… Damn.
I had to look that up, I’d never even heard of that manga.
Also: WTF I didn’t even know CLAMP was that old?!
… Yeah, this is what I mean, horse girls are somehow able to consistently out-nerd me, and I do find this intimidating, lol.
Ok, I am not familiar with either ‘elder emo girls’ nor ‘tail girls’.
Elder emo girls does not make sense to me at all, because emo girls are essentially the exact opposite of horse girls.
Horse girls learn how to do things, many things, practical things, and be good at them.
Emo girls are angsty, and make bad poetry or art, then usually either phase out of that, or transition into rave/scene girls, develop serious drug problems, and then basically work in retail or customer service the rest of their lives, with few exceptions… maybe a few become tattoo artists or become actually halfway decent at some other kind of art.
Perhaps you are thinking of elder goth girls?
Not the same thing as emo, not even close.
Tail girls?
I… do you mean a furry, some kind of anthro/humanoid type person?
No, I’ve never known a single horse girl that became or also is/was a furry or puppy girl or anything like that, again they tend to be extremely practical and utilitarian, they tend to be fairly domineering, task/goal oriented.
They just also have eccentric hobbies/interests, in my estimation due to the relative social isolation of either literally living away from a lot of other people, on a farm or ranch, or at least spending so much time at a farm or ranch that they’re not as enmeshed in ‘normal’ society.
They do not need to fantasize an alternate identity as an animal, because so much of their lives involve very real and often traumatic experiences with animals, so they understand them in a much more grounded and realistic way.
Like, a horse girl walking past a furry at a convention is likely to make a passive aggressive ‘joke’ about having some extra dewormer, if the furry needs it.
They’re cocky, self-confident, haughty… better than you, lol.
… I didn’y wanna go there, but … yeah.
Goddamn, Enumclaw… goddamn.
Oh jesus christ…
That’s genuinely awful.
Ok, now that I’ve worked through that mental image…
Ahem.
"In the arms of an angel…"
I’m so sorry.
I was a corpo once.
Forunately, I was unsuccesful at murdering my conscience, so I wasn’t a corpo for very long.
“Is it hard to breathe?”
“What’s the best ski lodge?”
“Do you know any good neighborhoods? I’m looking to work from home.”
As a Seattle native, I feel I must apologize on behalf of all the clueless MicroSlopers and Amazonians you’ve had to endure.
Yeah, they are different things.
A horse girl, in my understanding of the phrase, isn’t merely conceptual obsession… its actually being a stablehand, a rider, a trainer, a groomer, something like that; actually being around horses for significant amounts of time.
I guess this is a dated reference at this point but Beth from Rick and Morty is a horse girl, a girl who really likes to play with pony toys is not.
Though, horse girls … do tend to be somewhere between eccentric to bonkers, I would not put it past them to have some … fair amount of kink.
That being said, if you can actually ride a horse, you’ve seen a horse cock, and you know that’ll fucking kill you.
Its kinda similar to how people who actually are familiar with guns, and are not total idiots, will cringe at people who know nothing about guns, making all kinds of gun jokes and ‘deductions’ that actually make no sense.
I feel like you could describe the psyche of horses with the sentiment in the phrase:
“But for the grace of God, go I.”
Just a bunch of beautiful, dumb bastards who are uncommonly good at ‘run away really fast’.
Doesn’t matter what direction they’re running in, they’ll get somewhere, though.
Maybe even in one piece!
Unless I am mistaken, a fair number of studies have determined that that is insufficient as a method/means to explain the capabilities that they routinely display.
Like one theory is that they somehow functionally have a literal metalic compass in their brain, or potentially … basically an ability to sense geomagnetic subtleties and anomalies, and use those as waypoints and guidelines, but… again I might be out of date here, but afaik, nobody has yet proposed a non problematic or well verified hypothesis.
Clearly ya’ll have not known any horse girls.
This is extremely normal for them.
I’d be willing to bet there are nearly 0 horse girls who are not also absolute super fans of some kind of cartoon media / video game.
I dated a horse girl back in the mid to late 00’s.
She was studying Japanese at Uni, and I am 90% sure she was writing fan subs for Death Note, as it was coming out.
