/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

>>283663
As the ride never ends, so is the survey.
What about if instead of polling the poners you post something fun and interesting?

>>283664
This. OP needs to quit being a faggot and go first

>>283663
Fuck you, here's how it's done. Don't just post poll questions, start discussion about the answers.
>How did the series convince you to keep watching it?
FIM was cute, kind-hearted, and comfy. Twilight was an interesting character and I wanted to see how she'd develop. (turns out she only got her main personality traits sanded off, sadly)

>When did the honeymoon period end and you start to lose interest in the series?
The occasional shit episode (and the fandom's insistence that I couldn't like it unless they hated it too and couldn't enjoy an episode they hated) pissed me off. I hoped Twilicorn would be good, but realized Twilicorn was a publicity stunt that wouldn't go anywhere good around S4. Got tired of the show around S5 and Glimmer/her "redemption" was an additional nail in a coffin that already got its final nail.

>What were you like in 2010/whenever the series first hooked you?
A miserable child raised by two abusive parents who hated him and wanted to use him for social credit in his shitty town out in the sticks. My only friends at the time were colossal faggots who called themselves good people over and over until I realized they were just virtue-signalling phonies, and when I refused to do what they asked of me (or I needed someone's help and they couldn't be bothered to give it) their covers were blown so they stopped talking to me.

>Has your life changed for the better in the last 10 years?
Thanks to me moving out and getting shit done for myself, yes. If it wasn't for this site I would have walked away from FIM as a whole a long time ago. I've got shitloads of friends, including ones who have never seen this show. I'm working on projects with some friends and working on solo projects. I've ascended from the sjw-hating animefag I used to be, now I know who's behind it all.

>>283663
Why did you put "got on the ride" in "quotes"? That said, I've pretty much left pony behind, there's no new content worth caring about, no discussion that hasn't been retread a thousand times, and all there is now is porn and the impending choice of whether to become a weeaboo or a furfag. I wish I could be happier that ten years have passed, but all it does is remind me of the death spiral the show was consigned to the moment it became mainstream pop culture. Fuck /b/, this is entirely their fault.

>>283663

I didn't start watching prior to /mlpol/ so my answers will be a little different. I was aware of the pony thing in 2010, I just didn't take an interest, though I find myself wishing I'd gotten into it in the beginning and experienced some of the fun of the early fandom. I was actually going through my old /b/ folder from that era and I noticed I saved a couple of pony memes, so I guess I can't claim to have been completely uninfluenced by it.

>How did the series convince you to keep watching it?
When the boards merged for April Fools I just thought /mlpol/ was hilarious and I was just having fun shitposting pony memes and looking at the porn, I wasn't really interested in the show itself. Eventually someone convinced me to try watching a few episodes. I decided to continue watching it because I found it to be a heartwarming show with fun characters and stories, and it added a bright spot to what would otherwise have been a rather dismal year. I remember I was in the habit of watching usually 2-3 episodes a night before falling asleep; it took me around 4 months to get caught up, as I recall.

>When did the honeymoon period end and you start to lose interest in the series?
The entire fandom experience was condensed into a period of about 4 months for me. As I said I found the first couple of seasons heartwarming and a lot of fun to watch. I remember being very confused by the S3 ending, and found the series to be kind of hit or miss after that. Up through S7 I found the overall quality level to be about 80%. S8 and S9 I had to basically force myself to watch, in fact I still haven't seen the second half of S9 or the ending.

>What were you like in 2010/whenever the series first hooked you?
2017 for me. A series of events made my life take a significant downturn in the early part of that year, mostly financial. Rents suddenly skyrocketed in my city, so I went from having a nice apartment of my own to having to move into a shared living situation with six normies, which was pretty awful. I also had a bunch of expensive things come up in succession so I spent most of my time that year working but having most of the money I made get immediately sucked up. If it hadn't been for /mlpol/ and getting into pony 2017 would have probably been one of the shittiest years in recent memory for me.

>Has your life changed for the better in the last 10 years?
Yes, significantly. I am healthier, financially better off, and generally in a better place mentally/spiritually/what have you than I was in 2010.

