April 10th: The bill has been vetoed!
April 2nd: The politicians in Arizona are about to sign into law a bill that would mandate sites like e621 to either impose age verification on all users or be at a risk of lawsuits. Such system would be required to go through third party vendors, who in turn must go through a government database to verify every user's age. This is not only a major violation of privacy, but it also opens up a very real danger of identity theft through phishing schemes and other methods, not to mention that we would not be able to control any of that information to make sure it is permanently deleted after age verification is complete.
Unfortunately, Arizona is the state out of which e621 operates, which means that this law will almost certainly affect us if it is to pass. If want to help us ensure that this site can continue to serve you without being required to know who you are, please ask the Arizona governor to veto this bill.
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MNP92
MemberLove it
Tainted1
MemberAww, I get it
Romaric
MemberThere are Japanese kobolds?
Sairus323
MemberYep. European kobolds are lizard-like creatures, while japanese ones are dog/wolf-like creatures.
similar situation with orks: european orks are just ugly green guys while japanese are pig-like
BlueDingo
MemberAccording to Wikipedia, kobolds can look like just about anything. It also makes no mention of Japanese ones.
Romaric
MemberI prefer my Orcs to be on the rugged but doable to strangely sexy and hunky scale lol, I prefer the scaly kind of kobolds, but the furry variety is new to me and interesting. In Warcraft they're mole or rat people which seems a bit unusual.
FrozenPineapple
MemberThe original kobolds from German folklore were standard "fair folk", comparable with pixies, brownies, goblins or any other creature. In D&D their description evolved from goblinoid to rat-like or dog-like and finally settled on draconic in 3E. I think pretty much all modern depictions draw from one of those. Warcraft has them as ratlike creatures that wear candles on their heads. Kobolds in anime seems to be inspired by the Wizardry series, where they're basically anthro dogs. Wizardry had a huge influence in Japan.
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