2024 Summer Event: Casual Chat

[Blaubär]

Awesome event - love it!

[ShadowKatto]

I’m still missing one of the baby lions… RNG is currently not on my side.

[the real colette]

YEEHAW EVENT 🗣🔥

[FreddyCenobite]

Finally up to date!! 🥲

[BlueEyedKite]

I hope they give us halters that fit this line edit pony Q.Q It's so cute but all the halters are juuuuust off for me

[parx]

woooo got the last lion cub i needed with only one double ^-^ i've been slacking on token collecting but i'm determined now to get a bunch before rollover >:3

[Darkcloud!]

All the adults here know the actual history of the time era- as many others have said it's a fictional play on the fun elements of a very long and wide spanning time period that there are many facets too, as well as movies, games and books that are well liked by all ages.

It's really strange to see such heavy topics about death and suffering brought up in a general board, aimed at making people feel bad for liking the theme and enjoying it, or to shame the staff for creating this storyline.

Especially since there are so many kids here: some kids really enjoy the wild west and it would crush them to see adults telling them they have to feel guilt for it and apologize for it...or constantly think about the bad parts of it that they had nothing to do with.

Wild West isn't a bad set of words, and it's odd to see so many people keen on making others feel bad/attacking them for a bit of roleplay/fantasy on a kid's site that is based around suspension of reality for fun.

The staff has already assured us that they took real life events into account when creating this (as they did for previous events that could have had issues, like the Cryptid Event), so let's have some faith in this.
Let's not go about attacking others who express discomfort at being told over and over they need to feel guilt and shame for enjoying this, as well as discomfort at having dark and disturbing topics being pushed for inclusion on a kid's site event.




I adore this pony! Excited to see the next one- these natural colors are done really well.

[parx]

^^
i have to agree ..... i haven't commented on it but i can see why some people would be uncomfortable or put off by a theme like this, however wild west is a very common theme and genre(?) for a lot of different things like parties and movies . i think people should be allowed to voice their concerns and discuss the dark history of the wild west, but making people feel bad about liking the theme or trying to push the staff to include that dark history when this is a child friendly pet collecting site is very odd

[ShadowKatto]

All the adults here know the actual history of the time era- as many others have said it's a fictional play on the fun elements of a very long and wide spanning time period that there are many facets too, as well as movies, games and books that are well liked by all ages.

It's really strange to see such heavy topics about death and suffering brought up in a general board, aimed at making people feel bad for liking the theme and enjoying it, or to shame the staff for creating this storyline.

Especially since there are so many kids here: some kids really enjoy the wild west and it would crush them to see adults telling them they have to feel guilt for it and apologize for it...or constantly think about the bad parts of it that they had nothing to do with.

Wild West isn't a bad set of words, and it's odd to see so many people keen on making others feel bad/attacking them for a bit of roleplay/fantasy on a kid's site that is based around suspension of reality for fun.

The staff has already assured us that they took real life events into account when creating this (as they did for previous events that could have had issues, like the Cryptid Event), so let's have some faith in this.
Let's not go about attacking others who express discomfort at being told over and over they need to feel guilt and shame for enjoying this, as well as discomfort at having dark and disturbing topics being pushed for inclusion on a kid's site event.




I adore this pony! Excited to see the next one- these natural colors are done really well.

I don’t think that anyone here is trying to make others feel bad about enjoying the event, and I feel that people are right to have concerns about how this’ll be handled. But yes, this is a friendly pet collecting site, not a history textbook. And yeah, the Wild West is a very common theme in many works of literature and other forms of art so it makes sense that it’d become an event theme.

[kotak]

I've never been a fan of US-centric themes, and unfortunately I can't disassociate this specific theme from brutality, colonization and genocide. I'll still collect all the pets because I'm a collector, but yeah. Not a fan.

me too, won’t lie. the realistic pets are beautiful though!