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2013 Top 100 Math
Explanation about how the top 100 list was generated and the reasoning behind it, for those interested. Itās long and it uses mathematical terms without much explanation, so donāt read if you just want a tl;dr.
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A well thought out system for rating tracks, accounting both for votes and popularity. I personally use rating/plays as a quick-and-dirty measure for quality.
Some people here say that they think itās stupid how one person will hate someoneās art if they donāt make art themselves. Thatās like saying āYou canāt hate movies because you donāt make them" or āYou arenāt allowed to hate books because you donāt make them".
Just because someoneās talent isnāt making art doesnāt mean theyāre not allowed opinions on what art they like. Lighten up! Theyāre allowed opinions! If you donāt agree with them then just donāt and move on.
- Submitted by hyper-and-drew
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Many a revolution made things worse because people only agreed on an enemy, but not on a solution.
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So you are saying that you can block legislation by just talking? I have no idea how to think about that woman, but I am losing respect for your legislative system very fast.
I could never forget you <3 Seriously, with all the people who ask me who did my OC, and I link them to you, Iām surprised people arenāt constantly asking you to design OCs for them (or are they?). If you ever wanna open commissions I could definitely drop a line about it in one of my videos ;)
Yay I wonāt be forgotten!! *feels loved*Ā ; uĀ ;
Haha oddly enough a lot of people do ask me to draw their OCās! (Not Ā too many, but way more than people used to, thatās for sure!) And I do want to open commissions because thereās been such an increase ever since your popularity increased haha!
The problem is I donāt have a paypal account because I donāt have a bank account, so I canāt do any commissions right now :c and even if I did, (somehow??) Iād be worried that Iād take too long to finish their Pony!
Then again if I were taking commissions, Iād buckle down by taking breaks from Skype & Tumblr (my number 1 & 2 distractions!)ā¦but without a paypal, P.O. Box or anything Iām pretty much SOL since I donāt want to give strangers my home address XDā
Though just watch. As soon as I open up commissions, Iāll suddenly no longer have any takers hahahaā¦.
You can have a paypal without having a bank account, itās just more difficult to access the money you make. Iāve been told you can have them send you a check with the money or something, but Iām not 100% sure how it works. Probably worth looking into, though. I know I had 10 bucks in my old paypal account without ever hooking it up to a bank account, though I never retrieved it.
(if anyone knows more about this, plz share)
I'm pretty sure you can make a paypal account without bank account or credit card. You could then use any money to receive to pay stuff via paypal. That already very useful. In my country you can't get the money out any other way I know of, but checks are practically nonexistent here, might be different where you live. As your account wouldn't be verified, you would have some heavy restrictions, but as long as you stay below $1000 with everything you should be fine.
That being said, paypal seems to change policies on a daily basis. Just try it out!
I mean come on. Theyāre CARTOON HORSES.
- Anonymous
Not to mention, that the show constantly brakes it, with EVERY character.
In animation you can temporary break bones and it can look better that way. A popular walk animation of Goofy puts his feet backwards for a few frames in every step. Still it feels as if he would obey a fairly human anatomy. In a still image the same pose, with his reversed feet, would look wrong. A still image is held to other standards than an animation because it is perceived fundamentally different.
There is also a difference between establishing an aesthetically pleasing anatomy and occasionally and purposefully breaking it for comedic effect, and breaking bones constantly and for no reason. One is mastering an art, the other is being in need of improvement.
You are just taking a screenshot from the show and erasing the background! Try DRAWING your own shit.
- Anonymous
What has a comic from toxic-mario to do with erasing a background? Vectors are just a tool, just like oil paint. You can do traces or beautiful art. And even the traces have their place. And btw, you can't generate a vector by erasing a background from a bitmap image, it will stay a bitmap image.
