# Kantalooppi pits himself for sounding like a whiny little Lovecraft lover **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 22, 2003, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867 "2003-10-22T09:21:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/1 "2003-10-22T09:21:04Z")
[http://www.somethingpositive.net/](http://www.somethingpositive.net/) Yes, bottom of the page. That’s me who is getting the Golden Stalin. I’m not blaming. If I would, I’d be a hypocrite - if an another person had sent that, I might have laughed and said “God, what a dweeb”. What I was kind of getting at was that it’s, you know, pretty silly to complain that furries and anti-furries are geeks when you do it with something as nerdy as a Cthulhu insertion, but oh well. And I’m not even particularily into Lovecraft. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/2 "2003-10-22T09:44:05Z")
I knew what this thread was about as soon as I saw the title. Don’t worry about it. Something Positive is a pretty mediocre web comic. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/3 "2003-10-22T09:44:39Z")
Nice trophy! You’re keeping it, right? ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/4 "2003-10-22T12:37:19Z")
Of course. Though I’m not exactly sure what’s the connection between Stalin and whining. ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/5 "2003-10-22T13:06:41Z")
Sorry to have to ask, but, um… what’s a furry? Or an anti-furry, come to that. Google isn’t helping me any :-(. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/6 "2003-10-22T13:15:29Z")
The writer’s a pretty nice guy, honestly. (I know him outside of his webcomic work.) I think he just feels that considering that his normal daily fare contains such subject matter as midget sex slaves having nonconsentual sex with sleeping women’s feet, it’s kind of a weak rag. Specially since Great Cthulhu wasn’t even the point of the cartoon. Furry: People who like anthromorphic animals. No. Not like-like. “You ever think Bugs Bunny was hot when he dressed up as a girl bunny?” (Wayne’s World) No, several degrees up from that. Up to and possibly including having sex in bunny costumes. Harmless, but kinda annoying. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/7 "2003-10-22T13:18:34Z")
Oh, eew. Think cute-stuffed-animal-fetish, **Dead Badger**. Picture adults who wear full-body fur suits and masks with convienent holes in them. Or click [here](http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=1727) for a recent SA take on them. ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/8 "2003-10-22T13:23:54Z")
I think the term alludes to a usenet poster who’s handle is some sort of cute furry animal, and pretends to be that cute furry animal constantly, eventually carrying it over to the adult chat rooms. So somebody could be “CutieBunny” or “MagicBear” and carry the smarmy personality into the anal sex forum, and talk about how their poor little fluffy tail is getting mashed from all that ass pounding. [sub]Mind you, I’ve never actually done the furry thing, this is just what I’ve read…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![DoubleJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@DoubleJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoubleJ)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/9 "2003-10-22T13:26:38Z")
Damn… took me too long to find the comic I was looking for in the [Something Positive archive](http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp03292003.html). ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/10 "2003-10-22T13:32:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cckerberos \* > **Something Positive is a pretty mediocre web comic.** Many, _many_ Dopers disagree. (Which doesn’t prove anything, of course.) ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/11 "2003-10-22T13:33:12Z")
> [@](#): > > I think he just feels that considering that his normal daily fare contains such subject matter as midget sex slaves having nonconsentual sex with sleeping women’s feet, it’s kind of a weak rag. Yes, I know, and it was my to an extent my fault for not phrasing myself correctly, but still, I come off as some sort of a angry Lovecraft geek aiming to avenge his God, though that pretty much wasn’t the case at all - I was just bored and feeling a bit stupid. ---
**Author:** ![Kantalooppi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a5b964/32.png) [@Kantalooppi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kantalooppi)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/12 "2003-10-22T13:43:30Z")
And yes, even with a bit more rephrasing it would be a pretty minor issue. ---
**Author:** ![Hamadryad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6de8d8/32.png) [@Hamadryad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamadryad)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/13 "2003-10-22T14:00:16Z")
If it’s any consolation, I thought the whole thing was hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![lno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@lno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lno)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/14 "2003-10-22T14:04:10Z")
Oh, when Cthulhu awakes he’s going to eat all of us, faithful defenders of his mythos or not. I say, let’s dress him up in an apron while we still can. ---
**Author:** ![cckerberos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f0a364/32.png) [@cckerberos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cckerberos)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/15 "2003-10-22T14:05:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Spiff \* > \*\*Many, _many_ Dopers disagree. > > (Which doesn’t prove anything, of course.) \*\* Used to be a big fan, loved it back at the beginning. I think there are way too many serious strips now, though. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/16 "2003-10-22T16:24:07Z")
Wow, that was _you?_ Small world. ---
**Author:** ![Skeezix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@Skeezix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skeezix)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/17 "2003-10-22T16:26:52Z")
That mostly sums up my attitude as well, **cckerberos**. I realized t’other night that, instead of checking daily/every other day for updates, I hit the site maybe once a week at most, and catch up on “back issues” then. It’s definately slid down on my list of “gotta hit” web sites. It does seem to have lost something. Of course, I also usually find the lemon sour jokes in Twisted Kaiju Theater sidesplittingly funny, so what do I know? ---
**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/18 "2003-10-22T16:29:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kantalooppi \* > \*\*[http://www.somethingpositive.net/](http://www.somethingpositive.net/) > > Yes, bottom of the page. That’s me who is getting the Golden Stalin. > > I’m not blaming. If I would, I’d be a hypocrite - if an another person had sent that, I might have laughed and said “God, what a dweeb”. What I was kind of getting at was that it’s, you know, pretty silly to complain that furries and anti-furries are geeks when you do it with something as nerdy as a Cthulhu insertion, but oh well. > > And I’m not even particularily into Lovecraft. > > Sigh. \*\* There is only one way to redeem yourself: you must immediately send Mr. Milholland a tearful acceptance speech. Well, a tearfully-written acceptance speech – I’m not suggesting you actually cry into your keyboard, although the \\ HTML tags might be worth a shot. Oh, and it’s spelled “r **i** diculous.” ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/19 "2003-10-22T16:52:18Z")
Well, I thought it was quite funny! 😃 Though, he partially misrepresented your point - which was, I thought, that such references are _lame_ and _overdone_. But by using the term “rape”, you did indeed leave yourself open to his abuse. I second the motion of writing an “acceptance speech” - he’d probably publish it, if you made it funny. (He’d publish it if you wrote back angrily, but only to heap further abuse on you). I must admit to liking the comic. Though after a couple of years, it is gearing down somewhat. ---
**Author:** ![robertliguori](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/46a35a/32.png) [@robertliguori](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robertliguori)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2003, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867/20 "2003-10-22T17:19:59Z")
The more-or-less official definition of a furry is someone with an interest in anthropomorphic animals. Just as the Star Wars fandom includes people who pretend to be jedi and own lightsaber-shaped sex toys, so does the furry fandom include the plushifiles and the aforementioned fur-suiters. Also, Randy needs a lesson in reading comprehension. Saying that something is overdone and trite is not the same thing as saying that it’s offensive. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/kantalooppi-pits-himself-for-sounding-like-a-whiny-little-lovecraft-lover/208867.md?page=2)