Facepunch thread. I admit you guys had a larger number of trolls than I have seen on other forums which really sucks. Best of luck on your new forum though!

      VastaKustuta
    50. First the TV Spot, now the Facebook ad. I love MLP, I love the production crew, and I LOVE the Hub!

      I feel better than ever about resubscribing to cable just to pick up The Hub for Season 2. I seriously respect them for this. The least I can do is show a little love back!! :D


      I love Mr. Thiessen. He came to PonyChan once just to gush about how much he and the crew are thankful for all of our love and support. We are thankful for every drop of blood, sweat and tears that goes into this. I have nothing but respect for that man. Everything any member of the production crew has said anywhere leaves me feeling that the show is in absolutely capable hands.

      Random thought...dude. I can't wait for Season 2. Can you imagine when the first air dates are announced/discovered? The Internet will explode, and then explode again. That moment when the first episode airs....

      SO MUCH PONY.

      VastaKustuta
    51. Thanks for all the news!
      Now I'll be sure never to register at Facepunch :P

      VastaKustuta
    52. Who would have thought that the rank of this blog would be... great among all websites?

      VastaKustuta
    53. I'll be honest. I don't think the game petition is a good idea. Yes, ponies are great. I think we can agree on that. What whoever's running the petition seems to be forgetting, however, is that it would be a licensed game, and we gamers all (or many of us, at least) know how those tend to turn out. Especially if the team making the game would be anything like whoever makes the toys... *shudder*

      VastaKustuta
    54. Why does everyone always think the sky is falling? Seriously, people create problems out of nothing and try to find fault with everything.

      VastaKustuta
    55. @Torrential Rains
      I honestly had no idea you lot were involved in a much greater plot. To be honest, had I known this, I would've jumped in as nightmare moon long ago. But, that's what I get for not reading the comments.

      VastaKustuta
    56. @Anonymous
      ... Are you talking about me? I'm not doing that; I just happen to know that games based off TV shows and movies don't tend to turn out well.

      If you guys REALLY want them to make a game, then go ahead and try the petition. I just wouldn't get my hopes up.

      VastaKustuta
    57. Just to explain, Facepunch didn't ban ponies. It was decided that the thread for it would not have any actual or real content until the next season started. In other words, it would have been a bunch of off-topic bullshitting, which can be a bannable offense depending on the sub-forum.

      VastaKustuta