Bruce LeeĀ had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. Weād run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-and-a half minutes per mile]. So this morning he said to me āWeāre going to go five.ā I said, āBruce, I canāt go five. Iām a helluva lot older than you are, and I canāt do five.ā He said, āWhen we get to three, weāll shift gears and itās only two more and youāll do it.ā I said āOkay, hell, Iāll go for it.ā So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and Iām okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. Iām tired, my heartās pounding, I canāt go any more and so I say to him, āBruce if I run any more,ā āand weāre still running-āif I run any more Iām liable to have a heart attack and die.ā He said, āThen die.ā It made me so mad that I went the full five miles. Afterward I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, āWhy did you say that?ā He said, āBecause you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, itāll spread over into the rest of your life. Itāll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.ā
He mad.
And (dismissal of characters aside) heās completely correct.
Because opinions are fact.
Films are a form of narrative art.
Keyword narrative.Ā
If your narrative falls flat, you have a bad film.
You may have a nice piece of art, that looks pretty, sounds pretty, and can be entertaining.
But the point of a film is to tell a story.
And I personally enjoy the story that was told. Whether you or Paleo or the people down at EQG did or did not is your business. Itās really not worth getting so pissed off about. Official critiques for the movie are mixed with most of them being positive, anyway, so if you want to go for political ācorrectnessā, majority stands, itās a pretty good movie.
Lol, if you wanna invoke majority rules, than MLP as a whole is shit and weāre all gay pedophiles.Ā
At the end of the day, it really doesnāt matter to me what anyone else thinks. You can like whatever you want.
However, as someone who has dedicated the last ten years of their life to the art of storytelling, I feel I have a fairly decent grasp on what makes or breaks a narrative. So, when I say that I honestly, truthfully, cannot comprehend how some people are enjoying this film to the degree that they are, I feel I can say that with a bit of confidence in my perceptions.
Nah, by the majority we are a bunch of guys (and woman) who enjoy a cartoon and maybe obsess a little bit too much about it. The gay pedophile stigma is mostly a US thing.
EqD.
What are you doing?
The reason Tom and I are upset about this is because EqD has influence.
Influence on a product that should have never come to be, and if it gets support, we may see more of it. Which is something I donāt want.
A semirelated study about videogames shows that people played the game/watched the movie and then hear other opinions, negative opinions make them dislike it, while positive opinions don't affect their judgement significantly. So EqD could make this fandom enjoy EG less, but they chose not to. Isn't it inherently good if we enjoy something?
Sure, if we enjoy something we might get more of it. But we are here for a good cartoon. Because of great characters, great animation, voice acting and music. We can have all this in EG too. I still want my candy colored horses, but I don't think we have to cleanse EG with fire while it still has potential (I have my pitchfork ready when I lost hope though).
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I swear sometimes I just want youtube to go fuck itself. :L
Hate on your internet provider, not on youtube.
āoh this is my new character that I deffinetly didnāt re color using a vector or anything, even though she looks EXACTLY LIKE PINKIE PIEā
GOSH DANG IT DRAW YOUR OWN ART! I DONāT CARE IF YOU CANāT DRAW ITāS BETTER THAN ART THEFT
- Submitted by janetta-the-robot
The key word is using, not vectors. Vector art is great, and at least as hard as doing art with a pen. In fact I know a lot of artists who make a sketch and then vectorize it, at least half of the don't want their art to be called vector art because of this stigma.
That being said, simple recolors of show characters are just lazy, even more so if they don't use original art.
it was absolutly amazing, it had a solid plot and it was animated just by fans and the fact that fans made that makes me even more proud to be part of this amazing fandom.
- Submitted by asksilverquill
People are just disappointed. After so much work from so many great people, we expected something better. And some people just start to rage if they are disappointed. It's the same effect that makes people hate EA.
My comic; āIntroversionā is finished! Please go to the main pageĀ of my blog to read it in full size (the text is kinda small)
I really hope youāll like it!
Wow
I never asked for a biography in comic form. Yet here it isā¦
I can relate a lot.
Are there any normal people out there?
Now I donāt mean this as a cry of desperation, like Iāve suddenly realized that every single one of my peers is some kind of freakish sub-human weirdo who reads Fifty Shades unironically and eats raw two minute noodles for breakfast.
