So About That Mutant Booster Pack...
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2010-05-13 24:45 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
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Interesting. Do you have a similar reaction to Disney's Robin Hood?
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Originally Posted by Cynical_Gamer
Frankly all but the silly looking dragon guy are creepy looking to me.
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Actually, the stigma of what a "furry" is has altered that term's definition to the point that it does just refer to those with deviant sexual tastes. There's now a difference between furries and anthropomorphic animals, and it comes down to the difference between liking anthropomorphic animals and liking anthropomorphic animals.
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Originally Posted by flashrains
Okay, dude, people need to stop equating furries with sex. That's like saying "This is anime" and linking a screencap from a poorly-dubbed hentai, while ignoring the existence of high-budget, nonsexual things like Hayao Miyazaki films. You know what else is a furry? This. Here is another. Getting into things I didn't draw myself, we have this and this. I fail to see anything creepy about these characters, and I curse the very loud minority of furries who give a bad name to all fans of the subset of anthropomorphic art - and a quick search on Google will get you just as much creepy stuff, plenty of it creepier than that picture by a large margin, of human superheroes (a search for Sue Storm yesterday, to get ideas on how to render partial invisibility, brought up some stuff that was downright disturbing... with Safe Search ON).
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I'm confused and disoriented by your new avatar.|
Originally Posted by Cynical_Gamer
I completely ignore the Mutant Origin in the game as I feel it's an unnecessary subdivision of the Natural Origin.
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Yes please. Physics for dat booty >|
Originally Posted by MaHaBone23
Realistic butt physics.
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Originally Posted by SuperFerret
Actually, the stigma of what a "furry" is has altered that term's definition to the point that it does just refer to those with deviant sexual tastes. There's now a difference between furries and anthropomorphic animals, and it comes down to the difference between liking anthropomorphic animals and liking anthropomorphic animals.
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Um, no. The difference between furries and anthropomorphic animals is that the former is liking anthropomorphic animals, and the latter is actually being an anthropomorphic animal.
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Funny, the places I frequent use the word to describe the particular art style of anthropomorphic animals with very distinct human aesthetics and behaviors, as separate from lycanthropes and "funny animals" - but what do I know, I only draw them. Anyway, regardless of that it's still a dumb reason not to make animal parts, for the same equating-all-anime-with-hentai reason I stated before. Yes, there's a lot of creepy furry porn out there; only an idiot would deny that - but given that our current game allows you to make a male character wearing fishnet stockings, leather straps, a gimp mask, and two nipple piercings, even put some bleeding whip lash marks on him, and not get banned for it, the argument that "Anthro body parts should not be allowed because they are suggestive of depraved sexual fetishes" seems pretty ridiculous.
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Originally Posted by SuperFerret
Actually, the stigma of what a "furry" is has altered that term's definition to the point that it does just refer to those with deviant sexual tastes. There's now a difference between furries and anthropomorphic animals, and it comes down to the difference between liking anthropomorphic animals and liking anthropomorphic animals.
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No.|
Originally Posted by Tokyo
Creepy, no?
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More to the point, if the developers start claiming avoidance of fetish appeal as a goal, they lost that battle when they started making a game about superheroes.
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Her hair is white, she has horns and pointy ears, a demon tail and her skin is red suggesting she is definitely not human.|
Originally Posted by bAss_ackwards
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You're sssSSIIiiick!
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A succubus is fine too. |
Originally Posted by Leo_G
Her hair is white, she has horns and pointy ears, a demon tail and her skin is red suggesting she is definitely not human.
You're sssSSIIiiick! |
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All I can say is that the pack needs to include turtle head options and turtle shell as armor.
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The pack might as well have Turtle Power if you're going that far, right? |
Originally Posted by Nylonus
All I can say is that the pack needs to include turtle head options and turtle shell as armor.
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I thought we were going for boob physics ?
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Oh internet, how I missed this part. Yes, my statement was misworded there. I deeply apologize. Let me rephrase.|
Originally Posted by Obscure Blade
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Um, no. The difference between furries and anthropomorphic animals is that the former is liking anthropomorphic animals, and the latter is actually being an anthropomorphic animal. |
There's a difference between a "furry" and someone who likes anthropomorphic animal characters. Furries are those who sexualize their liking of anthropomorphic animal characters and gain sexual gratification from engaging in such behaviour.
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Amen to that.|
Originally Posted by flashrains
Okay, dude, people need to stop equating furries with sex. That's like saying "This is anime" and linking a screencap from a poorly-dubbed hentai, while ignoring the existence of high-budget, nonsexual things like Hayao Miyazaki films. You know what else is a furry? This. Here is another. Getting into things I didn't draw myself, we have this and this. I fail to see anything creepy about these characters, and I curse the very loud minority of furries who give a bad name to all fans of the subset of anthropomorphic art - and a quick search on Google will get you just as much creepy stuff, plenty of it creepier than that picture by a large margin, of human superheroes (a search for Sue Storm yesterday, to get ideas on how to render partial invisibility, brought up some stuff that was downright disturbing... with Safe Search ON).
