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A Field Guide To Second Life Animal Hybrids
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01/04/09
I learned a little bit about the differences between the differing levels of furdom. It doesn't mean I'm into furries or banging animals, just because I read this article in it's entirety.
I see a wide swing of the ban hammer coming through this thread of comments. I'm going to just duck for cover, and continue reading the rest of the site, which I really enjoy.
For the trolls, flame baiters, and immature whiners- enjoy your vacation from Kotaku. :)
01/03/09
Why do people use "neko" to describe cat/human hybrids? "Neko" is just the Japanese word for "cat"... that's all that it means! "Catgirl" or "catboy" makes more sense...
Heheh. Catgirls rule.
01/03/09
The thing that always kept me away wasn't so much the furry stereotypes, but the wild, piecemeal inconsistency of design in it. It looks like walking around in a random 3D object library. I prefer a relatively consistent, if unreal, world - but I really have to applaud them for making such an open unrestricted system that actually works!
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I'd be willing to bet that a good portion of the more than 17,000 people who have viewed this post so far clicked out of genuine curiosity. And hey, 17,000 pageviews means Fahey's doing his job very, very well. Let's not forget that Gawker's a business.
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Woah there, buddy.
As much as I dislike furries (and believe me, you're unlikely to meet a bigger furry-hater than I), people should be allowed to do whatever the fuck they want so long as they don't shove it in people's faces. Keep your weirdass shit where only other people into your weirdass shit will go, and make sure everyone is properly warned before being exposed.
Besides, who the hell are we going to make fun of if furries weren't around? Someone has to be at the bottom.
01/03/09
One: Great report. As an anthropomorphic fan, this is a superb resource.
Two: You got balls. To post this here. You got balls!
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Home runs on a machine meant for gaming, as a medium for interacting with gamers who're also on their gaming machines, delivering game-related content and launching games.
Home is, in fact, game-centric. It's entire purpose is to promote gaming on a specific game console.
Further, this isn't so much an article on Second Life as it is on certain subcultures that happen to have a marked presence in Second Life.
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AT ALL.
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01/03/09
Let's be honest here for a second.. true or not, gamers are often regarded as odd antisocial misfits even in today's world where gaming is an everyday thing for a large portion of the population. Gamers who actually read and comment on a videogame news/blog site perhaps even more so. I seriously doubt most gamers enjoy being labeled as such.
Articles about Second Life get posted and instead of saying a simple "Meh.." or not commenting at all, there's an avalanche of "The sky is falling! Kotaku is dead! These people are all freaks!" reactions. For a portion of the population that does not like to be generalized, classified and labelled (though which portion does, really?), this is getting beyond humorous to the point of being sad.
For those who want to keep any mention of Second Life off of Kotaku, you should something in mind. Chances are Kotaku probably bases their article choice off of number of comments and number of views, and these articles are probably ranking pretty highly in those categories right now. We just had a year end recap of the top viewed/commented articles from last year; maybe these much detested articles are going to make the list this year with all the self righteous venom being spewed.
01/03/09
As to future year's end lists, don't hold out your hopes. It seems like you know this and I don't mean it in a "look what I know that you don't" way, but these are the people who populate our globe...this is what we have to work with. Humanity so often seems like a dud firework, to me. You stand around it, leery, wondering where the pretty colors went and whether it will blow your hand off if you prod it with a stick.
01/03/09
Put this is in perspective, people. Is this a Second Life lot labeled Bob's House of Gangbanging? Diddling My Daughter 101? No? Then chill. Out. These are a bunch of people running around online with--shock!--avatars that don't look like their real-life selves.
Frankly, if you play WoW and roll anything but a human female to watch the butt sway as you run, you're just as guilty as these people. Draenei have hooves and horns and tails, for crying out loud! And how about our blue alien friend in Mass Effect? Thought that was hot, didn't you? Guilty. Viera from Final Fantasy? Mystique from X-men? Arwen from LOTR, for crying out loud? Same, same, same. If you want to sit around and dole out humanity points, and decide that blue scaly skin is okay but funny-looking ears aren't, hey, that's your decision. But is it really worth your time? Don't you have something better to do? Like, say, getting a handful of that human-only ass you so desperately covet?
Oh, right. You haven't got any. Guess that's why you play these hypersexed females to fill the void, huh? And god forbid these pixel vixens look anything different from the cheerleader who rejected your puberty-plagued advances 20 years ago. No no, it's better to recreate that experience as closely as possible, up to and including the utterly human way in which she crushed your fragile adolescent heart. Maybe you'll get it right this time.
People molesting real animals? Problem. People wearing tails during sexual encounters with people? Harmless. A bit strange, a bit messy perhaps (yes, that would be an ew right there), but harmless. Give it a rest.
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And what does this have to do with SL? I installed SL once, created a character, and saw no options to make a furry unless if the game has changed. Even then I doubt you are FORCED to make a furry so your examples includes SL as well. Having the option to make a furry in SL does not make SL a furry game.
01/03/09
I would argue too that, in a debate about furries, ignoring the non-human aspects of characters large chunks of the population find attractive is somewhat narrow-minded. Furries aren't just fuzzy humans slapped in furry-only zones. You can't tell me the viera are exempt from the label because "oh no, you see, there's lore about them, they're part of a larger story!" They're still humanoids with animal features, and still relevant.
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Now you see, this is one of the reasons I personally don't like furries: many of them make it a point to shove it in other people's faces and then cry "fursecution" when you tell them that you find it fucked up and you don't want to hear about it.
You're into some weirdass fetish, that's fine. Everyone has some weird kink, whether they admit it or not. But as soon as you go shoving it in people's faces (and raping their childhood with Looney Tunes porn), you're going to get people like me who are going to get on the opposite end of the spectrum in order topiss you off.
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