This is a legitimate philosophical query. Perhaps I should better phrase it as: āIs it possible for a person to be normal?ā
Before I discovered the amazing parasitical mass that is internet culture, I had to deal with a small dysfunctional community of conservatives in suburban Adelaide as a child. I didnāt fit in very well in that community, mainly because I was into that whole book learninā thing, while all of those adults saw the Artemis Fowl series as Satanic liberal communist socialist feminist etc. propaganda. It also didnāt help than I played videogames, which every adult including my parents saw as mindless blarg that drains the IQ. And thus I was deemed to be ānot normalā. And for the longest time I believed it, because I had no evidence to the contrary.
Ten years later I have a YouTube channel based on books and find that not only does Artemis Fowl have a significant and sizable fan base, but that there are hordes of readers like me all across the globe. And that videogaming is one of the largest growing cultures in the world. Then I discover, lo and behold, people deeming themselves āfurriesā self-identify as animals, atheism is the worldās fastest growing religious view, and grown men start celebrating television shows intended for five-year-old girls. Thus the word ānormalā seemed to lose all purpose and meaning.
Hereās the dictionary.com definition for the word ānormalā:
1. conforming to the standard or the common type.
2. serving to establish a standard.
So apparently ānormalā refers to standards either being conformed to or being established, which seems contrary to me because if one is establishing a standard, then they arenāt conforming to the standard that is already established. Oh, never mind. Thatās a technicality.
What standard? Whoās standard? That dysfunctional community in suburban Adelaide I grew up in had a standard that I certainly didnāt fit into. My high school peers had a standard that I didnāt fit into either. But I do seem to fit into the standards of the YouTube book community, the brony community, and other various people groups. So I am simultaneously normal and not normal.
It seems like the word ānormalā is used only contextually. Say, bowing to people when greeting them is normal in Japan, but not in England. But this creates a similarly founded problem as the one I brought up in my Animal Rights video. The one about drawing arbitrary lines when dealing with abstract ideas. I can draw an arbitrary line of normality between Japan and England, but could I also not draw an arbitrary line between London and Manchester? Iād be dividing up a country if I did that. But people do it. What is normal in one city is not normal in another.
Normality is sometimes reserved for individuals as well. Say, if Sally does something strange, we say, āSally is not normal.ā but if Sally does it often enough we say, āThat is normal for Sally.ā and if she stops doing it we say, āThat is weird for Sally.ā even though she is once again conforming to everyone elseās standard.
But hereās the thing: If normality can be determined for each individual human then there is really no such thing as normality. Surely if someone can break the rules of normality such that breaking the rules of normality becomes ānormalā for them, then the rules of normality are not fulfilling their intended purpose. So why do we need them?
And hereās the other thing: if normality can be determined to arise over time, why are some things considered normal if they occur often enough, while other things are considered not normal even though theyāve been happening for ages? I mean homosexuality is considered abnormal by some. And the existence of homosexuality predates humanity, so why it isnāt considered normal is silly. By contrast, Justin Beiber has been around for I think three or four years now, but listening to his music is what any ānormalā teen girl would do.
Iāve heard the argument that normality is quantifiable. As in: the more something occurs, the more it should be considered normal. So homosexuality is still not normal because the overwhelming majority of human beings are strict heterosexuals. Wellā¦ this still brings in the arbitrary lines problem. Say if I included the entire animal kingdom into the calculation. Suddenly there are probably more homosexuals on Earth than there are humans. So well-fucking-done. But if you draw an arbitrary line between humans and animals, to exclude animals from the equation, then you still have to consider that there are things in human culture done by the majority that are not at all morally agreeable. For example, women have been disadvantaged and oppressed in the majority of cultures around the globe for the entirely of human history. So should it be considered normal to disadvantage and oppress women?
It seems like ānormalā doesnāt have a definite set of boundaries grounded in philosophy, science, anthropology, or any other study of the world. What is deemed ānormalā is, rather, attributed to gut-feelings. In other words: āI feel that homosexuality is not normal.ā We canāt provide evidence to back up our claims of what is normal and what isnāt, and even if we did, our definition of normality is so vague that any evidence provided would never allow us to draw any solid conclusions.
