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Bad Dog Bar & Grill is closing its doors permanently on January 1st. The economy had an impact on regulars and the riots scaring everyone else away. The owners floated the place as long as they could out of their own pockets and can no longer do so.

Bad Dog gave me a job when I really needed one and it also welcomed everyone with open arms.

In fact, I was in fursuit one night with Amarok and someone was heckling us. The bartender and bar owner both asked him to leave, telling the guy that this was our home. This really resonated with me as a safe place that we could be ourselves no matter who we were.

We hosted many furry meets here, from eating the tastiest food in Saint Louis to Karaoke to playing Cards Against Humanity and ultimately making new friends in the process.

The bar will be missed greatly and I still can't believe this news even as I type it.

We are having a farewell meet and greet on Saturday, December 27th from 6pm to Midnight. Some of us may be going to their New Years Eve fetish ball on their final night as well.

If interested, here is the address: Bad Dog Bar & Grill 3960 Chouteau Avenue Saint Louis, Missouri

The venue is next door to a White Castle and has plenty of parking as well as a heated patio for smoking.

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Just that, really. I'd like to know about your experiences please. :)

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Hiya fellas! I figured that with all the recent events and some drama making it to the front page recently, its a good time to help some of you guys feel better about ourselves and our fuzzy family. Post any feel-good furry related stories, art, videos, etc. here! If anyone needs a shoulder to lean on, or just want a conversation, feel free to PM me too, I'm here for you.

I'll start: I was at a robotics event with my local team, while wearing my fleece wolf hoodie, and saying hello to other team members and pedestrians, giving free hugs, drumming up some spirit and good times. There was a woman who walked in with her baby boy, so I walked up to her and said hello to her and her baby. She held him close to me and he reached out and grabbed the ear on my hoodie, and giggled. What happened next was a suprise for me and the mother. He smiled and said "gog." The lady was very happy that I helped him say his first words! Even if it wasn't a real one, that was a highlight of my day.

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I think it could be fun. Basically what I'm proposing is an open livestream where people could come and chat about their ideas for their fursona and other characters and everyone can help each other develop and design their characters while I sketch them and stuff.

I'm a concept art student who wants to focus on characters so I love talking about this stuff and drawing all sorts of folks :3 I know a lot of people who don't have references for commissions and stuff bc they don't really draw or don't have their design nailed down and stuff like that. Some people just might wanna redesign their characters a little bit, anyone could come and everyone could get a turn being drawn some.

I couldn't do anything super complete or polished for everyone (I make most of my money from art commissions and am very very broke) but I could do some nice sketches and coloring and stuff. I think it could be a cool community activity, too. Let me know what you guys think!

EDIT: Mostly, I want to know what day would work the best for people! This way I can set up a livestream for it. If this gets enough interest we could make it like a bi-weekly thing or something.

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just curious about how many of us redditfurs are single. i've been dealing with some odd relationship issues and i have come to the conclusion that i am in fact single. it has been a sad day, haha.

so? how is single life treating you?

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We're back with another live episode! Xander, Alkali, Pandez & Draggor yap in front of a packed room, and it was a great time for everyone. Wel also have it below on your youtube channel in video form if you prefer that! live dragget show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpZLm0Pe02o Also, be sure to see our standup special with Xander, Pandez & Alkali in the MWFF '14 panel, 3 Headed Monster! The playlist is below! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6J.....m7lWwbLEhwKFuE ep. 104 - MWFF '14 LIVE! - We're back with another live episode! Xander, Alkali, Pandez & Draggor yap in front of a packed r...

Also on https://www.weasyl.com/journal/72366/furaffinity-transparency-drama-part-4 because I cannot trust Reddit not to eat my formatting.

Hello everyone and welcome back to our coverage on the FA drama that's been happening the last few weeks.

