the helpful folks at the forever unerring Urban Dictionary say
British slang, today meaning uncool, tacky, unfashionable, worthless... or as a softer expletive, in places where one might use "fuck" as in "naff off", "naff all", "naffing about".
Origins of the word are disputed, but it appears to have come from Polari (gay slang), used to dismissively refer to heterosexual people. It was introduced as a less offensive expletive verb ("naff off") in the '70s UK television show, Porridge. "Naff off!" was famously used by Princess Anne in 1982.
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
Does anybody remember the time when we talked about how if there's a battle scene in a movie, they should pan out to like an RTS shot and show all the statistics and the strategy and everything?
I want to look for those posts again because that shit was ridiculous.
I've learned to tolerate drama...except on the boat
But yeah, let me list some of what I consider the pros and cons of MLP:FIM
Pros:
Made Tara Strong Internet-famous
Great design
Seems to be a show made by people who love old animation and pre-'80s pop culture, in an era where people who aren't wild about Looney Tunes and the other stuff I mentioned seem to be taking control
Cons:
Overreliant on stock plots
Nasty corporate feeling subtly, but noticeably, present
Show's popularity forced Hasbro, a behind-the-times and media-unsavvy toy company, to half-pretend it was the opposite of those things
Every self-identified "brony" I've ever spoken to has been a different variety of enormous asshole.
Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it's been enough to sour my perception of the community.
all the ones ive met irl have been nice people
Differing experiences, I suppose.
It's just that, while I would never define myself as "anti-brony" or anything stupid like that (anyone who's "anti-anything" as their whole personality is a bore at the very least), I don't particularly have much sympathy for them when I see the community on the whole being picked on.
Which is not to say that it deserves to be, but does anyone really need to stick up for bronies? I don't really think so. They're not some kind of oppressed group, they just like a show a fair chunk of people think is bad.
if you replace "overly reliant on stock plots" with "every episode is a mask of parchment-esque flesh pulled taught over a meager and overused plot skeleton" then you're spot on
if you replace "overly reliant on stock plots" with "every episode is a mask of parchment-esque flesh pulled taught over a meager and overused plot skeleton" then you're spot on
I don't really feel that way about MLP, even if some of the stock plots can be a mite obvious, but you do you.
if you replace "overly reliant on stock plots" with "every episode is a mask of parchment-esque flesh pulled taught over a meager and overused plot skeleton" then you're spot on
You're doing that thing where you use the most abrasive language possible to try to push peoples' buttons again.
if you replace "overly reliant on stock plots" with "every episode is a mask of parchment-esque flesh pulled taught over a meager and overused plot skeleton" then you're spot on
You're doing that thing where you use the most abrasive language possible to try to push peoples' buttons again.
well i dont really know of any other way to articulate my problems with this series
if you replace "overly reliant on stock plots" with "every episode is a mask of parchment-esque flesh pulled taught over a meager and overused plot skeleton" then you're spot on
You're doing that thing where you use the most abrasive language possible to try to push peoples' buttons again.
well i dont really know of any other way to articulate my problems with this series
if you replace "overly reliant on stock plots" with "every episode is a mask of parchment-esque flesh pulled taught over a meager and overused plot skeleton" then you're spot on
You're doing that thing where you use the most abrasive language possible to try to push peoples' buttons again.
well i dont really know of any other way to articulate my problems with this series
if you replace "overly reliant on stock plots" with "every episode is a mask of parchment-esque flesh pulled taught over a meager and overused plot skeleton" then you're spot on
You're doing that thing where you use the most abrasive language possible to try to push peoples' buttons again.
well i dont really know of any other way to articulate my problems with this series
if you replace "overly reliant on stock plots" with "every episode is a mask of parchment-esque flesh pulled taught over a meager and overused plot skeleton" then you're spot on
Honestly, one of the reasons for that is that the show, for some reason, has every plot run the full half-hour.
It was originally going to use a two shorts format, and I don't know why it decided to completely eschew it.
if you replace "overly reliant on stock plots" with "every episode is a mask of parchment-esque flesh pulled taught over a meager and overused plot skeleton" then you're spot on
You're doing that thing where you use the most abrasive language possible to try to push peoples' buttons again.
well i dont really know of any other way to articulate my problems with this series
if you replace "overly reliant on stock plots" with "every episode is a mask of parchment-esque flesh pulled taught over a meager and overused plot skeleton" then you're spot on
Honestly, one of the reasons for that is that the show, for some reason, has every plot run the full half-hour.
It was originally going to use a two shorts format, and I don't know why it decided to completely eschew it.
I actually do think that might've been better for some episodes than what they ended up going with.
condensing the episodes down to like 10 minutes would have helped the show be not as... strained
also, better writing generally
but of course it is a show for 6 year olds, so great writing would be... you'd rather have the writers putting their talents where they would be appreciated
i dont think that they deserve bad writing but i mean like
good writing for 6 year olds is not the same thing as good writing
like how a well written VCR manual is not Naked Lunch
they may both be admirable works of craftsmanship, but im not gonna sit down in an afternoon and sink into the finer points of coaxial cable adjustment
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and even then i had to skip bits
the fucking songs
fuck
Origins of the word are disputed, but it appears to have come from Polari (gay slang), used to dismissively refer to heterosexual people. It was introduced as a less offensive expletive verb ("naff off") in the '70s UK television show, Porridge. "Naff off!" was famously used by Princess Anne in 1982.
by which i mean i am a bumbling but much adored well meaning oaf IRL
which is better in some ways, it is a position much less likely to draw envy
(Not that I'm that big on self-identifying myself as that anymore, but still...)
also, better writing generally
but of course it is a show for 6 year olds, so great writing would be... you'd rather have the writers putting their talents where they would be appreciated
i dont think that they deserve bad writing but i mean like
good writing for 6 year olds is not the same thing as good writing
like how a well written VCR manual is not Naked Lunch
they may both be admirable works of craftsmanship, but im not gonna sit down in an afternoon and sink into the finer points of coaxial cable adjustment