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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Drew on February 08, 2004, 01:06:49 pm
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i just found out, my brother visits furry forums.
:nervous: :shaking:
how the hell do i get to make rl freinds?
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Go to social functions. Or optionally, school.
It's proven to work.
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
Go to social functions. Or optionally, school.
he goes to social functions, he goes to school\college
He can write a 5 page essay on the history of greece in a day and get a 99 on it but he still cannot hold a conversation with a person.
all of is "freinds" have been made buy me having my freinds over, then him meeting them.
the worst part is, he dosnt seem to care.
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Leave the boy alone. The life of a whiskey-drinking hermit is a happy and productive one.
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Well if he doesn't care, why would you?
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He'll eventually become a ver famous poet by the time he is 31 and commit suicide through shooting himself in the mouth when he is 38. Life is good.
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*smacks KT*
There's nothing wrong with being a fur. :hopping:
Live your own life, and let him live his. Why is that hard for people to do?
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Originally posted by Drew
he goes to social functions, he goes to school\college
He can write a 5 page essay on the history of greece in a day and get a 99 on it but he still cannot hold a conversation with a person.
all of is "freinds" have been made buy me having my freinds over, then him meeting them.
the worst part is, he dosnt seem to care.
Scarily enough, that sounds like my life, lol. Save for the part about brother's friends. I steal...err... make my own from other people in school/co-workers.
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I agree that if he doesn't show any interest in meeting others then let him come around to it when/if he wants to. Some people like their solitude - even if it doesn't seem natural to the rest of us.
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Yeah!
*looks around dreary trailer and sighs*
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Replace the fur websites with math websites and you have me. :D
Some people like their solitude
exactly! :nod:
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Realistically, I'm fairly sure a good deal of the people on this forum spend a good deal of their time online, without other people around. Otherwise, this site wouldn't even be here.
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I mostly go to the FS and SCP forums these days and only occasionally take a look in the others, as the FS and FSO affiliation is what keeps me around here. More time for PI and my math that way.
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I haven't had a chance to visit the furry forum I used to. I spend so much bleeding time on this site that my school and 3d modelling get ignored. ' s why I only had a 3.7 GPA last semester... I skimped on m'homework alot... :doubt:
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Originally posted by Drew
i just found out, my brother visits furry forums.
And you hang out on a website devoted to a bunch of losers moddng a dead game. Get over yourself.
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Originally posted by mikhael
And you hang out on a website devoted to a bunch of losers moddng a dead game. Get over yourself.
Wha-hey. I do both. :nervous:
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
Wha-hey. I do both. :nervous:
Me too. ;)
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Originally posted by CP5670
More time for PI and my math that way.
Is that acronym a coincidence? ;)
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he claims it was,
I think it was a freudian slip
and just what exactly is that whole 'furry' thing, I'd look into it, but I'm afraid of what I'd find
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People who want to have sex with cartoon animals.
Not so disturbing as many Internet-spawned fetishes in and of itself, but the sheer mass of people who identify themselves as furries online is creepy as all hell. And, of course, gives its proponents license to claim that whacking off to Rescue Rangers is closer in the order of sexual deviances to being gay than, say, scat porn, and that they have some fundamental human right to flash their kinks around in public without getting reviled or laughed at.
And, eh. So what. Either it's a fad and he'll grow out of it whenever he stops hanging around with other furries and realizes he really isn't an otter or whatever, or he'll stick with it and tough ****. If you really want him to stop, get him away from the internet- people are always (consciously or not) inclined to act and think like those they are around, just cutting off his visits to the boards'll do it unless he's genuinely into the whole schtick, in which case just buy him a fursuit and wish him luck in life. You don't really need to find him new friends or anything, he'll do it himself once he can't retreat into virtual space anymore.
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ah... thats... prety ****ed up...
spose it could be worse though.
