We need more soapboxes! Submit them ye foals.
Community soapbox time, where opinions from around the fandom are dropped down below for you all to discuss and debate! Expect these posts normally when not late every Tuesday at 1:00 PM PST. To submit your own, see this post.
Headlines this week:
Pony Life is the Pokemon Sword/Shield of Our Fandom
Please Shower Before Dances at Conventions
Is Discord ACTUALLY Grogar?
Everyone's a critic and most of them suck at it
And get your soapboxes below!
Pony Life is the Pokemon Sword/Shield of Our Fandom
By: Oralvin
Sometimes, things just don't go your way. In the corporate world, poor story decisions are made for the sake of money, and in Hasbro's case they need to focus on what benefits the bottom line the most. Pokemon recently did the same thing. These kid focused brands are always shifting audience every year as kids grow into older age categories on one end of the age scale, and out of the child stage on the other end.
Both Pokemon and Hasbro want those newer generations. On one side, pokemon simplified everything to make it easily accessable and ditched most of the pokemon to not overwhelm kids just getting into the games. On Hasbro's end, they needed a quicky with a very kid attractive style to keep them entertained. As much as bronies don't like Pony Life, it's pretty par for the course in kids entertainment style these days. 8 year old you probably would have been fine with it.
Please Shower Before Dances at Conventions
By: Anon
I am an AVID brony convention goer and absolutely SICK of how SICK it makes me to walk by or attend the dances at night. Come on guys. This is common sense. If you walked around all day and got sweaty, take a shower before you go essentially work out. No one wants to smell that crap and it goes all the way out into the hallway so you can't even avoid it if you are just walking by. I've stopped attending dances altogether due to the rampant BO. Nothing gives our fandom an ugly image more than the lack of cleanliness. TAKE A SHOWER AND USE SOAP / DEODERANT THANK YOU.
Is Discord ACTUALLY Grogar?
By: FlareGun45
I know what you're thinking about with the title, "Discord was Grogar in the finale!" I don't mean it like that. I mean, could Discord and Grogar ACTUALLY be the same person?
Think about it like this - we dunno what happened to Grogar and we dunno where Discord came from, and they're basically equally as powerful, and they both have similar color eyes (just Grogar is a little more faded). Grogar is also a being of chaos, much like Discord, only Discord's chaos is playful while Grogar's is more about destruction! Discord also apparently KNOWS Grogar pretty well, like, he knows where his bell is, and if that's his personality then he played his role pretty spot-on! There are those that believe Grogar made Discord, and in a way, they might be correct, but not in the way they think!
Let's say Grogar just lost to Gusty the Great, and now he starts experimenting on ways to get his bell back or to find an alternate source of power, but then it turns out he made a portal into the Chaos Dimension and got trapped there for many years, and then he started to change, both his looks and his personality, till it became a permanent part of him!
Grogar's dead and gets reborn as Discord! He finds his way outta the Chaos Dimension and starts spreading chaos around Equestria, but in a different way, till he found friendship!
Everyone's a critic and most of them suck at it
There’s this silent assumption among modern media consumers that critics are, by default, smarter than the media they’re criticizing. It’s an unfortunate symptom of the otherwise wonderful freedom of communication offered to us by the internet that anyone can offer their opinion and communicate directly, or at the very least be heard by, the creators of what we consume. We can help mold our entertainment into something more refined and palatable by a wise and well-worded suggestion.
Too bad most critics serve the legion of Baroness Von Buzzkill, and many of them populate this website’s comment section. After going through nine years of fandom drama, many critiques amount to white noise, accusing someone of not understanding a character, in the way a religious individual accuses someone of not understanding a biblical character. The same words and phrases are passed around like toothpicks; ‘Contrived.’ ‘Out-of-character.’ ‘Ruined.’ ‘The writers the writers the writers.’ Nostalgic wanking over previous seasons. And anyone who can’t see things from their oh-so-enlightened perspective is the loser. Why is anyone supposed to be okay with these mean-spirited ramblings? I’m certainly not. This is why God made block buttons.
If you suck at being a critic, don’t do it. Keep your comments in your pocket. Go make a 2-hour long clickbait video essay or something.
