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Night In The Woods

A black cat with a baseball bat explores a strange world that just might be about to end…

Three friends have told me about the awesomeness of this particular project, and as I’m writing this it’s doubled its goal of $50,000 in just three days. So, clearly, Night in The Woods is the fur-friendly kickstarter of the week.

NITW is a 2D, sandboxy exploration-adventure game centered on Mae, a cat who’s returned home to a life of amiable, aimless anger in the dying mining town of Possum Springs, the town she grew up in. Things have changed. Things have remained the same. People have moved on, and just maybe Mae hasn’t. It’s a game about the end of the world, but if that’s the sleepy world of Possum Springs, Mae’s slacker existence, or the literal world, it’s anybody’s guess.

The animation style is simplistic, cutouts on a 2D background, but the world is complex, with a town to explore, a full cast of characters, a world that’s creepy and rich, itself just a bit strange around the edges (I’m reminded of the bizaare “anytown but thank god not MY town” of Welcome to Night Vale–in fact, the animator for the game designed Night Vale’s logo) with stranger things in the woods, and a dreamlike astral plane that Mae finds herself opening up to as the story develops.

This looks like animator Scott Benson‘s first video game, and it’s off to a tremendous start. You can see some of his animation on his website. Producer/developer Alec Holowka has a somewhat larger VG portfolio, including another dreamlike 2D game, Paper Moon. Tim Burton, we’re waiting for you to produce the movie. Get on it.

Posting here by suggestion of user RandomPotato. He/she said you guys/gals would appreciate things with cute foxes!

NinjaFox Invitation to Reddit

I just finished my first game. I'm hoping this is kind of my little kickstarter.

A while back I was thinking about starting a kickstarter with hopes of gaining enough funds to make a game. The only thing is...although I really really wanted to make one, I had never done it before. And I know it would be hard for you to put your trust into someone who had little experience with programming. I decided that instead of a kickstarter, I was going to just learn the ropes of programming and put my best efforts into making a small game. I already had a lot of experience with the visual stuff, so just bought a few books on programming and buried myself in them for a couple of months(allowing myself reddit breaks when necessary, of course). Throughout this period my girlfriend was extremely supportive and believed in me enough to let me use some of our savings so I could get a mac, an ipod, an apple license, as well as buy all of the books needed to learn the basics. Not spending a lot of time together was rough, but she was extremely understanding and showed confidence in me that, honestly, even I didn't have. It was enough to carry me through and the result was...

Ninjafox.

It's a small game. Simple enough that most people can enjoy it. And hopefully interesting enough to make it worthwhile for you to take a peek. I really want to know what you think. If you can't buy it, I'll take any suggestions you can give me as far as the visuals go. In a way I hope this can kind of be my little kickstarter. If this sells well... I have a notebook filled with very interesting ideas(...at least I think they are!!) and I would love to bring those to life! (**Among those is a more in-depth version of Ninjafox, if you think it's worth pursuing)

iTunes Download Page

It's only 99 cents(The whole game, old school, no DLC).

Here are a few codes to download it for free: 7K7479947L46 47NRKNR9YTJP T4L63M6ATY93 4RLMLXRLT4E4 LLHYFMY7MNPJ

So if you decide to grab a shuriken and join me, I will be extremely grateful. Thank you for your time! If you have any questions, I'll be here checking in on reddit for the rest of the day.

EDIT: Thanks for the support! Reddit has shown the most support for NinjaFox out of every community I've been to. It really means a lot...you have no idea! I hope this goes well I can continue making fun and colorful games. I'll continue answering questions and look forward to feedback. I'll answer to every single post. Thanks again!

EDIT2: Going to bed(been up since 6am), tried to stay awake as long as I could. I will be back early tomorrow morning to reply to any questions, comments, suggestions, etc.! Thanks again. I honestly haven't felt this much support ever.

EDIT3: And back!