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Oh, don't worry, it gets worse. Mostly because, this being the Internet and all, a good lot of the guys who espouse one freaky fetish say "**** it" and go for a twelve-pack or something.
And then draw pictures.
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Funny you should mention Rescue Rangers, I think I can honestly say that the genenral consensus with most people I know round here is that Gadget is hot.
:lol:
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There will be people just like your brother. I personally would say he's missing out a lot in life, but there's no easy way to fix it... it would be bad for you to try and force something on him, that would make him hate it even more.
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you know what else is scary? how often furries are brought up in this forum.
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You think it's bad here, we had a whole month at NW where pretty much every post had something to do with making love to a Shivan Plushie.
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Yeah, but man, if you'd seen that Shivan plushie...
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*tries not to get nauseated*
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WHAT GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO JUDGE OUR LOVE
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absolutely nothing, but because i happen to be human, i judge it anyway. don't tell me you're not judging me right now, because you'd be lying if you did.
isn't it funny how the most 'liberal minded' people always say the conservatives are definitely wrong?
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Originally posted by Carl
you know what else is scary? how often furries are brought up in this forum.
I try not to think about it. Lets me sleep at night.
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Eh? No, they don't actually- there's been a recent increase in what I guess you could call militant liberalism, rising from the fact that the left (and particularly the Democrats) have been such pansies for so long that they've basically lost all force behind their cause being fair and trying to give everybody's opinion equal consideration and all that ****. 'S the reason everyone's ****ed the way they are with Bush now. Serves the bastards right, really, ain't done a damned thing right since the seventies. But the genuine "liberals" (this meaning those who aren't the obnoxious assholes you find in all parts of the political spectrum, and everywhere else too) are willing to give other opinions far more consideration than anybody else.
Not really sure why that's relevant to anything, though.
Carl: This forum, and the entire freaking internet. So far, the only board I've seen where it isn't a regular refrain is one that's special-interest enough to escape most of the pervy types and where they'd get laughed out of town anyway. And it's like going on vacation to visit there.
Me, I think we need to go back to the good old intolerant days and ride anybody who's into anything but attractive women out on a rail. And form mobs. Because mobs are fun, and you get torches.
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well, maybe its just me, but the liberal people i know tend to not listen when orthodox opinions come up.
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Lemme guess, a fair sampling of militant gays and a couple guys who're fairly ignorant but still hold strong political opinions, very loudly. The guys who have one unpopular political view and swing it around everywhere like a club. That's about the class I've seen everywhere making the rest of the left look like a bunch of jerks. They're a pretty tiny minority of mostly just hostile adolescents, all the same.
But I dunno. Maybe you've got a cluster of particularly close-minded liberals. I've seen some places where everybody's got political tunnel vision before. Pretty sure I live in one still, in fact, though I'm rather afraid to go find out given the state of... other things around here.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
People who want to have sex with cartoon animals.
:wtf:
That's only a small subgroup. Don't generalize an entire people by what the minority does.
And it's not 'sex with cartoons.' While they are drawings of anthropomorphic animals, they are supposed to be each role player's character. And some (alot) choose to act out sexual fantasies (some really questionable) while they are 'in character'.
So before you go make judgements, atleast make sure you have your information straight.
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the people im talking about attended the same high school as I did, the top academic selective school in the state. these are not low-intelligence people, nor are they uninformed about current affairs.
moral: don't assume things. then again, you didn't exactly, so that's okay.
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Ah, so you're one of those who just thinks they're a cartoon animal.
You see how the distinction is lost on those not co-fetishists here?
Ice: I've been through a good high school, and am in a good college. Ignorance doesn't really factor in all that much.
Well, sure, I guess it does to some extent, but you get the same people either way. Thing is, people generally form their opinions first, then justify them. The amount of information they get before forming said opinions is what I measure by, not how much they pick up later to back themselves up. Typically, you can tell whether they started out ignant or not. Sometimes there's exceptions. I like to generalize, because being out here in the sticks has rendered me for the time being intellectually lazy and incapable of thinking too deeply on matters.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Ah, so you're one of those who just thinks they're a cartoon animal.
