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I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2023 10:22 pm
by ekaterina

Bottom post of the previous page:

I just read one of the dumbest rulings ever made on tgstation. viewtopic.php?p=695750#p695750.

What the fuck does "can't use it to fight back" even mean? Expecting a player to just sit there and let himself be beaten is absolutely immersion-breaking. It's beyond stupid.

Even if that wording doesn't actually mean that and I just misinterpreted it, this is still an awful ruling. Something as trivial and basic as calling a ligger that resulting in something as major as a player being "valid" is absurd!

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:12 pm
by kinnebian
Chadley wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:06 pm
kieth4 wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:03 pm I have clapped women with cat ears but I would not clap a cat fr kinda a flarped up connection
What the fuck, Beedell.
i mean, he was an admin on skyrat

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:40 pm
by dendydoom
ekaterina wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 7:13 pm
dendydoom wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 6:59 pm i would say i've dealt with more rule 8 incidents ahelped by felinid players who have been made uncomfortable by others making a pass at them.
That backs one of my points. Felinid players aren't necessarily the problem, but the people who want to keep them around for their own sexual gratification are.
then it seems much more productive and fair to me to punish the people that cause the issue, which we already do. it seems totally unfair to deprive innocent players of something they enjoy for something they're not responsible for.

you are fully entitled to have a personal distaste for felinids because they're cringy anime bullshit that you think is stupid. i'm sure many people would agree with you. but it seems a bit silly to get bent out of shape trying to reinforce that distaste by calling its proponents literal animal fuckers. the sentiment behind this approach seems to ironically be the very thing you're against when it comes to defending your epic lizard word.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:42 pm
by conrad
SEVEN PAGES YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Truly a thread of all time.
kieth4 wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:03 pm I have clapped women with cat ears but I would not clap a cat fr kinda a flarped up connection
This election time is giving up so much good premium forum sig stuff I'm running out of room.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:06 pm
by datorangebottle
thank god kieth can't connect to the servers right now.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:10 pm
by kinnebian
datorangebottle wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:06 pm thank god kieth can't connect to the servers right now.
he can

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:21 pm
by datorangebottle
kinnebian wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:10 pm
datorangebottle wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 9:06 pm thank god kieth can't connect to the servers right now.
he can
ah fuck I can't believe spookuni did that, terry is doomed.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2023 10:41 pm
by MooCow12
Can I start calling timberpoes timbertoes

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:03 am
by ekaterina
dendydoom wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:40 pm then it seems much more productive and fair to me to punish the people that cause the issue (...) it seems totally unfair to deprive innocent players of something they enjoy for something they're not responsible for.
That is a good and reasonable point. One that might even be able to persuade me if combined with something nobody's been able and willing to provide me with thus far: a reason why anyone would enjoy playing as a felinid that is not sexual nor derived from a sexual reason.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:12 am
by Riggle
ekaterina wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:03 am
dendydoom wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:40 pm then it seems much more productive and fair to me to punish the people that cause the issue (...) it seems totally unfair to deprive innocent players of something they enjoy for something they're not responsible for.
That is a good and reasonable point. One that might even be able to persuade me if combined with something nobody's been able and willing to provide me with thus far: a reason why anyone would enjoy playing as a felinid that is not sexual nor derived from a sexual reason.
I dunno, they're cute? Why do you wear the clothes you wear? Why do you have the haircut that you do?