My overall assessment of the show is that it mostly suffered from its popularity, and from the staff's awareness of and subsequent pandering to the adult fanbase. I get the impression it was originally supposed to end with S3, but they kept it going because it was more popular than they'd anticipated. However, they had already wrapped up most of the important storylines, and most of S4-S9 feels directionless even though there are many good episodes throughout those seasons. I am of the opinion it would have been better if it had just ended at S3.

Ultimately though I've had fun during my brief time on this particular ride. As far as whether or not the ride is over or whether the fandom has a long-term future, who knows. I've been involved in a number of fandoms over the years, and mostly they just kind of run their course and peter out. If a fandom is just defined by the number of people actively engaged in discussion and how much new content is being generated, then sooner or later most fandoms run out of steam and dry up; that's just how these things work. However, the original episodes are still there and can still be enjoyed by anyone who wants to watch them, and the world still exists for anyone who wants to further explore it with stories, art, whatever. Star Trek conventions are probably not as big a deal now as they were in the 1970s and 80s, but I don't think you can really say that fandom ever ended.

Ultimately, though, I think the main takeaway from the brony fad is to remember that it's not healthy to define your entire existence through pop culture. MLP, games, anime, books, and whatever other things a person might be into aren't a substitute for reality, they're just fun things that make reality more enjoyable and/or bearable. Pop culture properties have a natural lifespan like everything else, and it's not good to keep them going past the terminal point just look at The Simpsons. There's a fine line between simply enjoying something and being dependent on it to keep yourself emotionally afloat, and if you're not careful you can end up wasting a lot of energy chasing an endless dopamine rush, or trying to recapture the magic of some previous era instead of looking for similar magic in the present.

For me, I guess Pony is just one thing on a long list of things I've enjoyed throughout my life, but it isn't life itself. Viewed through that lens, it becomes less important whether or not the ride ever ends; it's enough that it simply happened and that I had fun while I was on it. I've enjoyed this ride, and I'll enjoy other rides. The end is important in all things.

>>283707
Well, I wonder who this could be. Cute little poster yes you are. *Boops snout.*

Anyway, poners is a cute and lewd *blushes*
s1&2 mein comfy

s3><4,5>6>7>>>>8,9 Something like that

Got me into reading........................................................................................................................................................................................................................jesus

Never really thought about it being weird. About the same time I got into autism like anime and anime reviews. Video analysis.

A few times I have gotten surges of, "Oh no! The fandom is dying!" but usually they pass because I realize that I'm not sure what I would be missing if I was more active in the community or if it passed on. But Idk. Can fandoms die? I'm still a fan of death note And I still read Magic madoka fanfics, yeah...

Anyway, I began watching because while I was at my friend's house his older brother came in and told me that the season 2 premiere was tonight so I watched it with them. I didn't realize it was suppose to be for girls like for a long while. I didn't even realize they were suppose to be smol horses with those necks I assumed they were snekes.
I even drew a pic of a pony with lewd panites on her and had it as background on my phone which a girl saw and then she became my gf....
What is this life I lived.

>>283773
I still play heroes 3 with others. It still has an active community.

Qaulity prrevails.

>>283774
Heroes 3? I think I played that as a kid. How's the modding/content-creation community there?

>>284499
https://www.maps4heroes.com/heroes3/heroes3_horn_of_the_abyss_1_5.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQQSPcn_TwE&ab_channel=DocentPicolan
It's good. Not always the best decisions for the mods are made though. Most of it is good. And afterall, I don't need to be playing a mod if I don't like it.

>>284508
nothing will ever beat the classic Faeries map. Its events were Overlord-tier comedy gold.

>>284499
>>284508
Actually, I'm lukewarm on it. The modders are competent but they lack creativity in my opinion. I also don't like how they try ot balance the game at times. Heroes 3 was great because of the intresting strategical ideas you could pull off not because it was like chess anda perfect balanced game. In general, I think one should buff instead of nerfing most of the time because remvoing the viability of certain strategies essens the enjoyment of the game. But I guess it really comes down to choice. Planning is about choices and replayability is about being able to do a a different choice next time e,g, a different strategy.

