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[☼!!Troll Fur Sock!!☼]

i agree with OP completely.  if they want their ponies, they should take them somewhere else.  i'm so tired of seeing it in the community forts.

Aaaahahahaha. Haahaha. Haha. Ha.
I don't like XYZ thing you like, now GTFO off my line of sight and never come back. I think you won't complain if somebody would create anime/book/show based community fort. I don't see any difference between Shinigami, Wild Mages, Daleks and... Ponies. If they don't force you to like what they like, don't force them to don't like what you don't like.

And about irony - I'm not sure if those who do things "for irony" even know what irony is. Look, everyone EVERYWHERE hates bronies. I don't think they would deal with all haters just "for irony".

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

It's not about tiny, talking horses. You're only mature if you know that word "manly" and "girlish" are bullshit. There is no such thing that is gender-specyfic (with expection for cooking. Only chosen ones are born with ability to make something more complitated than sandvich). Nothing is also age-specyfic. Kid does whatever he likes. Adult cares about what would other think. And bronies? They are just smart enough to have rest of the world and their opinion deep in... finished goods bin?

Note to myself - learn2english before writing something that SHOULD sound smart.

[Finn]

Personally, I don't like people who play computer games.

[Dutchling]

Personally, I don't like people who play computer games.

Personally, I don't like people.

[Loud Whispers]

Chill out. The pony thing is obviously people being intentionally ridiculous (that hipster "irony" thing), and my "grouchy old man" post is also meant to be light-hearted.  Now, get off my lawn.

You missed it by several solar systems. Cultivate your tolerance and base your reactions off your reasons.

[gestahl]

Meh, not my thing...but then lots of stuff isn't. There is just a bit of irony about adding rainbows and ponys to a game where you bite something in the eye and shake it around till it's skull fractures, but I don't know if that's why they do it. Either way it's their thing, chill out.

[Bdthemag]

Do not speak of MLP here, there's a reason all discussion of it was banned on the lower forums. It wasn't even because people who didn't like the show were getting vocal and angry. Three threads discussing it were locked, and then Toady banned the creation of any MLP threads.

[Loud Whispers]

Meh, not my thing...but then lots of stuff isn't. There is just a bit of irony about adding rainbows and ponys to a game where you bite something in the eye and shake it around till it's skull fractures, but I don't know if that's why they do it. Either way it's their thing, chill out.

Dwarf Fortress is not defined by violence - it is a sharp expression of an otherwise arduous and lengthy game. Look at adventurers - their careers rarely end in retirement and last much shorter than the more story driven Fortress mode. I do not see decapitation in farming, death in forging, anger in masonry nor spite in carpentry. To say Dwarf Fortress is a violence simulator is to scratch the detail from a painting.
And on a second note, there is for no reason why one's personal interests should exclude them from Dwarf Fortress. The game is so heavily modifiable for a reason; it can be tailored to suit you. Nor are generalizations ever good, there is no exception to using them to prejudice against that which constitutes all of us. There is no them vs us, there is just us.
As for the chilling out, the only kneejerk reactions I have seen have come from those who would wish to make their media interests their sole defining characteristics.

What will your children  and grandchildren think of you?

Exhibit A.

[Telgin]

I'm amazed at the number of people responding who:
(A) ...think the pony-modders are expressing a sincerely-held, deep-rooted preference/inclination/whatever, and
(B) ...think I'm being cruel and bigoted toward these poor, misunderstood souls.

Chill out. The pony thing is obviously people being intentionally ridiculous (that hipster "irony" thing), and my "grouchy old man" post is also meant to be light-hearted.  Now, get off my lawn.

I should know better than to post in this thread, and I absolutely will not get into an argument over it, but I feel compelled to answer since I am apparently one of these people who are annoying you to no end by running two pony mod based community forts.

I'm hardly being intentionally ridiculous.  I just happen to thoroughly enjoy the cartoon and Dwarf Fortress, and enjoy both together even more.  I can honestly say that I have experienced few things that I enjoyed more than those pony forts.  For one reason or another, people such as myself seem to really enjoy mixing the canon of MLP:FiM with what Dwarf Fortress provides, the characters it creates, the situations it puts them in, and everything that is emergent from it.  Watching what blossomed from one pony saving another from a forgotten beast was one of my favorite subplots in my first community fort.

As Loud Whispers puts it, Dwarf Fortress just happens to make a fantastic story telling medium for almost any setting.  This just happens to be an already popular one that mixes surprisingly well with it.

As for why I don't take it elsewhere?  Because I'm honestly looking for people who understand Dwarf Fortress, what community games are, and how they work.  There's a large overlap of bronies here on top of that, so it's very minimal effort to get the thing going.  If I took this somewhere else, I have to explain to every potential player what DF is, what a community game is, what a forgotten beast is, why Luna and Celestia can't be the princesses, and a million other things.  I've also met some of my best friends ever through these games, and if I can meet more, I don't want to give up that opportunity.  And Toady seems to not care about the community games, since they don't stir up the same troubles as general pony discussion.

If it wasn't for those community games, I wouldn't be playing DF now, nor would I have ever donated money to Toady.  It's a strange symbiotic relationship since I learned about MLP:FiM from this forum.

So, there you have it.  If seeing a handful of pony mod themed threads in the community games forum bothers you this much, I'm sorry, but I don't really know what to tell you other than don't click on them.

[GatorFace]

Just to throw in my two cents, I like MLP because it's a lighthearted, simple, straightforward show that manages to be a children's show without treating its audience like idiots. The characters have more dimensionality than most other cartoon characters today (except maybe Adventure Time, but that show derives most of its depth from delving into dark concepts), while still remaining simple and accessible. The fact that every episode spells out a moral without any real subtlety would probably be an annoyance if not for the fact that the show is so honest about it. For me, it's like Animaniacs meets Mister Rogers, a nostalgic throwback to the days of smart cartoons and shows that sought to help you become a better person. And, really, that's incredibly refreshing with all the grimdark nonsense constantly going on across the internet and TV.

Plus, the ponies are seriously the most adorable things.

[joeclark77]

It's not an irony thing.
It's people enjoying a good show.

I didn't even know that there was a show.  I was only aware of the toy.
Well, if this topic is banned, I'm not going to tempt the forum gods by continuing to wave my cane and snap my suspenders at you.  You can rest knowing I abandon this thread in just a little bit more despair about the future of Western civilization.