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cool new tabletop RPG - Pugmire!
Posted 9 years agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeggUirLIiU
Onyx Path Publishing - one of the 'inheritors' of the White Wolf Game Studio legacy - are publishing a new RPG that is described as "Lord of the Rings + Planet of the Apes, with dogs" - Pugmire. Thousands of years after the Age of Man, anthromorphic dogs have inherited the earth and try to reconstruct the Code of Man from ancient ruins and history. Other races of people exist, such as cats.
I certainly see no reason at all why anyone on this site might possibly want to check this out, do you? Feel free to re-post and signal boost this thing once the Kickstarter opens!
Onyx Path Publishing - one of the 'inheritors' of the White Wolf Game Studio legacy - are publishing a new RPG that is described as "Lord of the Rings + Planet of the Apes, with dogs" - Pugmire. Thousands of years after the Age of Man, anthromorphic dogs have inherited the earth and try to reconstruct the Code of Man from ancient ruins and history. Other races of people exist, such as cats.
I certainly see no reason at all why anyone on this site might possibly want to check this out, do you? Feel free to re-post and signal boost this thing once the Kickstarter opens!
Interesting study with bearing on furries?
Posted 12 years agoFrom http://www.psmag.com/magazines/paci.....onomics-53135/
" [...] Studies show that Western urban children grow up so closed off in man-made environments that their brains never form a deep or complex connection to the natural world. While studying children from the U.S., researchers have suggested a developmental timeline for what is called “folkbiological reasoning.” These studies posit that it is not until children are around 7 years old that they stop projecting human qualities onto animals and begin to understand that humans are one animal among many. Compared to Yucatec Maya communities in Mexico, however, Western urban children appear to be developmentally delayed in this regard. Children who grow up constantly interacting with the natural world are much less likely to anthropomorphize other living things into late childhood.
Given that people living in WEIRD societies don’t routinely encounter or interact with animals other than humans or pets, it’s not surprising that they end up with a rather cartoonish understanding of the natural world. “Indeed,” the report concluded, “studying the cognitive development of folkbiology in urban children would seem the equivalent of studying ‘normal’ physical growth in malnourished children.”"
While anthromorphic stuff has a long and storied history, the specific form it tends to take in furdom - is it a consequence of most furries being from fairly industrialized nations and never interacting with the real, natural world? (One reason I'm glad Furry Weekend Atlanta works with Conservator's Center every year...)
" [...] Studies show that Western urban children grow up so closed off in man-made environments that their brains never form a deep or complex connection to the natural world. While studying children from the U.S., researchers have suggested a developmental timeline for what is called “folkbiological reasoning.” These studies posit that it is not until children are around 7 years old that they stop projecting human qualities onto animals and begin to understand that humans are one animal among many. Compared to Yucatec Maya communities in Mexico, however, Western urban children appear to be developmentally delayed in this regard. Children who grow up constantly interacting with the natural world are much less likely to anthropomorphize other living things into late childhood.
Given that people living in WEIRD societies don’t routinely encounter or interact with animals other than humans or pets, it’s not surprising that they end up with a rather cartoonish understanding of the natural world. “Indeed,” the report concluded, “studying the cognitive development of folkbiology in urban children would seem the equivalent of studying ‘normal’ physical growth in malnourished children.”"
While anthromorphic stuff has a long and storied history, the specific form it tends to take in furdom - is it a consequence of most furries being from fairly industrialized nations and never interacting with the real, natural world? (One reason I'm glad Furry Weekend Atlanta works with Conservator's Center every year...)
Merry X-mas, everybody
Posted 12 years agoFun fact: "X-mas" is not some secular conspiracy to remove the "Christ" from "Christmas".
It derives from the Greek word Χριστός, which is translated as "Christ". Wikipedia says its use dates to 1755, with earlier variants as far back as 1551,
The More You Know™!
It derives from the Greek word Χριστός, which is translated as "Christ". Wikipedia says its use dates to 1755, with earlier variants as far back as 1551,
The More You Know™!
On busy artists:
Posted 13 years agoOkay, I try not to stir up drama, so I'm not going to name the specific artist involved; I kept things polite on their journal-page because that's just basic civility. But this is my page, so I'm gonna get a little potty-mouthed.
Still:
If you are an artist, and you are selling commissions, you are also selling yourself.
You wouldn't buy a product from a salesperson who was short-tempered and rude with you, right? If you're going to bitch about 'oh waaaa, people keep wanting to commission me and make me busy and I can't do things" in response to a polite "wow, these backgrounds are detailed, you ought to do a comic!".... fuck you, I'll make sure you have plenty of free time by NOT FUCKING COMMISSIONING FROM YOU, ASSHOLE.
People showing interest in your work is not an inconvenience.
Still:
If you are an artist, and you are selling commissions, you are also selling yourself.