I could split up my general thoughts with five examples.
>A creative idea that adds something to the gameplay by playing with the game's rules.
https://heroes.thelazy.net/index.php/Ring_of_Oblivion
>Something that completes and finishes an already exiting idea in the game.
https://heroes.thelazy.net//index.php/Golden_Goose
>Something that aestheticly pleasing. Pic 1 related.
>Uninspired concepts. Pic 2. Pay close attention to how generic the crewman/seaman and the sea witch are. The pirate is also boarderline generic but at least it is somewhat related to the town. They will have probably have three humans and one halfling character for the next town, factory as well.
Special abbilites that make your units distinct are creatively lacking and the are all state related and boring.
Imo of course but,you I could explain some of it with more time. Otherwise, its just a feeling I'm basing it of. Well, that and if you compare tehir special abbilites with the original creatures and actually py attention, you will see that these new units are neither that innovative (because they reuse abbilites instead of comming up with new ones Which an autist like me did when I, on paper, created a town with seven units.) And you also will notice how some of it is just creature with spell but you know you already have spellbook.
>Bad handling of balancing and solving problems that weren't a problem to begin with. For example Mysticism at expert level gies you 15 spell point each day and intelligence gives you half your the spellpoints you gain from your knowledge stat extra instead of double. Like, what is the point with having two secondary skills that serve the same purpose? Both serve to provide spellpoints for you while away from your castle and fighting. Yes, I get they are somewhat different from each other and that they were both in the original heroes 3 game, which made mysticism even more pointless. So I guess this is fine development in way since they serve their purpose in a bit different manner.
Regardless, I guess my actual point with this is that I dislike pvp games that patches. One would think that is by desgin asymmetical and unequal yet tries to be blanced, like heroes 3 with its different factions and so on, that improving the game's blanced over time as strategies develop. But there are two problems with this, I think. The first is that the meta of a game, I mean like the common strategical database can take really long to develop. For example, melee... took like 20 years for its current meta to stablize and its still sees changes tod this day, I have heard.
The second thing is that, as unknowingly demonstrated at 20:09 in this vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHogD0w_iz4&ab_channel=Norovo
When players encounter something they think could be a balacne issue, instead of trying to solve this problem by a counter strategy, its easier to just, you know change the rules of the game. Expecially if the game takes a long time to develop its meta. People might not be able to beat a certain strategy in the begining but given time they would develop, or someone would develop a coutner against it, and suddenly this strategy wasn't dominating the game anymore.

With patches, current powerful and dominate strategies will be seen as bad for the game by players who don't use them and with enough pshing for it the developers will change it.
People have a tendency to attach themselves to teams and certain playstyles afterall. I do this myself tosome degree when I play. And if one then attached oneself, for whatever reason, to a "bad" team, one might be more in seeing that change, while players with "good" teams don't want any patches to the game at all.

Point is that it s hard to determine with so many wills involved what are objectively good balance patches and changes and which are subjective and biased towards whatever.

A game that cannot be patched for wahtever reason, therefore eliminates this problem.

Anyway, that guy in the vid saw something he thought could become a balance issue and thought that probably would be something to change for balance.

They have already nerfed logistics, intelligence, necromancy. And while it could be argued that those secondary skill were objectively among the best, I think this is just a sign of things to come. Earth magic is known as the most powerfullest school so, you know instead of making a the otehr schools more viable and intrestinfg with addition spells, they will probably nerf the most powerfullest spells, in fact... they have https://heroes.thelazy.net//index.php/Slow
I assume they will go for town portal and dimension door next but I guess its harder for them since so many people like those spells.

I'm not trying to paint them out as villains but I really think that assymmetrical games like this shouldn't be seen like chess or anything.Last time I played heroes 3 with my friend he got titan's thudner from a shipwrecked survivor, while playing conflux, the first week of the game. When he won and I lreant of this, I didn't complain. Unlike him that, will ask insulting questions of whether my start was easier than his. He's kind of a bad loser bad winner type.

In the end, its a gme with chance roooted in its mechanics, just that means its an uphill battle for balacne.