I probably wouldnāt possess such a vendetta against the concept of normal if it werenāt so fucking idolized. Why is it that people deem something as unacceptable because it isnāt normal? Iāve already established that normalcy is a stupid concept and so equating normalcy with acceptability is an act of ludicrously delusional silliness. Iād be perfectly happy to wear the label āabnormalā if it were not also implied that Iād need to change by strange ways to conform to everyone else without a rational justification.
You know, there are times when I wish I could be called normal. But then I take a look at the mindless consuming fodder that my society has deemed ānormalā and I become glad that I am not one of them.
Proud to be strange.
Being normal simply means complying to a norm, it is as simple as that. If I write the current date as 2013-06-21 then that's normal - it conforms to ISO 8601. It is also abnormal, because the common practice in my country is a different format.
Rating an entire human as normal requires some norm to compare that human to. In absence of anything better, everyone simply chooses himself as the norm. You like books, computer games, like Artemis Fowl and don't read Fifty Shades of Grey - therefore you are normal, because I'm just like that. My neighbour would rate you as abnormal, because he is different from you and me. If I knew you more, I would discover that at some point you are different from me, and therefore not normal anymore. Since I assume that there are no two equal people on the world, everyone but oneself is abnormal. But on the upside, in your own norm you are always normal. Staying true to yourself is the same as staying normal in your own norm.
The moral of the story: everything normal is abnormal. Proud to be normal. And comply to ISO 8601, it's great :D
My biggest regret in the MLP fandom :\
Shitās going to get real here so buckle up!
Iām not going to say this keeps me up at nightā¦ And youāll be surprised by what it is. But this is actually a very serious deal for meā¦ And it does bug me.
My biggest regretā¦ Not being a brony sooner.
FiM has had 3 seasons. This fandom has been budding for at least 3 years now. Even though I had heard of the fandom since late 2010ā¦
I just became part of the scene as of 3 months agoā¦
I wasnāt even there for the birth of this dare I call it āsocial and artistic revolutionā. What kept me from it, was that I used to find it too strange. I had no gripes with it and I didnāt hate the culture itself but I never really gave it a chance.
I like to think of myself as a very open-minded person, and yet this was so out of my reach until recentlyā¦ It makes me feel like a fool. A preacher who speaks words about change and acceptanceā¦ But does not practice it or fully understand it. And even though I am that person nowā¦ I cannot deny my previously ignorant and cynical nature.
It was the one thing that kept me from the joy of enjoying something wholesome that encouraged friendships and so much more wonderful things in my life. Being a brony earlier would have been better for me overall. Now I have to live with that part of me that used to be in denial, in the dark, skeptical and awful. I fear I will always be at war with my past.
Becoming a brony taught me more about life, and myself as a person than Iād like to admit publicly. Itās really what saved me from my depression and loathing for other human lifeā¦
But I cannot shake that disconnectā¦ Even though now I am so entrenched in this cultureā¦ The fact that I came in much too late. And that, in many ways, it separates me from this phenomenon. And that I may never fully and truly connect with members of the community on the same level. And with FiM coming to what appears to be a close (season 4 possibly being the last one), I fear that it is just a short taste of happiness to be yanked away cruelly.
Perhaps this is me worrying too much, maybe my old hipster elitist self is just creeping in to be pessimistic and say that Iām not a real brony.
And I cannot deny that the fandom has accepted me all the same and that they have received me wellā¦ Butā¦ Either way it haunts me.
That in some waysā¦ I may never through and through be called one of youā¦ And perhaps that true, and sincere happiness may be yet againā¦ Just outside my reach.
/end_vent God dammit sorry if that was a tad depressing :P
I have been here since the middle of season 2. You'll catch up with all the inside jokes.
And you will survive many "ends of the fandom".
I survived the pink alicorn princess (Cadence) which people blamed on horrible Hasbro influence. I survived a wedding episode with said princess. I survived season 2 possibly being the last season. I survived season 3 possibly being the last season (especially since it was only half as long as the other two). I survived Twilight's ascend to alicornhood (and princesshood). So far I even survived Equestria Girls.
I expect to survive season 4 possibly being the last season too. The fandom will even survive the season finale of season 4.
