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Anonymous
#143891
1 year ago
whats wrong with captain Picard ponies? i would pay to see that
Anonymous
#143899
1 year ago
Global ban on /tg/ ? Really ?
Anonymous
#143901
1 year ago
Is that possible? Not the global ban, someone hating ponies.
Anonymous
#143924
1 year ago
Who ever hates ponies if just in the closet and ponies bring them closer into accepting friendship. Down with the closet gnomes!!!
Anonymous
#143932
1 year ago
^I hate ponies, I come here cause the artwork is great, but I don't give to shits about the show.
Anonymous
#143933
1 year ago
I may not agree with what you say but I will fight to the death your right to say it.
Zarkanorf
#143988
1 year ago
CPmarines made me lol
Anonymous
#144016
1 year ago
Anon 2: There's a sticky that lays out what's allowed and what isn't. It's entirely arbitrary and stupid - Ponies are banned, even when done as an RPG, but entirely unrelated video games like Elder Scrolls are for some reason allowed.
Anonymous
#144066
1 year ago
/tg/ was much better before it got a case of the moderators.
Anonymous
#144089
1 year ago
The problem is that people raged at every thread that mentions ponies, regardless of the specifics. The last few times someone tried to make an MLP RPG thread, more than half the posts were things like "sage for pony shit" and similarly unreasoned attacks.

As with the furry fandom, people decided that all the random hate and hostility was the fault of the target for provoking it, rather than the people who were actually disrupting things. The mods decided that the best solution was to allow problem elements to define policy, in the hopes that they won't find another hundred targets for every one they succeed in ruining, or continue to complain about them even after they're gone, as they've always done in the past.

And that's how we got here.
WhiteSocks
#144491
1 year ago
/tg/ - tabletop gaming, I take it?
Anonymous
#144738
1 year ago
Yeah let's compare ponies to furries.

That's a thing that's reasonable and not at all completely fucking wrong.
Dark_Horst
#145015
1 year ago
^not as far of a stretch as you might think. but yeah. saying furries and bronies are the same is pretty damn ignorant
Anonymous
#145090
1 year ago
^ It is comparing watching a TV show to being a huge giant TV nerd and cosplaying and shit.

The gap is obscene, figuratively and literally.
Dark_Horst
#145199
1 year ago
there ARE pony cosplayers
Anonymous
#145224
1 year ago
I'm comparing MLP with watching a TV show and furries with being a giant TV nerd and cosplaying and shit.

I can see how that would be confusing though. I'll try to be clearer in the future.
Dark_Horst
#145328
1 year ago
you see, that's the problem. you're generalizing. when i learned on thing in my time on the internet, then it's that groups as huge as the so called furry-community can nott be generalized. not in the slightest. i'm an analyst. when i find a phenomenon, i look into it. i found the furries and took them apart. i, of course, can see why they got the generally bad reputation they have, there IS some fucked up shit in the corners of that room. but the reason why people associate furries=BADCREEPYSHIT is because of a well known problem: the worst are always the loudest. when you take your time to ignore that and don't let yourself get scared away from that image you'll find out two things.
first: a quite small percentage of them actually owns a costume.
second: they are actually divided into factions. enemy factions. mainly being the suiters and the ones who don't. and the latter actually looks down on the first one. yes. get that: furries looking down on furries for being creepy morons. inceptiony, isn't it?
problem is, many don't know what "furries" actually refers to. another problem is that even the furries themselves don't really know. for the ones it's running around in costumes, for the others it's liking cartoons with anthropromorphic animals (lion king. you loved that shit, don't lie), then there are the ones who just like books, the ones who just like the porn and then the ones who combine a random number and order of the ones mentioned above.
fuck, by any means of the definiton half the fucking brony-community already qualifies as part-time furries. we go batshit crazy over cute talking ponies who behave like people. literally.
now i mentioned before that i'm an analyst. if it weren't for that, i never would have tried to find out why the hell ponies suddenly appeared on 4chan and missed a damn good cartoon as well as probably the most awesome and dedicated community the internet has ever seen.
tl;dr
-don't judge a community without looking into it (sound familiar? it should. the same problem WE face alle the time)
-furries and bronies are WAY closer to each other than you might feel comfortable with
-i have no idea why the hell i just wrote that wall of text. but consider yourself elightened
NathanExplosion
#145348
1 year ago
I always thought \tg\ was where they kept all the transgender porn.
Anonymous
#145759
1 year ago
I never mentioned fursuits specifically. I called it cosplaying because it includes the ears/tails/masks/etc many people wear. But it is a bit different- cosplayers tend to dress up as famous or purposely obscure canon characters in their chosen fandom, whereas furries just dress up as OC's.

I know furries are hilariously fragmented. The amount of drama produced by these fragments is staggering.

Furries refers to http://www.furaffinity.net - well actually, let me ask a buddy that's been in it for a while:

"The entirety of the anthropomorphic animal enthusiast subculture, including all the sub-subcultures(and all overlap with other fandoms), even the astonishingly despicable ones. Which it then does nothing to distance itself from.

Sonic fuckers? You're in. Postfurries? You're in, shut up. Artists who are just here for the money? You're in, and your business acumen is hilarious. Therians? Shut up, you're in. Even the deniers who ultimately make all of their money off of furries and attend all of the major conventions. In fact, ESPECIALLY them. Scalies? SHUT THE FUCK UP, YOU'RE IN."


Personally, it seems kinda dumb to me to let furries hijack a literary device far, far, far older than they are, so I use "furry" in the same way as "otaku" in the anime fandom.

No, half the brony community does not qualify as part-time furries. No, you are not an analyst, you're a nerd on the internet. Like me. No, bias is not a problem bronies face all the time- that shit is hilariously overblown in comics and such for comedic effect. Nobody actually gives a shit. You can talk about ponies in public all you want. Yes, you shouldn't browse through the shit at work- wasting time will get your dumb ass fired regardless of what you're doing. You probably wrote that because you thought I was being all ign'ant. I wrote all this because I have nothing better to do.
Anonymous
#145766
1 year ago
NathanExplosion: imagine my surprise when I discovered it wasn't!

I was quite happy, actually.
Anonymous
#146111
1 year ago
^^ So you could say that Furries are built on love and tolerance
Anonymous
#146447
1 year ago
^ If you wanted to be incredibly disingenuous. Furry culture, such as it is, thrives on drama more than any other thing I have ever seen. Older furries air dirty laundry that happened a decade or more ago and exciting new gossip and drama is manufactured all the time. Reputation, image, and fame are all incredibly highly valued. It's a big giant popularity contest.

Imagine if high school had never ended.