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It's fine if you buy the game and then want to go buy the the new gun for $20, as long as that same gun can be earned by someone playing the game for free.

Is it also fine if the choice is between $20 and years of grinding? Because that's what one of the My Little Pony games requires.

Cupcakes (Warning: Cupcakes.)

Every time you post this, 5 bronies kill themselves.

Which makes the world 20% Cooler.

Fixed that for ya. Andrew WK showed up at Canterlot Gardens, for Celestia's sake!

For News that Matters, you've gotta trot off elsewhere.

What?

Even after the 2006 Site Redesign, Slashdot's always been a consistent advocate for Better Copyright through Fair Use.

OK, that's the last serious link in the post. But it really is to the point; MLP kicked off a Cambrian explosion of internet remix culture, and Hasbro deserves credit for taking the advice of the show's creators: take as light an approach as possible to IP. In the real world of content creation, it turns out that your trademark rights aren't in anywhere near as much jeopardy as your IP lawyers fear they might be, and by expanding your audience, you get to sell (and license) more of your copyrighted content and trademarked characters to manufacturers.

It's amazingly good business practice to love and tolerate your fans' derivative works, parodies, and creativity.

Pfft... Slashdot is for Nerds.

But apparently that's not nerdy. Do you want to see nerdy? This is nerdy!

Playing Portal and fiddling with machinima with suitably-modded Skyrim and TF2. And just to make this post 20% nerdier, I'll finish with a classic chemistry lesson from Tom Lehrer: The Elements.

Pfft... Slashdot is for Nerds.

For News that Matters, you've gotta trot off elsewhere.

I have to wonder what is going to be next? ... Dark and gritty My Little Pony where Nightmare Moon stomps Twilight Sparkle to death?

Poor waif, you have no idea what kind of fanfics are out there, do you? Take a look at Fallout: Equestria sometime. It doesn't get any darker or grittier than post-apocalyptic ponies. (It's also possibly the best fanfic ever, from any fandom, if you can handle the darkness.)

The simple fact is that the major consumers of games and fiction these days are adults, not teens or children. The most valuable demographic is 18-35 now, not the 10-17 that it used to be. So companies are going to produce some content geared for an adult audience, and if they can bring in the kids also then so much the better. If England or Japan were economic powerhouses then there'd be more porn games, because violence is abhorred there but sex is okay. However, America is where the money is, and in America sex is forbidden but brutal violence is okay. So the developers are creating violent content in hopes it will hit the 18-35s and pull in some of the 10-17s also.

TL;DR -- Dark and gritty is the lowest common denominator in America. Get used to it.

I have unicorn ponies for sale. Males only, 9-12 hands in blue, pink and rainbow. Some have been ridden but most not. Horns are as-found. Pls reply at the usual email for the sale and delivery info.

I've got some female unicorn ponies. Couple of Pegasi and earth ponies too. Here ya go!

"Particle Man, Particle Man,
doing the things a particle can.
What's he like, it's not important,
Particle Man..."

- It's Slashdot, we like any excuse to play some TMBG!

Anyways, back to physics class (one guy doing classical mechanics in high school, and some other guy doing an intro to nucleosynthesis.)

So... half the "stories" today are just bloody slashvertisements?!?

We gave up April Fool's for this? Slashdot TV: Every bit as (+5, Informative) of April Fool's Day, but without the (+5, Pony)

He said, posting on Slashdot.

This isn't social networking, it's antisocial networking.

(And to get serious for a nanosecond, that's why I like it here. It took the rest of the internet took six years to do what we no longer have the guts to do.)