>Get laid off from job >Spend 2 years looking for work to no avail >Force to live off family, doing odd job to odd job to help pay bills. >Friendship suddenly becomes magic >Notice the Brony subculture >Start watching show because I find out that producer has a rather decent resume >Show is actually pretty darn good >Notice that brain is filling in holes left in due to target demographic >Notice that Bronies have rather talented (and also rather prolific) musicians. >Remember that I have I skills and tools need to combine the two into a computer game >Decide to commit future free time to work on game, in hopes of getting game complete by season 2 premier >Get game's engine to work the way I want it to >Suddenly acquire responsibility, which while does not put money into my pocket, still benefits me directly >No more free time to work on game, will most likely not be able to beat season 2 premier (Sorry for the green text reply format, but I felt it appropriate.)
Green text is the best text. >Lurk a certain game-related forum (no names) over a long period of time >Same forum in which someone makes a topic about MLP, introducing me into it >Become a brony >Much profit >Find out that many of the residents of the forum dislike, actually no, hate the MLP swarm >See in about every topic some derailing that involves the flaming or trolling of ponies >Stop visiting forum, as mods seem to side with the anti-pony gang >Months later, returning to the forum to see if the smoke's cleared >Everyone acts as if ponies never existed >What
>Remain in some conlanger forum for a length of time >Browse Memebase >Find out about ponies >Check youtube >Addicted >Brony >Find this forum >??? >Profit
>Making music for fun >Find out about ponies >Look at thread >Read all 90 pages >Watch episode on YT >Watch all episodes on YT >Become brony >Convert a few people >Keep making music >Somehow, become a LOT better >Find out that I have to go to Ukraine, where there are no PCs with my tools >No magicks... >mfw
>Discover Minecraft >Join gaming forum >User on gaming forum is a brony >Finally ask user on TS about the show >End up sparking a fanbase in forum >Loads of members become bronies >Stuck now with the fact that if I tell anyone at school, everyone will be extremely homophobic enough to avoid me >Must now teach fellow schoolmates to not be judgemental
It's hard teaching adolescents to not think a guy likes men because of what he watches, isn't it? (Just as hard to teach them to not call inanimate objects homosexual, including shows, paragraphs, and that new planking fad.)
