Cat wrote: ↑Sat Aug 06, 2022 7:06 pm
At the risk of pulling the thread in even more directions (maybe this should be it's own thread) I want to mention anyway that the furry fandom is quite unrelated to animals. On the charitable end you have the nonsense about shamanism, on the feigned attack, accusations and stories related to the sexual violation of pets.
This is semiotic cretinism, botched perception or outright deflection from aesthetic truth.
The furry in their biological instincts likes certain shapes, certain colours, certain atmospheres.
Many anti-furries are furries themselves. Many contemporary "identities" are truly furry in nature.
This is not an accusation and I hope your collection of guns grows and grows.
On topic: Still waiting for some somebody to do my homework for me.
I'm not sure what any of this has to do with killing dogs (which I abhor as I am a sick man who loves animals more than humans) but I do find this point very interesting and agreeable. There is essentially no difference between a furry and andrew hussy adopting a "lesbosona" (which is what most internet people do nowadays) in his game, or deviantart autists getting obsessed with specific simpsons or family guy characters.
https://www.deviantart.com/search?q=meg+griffin
More than 5k results for meg griffin
Andrew Hussy's lesbosona and clownsona interacting in a game where he takes control of black lives matter and destroys christofascism
There is no substantial difference between these examples and a fat polar bear wearing blue jeans
I was talking about it in another thread before it got sidetracked by someone's obsession with "goth chicks"
I can also blame this on late stage capitalism / western-NATO economics. Due to the necessity for endless growth, the entertainment industry had to produce products faster & faster to artificially inflate their numbers. Once upon a time, a movie could actually stay in theaters for months, and a sequel coming out would be an event. Nowadays there's 30 fucking marvel movies being shoved out twice a year, due to the need to inflate their number of products, to keep up with constantly inflating production costs.
In short, every piece of entertainment is becoming more similar to pornography, where it's one thing that you use once to jack off and then throw away. Not in its appearence mind you (because women are now banned) but in its fruition. It has no staying power, and no value. It just serves a bodily function, which is to quickly provide a dopamine rush before moving on to something else.
In terms of videogames, I barely play any modern games at all because I see it as a different format altogether. Most videogames (that aren't sony moviegames, which must be some sort of money laundering operation because they really don't sell well enough to justify their existance) are now bite sized chunks that you sort of consume consistently, with season passes, updates and what not, rather than a complete product like it used to be in the past. Single player games had a beginning, middle and end, and multiplayer games shipped with all their content in and they were essentially a toolkit you could use to make your own fun.
Nowadays, games are mostly considered a service, which does not appeal to me at all. Modern fighting games all operate on a subscription service where new characters (that would have just shipped with the game in the past) are released constantly over time which leads to changes in the meta and balance updates.
I know I have no fucking clue what I'm looking at when I approach a "service game", I have no idea WTF I'm supposed to buy at all. Zogbots aren't confused though, because they were raised as a consumer class by the school system. Add to that that fighting games refuse to evolve (something you pointed out as well) where I would consider stuff like Dead or Alive, Soul Calibur or Smash Bros to be way more advanced than classic FGs because they made gameplay more organic and more reliant on strategy rather than input memorization. (Which is what Lowtiergod is raging against when he complains about players just learning flowcharts by memory LOL!)
Every game has a skill ceiling where it stops being organic, and it becomes about autistic input memorization. That's what the speedrunning community was born out of. The FGC was there like 15 years ago or something, and the games refusing to evolve means that they attract the same kind of OCD/Autistic speedrunning consumer class.
What they have in common is that they all transitioned at the same time (which is natural and were born that way LOL) because in order to fulfill the goal of endless growth, the medical industry started advertising transgender surgeries & HRT on the same platforms as pop media. (The idea being you turn your body into a service, where you're constantly buying DLCs, lol.) Which does not mean actual ads, it means surreptitious PR that lobbyists push onto people by paying youtubers to pass them off as their "real opinions" (hence why to be a career youtuber is to be a shill, you're just an undercover advertiser) and autistic people are especially vulnerable to it due to their lack of understanding of social cues. So when they look at a youtuber telling them what to think, they really believe, he's their friend lol.
These are the same people who are attracted by pattern memorization.
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There is a specific phenotype that creates a mental image of themselves which does not exist in reality and uses the internet as a gateway to vicariously wear its skin, which I think is what you're getting at when you say that being a furry has nothing to do with animals whatsoever. Much like being a "tranny" nowadays has nothing to do with women, wearing female clothing to become your lesbosona while getting high on estrogen is the behavioral equivalent of yiffing while wearing a fursuit. As you said, actual rapists (like furries who fuck puppies or inmates who put on wigs to go into female prisons and rape women) are outliars taking advantage of a system propped up by a majority of people who are actually just on the autism spectrum and get obsessed with specific patterns, colors and shapes (which is why everyone in the gaming sphere is now some variety of furry, tranny, or general otherkin).
I think this is what wesley snipes was getting at too if you can actually parse through the five different versions of babelfish he used to type out his post
The BDSM community has, of course, its own fetish interests (though the most popular such interests among non - subs have much more to do with what is termed as "power exchange" or more colloquially, the "S & M" lifestyle).
But BDSM as a sexual practice is no more so than any other hobby.
One might argue that there are those who are submissive and enjoy being dominated and abused.
It's a fetish, and, as already said, if you enjoy it you have a fetish.
The difference here is that in most kinks (at least most common ones) there are a wide variety of choices of activities to engage in that can be undertaken in all manner of different contexts.
Where most of BDSM participants will readily tell you that their primary interest in the activity is the transference of power, fetishists will most often not
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My problem with this stems with the fact that anglophone society (UK, Canada, USA) is ran by psychologists, so education is centered around reinforcing what is, in my mind, a delusion. All the otherkins and headmates on 2010s Tumblr were not coming up with their own shit, they got it from high education and just expanded on it. Critical race theory, gender theory (which again, are accepted as fact by both "sides" of political institutions and by the education system) are ways of segregating the population by stereotyping behaviors rather than immutable biological characteristics. (That is to say that an iranian can be "white" if he behaves "white", a 1/16th black canadian can be "black" if he speaks in ebonics, a man can be a "woman" if he wears a wig.)
I wouldn't even have an issue with it if it's just a national cultural thing, like if that's how they want to live their life it's fine. My problem comes with the fact that I live in a vassal country so their societal structure, which is a reflection of their economic structure, is imposed on me and all over europe. I don't see why we need to center our society around mental disability to appease obese american monster men. Whether or not it leads to a functional and more egalitarian society should be beyond the point, I don't like papua new guinean having pedophile cum drinking magic rituals either but it has no impact on my day to day life. Meanwhile at this point the western entertainment industry might as well not exist anymore, and everything foreign that gets translated into english is completely whitewashed for the appeasement of the one audience member which is larry fink