Someone just asked the opposite of this question here and I was wondering if there are cases were you’re just not interested in something but you know the community is great nonetheless.

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      This. To be clear I have absolutely no problem with furries existing and I believe anything less than letting y’all be would be tantamount to treason.

      But God damn I just cannot understand it. I don’t get it. And it weirds me out.

      Like I said, I would actually fight to defend your right to wear your fur suit out in public. But I’m also going to make fun of you because man it’s just weird.

      Although I did have a coworker (I work in IT so this isn’t actually that surprising) who was a furry and he tried to meow at me one time when I called his name. Don’t do that. That was weird. Just tell me what you did to fix the computer man.

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    For me it’s Metal music. It’s just absolutely not my genre but an overwhelming amount of metalheads I met were just the nicest, most wholesome and fun people all around.

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      There is research and papers showing that heavy music in general can actually be therapeutic and make someone calmer, rather than the perceived opposite effect. It can be a great outlet. I listen to metal, heavy music, all the time but when I have used it as a coping mechanism, i.e. an outlet for stress, it has definitely allowed me to release such tension. Not only that, but singing/screaming to vocals along to the music surely does release all of energy, and while there are outsiders who might perceive the music as ‘angry’ the incorrect connection they’re making is that anger is an energetic emotion, as in unreleased energy/tension. Metal isn’t angry music, it is energetic. That is why it makes such good workout music. It stimulates and satisfies that part of our lives, letting us be some of the ‘nicest, most wholesome and fun people all around’.

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      Did you ever get into audio books? It’s nice to have someone else read to you at bedtime or during a commute.

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        Ooohh ooh audio books are my bag baby yeah.

        Podcasts too.

        It’s all about timbre and accent. I could listen to the right voice read the phone book.

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          See, I have ebooks I want in audio, so I have to settle for ‘robot’ android voice when there is no ‘audiobook option’

          Any good podcast recs? Any genre/subject is fine.

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        No, not really. Do you need a diagram and flowchart? 😁

        (Come to think of it: An awesome use case for gen AI would be a bot that generates memes and weird images on demand)

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          (not my meme, but I’ll add) Some missing context - Professor Chang, pictured in the meme - is also shouting at something that clearly isn’t gay.

          Professor Chang is essentially a continuous uncomfortable non-sequiter of nonsense.