EDIT4: At the suggestion of WelfareTaco, I guess I now have a twitter and Facebook = ). Both under username Sanfiel De Leon.

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Hi guys.

After a brainstorm with a friend the other day we found that there is a possible need for a site like Esty but for Furries.

For those who don't know Esty allows people to create "shops" and sell their items from it. We want to offer the same thing (but for free, so no 3.5% charge on what you sell) but on a site that is just for furries.

This means that when someone wants something, like a "furry tail" they can go on the site and search for one that suits them. But unlike Esty this site will show them what they want and not 1000 other products that are unrelated.

The site would also be designed around the needs of the fandom so the product categories would be very specific like "Fursuit>Head" and "Fursuit>Full suit" as well as other things that are sold within the fandom. But there would also be other categories so users can still sell none furry related items on their shops.

Like I said the site would be free, there would be ads on the site but furry related just like we already run on FurStre.am (another furry site I created).

You can see a mockup of the site here> http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11949788/ The site is live and working, kinda. There are a lot of bugs in it atm. We are using a clone script that needs a lot of work done to it. Ill post a link to it soon.

I would love to gauge and see how many of you out there would like such a website created and used. If you could comment bellow or on FA that would be great. Sharing this around would help me out a lot to.

Thanks!

Jack,

EDIT1 - You can view the site here > http://jacktail.no-ip.org/ Note that it is rather buggy and is being worked on.

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I was doing my normal redditing when I came across miniatures, which made me stumble upon lots of things done inside tiny bottles. I'd seen the thing before and wondered where you even get those tiny bottles, I did some googling to discover that it's just a matter of buying them in bulk on ebay! Ever since my primary school days I had been making things and putting them in jars and small plastic test tubes but always ran out. Now that I'm older and actually have money I could go back to my roots of making baked plasticine things in itty bitty bottles. Tiny bottles like these.

So, the idea. What if I made tiny little versions of people's sonas, gave them teeny tiny scuba diving equipment, and put them in these tiny bottles filled up with blue water? There'd be a seafloor with lots of little bidbods too. I'd attach the mini sona with clear string to the top & bottom of the bottle so it stays in place and could put a hook in the cork so it can be used as a keychain or necklace or something. Could also add some glitter and things to make it a snowglobe :D

I could even do little miniature worlds in a bottle. Like sitting in a field, on a mountain of candy, a pit full of glitter, a blizzard, a sandstorm, raining, flying in the sky, anything really. If any of you have ideas please tell me. I'd have SO much fun making them, it would be super easy too.

Would any of you be interested in this sort of thing? I'll definitely be making some for myself & friends but some feedback or input on this idea would be awesome.

TL;DR: I can make mini-you in a tiny snowglobe'd world in a teeny bottle that can be hung off something. Interested?

Edit: Fixed link

Edit 2: I've bought my jars! Ebay says they'll arrive between 13 Nov and 5 Dec.

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Dear Furries,

Last week I posted this letter about the idea of some furries forming a community. While I have serious doubts of the practicality of furries creating a functioning, economically independent community, Papabear does still maintain that furries do form at least an ersatz community, one very loosely organized, but still a community. One furry posted a response, however, that I find quite disturbing, especially since I have been hoping to form an organization of furries.

I am posting the letter here. This furry--well, not even sure if this is from a furry—has a very negative opinion of furries. My concern is this: how prevalent is this opinion? Do YOU feel this way? Do a lot of furries feel this way? If so, then any efforts toward creating the AFA would be utterly futile. 

Do you feel like you're part of a community or not? Please post your opinions following this letter. Thank you.

