The gun isn't for what's outside.

Diamond is actually a very efficient heat conductor.

Oh yeah, the game is short so I highly recommend 100% it. I think I took 6ish hours to play the entire thing, and I think I missed a side quest. But yeah, the game is basically "be gay, do crimes: the game".

Helped my dad wrap a box in about an inch of duct tape (which was then gift wrapped) for a cousin's Christmas present. The box was full of packing peanuts and had a false bottom with a gift card underneath. At no point had we stopped to consider whether or not it could be opened again (it took a long time to get it open lol).

Yes, but indie games helped fix that. Dunno how deep you've gotten into indie games, but here's a list of them to try:

Cruelty Squad (it is unironically one of the best games I've ever played. Give it a chance, it'll grow on you)

Balatro

Buckshot Roulette

WEBFISHING

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk (++if you enjoyed Jet Set Radio (Future))

Abiotic Factor

Lethal Company (I personally wasn't a fan, but I can see the appeal; I would be more into it if there was more random junk to pick up)

Hypnospace Outlaw

Factorio (just released an expansion! Also don't wait for sales, you'll be waiting forever)

Snufkin: Melody of Moominvalley (edit: forgot to mention that this is basically "be gay, do crimes: the game". It's short so I highly recommend 100% it, but it's also good).

Hylics 1 & 2

The Long Drive (looks like YouTube bait, and it kinda is, but it's also the best driving game I've ever seen. Literally you, a car and 5000km of road. Any engine can go into any vehicle, so yes, you can put a bus engine on a moped. I love it. There haven't been any big updates lately though because the dev is rewriting the game to fix spaghetti code).

QT (cutesy PT parody that's all about secret hunting. Also has two extra levels with more secrets. It's kinda like i-spy but in first-person 3d)

Voices of the Void (I adore this game, it's a sci-fi pseudo-horror game styled after some weird mix of gmod and Half-Life. The premise is that you're a researcher who's been shipped off to a radio telescope array, alone. Your goal is to search the sky for signals and learn more about the cosmos. It takes itself just seriously enough and has lots of secrets and surprises to find.)

Because those animals are cool. You see the others you mentioned too, but you don't see animals no one likes. It's less soul searching and finding you are something else and more finding something cool and wanting to be like it.

I suppose. I mean, I think it goes a bit deeper than that; I legit feel incomplete if I think about my lack of tail or snout. It's no where near as bad as gender dysphoria, I only notice it if I think about it (as opposed to a constant "buzz" in the back of my head like dysphoria) but it's there. Like, some part of my brain decided that I'm supposed to have a tail and snout. Maybe it's some crazy-ancient leftover that never got totally filtered out from when we did have tails and snouts?

I'm a transhumanist, i understand being just human is a negative.

I tend to self-id as a transhumanist more often than a therian. It depends on the crowd, but it seems easier to explain that I'm into the idea of body modification for the purpose of augmenting/extending existing abilities, granting new abilities, or changing appearance based on personal taste; than the fact that my brain swings between seeing myself as an extinct theropod (an androgynous, feathered troodontid of mysterious gender with mossy-looking feathers; aka "Mossy Feathers") to a wholly mythological creature (a very obviously fem dragon/dragon-hybrid who's appearance I'm still trying to work out).

That is exactly what was going through my head, Mossy! Well, kinda. The other part is being like, "look, this may be a kink or fetish, but there's plenty of sfw stuff; you don't have to think it's weird just because sex makes you uncomfy". It sucks when people assume something you're into is purely sexual because then social taboos kick in and you can't talk about it anymore.

Imagine if you really liked plushies, enough so that you have a "plushsona". You're not into the sexual side of it, you just really, really like plushies, and you like telling people about the different names and personalities of your plushies. At some point someone gets it into their head that you're actually aroused by your plushies and that you might even fuck them at night. Now everyone thinks it's a fetish and no one wants to talk about your """perverted interests""" anymore.

That's why. That kinda shit sucks.

Edit: it feels kinda weird to admit this, but I honestly, unironically like furry porn for the artistic aspect of it. Sure, it makes me horny, but that's not why I like it. If I wanted something to just get off to, AI has gotten good enough that I'm sure I could generate something that'd strike my fancy.

But that's not why I enjoy it. I like the fact that you can see that, while cartoonish, stylized and hand-drawn, these are pictures of real people sharing real moments of intimacy with each other. The emotions, interactions, and so forth feel way more candid and vivid than anything else I've seen. You can tell that these characters all have their own back stories based on their designs, the way they carry themselves, the way they interact with one another, the words they use, the clothes they wear (or don't wear), and so forth. They're more real.

I don't get that feeling from traditional pornography, hentai or rule34 stuff. It just doesn't have the same... something.

That's also why I don't think furry artists need to be concerned with generative AI either. I've seen enough of both, and even though a lot of the AI stuff I've seen is probably good enough to fool 90% of skeptics while also being more photorealistic than most artists are probably capable of, yet I still vastly prefer ~~human~~ furry-made stuff. AI's just eye-candy. It doesn't have the same level of love and care put into it as most non-ai stuff.

I think it's gonna get a lot worse, but if we can hold it together then it'll be smooth sailing afterwards. Basically, I think we're approaching several "Great Filters" and if we can get past them then we'll be good.

Good point. I don't tend to have order:(whatever) because I like seeing whatever new pops up. I forgot about e926.

Edit: forgot a word.

Basically that, lol. That said, the general vibe I've gotten from seeing plushie or pool toy art is that it's less about mindless sex (compared to drone or doll transformation) and more about filling some other emotional need in a mindless manner; like mindless comfort or relaxation. I mean, there absolutely is a sex side to it (I've seen that art too), but my impression is that they aren't centered around it.

Here, the pool toy furs are kinda cute. I'm personally not into it as a kink, but they're cute

Edit: ~~add "order:score" or "order:favcount" to the search terms (for an example, "pool_toy rating:safe order:score") if you want to sort by total score or number of times favorited.~~ replaced e621 link with e926 so you can't accidentally disable the SFW filter (just replace e926 with e621 in the URL if you want the naughty pics). Also added "animate_inanimate" and "order:favcount". The latter can be replaced with "order:score" if you'd prefer to filter by user score.

No, they're usually "furry", so animals or animal people. I understand it in the same way I understand people into plushie transformation. Imagine being a soft creature with no worries or cares that people hug and cuddle for comfort. The worst imaginable thing that could happen to you is if you split a seam. Alternatively, imagine being a buoyant creature who's only job is to float, bob up and down on the water, and occasionally carry a person (or more, if you're big enough). No worries, not a care in the world except for maybe the occasional air leak. No thoughts, head empty.