Could you imagine having to take your thousand dollar fursuit head to a shop for repairs after only a few outings? I’d be pissed.
I should have assumed, but I am just now realizing the suits cost that much and that there are infact fursuit repair shops. I would have thought it was going into a fabric store… Living over here in my isolated ignorance I guess lol
(Comically I had to go back and edit pursuit to fursuit because it wasn’t in my phones standard diction)
They’ve been around a long time actually. Somebody had to make mascot costumes, and i imagine that skillset translates pretty well to fursuits
Mascots are just commercially acceptable fursonas
Mascots are corporate / sports fursonas.
Why are people booping with camera lenses?
Hard to tell how close you are with a snout you can’t feel maybe
I suppose in a crowded convention space where you’re trying to get full lengths of people you could get to that distance? Surely you’d still want a longer lens though otherwise everything’s going to be wildly distorted?
You can always try!
selfies?
I suppose some ILCs could be used for selfies, but why would it be described as booping?
i’m guessing it’s a furry thing. when i kiss my cat with my nose (or i guess my niblings but i see my cats more often) i call it booping
I gained this unwanted knowledge involuntarily, but am more cultured for it.
You can remove that little tip from bus hammers and glue them to the noses in order to instantly shatter any glass like material that comes into contact with it. Allegedly.
Really only for tempered glass like car windows. Regular glass would just get a little ding.
A little ding is enough to render a camera lens pretty useless.
A cracked lens still takes pictures pretty well without any visual artefacts
Most lenses only care about the angular light distribution, essentially averaging over the lens surface. So a ding or crack would just add a tiny portion of grey or black to the entire image
Edit: This is for cracking the front protective glass of a camera lens. If an actual optical lens splits in two it will be misaligned and bad things will happen.
that’s true, good point
Allegedly.
Allegedly allegedly allegedly
- The Onion
So you allege.
This would be iterative engineering design.
intelligent iterative engineering design
I love the idea of someone expecting to be booped with a camera so they insert a thin glass vial filled with fake blood in their suit nose, so when someone boops them, they can grab their suit nose and go, ‘Aaagh! My node! You broge by node!’ as they seemingly get a bloody nose.
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Pretty sure the nose on mine might not withstand repeated boops, but depends on what they’re made out of. Someone already pointed out something to the extent of how there is more choice in what material is used to make the suit. So, kinda depends on material used.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen in the past at least a few suits on the more expensive side using actual hard, boop resistant, materials for the nose. Couldn’t tell you the material since I’m not an expert.
Edit: more about 3D printed suit bases instead of just more materials. Whoops.
dude idk. like, it depends. some folk, they still have some proprioception in their fursuits. some people, they take is as license to mosh and smash into people and “oops i couldn’t tell where i was”. I was in a mummer’s play a few christmases. i played the dragon one year. Had to build the suit because the person who played it the previous year stole it. Made the head out of… fuck i can’t even remember. A can? half inch foam? a hula hoop? some fabric and some makeup? I was inspired by Gamera but I think people thought ninja turtles. It was sturdy, must’ve looked pretty decent too because when i checked out the show 20 years later they were still using my shitty old dragon suit, just theseus’d with a few repairs.
They are truly knights of the new era
