Spyke
lemmy.world

Counterargument: a centaur is a human torso on a horse's neck, so it's the right one

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BatmanAoDreply
lemmy.world

But the human portion has normal human proportions (though potentially scaled up a little). Why would being on a giraffe's body change that?

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lemm.ee

Exactly, the left one warps the human proportions while the right one extends the giraffe neck that connects with the human torso. The right one is more natural.

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bitwabareply
lemmy.world

A giraffe is a horse with a long neck.

A giraffe centaur is a centaur with a long neck.

QED

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What if horses are instead giraffes with short necks? Checkmate atheists

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A centaur is a horse with human torso after the neck, so a giraffe centaur is a horse with a long neck and a human torso after the neck. Right is justice.

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lemmy.world

Centaur World is a story about a war horse that accidentally falls into Centaur World full of happy cartoon centaurs that happen to speak horse or whatever.

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They speak English. Horse is magicked with the ability to speak by going to CW

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I felt ridiculous watching it but it was so good. It’s the sort of show I plan to pull out to be the fun aunt alongside Avatar. I didn’t expect for it to make me cry but it did

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Centaur World is incredible. Best kids show I've seen as an adult. They need your viewership to make more crazy stuff.

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lemmy.world

Centaurs don’t have horse necks so neither is right. It would be the body of a giraffe with a human torso starting where the neck would start

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Nah, just like a normal centaur but with long spindly giraffe legs

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lemmy.world

Neither. The neck is the long part, and do horse-based centaurs have horse necks?

Giraffe centaurs would be underwhelming.

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Catoblepasreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

But in a centaur, the human torso is placed where the horse neck would be. If it was the torso that was replaced they would look more like satyrs.

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wjriireply
lemmy.world

But in a centaur, the human torso is placed where the horse neck would be.

Yes, with a perfectly normal human torso. Put a human torso in the same spot and...

BOOOORRRING!! 🤣

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saigotreply
lemmy.ca

A Giraffe's shoulder height is like 8 to 13ft, no way ms.curly is only 5'11

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You're not wrong, but I was very much regretting my decision to search for giraffe centaurs at all, and Ms. Curly was a safe enough option with the proportions I was trying to communicate.

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The torso is a tricky concept, there's no good anatomical definition that makes sense. Is the pelvis included? The whole axial skeleton? Everyone knows the general idea of where the torso is, but it's hard to define with precision.

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touristreply
lemmy.world

bro how did I get sensory overload from a black and white image

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That's why I read this shit with fan colorings. I think my brain would literally not be able to process what's going on without it

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sh.itjust.works

Neither, a centaur has a human torso starting at the base of the neck, the left one has a long neck so clearly not a human torso. The left one has a long torso, so that doesn't fit either.

Solution: it'd be exactly like a regular centaur but with a different skin pattern

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portugareply
lemmy.world

We’d have to start evolution again because all mammals have four limbs, and four only. That’s why we can’t have pegasus (pegasi?) either. Bummer, I know.

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udonreply
lemmy.world

Isn't a pegasus a bird? Would that mean that they lay eggs?

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Biology definitions are not based in causation, it wouldn't lay eggs just cuz we call it a bird. It might be like the anti-platypus tho, the only bird to give birth to live young

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lemmy.world

Why not scale up the size of the human so it fits with both solutions?

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I think a huge human torso on top of a giraffe could also look funny enough

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Rolderreply
reddthat.com

They still could, you would just need to bend your head down to reach em

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I bet they still couldn't reach. Giraffes have the same number of vertebrae in their necks as other mammals. This makes their necks very stiff, compared to their lengths. For reference, look up giraffes drinking.

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Giraffes are Artiodactyla like cattle so they would be closer in minotaur style than the Perissodactyla centaur style. Two hoofed legs, human upper body, long neck and giraffe head.

Speaking of Perissodactyla, this guy essentially is a fantasy creature. He's the centaur she told you not to worry about.

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sh.itjust.works

Left is more natural. Evolution wouldn't waste time lifting that much mass making the creature top heavy unless it had an absurdly good reason to.

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The right one. A centaur is a horse with a human torso replacing the horse’s neck & head. So it’s one of those humans with the long torso, you know the type.

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Now do giraffe fauns. At least giraffe centaurs have those counterbalancing rear legs, giraffe fauns would need to be half as wide as they are tall to have abs strong enough to keep themselves upright. And with those tiny spindly legs they have, even if they do leg day religiously and bulk them up they'll still be teetering about on two little hooves.

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the correct answer is both.

the one on the right bullies the more feminine one on the left who's always sticking his nose in other people's business.

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A mix of both. Take the left one, make his torso just a bit taller and skinnier, and shorten the neck a fair bit. The arms need to be real lanky as well.

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