>Kek factory
>Crusader gets shoot by Clint eastwood

>>284532
I've never heard of it or tried any mods. I couldn't find my old CD so I'll get the game on GOG. Where can I find the Faeries map?
>>284537
In the early days of Melee's meta, people thought Shiek and Marth were the best character because they hadn't yet discovered Fox's JumpCancel Shine, WaveShine, turnaround laser, Short Hop Fast Fall Laser x2 in a single jump, or Samus's glorious jank, or the bullshit of Wobbling.
If you time-travelled a Bowser or Ganon main to the start of Melee, he'd probably be the best player in the world considering his knowledge of frame data (something people still weren't sure of at the time) and ability to KoopaBackDashWaveSlide.
It's funny how Wobbling is called Wobbling because Wobbles "invented" the "desynch Ice Climbers" trick. But now everyone just calls grabbing and infinitely grab-hitting your foe "wobbling" because this broken easy infinite overshadowed everything else the ICs COULD have discovered with desynchronization.
Nobody looked for "better ICs tech" because Wobbling was an easy win for the trash who relied on it and the subhumans who argued against its banning for no good reason.

>>284543
>If you time-travelled a Bowser or Ganon main to the start of Melee, he'd probably be the best player in the world considering his knowledge of frame data (something people still weren't sure of at the time
Yeah, I have heard about that. The numerous strategical ideas that when discovered changes the game landscape signifcantly is... Yeah. exactly what I feel.

Regardless, if you anyone wanna discuss it further I sugguest we move to vx since otherwise we'll detrail this thread.

>>283664
>>283665
>>283671
I had wanted to avoid potential blogposting in the OP, but I'll give my story now so that I can at least prove I'm not a total fag.

I was first exposed to FiM while browsing sadpanda - the front page had pic related on it, which was one of the first MLP comics on the entire website. I had no idea what it was, but the idea of porn about My Little Pony was so odd that I read it. The comic itself is painfully bland (and focuses on futanari - huh, that was an omen if ever there was one), but I was very confused because the art style and characters didn't remind me of the old MLP cartoons I was distantly familiar with. I didn't think more of it, but when I was browsing a forum that I used later that day (Escapist Magazine, if anyone remembers that), there was a thread where people were discussing an MLP cartoon, and I thought "oh, is that what the porn comic was based on?"

I read some posts, found a link to the first couple of episodes, and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the animation, voice acting, and world. The ending where they destroy Nightmare Moon with a rainbow laser was genuinely pretty cool considering that it was coming from a cartoon about unicorns and ponies. I watched up until S1E4, Applebuck Season, before calling it a day and thinking nothing more of it. About a week later, I had this strange urge to watch more of it - I wanted to see if the animation, humour, and general quality managed to stay consistent. I started watching more of the first season, and the rest is history.

>How did the series convince you to keep watching it?
It was good and unexpected. I never thought I would genuinely enjoy something with the MLP brand on it, but it reminded me of the cartoons I had watched when I was a kid. I think what really made me think about it in my spare time though, the element that invited my mind to wander and consider the wider setting, was the way the show handled the fantasy and magic. I had read a LOT of fantasy novels when I was younger, so seeing a fantasy setting like MLP realized in a consistent and interesting manner was a real treat.

For instance, Pegasi control the clouds and weather, so naturally there are planned weather events. As Faust described it, they're stewards of their environment, and we saw that in Fall Weather Friends and Winter Wrap-Up. Even if those traditions or events were one-off things never mentioned in subsequent episodes, I thought it was so cool that we got to see what it would actually be like for the ponies to help their world move from one season to the next. What would happen if the ponies didn't do the running of the leaves and just let the tree leaves die without helping them fall? Probably nothing major, but it's interesting to think about.

There were also minor details like dragons eating gemstones, or the Everfree Forest being a bizarre and unnatural place where animals eat each other and the weather can't be controlled and the plants grow without anyone helping them to do it. There were also enough assorted monsters at the fringes of civilization to make the setting seem dangerous (diamond dogs, the hydra, dragons, nightmare moon, changelings, etc.) in a lighthearted way.

>>284867
>fatfingered a keyboard shortcut, reloaded the page, and lost 3000 characters
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I'll finish this post later.

>>284869
Sucks.

>>284950
It's really my laptop keyboard's fault. If I'd known I would be writing such a long post, I would have started it in a text editor and saved myself the trouble.

