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[guildrone]

Name: Robo

Age: 21+

I mostly post about: Media I’m interested in (including that which I plan to make), personal matters, my mind’s machinations in general

My hobbies are: Gaming, writing (including blogging as of now, I guess)

My fandoms are: Pokémon, Sonic the Hedgehog, Megami Tensei, My Little Pony, the Nasuverse, Marvel, DC, and more (mostly in the realm of animanga and video games)
Favourite Movies: Jurassic Park, Mean Girls
TV Shows: Ted, The Looney Tunes Show, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Books: Jurassic Park, Raptor Red
Games: Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, RimWorld, Hades
Comics/Anime/Misc: Lucky☆Star, Jujutsu Kaisen, A Certain Scientific Railgun, Kemono Friends, Ghost Stories (yes, that dub), Sequential Art (webcomic), Aware (webcomic), ProfessorViral (YouTuber), Super Eyepatch Wolf (YouTuber), Dragon Ball Z Abridged (TeamFourStar @ YouTube) Sword Art Online Abridged (Something Witty Entertainment @ YouTube), Fate/stay night UBW Abridged (Project Mouthwash @ YouTube)

I'm looking to meet people who: Share my superior tastes, mostly—but in general, I’m up to try and click with anyone who will validate humor me

My posting schedule tends to be: No planned schedule, but I should be able to muster something new every week or two—and I’ll more or less always be down to shoot shit (via comment threads and/or PMs) in the meantime

When I add people, my dealbreakers are: Not that I’d want to invoke the term ‘anti’ (I don’t think it’d be worth associating myself with some of the cognitive dissonance I’ve seen against such), but…I’m only, like, quarter-joking at most when I call myself an edgelord/degenerate, so keep that in mind (By that same token, though, minors need not apply)

Before adding me, you should know: See above about the whole ‘degen’ thing—though on that note, my profile at time of posting should be a fair enough ‘warning’, methinks

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[captaincassidy]

Not gonna lie, it took me time to warm up to Chomper—I first watched the fifth movie before I did the second movie, so I was essentially introduced to him out of context; that being said, how sweet and soft-hearted he was felt more like a betrayal to my conception of the sharpteeth at the time[...]

Y'know, I haven't watched the TV series yet. Was thinking about tossing it on my Plex server sometime to do so. I really like the idea that Chomper talks with... what's his name? Redclaw? And the other theropods. I wish they cared enough to go into the lore of why pterodactyls, notoriously fish and small creature-eating beasts, wouldn't be LBT's version of bilingual... or why they were welcome at all. Maybe fish aren't people in that world? (Mo is an ichthyosaur, if I'm remembering correctly, and therefore a marine reptile)... Mm, I might have to think on that more later.

With VAs, it truly is a small, small world!

My main pain point was not being the biggest ego in the room by far—I jest, in part, but there was one mod in particular who would just not shut up about his crackpot Saurophaganax speculations…

That's certainly an interesting take on... well, any single theropod, really. As much as I love dinosaurs, I've done little actual work regarding them, so I can't do much more than raise a brow on that one. It does feel very "justifying my OP/super cool character"-y, though, with that context.

Perhaps even if they are successful in their studies, they'll be shot down by every professor and colleague for such a bold claim? Sweeping statements like those tend to be laughed out of the room in many academic circles, as far as I've seen (again, mind, I'm not in the paleo-sphere).

…including a few especially notorious ones that I honestly should not have ingested from such a young age for how formative they might’ve ended up being for me. Ah well.

Ah, Molestia or Little Miss Rarity? XD

On bronies though, I do greatly miss the glory days of them... certainly the most accepting, thoughtful fandom I had been a part of since the golden days of furries. Or perhaps my glasses are rose-colored because I was younger, and less people made discourse their entire life. Ah, well.

Tremolo Hunter, When Dark Sparks Fly, and Category Six are up there on my favorite tracks to have come out of the DS—pretty sure the latter two especially played a large part in keeping me pumped up as I kept bashing my head against the final boss.

Truly; I found the first Yo-Kai Watch to be rather tedious, but main battle theme really kept me engaged. Music is strange that way. Or maybe I just really like monster tamer games (I do). Funny, when you listen to that theme on its own, it sounds... different? Than when you're actually mid-battle. Neat!

Yeah, that tracks—even for how much I remember Champions’ twist villain reveal absolutely flooring me as a kid, I keep forgetting there even was one nowadays.

Oh yeah, there was a twist...

Talented indeed; wholly agreed on the Dead Sound shoutout—artistry of the whole Dinosauria series aside, “The Last Tyrant” genuinely gutted me in a way I thought I’d grown past…


Speaking of talent, the ever-prolific RJ Palmer definitely has my respect in that regard—especially for that freakish edge to a lot of his fiction reinterpretations in particular. And on the topic of reinterpretation, for as much of a stick-in-the-mud as he sometimes comes across to me, Unnatural History Channel provides a proverbial smorgasbord of food for thought when it comes to creature design.

That entire series of shorts felt so profound and meaningful, but I agree with you on that one in particular.

I completely forgot he had a YouTube! I think I remember some annoying remarks from him on Twitter, admittedly (a stick-in-the-mud indeed), his work is gorgeous and his videos are incredibly helpful. I should go back and rewatch a bunch of them, I've been meaning to design some creatures...

Nothing looks off to me, at least! And I suppose now we’re about even as to the delay, heh

Excellent! And I suppose so. Ah well, no rush. Long-form blogging and forum communication doesn't need to be instant... Which I quite prefer at this point, honestly.

