Ask the mods anything

Kind reminder that this is the “fun” thread; if you want to ask about reports, policies, or similar matters, use this thread instead.

Are you bald or worried about balding?

Most expensive thing you’ve bought recently?
 
A number between 0 and 324 plz.

@Amateur-draw  

Manebooru is an imagebooru much like this one, different staff and different rules though.
 

Derpibooru and Manebooru both use the open source Philomena software which may make them seem the same but there’s many differences. Manebooru is more strict with what content can be uploaded, absolutely no nazi or foalcon/underaged content is allowed there.
 

Manebooru was made as an altbooru to this site after some drama that happened over a year ago. Some artists have had their art ported over or other people uploaded their art over, if your art isn’t there yet and you want it there, you can either upload them there yourself or make a post on their official porting thread.

@TheGlitchedWolf  
Thank you for answering my question. That’s all i wanted to know.

@Sparx  
Define “recently,” but… probably a tank of gas that came in at nearly $50.
 
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What was undoubtedly the most cringeworthy aspect of the fandom’s early years?

@CaptainXtra  
Cupcakes and other grimderp fics.
 
Including Fallout Equestria.

@CaptainXtra  
Fluffy abuse. A lot of times the people involved in making those end up being so freaking obsessed about it.
 
@The Smiling Pony  
That, and stuff like Twilicorn, still create so much drama sometimes. 10 years from now people are still going to be posting cringe-filled hate-art about Twilicorn. I was hoping that Cozy Glow drama would finally divert the Twilicorn hard liners, but nope - even with G5 firing up, they’re doubling down. Hard.

@Ciaran
 
First, I’m afraid to ask, but what’s fluffy abuse?
 
Second, are those tossers still annoying with that Twilicorn stuff? I thought that was finished already, like… years ago.

There’s a fanmade pony species called fluffy pony so fluffy abuse is just abuse towards fluffy ponies.
 

Yes. It’s not as common but I’ve seen people within the past month complain about twilicorn.

A reminder again that this is the fun thread, the thread for questions about the site itself and our policy belong here.

@TheGlitchedWolf
 
Hah, so straightforward I feel like an idiot, thought it was some awkward euphemism. Either way, thank you!
 
@GenericArchangel
 
In my defence I asked because it was brought up here. It just piqued my curiosity.

Everyone thinks we’re all serious here all the time, but any volunteer hanging out here is more like pic related.
 

 
I mean, imagine you leave your day job of fixing cars and go home log on to your favorite game to just screw around and hang out with your friends, and someone asks you to explain why their car backfires.

@Ciaran  
Alrite, apologies for that then, just hakuna your tatas and adjust your bust before it combusts. ^{%(No offense)%}
 
Is your _[Ciaran] profile pic your ponysona? Because it’s pretty cute, I wish to know how to make a good ponysona like that. _{Not sure if this is or isn’t a question that can go here, so if not I’ll repost this on the other AtM thread
 
^{Fucking hell, those are my dance moves! How come everyone steals my style?! Hah}}

@Vulcan  
I never set out to create a ponysonna, she just happened.
 
I used to do a web comic and I used everyone at work for characters in it. But I changed each person’s gender and their race and other details until they were unrecognizable unless you had gamed with them. My character in that was a militant discontented gamer who tried to not give a shit as much as possible but also was just happy all the time even when it wasn’t really appropriate. Most of that comic was about gaming and trying to survive as an engineer in the late 90’s and early 00’s after the bubble burst in the US and your company had been re-bought and re-structured for the 9th time until you reached the point where the core product you were trying to create was almost unrecognizable.
 

 
I was just figuring out how to draw at all and still taking night classes in ‘do you even comic art’, so any criticism of the art, layout, lettering, story, the freaking size for the page that I chose - any of it is 100% appropriate and probably accurate.
 
Some of it was coping about work and how much I utterly hate (almost all but not some rare shining examples of) project management in an era where program and product management was being phased out and the people managing projects intentionally had no idea how the thing they were actually creating worked or in some cases even what it did. Like: the school of project managers where you have people managing a product they wouldn’t even recognize if someone showed it to them, and where the gantt chart shows thirty resources but there’s only one actual worker.
 

 
Then all of a sudden it merged with the D&D world I’d been running for … well, since about 2 years before there was a D&D Player’s Guide and everyone was still using bad photocopies of Chainmail from Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and then it got all … fascinating. Even as the person who was drawing and writing it, I was constantly surprised by what was happening in the comic.
 

 
But I’d been in Japan for so long by then basically all I had to do all night was sit by myself in parks or drink in tiny bars and draw. It’s a good way to practice drawing … when drawing is the only thing that you have that you want to do and you don’t really speak the language and the local currency is still rare and expensive to get because you’re getting paid in the wrong monies.
 
Then Joey did the Community Collaboration and I needed an OC and I realized that she’d always been there with me, all along.
 

 
So, yes - that’s my ponysona. Drawn by the unbelievably talented, funny, and fun to hang out with Artist:Skoon (of Naughty Luna and Oh Dat Cheerilee fame.
 

 
Which reminds me I owe him some art.
 
Thanks for asking :) I assume this was about 389% more information you’d been hoping for, which is just about spot on for my ponysonna.
 
PS: Yes, my Tulpa has a credit card and owns her own online radio station. Which plays music that I’m not entirely happy with but generally we get along.

Are any of you on MLP Forums?

@Ciaran  
I had no idea you were an artist. I like your anime style, it has that nostalgic retro vibe to it. What is the name of that radio station btw?

@moonchosen  
Thank you :) I am both nostalgic and retro :)
 
https://live365.com/station/Sacred-Paths-Radio-a22955
 
There is an extremely long backstory to the name of the station, but that’s the it. There’s supposed to be an update to the programming schedule this month, but we’re rapidly running out of, you know … ‘month’.

What is your favorite G5 pony?
 
What is your favorite MLP fangame?

If any of you mods had a rough day today and feel like tomorrow would be better for you, do you think it would be true?

@Jaredking203  
I always believe that today is the best day of my life. Because it is.

@Ciaran  
Yes, it should a better day, because even tomorrow can still be as rough as today, which I had at point.
 
And I apologize about what I did earlier (I sent you a note about it, but please ignore the messages I sent you).

@Jaredking203  
Anyone can be made to suffer. In looking for tomorrow you may miss this special moment. Cheers.

@radostt  
Tomorrow was yesterday. Today is today. I’ve been fine so far during the 2021-2022 Season aside from one incident on September 2nd. Other than that, I’m mostly at a good start.