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:22 am
by RedBaronFlyer
Riggle wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:12 am
ekaterina wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:03 am
dendydoom wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:40 pm then it seems much more productive and fair to me to punish the people that cause the issue (...) it seems totally unfair to deprive innocent players of something they enjoy for something they're not responsible for.
That is a good and reasonable point. One that might even be able to persuade me if combined with something nobody's been able and willing to provide me with thus far: a reason why anyone would enjoy playing as a felinid that is not sexual nor derived from a sexual reason.
I dunno, they're cute? Why do you wear the clothes you wear? Why do you have the haircut that you do?
The stat buffs:

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Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:38 am
by dendydoom
ekaterina wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:03 am
dendydoom wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:40 pm then it seems much more productive and fair to me to punish the people that cause the issue (...) it seems totally unfair to deprive innocent players of something they enjoy for something they're not responsible for.
That is a good and reasonable point. One that might even be able to persuade me if combined with something nobody's been able and willing to provide me with thus far: a reason why anyone would enjoy playing as a felinid that is not sexual nor derived from a sexual reason.
my only static since i started playing is a pink haired felinid. i'm asexual, so it is absolutely not to elicit a sexual response, because i don't feel that. i do it because i like it. it's cute. there are tropes attached to the species that i enjoy using and undermining in my rp. i like the idea that at first glance my character is the most stereotypical anime bullshit imaginable but then you meet them and they're a professional working woman in their 30s who has a degree and works on a research class space station. she just so happens to eat fish and drink milk and take naps under the radiator where it's warm and get distracted by laser pointers all while taking her job and her career seriously.

it's just a nice way to play a character that i enjoy putting time into. it is a fantastical setting, so it's enjoyable to lean into the fantastical elements and play with them. there is no sinister ulterior motive, and having played on the catgirl hugbox roleplay server for a long time, it's pretty apparent that the case is similar for almost everyone there too. if people really wanted to get horned up over 4 pixels worth of cat ears, then there is no shortage of servers where that's perfectly fine and encouraged. but they're not on those servers, they're playing here where anything more than handholding and blowing someone a kiss gets the admin erp police deployed on you before you can finish saying "dorm 4."

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:42 am
by spookuni
ekaterina wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:03 am
dendydoom wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:40 pm then it seems much more productive and fair to me to punish the people that cause the issue (...) it seems totally unfair to deprive innocent players of something they enjoy for something they're not responsible for.
That is a good and reasonable point. One that might even be able to persuade me if combined with something nobody's been able and willing to provide me with thus far: a reason why anyone would enjoy playing as a felinid that is not sexual nor derived from a sexual reason.
Funnily enough I had a conversation with a maintainer about this in admin channels recently, so I'm just going to quote myself from there

"Sometimes I want the AI to kill me for fun
but I don't want to play a lizard
I'm not in the mood to powergame so no ethereal
plasmamen suck in general
and moths are right out.
and that's what we have felinids for."

Having a "human except not really" species that is specifically exempt from the protections of Asimov while also not really being alien in the way the other (actually alien lul) species is good in my eyes, it makes it much easier to take bog-standard character designs which fit best on boring humans and spice up playing them a little by removing an intentionally powerful gameplay/interaction element locked to humans.

Every Felinid static I have is a felinid explicitly to make it easier to kill them, and while they would otherwise be mostly identical if they did not have cat ears, the fact that robots would not try to kill them quite so often would make me sad.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:05 am
by ekaterina
Riggle wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:12 am Why do you wear the clothes you wear? Why do you have the haircut that you do?
I wear a red jumpsuit so that I'm easily identified as a member of security, duh. As to my hair, it's what I've had for a long time and I see no reason to change it.
Riggle wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:12 am I dunno, they're cute?
dendydoom wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:38 am i do it because i like it. it's cute.
It baffles me that someone can look at the mutant abomination that is a felinid and think it "cute", but I can accept that you somehow do.
spookuni wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:42 am Having a "human except not really" species that is specifically exempt from the protections of Asimov while also not really being alien in the way the other species [are] is good in my eyes, it makes it much easier to take bog-standard character designs which fit best on boring humans and spice up playing them a little by removing an intentionally powerful gameplay/interaction element locked to humans.
This is actually a surprisingly good answer, much better than what I had expected I might get.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:17 am
by Riggle
ekaterina wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:05 am I wear a red jumpsuit so that I'm easily identified as a member of security, duh. As to my hair, it's what I've had for a long time and I see no reason to change it.
See? Not all choices need to be for a specific reason, some can be arbitrary. And yes, people find different things cute. It's a big world.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:56 am
by TheLoLSwat
felinids are for sure top 1 nonhuman species just because they are 99% of the time easy on the eyes unless they go out of their way to look obnoxious. seeing moths and lizards walk by is a huge mood debuff

