Confessions thread

[PlusThirtyOne]

Confession:
i feel bad for having this opinion but...
is it wrong to assume everyone design their own avatars? Especially on an art site!? Granted, these forums are only loosely based on the main site but i feel kinda ripped off by users who use others' artwork or straight up logos and characters from popular fiction. it just feels like...false advertising.

i dunno, maybe it's just that i've always designed my own online "appearance" (for better or worse) or perhaps it's because i identify people visually by the images they use. Either way, i feel bad because i know not everyone out there has the talent, confidence or resources (only one of which i have) to make their own avatars. -but it's just so annoying when i see someone's avatar, get all excited, check out their gallery and find scribbles, stick-figures or nothing at all.

 

[Volkodav]

I confess I don't know what this means...

A website that hosts videos and images of horrifyingly illegal shit
i went there once when i was younger and accidentally stumbled across a very real video of rape and never went back

 

[Schwimmwagen]

Confession:
i feel bad for having this opinion but...
is it wrong to assume everyone design their own avatars? Especially on an art site!? Granted, these forums are only loosely based on the main site but i feel kinda ripped off by users who use others' artwork or straight up logos and characters from popular fiction. it just feels like...false advertising.

i dunno, maybe it's just that i've always designed my own online "appearance" (for better or worse) or perhaps it's because i identify people visually by the images they use. Either way, i feel bad because i know not everyone out there has the talent, confidence or resources (only one of which i have) to make their own avatars. -but it's just so annoying when i see someone's avatar, get all excited, check out their gallery and find scribbles, stick-figures or nothing at all.

There's plenty of people around who are positively good artists of whatever sort that still use avatars from other sources.

 

[Samandriel Morningstar]

Confession:
i feel bad for having this opinion but...
is it wrong to assume everyone design their own avatars? Especially on an art site!? Granted, these forums are only loosely based on the main site but i feel kinda ripped off by users who use others' artwork or straight up logos and characters from popular fiction. it just feels like...false advertising.

i dunno, maybe it's just that i've always designed my own online "appearance" (for better or worse) or perhaps it's because i identify people visually by the images they use. Either way, i feel bad because i know not everyone out there has the talent, confidence or resources (only one of which i have) to make their own avatars. -but it's just so annoying when i see someone's avatar, get all excited, check out their gallery and find scribbles, stick-figures or nothing at all.

I confess that I went to your FurAffinity gallery and found that it's empty.

 

[Ariosto]

A website that hosts videos and images of horrifyingly illegal shit
i went there once when i was younger and accidentally stumbled across a very real video of rape and never went back

Eugh.
But thanks for clarifying what it means anyway.

I confess that I went to your FurAffinity gallery and found that it's empty.

Ouch.
EDIT: but maybe they've got another art page elsehwere?

 

[Volkodav]

I confess that I went to your FurAffinity gallery and found that it's empty.

Thats fucking hilarious omg

 

[Samandriel Morningstar]

Eugh.
But thanks for clarifying what it means anyway.


Ouch.
EDIT: but maybe they've got another art page elsehwere?

It's still mildly contradicting when they complained about empty art pages/etc and they linked to their own which is just as empty.
I don't know,it just seems like the whole 'pot calling the kettle black' thing.

But anyways.

I confess that I can't stand Winter,but I don't think I'd ever be able to move from Wisconsin or stay away for very long.

 

[Ieono]

I would totally become a cannibal in a post-apocalyptic world. Meat is meat, and humans are far easier to hunt than forest creatures!

 

[Fallowfox]

I would totally become a cannibal in a post-apocalyptic world. Meat is meat, and humans are far easier to hunt than forest creatures!

Human flesh can transmit weird diseases, like the papua new guinean laughing sickness.

 

[SirRob]

Confession:
i feel bad for having this opinion but...
is it wrong to assume everyone design their own avatars? Especially on an art site!? Granted, these forums are only loosely based on the main site but i feel kinda ripped off by users who use others' artwork or straight up logos and characters from popular fiction. it just feels like...false advertising.

i dunno, maybe it's just that i've always designed my own online "appearance" (for better or worse) or perhaps it's because i identify people visually by the images they use. Either way, i feel bad because i know not everyone out there has the talent, confidence or resources (only one of which i have) to make their own avatars. -but it's just so annoying when i see someone's avatar, get all excited, check out their gallery and find scribbles, stick-figures or nothing at all.

