Michael Archer

Ross, I know it's funny and tempting to post stupid options in the poll--but all it does is take away votes from legitimate options and skews the results. I never said it was inferior.

The Luna fandom baffles me. She spent most of the episode trying to kill the ponies, sounded like Rarity; and when she was defeated, all she did was bitch. BTW, what's a "vector"? On Equestria Daily, they keep on saying "Someone made a vector of so-and-so!" What are these "vectors" and why are they so high-quality?

I voted for MP4. I'm not an Apple fanboy; it's just what I'm used to. I noticed that all the options were sarcastic in someway. Does the same apply to the "MKV" one? Would someone seriously choose an inferior product because it's open-source? If yes, I don't want to live on this planet anymore.

So am I on the team now? How would this work? Do you guys have your own server?

I disagree about her singing. When does she sing? You do know that she doesn't sing for Twilight, right? And to support my point, this. (fast forward to to twenty-nine seconds left in the video) I wouldn't exactly call this Broadway.

Wait...where does Twilight say "fuck?" If she does, that's not as bad as her saying "everyone" is episode one and, I think, episode 2. When she said that, I died a little inside. I'm actually guilty of spreading the pony love, as opposed to just answering question when people ask them. I tell everyone I know to watch it. I think I should tell my therapist about that. This is what I do, but after reading your guys' responses, I'm a little bit ashamed. Should I stop? But if I stop, they won't know the happiness and friendship that are ponies! WTF? October 15th? Wikipedia needs a citation. Wait...is Ep. 3 seriously not airing until the 15th?! Q9tvh0Bidd0 No seriously, that bullshit "October 15th" date needs a citation.

I reject the theory that there's a "female personality" and a "male personality." What makes a certain personality inherently female or male? Humans aren't hermaphrodites. You're thinking of flatworms who have the most epic form of mating ever. Did you mean "intersexual"? And what's a "Shemale"?

Author is a terrible person.

Trolling can be both mean and funny, depending on the context. A very funny example of trolling: my friend and I like to troll TF2 servers. The funniest thing we've come up so far is saying, "Hey, do you guys want to join our new club? It's called 'The Holocaust Didn't Happen" club." A guy responded, "I hear only gay people are in that club, is that true?". I replied, "No, that's a lie perpetrated by the Jews." This was funny, because what we were advocating was so extremely ludicrously wrong and inappropriate, that it was funny. In the light-hearted context of an online video game and the fact that it was so clear that we were joking, it was funny. Plus, we did it to have a laugh and not to offend anyone. Mean, nasty, trolling takes place when someone is actually physically or monetarily damaged because of your joke. That's self-explanatory. Another less obvious form of mean trolling is calling people names (ad hominem attacks) in a serious topic thread just to get a reaction because they feed off of negative reactions.

A soldier dying for his country is not self-sacrifice; it's selfish. When someone enlists in the army, they're fighting to protect their future security; they'd rather die than live as slaves. Self-sacrifice would be signing up to fight for a cause you don't believe in. That's evil.

Both Bush and Obama tried appeasement, but it's failed. The reason for this is the same reason that there's no compromise between food and poison; it's one, or the other. America is suffering from the same problem as Israel: America and Israel simply want to exist peacefully and the Islamic world won't rest until Sharia law is imposed around the globe. As you can see, this is going to get ugly. I'm suggesting killing the people responsible for intimating war on the Western world. I'm suggesting we exact justice and secure our future safety. Their reasons are that they hate Western culture; they hate the good for being good. I don't know what you mean by "not very nice to the Middle-East". Do you mean like the Gulf War? If so, Iraq was a dictatorship and therefore, had no right to exist. They do not have a claim against another country mistreating them if they find it acceptable to mistreat their own people. I remember Osama bin Laden quoting parts of the Quran to justify the attacks. There's a passage that says something along the lines of "Fight the Unbelievers."

I'm not very good with hypothetical, but I'll try: I imagine baseball bats related robberies and murders would go up and that would lead to someone advocating the outlawing of baseball bats. Actually, I see it now: people are going to complain about everything's potential to be a weapon.

Irony spices up any internet forum.

I'm scared to meet the "some kind of variant" people. UNLESS YOU'RE BORN AN INTERSEXUAL THROUGH NO FAULT OF YOUR OWN. I hold nothing against you. I even suspect that you're a very nice person. Hi! In terms of the quality of other facilities in Cuba, not so much.

