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Briana Dawson
Attach to Mouth
Join date: 23 Sep 2003
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06-27-2009 10:27
Lol
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Millie Thompson
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06-27-2009 10:38
gotta remember one thing, though. this is Second Life, and any animal you shoot at is liable to shoot back. often with higher firepower... Oh snap! Seriously though, aside from the combat enabled areas most places don't like folks armed to the teeth carrying weapons around. Some places let you wear them in holsters, but if you have one in your hands its considered live and ready to use. Which puts folks on edge, they are there to have a good time or collaborate on things, and don't need a trigger happy gunman barging in on things. That sort of thing leads to an AR and banishment from that location. Even the smallest of avatars can return fire with a gun the size of a mack truck.  _____________________
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ZsuZsanna Raven
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Join date: 19 Dec 2004
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06-27-2009 10:39
I mean, they are playing animals that stand and talk. If I treat them like an animal (as in pulling a gun on them), they act all offended. So in real life you just go around shooting innocent animals? I bet that makes you feel all big and bad huh.  _____________________
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Raudf Fox
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Join date: 25 Feb 2005
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06-27-2009 11:04
When I am using my Dragon avatar, I get a lot of reactions. Logical, after all, in Chinese Mythology, the Dragon is the highest being. Sometimes, specialy when I use the 5 headed giant Dragon avatar, I get reactions like "OMG, What a monster." I usually ask them if they wanna see a "real" monster, and when the answer is "yes" I change to a fully human avatar. Succes garanteed! When I use my dragon avatar, guys stop hitting on me. In fact, they tend to just TP away... I don't know why, except maybe they don't really like redheads? _____________________
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Sindy Tsure
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06-27-2009 11:20
Didn't read this thread - sorry if somebody beat me to this...
I Still Don't Get Furries Have you tried different bait? /me sends her furry friends a big and runs like hell._____________________
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Monalisa Robbiani
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06-27-2009 11:20
I mean, they are playing animals that stand and talk. If I treat them like an animal (as in pulling a gun on them), they act all offended. Oh don't worry. If you do that, I would certainly treat you as what you really are - a griefer - , and go ahead and AR you.  _____________________
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Marianne McCann
Feted Inner Child
Join date: 23 Feb 2006
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06-27-2009 11:58
Even the smallest of avatars can return fire with a gun the size of a mack truck. Cue Immy's photo in 3... 2... 1... _____________________
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Smith Peel
Smif v2.0
Join date: 10 Jan 2005
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06-27-2009 11:58
It's only a matter of time before furry sex is banned in SL as broadly offensive and they all gotta get spayed/neutered.
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Treasure Ballinger
Virtual Ability
Join date: 31 Dec 2007
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06-27-2009 12:00
I love furry avs, except for the feet! Just can't wrap my mind around the size of those feet!
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Jesse Barnett
500,000 scoville units
Join date: 21 May 2006
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06-27-2009 12:06
I love furry avs, except for the feet! Just can't wrap my mind around the size of those feet! It's an ego thing for the male furries  _____________________
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Tod69 Talamasca
The Human Tripod ;)
Join date: 20 Sep 2005
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06-27-2009 12:07
I love furry avs, except for the feet! Just can't wrap my mind around the size of those feet! Well you know what they say about the size of a man's feet _____________________
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Weston Graves
Werebeagle
Join date: 24 Mar 2007
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06-27-2009 13:19
Oh no, obviously that's just silly. All the RL dogs are wearing human avatars so they don't draw attention to themselves And often vice versa. _____________________
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Ceka Cianci
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Join date: 31 Jul 2006
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06-27-2009 13:21
I mean, they are playing animals that stand and talk. If I treat them like an animal (as in pulling a gun on them), they act all offended. Just let an avi come in looking like a 4yo girl, and everyone raises a stink, but treat an avi that looks like a wolf like a wolf, and I am the bad guy. And it is all about appearances anyway, isn't it? They want to be treated as equals? Equal to what..a HUMAN? Then be a human..? I guess if I got to know them, I might find them swell...but I really don't think is a good idea to befriend a predator (wolves, dragons, bunnies with fangs), and I feel its poss psychologically harmful to have a conversation with potential food (cows). Dogs would be an exception. Dogs coexist well with hunter-humans. But no-one is a dog here. Why is that? do not try to understand these things..i have seen cases like this where someone put too much thought into something so simple and over complicated it soo much that the veins in their head started to expand... i was like "ewww look at your head it's all veiny and red".. then their eyes get all bulgy and i was like "OM gAWD!!! your eyes look like an owl on crack and wanting more" and not long after that their brains came out there butts  then i was like "Gross i am so out of here" so i called 911 and left..I SWARE!!! _____________________
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Void Singer
Int vSelf = Sing(void);
Join date: 24 Sep 2005
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06-27-2009 13:23
@ Todd, that they're inversely proportionate to his mental capacity? (with amputees being of roughly average intelligence)
Even the smallest of avatars can return fire with a gun the size of a mack truck. I know a certain scripter who had a 3ft nothing mouse av who upon being harassed would sic a fun little toy on someone. it teleported them home, then followed them and crashed their home sim. (ll has since broken both functionalities, but it was amusing while it lasted)... curiously there are a lot of content creators among the furries, especially scripters and builders. a higher percentage than any other sub group from what I've seen. _____________________
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Katheryne Helendale
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Join date: 5 Jun 2008
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06-27-2009 13:38
There's a few like that in RL, but in SL? The mesh is so badly done the base avatar often looks like a bunch of disconnected prims. You ever sat down and looked at the gap between the stomach and the chest sections? And the avatar butt is so ugly I can't stand looking at one that doesn't have a tail. Some of the recent sculpted prim avatars are smoother and better articulated than the underlying mesh. _____________________
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Steely Carver
The dreamer or the dream?
