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Post by EricaOdd on Jun 25, 2017 13:45:06 GMT -8
As far as gaming goes, I like settings with anthropomorphic animals, with or without humans or other races.
Am I a furry? Eeh, not really. I wouldn't consider myself to be part of the fandom, no. I just like the genre or aesthetic or concept or whatever you want to call it.
I've mentioned before that I also like settings where you play as actual non anthropomorphic animals. Like the Secrets of Cats for Fate or Packs in Savage Worlds where you are a rat living in an abandoned department store. Stuff like that.
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Post by Probie Tim on Jun 25, 2017 14:25:34 GMT -8
Mine would probably have to be GWAR. One of the catchiest songs I've ever heard is "F*cking an Animal" by that very band.
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Post by sbloyd on Jun 25, 2017 15:38:43 GMT -8
Mine would probably have to be GWAR. One of the catchiest songs I've ever heard is "F*cking an Animal" by that very band. Fuckin' furries.
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Post by EricaOdd on Jun 25, 2017 16:06:25 GMT -8
If I am to be considered part of the furry fandom, I'm certainly not part of THAT aspect of it! lol
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Post by RudeAlert on Jun 25, 2017 18:52:21 GMT -8
This isn't a guilty pleasure of mine but since so many people are talking about odd musical tastes, here's one I discovered recently that I like. It's a metal band with all the performers dressed as Ned Flanders. Also, as a sort of response to other who posted before, I also like ABBA and Aqua but I don't feel embarrassed about it so that doesn't really count, just wanted to let you folks know that you're not alone. I also absolutely LOVE Babymetal!!! Thank you Stu Venable for mentioning them on the podcast! I also like Ladybeard and his new group Deadlift Lolita. If I can think of a guilty pleasure I'll be sure to post it here... unless I feel too guilty of course.
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Post by chronovore on Jun 26, 2017 6:28:51 GMT -8
Not Taco Bell - as I worked there for several years - but I do get a craving for McDonald's from time to time. I was trying to think of what music I am embarrassed to admit that I enjoy, but there isn't much: I've previously admitted to being a huge Rob Zombie fan, the truth is that I enjoy everything except Japanese enka, opera, and modern country music (anything after 1980 or so). Probably the closest to embarrassment I suffer is enjoying Christina Aguilera. The woman can seriously sing, so whatevs. But then you, YOU, had to bring up crap food. I don't have any excuse for this, but I utterly adore McDonalds Sausage Biscuit with Egg. In Japan, they don't have the biscuit option, only English muffins. Some marketing genius brought the McGriddle garbage fire over here, so you can have fake pancakes with crystalized maple chips in them, but I just want a damned BISCUIT. I'm actually glad they're not available here, because it keeps me from overindulging in them.
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Post by EricaOdd on Jun 26, 2017 7:11:46 GMT -8
Land of the Lost, the original TV show, not that god-awful Will Farrel drek that I don't even acknowledge. What Will Farrel drek? There was no Land of the Lost movie!
LotL is mostly remembered for its corny special effects and acting, but it really was a show ahead of its time, and one that introduced some pretty damn deep concepts for children's entertainment. Especially in the 70s.
Alternate universes, time/space anomalies, creepy talking skulls, invisible roaring angry gods, cosmic entities, strange technology that controls all aspects of a pocket dimension, recursive dimensional space (the characters once climbed a mountain to try to escape the Land, and, through a telescope, saw their own backs on a mountaintop across the valley!).
And then there's the whole story with Enik, the intelligent sleestak. He was out of his time as well, and was convinced that the monstrous sleestaks where his evolutionary ancestors. Then he finds out that HE is the ancestor. The horrible degenerates were his future. That's powerful stuff in a kid's show, IMO.
The writers even made up a language for the ape-like Pakuni. Everything Cha-Ka and his family said meant something. It wasn't a complete language, they didn't go Tolkien on it, but it was complete enough to write dialog with.
