DarrenTheFoxcoon Now • 100%
Hey, it was a fresh new Lemmy community, just waiting to be Konquered
DarrenTheFoxcoon Now • 100%
Leaves without giving Mal0 a hug? That's just rude >:C
DarrenTheFoxcoon Now • 93%
Very good analysis of Furry from the outside, nicely done 👍 Some thoughts I had as I watched it:
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Most of the pearl-clutching about Furries seems to come from Puritan countries, esp. USA & UK. Other countries? Quite the opposite. Examples off the top of my head:
- Orangina citrus soda (French ad agency FFL Paris)
- German beer Füchschen (literally, "Foxy")
- Mexican baseball mascot lapdancing in the crowd
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Notions of "children"'s mascots almost never occur to any of us Furs, except for the obvious Rule 34 moments. It more feels like, without consciously thinking about it, my childhood interests grew up with me. Does nostalgia play a role? Perhaps some unstated rebellion against squeaky-clean Puritan and Corpo media?
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Xenophilia & neophilia are probably the strongest drivers, conscious or not. Every day in this fandom, someone comes up with something both strange and wonderful.
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Accordingly, Furry art is a wondrous baptism-by-fire of Queer acceptance (also conscious or not), especially regarding body-positivity. As one gets used to seeing an 8-foot fox with 3 pairs of watermelon-size breasts & multiple tentacle dicks, the discomfort of trans and intersex bodies falls away. (I admit to my shame that transmen once made me uncomfortable; Furry art slowly slapped me out of it.)
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It's both flattering and amusing to have "deeper meaning" / "deep sense of self" ascribed to our silly cartoon animals. Most days it feels like Furry simply is, no hidden depths needed. Is all art like this? "Just shat out this portrait of some lady over the weekend, it's whatever" ~Leonardo da Vinci, probably
In-game footage (no sound): **https://x.com/LinTheShark/status/1792999899287503306** Wishlist on Steam to help boost her game's visibility (iirc if a game gets wishlisted 1000 times, it automatically gets put on the Steam Store front page): **https://store.steampowered.com/app/2225260/Shark_Rain/**
> *As promised, Part 2 of my series on making safe, humane AI is now out on July 31st! Yes it is July 31st, the promised deadline. I wouldn't be late by almost two weeks. What, naw, couldn't be me.* > *This part's chockful of Robot Catboy comics, like this one:* ![](https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/3ba758a3-1f1f-43a9-8592-2a3c916d34d7.webp) **https://aisafety.dance/p2/**
DarrenTheFoxcoon Now • 100%
Gettin' those performance gains 🏋️♂️
https://x.com/LudrenDrago/status/1788844476447776871
Main img: commissioned by me from Bibi 🇺🇦 (aka Popkorny) https://x.com/Bbibiarts/status/1533457317479567363 --- ![](https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/16ad4deb-bd31-4295-a0c6-430b7aa15573.jpeg) art by @GlamrockChica https://x.com/GlamrockChica/status/1723441332293616053 --- ![](https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/a6337ed9-c91c-45db-811e-6f6ff3c0b21a.jpeg) art by Keisha Leigh Austria https://x.com/austria_keisha/status/1691335666943369216 --- ![](https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/1dc5f4ea-7b58-4747-a173-1822dd5d08fc.jpeg) art by Welwraith https://x.com/welwraith/status/1552356512965820419 --- ![](https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/d8ac78ed-9abe-4393-98f6-d975d7483d8d.png) art by Firulais https://fixvx.com/Mamaofllamas/status/1494397724120203269 --- ![](https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/8271f375-74bf-4c97-b316-ad136d49016c.jpeg) art by RakoonGrey https://x.com/Rakoongrey/status/1476979083779190787 --- ![](https://pawb.social/pictrs/image/43844e0a-b829-409a-9518-0050ebf9612d.jpeg) art by Hiroshark https://x.com/Hiroshark/status/1478852688792244224
DarrenTheFoxcoon Now • 66%
Put a tiny Mindstorms chip in the minifig's head, and I'm sold 🤑💰
DarrenTheFoxcoon Now • 60%
Link to the Steam page still works, so at least the megalist of Furry games is still there
**https://store.steampowered.com/sale/anthrofestival2024/** https://x.com/anthrofestival
!["Outer Alignment" comic](https://aisafety.dance/media/intro/Outer_Alignment.png) **https://aisafety.dance/**
DarrenTheFoxcoon Now • 80%
Google's AOM conflicts of interest aside, the switch makes sense to me. File sizes are still king, for both storage and for Web Vitals -- the latter especially matters on slower cell connections.
Though it does cheer me up how the "art software" and photography big-wigs (e.g. Adobe) recently threw weight behind JPEG-XL <3
https://phaser.io/ Phaser is a 2D game engine for both Desktop & Mobile browser games, with just about everything needed to make a 2D game: physics, audio, animation, particles, etc. Link to newsletter (example games, tutorials, etc.): https://madmimi.com/p/3d33591
DarrenTheFoxcoon Now • 66%
By coincidence, I've had a "Santa AU" story idea for awhile just like this. Maybe material for a Blender short one day if I git gud at animation, who knows.
Furry/Anthro universe, set in near(?)-future. Giant high-tech factory at North Pole makes tons of toys. Huge antigrav spaceships deliver the toys, piloted by "Santa's" reindeer (All 9: Dasher, Dancer, Rudolph, etc.), split into teams to handle each continent. Dunno if any other workers, or if all automated toy-making. Oldass oil painting of the Saint Nicolas (also a reindeer) hanging on the factory wall; operation inspired by his legendary generosity, continued by generations of admiring reindeer (and other Furry species) throughout the centuries after his death.
Squash in as many holiday tropes and not-so-subtle references as possible -- e.g. The Guardians; Dancer makes small-talk about Rudolph and his girlfriend Clarice; maybe squeeze in Vader-San's Synth species cuz this a techno AU and me shameless simp; etc.
Best I can come up with is either ***Dariana*** (already taken by a reasonably famous snek lady) or ***Darlynn*** (extra cheesy, reminiscent of a adult-star alias). I humbly request aid and advice from my fellow, ever-gracious Furs 🙏 (art is by **Blazera**, lightly edited from a comm I bought last year)
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DarrenTheFoxcoon@ pawb.social34 GF Pan Poly Furry, kinky, nerdy. Sometimes a male foxcoon🦊🦝, sometimes a pink dragoness. Often lewd 🔞