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I can't believe that NO ONE MENTIONED that being a furry is simply a matter of self-declaration and how this complete lack of control over who gets to be a furry -- a precedent set from the fandom's infancy -- would throw a whole pile of monkey wrenches into any plans for a "furry community". Furry fandom indiscriminately imports personalities with diametrically opposed and incompatible values, ethics, outlooks, and attitudes. Included in the mix are sociopaths with serious character defects, but you can't kick them out because the fandom is a nerd herd and therefore overcompensates societal rejection with all-encompassing unconditional inclusivity. Furry is based off an infatuation with anthropomorphic animals. That shared value is superficial. As such, one is, unfortunately, NOT necessarily more likely to find "kindred spirits" within the fandom as without it. People are wildly different. Anthros mean different things to them. Think about Na'vi, Otherkin, Therians, plushies, rule 34, fursuiters, murrsuiters, gigglefairy sparkledogs, My Little Pony, foxes and wolves, videogamers, centaurs, Nazi furs, weres, haunted attraction furs, adult babyfurs, (oh hell, I'm not itemizing all the sub-fetishes that can go in conjunction with furry), Sonic fans, TMNT, (oh hell, insert a list of all the cartoon shows' and werewolf movies' fanbases, yada yada), daddy furs, civilized noble savage furs, con-goers, trans-humanists, Christian, (oh fuck, tack on a list of all the religions too -- including atheism), gay, bi, straight, asexual (LGBTQIAlphabet soup), lulz troll furries, imageboard furries and MUCH MUCH MUCH MORE -- including those aspects of furry that do not wish to be defined or sub-categorized and remain stubbornly nebulously uncodified. None of which even begins to describe all the FAR MORE IMPORTANT DEEPER MERITS AND FLAWS to consider in selecting fellow tribes-people in a proposed budding "furry" community that these people's individual moral compasses or lack thereof (regardless of whatever combination of sub-sub-sub-subcultures they ascribe to) could have carried them off to. So to sit these people down, who in truth have little in common and little interest in each other, and say, "Okay, here's a system of rules we need to play by to function as a community", misses the point by a factor of 9,000. Furry isn't a community. There may be communities within furry, but furry is not and cannot be a community as a whole. Communities start with shared values, ideals, and even aesthetics (the images and interactions with reality people want to associate with). If you want to start a community with those aspects of the fandom that are even remotely-possibly capable of it, starting with the love of animal people is a POOR CHOICE. Intentional communities crave balanced and stable ethos, pathos, and logos that justifies the investment of faith, hard work, and sacrifice that goes into creating and maintaining them. That goes far beyond the childish things of a protracted childhood that furry is mostly comprised of. Furries don't even really have an identity as evidenced by the multitudinous different responses by asking any one of them, "What is a furry?" So how do you propose to make a community out of a people that aren't even a tribe, or profoundly disinterested in such by their simple natures, if you will?

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Papabear posted: 

Your argument seems to be that we can't have a furry community because we are too diverse. By that same logic, the United States should not exist because we have people of too many races, religions, political beliefs, etc. I believe that any group of people can come together if they find a unifying cause. 

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The writer returned, saying:

That's the point. Communities have unifying causes and codes. The U.S. is a superpower nation with solemn oaths and duties, a legal system, and constitution, so the comparison to furry fandom, which has none of those things (and lacks untold more in such a comparison), is laughable and invalid. I'm shocked you would dare compare the two.

I'm not talking about making the fandom into a nation. I'm talking about how the anti-structure of the fandom, through the malfeasance of enforced amorality, prevents it from forming so much as a simple single functioning HOUSE -- though blind people still treat it as such (much to their own detriment).

The fandom IS highly entropic. No one can MAKE a TANGIBLE community (Internet community doesn't count) out of the fandom (or anything else outside of junk merchandise to hawk). 

As you all have already agreed upon the prior sentence in an earlier reply to another.

I'm saying the REASONS for that intangibility are: as soon as anyone says, "Furry is THIS." or "It's NOT THAT." in the attempt to create the causes for forming a standard to create structure for the impetus of a real community, they are instantaneously WRONG and abruptly called out on their bullshit because NO ONE gets that kind of authority to say what is and isn't allowed to be a part of furry fandom.