You wouldn't buy a product from a salesperson who was short-tempered and rude with you, right? If you're going to bitch about 'oh waaaa, people keep wanting to commission me and make me busy and I can't do things" in response to a polite "wow, these backgrounds are detailed, you ought to do a comic!".... fuck you, I'll make sure you have plenty of free time by NOT FUCKING COMMISSIONING FROM YOU, ASSHOLE.
People showing interest in your work is not an inconvenience.
General notice, re: "Am I the Only One"...
Posted 14 years agoVictorian Space Prostitute
Posted 14 years agoMC Frontalot's new album, Solved! is out. One of the songs is a bit of a friendly jab at cosplayers and fursuiters.
http://youtu.be/QnbX6C6BcZg
Although listen to it all the way before you rage. :)
http://youtu.be/QnbX6C6BcZg
Although listen to it all the way before you rage. :)
Huh. I did not know FA did that.
Posted 14 years agoIf someone removes a work of yours from their favs, apparently FA sees fit to notify you just as if someone had fav'd you.
I mean, it's not as if I care one way or another on a personal level; given the usual tone of journals the ones that aren't legitimate time-sensitive things - someone offering commissions, or someone making an upload and finding an error in it - most of the deleted journal/submission/etc notices are just hiding a shitton of DRAAAAAAAMAAAAAAA. ;)
I mean, it's not as if I care one way or another on a personal level; given the usual tone of journals the ones that aren't legitimate time-sensitive things - someone offering commissions, or someone making an upload and finding an error in it - most of the deleted journal/submission/etc notices are just hiding a shitton of DRAAAAAAAMAAAAAAA. ;)
A musing on certain artists drawing babyfurs...
Posted 15 years ago... yeah, always a good controversy, eh?
I won't name the artist in particular - 90 percent of his work is basically 'here's a character, with the long and convoluted background!', apart from commissions but if you follow him, you can probably figure it out.
Anyway, he posted three pics of underaged characters lately. They weren't, on the whole, any different than his usual stuff, the characters were suspiciously well-developed for their age, and while nude (and with surprisingly large genitalia)they weren't explicitly drawn, y'know, having sex or anything like that, so I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt.
No, what amused me was the big warning on it and the "If you are offended, you clicked through it is your own action". No, YOU are the one taking advantage of FA's fucked up guidelines to post child porn, dude. Fictional children, sure, so I don't feel compelled to rain fire and ash on your neighborhood and sow the grounds with salt, but still.
I ain't a stick in a mud on these matters by a long shot. My uncanny valley is an uncanny pothole; even if I don't particularly dig it I generally accept it. Just you'd think the dude would, at least, not want to associate it with his rep and such.
Oh, wait, I forgot. Furries. Never mind, folks, back to your homes.
I won't name the artist in particular - 90 percent of his work is basically 'here's a character, with the long and convoluted background!', apart from commissions but if you follow him, you can probably figure it out.
Anyway, he posted three pics of underaged characters lately. They weren't, on the whole, any different than his usual stuff, the characters were suspiciously well-developed for their age, and while nude (and with surprisingly large genitalia)they weren't explicitly drawn, y'know, having sex or anything like that, so I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt.
No, what amused me was the big warning on it and the "If you are offended, you clicked through it is your own action". No, YOU are the one taking advantage of FA's fucked up guidelines to post child porn, dude. Fictional children, sure, so I don't feel compelled to rain fire and ash on your neighborhood and sow the grounds with salt, but still.
I ain't a stick in a mud on these matters by a long shot. My uncanny valley is an uncanny pothole; even if I don't particularly dig it I generally accept it. Just you'd think the dude would, at least, not want to associate it with his rep and such.
Oh, wait, I forgot. Furries. Never mind, folks, back to your homes.
An Inkbunny opinion for the three people who care!
Posted 15 years ago... god, I thought Tapestries was a bunch of dumb jerks for 'no humans, except elves, and we'll still think you're playing a secret human'.
FUCK FURRIES GOT ARMS SO DO HUMANS BAAAAAAN :D
FUCK FURRIES GOT ARMS SO DO HUMANS BAAAAAAN :D
Is this thing on?
Posted 18 years agohee!
I'm not generally the sort to blog, or journal, or any of that. But, for them who might come across my page, a little introduce-myself thing.
I'm Aliasi. I'm sometimes known as Mega, on some mucks and boards. I write stories. Actual stories, mind you. Not thinly-disguised sex scenes, or fetish displays, although I certainly don't mind sex in a good story nor do I mind throwing in a few of my favorite things; most of my stories to date are somewhat macrophilic.
I'll slowly be posting what of my output exists up on here, at least that that would be applicable to a place like this.
I'm not generally the sort to blog, or journal, or any of that. But, for them who might come across my page, a little introduce-myself thing.
I'm Aliasi. I'm sometimes known as Mega, on some mucks and boards. I write stories. Actual stories, mind you. Not thinly-disguised sex scenes, or fetish displays, although I certainly don't mind sex in a good story nor do I mind throwing in a few of my favorite things; most of my stories to date are somewhat macrophilic.
I'll slowly be posting what of my output exists up on here, at least that that would be applicable to a place like this.
