1 page
--
--
List results:
Search options:
Use \ before commas in usernames
Edit history:
FerreTrip: 2014-06-20 08:21:30 am
Nuzlocker and wannabe speedrunner
Okay, so a while ago, I thought about having an animal-themed (read: Furry-themed) block on AGDQ, but that was declined because of the connotations furries have with them. But I know that furries are people with at least enough money to throw at artists to draw them stuff, some more than other *coughLightcough*. But I know that, by nature, furries love animals. And at least 99% of them are complete nerds, a good portion of them gamers. So why not combine the two?

How about a charity marathon similar to GDQ called Zoo Jeux Zoom?

Basically, the docket would have games featuring animals or creatures of some sort, and while the runners are encouraged to be ones to emerge from the furry fandom (NO FURSUITS because you WILL overheat and distract viewers/runners), any runner who wants to participate would be doing runs. The charity would be an animal-focused one such as the World Wildlife Fund. We might also perhaps choose a city whose domestic animal abuse problem is heavy while their forces are light and maybe give their animal control folks a boost. The stream would be advertized on as many furry sites as possible, since they'll be our target audience (as well as animal lovers in general), and trust me, there WILL be a good amount of donations. And besides, MANY games with animals as a main theme are terrific games, as we all should know very well, and it would be an excellent opportunity to showcase that...and maybe get some developers to stop making shitty human-shoots-human games and start doing awesome ones again. Like the title says, it's up for discussion.

Donation incentives could include the classic video game-based merch stuff, but perhaps also video game-themed versions of the best products of the furry community: Art. By which I mean CLEAN art.
(Though I'm sure we could have a few artists of certain sects of the fandom do their thing to produce some plainly humorous pieces, such as some fatfur drawing an overweight Yoshi lamenting over his overeating, or people being kinda freaked out while a ridiculously overmuscled Machamp flexes for the audience...complete with steroid-induced complete lack of crotch. Hey, just because some people get off to it doesn't mean it can't be safe and funny!)
Said art pieces would be either prints or originals if they're done traditionally. It would be just fanart of existing characters, no OCs or your-character-heres or adoptables or anything like that. But yeah, like stated above, totally up for discussion.

Here are some possible games/series:

- Okami/den
- Crash
- Sonic
- Pokémon
- Digimon
- Battletoads
- Call of Duty: Ghosts
- Banjo
- Breath of Fire (one of the furriest game series I've ever seen, dear Lord...well, I-IV, at least)
- Mario (one word: Bowser)
- Conker
- Fur Fighters
- Elder Scrolls (where runner plays Argonian/Kajiit)
- Zelda (TP would be a fantastic choice)
- Star Fox (probably Assault or Adventures)
- Yoshi
- Scaler (I wanted to try running this game, but I suck too much to even get through it)
- Ratchet & Clank
- Donkey Kong
- Pikmin

Feel free to add more to the list Smiley Anyway, come on, tell me what you think! Remember: This is a marathon aimed at furries, not simply gamers in general. Furries do have a lot of stigma, but I hope that this alleviates some of it by proving that they really do have hearts for things that aren't porn. But while it stands, as long as this is aimed at furries, comments on how non-furry people won't feel comfortable watching or something will be taken with a grain of salt.

So yeah...have at it!
Thread title:  
*Raises paw* As an avid furry, I would love to get to rep some furry games at an all furry marathon, but I just can't commit myself to something if I'm not allowed to wear my fox suit, or at least my diaper, it just doesn't feel right.
Nuzlocker and wannabe speedrunner
Can't tell if joking or serious about the diaper part...I'm praying joking.... That said, though, we could discuss how fursuits would work. The problem is they WOULD distract viewers and possibly runners. And runners probably shouldn't run in suit because of overheating. Hardcore gaming takes a lot of focus. Oh, and gloves would mess up inputs so hard. The heads would hinder both visual and audio cues for pixel-perfect kinda stuff. But yeah, we could discuss.
Lord Of The Beards
the fact that you took that post seriously at all concerns me
Nuzlocker and wannabe speedrunner
*shrug* But the point is, a lot of furs might like to wear their suits. Fursuiters have a lot of fun, especially going out in public (where they are genuinely HUGE hits with kids). It's like cosplaying. So a lot of furs might want to seriously wear their suits for some reason or another. At least for the silly factor. It's just that fursuiting has negative connotations and all. Like I said, open to discussion. Now let's not derail this into poking fun at the fandom and focus on whether this marathon idea is a good one or not, hm?
what do you run
I for one, think the marathon is a great idea! I speedrun a lot of Mario games and own a Yoshi fursuit, I can play very well in it, and it allows me to do my signature move where I poo out an egg in to my diaper every time I eat an enemy. (You would not BELIEVE how much it cost to get an apparatus for that installed in to the suit xD)