Suddenly I'm tempted to draw my own version of a bound, helpless underage furry Sonic slave with giant feet

 

[Ariosto]

Suddenly I'm tempted to draw my own version of a bound, helpless underage furry Sonic slave with giant feet

Knowing the way you draw, I think it'd come out just fine.
I've also drawn my own art that I could honestly use for an avatar, but I don't really feel like using it.

 

[Ieono]

Human flesh can transmit weird diseases, like the papua new guinean laughing sickness.

Pretty sure I won't be eating meat that is that exotic. And definitely not human brains. Gotta avoid those nasty little prions!

 

[Ariosto]

Currently, I'm in full 'my parents are not at home... but I have homework' mode, another name for procrastination.

 

[Taikugemu]

Confession:
i feel bad for having this opinion but...
is it wrong to assume everyone design their own avatars? Especially on an art site!? Granted, these forums are only loosely based on the main site but i feel kinda ripped off by users who use others' artwork or straight up logos and characters from popular fiction. it just feels like...false advertising.

i dunno, maybe it's just that i've always designed my own online "appearance" (for better or worse) or perhaps it's because i identify people visually by the images they use. Either way, i feel bad because i know not everyone out there has the talent, confidence or resources (only one of which i have) to make their own avatars. -but it's just so annoying when i see someone's avatar, get all excited, check out their gallery and find scribbles, stick-figures or nothing at all.

Well shit, there are people like me who can't draw a straight line.

 

[jtrekkie]

When I'm really down im my depression, I find myself in dark places of the Internet. Usually /r/morbidreality and /r/watchpeopledie. I'm not into gore or anything like that, and it's not even about that. But I just have this fascination with the way life gets snuffed out by one means or another. I'm not sure why, but I think it's like...my way of coping? As if to say, "yes, your life sucks. but it could suck WORSE for the very rest of your short life. be greatful you're not dead. no need to rush to the finish line. it may come rushing up to you one day and there'll be nothing you can do to stop it."

I saw an accident this morning. A kid laying on the ground being wrapped up by paramedics, his family around him. I saw his little brother crying with his hands on his head. That face. Later I saw the flight crew preparing the helicopter.

I do the opposite. When I see that kind of thing I just know there isn't anything I can do, and I feel helpless. I never need to be reminded what's coming.

I have to work, leave nothing unsaid, nothing undone. While there is life, there is hope, so I must do everything I can before the destroyer comes.

 

[Deleted member 93706]

Later I saw the flight crew preparing the helicopter.

I do the opposite. When I see that kind of thing I just know there isn't anything I can do, and I feel helpless. I never need to be reminded what's coming.

I have to work, leave nothing unsaid, nothing undone. While there is life, there is hope, so I must do everything I can before the destroyer comes.

Darkly poetic...

 

[Butters Shikkon]

Confession:
i feel bad for having this opinion but...
is it wrong to assume everyone design their own avatars? Especially on an art site!?

Yep.

Cuz some of us like to pay artists to draw a fun piece for us to make as an avatar. I've even had a friend make me one as a gift. Also, I find it a lil funny that you expect everyone to be a DaVinci on FA. This fandom is so heavily based off sharing, buying, gifting art that you come off as grossly naive.

 

[JavaLeen]

Pretty sure I won't be eating meat that is that exotic. And definitely not human brains. Gotta avoid those nasty little prions!

Prions are not brain-exclusive when it comes to infection. They affect the brain of the sickened, but that's that.

Mad Cow Disease is a prionic disease that appeared because they used to feed fried beef to cows to help with certain elements in their diet. Considering the lovely hearts of people going for as much profit for as little pay as possible, they wouldn't spoil the cows with brain-exclusive items (not to mention brain has less of the elements they were going for anyway).
I used the MCD as an example because I've studied it in college and I know more about animal diseases than human ones, but the pathological principles are pretty much the same in all the living world. It's the symptoms that differ.