What exactly are we talking about today? If you haven't read the previous messages, they are here. http://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/2mmfq6/to_anyone_that_uses_furaffinity_this_is_important/ http://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/2mtqb4/furaffinity_and_zidonuke_drama_part_ii/ http://www.reddit.com/r/furry/comments/2n4uis/furaffinity_and_zidonuke_drama_part_iii/ This is picking up from after the events detailed above. The goal post of the above was to get Dragoneer to openly detail everything with the community, the concerns around the donation funds and the bits with Zidonuke. He needed to admit he made mistakes and apologize to everyone he was rude to following. The first Reddit post was written on November 18th, it took 12 days to get a response...from Chase. http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6311970/ >So you got your response, what all are you upset with here? This biggest thing this response is lacking is proof of the donation spending so far. Receipts for the expenditures should be no problem to produce, and there is still problems with "transparency" all over the place. The thing I personally feel is a problem is that Neer is not open with the community, and thanks to some conversations that have gone on from this journal, we can very clearly see this is the case. You might recall that around this time, FA was hit with a massive database flaw that caused problems with notifications being sent out. Rather than put in Read-Only mode, the site was allowed to continue operating even though one of the most basic features was broken. http://imgur.com/a/69SOn This is an album of artists complaining / talking with Yak about the problems with the database and about read only mode. Speaking of transparency, Yak has had no problem talking to the community while Neer and Chase have been mostly silent. I'm sure some of you have heard the quote by now >If Titanic was built like FA nobody would have had to die. http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6311970/#cid:43362222 The problem here is that Yak has been rude to those asking him questions, and ignoring others. I myself for example asked for the specifics on a particular problem, but I'll detail that later. The point here is that the communication has still been non-existant. Chase has outed himself as our new director. For privacy sake, I will not mention what Chase is known for, but I recommend a google search into that. Chase isn't even doing that well of a job, as outlined here. http://i.imgur.com/ZDTq51L.png , continuing here : http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6311970/#cid:43433955 ==Donations== The next problem here aside from transparency is the problem with donations. While the money situation still needs better detailing, and requests for receipts posted is not far-fetched, there was still no talk on what the situation is with Jake, their paid donation funded database server that was discovered had not been in use and sitting idle for almost a year. If our donation money is being improperly handled, then there is a huge problem going on. The fun fact is had that server been operational as of now, the notification problems may have been a lot shorter if even there at all. ==Trouble tickets / Ads== Just wanted to toss this into the fray but let me direct you to this thread : https://forums.vivisector.org/index.php?topic=708.0 That thread details problems with trouble tickets better than I can, but the gist is that even those are going neglected. Dragoneer's shouts and twitter feed are full of complains about tickets, including problems with advertising. https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/540534808624263168 https://twitter.com/Dragoneer/status/540199755675361280 http://www.furaffinity.net/user/dragoneer/ (shouts) It should be known I'm blocked from viewing any of Neer's tweets at this point. ==Large file sizes when== One thing to bring up to highlight the questionable nature of FA code is a matter of larger file sizes. I'll direct you to first this Trello post. https://trello.com/c/hsundUSx/24-investigate-into-increasing-submission-and-thumbnail-upload-limits Dragoneer mentions here they have some hardware, but it is a matter of code issue. When discussing this, the following conversation happened. http://i.imgur.com/Y4QwVFB.png http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/6311970/#cid:43344302 **(I WANT TO NOTE MAXXMISSIONS WAS NOT TALKING TO ME, THE COMMENT TREE BUG HAPPENED, THEY WERE TALKING TO SOMEONE ELSE ABOVE.)** Yak never responded to my message after that, despite still responding to others. If I'm right, there should be no issue with allowing large sizes. The current file size limit for FA posts is 10MB. ==Personal thoughts== The way I've been watching these events break down, it's very clear to me that there needs to be rampant change in the community otherwise we're going to perpetuate a lot of negative stereotypes on how we treat each other / get treated. Something I see and hear again and again is that FA is a free site, if you don't like it, take off. But myself and others have repeatedly mentioned again and again that this is not the case. Furaffinity is a hub, it is a hub to the fandom, it serves everyone in the fandom, be it artists, writers, watchers, social needs, meet ups, whatever. It's a very important site. The site is free, but the users make it what it is. Without the users in it, the site would be nothing. This affects everyone, the artists trying to make money, new furs coming in to make friends. The website has helped shape the fandom to the places it has gone to for everyone. The problem is that it's run so poorly, and not just in a technical sense, but the management have proven time after time they are not capable of running this site with the respect it deserves. I've given many examples of Dragoneer's conduct in other posts, I've given an example of Chase, and here is an entire album with Yak talking down to the community. http://imgur.com/a/K65qt We have Chase as a director, fetishes aside, is that someone you want in that spot? Is that how you want the fandom to be looked at? This while ordeal is just a mockery to what the Fandom is. Our willingness to bend over and accept whatever is tossed at us. The saddest thing I see here is how willing everyone is to just accept all these problems like the norm, to let people like Neer get away with taking money to fuel a website that has done nothing but lie to us only to keep the fandom alive. When other places / people have proven again and again they want to help and offer better services only to be tossed away. [PERSONAL OPINION AHOY] No matter how you cut it, Dragoneer is not fit to run this website, he and Yak are simply too busy. If not for the problems above, he should step down for his own benefit. These problems are not going to go away, and people are not going to leave him alone. For his own stress, he needs to give this stuff up for a while, let someone else take the helm for now. He does work 12 hours a day at times, he has a busy life, he's not really a bad guy...He just lets the stress get to him. [END] Furaffinity doesn't have to die, but the longer it exists in the state it is now, the longer we allow these horridly dramatic things to persist again and again, the worse the fandom is going to become. submitted by rowedahelicon
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Or maybe we should get a megathread

