I can see why people may be offended by NBZ’s use of the word grooming in this example, since grooming involves manipulating a vulnerable person for one’s own sexual gratification, and the term is currently being used fallaciously and maliciously against gay people in general.
However, outside of the above context, comparing sexual identity to a fetish is like comparing apples and teaspoons.
is this mf talking about fucking apples?
that’s like the sandpaper of fruit
maybe it was a brag
Even if those were posts I shouldn’t have made, I believe in maintaining a record of posts that shouldn’t have been made. I dislike forgetting the past.
Also, thread title is apparently false advertising.
I did not report anything. A moderator literally asked me, you saw this, asked me if I wanted your post moderated. Has your post been moderated?
You can edit in a comment regarding the post (with an ETA: preface). Or do strikeout etc, as or when appropriate.
Oh sorry, I missed where the title said “discuss whatever you want, UNLESS that’s criticizing any posts herein”
Discussing furries in a humourous tone doesn’t seem very welcome here.
The use of the term term ‘grooming’ here isn’t funny.
Humor isn’t one-size-fits-all.
The issue isn’t whether or not joking about grooming future furries is appropriate. Rather, it’s that Animal Crossing is a LGBT- associated game, and joking about the LGBT community grooming children is not very funny, since it’s a homophobic talking point.
What can we do to make your grooming posts more welcome here? Should I tell people that having a “yikes” reaction to grooming posts is not welcome, and apologize for my own reaction? How would that not be stupid, to limit that expression? Did you think this through at all?
It’s almost like your grooming posts ARE welcome, and on top of that, you are advocating to make other, non-NBZ people unwelcome.
But that can’t be correct, since you pride yourself on being so coldly logical. So it’s not possible that you’re reacting irrationally to criticism due to your emotions. Just not possible.
Tell me about it. Don’t even mention Disney if you don’t want to turbo ban…
I did mention Disney ITT.
Pervert.
I feel partly responsible for starting this, so my apologies there. This wasn’t how I expected to get an answer to my question
Gosh I love Nic Cage
There’s no way you’re responsible for anything. Sorry I didn’t feel like finishing my explanation last night.
Animal Crossing is an open-ended sandbox game. And a social “simulation.” Scare quotes due to how light-hearted and utopic it can be.
All human players are human (and not the furry kind of human). NPCs are anthropomorphic animals.
You get out of the rat race and move to an island in the sea, and you slowly build your island as you accumulate items and the means to build, by completing tasks. For me the point is to make my NPC neighbors happy, have fun interactions with them, and catch them singing or playing instruments I left out for them. And to have international superstar KK Slider (a dog) play concerts on my island.
The current version of the game was released right at the beginning of the first 2020 lockdowns. It’s overwhelmingly played by adults. You can visit your friend’s islands via the internet. Like you can have a half dozen friends running around with you on your island.
The game is way more popular per capita with queer people than the cis hets, although it’s a remarkably popular game with the broader population. There’s 98-year old great-grandmas playing this game and sharing their islands with everyone.
I think there’s some immediately intuitive reasons queer adults love this game so much (escaping to a place where everyone is kind and accepting) and probably a bunch more less intuitive reasons as well.