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This is just another reminder how weird a centaur is as a concept. Vertebrates don’t have more than 4 limbs. Land vertebrates mostly have 4 legs, but the structure of their forelegs is very similar to human arms and wrists. Bats have wings, but their wings are basically arms with a membrane of skin between the bones. Even a Naga (human / snake hybrid) makes more sense than a centaur.
Also, think how unbalanced a centaur would be. Instead of a trunk that merely has to support a neck and a head, a centaur has to support a full half-human right at the front of its body. That would shift the centre of mass way forward, so most of the weight would be on the middle limbs. That would affect its ability to gallop, because in a gallop most of the running power of a horse comes from the back legs. If the back legs are almost completely unloaded because all the weight is at the front, the back legs wouldn’t be able to push with much force.
A more realistic centaur would have the trunk weight shifted backwards, so instead of having a human torso replacing its neck and head, it would be like a rider on a horse but without the rider’s legs or the horse’s head.
Fun fact, horse heads/necks weigh about as much as human torsos do. Depending on the horse, and the human.
Modern horses are fuckin huge. It’s not unreasonable to think that a horse body could support a human upper body without much additional musculature.
That just raises the question about how big a human torso would be mounted on a modern horse’s torso. A huge clydesdale mare with a typical jockey’s torso would look pretty ridiculous. But, maybe a clydesdale-type-centaur would have an Andre-the-giant torso, or maybe something even bigger. Maybe it would be a humanoid torso which, if it had legs, would stand 4m tall.
But, even if it is an Andre the Giant head, imagine how much grass he’s going to have to eat to keep his body fed. Andre has a big mouth compared to me, but it’s still small compared to a horse.
A human torso’s weight would be almost inconsequential compared to a whole ass horse body, not to mention the human part has abs and shit and will be coordinating with the horse part, cause it’s all one creature. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a ridiculous creature, I just think it could theoretically work
They shoot you with their bow.
Steam Deck.
Damn that’s cool
They shoot arrows with a bow?!
they clack together two halves of split open coconuts to confuse the enemy
Where’d they get the coconuts?
A swallow could’ve carried it
And yes it was African.
Ah, but African swallows are non-migratory
It’s working!
Corvids
Ya know what? Fair.
holy shit 6 legged bovine thing
They hold a polearm. Always.
or a bow
Or my axe!
Finally the correct answers have arrived
I would be holding on to my dick and balls so they don’t smack me in the asshole every gallop.
I’d hold my hands like when you stick your hand out of the car window and surfs on the air.
Like the centaurs in fantasia
How do horses solve that problem?
How?
Centaurs (and other *taur types. Looking at you, furries) are overall an incredibly dumb design.
The more you think about them, the more they just don’t work. I went from meh, to dislike, to hate for centaurs over the years.
The more you think about them, the more they just don’t work.
Wait till you get into the math of <insert any mythological creature with wings>.
A Pegasus, if it were to fly in the same way as a bird, would require extremely large wings relative to its body size, likely much larger than commonly depicted. Calculations suggest a wingspan of at least 30 meters (about 100 feet) for a horse-sized creature. This is due to the constraints of the square-cube law and the need for sufficient lift to support the horse’s weight.
A study of dragons from movies and video games suggests they would need to fly much faster or have wings 45 times larger to stay aloft.
Don’t even get me started on Sphinxes and Manticores.
Several fantasies just give em required secondary powers. Griffins use wind magic. Dragons use some form of antigravity or flight magic.
Iirc in Stormlight, the … gigafauna?(Googles and finds it has been cooked for how I want to use it…huh) have gems in them that allows em to sorta reduce gravity in order for them to be able to survive at such a size (the planet also has lower gravity than earth,at 0.7G)
Sure sure sure. But if we’re running back to the “shut up, it’s magic” premise, centaurs (and mermaids and owlbears) don’t seem so weird, either
That’s why I like my winged mythical creatures with really big wings.
Sphinxes are bad, but still not as bad as centaurs, as Sphinxes don’t have an entire additional body attached to their body.
That is why I like unicorns. when they fly, nobody starts calculating. Everybody just accepts the magic
I’m a sci-fi guy. I can accept that whatever force is causing the unicorn to fly is one that I haven’t measured or studied yet.
Any sufficiently understood magic is indistinguishable from science.
For the pegasus, are they factoring in possibilities like having hollow bones like birds do to reduce weight? Granted, that would severely hamper their abilities to be a horse, but maybe they’re not supposed to be beasts of burden?
Maybe they Naruto run while galloping
That is absolute nightmare fuel. This image alone is enough reason to ban ai.
Perfect
Credit? You can have my upvote if this isn’t “genAI”.
This is just a random picture he made for the meme. He’s not trying to sell it and it doesn’t replace an actual artist. IMO that’s an accetable use of AI.
There’s no acceptable use for something that can only exist by violating the copyright terms for millions of artists.
The company violated those terms, not OP.
probably AI, since naruto running isn’t done with 🤌 hand
edit: also, very realistic face, not very realistic hair (both on the person and horse’s tail) and even less realistic ear
This is AI. My past Photoshop skills were laughable in comparison, lol.
Making ‘bad’ art is how you get better. genAI will never get better or create anything good looking or original.
Edit: I’d rather see any real people’s ‘bad’ attempts than even 1 genAI slop.
Easier said than done, I suffered a stroke so I can’t feel my dominant right arm. Ever since I do most work left handed.
Well said. Just about every good artist has to start as a bad artist.
I would’ve rather seen a crude Paint abomination by you than whatever that is. It would at least had some soul.
This but the kids from Weapons.
ai slop
Immediately what came to mind. It’s gotta be this.
They hold crossbows.
Two smaller ones, yes, while multiclassing as a rogue/ranger for multiple shots per turn.
With the whole upper half bobbing up/down like a horse nodding it’s head while it runs.
By that description, I imagine a centaur walking like a chicken.
It’s my failure, not yours.
I might need to make chicken-centaurs in my game. Comical at first until you realize they’re raptors.
oh no not a 4 legged, hooved, larger utahraptor
does the horse part have fur and the raptor part have feathers or does one of them just take over the other?
Totally valid question.
I’m picturing it as a six-limbed owlbear that is slightly humanoid… so it’s a clusterfuck hybrid.
insert centaur baby meme
Naruto running, but with his hands holding onto his own reins
They cross their arms since they also don’t know what to do with them.
maximum aura ngl
no cap ong fr skibidi toilet Ohio gyatt
Good answer
I have visual references