You see how the distinction is lost on those not co-fetishists here?
In your mind there's no distinction between playing as somethine, and actually believeing you are that thing?
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As a side-note: This is precisely why we banned sexually orientated story-posts from NW.
The whole Vasudan-sex thing was getting way out of hand.
*shudders*
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The whole Vasudan-sex thing was getting way out of hand.
:wtf:
whoa....weird
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Raa: Yeah, people don't identify themselves as what they "play as", dude. Outside of the context of the "game" or "roleplay" or whatever you wanna call it, people don't generally sit around talking about being a level 26 mage or what sort of airplane they are.
You know, it's really hard to draw comparisons here, too, because most people don't "play as" **** at all, unless there's some kind of game involved. 'Cause that's really not "playing as" something, it's got a term of it's own, known as "pretending to be something else". And when people identify themselves by what they pretend to be... what does that mean? Say it with me now! That person thinks of themselves as that thing!
And, of course, the attraction to furrydom isn't an intellectual one, say of exploring a new genome or anything. Roleplay a talking dog all you like, you'll never develop the senses or reflexes of a dog (which'd actually be damn cool). So, in the end, the attraction is purely physical, one of appearances. And whether it's overt or not, all attraction to a human form (however modified) is, at its root... sexual.
I guess there's a certain amount of lying to yourself necessary to imagine you're a cartoon animal anyway, but intellectual dishonesty is one of those things best done in moderation, y'know.
an0n: Um, you didn't ban them in the first place? Sheesh, didn't take you for a masochist there, man.
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
:wtf:
That's only a small subgroup. Don't generalize an entire people by what the minority does.
And it's not 'sex with cartoons.' While they are drawings of anthropomorphic animals, they are supposed to be each role player's character. And some (alot) choose to act out sexual fantasies (some really questionable) while they are 'in character'.
So before you go make judgements, atleast make sure you have your information straight.
you know that doesn't realy make them seem less ****ed up
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Originally posted by Drew
i just found out, my brother visits furry forums.
:nervous: :shaking:
how the hell do i get to make rl freinds?
NUKE IT FROM THE ORBIT, IT'S THE ONLY WAY TO BE SURE
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Originally posted by an0n
As a side-note: This is precisely why we banned sexually orientated story-posts from NW.
The whole Vasudan-sex thing was getting way out of hand.
link plz*
*not furry
* actually no
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...I should give you a good thwacking...:doubt:
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ewwwwwwwwwwww gross
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
:wtf:
That's only a small subgroup. Don't generalize an entire people by what the minority does.
And it's not 'sex with cartoons.' While they are drawings of anthropomorphic animals, they are supposed to be each role player's character. And some (alot) choose to act out sexual fantasies (some really questionable) while they are 'in character'.
So before you go make judgements, atleast make sure you have your information straight.
You didn't know? The people who plays dwarves in AD&D want to have sex with dwarves.
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god you are the biggest group of immature asses i've seen yet today.. [of course the day is young and I haven't visited ST yet because i'm at work]
Some people like the drawings for pure aestheitc appeal - my girlfriend for example thinks a lot of that art is good because of the skill of the artist and nothing more.
Some people enjoy escaping reality -- i'd rather have someone escaping reality by playing furry then burrowing themselves into a religion.
You're constant "ew it's sexual, you're deviants" is simply a sign of your own insecurity and immaturity -- I am not in the slightest bit interested in furries, but I don't give a **** if someone likes playing a role-play [even if it's a role-play forum, the fun is in ACTING for those of who tried bull****ting about "normally in games"].
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No offense intended, Kaz, and I mean that, but given your own overaggressive tendencies you're not much of one to talk about others' insecurities.
