Midnight Wolf

Remember to turn off your PC for 12/31/1999! [Geek Squad logo]

I was under the impression that they preferred to be referred to as ‘skinnies’. We are all flesh, after all… well except protogen…

It’s not matrix-based, but: Haven. It’s what I setup the… second? third? time discord had burned their users. The only thing missing for me is Xbox support, as several of my social circle are console gamers. But for pc users, it’s got everything I need.

https://github.com/ancsemi/Haven

Do something once? Ew.

Do something infinitely? 🥵💦

sounds logical, the biggest logical, even

I mean just shit on the floor, they’ll get the message real quick. Just doin my job, efficiency is wet fart key to success!

…such as…? Whenever I’m shopping for a game, I check GOG (and 3rd party sites for steam keys via ITAD) before I buy from steam. If it’s available on gog and drm-free, that’s where my money goes.

The only issue I see with gog is that devs don’t give a shit. One and done, one pump chump. Why give customers choice, when you can be jerking it with their money already instead?

Different scale, but a couple years ago at Anthrocon one of my servers in my homelab threw a warning that the cache drive was running low on health/remaining writes. Odd since it was like, not even 6 months old, but whatever, I’ll fix it once I’m home. Literally like 6 hours later the drive went read-only and died. I had to head to the hotel and make sure the system didn’t lose any data, and would recover successfully, on one of the laptops I brought to the hotel. Then shop and order two new drives, so when I got back home I can do a swap and config. Then back to the con space.

If I was on that plane or whatever, my family and to a small extent my friends, would be totally fucked. I have stuff automated as much as I can across all systems, but eventually something will require manual intervention and the cards start to fall. And I’m the go-to guy in my social circle, so everyone will just start screaming and panicking.

Now we know how Valve actually operates on a financial level.

Many of them are from just inferrince, but there is actually science on this realm: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/376353096_Furscience_A_Decade_of_Psychological_Research_on_the_Furry_Fandom

Chapter 16, page 497. I remember there being more graphs but maybe they’ve updated the data. My data points are included, as I’ve been taking their surveys for a decade now.

See, that’s the kind of out-of-the-box thinking we need around here!

A ton of factors, but I’ve been a fur for 22 years and I give zero fucks about what others think about it/me, so an unfiltered view.

Most of my friends are furry, and all of them are at least neutral on the topic. I had a clan I was in during my ‘okay yes fine I am a furry let’s make a sona I guess’ awakening, and I was booted for that fact. So everyone I’m friends with has to not be a dick, or you’re getting blacklisted.

Most of my friends are weird, and the furry ones especially. I know no innocent furries, we all have our vices, and I love that. A space where I can be weird, suggestive, kinky, lewd is liberating. But even beyond sexy stuff, it’s just this melting pot of weird interests, hobbies, aspirations, and everyone wants to see everyone else succeed. The ‘vibe’ as the kids call it, online or in person, is always positive. Compared to gestures to the outside world, yeah nah I’m staying in the happy bubble.

Most of us are quite intelligent, lots are STEM, many are post-secondary grads. Most are okay with atheists/non believers. I thiiiink the majority are gay/les/bi. Basically, a group of smart people who aren’t dicks to each other. Again, nice place to be.

With the exception of my first relationship, which was never made ‘official’ but we were together for a couple of years, I only date furries. For the above reasons and more, I limit the dating pool from like a billion+ to hundred-thousands (maybe millions?), then further by being gay (very limited homoflexibility). But I want to be with someone (one or several) who share my interests, excitement, ideas and topics; and who shares similar values, like not being a dick to others. These simple traits are… less common, in the general population.

And of course, the kinky stuff. I’m all over the place and with the exception of some obvious ‘yeah nah’ topics that are generally assumed unless stated otherwise by people, I am will to/have tried a lot of things. Again the sort of non-judgemental environment let’s me say something that would be absolutely wild anywhere else, and others will respond like it’s nothing at all. Being free of judgements is absolutely unique, in my experience.

There are a few shady characters, bad apples, and all that - every group has them. But I haven’t interacted with one myself, and it’s been over two decades, so I’m pretty confident in saying that the bad characters are a rounding error, and that ‘we are all in this for the positivity of each other’.

Our biggest by attendance conventions have hit like 18k attendants. And while I am clinically online, these do indeed take place irl.

Yet.

Real feline energy with this one

Fat Bear Week

As a bear (my sona is a hybrid wolf-tiger-fox), I got really excited, and then disappointed :p

Sounds like edging but for geopolitics

Birthdays in general. ‘Oh, your parents had freaky BDSM edgeplay sex and 9 months later you popped out? Wasn’t that great, we should do that again soon. Oh the freaky sex, not the baby stuff. But to celebrate our freaky sex remembrance, here is some cake and a card with a fold-out diagram of all the positions we tried that night. We didn’t have a camcorder back then, too bad really…’

‘you know what we should do for our infrastructure? a network of tubes [the internet is not a big truck, it’s a series of tubes] that can kill you and cause explosions, underneath the whole city’

‘bill, the is the best idea you’ve had since installing lead pipes, a real visionary’

Does this mean I was the antagonist the whole time? But I wanted to do something productive, like spread furry porn to religion folk, or be one of the 14 werewolves who bang you (the protagonist) in the forest that you keep suspiciously ignoring warnings about.

bonk