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As far as I can tell, there aren't many more furries. Just more variety to them.|
Originally Posted by The Artificial Intel
EDIT: While the client is downloading, can someone tell me how much the Furry population has exploded since the Animal Pack came out? I have some napalm I need to use up for a tax write-off.
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Really, why do I keep hearing so much furry bashing? Most of the ones I've met in CoH have been pretty nice, level headed people. Not that crazy furries don't exist, they're just a minority. A very small minority. That's so very, very vocal...
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Hear me out sugar, I know there are some good furries out there, as well as Scalies. Heck, I'm friends in-game with a few of them. But then there are others. Others that fit the stereotype so perfectly it makes me happy to have napalm at hand.|
Originally Posted by Kiana Wolf
As far as I can tell, there aren't many more furries. Just more variety to them.
Really, why do I keep hearing so much furry bashing? Most of the ones I've met in CoH have been pretty nice, level headed people. Not that crazy furries don't exist, they're just a minority. A very small minority. That's so very, very vocal... |
While I generalize 'Furries' as a sub-culture of fetishists... Let's face it. That's exactly what most, if not all, furries are. Fetishists. I have no qualms with your kind or your ways, as long as they don't 'insist' upon me, as I was so very used to. 'Perverted Android' for some reason used to translate into 'Easy Epic Roleplay Sessions', which as many of the people who used to know me would confirm that I'm not.
Now love, if you can show me a furry community that is... For a lack of a better word 'asexual', than yes, I will consent to the fact that not all furries yiff their brains out.
The Scales community has earned my respect by differentiating themselves from Furries (Ala **** YOU IMA DRAGON), I have yet to see a decent roleplayer who has donned fur, and not been one of two things on this server.
1. The Angsty type furry who is sick of being hated because hes furry.
2. The Yiff All Day And Night class of furry.
Please, prove me wrong, and please note that I am trying my hardest to not be a troll.
Thank you sugar.
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Does it count if the furry in question is angsty for reasons entirely unrelated to being a furry?|
Originally Posted by The Artificial Intel
1. The Angsty type furry who is sick of being hated because hes furry.
2. The Yiff All Day And Night class of furry. |
I'll concede that I've never found a furry community that's 'asexual', but that's a bit unfair of a requirement. In any community, there will be some fetishists attracted to it purely for fetish reasons. And trust me, I've seen them. I swear, I've met people who have car fetishes, which lead to them taking autoshop classes.
And also, fetishes aren't in and of themselves bad things. Many can be completely tame. Some people really like redheads, for no readily apparent reason. They just find redheads more attractive than other hair colors, for whatever reason. Nothing wrong with it, but it's still a fetish.
In my life I have met many people who have identified as furries that have been entirely normal people. They may have other fetishes or quirks, but no more than any other person I've met. I have also met many furries who were oversexed psychopaths who I cut off all contact with for that reason, but I've also met non-furries who were just as bad when it came to sex and seeking it out.
Really, the reason 'most' furries seem to come off as yiff-crazy seems to be because most people realize they're furries while teenagers. And as we all know, the vast, vast majority of teenagers have trouble keeping their pants on, in one form or another. Of course, there is a vocal minority issue, too. All it takes is one or two really vocal psychopaths to turn the general view into 'everyone in this group is insane.'
When it comes down to it, a furry is no more likely to be a sex maniac than any other person. Plain and simple. It's a lot like how people assume a pretty blond will be dumb. It's a stereotype. A stereotype based on the actions of real people, yes, but not the measure by which an entire class of humans should be measured.
And I'm aware that this has turned into a 'be nice to furries, waaah!' type of rant. Suffice to say that, if someone's had a bad experience, I won't hold it against them for being cautious about similar situations in the future. But I will hold it against them if they assume everyone in that related group is that way. There is, after all, a difference between 'cautious, but give them a chance to show how they are as an individual' and 'paranoid or full of hate without learning about them.'
Just to prove I'm not trying to climb on a high horse here: I still cringe when I bump into a dragon scaly, because of one nut case I knew once. It's a reflex that makes me start watching them like a hawk. It's not fair to them, I know, I'm working on it. But I don't treat them like I would that one person I knew. I'm just a little more guarded than normal when I talk to them.
Having begun my MMO career with a scaly, in particular a SWG Trandoshan named Emgro, I started with a rather high opinion of them. Since then, that opinion has depreciated a great deal until I now see no difference between them and the furries as a whole.
Anyway, I've seen more beef-related pun characters than Uno-playing furries.
One think I have seen a lot of are characters who have nary a mention of beast or animal in their bio, but are costumed completely as an animal. Just yesterday in Steel Canyon WW I saw 4 or 5 of them. Two of them were a cyborg and a robot. No mechanical parts. Both wolves.
I guess some people were like, "I want to use the new costume parts but I'm too lazy to level a new character." 