And did I say anything about the whole deal having no redeeming value? I've seen several pieces of furry art that were quite good, no question about it. They'd be good whether the artists were furries or not, that much is almost certain. Neither of those facts changes anything in the slightest. I know this won't exactly break through your blinkered worldview any more than the other five hundred times people have said basically the same thing, but a statement of reality, warts and all, does not invariably sum up to a condemnation.
Venom: You'd do well to actually read the claim laid rather than set up strawmen and intentionally fallacious parallels. It's really downright depressing the amount of times people on this forum respond to anothers' statements by thinking "how can I make this person look wrong?" rather than "what is this person saying, and why do they think it's right?", and given that in my rather decrepit memory you haven't established yourself as a total idiot at any point I'd appreciate it if you tried to avoid becoming a part of that general low intellectual standard. It's just not interesting.
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you're one to try and judge my overagressiveness tendancies which only exist in your own mind these days. Welcome to two years ago.
You keep climaing to know what's going on in other peoples minds and you're not able to back it up. Atleast when I cite the behavior of fundies I have expirience on their behavior. You're talking about "Furries" from a position of ignorance and you know it. You're only bashing furries because it's the latest trend in whom to bash. You cannot pick on the gays anymore because they've gotten too much acceptance and there are too many people who will defend them, so you pick on the next easy target - furries. Why Furries: because right now nobody supporting them has stepped up to plate other than members of the furry community. Well I am not a member of that community, i haven o interested in being one, and I am stepping up to the plate.
You're one to accuse others of being close minded and then doing it yourself. Oh and calling "liberals" close minded: absurd. You're calling people who do not wish to tolerate intolerance close minded; that, by definition, is a contradiction. While it is easy to become intolerant of a view from close-mindedness it is also possible to come to despise a view from being open minded and thinking critically about a view and finding it to be the basis of much hate and ignorance.
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Uh huh.
No, this is quite amusing, go on. I'm not terribly inclined to give your insane frothing enough regard to really respond to it- was going to, but then remembered a recent scene you'd put up when Mik tried talking rationally to you on another topic, and it struck me that as funny as it was at the time that'd probably be pretty aggravating to actually participate in- and anybody who can't sort out how outright silly it is for themseves isn't worth the bother anyway, but that's absolutely no reason you should stop now. Now, compare me to the guys who drag black people behind their pickup trucks or something. That'll be a good one.
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Way to cop out stryke 9
nice cluster of logical fallacies there
[I sense the fullfilment of godwin's law approaching]
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No. Bad Kaz. Aside from the fact that there's really no logic to be fallacious there, you've done that one too many times and it's boring. Back to how I'm teh Hitler, or go away and let other people post if they so desire.
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Venom: You'd do well to actually read the claim laid rather than set up strawmen and intentionally fallacious parallels. It's really downright depressing the amount of times people on this forum respond to anothers' statements by thinking "how can I make this person look wrong?" rather than "what is this person saying, and why do they think it's right?", and given that in my rather decrepit memory you haven't established yourself as a total idiot at any point I'd appreciate it if you tried to avoid becoming a part of that general low intellectual standard. It's just not interesting.
Let me be a troll, will you?
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Oh, all right. But not until you've cleaned your room.
Holy hell, did I really write that whole block of crap? Musht be getting tired.
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rotfl... not only didi sense the fulfillment of godwin's law approaching - you succesfully triggered it on yourself.. rotfl (i have never triggered godwin's law -- althought i have made comparisions to hilter/nazis before - these were in cases that are exceptions to godwin's law)
[logcal fallacies are possible in the absence of logic, infact they ARE exactly that - you atleast tried a "poisoning the well" after in the last post you attempted a argumentum ad hominem]
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Originally posted by Stryke 9
Oh, all right. But not until you've cleaned your room.
No. When I clean my room I can't find anything anymore ( see that other thread :p ).
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Kazan, you have to admit, you have a tendency to make hostile posts, and then think about it afterwards.