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    Here's a new and interesting chart I just did. The chart in the report compares all US > 18 with Bronies > 18, in terms of educational attainment. This isn't really fair, because most bronies are under 30, meaning the US sample would have a lot more people over 30 that might have had time to pursue advanced degrees. Here's the same chart, but only looking at 18-30.
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    Good luck with the book projects. Fiction is a hard market to break into, although ePub is making it easier, since the up-front cost to publishers is lower than it used to be, or you can self-pub. I have 3 books out, but they're all long, dull, pony-less technical works on programming. Coder
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    I've been seeing chatter on the Interwebs for the last year about Bronies, and morbid curiosity finally got the better of me. As they say, Curiosity Killed the Cat Pony, But Satisfaction Great Animation, Music and Story brought him back. Coder
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    So I had to come out and support my candidates... Props to the Huntsman supporter for letting me take the pic. I guess I'm not an anonymous face in the crowd anymore, either.
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    In addition to having a simple "pick your favorite" (which I'm going to continue so I can track longitudinal changes), I want to add "slider" ratings for each pony, along the lines of" .................Dislike........Neutral...........Like Rainbow Dash:....o....o....o....o....o....o....o....o Fluttershy:......o....o....o....o....o....o....o....o If I do this, I end up with numeric values, which are better suited to statistical analysis. I'm also thinking about adding questions about political leanings (Liberal vs Conservative) and sexual preference next time, but I'm a bit wary because they are controversial (and the later may not be appropriate to ask an audience that's 1/3 under 18). What questions would you like to see on the next census? Coder
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    SEE: The Great and Powerful Coder Brony perform pivot table manipulations before YOUR VERY EYES! LEARN: Who was best pony! GASP: As one of the Mane 6 gets beaten out by Princess Luna! DISCOVER: Which non-North American country has the most bronies! GOGGLE IN AMAZEMENT: At the great Twilight vs Fluttershy shootout! CHEER: As Coder goes off to get some sleep after a week of crunching data! The report is available at: http://www.herdcensus.com. Spread the word, please? Coder Brony
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    There's definitely some fishing involved with reloading, you basically run a thread down through the top, fish it out the front, tie it to the "fuse", and then pull the fuse out the top using the thread. Takes about a minute (it's definitely not a rapid-fire Tactical Party Assault Weapon.) Coder
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    Polymer clay.
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    You could make an argument that Steve Jobs' special talent was insulting people. Of course, he also changed the music industry, the cell phone industry, the animated film industry, etc. Maybe he had a bad case of the Cutie Pox as a kid, and that's what was really hidden under his black turtleneck: dozens of cutie marks. Coder
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    So I turned my 17 year old son on to MLP, and what does the ingrate do? He creates this awesome fully functional, to scale Pinky Pie Party Cannon. It takes party poppers as ammo. He also made me a Great and Powerful Trixie (he wants to redo it, he isn't happy with the face) and is currently working on an F-86 model done up in Rainbow Dash camo (or lack of camo, I guess...) Video of the thing in action .Coder
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    I don't know, when I see a cake, I think "Leonard". It all steams from that incident with Leonard Nimoy in the Black Forest... And yes, this is all trying to rationalize stuff that happens on the other side of the fourth wall, but isn't that what most of all fandoms is occupied with? If they're going to make a fiendishly addictive universe and get us sucked into it, we're going to try to have it make sense! We'll try to figure out why Rarity, who owns her own business and is probably human-equivalent mid-twenties hangs out with Pinkie Pie (mid-teens at best), and why Scootaloo can have an internal combustion engine on her scooter, but the trains are pulled by ponies, etc! We'll rationalize the hay out of that world, until our ears bleed! Coder
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    My apologies to everypony if someone has discussed this before, but... So, we all know that cutie-marks appear once a pony discovers their true calling in life. So Applejack got apples, and became an apple farmer. Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara got, um, silver spoons and a diamond tiara, and became stuck up society bit--- um, fillies. But they all had names that suggested (and in some cases matched) their cutie marks, well before they got them. And then you have ponies like Photo Finish. Unless she changed her name, she was born named Photo Finish. Maybe psychic Fluttershy was present at the birth and advised the parents on the name, but otherwise, why would you name a foal Photo Finish?! All the evidence suggests that your name usually predestines your cutie mark and future avocation. Based on this, I'd expect Scootaloo is going to end up with a scooter on her flank, Applebloom with something apple-related, and only Sweetie Bell spared the crushing soul-death of Equestrian name determinism. Opinions? Coder
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    Yeah, I can write novel about the things I realized I should have done after the fact, including having a scaler (numeric) age field... I also should have made the pony favs a slider for each pony, rather than a simple popularity vote, because then I could have done linear regressions and correlations against things like age, or so the filly of the house tells me. She has jokingly suggested you could do a Meyers-Briggs style personality index out of pony preferences. This is why you don't want to be married to someone getting a doctorate in experimental psych, pretty much all you talk about is stats and personality psychology. Thankfully I have a teenage son to watch da ponies with, and all he wants to do is make Trollestia jokes. Live and learn, there's always next year's census! Coder
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    Copyright is one of those things like trademarks that you have to vigorously defend, or you lose it. Given that, I think that the Hub and Hasbro are being pretty durn reasonable about things, since they could legally (if they wanted to) issue a DMCA takedown on: 1) Every site with audio remixed or mashups sources from show audio 2) Every site with a screen captured image from the show, or that 'shopped show images into new art 3) Every site that uses the character names for unauthorized fiction (and given some of the R34 stuff out there, they would be well in their rights to do so for some of it...) 4) Every person selling fan arts and crafts without licensing the characters Given that, the fact that they are limiting themselves to full episodes on YouTube is pretty restrained. And if Hasbro *doesn't* know that bronies buy merch, they will once the State of the Herd comes out, because 40% of bronies report they have bought toys (that's a sneak peak at one of the results...), a number that I suspect dwarfs their target audience (in percentage, although probably not in absolute numbers...)
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    Hey everypony! Thanks to the power of cheap domain registrations (and not from GoDaddy, may Celestia send Bob Parsons to the moon for 1,000 years!), I have a placeholder site up for the 2012 State of the Herd Report, so that I'll have a place to stick the relatively massive PDF when it's finished. Right now, it just has a semi-frequently updated count of completed census records, I'll announce when the report is ready, sometime after the 15th! You can find the site here: http://www.herdcensus.com/ Coder Brony
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    About myself.: Long time US-based animation fan, especially "kids" stuff like Animaniacs, Kim Possible, Warner Brothers (pre 1960), etc. IRL: software engineer, freelance journalist, author. How did you hear about Canterlot.com?: Google How did you became a fan of FiM?: Internet Buzz My one favourite main cast pony?: Twilight Sparkle Hey everypony! This is both an introduction and an appeal. I'm currently running the first annual Herd Census, an attempt to gather some basic demographic data about who we are and what we like. It's a simple 10-question, fully anonymous survey, and should take 5 minutes to fill out, tops. If you're interested, check out: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7L79RHY I'll be collecting data through the 15th of January, and then releasing the State of the Herd report by the end of the month. Thanks again in advance, and spread the word to anypony you know. Coder Brony
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