[guildrone]

Perhaps even if they are successful in their studies, they'll be shot down by every professor and colleague for such a bold claim? Sweeping statements like those tend to be laughed out of the room in many academic circles, as far as I've seen (again, mind, I'm not in the paleo-sphere).

Yeah, that’s what I figure will happen at some point—here’s to hoping, at least…

Ah, Molestia or Little Miss Rarity? XD

Both, actually! Though more so the former; mini-me was a bit too squeamish at what little I did wind up seeing of Lil Miss to want to dive much deeper at the time, my sense of morbid curiosity being exceptionally cowardly back then (I don’t even remember giving Cupcakes a read until I was already out of high school).

…Meanwhile, mindlessgonzo’s ‘performance’ for the Princess (etc.) herself is practically embedded into my brainfolds, for how long it’s been since I listened to such repeatedly.

On bronies though, I do greatly miss the glory days of them... certainly the most accepting, thoughtful fandom I had been a part of since the golden days of furries. Or perhaps my glasses are rose-colored because I was younger, and less people made discourse their entire life. Ah, well.

For what it’s worth, I feel the exact same way (except without broader furrydom as a frame of reference beforehand)—granted, I definitely had an easier time fitting into places in general back then, but the heyday or hayday, even of the brony community truly seemed to me like it had a place for all sorts…

…Even if some of those places (expectedly enough) wound up at each others’ throats for whatever reason. As one of my first big fandom scenes, this was also my first big exposure to fandom drama—and honestly, part of why I look back on those days so fondly is probably because my (more) conceited and myopic ego let me stay comfortably detached from a lot of the more involved/‘meta’ discourse throughout (which I could in turn just sit in front of my screen and laugh at snarky recaps of).

…Not to say I wasn’t personally invested in at least some of the pot-stirring, though; this was also around the time the allure of ✨critical analysis✨ started appealing to the aforementioned ego, so I soon enough found myself with a firm stick up my ass courtesy of whatever internet critics came off as funny/well-articulated enough for my liking: Twilight’s wings, Equestria Girls, Discord’s redemption(?) arc, Starlight Glimmer in general—you name it, I’d probably made it my personal 9/11 at some point before the oxymoron that is “objectively good writing” started to crumble against my increasingly opinionated psyche.

Long-form blogging and forum communication doesn't need to be instant... Which I quite prefer at this point, honestly.

Same here—one of my most consistent sources of remorse is not giving myself enough time to formulate my thoughts properly, so it’s nice to not feel as put on the spot as I would be on, say, Reddit (or especially Discord).

[captaincassidy]

Note: I have no idea what happened to the formatting here. Either I’ll figure it out later or forget to and leave it, lmao.

Note 2: Oh thank god I fixed it.

Both, actually! Though more so the former; mini-me was a bit too squeamish at what little I did wind up seeing of Lil Miss to want to dive much deeper at the time […]

Same, honestly. I was in jr high when MLP:FiM came out (2013-ish?) but wasn’t reading grimdark or horror until I was out of it (2017-ish). I actually have a reclist of grimdark fics. I skipped over Cupcakes and Rainbow Factory and that one about Big Mac and the CMCs until way later, which was a massive downgrade to the kind of stuff I was reading at the time. I hold very little nostalgia for them, sadly… but I do really like infection AUs. What I don’t like is how they’re all on TikTok and made by minors with “bronies DNI” in their profiles… Wild times we live in.

Er, anyway, I loved Molestia back on tumblr dot com. I’ve heard all sorts of rumors about the creator, but never looked into whether any of it was true. I just thought Celestia being a sex pest was hilarious.

I’m going to add those videos to my watch list. I either don’t remember them, or never got around to them. They look fun!

…Even if some of those places (expectedly enough) wound up at each others’ throats for whatever reason. As one of my first big fandom scenes, this was also my first big exposure to fandom drama—and honestly, part of why I look back on those days so fondly is probably because my (more) conceited and myopic ego let me stay comfortably detached from a lot of the more involved/‘meta’ discourse throughout[…]

…Not to say I wasn’t personally invested in at least some of the pot-stirring, though; this was also around the time the allure of ✨critical analysis✨ started appealing to the aforementioned ego, so I soon enough found myself with a firm stick up my ass courtesy of whatever internet critics came off as funny/well-articulated enough for my liking: Twilight’s wings, Equestria Girls, Discord’s redemption(?) arc, Starlight Glimmer in general—you name it, I’d probably made it my personal 9/11 at some point before the oxymoron that is “objectively good writing” started to crumble against my increasingly opinionated psyche

LMAO, hey, we all make mistakes. Personally I really like looking at media critically, but what the internet thinks of as “critical analysis” is… very not that. Like that infamous one about a certain show about sparkly rocks turning into people… Woof.

“Objectively good writing,” gods I hate people who are still in that mindset. Or at least, I hate their vibe. Just have fun, damn you! Stop making disliking a show your whole personality! (General you used, of course). I had a couple of stints like that, though it was less of a personal 9/11 and more of a blanket unwillingness to watch or read something because I arbitrarily decided they were “bad.” I still have some things like that, but it’s less disguised as “media critique” and more “I just like other shit, man.”

I’d make a Cinemasins joke, if I had something clever for it.

Same here—one of my most consistent sources of remorse is not giving myself enough time to formulate my thoughts properly, so it’s nice to not feel as put on the spot as I would be on, say, Reddit (or especially Discord).

Fr. Character limits are also fuckin’ awful. Writing out a discussion in a limited text box is like pulling teeth. Half the time I have to rely on tone indicators because there’s not enough room for me to do anything but state the most monotone, bland version of what I want to say known to man. (No shade to tone indicators, they’re very useful for many people.)