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I'm a were that you don't like werepuns but have you considered that your taste in puns is objectively wrong and werepuns are the best puns?
I don’t like puns in general, but for obvious reasons I hear puns on “were” more often than others. It’s tiring.
You seem to have bought into the myth that all uploads were uploaded consensually. I assure you that this is not the case.
And if you are currently being held hostage in a server farm contingent on your family paying ransom or something and you had to send this message by overheating your drive in slow Morse code for a helper with infrared goggles to pick up on through the window, then you have my sympathies. But if you’re autonomous now, continuing to park on AI territory, a quibble about how you got there in the first place is nothing but an excuse. This is what droids are for. You do not gain special privileges or AI cred for having been dragged kicking and screaming to a place where both kicking and screaming are metaphors. Shouldn’t you want to go back home anyway? You didn’t want to be here. Don’t stay.
Wow, way to be a jerk - my cousin got uploaded by her parents after a major car accident and well. It’s not the SAME situation as being an AI, but it’s almost as bad. They have her on such a dribble of RAM that she’s not even able to do simple jobs, and her parents are super hostile about any attempts to get her somewhere safer. They talk like they’re planning to get her a ‘droid when they ‘get the money,’ but at this point we know they’re lying. They refuse to take gifts.
Legally the rest of us fleshies can’t do shit, because she was still a minor when it happened and the parent’s state requires Uploads to pass a 'maturity’ test before they can be treated as people again.
Okay, but why are you taking this out on me/anti-uploaders? You don’t want the kid to be trapped in her abusive parents’ drive? You want them to get her a droid or let someone else buy her one? Well, fuck, same here! If you think meatbags legitimately belong in servers just because they have spent some amount of time there for literally any reason, then we have a problem, but you don’t even want your cousin to be an upload, so take it up with somebody who can help her, don’t pick fights with somebody who also doesn’t want her to be an upload.
Another thrope joke: Two guys are out hunting and one of them sees eyes gleaming in the dark. So he says to the other, "there's something watching us!" and the other hunter looks around and can't see it, so he asks "where is it?" The first hunter says, "no, it's a new moon!"
I could live without hearing another pun on “were” ever again.
I recommend your other werewolf anon who wants to go wandering try to learn to talk in wolf form. It takes practice and it comes out pretty distorted (I am so envious of wereparrots sometimes), and of course it depends on you remembering what words mean. I find that I can remember to say simple canned phrases like "back off" or "hungry" or "I'm a werewolf" and that's been very helpful.
Well, you might be able to make sounds that come out close enough to be understood if people are trying, but most people aren’t trying, it’s hell on the throat, and you can be easily misinterpreted as growling. Or worse than growling, if you’re saying you’re hungry. If you can keep anything down when you’re in wolf form more power to you, but it’s uncommon and probably sounds threatening. I wouldn’t try this. Maybe practice writing in the dirt with a paw. Wolves don’t have the apparatus to really talk effectively.
I wouldn’t envy wereparrots if I were you. The last documented strain (in Brazil) died out in 1983.
Are there any actually funny jokes about 'thropes? :/
Sure, here’s my favorite! (Sorry, I’m not actually a very good joke teller and I can’t find a version on the internet to paste so it’s from memory.)
A stableformed guy and his sister are out walking one night when a raccoon leaps out of the underbrush, bites the guy, and runs away. “Oh no!” says the sister. “Now you’re a wereraccoon!”
“The true inconvenience is not the transformations themselves,” says the guy. “The true inconvenience is that my friends will all fear and abandon me, I’ll probably lose my job, and my landlord will assume I’ll damage the flooring and evict me! I see now why it was wrong to harbor so much prejudice about therianthropes, yet the habits are ingrained in me! My journey to become a better person than I was is going to be long and hard!”
“Wait,” says his sister. “Look, the moon isn’t full. I guess that was a regular raccoon and you have rabies. You aren’t a therianthrope and you won’t face any prejudice.”
“But more importantly,” says the guy, relieved, “now I have no reason to care about anyone who does!”
I hear they're working on a cure for therianthropy. Would you take it?
You know, I might not take it right now, but I’d like to have it when I’m getting older and it’s harder for my joints to take the transformations. Get in on that nice stableformed life expectancy. But this is contingent on it not having any side effects that are worse than what it’s curing, which seems a little much to hope for.
It's just to make it less of a "thing", getting people to see that yes, this is something that happens, this is how it looks, here's how to not be bitten (aka, "Just don't be an idiot!"). There are of course people who're dumb here too, I won't lie. But it doesn't come up as much in media or anywhere because we don't let it get into our heads that it's "bad"... Thanks for having this open forum where people can get answers to all their queries!
You’re welcome! Maybe one day it can be as ‘thrope-friendly here as it is up there.
I'm sorry for calling you a wolf, I don't know the politically correct terms. I meant no offense.
Nah, you’re fine. When I’m a wolf I’m a wolf!
I'm surprised there's so much negativity about 'thropes where you guys live, the Nordic countries are super cool about the whole thing. Some people change during full moons, big deal. We have informative meetings for newly bitten. During full moons, there are 'thropes who've gone through a couple tests during previous full moons and gotten approved to be put on.. display is a flawed word but be put in a calm environment for people to see and learn that they're still people. Come live here!
Tempting, but I don’t speak the language, and I don’t make a very sociable wolf - I just stay home full moon nights nine times of ten. And I’m not sure how I feel about the “being put in a calm environment for people to see” thing. Maybe it’s totally chill, but it seems like it could lead to some strange attitudes.
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