Tl:dr - prionic diseases are gained from any body part. Just don't eat any kind of ape.

 

[Ieono]

Yeah, I learned that from that episode of the X-files about the immortal cannibals...haha

The chances of me actually consuming someone with a prion disease is pretty low, though. Definitely not worth any level of real concern.

 

[JavaLeen]

Confession:
i feel bad for having this opinion but...
is it wrong to assume everyone design their own avatars? Especially on an art site!? Granted, these forums are only loosely based on the main site but i feel kinda ripped off by users who use others' artwork or straight up logos and characters from popular fiction. it just feels like...false advertising.

i dunno, maybe it's just that i've always designed my own online "appearance" (for better or worse) or perhaps it's because i identify people visually by the images they use. Either way, i feel bad because i know not everyone out there has the talent, confidence or resources (only one of which i have) to make their own avatars. -but it's just so annoying when i see someone's avatar, get all excited, check out their gallery and find scribbles, stick-figures or nothing at all.

It is a bit confusing at first, I give you that. I'm here for about 2 weeks now and it was quite odd at first to run into galleries composed of art obviously made by different artists altogether. Then I learned they were just posting things they commissioned and it made a lot of sense they would do so. Even avatars are commissioned from ppl to ppl. Saw very capable artists commissioning others for their avatars, which I guess was a form of curtsy I totally understand. ^^

After doing a few commissions myself already I even find it a bit hurtful when a commissioner doesn't post what I drew in their gallery cuz it makes me think I may have done something they don't like even when they say they do. (I'm a very insecure lil mongrel deep inside XD). While no one actually commissioned me for any avatars just yet, I would in fact be very proud to see ppl using them everywhere. :3

As for avatars that were not commissioned nor drawn by owners, furaffinity is a furry-based community far more than art-based, as you may think at a 1st glance. Art is just one means of expression used around here but is not the foundation. People here are basically people who like furries, animal characters of any kind. And if they like a certain character and the art of it is readily available for said purpose it makes sense they would use it.

 

[JavaLeen]

Yeah, I learned that from that episode of the X-files about the immortal cannibals...haha

The chances of me actually consuming someone with a prion disease is pretty low, though. Definitely not worth any level of real concern.

It really only takes one and there would be plenty of easy-to-hunt animals around. Farm animal these days are totally unequipped for survival in the wild. Also many breeds of pets.
Eating human meat would be far more risky than any other animal because any disease agent they may hold is already adapted to your species. There's a limited number of diseases you can take from animals but it's obviously a waaaay smaller number than what you can get from humans... Cannibalism is a good way to stay alive when there's nothing else around to eat because between starvation and any diseases you may catch there's really no competition... but when you have a varied diet offer, I find it incredibly silly to go for humans 1st just because they may seem easier to hunt.

[edit: as someone with medical training I must insist tv shows and movies and belletristicare really not very reliable sources of information. I can't remember how many times I went raging from some stupid thing they said in a movie just to make the plot work XD )

 

[Ieono]

I find the X-files to have impeccable and plausible scientific explanations for things. I mean, that is what Scully is there for in the first place. :V

And it may be silly to only go after humans, but it raises your badass factor in that shitty dystopian future, meaning that less fuckers will mess with you cause you're a frakkin' cannibal man!!!

 

[JavaLeen]

personally I would hunt you down first just to make sure my loved ones stay safe. Dogs and bears are predictable animals. Can be avoided with a few logical safety rules taught to everyone in the community. Humans are a far greater threat as they are unpredictable therefore if would be best to clean the area of those 1st.

Humans generally destroy what they fear with a greater passion than anything else, if you come to think of it.

 

[JavaLeen]

when I say cleaning area of humans I mean aggressive humans, such as your supposed self. We are a social species and thrive as social groups so I personally would only get rid of the aggressive deviants. Anyone else would be useful to have around one way or another.

 

[Volkodav]

Mr Moon ate humans in day z and he was okay