my little ponies

G1 is pretty nice, Tales is alright, G3 is the comfiest, G3.5 is okay, G4 S1 and S2 are probably the most well-written, G4 S3 and onwards is a kind of a burning trainweck that goes on for way too long, I have not checked G5.

big pony head right here. used to do pony rp on google plus back in da day lol

>>4
Like Google hangouts or PMs?

like google plus, google's long dead social network site. it was like halfway between facebook and discord in terms of functionality

google plus was pretty cool. too bad google needed it to succeed so badly they were compelled to integrate it into chrome, the google home page, and eventually youtube, causing a backlash so aggressive they had no choice but to shut it all down.

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>>4
hiii ponychads! whos your favorite? i like ponka po!

god i wish g5 was good. the movie was solid, but the shows were just so... empty. im a bronycon-era-g4-fag, though so maybe my opinion doesnt matter, but i was so ready for the community to have some life injected back into it

>>8
Man that's an impossible pick. I like Wind Whistler for obvious reasons, but she is more smart than wise. Celestia was great before she got reduced to a one-note mission command. Maybe Star Catcher or G3 Rainbow Dash, but the G3 cast as a whole is just amazing.

poni is kino and n0 got filtered

G5 is awful, though Sunny and Izzy are kinda cute designs, and the different plummage of the pegasus wings are neat. I feel like the design direction was leaning into the type of G4 fanart that added a bit more detail, like the defined hooves and horsier faces. I feel like it could have been great, but somewhere along the line it went soulless. My favorite G4's gotta be Fluttershy.

>>13
isnt this just a really dumb way of saying theyre deliberately designed to be appealing and attractive? no shit, the ponies werent made to look ugly or be unlikeable, that's good marketing

>>14
im not any of these people, but you must go out of your way to think the poster was mystified why ponies are made attractive. it can be interesting to reveal why something registers as attractive, and what exactly, is registering.

some of the smartest internet people i know are/were bronies: gwern and rebane2001

>>15
my point is that the explanation is extremely surface level while dressed up in complicated language. in the post, koinophilia is beauty and neoteny is cuteness. saying the ponies are attractive because theyre beautiful and cute is barely worth pointing out, the most interesting point about that is that attraction to ponies would have to be considered normal and self-explanatory

>>17
it was probably satisfying to know in that moment that evopsych defines cuteness and beauty as something that you are bound to be attracted to a degree, and that perhaps the only way the "we" differ from "them" is in the degrees of these parameters.