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[The Smoking Bun]

But this looks significantly cooler than most furry things... They have real rabbit features... They don't have rippling pecs and abs or stupid smirks on their faces.

This isn't furry related. This is just two rabbit men fighting and it looks great.

What is this btw?

Ding! Ding! Ding! Congratulations! You have learned to distinguish typical Furry art to regular anthropomorphic cartoon styles! I mean there are people here disgusted by the sight of Mickey Mouse and friends apparently but you get it. Furry art is always sexualized with giant boobs and fluids all over the place whereas regular anthro just looks... normal I guess and doesn't gross me out. Remember SWAT Kats? Was that Furry? No!

 

[Village]

I sincerely doubt people draw, dress up as, and create stories about human sized animals with no attraction to actual animals. They get the basis for it out of something based out of reality, and something that a disturbed subset of our race actually participate in. I wouldn't want to hang out with people who got off to weird drawings of children either. It doesn't matter if they're pictures or cartoonish drawings, the basis of it is a fetish for children.

Oh wow... thats....

Someone does not understand how out art works.

Even if someone showed you a picture of Star Fox or Falco, while it obviously doesn't exactly look like a fox or bird, you can obviously tell what animals they're based on. It's not some far fetched notion that furries are attracted to animals when there are so many similarities between what they're attracted to and actual animals

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Apperently cartoon neon colored anthropomorphic talking anime animals = actual animals.

If you're morally opposed to talking to people who don't like furries, then I suggest you stop talking to me right now and put me on ignore, because you're defying your morals.

I think i might I dunno if you are trolling, but your reasoning is beyond silly at this point.

But this looks significantly cooler than most furry things... They have real rabbit features... They don't have rippling pecs and abs or stupid smirks on their faces.

This isn't furry related. This is just two rabbit men fighting and it looks great.

What is this btw?

the bolded... that mental gymnastics a lot loony tunes and disney characters fall into those categories.

But sure continue those mental gymnastics.

Also , smirking, really, smirking? Are you serious how old are you ?

" this cartoon is smirking , he is trying to seduce me with his wiles!"

 

[Zen_Arcade]

You got issues bro. Maybe you're a closet furry and just in denial?

Spoiler

Joking

What about Bigby Wolf from Wolf Among Us or Beast from X-MEN?



How would you apply that logic to Hentai where it's all tentacles and monsters. What about Vampires? Do people fantasize about sex with bats there?
What about the aliens from Mass Effect. I doubt it's all sex with animals people out there. Bestiality is a whole different thing. Furry is a fetish, like S&M.

Furry is a fetish based off things that look alarmingly close to and are based off animals. Usually with many of the same features. I don't even know how you could deny that fact. Star Fox's name is Star FOX. It's pretty damn clear what he represents. No one would mistake Fox for a human.

 

[Red Chocobo]

Furry art is always sexualized

Ding! Ding! Ding! Wrong.

How do I know? I've been part of the furry fandom for over ten years.

 

[The Smoking Bun]

Oh wow... thats....

Someone does not understand how out art works.
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Apperently cartoon neon colored anthropomorphic talking anime animals = actual animals.




I think i might I dunno if you are trolling, but your reasoning is beyond silly at this point.

Nah man! Have you read Animal Farm? Orwell was a total pervert. Righting about farm animals becoming intelligent and creating a society based on Stalin's Russia.

Furry is a fetish based off things that look alarmingly close to and are based off animals. Usually with many of the same features. I don't even know how you could deny that fact. Star Fox's name is Star FOX. It's pretty damn clear what he represents. No one would mistake Fox for a human.

So what if he's a Fox-Man, can I like him without being called a Furry? Is Miyamato a furry? Of course not! Dude, everything is a fetish these days. Just because Joss Whedon likes feet doesn't mean we should censor every scene that shows bare feet regardless of context. Why is there a problem with Furries unless you have two rabbit people going at it on screen and at that time we can just call it porn. Don't say it's unnatural or something like that because to the catholic church everything beyond Marital-Missionary sex is unnatural.

Ding! Ding! Ding! Wrong.

How do I know? I've been part of the furry fandom for over ten years.

Yes but tell the anti-Furry people that. To them even Clara-belle Cow counts as Furry.

EDIT:

Do people here know that Rape is also a fetish. People wanting to me dominated and humiliated?
It's a heinous crime in Real Life but do we complain about those people who do it con-sensually in the bedroom?

 

[Lucario]

But this looks significantly cooler than most furry things... They have real rabbit features... They don't have rippling pecs and abs or stupid smirks on their faces.

This isn't furry related. This is just two rabbit men fighting and it looks great.

What is this btw?

Overgrowth

It's made by furries, but that shouldn't be relevant to the fact that it looks awesome. I feel like too many people are focused on the label, which is kind of a problem when we all have our own definitions of 'furry'.

 

[Wonko_C]

Ding! Ding! Ding! Congratulations! You have learned to distinguish typical Furry art to regular anthropomorphic cartoon styles! I mean there are people here disgusted by the sight of Mickey Mouse and friends apparently but you get it. Furry art is always sexualized with giant boobs and fluids all over the place whereas regular anthro just looks... normal I guess and doesn't gross me out. Remember SWAT Kats? Was that Furry? No!