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:45 am
by CMDR_Gungnir
ekaterina wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:03 am
dendydoom wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:40 pm then it seems much more productive and fair to me to punish the people that cause the issue (...) it seems totally unfair to deprive innocent players of something they enjoy for something they're not responsible for.
That is a good and reasonable point. One that might even be able to persuade me if combined with something nobody's been able and willing to provide me with thus far: a reason why anyone would enjoy playing as a felinid that is not sexual nor derived from a sexual reason.
Just because something is cute, doesn't mean I inherently want to fuck it.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:21 am
by RedBaronFlyer
CMDR_Gungnir wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:45 am
ekaterina wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:03 am
dendydoom wrote: Wed Aug 16, 2023 8:40 pm then it seems much more productive and fair to me to punish the people that cause the issue (...) it seems totally unfair to deprive innocent players of something they enjoy for something they're not responsible for.
That is a good and reasonable point. One that might even be able to persuade me if combined with something nobody's been able and willing to provide me with thus far: a reason why anyone would enjoy playing as a felinid that is not sexual nor derived from a sexual reason.
Just because something is cute, doesn't mean I inherently want to fuck it.
Some people really operate off the "you think 'x' is cute you must want to fuck it" mindset

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Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:11 am
by Jacquerel
“someone can look cute wearing cat ears” is such an overwhelmingly mainstream opinion that a literal human with funny ears a “mutant abomination” probably makes you the weird one

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:56 am
by dirk_mcblade
Jacquerel wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:11 am “someone can look cute wearing cat ears” is such an overwhelmingly mainstream opinion that a literal human with funny ears a “mutant abomination” probably makes you the weird one
I'm pretty sure felinid fandom would fail the "would highschool jocks bully me over it" test so hard that it's shocking to me that somebody would claim it's an overwhelmingly mainstream fandom. Maybe make some friends outside of the anime club.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:18 am
by Jacquerel
anime is also mainstream now, are you gonna pretend that video games are a weird niche hobby next
you’re behind the times

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:25 am
by Imitates-The-Lizards
dirk_mcblade wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:56 am
Jacquerel wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:11 am “someone can look cute wearing cat ears” is such an overwhelmingly mainstream opinion that a literal human with funny ears a “mutant abomination” probably makes you the weird one
I'm pretty sure felinid fandom would fail the "would highschool jocks bully me over it" test so hard that it's shocking to me that somebody would claim it's an overwhelmingly mainstream fandom. Maybe make some friends outside of the anime club.
Is.... is this your measuring stick? Whether or not an imaginary jock from a late 80s/early 90s comedy flick surrounding US high schoolers would bully someone over a hobby? :honkman:

Is this the standard we go by whether something is good?

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:33 am
by saprasam
Imitates-The-Lizards wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:25 am
dirk_mcblade wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:56 am
Jacquerel wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:11 am “someone can look cute wearing cat ears” is such an overwhelmingly mainstream opinion that a literal human with funny ears a “mutant abomination” probably makes you the weird one
I'm pretty sure felinid fandom would fail the "would highschool jocks bully me over it" test so hard that it's shocking to me that somebody would claim it's an overwhelmingly mainstream fandom. Maybe make some friends outside of the anime club.
Is.... is this your measuring stick? Whether or not an imaginary jock from a late 80s/early 90s comedy flick surrounding US high schoolers would bully someone over a hobby? :honkman:

Is this the standard we go by whether something is good?
you would get rammed into a school locker if you were very open about humans with cat ears that go nya and that’s just true