Also, big names in sci-fi contributed stories... Walter Koenig, D. C. Fontana, Larry Niven, Ben Bova... even Harlan Ellison wrote a script that was ultimately not produced... HARLAN FREAKIN' ELLISON wrote stories for a kid's sci-fi/fantasy show!!
Honestly, I attribute LotL for making me the geek I am today. Yeah, the special effects and the acting were corny as hell, and almost unwatchable by today's standards, but it made my little mind warp in ways that affect me even today!
That movie was a damn disgrace. Land of the Lost deserved SO much better.
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Post by sbloyd on Jun 26, 2017 7:58:53 GMT -8
TV? I'd go with Supernatural. I don't really follow much TV anymore - TiVo has made it too easy to record something and then put it off indefinitely... but my wife and I still watch Supernatural regularly. (Although after this most recent season-end, maybe not.)
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Post by tomes on Jun 26, 2017 9:01:04 GMT -8
That movie was a damn disgrace. Land of the Lost deserved SO much better. Guilty pleasure? I *LOVED* the movie cause it made fun of all the right things. BUT, I was also a hardcore fan at the age of 8, so yes, ditto on all those points. The travesty of LotL? That remake TV show in the early '90s. THAT shit was a travesty.
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Post by tomes on Jun 26, 2017 9:08:06 GMT -8
I absolutely LOVE the DC remakes of recent... Man of Steel, Batman vs Superman. I think these films are great. Like I've watched them at least 3 times. And I'd watch them again. I don't like candy, or too much sweet stuff. But I could eat Dark Chocolate in all its lovely forms all day and all night. I just bought Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Therapy, and I could finish that carton in a sitting if I had just a little less will power (or a little more sensimilla)
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Post by EricaOdd on Jun 26, 2017 9:09:42 GMT -8
That movie was a damn disgrace. Land of the Lost deserved SO much better. Guilty pleasure? I *LOVED* the movie ... you're dead to me... lol
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Post by EricaOdd on Jun 26, 2017 9:17:39 GMT -8
As for food and/or snacks that everyone else seems to hate.
Oatmeal raisin cookies! I love oatmeal raisin cookies. There's a whole meme out there about how horrible it is to find raisins in your cookie... but I'd rather have an oatmeal raisin cookie than a dry old too-sweet Oreo.
I don't have much of a sweet tooth to start with, so those as well as pecan sandies (mmm.... pecan sandies... ) are my preferred cookies.
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Post by uncommonman on Jun 26, 2017 9:44:22 GMT -8
As for food and/or snacks that everyone else seems to hate. Oatmeal raisin cookies! I love oatmeal raisin cookies. There's a whole meme out there about how horrible it is to find raisins in your cookie... but I'd rather have an oatmeal raisin cookie than a dry old too-sweet Oreo. I don't have much of a sweet tooth to start with, so those as well as pecan sandies (mmm.... pecan sandies... ) are my preferred cookies. Oatmeal is great for cumb pie, it makes it less sweet. The best pie I've had was a pear and ginger oatmeal cumb pie, served at an medieval restaurant (in an actual medeval building). They also has the best beer, unfiltered and unpasteurized and brewed in house.
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Post by chronovore on Jun 26, 2017 16:35:18 GMT -8
TV? I'd go with Supernatural. I don't really follow much TV anymore - TiVo has made it too easy to record something and then put it off indefinitely... but my wife and I still watch Supernatural regularly. (Although after this most recent season-end, maybe not.) I watched Supernatural and loved seasons 2 through 5. It seemed like the creators were fine with wrapping it up on s5, and it really ended well, so I set it aside after that. Recently Japan Amazon Prime streaming video offered it, so I picked it up again. I thought the Leviathan stuff was straight garbage, but it was fun to watch the brothers and Castiel do their thang. Now I'm up to season 9, and enjoying the character interaction more than ever.
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Post by zoomfarg on Jun 26, 2017 16:41:14 GMT -8
Oooh a food one. Jalapeño Cheetos. I do actually kind of feel guilty about that one. I don't have them very often. Only with one friend, who is quite the enabler... ... damn you G.I. Joe
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