Furry fandom IS different from other fandoms because people within it do treat it like a community and welfare network. The problem is, they don't exercise any standards or structure, and are quite opposed to the idea, which attracts exploitative personalities like flies to a corpse. Not to mention the fandom is, consequently, not exactly conducive to life aspirations; absent of the hallmark of value of a true community. If this fandom is supposed to run like a community, as many of its motley crew of undisciplined, directionless, and many times, amoral members intend, its current state would be best likened unto a poorly run frat house. At best.

As for inclusivity: we're all excited to meet new peoples and new ways of doing things. The ironic hypocrisy is that different cultures came about through having different standards that made them interesting and unique. The negative value of indiscriminate inclusivity is that it destroys the standards of judgement of what to include and not include in a culture that makes it unique. Bring everyone in under One Big Tent(tm), regardless of what they can do, under a unifying cause, and more often than not, you may be unintentionally describing a con game.

Keep it real. You can have either indiscriminate quantity or discriminating quality (or both, if you employ shrewd Machiavellian techniques and divide them into layers and use one as a readily disposable shield to protect the more valuable other). Discrimination is not always evil: only when it's prejudiced is discrimination wrong. When you're at the supermarket determining which produce is green, ripe, and rotten, you're engaging in a form of discrimination. Tribe-selecting can, honestly, be analogous to selecting produce based on prospects' values, attitudes, and life choices. When selecting members of a community, it's important to discriminate APPROPRIATELY for its survival and ability to thrive.

I'm sure that to spend so much time wasting so many words describing a fandom about anthropomorphism will be seen as stupid by those not pressed against the fandom's glass ceiling dividing fantasy from reality. That's because the (un)imaginative minds of the lowest common denominator goes nowhere else but straight to raping targets incapable of consent as soon as the idea of real world anthro community is mentioned and are quick to either break out the torches or start humping -- or both. If people are SERIOUS about creating a furry community, the reason it is neigh impossible is due to the shallow parameters they've set for what being a furry means, and the lowest common denominators -- neither fit to lead or follow nor walk hand in hand -- that inhabit the fandom as result. 

Construction is not impossible under the strictest definition, but remember that communities are held together by the glue of ideology. Be prepared to invest tons of psychic energy within the internal worlds of yourself and your members to bail out and rise above the muck and set up a defensive perimeter around whatever little corner of this surprisingly very malevolent swamp you're intending to haunt.

Thanks, in no small part, to the non-definition of furry, IT'S NOT JUST THE "NON-FURRIES" YOU HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT.

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Author: rodney In celebration of the 25th anniversary (!) of Hayao Miyazaki’s popular animated fantasy My Neighbor Totoro, Viz Media have released a new hardcover edition of the My Neighbor Totoro Picture Book, written and illustrated by Mr. Miyazaki himself. You can order it now at Barnes & Noble. “The companion book to the beloved […]

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In celebration of the 25th anniversary (!) of Hayao Miyazaki’s popular animated fantasy My Neighbor Totoro, Viz Media have released a new hardcover edition of the My Neighbor Totoro Picture Book, written and illustrated by Mr. Miyazaki himself. You can order it now at Barnes & Noble. “The companion book to the beloved animation classic My Neighbor Totoro by legendary Studio Ghibli director Hayao Miyazaki. Featuring artwork taken directly from the movie, this updated edition will allow parents and children to relive Totoro’s magical adventures with scene-by-scene illustrations and character dialogue. Eleven-year-old Satsuki and her sassy little sister Mei have moved to the country to be closer to their ailing mother. While their father is working, the girls explore their sprawling old house and the forest and fields that surround it. Soon, Satsuki and Mei discover Totoro, a magical forest spirit who takes them on fantastic adventures through the trees and the clouds — and teaches them a lesson about trusting one another.”

image c. 2013 Viz Media

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