"Bronies: The Extremely Unexpected Adult Fans of My Little Pony"

[kane_magus]

Watch on YouTube

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Huh. So John de Lancie has uploaded the full Bronies documentary on his Youtube channel (embedded above). While I paid money for this on the Kickstarter back in the day, I'm perfectly okay with Mr. de Lancie making it available for free on Youtube. I haven't watched it since I first got the DVDs in the mail while still living in WA, but what I recall of it was pretty interesting. I might just watch it again, which this would let me do, since my physical copies are still in the shipping boxes from WA, which are still under a mountain of clutter here in my sister's house (most of the boxes never even made it back to my mom's house at which I actually lived for three years or so after first moving back to NC from WA).

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[owsf2000]

"Video Unavailable - this video has been removed by the uploader."

I guess he had a change of heart?

I do remember John talking about this when I saw him at Hal-con a couple years ago. Essentially talking about his initial reaction to adult men being fans of My Little Pony and the like and his process of realization and the like of why those fans enjoyed a show aimed at little girls. No idea if what he was saying during the Q&A at Hal-con is directly related to this though since like I said, video doesn't seem to exist anymore unless he removed it then re-uploaded it on a different url with a region lock.

[kane_magus]

Fixed the embed. He (or whoever run his Youtube channel) must have reuploaded it.

[kane_magus]

And this is in case the new embed is not visible to you due to region lock. Maybe other variants available as well, in case these get nuked at some point, but these were the first to pop up. Only bad thing about these is that they appear to have embedded foreign language subtitles, but I'd assume that doesn't make it unwatchable. It's still the English audio.

[kane_magus]

And yeah, John de Lancie was apparently extremely fascinated by the whole Brony phenomenon, at least enough so that he got heavily involved in making the documentary, anyway.

And, from what I understand, his character, Discord[1], was in several more episodes after the point where I (temporarily?) quit watching the show at, like, the end of season 5 or so (out of 9 total, plus The Movie [takes place between seasons 7 and 8], which I also haven't seen yet). I do have the entire series available to me now, I just haven't gotten back into watching it yet, though. Maybe rewatching the documentary will spur me on to finally getting back into the show itself. (And the spin-off series, which I have most of, I think, though I've only seen the first movie of that, so far.) I have quite a bit of catching up to do, though I'd probably just restart from the beginning, since it's been years since I watched any of it.

[1] - Discord is basically Q from Star Trek, or at least that's how he was portrayed in the appearances that I saw, anyway. I think Mr. de Lancie and Lauren Faust discuss that a bit in the documentary as well. I liked him enough that the first of the Pony/Trek fanfics I wrote had him as the main character (and I basically just said he straight up was Q from Star Trek in the fics). >_> Hell, if I end up watching all this stuff again, it might get me back into that as well... >_>; But then, everything I wrote is only "canon" to the show up through the end of season 3, which is all that existed of the show at the point I wrote them, and I know the show went in vastly different directions versus the "future" I made for the fics. Oh well, I guess. >_>;; (I'd honestly probably be much better off to work on my actual novel[s] more than not at all, instead of going back to fanfiction again. ¬_¬)

[owsf2000]

"And yeah, John de Lancie was apparently extremely fascinated by the whole Brony phenomenon, at least enough so that he got heavily involved in making the documentary, anyway."

Regarding that, this is part of what I was talking about originally about his story at Hal-con. Essentially how he got introduced and fascinated by the whole thing. Essentially it was quite a roller coaster ride for him from his initial reactions to adult fans of my little pony that was sending him fan mail to the days to the documentary.

[owsf2000]

And all this reminds me that that "Dems Fighting Herds" game on steam was finally 'released' a while back. I'm still on the fence on whether or not I want to get it, but since I'm usually up for new/unique types of fighting games that don't try to add in insane DLC/microtransaction schemes I may end up getting it eventually. Main problem with me is that my current comp only has a 50% average at running games I get on steam. I suppose that's better than the 20% rate I had on the last one... Perhaps I should try to order a more dedicated gaming machine sometime this year. Get one from Dell or something.

[kane_magus]

Even though I backed Them's Fightin' Herds on KickstarterIndiegogo and have had it available for download on Steam for a year or two now, I had ignored it until recently, when they finally released the singleplayer story mode a month or so ago. But then I found out that it was actually only the first chapter of the singleplayer story mode that had been released, with only the one playable character (the melee-based cow character), apparently... so I uninstalled it and went back to ignoring it, until the whole thing is finished.

That said, what little I played of the story mode seemed very involved (for a fighting game, at least), as it was more like a RPG, with an overworld and NPCs to talk to and such, with the platforming stuff and (naturally) the fights being in the fighting game engine. Aside from that, I also played through the tutorial stuff with the ice magic-based deer character.