Brilliant season 2 premiere! It was awesome. It reminded me of those Fairly Odd Parents episodes where Timmy got that rule-free wish cupcake and his teacher took over the world. I remember thinking how impressive of an animation job that was. This time, I was patient enough to wait for a 1080p upload on Youtube. You know what I did this time? I downloaded that bitch, put it on my Apple TV so I could watch it on my 70-foot projector screen and I invited a fellow pony over to watch it: it was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life. That is the only way to watch ponies, and that's how I'll be watching them from now on. (not really a spoiler, but just to be on the safe side) (This is probably a spoiler. More so than the first one) Hey, how many of you guys are still "in the stable" IRL? i.e. how many of you guys are still keeping your love for ponies secret from your friends and family? WHEN "In the stable" BECOMES PART OF THE PONY GLOSSARY, YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST I've was never in the stable. Once I got really into the show, I told everyone how good it is. I'm not going to pretend something isn't fun or enjoyable just for the sake of not looking silly; besides, there's nothing shameful about ponies.

Saturday ponies is probably the only thing that's going to keep me sane through school.

That policy of appeasement hasn't worked. "Understand terrorism"? What's to understand? They attacked the United States, murdered thousands of innocent people. Justice needs to be served. I don't think we should start wars; I think we should retaliate against an act of war that was already committed. I don't know what that means, but it certainly sounds like you're using the Guilt by Association fallacy which almost always involves context-dropping. A dictatorship has no right to exist; if it did, it would imply that it has the "right" to initiate force on people. A semi-free country, like the United States, is always just in invading a dictatorship. Blaming the victim now, I see? By this logic, America SOMEHOW did SOMETHING that pissed the terrorists off similar to how a rape victim SOMEHOW did SOMETHING to get raped. This fallacy won't get you far with many people, especially feminists. It's typical because I'm a Westerner. An act of war was committed against my country and a proper retaliation was taken resulting in more American deaths. Unnecessary deaths is what happened in 9/11. If America retaliated, it would be for justice; any unnecessary deaths would be the fault of the terrorists, not America. America is simply defending herself. If there culture worships destruction and whims, they will see what that inevitably leads to. Why is it that when America bombed Afghanistan, they were given all the blame? Why don't the terrorists share at least SOME of the blame? A victory, war-speaking, is when you destroy the enemies ability to wage war and crush their moral to prevent them from waging war in the future. Why would that not be possible? Simply wipe terrorism off the face of the planet with a few bombs and destroy their culture (possibly a bomb on Mecca or Mohammad's burial grounds) so that terrorists are scorned in their countries as opposed to celebrated as they are today. I'm not a military strategist, but it seems like a good start.

To lighten up the mood, I'll share this. At least now, if someone accuses me of being intolerant, I can plausibly claim I was only joking. Nah, it all seriousness: it's a comic strip. IT'S A JOKE. It's not that simple. A sex-change operation isn't so much a sex-change operation insomuch as it is a "glue on opposite body parts" operation. If one wanted to change their gender, they would have to have almost every molecule in their body changed. Someone who gets a sex-change operation is still metaphysically their original sex. This is why you hear stories of them finding it hard to live normal lives.

There are many peaceful and legitimate reasons for owning a gun. To name a few: marksmanship (sports), hunting, self-defense. What's the purpose of a baseball bat? It's used for killing other people; it's easy to obtain, deadly, and a child could literally use it with great effect. It's mostly used to play baseball, but I'm conveniently ignoring this fact.

It's much more entertaining to "rm -rfv /" on a Unix-based operating system.

Doom Shepard, that's Guilt by Association fallacy--but your heart is in the right place. It's Appeal to Dismissal fallacy, nothing more; it shouldn't be given your intellectual energy.

Did you guys read this month's Maclean's? Of course not, frickin' Americans. It had a pony article. The internet is leaking.

Nah; do you know you're all my very best frieeeeeennnnnds? Gummy is the best gift an internet friend can get.

Somehow Fluttershy made me angry; and I mean that in the "punch-the-head-off-of-a-baby-angry" sense. The following is the first (and only) time I've ever used the word "deluded" on this forum; I even used the search function. Where do I mention gays? Where do I call gays deluded? Your statement isn't even context-dropping: it's a completley false. I do not take kindly to people taking me out of context, but I take even less kindly to people putting words in my mouth. I'm a thousands times more akin to Twilight than you are to Fluttershy.