Oh, and, welcome back, AI. 
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Okay, so if you're only concerned about those furries who make a big thing of their fetish... why exactly would the Animal pack mark a sudden uprise in those sort of characters?|
Originally Posted by The Artificial Intel
Hear me out sugar, I know there are some good furries out there, as well as Scalies. Heck, I'm friends in-game with a few of them. But then there are others. Others that fit the stereotype so perfectly it makes me happy to have napalm at hand.
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Do you think a lot of CoH players will be like "well I've never had any interest in yiffing thus far, but now the newest costume pack lets me make a lionhead character and SUDDENLY THAT SEEMS SO SEXY"?
Or do you think a lot of furries will be like "well I've never had much interest in paying $15 per month to go around beating up Nazis, but for another one-time $15 I can do that *and* try to find people to have hot TOS-breaking yiff with, BABY SIGN ME UP"?
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I'll go with options A and B, thank you very much |
Originally Posted by Silver Gale
Okay, so if you're only concerned about those furries who make a big thing of their fetish... why exactly would the Animal pack mark a sudden uprise in those sort of characters?
Do you think a lot of CoH players will be like "well I've never had any interest in yiffing thus far, but now the newest costume pack lets me make a lionhead character and SUDDENLY THAT SEEMS SO SEXY"? Or do you think a lot of furries will be like "well I've never had much interest in paying $15 per month to go around beating up Nazis, but for another one-time $15 I can do that *and* try to find people to have hot TOS-breaking yiff with, BABY SIGN ME UP"? |
.And there were some valid points thrown out across the board, so I think we can come to a mutual understanding that there are some furries that can be napalmed, and there are other furries who simply act like normal people with normal goals, albeit contracting some amazingly stupendous power through some concoction or experiment or another, and can end up personally accepted amongst the civilian populace of Paragon City.
Maybe I should get out of the D more.
... Now we just need to exterminate those bloody mutants.
And the real irony here is that I bought the animal pack and haven't used any of the costume pieces yet. The real selling point for me was the Beast Run power, since the animation really fits one of my (human but with a tail) characters: She's got roughly the same instinctual drive as a (really pissed off) animal. She runs around on all fours, she fights like a cornered raccoon and has zero problem taking a bite out of crime. And law, in fact. She's a very disturbed person...
Come now sugar, everyone in this universe is a bit loony. Bloody Hell, Artificial Intel is a perverted android that nobody seems to know just how intelligent he really is. Sometimes he's comedic relief, next thing you know he is your arch-nemesis who has killed your entire family, burned down your estate, sabotaged your massive economic empire, and left you without any funds or means to support yourself, leaving you with the absolute and undying resolve to kill him.
Admittedly, he has yet to do the former. But he has quite the wit to do so.
EDIT: That reminds me, does Virtue have an IRC channel? These forums are slow and too inactive for my taste :C
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Yeah, but are they 'bite a chunk out of a guy and chew it until you don't like the taste' loony? On their first team mission?|
Originally Posted by The Artificial Intel
Come now sugar, everyone in this universe is a bit loony.
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Plus the only reason she's Resistance is because they get to cause wanton chaos. 'Revenge' is her only motivation beyond instinct. Heck, she one attacked a protest and helped the Seers, not realizing she was until after the fight.
She really needs someone to hold her leash... Preferably someone who's Invulnerable, since, y'know, anyone in close proximity is going to get gibbed otherwise.
A.I. has had experience dealing with feral beasts and psychopathic people. Just ask S.I.N. Inc! Heck, he actually was one of the said psychopaths when they were experimenting on a bunch of 'projects' of theirs. Your character would enjoy that VG alot, so much behind the veil science wrongness in that VG its hilarious.
In the meantime, A.I. the character is a freak, so don't mention 'taming', 'leashes', or 'collars' near him, as he will go all pervy like he normally does.
Oh vell, hope to see some of you folks in game later tonight when I have a good computer. I'll be in the D, like I always am.
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Not a problem for Pallid. You better not mention them, though. God only knows how'd she react to someone trying to chain her up. Probably poorly. Though it's unclear whether it would be a contained maul-just-a-couple-people poorly or a rampaging HULK SMASH massacre.
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Originally Posted by The Artificial Intel
In the meantime, A.I. the character is a freak, so don't mention 'taming', 'leashes', or 'collars' near him, as he will go all pervy like he normally does.
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*Insert Unwarranted Self Importance*
*Insert Three Page Long Explanation Of Why I've Been Gone*
*Insert derrogatory statement dealing with me and Pocket D*
*Awaiting Cruel Remarks from trolls of Server/Hoorahs from people who know me/whothefareyou? from everyone else*
.... God I miss this server :3
EDIT: While the client is downloading, can someone tell me how much the Furry population has exploded since the Animal Pack came out? I have some napalm I need to use up for a tax write-off.