He's probably over there in a suit similar to his avatar, with everything from the original source.
Edit : I should have read more of the thread, he is here!
Furry Convention is in town
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He's probably over there in a suit similar to his avatar, with everything from the original source.
Edit : I should have read more of the thread, he is here!
Acerac
Banned
That's not how people work and you know it.
Hahha, I am a smoker. I will be careful
one carelessly discarded cigarette and you have a massacre on your hands.
Pennsylvania already has plenty of, er, "unique" people. More so out in the sticks, although it would only take one confused, meth-addled hunter with a shotgun to ruin that party, hence the city.
It's no doller convention.
It's not so bad in a picture, but seeing all those dead stares live must be creepy as hell.
GameplayWhore
Member
Hm, lots of irrational discomfort and hate around here. I will help to balance it out:
At the festivals and burns I go to, there is often a theme camp of furries. Of all the camps I've seen at all these events, I'd easily put this group in the top five in terms of volunteering to help the events, providing helpful services for others, being pleasant to hang with, and generally upbeat. They're also a quite a bit more physically fit than most nerd groups* that I interact with (eg: SF congoers, non-teenaged anime fans, video gamers, rennies, alt-lifestyle folk), and they don't particularly look down on anyone.
Also, it's pretty neat when they suit up and get on one of the giant trampolines.
* I do not mean to look down on nerds and geeks and such. They're generally awesome when not hating on others via the Internet, and I respect their personal choices. I'm just using this as a relative positive trait that many furries I've met happen to sport, one in particular that seems to be otherwise shared only by LARPers.
edit: In case anybody was wondering, the other four would probably be "Breakfast Club Detention Camp", "Camp Justice League", "Camp Fogie" and maaaaaaybe "Whiskey & Whores"
At the festivals and burns I go to, there is often a theme camp of furries. Of all the camps I've seen at all these events, I'd easily put this group in the top five in terms of volunteering to help the events, providing helpful services for others, being pleasant to hang with, and generally upbeat. They're also a quite a bit more physically fit than most nerd groups* that I interact with (eg: SF congoers, non-teenaged anime fans, video gamers, rennies, alt-lifestyle folk), and they don't particularly look down on anyone.
Also, it's pretty neat when they suit up and get on one of the giant trampolines.
* I do not mean to look down on nerds and geeks and such. They're generally awesome when not hating on others via the Internet, and I respect their personal choices. I'm just using this as a relative positive trait that many furries I've met happen to sport, one in particular that seems to be otherwise shared only by LARPers.
edit: In case anybody was wondering, the other four would probably be "Breakfast Club Detention Camp", "Camp Justice League", "Camp Fogie" and maaaaaaybe "Whiskey & Whores"
Hm, lots of irrational discomfort and hate around here. I will help to balance it out:
At the festivals and burns I go to, there is often a theme camp of furries. Of all the camps I've seen at all these events, I'd easily put this group in the top five in terms of volunteering to help the events, providing helpful services for others, being pleasant to hang with, and generally upbeat. They're also a quite a bit more physically fit than most nerd groups* that I interact with (eg: SF congoers, non-teenaged anime fans, video gamers, rennies, alt-lifestyle folk), and they don't particularly look down on anyone.
Also, it's pretty neat when they suit up and get on one of the giant trampolines.
Thats probably out of shame and guilt.
Acerac
Banned
Shame and guilt of what exactly?
Not having the decency to dress up as a Klingon or dark elf wizard instead.
Darth Pinche
Member
Klingon cosplay is a gateway drug
I don't know, but it sounds like it. No one is that altruistic.
Everybody knows it goes
Space Cadet > Klingon > Cloud Strife > Furry > Pony > Avatar
Acerac
Banned
I'd have to imagine dressing up as a klingon would be far more awkward than dressing up in a fur suit. All that makeup... yech.
Granted, if you just went cheap with it and used a mask it wouldn't be so bad. Seems silly to do that though, go big or go home.
Hell yeah, if they are upbeat and helpful they must be hiding something.
I'd theorize that all furries are secretly communists and are trying to conquer the planet.
Valve needs to get on this.
I went to one of these a few years ago. A friend told my girlfriend and I that she heard there was a small fantasy and anime convention in town, and we had nothing better to do, so went downtown and checked it out (just a convention area inside a hotel). Anyway, she was wrong at it was a furry convention.
Fascinating. They had their anthro art on display, some were offering to draw your own furry version for 20$ or something. Not everyone was in costume, but there were quite a few dogs and cat people around. It was a really interesting, if weird experience, but I don't think there was anything wrong with it. I've been to sex product shows and would consider those slightly more unsettling.
