Excuse the lame use of the Twilight Zone line and I apologize if you guys thought it was a Twilight Zone thread, but the scenario I'm gonna describe will be just as creepy.... What if you hadn't discovered MLP and became a brony? I ask this because I notice how often some of us are on here. I know it's a break from school and classes for some of us and we have the extra time to be here, but what if we didn't have Everypony to go to? What would you be doing these days if ponies didn't exist? I for one would be sitting in front of my tv, playing PS3 day in and out. My family and I have already had our big summer vacation and now I'm on autopilot until university starts, which is a month from now. The repetitiveness would be mind numbing and I can't exactly visit my friends, seeing as I live 45 minutes away from any of them. It makes me really appreciate how lucky I am to have clicked MLP: FiM Episode 1 on YouTube. (forgive me if I sound a bit..uh...pathetic...) So Everypony? What would you be doing?
I would probably be cruise controlling through my summer as well. I might be catching up on my animes, but most likely I would be spending my days sleeping, watching Let's Plays, and playing mind numbing video games as I waited for school to start back up.
When I'm in school, I'm surrounded by friends, and I'm happy to some extent. In the holidays, I don't see much of them, and tend to get a bit solitary. However, thanks to ponies, I'm surrounded by bronies, which is even better. And there are much more of you. So, considering how depressed I was at the beginning of the holidays, I'd say if I had never taken the plunge into bronydom, I'd be crying myself to sleep every night and have to convince myself life is worth getting up for in the morning. I'd feel alone and disconnected every waking second. Ponies literally saved my life, which is why I seriously love all of you. Just so I don't completely misery this thread up, I'd also be on Mass Effect 2 constantly, which is what I was heavily into when I first found Friendship is Magic. I'd have completed it more than 10 times at the rate I was going. Sorry Shepard, ponies.
I would go on http://thecreaturehub.com/index.php and I would be watching a lot of let's plays on YouTube. Ponies have actually helped me because it's helped me bond with my little sisters. It seems to me that MLP is the only thing we have in common these days.
You have entered the Twilight Sparkle Zone. Cue music, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVSRm80WzZk. Ah, that's better. As of right now, I've only dedicated my evenings and overnights to ponies (and my dreams, as some of you may know). So my days would be the same really, minus the occasional pony thought, but as for my evenings I'd probably just be on Facebook playing games or watching some videos on YouTube or whatever other things I do to pass the time while I'm on the Internet. Also, my sleep cycle probably wouldn't be as bucked up as it is. I need to start trying to get to sleep earlier, for real. However, this extra free time I have has its limits. At the end of August, to be more precise. Depending on time available, I may have to *gasp* temporarily remove ponies from my life! The horror! The horror! Well, we'll see what happens by then. Oh, and as for my dreams, they wouldn't have pony/brony content in them. Probably just the usual mash up of randomness with the obligatory background thunderstorm (I like storms, what can I say?). EDIT: More appropriate link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpau88qPA-w
If anything, I would probably be going about the forums that I used to be on before Ponies, completing administrative tasks or adding new graphics. I would probably be drawing and using Photoshop for digital artwork rather than graphic design. My graphic design abilities would probably be much weaker, and I wouldn't be able to do half of the things that I can do now. I would probably be playing more video games, especially Portal 2, but I most likely wouldn't be playing Team Fortress 2, seeing as I play mostly on Brony servers. To basically say, I would be stuck in my usual rut with the same tasks. On the other hand, I wouldn't be tortured with waiting for Penstroke to update his newest story.
I would be back on my evil forum of evil cruel pathetic-ness and my sadistic side would probably take over, and then I would become the epitome of sheer evil and unfriendliness. Well, maybe less exaggerated, I would have become a very, very successful troll. And not the stupid kind. But now I get to be friendly~
>I would have become a very, very successful troll. And not the stupid kind. The irony is, I became a successful troll BECAUSE of bronies. Or at least a successful anti-troll. As for what I would be doing, I would probably be doing exactly what I was doing right now, but with less ponies, more programming, and on a different stream. I would also possibly become an anti-pony troll, and the rest of you would fear me like the plague. But yeah, I would probably be on my touhou stream, talkin touhous. I still do, but with a much lesser extent.
I haven't necessarily lost the ability to be a troll, I just don't perform the practice as much anymore. To be fair, though, I haven't been here that long.
Me? I'd be wandering around on the internet looking for scraps of interesting things, as well as getting bored with them.
I apologize if this post is off-topic, but I should've used this link in my last post. I didn't think someone actually created a video called "The Twilight Sparkle Zone," but they did!
Wow excellent question! If I wasn't a Brony right now I would probably me making a comedy video review of Pokemon Season 1 full of kickass jokes and great writing, only to have it be lucky to get 500 views on youtube, in 6 months. I used to be a comedy video reviewer, but after discovering ponies all I have to do is write reviews on pony related stuff and not even appear on camera and I get 20 times more viewers with 1/3 the effort. My Pinkie's Lie PMV along has currently got 7'200 views in just over 2 weeks and has been Favorited 285 times. I have been trying to gain online fame for 3 years and in 1 month I have gained as much E-Peen as it took me to accumulate in a year previously. All just from making my usual videos about ponies, rather then other stuff.
I would probably be frequenting Serebii formus (a Pokemon forum I'm a member at) a whole lot more than I do now. These days I, especially lately, I've only been going there to leave comments/write-ups of the latest episode. (now that the current season of it (here in Canada, at least) is over now, I won't have any more new episodes to comment on!) I guess I could try to remember to pop back in their a few times. Ponies have taken over my Pokemon interest (only temporarily I hope!)!
The only things that would be different would be, - I wouldn't have Ponychan and Everypony in my bookmarks menu - I would probably be using Xenosaga avatars right now instead of the Rainbow Dash set I'm using on my forum - My DeviantART page would be lacking as it was the discovery of MLP that revived my spriting hobby That's about it.
I've depressed myself thinking about my life with MLP: FiM. I'm going to go watch the Staremaster episode to cheer myself up.
what would I do? well, probably I would just play ps2 and wii, and maybe get app episodes of top gear and watch it all day (that is when I have free time). would still have Tails/Best Ed avatars instead of ponies (Spike), and I would be on msn most of time.
I'd probably be doing a lot more gaming and reading than I am now, trying to find amusing videos on YouTube, watching more TV and movies, hunting down underground bands (more than I have been), and other unproductive activities.