Join date: 10 Nov 2007
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I still don't get trolls
06-27-2009 13:40
I mean, they are playing creatures that stand and talk. If I treat them like creatures (as in pulling a gun on them), they act all offended.
Just let an avi come in looking like a 4yo girl, and everyone raises a stink, but treat an avi that looks like a troll like a troll, and I am the bad guy. And it is all about appearances anyway, isn't it? They want to be treated as equals? Equal to what..a HUMAN? Then be a human..? I guess if I got to know them, I might find them swell...but I really don't think is a good idea to befriend a troll (wolves, dragons, bunnies with fangs), and I feel its poss psychologically harmful to have a conversation with potential trolls. Dogs would be an exception. Dogs coexist well with hunter-humans. But no-one is a dog here. Why is that? _____________________
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
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Qie Niangao
Coin-operated
Join date: 24 May 2006
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06-27-2009 13:40
curiously there are a lot of content creators among the furries, especially scripters and builders. a higher percentage than any other sub group from what I've seen.  |
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Ceka Cianci
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Join date: 31 Jul 2006
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06-27-2009 13:43
i believe trolls have surpassed us so much on the evolutionary ladder that they have came full circle and ended up behind us again..thats call being to smart for your britches
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Steely Carver
The dreamer or the dream?
Join date: 10 Nov 2007
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06-27-2009 13:45
LOL "I can see how the original poster would be confused"???????????? This is SL. What confusion is there when you see a dog avatar? Do you think that a dog in RL is accessing SL to live out the virtual life he can't have in the real? Whatever. Don't make excuses for absolute moronic troll stupidity. (Get offa the keyboard! Bad, bad doggie!) _____________________
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Mac Soothsayer
Greymuzzle in RL also : )
Join date: 1 Nov 2005
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06-27-2009 14:09
I Notice the OP hasn't replied or given any indication that he has read any of the responses to his original post.
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Argent Stonecutter
Emergency Mustelid
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06-27-2009 14:14
/me wonders what Argent has been doing looking at people's butts!  _____________________
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Pussycat Catnap
Sex Kitten
Join date: 15 Jun 2009
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06-27-2009 14:15
curiously there are a lot of content creators among the furries, especially scripters and builders. a higher percentage than any other sub group from what I've seen. Pretty easy to explain - they have to create those complex heads and body modifications. So that community has had more need to have a greater number of people who can customize things. _____________________
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23rdDjin Negulesco
Unfinished Build Master
Join date: 30 May 2007
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06-27-2009 14:49
Well you know what they say about the size of a man's feet you mean: if a man has big feet he has big shoes... ? _____________________
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Monalisa Robbiani
Registered User
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06-27-2009 14:51
I love furry avs, except for the feet! Just can't wrap my mind around the size of those feet!  Gotta love those feet. _____________________
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Maya Remblai
The one with pink hair.
Join date: 25 Mar 2006
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06-27-2009 15:16
I've always assumed that most furries are humans dressed up in animal outfits. That's actually a common assumption, but almost always false. Furries are furries, plain and simple. That would be like thinking Bugs Bunny is a human in a rabbit suit in all those cartoons. I've seen very few actual fursuit avatars. The vast majority are actual anthropomorphic animals. Because not all furries are about I'm a wolf, I'm not human". Some are, but there's also those that derived their style from some Anime or sci-fi styles, where furry humanoids are a result of genetic engineering (Like Splinter from Ninja Turtles) or simply from another world (I believe Larry Niven had some good stories about feline humanoid aliens, the idea was later used in the Wing Commander games). Most of my personal avatars, and a few of my for-sale ones, are creatures from my own sci-fi creation. Some are natural, some are engineered, all are flesh-and-blood sapient beings, not humans in suits As for the why, a friend of mine said it best: "In a world like Second Life, why be human?" I'm human in my first life, so there's no appeal to me to be human in SL when I can be anything I want. I also find animals more interesting to look at in SL than human avatars. |