Fascinating. They had their anthro art on display, some were offering to draw your own furry version for 20$ or something. Not everyone was in costume, but there were quite a few dogs and cat people around. It was a really interesting, if weird experience, but I don't think there was anything wrong with it. I've been to sex product shows and would consider those slightly more unsettling.
GameplayWhore
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We obviously go to different types of event. Things I go to generally involve the idea of people being altruistic to others as a means of achieving gestalt levels of fun. I guess you could say that it's not purely altruism, as the final goal is to obtain enjoyment from the event. Perhaps "enlightened self-interest" is a term that applies.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Speaking of anime conventions I seem to notice fursuits there as well.
That's a really great experience!
Hm, lots of irrational discomfort and hate around here. I will help to balance it out:
At the festivals and burns I go to, there is often a theme camp of furries. Of all the camps I've seen at all these events, I'd easily put this group in the top five in terms of volunteering to help the events, providing helpful services for others, being pleasant to hang with, and generally upbeat. They're also a quite a bit more physically fit than most nerd groups* that I interact with (eg: SF congoers, non-teenaged anime fans, video gamers, rennies, alt-lifestyle folk), and they don't particularly look down on anyone.
Also, it's pretty neat when they suit up and get on one of the giant trampolines.
* I do not mean to look down on nerds and geeks and such. They're generally awesome when not hating on others via the Internet, and I respect their personal choices. I'm just using this as a relative positive trait that many furries I've met happen to sport, one in particular that seems to be otherwise shared only by LARPers.
edit: In case anybody was wondering, the other four would probably be "Breakfast Club Detention Camp", "Camp Justice League", "Camp Fogie" and maaaaaaybe "Whiskey & Whores"
That's a really great experience!
Acerac
Banned
Do you think it's that crazy that somebody might volunteer for an event that they enjoy participating in and enjoy doing it? Your first reaction is to claim they have fun helping out because they are somehow ashamed and feel guilty?
There's two different ways I approach those who are stereotyping huge groups of people. If they seem like they're willing to put any thought in to the matter, I'm more than happy to discuss the subject at length. If they seem like they're just drive by posting, I like pointing out how ridiculous their comments are with a similarly absurd statement. Seems I was mistaken about which group you belong to... though I'm sure that you could understand where the confusion came in. Apologies for the mistake.
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Oh ok you were a drive by poster and only said anything because I called you out.
What class would get the hat? It's between soldier, heavy, and demo.
I don't think you do, man.
blame space
Banned
The Fursuit of Happiness
Femmeworth
Banned
That shit is just fucking creepy.It's no doller convention.
Especially when you wake up and they are all around your bed.
bengraven
Member
They're mature adults who choose to wear cartoon cat and wolf suits and have sex with pretend dragons.
I don't see anything contradicting here, so yeah, let them have at it.
Acerac
Banned
That's pretty much the point of it, yes.
Femmeworth
Banned
I can only imagine the horrors that you have witnessed.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not. It's been a long day.
CHEEZMO
Obsidian fan
Some of us not so secretly :x
Live Free or Die
Banned
You know what to do.
HAHA. thats good.
Acerac
Banned
Not in the least. The most compelling argument I've heard for fursuits are that they allow one to be over the top and ridiculous in public, and since it's such a rare sight for most people many will see it as something fun and unique to enjoy as entertainment. It's like a random sports mascot walking around at the mall.
Granted, I can understand why there are many who would think it's weird... but like I said earlier, that's kind of the point.
It's almost as bad as exposed cleavage on a woman.
"God's Beard!"
Member
If I set up a boxing ring for furries, is that animal abuse?
Dark Octave
Banned
Most of them are reasonably sized and appear to fit within the same universe and then you have this ass hole with the super cartoony, oversized Scooby Doo head near the bottom right.
one carelessly discarded cigarette and you have a massacre on your hands.
Femmeworth
Banned
Despite how I come off, I'm not that conservative.
Happens every damn time I leave my front door unlocked.
His fursuit's head is slightly larger!
The horror! My suspension of disbelief is ruined!
shots fired
Femmeworth
Banned
If you want to take a shot at me too, now's your chance.
It's just that you spend so much time expressing disapproval on stuff. Beyond Phoenix Wright, what do you like? I don't even know!
Dark Octave
Banned
Nah man that's straight up Hanna Barbarra. Look at the eyes and nose compared to the others. That's no "slight".
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