Oh and she also was just fully fabricating her own cosplays, like multiple a year, at the kind of quality level you’d see people making businesses out of on etsy, a decade later.
… We did not end up working out, but she’s since gone on to literally cross all of Mongolia, on horseback.
Do not fuck with nor underestimate horse girls.
Hey there yah go haha, maybe for if he gets a new bro or sis at some point =P
Wait a minute!
That’s not Herbie!
… it’s got the wrong livery…
Appromixately a calzone, if we want to start some kind of pizza vs sandwich alignment chart type discussion, by way of analogy.
Is it both?
Neither?
I never properly like lived on a farm or ranch, but I have had a few girlfriends and friends that essentially coaxed me into being an unpaid stablehand, lol.
I enjoyed the learning experiences, genuienly, and just being able to be around animals, as disgusting and stupid as they can be haha.
But yeah, more than once, the gf that foxhunted, she’d come back with a story about how one horse in the group did something immensely bone headed.
That particular puddle? Its evil, fuck you, I’m not going within eyeshot of it.
Oh you want me to slow down around this tree, ok, here, imma take a shortcut real slow, that clothelines the rider on a different tree.
etc etc…
Oh me too!
I don’t like… dislike pigeons, they just are kinda dumb.
Same with horses, I love horses, but goddamnit are they stupid, lol.
Like, it’s not an insult to identify that different kinds of animals have different kinds of mental capabilities.
I’m just trying to point out that… while pigeons are ‘dumb’ in a lot of ways, they do also at least seem to have something akin to a superpower, so if you judged conscious entities by that metric, presumably they would all think that we are basically mentally disabled, in terms of navigation abilities.
Something does not need to be highly intelligent to be loveable, appreciated.
You basically just have to meet them on their level, if that makes sense.
I mean… don’t pigeons and a number of other birds… essentially have some method of navigating / spatial awareness that is still not well understood by science?
Basically, yeah, they dumb as fuck, but also, they seem to have something approximating a sixth sense that we do not comprehend.
Technically, its not their fault, they were made that way and have no means of changing themselves…
But that doesn’t change that they functionally are agents of evil.
… They’re basically Orcs, but with even less agency.
setsubyou got it more correct, my terminology is a bit off.
Yeah, you can lock the refresh rate at basically 15hz intervals (i think, last time i checked?), which is not true VRR, but, if you take the time to configure profiles and graphics settings per game, get stable and consistent frame rates, and then match the configurable refresh rate to that…
… this is sorta close to the … idea/performance of what true VRR is going for, it just doesn’t all work ‘automagically’.
I have an OLED, not an LCD, so yeah it looks like the LCD tops out at 60hz.
So with an LCD, you could aim for basically ‘always a bit above 30 fps’ and then 60hz, for that 1:2 ratio, and with an OLED, aim for ‘always a bit above 45 fps’, and then 90hz, for the same 1:2 ratio.
Its not the same, of course, as actually having 60 or 90 fps, but, as long as your fps never dips below the screen refresh rate, it looks/feels smoother than doing a 30fps or 45fps traditional vsync.
But of course, you’ll probably only need to do this for… significantly graphically heavy games… tons of less graphically intense / better optimized games will not need this level of tinkering min maxxing.
I realize he/she probably already has a name, but I named them ‘Sqwoober’.
I did not know it was a show either, yeah ok I’ll check it out!
Yeah I also find it strange that isekai is treated as like… any kind of a new thing.
Maybe some precise or specific mechanic of ‘magically/technologically transferred into an entirely new world’… is somehow some kind of distinct thing…
But like, humans have been telling stories where someone is moved into an entirely different realm, that plays by different rules, and those rules basically transform them directly… for quite a long time.
Alice in Wonderland?
Tron?
The Wizard of Oz?
Dante’s Inferno?
Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court?
Peter Pan?
… and that’s just ‘western’ stories.
Its like literally the archetype for an escapist fantasy story.
Not trying to knock the genre by any means, its wonderful to have tales that give you a kind of fundamental ‘the world could be different’ sort of idea… but it is silly when people act like its some kind of groundbreaking concept.