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[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

...yeah that sounds about right for sergals, tbh

Generally speaking, once you get past the "traditional" species like foxes, rabbits, cats, etc., and start getting more into the esoteric fantasy/scifi species like sergals, protogens, and yinglets, the people who create characters for those species tend to fall into one of two camps:

  • super srs "you must follow this lore to the letter or I will end you, by which I mean I will post a FurAffinity journal for my 7 followers complaining about your character diverging from the lore that nobody will pay attention to" types

  • "oh this looks cool I'm gonna make one and put my own twist on the design" types

Funny story, the person who originally designed protogens tried to be the first type, but pretty much everyone ignored him and just did their own thing anyway

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

what the devil is that contraption your describing ? What is a protogens ?

I'M SCARED

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They're literally fluffy cyborgs with an LED monitor display for a face lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I think (hope) they're referring to the last panel of that comic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Literally the computer equivalent of a lobotomy has happened in that comic and their guardian is like "lol lmao". Idk why that Erkul guy is hella mad when I pointed out the plot

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I think i'd be mad too

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but also why do people care that much about a one-off gag in a two-panel comic

It's like going "well ackshually if Superman tried to lift the plane like that he'd just rip off its nose" except even dumber

So many people need to remember the MST3K mantra: "it's just a TV show/movie/game/comic, I should really just relax"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

You need to calm down buddy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Don't be scared. Protogens run on 2015 Bayesian Inference search results from Google before Google became inherently evil.

So as long as long as they don't update...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

so if we connect them to internet we die ? Is that right ?