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(In advance, i'd like to apologize if this is not the appropriate place to announce this. I figured there might be some interest in this community)

Hey, guys! I'm an aspiring video game writer who recently had a falling out with my old project of two years. Too many chiefs, not enough Indians. But not to dwell on that, i'd like to use this as a medium for announcing a new endeavor;

A faction/class based shooter, set in various locations ranging from the Victorian American South to the stars above.

Why am I telling you this? Well, currently our team consists of three. A skilled modeler, Sage, of whom I worked with on the previous project, and a mutual friend of ours has agreed to step in to take on a bulk of the programming. We are very early into development, but with the story taking shape and the models beginning to follow suit, we would like to extend an invitation to any wishing to hone their skills and assist us in most, if not all departments.

The game itself will be created in the Source engine, as a standalone mod of Half-Life 2. We do not yet have any clue of a release date, however we would love to get this show on the road ASAP.

The game itself is slated to consist of 10 classes, fighting for a total of 9 different factions. The factions each have their own behaviors with the opposing ones, their own art styles ranging from Steampunk rebels to retro-futuristic astronauts. Some factions will consist of humans, sentient synthetics (robots), and anthro creatures of many species.

Gameplay will focus around three major points. First, the team will focus on building up their defenses by literally constructing their base around the objective they are slated to defend. Next, the battle will begin, each team relying on themselves to keep their base maintained, soldiers stocked, and to keep the opposing team from doing the same. The goal will be to overrun or annihilate the enemy base, and destroy/steal/sabotage the objective. Hence the game's working title; Build, Battle, Destroy (or BBD for short).

So, are you still here? Good. If you're interested, please contact Sage or I at any of the following networks. We are on Central and Pacific time respectively, so if you do not catch us in time please be patient, as we will get to you as soon as possible.

Sage's FA

Sage's Gamebanana

Sage's Steam

Shep's FA

Shep's Gamebanana

Shep's Steam

We have a lot of plans and hopes for this game, but we are not just going to sit back and hope a game gets made. If you are interested, please be serious about it. We have little to no funding, so much of the game is being made by means of free, but still good programs (Blender, gimp, notepad++). At time, this is purely on a volunteer basis, but we hope that if we find a successful launch then it won't have to be. Thank you for reading this far!

TL;DR: Making a video game that will include steampunk anthros, looking to find some people members to volunteer to lend a hand to our three-man team in just about every department.

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I'm thinking about getting a fresh start is a new city, does anyone have a suggestion on a good furry friendly area?

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Title is pretty much self-explanatory. Give me something to draw, the easier the better ;)

I can't draw too save my life but previous attempts weren't too bad.

Edit: Enough for today, gotta leave.

Requests:

• A goodra.
• Cat in a top hat. I bet he is a cynical cat who plays games.
• NSFW Cat. This one on me ;) [Actually SFW]
• Something shy and fuzzy.
• Chibi and fabulous!. Fabulous and colored by requester.
• Cross-eyed soldier cat, reminds me of my persian cat.
• Asshole professor.
• Vaporeon, after trusting sylveon.

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