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:37 am
by Imitates-The-Lizards
saprasam wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:33 am
Imitates-The-Lizards wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:25 am
dirk_mcblade wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:56 am
Jacquerel wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:11 am “someone can look cute wearing cat ears” is such an overwhelmingly mainstream opinion that a literal human with funny ears a “mutant abomination” probably makes you the weird one
I'm pretty sure felinid fandom would fail the "would highschool jocks bully me over it" test so hard that it's shocking to me that somebody would claim it's an overwhelmingly mainstream fandom. Maybe make some friends outside of the anime club.
Is.... is this your measuring stick? Whether or not an imaginary jock from a late 80s/early 90s comedy flick surrounding US high schoolers would bully someone over a hobby? :honkman:

Is this the standard we go by whether something is good?
you would get rammed into a school locker if you were very open about humans with cat ears that go nya and that’s just true
What kind of literal psychopaths did you go to school with?

I went to three different high schools across three different states and never saw this kind of assault.

I feel bad for you now.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:24 pm
by Fren256
Cringe culture ruined an entire generation.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:54 pm
by Misdoubtful
Fren256 wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:24 pm Cringe culture ruined an entire generation.
Cringe culture is in and of itself, kind of the exact thing it tries to hone in on. It's hard to sit around calling people enjoying their life's losers without looking like the biggest loser that's ever existed.

Anyone that engages with it instantly becomes someone I don't want to interact with.

People really have existed out here on the planet Earth trying to inject themselves into everyone's lives so they can force their resentful contempt driven morals and values onto others like lmao.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:22 pm
by conrad
Misdoubtful wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:54 pm
Fren256 wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:24 pm Cringe culture ruined an entire generation.
Cringe culture is in and of itself, kind of the exact thing it tries to hone in on. It's hard to sit around calling people enjoying their life's losers without looking like the biggest loser that's ever existed.

Anyone that engages with it instantly becomes someone I don't want to interact with.

People really have existed out here on the planet Earth trying to inject themselves into everyone's lives so they can force their resentful contempt driven morals and values onto others like lmao.
There just so much edginess and it makes ol'Conrad sad. The whole "cringe culture" extends to compliments and shit. Like if I compliment someone they're so alienated from being treated like a human being since that'd be "cringe" that they'll call me "cringe".

The only winning move is to belittle someone else and out insult them when *surprised_pikachu.jpeg* it turns out that belittling is actually not a nice thing to do.

We should just be nice to each other and tell each other to hydrate fr

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:27 pm
by Misdoubtful
conrad wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:22 pm
Misdoubtful wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:54 pm
Fren256 wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:24 pm Cringe culture ruined an entire generation.
Cringe culture is in and of itself, kind of the exact thing it tries to hone in on. It's hard to sit around calling people enjoying their life's losers without looking like the biggest loser that's ever existed.

Anyone that engages with it instantly becomes someone I don't want to interact with.

People really have existed out here on the planet Earth trying to inject themselves into everyone's lives so they can force their resentful contempt driven morals and values onto others like lmao.
There just so much edginess and it makes ol'Conrad sad. The whole "cringe culture" extends to compliments and shit. Like if I compliment someone they're so alienated from being treated like a human being since that'd be "cringe" that they'll call me "cringe".

The only winning move is to belittle someone else and out insult them when *surprised_pikachu.jpeg* it turns out that belittling is actually not a nice thing to do.

We should just be nice to each other and tell each other to hydrate fr
Instead generations may continue on an increasing trend of feeling like they constantly being recorded or that they could be at any moment and and have to watch everything that they say or do.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:29 pm
by Fren256
Misdoubtful wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:54 pm
Fren256 wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 12:24 pm Cringe culture ruined an entire generation.
Cringe culture is in and of itself, kind of the exact thing it tries to hone in on. It's hard to sit around calling people enjoying their life's losers without looking like the biggest loser that's ever existed.