>>284867
(Continued in two posts for better legibility.)

>When did the honeymoon period end and you start to lose interest in the series?
Season 3 was the first time my faith in the series was truly shaken. I still remember the anger and betrayal I felt when I learned Twilicorn was a real decision and not some janky merchandise like Applejack without a hat or pink Princess Celestia. But S3 was just a half-season produced before they knew the show had caught on like wildfire, so I was willing to forgive that decision and all the bad episodes in S3. Then it seemed like every season had some stupid new gimmick that made things worse. Season 4 destroyed the library, season 5 introduced the cutie map gimmick, but it was season 6 where I truly checked out.
<the CMC get cutie marks, which undercuts the entire point of their characters
<changelings are gay bugs
<chrysalis is an exile from the gay bug kingdom instead of being a genuinely threatening villain
I felt like the series went from an episodic show with some adventures to a monster-of-the-week adventure series. It wasn't all bad, because I did like seeing Yakyakistan and Griffonstone, but those locations and the griffon/yak cultures there were obviously tacked onto the lore instead of integrated cleanly. I know that this was a show for little girls who tend not to care about geography and lore and stuff, but even so I felt it wasn't handled well. The series also started relying heavily on parodies and pop culture references, like the Las Vegas episode, the Top Gun episode, the Weird Al episode, and probably more I'm forgetting. Some of these, like the film noir parody in Rarity Investigates, were really fun, but most of them felt cheap.

I did some skimming to refresh my memory, and I truly don't remember half the episodes that aired in s6. It's telling, because I have clear memories of the series and the fandom in their infancy - there was the first hiatus between season 1 and 2 which felt like it would never end. I recall the first appearance of the "new" Luna in season 2, and people being divided about that because it was such a shock; at the time, it was considered a big leak to know one or two sentences from a focus tester who had watched an episode two weeks in advance, and the only things we knew about that episode were that it would feature Luna and that it would be about Halloween. When we first learned about Discord, the header image for the EqD story about him was a placeholder black and red alicorn OC covered in spikes. Fast forward nine years and the entire final season leaked onto Chinese streaming services months in advance.

>>284954
>What were you like in 2010/whenever the series first hooked you?
I was a stupid teenager who was addicted to internet porn and thought Mass Effect and AAA console games that I played on my PS3 were the height of video games. I spent all my spare time on FunnyJunk in the pony thread, which was a fast-moving slurry of meaningless garbage. I had been exposed years earlier to ychan, sadpanda, various 3DPD porn sites and more at a young age; that completely fucked me up, and for a brief time I thought I was homosexual. My habits mostly continued when I first discovered /mlp/, which I regret to say was my first exposure to image boards. I am sad I was not able to experience them before the tidal wave of cancer that was MLP changed board culture forever, but I'm still glad I found them; the alternatives are far worse and far more cucked these days. As much as I hate some of the people on the webring and on other image boards, I only split hairs because we have so much in common. I wouldn't trade your company for the world.

>Has your life changed for the better in the last 10 years?
It changed significantly in 2014 when gamergate first started redpilling me, both due to the corruption it exposed and it being co-opted by normalfags, redditors, attention whores, controlled opposition, and the usual Jewish tricks. Later, I read a very large series of posts someone wrote describing the connections between Chelsea Van Valkenberg, DARPA, video game journos, military training simulators, and the standard MSM control; I recall that when I first read that, I had to lie down for a while, and for the next few days I just couldn't interact with anything in the movement. What did it matter if Hulk Hogan bankrupted Gawker if there were a thousand websites identical to Gawker staffed by robots and golems?

Fortunately, a few years ago I realized that my porn addiction was harmful, God is real, and Jesus loves me. I have made strides to change my life for the better, and even if I'm still struggling to bury my bad habits fully, I can at least identify them as bad habits. If I had not personally experienced and witnessed two miracles in 2019, I likely would have continued to live outside of God's light. The combination of my atheism, materialism, fiction worship (replacing spirituality with human creations, similar to what people do with Marvel movies and Funko Pops these days), and porn addiction would have done irreparable damage to my soul.