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Also added you on dA, because I didnt realise you actually had a gallery full of rather cool stuff, that pic of your menders included. (Really love that pic
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.
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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon
NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.
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Going to just quote this as it encapsulates everything I wanted to post.|
Originally Posted by flashrains
Okay, dude, people need to stop equating furries with sex. That's like saying "This is anime" and linking a screencap from a poorly-dubbed hentai, while ignoring the existence of high-budget, nonsexual things like Hayao Miyazaki films. You know what else is a furry? This. Here is another. Getting into things I didn't draw myself, we have this and this. I fail to see anything creepy about these characters, and I curse the very loud minority of furries who give a bad name to all fans of the subset of anthropomorphic art - and a quick search on Google will get you just as much creepy stuff, plenty of it creepier than that picture by a large margin, of human superheroes (a search for Sue Storm yesterday, to get ideas on how to render partial invisibility, brought up some stuff that was downright disturbing... with Safe Search ON).
For the record, I dig humans. |
The ignorance is just embarrassing and finding it "creepy" is immature. It isn't your taste. End of story.
Oh, and to channel by days in the now defunct PWNZ forums: "lol gamers ostracizing people for being weird and different."
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What do you then call people who call themselves furries and don't "gain sexual gratification from engaging in such behavior"?
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Originally Posted by SuperFerret
Oh internet, how I missed this part. Yes, my statement was misworded there. I deeply apologize. Let me rephrase.
There's a difference between a "furry" and someone who likes anthropomorphic animal characters. Furries are those who sexualize their liking of anthropomorphic animal characters and gain sexual gratification from engaging in such behaviour. |
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People.
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Originally Posted by Obscure Blade
What do you then call people who call themselves furries and don't "gain sexual gratification from engaging in such behavior"?
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I think this comic sums up the furry issue quite nicely:
http://xkcd.com/471/
Yes, the fetish aspect of the furry fandom is weird as hell. Yes, there are non sexual aspects of the furry fandom. Yes, furries will use animal costume parts. And no, having animal features on your character does not automatically make you a furry.
It's a Costume Booster. We don't even know what's in it yet. Even if it is animal themed, is it honestly that big a deal?
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I do love how people go 'omgzors do not want Furry!' and yet the game kinda already has some pretty deviant behaviour in it...so let me ask...you people are fine with...| More to the point, if the developers start claiming avoidance of fetish appeal as a goal, they lost that battle when they started making a game about superheroes. |
A) Implied incest (Tyrant/Dominatrix).
B) BDSM (Silver Mantis, Dominatrix AND her minions...she has gimps as minions..I mean..come on people?).
Infact just look at the male 'straps' chest piece...leather straps with a nipple piercing...so somehow one odd behavior (BDSM) is considered fine and daddy but another (Furries) is somehow considered abhorrent?
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that's not so. i used to think this as well, but that was because i had never met anybody that participated in these types of activities. i have since met a gentleman that does participate and we had discussion about it. he let me know that, yes there are people that enjoy the sexual aspect of it, but there are a lot of people that go to the same parties simply for the interaction with people that like to dress up like animals.|
Originally Posted by SuperFerret
Oh internet, how I missed this part. Yes, my statement was misworded there. I deeply apologize. Let me rephrase.
There's a difference between a "furry" and someone who likes anthropomorphic animal characters. Furries are those who sexualize their liking of anthropomorphic animal characters and gain sexual gratification from engaging in such behaviour. |
now, you might be saying that as far as most of the people who aren't "furries" use that term to mean the sexual side, but i now know that in their community it doesn't.
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You said one thing but meant your mother.
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Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano
fine and daddy
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think he meant what he said.
| A) Implied incest (Tyrant/Dominatrix). |
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Only because of the bondage. Now, the second pic was really creepy.
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Originally Posted by Tokyo
Creepy, no?
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Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
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Furry can be expanded to fit almost anything or contract it to such a tiny minority it can be nothing but "creepy". There is a debate in Furry communities on just wear the line is, but it's far expanded beyond the "sexual deviancy" cult thing that is put upon it.
This is the case with just about everything... You either get super liberal definitions that make the word worthless and noone agrees with it or you get super constricted definitions that just about noone in the actual community agrees with and paints them in a bad light.
A lot of group labels can't be boiled down to a few essential qualities... and those that can a lot of them are misused so confusing the people who don't know anything about the label.
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