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[Bdthemag]

Hello again! Not a furry, but I generally don't have any issues with them and dislike the amount of hate they get from certain circles.

Ditto.  Its ridiculous how much people hate on furries.

You have to understand the people who hate on furries, and are generally apart of the "Anti-Furry Culture", are all likely from websites that received the absolute worst parts of the fanbase that even the casual furry will look at with some disgust. While it's still illogical to dislike frankly EVERY furry because of this, the general hate has a clear cause to it. Although the furry hate is generally diminished nowadays due to the furry community at large becoming more reclusive.

If this isn't a discussing regarding how the furry fanbase has acted/been treated, then excuse me. I'm just not sure what the point of the thread is then, as Taz mentioned above.

[Trif]

In hindsight, I think the whole section was handled pretty respectful

>_>

What? They had normal relationships, everyone was nice and helpful and the Cyberdwarf lived there if memory serves right. For the post-cyberpocalyptic world, these guys were some of the nicest folks around.
I had no idea that furries were generally hated on the Internet until years after playing that game. They made a pretty good impression on me.

[Haspen]

ptw.

[GlyphGryph]

You have to understand the people who hate on furries, and are generally apart of the "Anti-Furry Culture", are all likely from websites that received the absolute worst parts of the fanbase that even the casual furry will look at with some disgust. While it's still illogical to dislike frankly EVERY furry because of this, the general hate has a clear cause to it. Although the furry hate is generally diminished nowadays due to the furry community at large becoming more reclusive.

If this isn't a discussing regarding how the furry fanbase has acted/been treated, then excuse me. I'm just not sure what the point of the thread is then, as Taz mentioned above.

It's basically... the Anime Fandom.

[Bdthemag]

You have to understand the people who hate on furries, and are generally apart of the "Anti-Furry Culture", are all likely from websites that received the absolute worst parts of the fanbase that even the casual furry will look at with some disgust. While it's still illogical to dislike frankly EVERY furry because of this, the general hate has a clear cause to it. Although the furry hate is generally diminished nowadays due to the furry community at large becoming more reclusive.

If this isn't a discussing regarding how the furry fanbase has acted/been treated, then excuse me. I'm just not sure what the point of the thread is then, as Taz mentioned above.

It's basically... the Anime Fandom.

Fandoms are usually pretty similar in behavior, so it's easy to draw similarities between most large fandoms.

[Loud Whispers]

You have to understand the people who hate on furries, and are generally apart of the "Anti-Furry Culture", are all likely from websites that received the absolute worst parts of the fanbase that even the casual furry will look at with some disgust.

Indeed, there is an instinctive distrust to these gatherings for the kind of people they eventually gather.

I do have a question that would make more sense in this thread and general board [what is there to discuss about DF & Furries? There is nil], why do furries identify with anthropomorphic animals and not zoanthropomorphic humans?

[Nirur Torir]

. You couldn't really claim it's fully functional, I guess, unless we develop a way to force nerve connections and a therapy to help learn to control muscles that didn't exist when we were children. I'd also imagine that if you couldn't develop sensory nerve connections, then you might not realize when your tail has been injured, and serious health concerns could develop for these people as a result.

While we haven't done it with real nerves, we have managed to connect robotic appendages to human brains, and we have managed to get feedback on that. So it's technically possible. At least from the brain's point of view. Really versatile thingies, brains are.

We can grow nerve tissue as desired in a laboratory setting, using some sort of scaffold and chemical mix.

I don't remember much of it, but there was an experiment a while back where a tail was trasnsplanted onto an animal that didn't naturally have a tail. The animal could supposedly control it after transplanting part of the brain. So it could probably work with a brain chip. If nothing else, I imagine a tail could be jury-rigged to move on command by intercepting move orders to certain toes.

[Tuck_Lion]

We can't just "grow nerve tissue" and design it to our will yet, and even if we could, we would have to do some slight remodeling to the CNS of the animal in question

[Euld]

Even if we could implant tails and fuzzy fox ears on people, I'd imagine that wouldn't go over well with other people.  Mostly due to the "oh god humans don't have that particular limb normally omg" factor.  Kind of like how jarring it is to see someone missing a limb or with an extra finger or toe.  I know I'd jump in surprise if I saw a person with a tail they could actually control.

[LordBucket]

I would add this to the list of things that people re just going to have to adapt to. This isn't even specific to furries. Lots of people re into body modification: tattoos, piercings, etc. As cybernetic implants and biological replacement parts become cheaper, more people will get them. Surely there will be a cosmetic interest.

[Tuck_Lion]

I would add this to the list of things that people re just going to have to adapt to. This isn't even specific to furries. Lots of people re into body modification: tattoos, piercings, etc. As cybernetic implants and biological replacement parts become cheaper, more people will get them. Surely there will be a cosmetic interest.

Right; bodily modification is growing less and less culturally rare and generally the aspects of it found to be most unsettling are from a different psychological mindset in all.

[Scoops Novel]

If bodily modification is crucial to someone's psychological stability, then alright. If it's for fun and games and we're not in a utopia, I'll be further irritated.

[Tuck_Lion]

If bodily modification is crucial to someone's psychological stability, then alright. If it's for fun and games and we're not in a utopia, I'll be further irritated.

You have completely misinterpreted my statement.

[LordBucket]

You have completely misinterpreted my statement.

My impression was that he's simply of the mindset to find it unsettling.

[Tuck_Lion]

You have completely misinterpreted my statement.

My impression was that he's simply of the mindset to find it unsettling.

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