I'm not perfect, but I'm much better than I was. If I hadn't been exposed to MLP, I don't think any of that would have happened: I wouldn't have branched out to other image boards, I wouldn't have cared about gamergate, and I wouldn't have tried to improve myself. Here's to another 10 years of interesting times.

>>283707
I'm really glad to hear your perspective; it's funny that someone totally outside the MLP bubble would be introduced to it through /mlpol/. It's good that you were able to have the series be a positive force in your life, and it mirrors what I experienced in the early days and what I've heard from other people. The early season had no pretense about their target demographics, so they had an earnestness that the later seasons lack.

>fandoms naturally die
It's taken me years to see this happen, but I became consciously aware of it when I let go of the pony fandom and I've been much healthier as well. I've been watching Star Trek recently, and although there's not much fandom for me to interact with because all the new Star Trek movies and shows are trash, the original foundations laid by the television shows still hold my attention. I used to be exactly the kind of person you describe, focusing my life around television shows and other things instead of using them as temporary diversions or ornaments. Chasing the initial rush of enjoyment and novelty can ruin someone, and it doesn't help that globohomo does everything it can to encourage people to chase it forever these days. As you say, the end is important in all things.

>>283663
Since OP pulled through I'll do a quick rundown.
>Le Gamer
>cartoons
>Pron 'professional addict'
>Youtube
>Read fictions
>Fanfictions
>watch anime sometimes
>read semi translated lightnovels
>Also browse /pol/
>Read poner crossover
>Hunh neat.
>Figure I'd explore it through fanfiction like I do with everything else.
>Loads of shit there. Some of it isn't bad.
>Some of the episodes are fine. Mostly ignore the whole thing stick with fanfiction stuff.
>Dig Discord as a character when season 2 started.
>Some game mods are pretty neat.
>/pol/ nearing 2016 loads of keks and kek.
>Get into /x/ board. These larping fags.
>At some point I start lurking /mlpol/
>Honorable mentions. Poner pron throughout the years.
>Here I am being an active participant after decades of lurking in every other medium.
>Revive Hitler thingy
>Jew containment thread
>Anonfilly
>lurk some more
>A few posts here and there
>Post more often.
>ect.

Well if I didn't find MLP FIM I... would probably still be in the cesspool that /pol/ is in now, despite the cancerous time I spent there. Good times.
I wouldn't have any writing experience nor expand the group of friends, beside a group of fellow minecraft players. (Introverted, but have the strange habit of working well with others being well spoken and not understood because wtf factor.)
My life is so normal, yet when taken out of context it's a theme for any kind of show. I would be the token wtf background character.

>How did the series convince you to keep watching it?
It was on and off. I kept to the various fanfictions (fimfictions and fanfoctions too if you want to be more precise). It had a good world, my first introduction to it was a shitty fanfiction of horrendous quality, but it made me imagine it in the most broken way possible.
It also survives, and produces nice media.
>When did the honeymoon period end and you start to lose interest in the series?
It's just been sort of there. I am always an outside observer even in the midst.
>What were you like in 2010/whenever the series first hooked you?
A mature acting kid. I kept to myself and a close group of friends. Frankly I'm pretty sure now I look back on things my ties to others are tenuous, I was just sort of there, never really did anything, as interesting events occur around me. If they needed me for I thing I'd be there, but no one really asked much of me.
>Has your life changed for the better in the last 10 years?
Well, technically yes. I've improved in different areas. At my core though, it's more or less the same, just with more experience to back up the insanity. The nity grity how to stuff as well.
If I was never exposed to MLPFIM my occult/delusion/religious?/semi-dream/imagination experience of picking up a beaten and battered poner wifu to nurse to health would be a bit more of an oddball thrown at me. I'm sure her tales of her Equestria would enrapture me as does many other stories and experiences.
Well 10 years since 10/10/10 for the first season of episode 1. Of Gen 4. Wildly popular, the magical ties are seeping through.
Three days remain. I am looking foward to the magical memes that are about to take place.

>>284970
>>What were you like in 2010/whenever the series first hooked you?
>A mature acting kid.
You can just say that you have autism, dude.