Aaah SWAT Kats. That was a cool cartoon. Everyone in my classroom seemed to have a crush on Callie Briggs.

Spoiler

Innocence Destroyed.

 

[Zen_Arcade]

Oh wow... thats....

Someone does not understand how out art works.
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Apperently cartoon neon colored anthropomorphic talking anime animals = actual animals.




I think i might I dunno if you are trolling, but your reasoning is beyond silly at this point.



the bolded... that mental gymnastics a lot loony tunes and disney characters fall into those categories.

But sure continue those mental gymnastics.

Also , smirking, really, smirking? Are you serious how old are you ?

" this cartoon is smirking , he is trying to seduce me with his wiles!"

The art is based off things taken out of reality. They're not making these features up out of thin air. They're modeling things to remind you of actual animals. That is the point of the characters. That's why you can look at a pony from My Little Pony and without being told anything about it, identify it as a horse. These people are still attracted to aspects of animals that exist in the real world.

So what if he's a Fox-Man, can I like him without being called a Furry? Is Miyamato a furry? Of course not! Dude, everything is a fetish these days. Just because Joss Whedon likes feet doesn't mean we should censor every scene that shows bare feet regardless of context. Why is there a problem with Furries unless you have two rabbit people going at it on screen and at that time we can just call it porn. Don't say it's unnatural or something like that because to the catholic church everything beyond Marital-Missionary sex is unnatural.

I don't know where you're getting the idea that I'm opposed to the art style of anthropomorphic animals. If you actually had read the thread you would have seen that I don't have a problem with it at all. I like a few games that have those types of animals. The Ninja Turtles were a huge part of my childhood. What I don't like is people jerking off to those animals and would rather not associate with the people who do.

I never once said that people should stop making games with these art styles.

 

[The Smoking Bun]

Aaah SWAT Kats. That was a cool cartoon. Everyone in my classroom seemed to have a crush on Callie Briggs.

Spoiler

Innocence Destroyed.

I always preferred Felia Feral. RAWR! Haha!

I think the haters might be the bigger issue here because they ruin the fun for everyone including people who love stuff like SWAT Kats and Star Fox by pointing out the gross rule-34 drawings that we would otherwise ignore. You walk in a door, see something you don't like, you walk away. You don't stand in the doorway and whine about it.

EDIT:

I don't know where you're getting the idea that I'm opposed to the art style of anthropomorphic animals. If you actually had read the thread you would have seen that I don't have a problem with it at all. I like a few games that have those types of animals. I don't like people jerking off to those animals and would rather not associate with the people who do.

I never once said that people should stop making games with these art styles.

Then we are agreement, you don't like people jerking off to anthro's and that's fine but don't write off an entire art style. You shouldn't shut yourself off to brilliant games, television and film just because in some dark corner of the internet people are drawing dirty drawings of Donald Duck diddling Dasiy Duck with a double dildo. People have always done such things because the human mind is creative and gross.

 

[Zen_Arcade]

I always preferred Felia Feral. RAWR! Haha!

I think the haters might be the bigger issue here because they ruin the fun for everyone including people who love stuff like SWAT Kats and Star Fox by pointing out the gross rule-34 drawings that we would otherwise ignore. You walk in a door, see something you don't like, you walk away. You don't stand in the doorway and whine about it.

EDIT:



Then we are agreement. However, you shouldn't shut yourself off yto brilliant games, television and film just because in some dark corner of the internet people are drawing dirty drawings of Donald Duck diddling Dasiy Duck with a double dildo.

Trust me. I don't. It hasn't stopped me from enjoying those things yet and I doubt it ever will.

 

[prag16]

I'd rather play games with no anthropomorphic animals in it. It just doesn't appeal to me. It's that same with Fantasy. Trolls, Elves and Orcs are just as dumb to me.

This is basically how I feel. Everything you listed is kind of off-putting to me. Though it wouldn't single handedly stop me from giving a game a shot if it seems to be otherwise compelling.

 

[redcrayon]

Seeing as other popular videogames characters include the undead, sentient robots with guns for arms, space marines with battlesuits, assassins with various magical abilities, shapeshifters, humans who can absorb a dozen bullets with no loss of momentum and wizards, I really don't find animal characters any more or less silly.

 

[blame space]

it's simple: I don't buy a game if it doesn't have anthropomorphicized animals.

 

[The Smoking Bun]

Seeing as other popular videogames characters include the undead, sentient robots with guns for arms, space marines with battlesuits, assassins with various magical abilities, shapeshifters, humans who can absorb a dozen bullets with no loss of momentum and wizards, I really don't find animal characters any more or less silly.

Yes but people don't draw those other things having sex... oh wait yes they do.

