Tattorack

joined 11 months ago
[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

If this comment ends up near the top, the reply section will be... Interesting. It'll no doubt start to attract furries who themselves have something to say about it, and they'll generally fall into 4 categories:

  1. Those who aren't the unstable kind, generally just think furry characters are cool, and agree with what I wrote.

  2. Those who fit my description of the fandom, and are self reflective enough to agree, but own it too.

  3. Those who fit my description of the fandom, and feel personally attacked. They'll likely get very emotional and lash out.

  4. Those who disagree because they lack any sort of outside perspective, either because they're too in the middle of everything or are part of a very niche group in the fandom.

I've shared my take before and these are generally the responses.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 20 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (7 children)

As someone who hangs out with a lot of furries, and also only ever gets furries as art customers:

Yes, I understand the discomfort around furries. I can blame people for going out of their way to troll furries, but I can't blame people to want nothing to do with furries.

The furry fandom is by and large filled with people who have massive insecurities. This doesn't count for everyone, but you're more likely to find an emotionally unstable furry than not. It's the ultimate escapism; where people with personal issues create a character with none of those personal issues, and pretend to be said character in an environment where consequences don't exist. It is not for nothing there is such a massive amount (compared to Earth's overall average) of gay, bi, and trans people in the fandom.

Yes, it's also a sex thing. I've seen someone in the comments say "sex positive", but I wouldn't call it that. The furry fandom is a place where a gay or a bisexual person can express their sexuality without persecution, like often happens in places like the United States or Poland, but... It's not really sex positivity, rather it's debauchery. So much debauchery. Which harkens back to escaping into the ideal world without consequences; you can have copious amount of sex and/or sexualise as much as you want without any of the usual responsibilities or consequences that comes with sex.

It is fun to occasionally partake in such debauchery. I'm no prude and I'm not afraid to admit I'm also a bit of a horny guy. So partaking in the occasional kinky, sexy fiction can be fun. Except for a furry it isn't really fiction, which is where a lot of weirdness and unease comes from. And for those who can afford going to conventions or meetups regularly, this level of debauchery occasionally happens in real life... With real life consequences.

A furry lives in a fictional comfort zone where they can pretend to be a character in a world without consequences. But even in exclusively online communities real life tends to catch up with people, so members inside of communities will get pushed outside of this comfort bubble and be reminded about reality. This is the cause for a lot of infamous furry drama.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

Would "my phone" or "my computer" be too cheap as answers?

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Penetration tester, huh? Sounds like a fun and reproductive job.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Imagine being told by an American that my world view is tiny.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

I think the only game you mentioned on that list which is actually open world might be Final Fantasy. None of the other games are open world.

Open world games are The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, Conan Exiles, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Forza Horizon, Shadow of the Colossus, Eden Ring, Insomniac's Spiderman.

Some of these have unique traversal mechanics, some of these use only generic kinds, such as walking.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Well, the Iranian youth would certainly love it if the current leadership were replaced with something a lot less hateful and a lot more secular.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yes. Yes you are the reason why people are anti-american. Kinda difficult not to be when the only place outside the "anti-american bubble" is far up some American ass.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Could you, like, not advocate crippling a country's economy of who's civilians are already struggling?

You want Iran to no longer be a threat? Than help Iran change. Especially the younger generations are quite sick and tired of living in an oppressive, religious regime and would like to very much see it gone. But they don't have the resources to actually do anything beyond the occasional riot.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Not necessarily. Elves and Humans would be classified as being part of the same genus of species, in this case homo, and members of the same genus can sometimes breed together under abnormal circumstances.

This is how you get ligers, a cross between a lion and a tiger. Both different species, but part of the panthera genus. Or mules, also a cross between two species, but part of the equus genus.

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

I mean... Mushrooms are the sex organs...

[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well, of course not, because Wine Is Not an Emulator. Considering it's called XWine1, would there be a Linux version too?

 

First a definition for this question, because there are many kinds of sci-fi out there and they sometimes liberally use cool sounding words without explaining them:

A disruptor is a kind of weapon that weakens, or "disrupts", either material bonds (breaking a material into molecules), molecular bonds (breaking a molecule into atoms), or atomic bonds (breaking an atomic nucleus into protons, netrons, and free electrons. Almost like instantly turning into plasma).

Temperature can do these things, but the idea behind a disruptor, specifically, is that it happens through some kind of catalyst, rather than brute-forcing with insane amounts of heat.

Would such a weapon physically be possible (even if we don't know how to make them just yet)?

How would a target realistically behave when hit by a disruptor?

 

So, I have a Steelseries M800 keyboard and a Corsair mouse. Unfortunately neither of them are supported by Open RGB, and so I'm stuck with my RGB making rainbows.

Well, sort of. My keyboard still has the configuration it had from when I still used Windows over 2 years ago. But my mouse does not.

I use an XP Pen tablet for making art, and the official driver from XP Pen doesn't come with any options to adjust and calibrate the screen's colours, but I managed to figure out how to access these hardware settings through command line. Now this has me wondering if it's possible to do the same for my keyboard and mouse.

 

I have a 2nd generation XP Pen Artist 13. It's a great tablet and I've managed to make it work with my Steam Deck too.

But...

It's basically an external monitor with pressure sensitive surface, so still less portable than an actual stand alone table. So I'm wondering if there is a tablet with a pressure sensitive screen and battery free pen that either comes with Linux or can install Linux on.

The programs I use for making art are Krita, Gimp, and Blender 3D.

 

There are many other bee species that can sting Humans and survive, but the European honeybee has a barbed stinger, so it cannot remove the stinger once it's stung. In attempting to remove the stinger the bee will rupture its lower abdomen and then die.

Why? What is the evolutionary advantage to that?

 

I apologize if this video has already been posted here. I did a rudimentary look through the posts of the past few days and couldn't see it.

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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Tattorack@lemmy.world to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
 

I want to get back into reading, so I'm thinking of getting a Paperwhite. But I have no idea if it's possible to transfer files to it from a computer, and I have no experience with pirating books.

Do I go to the same places I torrent movies and games or are there special places dedicated to E-Books?

EDIT: So many awesome answers on here! You guys have been very helpful. Thanks a lot!

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