Anyone that engages with it instantly becomes someone I don't want to interact with.

People really have existed out here on the planet Earth trying to inject themselves into everyone's lives so they can force their resentful contempt driven morals and values onto others like lmao.
It's a great thing it has died down over the years. I remember mid 2010s there were a lot of "cringe compilation" videos on Youtube (furries were the main target most of the time), but now they aren't as prevalent anymore, or at least don't get the hundreds of thousands of views they used to get. I guess the folks that used to watch them grew up and thought to themselves "Yeah making fun of other people's niche hobbies is just awful, we should stop doing that".

Of course there are still remnants of this culture, this thread being a good example. What's ironic in this case is that they'd get the same treatment they preach for playing a sci fi roleplaying videogame.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:43 pm
by dirk_mcblade
Jacquerel wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:18 am anime is also mainstream now, are you gonna pretend that video games are a weird niche hobby next
you’re behind the times
Anime is mainstream, video games are mainstream.
SS13 conversely is a weird niche game. Pretending you're a character wearing cat ears and going nyaa in SS13 is a weird niche thing. People who know about that and don't tease you about it are either similarly weird, being polite, or they simply accept you in the spirit of Mr. Rogers saying he likes you just the way you are.
I'm not saying it's good or bad but your claim it's normal is laughable. It's not. It's a game played by like 5,000 people and wouldn't even have the server capacity to be played by just about any multiple of that amount. That's one of the reasons I like the game and I won't accept your claim that it's normal.
Actually I do believe felinids in general are bad but it has nothing to do with how normal it is.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:46 pm
by Jacquerel
I never said anything about ss13 being normal, we were talking about the concept of people with cat ears vis a vis whether people generally tend to think that they’re horrid detestable freaks or pretty cute
did you believe they were tg’s original creation?

the concept of a person with a cat’s ears is one that most people will find familiar and generally acceptable, an attitude of immediate revulsion to the concept would be abnormal

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:50 pm
by dirk_mcblade
Jacquerel wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:46 pm I never said anything about ss13 being normal, we were talking about the concept of people with cat ears vis a vis whether people generally tend to think that they’re horrid detestable freaks or pretty cute
did you believe they were tg’s original creation?

the concept of a person with a cat’s ears is one that most people will find familiar and generally acceptable, an attitude of immediate revulsion to the concept would be abnormal
Alright go walk around in public wearing clip on cat ears then and tell me what kind of looks you get. I anticipate mixed expressions.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:59 pm
by Fren256
dirk_mcblade wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:50 pm
Jacquerel wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:46 pm I never said anything about ss13 being normal, we were talking about the concept of people with cat ears vis a vis whether people generally tend to think that they’re horrid detestable freaks or pretty cute
did you believe they were tg’s original creation?

the concept of a person with a cat’s ears is one that most people will find familiar and generally acceptable, an attitude of immediate revulsion to the concept would be abnormal
Alright go walk around in public wearing clip on cat ears then and tell me what kind of looks you get. I anticipate mixed expressions.
In the downtown area of Mexico City sometimes you'll see people in weeb cosplays and no one bats an eye. Wanna know why? Because normal people don't judge others for what they wear.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:00 pm
by Jacquerel
people literally would not look twice if i walked around birmingham with cat ears, you are out of touch
there’s a guy around here who busks to get money for a wedding ring and anonymises himself by wearing one of those full rubber horse heads every week
nobody would give a single shit, most people would not even notice

at most negative they would think “huh weird” and being disgusted would be extremely abnormal