 

[The Tofunator]

I won't ever play Wolf Among Us because Telltale sucks (HATE the Walking Dead), but my understanding is that Bigby is just a man. Not a problem to me. As for Beast, he's not anthro, to me. He's not an animal, he's just a man who is covered in hair. There's a difference there to me. If he was clearly a 'fox-man' or a 'wolf-man' etc, then I'd hate it.

Actually, Bigby is a full wolf, just in a human disguise.

 

[Aokage]

Oh man, BRUTAL. Bringing me right back to my nascent childhood furridom. And who can forget REVENGERS OF VENGEANCE? Same font, so you know it's quality.

 

[Shingro]

I'm pretty sure that you have misunderstood the definition of fetish.

A person does not have a fetish involving everything that they have fapped to.

I don't have a fetish for 30 year-old, big-booty redheads in pigtails playing the role of naughty schoolgirls. But I can fap to that.
I don't have a fetish for interracial sex. But I can fap to that.
I don't have a fetish for chicks getting double-teamed or gangbanged. But I can fap to that whether they are in bondage or not, no matter what race or nationality they are. It doesn't matter if condoms are being used in the porn or not, or if the penises of the male talent are big, medium or small.
So there's no possible way I could have a fetish for any or all of those things, even though they all were fapped to at some point.

Now, if I said I can only achieve sexual gratification when a petite older Arab-looking lady is receiving golden showers or something like that, then we may be able to find an actual fetish at play.


Anyways, I still just can't see myself being so against anything just because some people have sexual thoughts and proclivities concerning that specific thing,
I also don't understand describing people's sexual desires concerning things like anthropomorphic creatures as "creepy" or anything of the sort.
I could not care less if a person is sexually or non-sexually into anthropomorphic animals, or any other specific interest. I don't care that people are "sexual deviants". I don't see what is supposed to be so wrong with being a sexual deviant in the first place. Most of the time, as far as the vast preponderance of humanity is concerned, it's none of my business, doesn't affect me, and would be a silly reason for me to start actively disliking any certain aesthetic or activity.

Lucky me, I guess,
I'm free to either like or dislike a game with anthropomorphic animals in based on merits such as "is it fun?", "is it annoying in some way?", or just, basically, "do I like to play it?".

TL?R? - Anthropomorphic animals do not influence my buying decisions, and while I can see how some people may be more inclined to buy a game with such characters in it due to their interests, I find it pretty strange that so many people avoid those games because they apparently can't stop thinking about people fapping to animals with people-like qualities and wanting to have sex with people who wear animal suits.
Also, fetish is not a word to describe everything that any given person has fapped to.

I think this is a good post that should be read, I have very similar feelings on aversion fads.

 

[broham]

Overgrowth

It's made by furries, but that shouldn't be relevant to the fact that it looks awesome. I feel like too many people are focused on the label, which is kind of a problem when we all have our own definitions of 'furry'.

Overgrowth isn't being made by furries. Often times when a game uses anthro characters like that some people ask, why use anthro characters? The dev behind overgrowth actually bothered to answer that in a blog post.
http://blog.wolfire.com/2009/05/why-ninja-rabbits/

 

[NastyBook]

I honestly have no problem whatsoever. I read fantasy novels and watch sci-films where characters like that are the norm, so it does neither harm nor good for me. They don't influence my purchases at all.

Aaah SWAT Kats. That was a cool cartoon. Everyone in my classroom seemed to have a crush on Callie Briggs.

Spoiler

Innocence Destroyed.

If you liked SWAT Kats so much, you should've voted to save that shit in the 90s Cartoon Survivor thread.

*still bitter*

 

[Boss Doggie]

Actually, Bigby is a full wolf, just in a human disguise.

he can also go between

 

[NoirVisage]

Even if someone does choose to fap to furry hentai, who the fuck cares? The internet is filled with millions of things weirder than that. Seems like a weird thing to get stuck on if you ask me. I'm not exactly calling "projection!" yet but I'm at least one more post like this from doing so:

Did you even read what i was responding to? Or the title of the thread before you started even considering typing the word projection? I answered the question honestly, If anything you're the one projecting something.

 

[belmonkey]

Does anyone happen to know the name of that new furry-ish game in development that has avatars that mimic your facial expressions in real-time, captured by laptop / PC cams?

 

[LocalE]

I think this is a good post that should be read, I have very similar feelings on aversion fads.

Thanks. I think it is a bit bloated. I wish I could express my feelings on the subject much more succinctly while not losing anything. That post just kind of kept going while I was typing it.

I just find it so weird that so many people get hung up on that. Consequently I am glad that I don't have that problem.

 

[Deified Data]

Did you even read what i was responding to? Or the title of the thread before you started even considering typing the word projection? I answered the question honestly, If anything you're the one projecting something.

Note that I said I was one more post like yours from crying projection, so...

Anyway, your post was immediately aggressive and attacked someone for having some sort of imagined agenda. You took a call for tolerance as a call for acceptance and got all bent out of shape. It was weird is all I'm saying. There were a million different ways to respond to that post and you did so in the one way that shut down the whole conversation. No one's asking you to be a furry, just to accept that anything under the sun is going to be fetishized so you probably shouldn't let it bother you as much as it does.