Nov 5, 2026, 10:58 AM@dancrescentwolf Fandoms are a worship of consumption. Furries especially so imo. The whole culture is built on spending at this point. Spending to go to cons, to have a suit, to have a gallery of art. Being able to have art is part of your social status in the fandom.
It's so much of an expectation people will be confused if you haven't gone to a con and don't understand con lingo.
Nov 5, 2026, 10:58 AM@dancrescentwolf Also, being a black furry, I don't hold water for this fandom.
Nov 5, 2026, 11:00 AM@dancrescentwolf Also, as one other has said: code isn't viewed as an art, but a thing in you way. Its shocking how nobody but a shockingly small sect of programmers care about the art of it. LLMs have unmasked everyone's belief on AI.
@and yeah it's so sad really - to me programming is very much equal to art.
it's weird tough - if you ask someone if they'd say a random video is art, they'd probably say yes.
but they'd never spend a thought about how the thing was even made (not talking about being generated now)
but even the most simplistic video game involves some kind of code
idk just some thoughts I had lel
I don't even know if this makes sense XD
@dancrescentwolf @and Doing programming for most of my life, it's hard for me to kinda.. not see it as art myself. It sure hurts seeing so many people around me and people I used to respect in this craft just.. throw it away >.<
Doubly so in game dev - like we're all making a creative work here???
Nov 5, 2026, 11:33 AM@CraftedCart @dancrescentwolf Having hang with game deva and made the mistake of talking about Code as Art and exploring what you can do in Lua. You will get yelled at and mocked by the Code as Utility crowd.
Game devs are kinda the worst cause code is either "in the way" or they only care about the technical cloat of solving hard problems. The LÖVE discord can be exhausting cause people seem to hate the language.
@and sadly I kinda don't understand anything you just said XDD
(I'm sadly not deep enough in this field but I love to learn!!)
@and@thicc.horse @dancrescentwolf@pounced-on.me :bugcat_nod:
this is kinda what annoys me about how there seems to be a implied expectation in some places that to be a true furry you must go to cons and own a fursuit, its kinda just infurating