delaron wrote:What the hell?!
This argument again?
Since back in 2014 the different race meme issue has been a raging garbage fire. First lizards, for a hot take plasma peps and now for a long haul the cat/felinids.
Seriously who the fuck really cares?! Let those that wanna be cat peps be cat peps. Honestly what affect does it have on your ability to have fun? I've never been a cat person but if a player that enjoys being a cat person adds to the overall gameplay and rp of a round then cool more power to them.
Can we focus our energy on worthwhile improvements and code changes?
This fight is honestly a waste of time and energy and isn't all that great or funny of a meme.
People's hate doesn't come from cats being a bad race inherently. It's because cat players fall into 2 categories.
1: background character no one notices or remembers so you don't think about them. They don't add or detract from the game.
2: Incredibly annoying person who does everything in their power to drag you into their fantasy/fetish(whichever it may be for the individual)
As a player race cat people only have 1 RP/social motif going on, to be irritating. Moths are unique and most moth players are pretty chill and fun to play with, Plasmemes are unique and have the mechanical disadvantages, Lizards have the racism angle which leads to a lot of IC interaction and conflict. Cats have nothing, so the only cats who get noticed are ones who go way out of their way to be in your face and annoying. To be loud and shriek baby talk or anime stutters. That's usually only going to be interactive or amusing for the cat people players themselves.
There's no interesting or different way to interact with a cat player. RP(such as it is on TG) around cat people is a 1-way experience where they talk at you like they have a mouth full of shit. Or they're the 1st type of cat player where they just act like any nondescript human. They aren't annoying at all but you don't remember them either.