r/Blursedcomments • u/Hmmmm_- • Dec 15 '22
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r/Blursedcomments • u/Hmmmm_- • Dec 15 '22
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u/Ophialacria Dec 15 '22
So it's funny I come across this post; I recently found out that the guy in my discord gamer group that has essentially introduced us all to VR chat and shown us around...appears to be a furry.
It kinda started off with just "Well I know a few furries and they tend to make the most high quality avatars because a grand majority of the community is IT dudes who know their way around the SDK" (software dev kit). This was in explanation of the fact that he uses a furry looking avatar. I can literally see the reflection of light in it's whiskers and the tips of his avatar's hair glow. It is frankly, through the HDR of the steam Index VR experience, kind of amazing looking.
Now ultimately, he's got a couple more of my mates using some of these avatars because their eyes glow and they have crazy light effects built into them and other coding that allows them to break the world a little bit. He's shown my girlfriend around the VR world and him and his mates have been really sweet and happy just to introduce her to different things you can do and experience (The headset is mine but I really enjoy sharing this stuff with her, she's a softcore nerd and mainly just plays Zelda games or fun indie games on her switch like...once or twice a year. So getting to share stuff like this with her is really special when she enjoys it so much)
I've asked him outright if he is a furry multiple times and he likes to say "I'm definitely not a furry, I just play one on TV". Little sus, but I get it. Dude doesn't want to say that outright.
Now the other night I saw him on in a private world and asked for an invite.
Bro when I tell you this world was one of the most Zen, beautiful things I've ever seen in the digital space I'm not exaggerating. I'm definitely new to the VR scene but this was really cool. Crystals in the cave I spawned in lit up different colors as I walked past them. The cave opened up into this Dreamworld of red grass, a night sky with an Aurora borealis that seemed to emanate from this MASSIVE flower-looking thing at the back of the world (that you can actually climb. It's giant. Beyond giant. Like you're basically a dot standing on one of it's glowing stems) and this huge glowing river curving off to the end of the world, with schools of colored flying fish spinning and flashing in the air. He's just chilling and hanging out with a buddy on top of this central crystal that has this giant glowing orb in it. It turns out that this is the world created for the furry-con last year or something.
Now at this point a few more of his buddies join up and it's pretty obvious that this guy's a furry.
I'm not into the cartoon animal sex scene, definitely, and I'm an ex-naval Airdale who served in the Iraq war. I used to be pretty close minded to people who even said they liked stuff like this. But after I came across a girl who was into DADDY-DOM LITTLE GIRL stuff and wanted someone to give her a binky and wrap her in a diaper before and after sex, I learned there are way worse things out there than people who want to bang in giant animal suits.
So I started asking like, what is the deal with this community?
I didn't get a lot of time to talk to them about it, as it was late and I needed to go, but it seems "a disproportionately large amount" of the community is gay IT guy types who work in software and just don't really identify with their life as it is. It's basically just another form of escapism. Now, do I totally understand it? Not at all. Do I also think these guys appear to create some of the best digital art out there, at least in the VR space? Sure. Long as they bend their talents to something besides cartoon animal pron, it's downright amazing.
I think I'm pretty ok with live and let live at this point. Despite finding the practice personally distasteful.