Comments on: RFID-enabled robot…mood…tail…thingy.

By: D

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:07:17 +0000

He did a really nice job with the video, demonstrating the functionality of the system without words. Very wise for a global audience.

I’m kind of surprised there’s no default state, though. Perhaps apathy is not a sufficiently common emotion in his circles for that.

By: F7

F7 — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 08:49:29 +0000

Furries as a culture don’t seem any more deviant than any other culture with similar sexual stipulations. If anything, someone who self identifies as a lemur or gets a little turned on while working as a school mascot is pretty anodyne in comparison to other forms of deviancy.

Yeah, there are more than a few people that are total casualties, but the same can be true of most groups with negative stereotypes.

I’m not a furry, I wouldn’t be attracted or repelled anymore by an abhorrent person if I found out they were a fur, and I’d consider the quality a plus in a sexual partner since it’s just one more vector to keep things interesting.

Off this rant, I think this is an awesome hack and I’ve emailed the guy from the last animatronic tail hack about it.

http://hackaday.com/2009/09/09/life-size-animatronic-wolf-tail/

It probably wouldn’t be a hard mod to add extra capability to the wolftronix tails.

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:41:39 +0000

And I forgot to mention: I want one of those tails!

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:37:05 +0000

Just like any group of people, there will the the portion that are loud/disgusting/obnoxious etc. Unfortunately, these are often the ones that get the most attention, and are the ones the public usually gets to see.

Those who consider themselves furries come from a wide range of professions and backgrounds, including doctors, teachers, military personnel, factory workers, dramatic emo schoolkids, couch potatoes that never wash and don’t ever get up except to go to a convention, and everything in between.

No need to get so emotional and upset over a joke. A bit stereotypical, yes, but still funny nonetheless. Instead of getting mad, just let it roll off your fur :)

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:51:19 +0000

“I am a meat Popsicle.”

-korben dallas

By: Kiyoshi

Kiyoshi — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 02:23:45 +0000

I’m a furry, and I do shower/bathe regularly -.-

By: Malone

Malone — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:43:09 +0000

Hey Phil. I’m consider myself a furry, I read your commentary, I laughed. Do not feel you did anything wrong, you didn’t.

Furries are all at once some of the greatest and worst people I have ever met. Some of them are amazing individuals anyone should be happy to calls a friend. The other face of the coin are these socially inept drama queens that get worked up at the drop of a hat.

If you apologize for something trivial as that the terrorists win.

By: stunmonkey

stunmonkey — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:01:58 +0000

@ Phil, the mistake was only in assuming that furs are like the rest of the nerds and geeks.
Fun, playful, good-natured, and self-aware are traits shared by nerd and geeks, not usually by furs and other hate groups based on insecurity and being adversarial.

By: Phil Burgess

Phil Burgess — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:39:59 +0000

@Maj: for the same reason we generally don’t delete negative comments except for extreme cases. Off-color remarks by themselves usually say more about the author than any rebuttal could. Rather than backpedal or try to cover up my mistakes, I’ve offered an honest mea culpa.

We might toss around words like “geek” or “nerd” here, but there’s always a playful and implied sense of inclusiveness. Pointing to one corner of the room and saying “you guys are weirder than the rest of us” was indeed the wrong way to go about it. Tried to make a “hip” joke, fell on my ass instead. And there it is, preserved for posterior. Er, posterity.

So I hope that settles the matter and we can get back to discussing the hack itself, which really is pretty nifty.

By: Monkeyman8

Monkeyman8 — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:46:14 +0000

oh stop being whiny little bitches, it was a joke get the fuck over it. you don’t see me getting up in arms over ever nerd joke. that being said this brings me one step closer to gene splicing myself a tail. maybe I’m a jerk but I think it’d be hilarious to be able to whack someone in the face with one of those.

By: lolololol

lolololol — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 19:07:25 +0000

^
| in after typical furry drama

By: Maj

Maj — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:28:39 +0000

If you’re sorry for alienating us why didn’t you update the article to remove the stereotypical insults?

By: Malone

Malone — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:33:18 +0000

Most furries need to learn that not every playful little quip is a personal attack. I know lots of furs who would have made the same joke.

As for there being more furs out there than you think. In the town where I live the visible density is about 1/2000, province wide it’s closer to 1/10000. Keep in mind there are numbers made using total population including those too young/old/without internet/don’t know what furry is and comparing against self identifying furs on regional forums/mailing list.

The real numbers are likely quite a bit higher. but that does give you some idea of how many are potentially out.

By: Coyotecom

Coyotecom — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:18:57 +0000

This guy is going to make a fortune.

By: bob dole

bob dole — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:46:37 +0000

All the “furries” I’ve met have were as described. Oh, and the drama. My god, the drama.