>>284976
Other medical stuffs that I am aware of due to genetics, and probably that too to a smaller extent
Also probably other things as well considering what I know now...
As such spent more time thinking rather than engaging my body at a young age, and it carries through.

>>283663
>How did the series convince you to keep watching it?
I remember watching the show the day it came out, i don't remember the whole day but when i re watched the seasons i got an immense amount of nostalgia and could remember every episode up until about halfway through season 3 as around that time i lost interest in it, i enjoyed watching it on the weekend on the motherfucking hub as they would repeat it over the next couple of days so i could watch it whenever, i spent most of my time playing games back then and on the internet as a way to forget how much pain that school had caused me.
>When did the honeymoon period end and you start to lose interest in the series?
Around the end of season 2, i didn't like queen chrysalis or the way season 2 ended, season 1 was better as i liked discord as a villain instead of chrysalis because his character was very unique to the show, when season 3 started i knew that the quality of the episodes was diminishing, the nail in the coffin for me was the reformation of discord so i didn't watch the rest of season 3 as i knew that twilight would get wings which really rustled my jimmies so i stopped watching for quite a while.
>What were you like in 2010/whenever the series first hooked you?
Just got out of the school prison so i had lots and lots of free time, i played a lot of black ops 1 and halo at the time while watching a couple of shows, i didn't really know what to do with myself as i had no goals or aims so i thought they would eventually come to me without me having to do anything so i didn't much for a long time, it was around 2016 that i began to actually take notice to politics as i had always been a anarchist before that so i began being exposed to many red pills as i actually started giving them thought like i never did before because i was very ignorant and selfish, since then i have always made it my quest to expand my knowledge while making myself better, the revealing of so many lies had changed me completely as i realized how far the world has gone to shit, i knew there was something wrong with the education system but i had no clue just how fucked the world really is and now that i do know i have become obsessed in what is true and isn't.
>Has your life changed for the better in the last 10 years?
It's always been a sort of battle but i think that over the past 5 years is the period that has changed me the most, a lot of things have happened over the past which have changed me permanently, i have been red pilled, i have done things i regret and liked, i can only learn from the past instead of being haunted by it, i am not stuck in muck but i still feel as if there is more to be revealed to me, it's as if i am searching for meaning but i have so far found none which has always bugged me, i'm not sure if i will ever find true happiness or what i am looking for.
Self improvement has taught me that soy makes a misty mind so i attempt to abstain from it to the best of my ability and ever since i got rid off the processed foods my brain has flourished, i have always had troubles with depression but since i discovered myself through countless hours of looking i can only admit that you have to really question yourself and what you desire, i have found that i am not bothered with what most others want as i do not care about money or other things like cars or anything else.
I have tried and discovered many things over the past 10 years but i still feel like an incomplete puzzle.

It's very hard trying to occupy myself as i have had free time for the past 10 years, i like going outside but i don't enjoy socializing so i try to occupy myself with other things that are outside the box and most people would see them as bad but i have no reputation to smear in the first place so i have no restrictions or anyone to tell me what to do which is how i like it, so now i am trying to find something to focus on.
I think a lot about everything and the only time my mind can relax is through calming drugs or through ponies, so i guess i'm addicted to horse pussy in a way, i have no real contact with people so i try to find other sources of dopamine hits through other ways and these keep me occupied as well as happy which is the most important thing to me.

Anyways i started getting into religion after i learned about the Jews as i knew about Judaism at that point which lead to me looking for something to believe in that was also at the same time better than Christianity, i looked into the bible but the ways of god never appealed to me so i looked through paganism and found out about the old Norse religion which also felt like it didn't fit my world view so i kept looking and found Wicca and witchcraft which is when i got more deeper into the occult and then i found out about the religion of the Celts while looking through history which when i researched further into i found that it fits my beliefs almost perfectly, maybe i am the reincarnation of a Celt as i live in a area where a lot of iron age rituals happened but even then i do not totally know if that is true or just a delusion, i like to interpret myself as not belonging here as i feel like i belong somewhere else because i cannot enjoy anything other people enjoy because it doesn't please me.
So this is where i am currently at right now, i am still trying to find joy and meaning but still wanting more out of life because i want to fill that bottomless hole inside my soul.