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Quote from: Soadreqm on May 28, 2013, 06:12:45 pm

Why would I read the comments? Why would anyone read the comments? ._.

Because, as much as I would like to marginalize their importance, they are a very real part of culture. And apparently they represent no small part of the opposition to Sarkeesian.

[Citation needed]
If most of Sarkeesian's "opposition" was Youtube commenters, I think that would just be kind of sad. You'd think she could at least get some proper opposition. Maybe I'm hopelessly behind with the times, and Youtube comments suddenly became a legitimate channel of political expression while I wasn't looking, but I can't really bring myself to take them seriously.

As for the video itself, I have mixed feelings. I think I can basically understand the point she's trying to make, and I'm pretty sure I agree with it. Women in video games need rescuing WAY too often, and that probably says some things about our society. At the same time, I think her voice is annoying and that the videos are visually bland. And some specific things she says just sound like utter nonsense. Violent revenge narratives are about losing and then questing to regain your masculinity? Is she saying that revenge is inherently masculine behaviour, or that video games are implying that it is, or something else entirely? Are we even using the same definition of "masculinity"?

Does this video work for anyone else? It does for me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=323jofx0VEI

Quote from: Levi on May 27, 2013, 11:06:02 am

I think Kat was just too stunned to say no.     She doesn't want to hurt Paz's feelings.

Noooo! Why would you say that?
They are going to move away and live with each other until the end of time, happily ever after.

Yes, that is how teen romance works every time.

Yeah, there's basically no way that Tom isn't going to do an abrupt perspective change or a time skip or something.

Just get clarity and cTele, you wimp. Uncontrolled shouting is annoying too, but nowhere near as crippling as the ones you can suppress.

Can I still role with a Star nosed mole?
Your art style is awesome!

Thank you! :3 Here is your star nosed mole:

I'm pretty sure that's the most tentacles I've ever seen on a mammal. Nature is crazy. ._.

I made a fursona a few years back, as a joke. Since then, I have occasionally introduced myself as a furry, just to see how people react. But am I really a furry? Does there still remain some thin veneer of irony separating me from true furries, as a Victorian-era explorer living among natives is separated from the noble savages by his self-righteous sense of superiority? Clearly, it is time to dive deeper into this anthropomorphic rabbit hole, but I cannot do it alone. In the interest of SCIENCE and FUN, I invite EVERYONE to become a furry. Create yourself a fursona. Pour your soul into a half-animal avatar of yourself, like a weblich crafting an anthropomorphic phylactery. Invent a neon-coloured wolf-man with a tragic backstory and tell us all about it.

To start with, this is my fur chitinsona:

He is a weaver ant and this is him being completely overwhelmed with the joy of being a furry. Chitiny. Whatever. He lives in a giant tower of silk and wood with thousands of other weaver ant people, and his ultimate goal in life is to serve the Hive in whatever manner best benefits it.

I also have a pending promise to draw three people's fursonas if they give me an animal to start with. The submissions I got were "snails", "star nosed mole" and "neanderthals". While trying to figure out what a half-human half-neanderthal would look like might be an interesting paleobiological exercise, I don't think they count, so we've still got one open. Furthermore, to celebrate this BRAVE NEW THREAD I'm going to do two more in addition to the one for a grand total of THREE STILL TO GO! Tell me your favourite animal, and don't be afraid to invent new animals or combine existing animals into horrifying chimeras. Also feel free to provide some more detailed physical description. I'll do my best to follow your capricious instructions.

For the COMPLETE EXPERIENCE, you should also provide a name, a personality, a backstory and so on. List some "likes" and "dislikes". Hell, make it a whole SETTING, with with detailed notes on various cultures and locations. Whatever detail you feel like going into.

Once I'm no longer contractually obligated to draw people furries, I'll probably keep doing it at least sometimes. Especially if you describe yours really well. Everyone else is also invited to draw pictures of fursonas posted here, their own or other people's, as long as they keep in mind that the Forum Guidelines aren't really guidelines as much as they are absolute, inviolate rules. If you do something foolish, the next DF release is postponed by the amount of time it takes Toady One to deal with it.

With that in mind, let's discover our inner furries!

I think seducing high-level conservatives SHOULD be insanely difficult. It gives you a powerful sleeper with high heart and the ability to recruit more members. If you want semi-reliable results in a reasonable amount of time, you have to kidnap and brainwash. Or use a guitar squad. Nothing can stand before the power of ROCK.