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ZorbaTHut  1yr ago (text post)   3256 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 30, 2022

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To some extent, perhaps. I left an nVidia 2070 crunching on "(by hioshiru and kenket and dimwitdog, Michael & Inessa Garmash, Ruan Jia, Pino Daeni), solo, anthro, male, ((wolf)), ((intricate detail fluffy fur texture)), mane, gray fur, pinup, ((yellow eyes)), chest fluff, nsfw, nude, digitigrade, (tail), handsome, cinematic" overnight, and in the morning had 5 GB of hot (if not great-resolution) werewolf dude. And there's pretty clearly been a handful of people on the Discord spinning hours of their attention on such.

On the other hand... if you had the bandwidth, you could have gotten a terabyte of furry porn anyway. The specific combo of "solo_male, canine, score:>10" caps e621's number of pages (meaning literally tens of thousands of results). Before the tumblr pornocalypse, you could have a well-filtered stream of novel content faster than the server would successfully refresh. And they're much more superstimuli, and I mention them because I expect they're among those least likely to appeal.

((And... uh, I like buff naked werewolf dudes. A lot. But that 5GB gets pretty samey pretty quick.))

Which isn't to downplay the issues related to superstimuli, at least to the susceptible. But I think it points to a more general problem, of which AI-generated content is not really going to be much of a leader on either side of the battlefield.

Has anyone ever bothered to count furries?

It does seem rather prevalent in spite of being really pretty weird.

((And... uh, I like buff naked werewolf dudes. A lot. But that 5GB gets pretty samey pretty quick.))

Curse you, furries. Because of you every time I try to talk to someone about White Wolf's Werewolf RPGs I see the light in their eyes dim as they think it's a furry thing. Why must the coolest splat also be the one the furries love :(

Yeah, I'm... probably part of the problem on that. I can complain about Awakening's balance and contradictory lore, if it'd help?

Wow, Exalted references in the wild. Unexpected.

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