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:02 pm
by dirk_mcblade
Well I don't recall saying they'd be disgusted.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:10 pm
by Fren256
dirk_mcblade wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:02 pm Well I don't recall saying they'd be disgusted.
Sure because that totally isn't what you've been trying to imply:
dirk_mcblade wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:56 am I'm pretty sure felinid fandom would fail the "would highschool jocks bully me over it" test so hard that it's shocking to me that somebody would claim it's an overwhelmingly mainstream fandom. Maybe make some friends outside of the anime club.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:10 pm
by dirk_mcblade
Fren256 wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:59 pm
dirk_mcblade wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:50 pm
Jacquerel wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:46 pm I never said anything about ss13 being normal, we were talking about the concept of people with cat ears vis a vis whether people generally tend to think that they’re horrid detestable freaks or pretty cute
did you believe they were tg’s original creation?

the concept of a person with a cat’s ears is one that most people will find familiar and generally acceptable, an attitude of immediate revulsion to the concept would be abnormal
Alright go walk around in public wearing clip on cat ears then and tell me what kind of looks you get. I anticipate mixed expressions.
In the downtown area of Mexico City sometimes you'll see people in weeb cosplays and no one bats an eye. Wanna know why? Because normal people don't judge others for what they wear.
"Normal" people judge others based on what they wear all the time, that's a ridiculous claim that they don't. Why do you think the fashion industry exists? We don't walk around wearing burlap sacks for outfits.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:13 pm
by dirk_mcblade
Fren256 wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:10 pm
dirk_mcblade wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:02 pm Well I don't recall saying they'd be disgusted.
Sure because that totally isn't what you've been trying to imply:
dirk_mcblade wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:56 am I'm pretty sure felinid fandom would fail the "would highschool jocks bully me over it" test so hard that it's shocking to me that somebody would claim it's an overwhelmingly mainstream fandom. Maybe make some friends outside of the anime club.
Yeah adults out in the world are more polite than highschool bullies and probably won't express disgust if they're not into something. Doesn't mean that they think dressing up like an anime cat is normal.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:24 pm
by Jacquerel
Jacquerel wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:11 am “someone can look cute wearing cat ears” is such an overwhelmingly mainstream opinion that a literal human with funny ears a “mutant abomination” probably makes you the weird one
this is the post you disagreed with
if you no longer think that “damn that’s disgusting” would be the reaction to seeing a person with cat ears then we don’t disagree

normal adults do not have strong opinions about the hats of strangers

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:26 pm
by dirk_mcblade
Dammit i need someone to disagree with

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:33 pm
by Fren256
dirk_mcblade wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:10 pm "Normal" people judge others based on what they wear all the time, that's a ridiculous claim that they don't. Why do you think the fashion industry exists? We don't walk around wearing burlap sacks for outfits.
That's cool and all but we're talking about a subculture, not an entire mainstream industry. Obviously people have different tastes and may or may not like what you wear, but if a sane person doesn't like what someone wears they won't go around saying: "Man, I fucking hate those weebs wearing their shitty costumes. They shouldn't be allowed to wear those eye sores in public."
dirk_mcblade wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:56 am Yeah adults out in the world are more polite than highschool bullies and probably won't express disgust if they're not into something. Doesn't mean that they think dressing up like an anime cat is normal.
Of course wearing a catgirl costume isn't normal, because it's not a common thing to do. However, just because it's unusual to do so doesn't mean it's inherently a bad thing.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:56 pm
by TheLoLSwat
dirk_mcblade wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:56 am
Jacquerel wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 8:11 am “someone can look cute wearing cat ears” is such an overwhelmingly mainstream opinion that a literal human with funny ears a “mutant abomination” probably makes you the weird one
I'm pretty sure felinid fandom would fail the "would highschool jocks bully me over it" test so hard that it's shocking to me that somebody would claim it's an overwhelmingly mainstream fandom. Maybe make some friends outside of the anime club.
being obnoxious about things is the easiest way to get picked on for it and it isnt specific to "felinid fandom" or whatever. Nobody will actively seek you out for something that small and if they do its not because they are athletes lol but that might just be me graduating in 2021 and not having to experience high school in the early 00s or 10s.