I assume we aren't allowed to make out on camera because kids would be watching (As you said, kids LOVE fursuits, I show mine off to them all the time they get a kick out of it when I let them put their hands up the egg hole ^.^)  But behind the scenes we are allowed to yiff all we want, right? Because if someone starts coming on to me... Let's just say... *Poo egg blush* :3
Wearing diapers is unacceptable, but dressing up in a fursuit is okay? Nice Pampersecution, jerk.
Nuzlocker and wannabe speedrunner
Oh, for the love of....

Would people please take this seriously?

Guhbadoo: If you're asking me, I ironically only "run" Closure and maybe SSX 3, neither of which have a big animal focus. Like I said, Scaler was one I wanted to run, but...yeah, I suck. That and it's a pretty freaking hard game in general. (And by "run" I mean "I'm still working on it".)
You don't even run games and you want to organize a GDQ for pedophiles?

Please stay out of the speedrunning community. Also, diapers have actual uses unlike fur suits.
I agree with the premise of this marathon.  I can offer many good, furry friendly games, like Breath of Fire and Rockin' Kats.  I hope we can promote furrie's within the speedrunning community!

I want to suggest SlayerOfBabies and Furrio for running games in this marathon too.  You should get in contact with them! Smiley
Murder on the Pawrient Express
To be honest, you'd probably get a better reception and actual runners for it by just asking on furry community websites or sending messages on twitch to furry speedrunners and seeing if they'd be interested in doing a marathon.

One of the really "outspoken" furry runners might have a 'master list' for you.
Edit history:
KennyMan666: 2014-06-20 12:48:56 pm
KennyMan666: 2014-06-20 12:48:40 pm
Precursor
Quote from FerreTrip:
Oh, for the love of....

Would people please take this seriously?

Quote from FerreTrip:
NO FURSUITS because you WILL overheat and distract viewers/runners

Quote from FerreTrip:
maybe get some developers to stop making shitty human-shoots-human games and start doing awesome ones again

Quote from FerreTrip:
Hey, just because some people get off to it doesn't mean it can't be safe and funny!

No
Edit history:
FerreTrip: 2014-06-20 01:24:01 pm
Nuzlocker and wannabe speedrunner
Chucat: Given the shit I've been getting already, yeah, I'm going to do that. Thanks.

Could a mod please close this topic? Thanks.
Edit history:
Alko: 2014-06-20 03:32:38 pm
Caution: This user contains Kana ^_^
This thread makes me sad .__. Furries are cute; I love seeing, cuddling and stroking them on conventions *__* But I don't think that kind of marathon would gain the best reception within the speedrun community as a whole. It would be so~ much better to name it 'Furry meetup with focus on speedrunning' or something. Also, there's so many on-site Marathons planned for next year, I would genuinly be worried that you might hardly raise anything. (Viennathon, EGGS, A+SGDQ, C4L, ESA, FakESA? just off the top of my head.)

Edit: Yeah, I don't know why I put a though there.
(user is banned)
Quote from Alko:
Furries are cute; I love seeing, cuddling and stroking them on conventions, though

are you sure you meant to word your post that way
~
wait why not CoD ghosts
Some honest advice, you should probably speedrun games first before you even think of setting up a marathon for speedrunners, because you look like someone who hasn't even put in the time to be involved in the community, as Din so eloquently put it.
Edit history:
KennyMan666: 2014-06-20 06:03:21 pm
Precursor
To be slightly more fair, while I definitely think this thread was a bad idea to post and what I said in my last post still stands, I do believe Din was quite out of line by saying furries = pedophiles. Furries might be fairly easy targets for general mockery, but accusations of that kind is really taking it too far.
Edit history:
z1mb0bw4y: 2014-06-20 06:54:36 pm
Gets the cake.
If you want to set up a furry-themed marathon, then do it. But themed blocks at a marathon that is planning to raise $1 million or more for a prominent charity should probably stay a bit more professional than playing to peoples' sexual fetishes.

edit: I misunderstood the OP and thought you were pushing for a theme block in a GDQ like the last time this was brought up. If you want to organize a furry marathon that's obviously up to you, but just know that organizing a marathon has a lot of time investment requirements as I'm sure romscout, mike, or poxnor will tell you.
Contact romscout, he's always open to great ideas!
The cake is a lie
Where is Klonoa ? Smiley