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Zennistrad
Bronze Bit -
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

@SunnySide
 
I like that it actually tries to be intelligent. It’s not often you see people make jokes about things like functional programming, and it’s quite refreshing to see this level of “nerd humor” get this much attention.
 
Also, using “autism” as a derogatory term kind of completely ruins your credibility to make any reasoned argument.
Japanese Teeth
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Wallet After Summer Sale -
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Clock. Is. Ticking.
@Background Pony #C9F4
 
@Background Pony #A1A0
 
I’m well aware of the problems it can raise, I’m just saying that the fact that the motivation doesn’t affect the quality as long as the desire to make a good product is prioritized over messing with it to sell toys.
 
You could have somebody make a show in order to sell toys, but that doesn’t make it a bad show unless you force them to make bad changes to sell product.
 
MLP:FIM does have some of those problems, but as a general statement it isn’t necessarily the case that all toy-ad shows suck, they just have a higher liklihood to because execs like money.
Background Pony #C541
@Japanese Teeth  
It does sometimes wrench the show in odd directions. Pointless third alicorn? Who only cheapens the also toy-driven decision to alicornize the lead character?
Background Pony #18B1
@Japanese Teeth  
It does change the motivation, and hence the goals though.
 
The most obvious impact on the show of its merchandise-driven nature, is the regular introduction of new settings, characters and themes. Hasbro can only sell so many mane 6 and Ponyville playsets before they saturate the market and need to introduce something a new toy line. That’s why we’ve had Cadence, the Crystal Empire, and Twilicorn introduced so soon despite there being plenty of room left for story telling in existing settings.
Japanese Teeth
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Wallet After Summer Sale -
The End wasn't The End - Found a new home after the great exodus of 2012

Clock. Is. Ticking.
I never understand why people keep bringing up the “made to sell toys” thing as if that in and of itself somehow affects the quality of the show. I know most merchandising shows suck, but they suck because the people who made them didn’t put the effort in.
 
Whether or not the show is made to sell toys doesn’t in and of itself have anything to do with the quality.
rogerSnow
Duck - Quacks like a duck, takes bait like a fish

Wow. So I’m not the only one with waking perspective. Try that shit when you’re riding in a car. Wake up and realize you’re moving very quickly in a metal box built by intelligent apes produced through billions of years of evolution, driven by one of these apes, and HOLY SHIT YOU’RE ONE OF THEM OMFG WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON LIFE IS SO WEIRD
Background Pony #18B1
@Tenafly Viper  
If you read the original comic (linked in the source) you’ll see that it was intended as a joke about fanatical devotion - not mere enjoyment.