Notices by michael (somoking), page 2

michael Jim Dimitri

@jimbo I read why you did it on two days but i think exasperating it over multiple days makes it a bit awkward to go to. i would rather have one really populated meet up then two that are rather empty. If there is a focus for each day it would make a bit of sense

michael -

@slapdash sorry for my lack of progression typing on this site feels really awkward for me so just look at the points individually. anyways a big problem with the industry is that it always goes to extremes and people always take what they do to the extremes. so unless your entire show has very independent women it seems like its just a character or an abnormality. Many of the shows that try to go all out for feminism they often get put on with the stigma of the extreme feminist. unfortunately that is goging to be hard to get rid off. im not sure if you read a lot of feminist literature but they use the term neuter castrate in full seriousness. You can probably understand why quite a few men don't care to learn about feminist groups cause it feels like they are not welcomed, though thats not giving them excuse but at least we can understand why are forefathers and perhaps a few contemporary male feminist felt awkward about the movement.

michael -

@slapdash Any way i think there is a great many of shows that simply do not show the female characters doing anything or show them being good for only emotional support such as Deathnote or better yet Bakuman ( if you don't like me referencing anime please tell me and ill find better examples its just that anime is a little more my forte) I think an interesting thing about MLP almost uses the characters faults as a base and builds there good qualities to build on that and this means if they fail at providing a good positive for the character the audience puts any future development in the positive. To be honest i don't think that MLP has good characters for women it has good characters in general. Recently i haven't seen to many male characters who gain much development. although this might be my own sexism kicking in. my favorite Rarity is a great example of a character which shows a empowered feminine role without being a completely against our common stereotype of women

michael -

@slapdash If i remember correctly i was talking about Yuri ( lesbian anime series). Funny enough Yoai (Homosexual male anime) is more popular with girls then Yuri is with guys so Yuri titles are often done very well because unlike a lot of gay romances in media there main target is not the opposite gender of the romantic relationship (typically) So the writing is usually very understanding. A example i use for the defrence between yoai and yuri is that in a yoai lets just say it dosent take long for sex to develop while in yuri ,like an old favorite of mine girlfriends, takes 57 chapters for them to kiss and although that dose not mean much it does tell you that there not trying to be soft core porn. On MLP i like how all the characters are extremely independent although you have to take into account gender populations in MLP are offset. though it provides a positive image when many characters work and live alone. ( sorry i had to cut my thoughts short character limit )

michael Jeremy

@tehtrojanpony Ok actually thought of an idea. rather then concepts we could use people. ok general premise someone made luna feel lonley by shruging her off because they had more important stuff to do with another pony. this way we could have them narrow down the clues like the regular clue. in the end we could have a little moral like " everypony has something to say no matter how quiet and you should always treat them as a friend or something along those lines" along with that i would love to have creative captions on the cards just to make it funnier. ohh and we need to worry about short cuts. so if we have the garden in the courner we could have a short cut labeled janitor ponys secretpassway anyway i just thought of that and thought i would pitch it before i forgot.

michael Jeremy

@tehtrojanpony ya that would be interesting. unfortunatly all i can tribute with that is my writing skills sense it docent change any of the core mechanics. I have a clue game that i can dig out and look to see what needs to be altered. an interesting take on it ( if where going on the luna incapacitation story) would be that rather then weapons we have actions, or objectives, or something less physical. along with playing along with the shows emotional approach to conflict it would add a unique flavoring to the game. just to tell you an easier way to contact me is my email somoking1@gmail.com actually don't unless you have to you sending messages through RBDN is that it forces me to check it.

michael Matt

@koneko ya what i was saying is that i will be there from really early to really late. i will most surely be at the meetup with you guys ill just be there a bit earlier then most

michael Thomas K

@zarkanorf Im willing to go to a beach meet up i live in long beach but im willing to drive a ways so just add a counter on your list

michael Jeremy

@tehtrojanpony If you want any help im willing although my expertise are limited. I am a writer and am fairly experienced with game mechanics along with that i have experience playing many games obscure or common. so any thing with in those lines im good for. Right now i think it would be important to think of a game Risk is fairly obvious but we would need to create a map of equestria and other nations and i do not think there is enough information there. Pony life would be simple but require a lot of artwork. Settlers of equestria despite being based on a more complicated game might be easier for us to make. if you have any other ideas tell me

michael Jim Dimitri

@jimbo I will see if i can go to the spectrum im an LB brony but i go to school at OCHSA so where used to driving down there if you really want to do it please tell me and i will use my will to to go down there