Edit: How the hell would highschool jocks even be able to bully you??? Just go to the Athletic Director the athletes are supposed to represent the school and

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 3:01 pm
by ekaterina
CMDR_Gungnir wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:45 am Just because something is cute, doesn't mean I inherently want to fuck it.
RedBaronFlyer wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 7:21 am Some people really operate off the "you think 'x' is cute you must want to fuck it" mindset
Did you guys just skip the entire thread page or something? Nobody made that argument. I didn't even imagine someone could think that mutant genetrash is "cute" until Riggle and dendydoom said so.
Imitates-The-Lizards wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 9:37 am I went to three different high schools across three different states and never saw this kind of assault.
I always found it ridiculous how various forms of media tried to trivialise literal assault and theft taking place in schools.
Fren256 wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:59 pm normal people don't judge others for what they wear.
Did I really just read something so absolutely ridiculous and so out of touch? What you wear is one of the primary sources of judgement. What people may not do anymore is verbalise that judgement, especially in your presence, but they're certainly judging you for what you wear, consciously or otherwise, in their own heads.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 3:14 pm
by dendydoom
for the record the only people i've seen do the nya thing are doing it to mess with people who have a kneejerk hatred of seeing a felinid. it is funny to mess with people who are that sensitive over it. or to undermine people's expectations when they have such a poor initial opinion of what you're going to be like.

if someone does it unironically then i will be there right with you with my silly little cat ears pushing them into a locker just before math class.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:42 pm
by iwishforducks
i imagine this entire discussion was started because of my thread but you will have to pay me a million and three dollars to read opinions about Cat Boys and Girls. they just don’t give me the same chuckle as stupid fucking bug eyed giant moths walking around or lizards who have 2 brain cells whose name is like “Skibids-The-Toilet”, or damn even walking lightbulbs or bone men with a purple fungi infection who have a habit of bursting into flames - the joke of felinids is… cat? really? that’s it?

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:52 pm
by TheRex9001
iwishforducks wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:42 pm i imagine this entire discussion was started because of my thread but you will have to pay me a million and three dollars to read opinions about Cat Boys and Girls. they just don’t give me the same chuckle as stupid fucking bug eyed giant moths walking around or lizards who have 2 brain cells whose name is like “Skibids-The-Toilet”, or damn even walking lightbulbs or bone men with a purple fungi infection who have a habit of bursting into flames - the joke of felinids is… cat? really? that’s it?
Sinful started it all, no one has even mentioned your thread.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2023 6:03 pm
by iwishforducks
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Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 4:37 am
by CMDR_Gungnir
iwishforducks wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:42 pm the joke of felinids is… cat? really? that’s it?
The joke of moths is... moth? really? that's it?

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 5:04 am
by RedBaronFlyer
CMDR_Gungnir wrote: Fri Aug 18, 2023 4:37 am
iwishforducks wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 5:42 pm the joke of felinids is… cat? really? that’s it?
The joke of moths is... moth? really? that's it?
The joke of humans is... somewhat less hairy apes? really? that's it?

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 5:41 am
by ekaterina
RedBaronFlyer wrote: Fri Aug 18, 2023 5:04 am The joke of humans is... somewhat less hairy apes? really? that's it?
This gave me an idea for a species that would be a thousand times more interesting than felinids. Diogenes' featherless bipeds.

Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 5:59 am
by conrad
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Re: I regret voting for Timberpoes

Posted: Fri Aug 18, 2023 7:13 am
by Boot
Jacquerel wrote: Thu Aug 17, 2023 2:00 pm people literally would not look twice if i walked around birmingham with cat ears, you are out of touch
there’s a guy around here who busks to get money for a wedding ring and anonymises himself by wearing one of those full rubber horse heads every week
nobody would give a single shit, most people would not even notice

at most negative they would think “huh weird” and being disgusted would be extremely abnormal
>Entertainer wears something eye-catching
Wow you're right that is 100% the same as going grocery shopping in a gimp suit.