• Pirky
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    The left one. It’s the Giraffe’s neck that’s long. Not their torso.

    Edit: See Derpleton from Centaurworld.

    • @FilthyShrooms
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      361 month ago

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

      • @BatmanAoD
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        61 month ago

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

        • @FilthyShrooms
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          Because the one on the right is funnier

        • Fushuan [he/him]
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          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.

      • @bitwaba
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        21 month ago

        A giraffe is a horse with a long neck.

        A giraffe centaur is a centaur with a long neck.

        QED

        • @portuga
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          21 month ago

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

        • Fushuan [he/him]
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          21 month ago

          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.

    • @Valmond
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      51 month ago

      How does he pick his nose or brush his teeth?

    • Lemminary
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      161 month ago

      What in the fresh hell is this? 💀

      • @finitebanjo
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        231 month ago

        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.

        • FenrirIII
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          31 month ago

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

      • Pirky
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        121 month ago

        That’s Derpleton from Centaurworld. Is a weird, but good show. Would recommend.

        • @captainlezbian
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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

      • @ynthrepic
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        111 month ago

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

  • @BowtiesAreCool
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    341 month ago

    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

      • @Cort
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        91 month ago

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

  • @wjrii
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    261 month ago

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

    Giraffe centaurs would be underwhelming.

    • @WorkIsSlow
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      111 month ago

      Fuck, this really opened my eyes. You ruined giraffe centaurs for me. D:

    • @[email protected]
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      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.

      • @wjrii
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        51 month ago

        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!! 🤣

          • @wjrii
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            21 month ago

            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.

      • @[email protected]
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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.

    • @tourist
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      361 month ago

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

      • @Thatuserguy
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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

  • Dogeek
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    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

    • @portuga
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      41 month ago

      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.

      • udon
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        21 month ago

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

        • @portuga
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          21 month ago

          You may be on to something

        • HeuristicAlgorithm9
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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

  • Dimi Fisher
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    81 month ago

    Officially the first post I really laughed on lemmy! The future seems bright! 🤣

  • @Etterra
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    71 month ago

    I say the left but double the length of the arms.

  • udon
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    71 month ago

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

    • @portuga
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      31 month ago

      It’s funnier this way?

      • udon
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        11 month ago

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

  • @johannesvanderwhales
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    61 month ago

    Hands would be a lot less evolutionarily useful if they couldn’t reach your mouth.

      • @[email protected]
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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.

  • ✺roguetrick✺
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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.

  • @kemsat
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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.