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And I thought you guys were weird

When I've seen animal-animal RPs (not furries), they usually give them sentient/human-level thought and brainpower, and social behaviors. But they're still just an animal. Or they can transform into one.

genghismike said
I volunteer to be the unicorn centaur that rapes everything with my fucking horn.

Now I'm starting to think that whole line was metaphor.

Also, we need ctrl+b to bold things again. My brain won't unlearn it.

50,000 people try to play a single Pokemon game at the same time.

BrobyDDark said
So? We don't have the dome.

But it'd be a win for them if the Helix Fossil drowned in the flames of oblivion.

You're beating Satanists by burning God. ;]

50,000 people try to play a single Pokemon game at the same time.

BrobyDDark said
But I'll delete the Helix fossil after you begin to sleep if you do.

Wouldn't start-spammers be followers of the Dome?

Let's play a game.

No idea.

Maybe it's all a ruse, and Squee's waiting for the confusion to pour into the thread.

Let's play a game.

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Watching Planet Earth in Biology class right now

Jerkchicken said
Animal planet doesn't have any damn animals on it

Bigfoot is REAL!

Sexual Objectification of Women in Video Games

Beta derailed the thread already?
That was fast.

50,000 people try to play a single Pokemon game at the same time.

The part I watched, they just kept going in and out of one building with a Clefairy for a few minutes. While people shouted in chat about killing Eevee or evolving it. Someone mentioned they released three pokemon??

That 20-40 second lag's gotta make things insanely worse. And I read that was with a forced waiting time before a user could enter anything again.
I also read that the start spamming was stopped, but the game still pulls the menu up every few seconds. Not sure why that is.

Watching Planet Earth in Biology class right now

Planet Earth was fantastic. High on its own graphics, with some weird bits that were interesting. I vaguely remember a bird comically flopping/falling around some cliff area, and everyone laughing in class.

Also, it means no class work or lecture, and it's not a bad pre-teen movie like High School Musical, one of my old Math teacher's favorite options. Or retelling a middle school/high-school class what the three states of matter are. Planet Earth made some of the best Biology class days.

Sexual Objectification of Women in Video Games

Hank said
Sex sells. Women will always be objectified in some entertainment products. Guys will keep buying them. Nothing to be done.EDIT: Besides, guys are constantly sexually objectified in videogames as well. Practically every single male protagonist in action games is a buff, good looking overly intimidating and highly masculine guy. It works both ways.

When a female fanfiction author creates a flawless author avatar that their favorite canon revolves around, and goes on for hours about how gorgeous and talented she is, that isn't fanservice for guys. It's a fantasy for the author. Or, with published media, for the audience they want.

Indulgent personal fantasies are, foremost, making "yourself" awesome, and everything else is a symptom or "proof" of it. That can include being flawless or near flawless, ridiculously skilled at a shitton of things, and implausibly important to anything that matters in the universe (either because of skills, or because "you're" the Chosen One). No one wants to project onto a weak, chronic leprosy victim that can't shoot for shit (in an FPS) or do anything relevant or useful.

Games do that all the time. It's hard to find a game that doesn't make the player character excessively important to solve a huge conflict, or unique and special, or gives constant pep talks/compliments for every one thing accomplished. It almost gets condescending when you notice it enough.

If the guys were put in erotic positions and clothing all the time, or fawned over an idealized female character we're supposed to relate with, yeah, that'd be fanservice. Just looking badass, though, is service to being badass.