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Cave Story’s Daisuke “Pixel” Amaya has revealed his next gaming title, Gero Blaster. He's showing the game at BitSummit in Japan this weekend. Gero Blaster is the story of Kaeru, a frog, who is trying to find his girlfriend, a cat. It's a side-scrolling shooter that looks to make its way onto iOS and Nintendo 3DS.

The game has a planned release window of around May 2013. You can check out a trailer for the game below!

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Dear Papabear,

You remember me, right? I sent you an email a few months ago about talking to my parents about my beliefs.

But anyway, I have a completely different question this time. It's about the furry fandom. 

I have been a member of the furry fandom since I was 13, but I don't consider myself to be a furry. I don't consider myself to be one only because I don't believe in labels. 

Now onto my question. I was wondering if the real life furry fandom is anything like the Internet fandom. I have never been to a furry convention, and I've never met a furry in real life. I know there are furries in my area, but I just don't know where to find them. It seems like on the Internet, very much of the artwork is yiff, or fetish related. Even if it isn't fetish art or yiff, many more seem to have some type of sexual overtone. 

People drawing yiff/fetish art is more than okay with me. It just seems like it dominates the Internet fandom. Just look at furaffinity; 75% of the website disappears with the mature content filter on. 

To recap, I was just wondering if the real life fandom is like this. People tell me it isn't, but I just wanted to hear the opinion of an active member in the fandom. 

Sincerely, 

Steve. 

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Dear Steve,

There is a big difference between virtual reality and reality, and, since you don’t like labels, that’s true not only of the furry fandom but of all things. Yes, online there is a LOT of yiffy art, animations, and screwing around in RPGs and virtual worlds like SecondLife.

I have been to seven furcons now, and Califur this June will make eight. I have also been to a number of furmeets, and I can tell you that these gatherings are very different from the online world. At furmeets and cons, furries chat, fursuit, eat, go bowling, play games, that sort of thing. If you go to a con, yes, you could probably find a room where there is sex going on (true of ANY convention of ANY kind—my sister is a Ph.D. and has been to academic conventions where professors act very... unacademic, shall we say), but most of what goes on is very G to PG. Even moreso with furmeets, which are even more public than furcons and people need to behave themselves.

But it’s not just because these events are in public; it’s because they are REAL. When someone is at a keyboard, hiding behind a digital shield, their inhibitions are dropped because they can be anything or anyone. I mean, if you wanted to, you can be a dragon with three hyperpenises that can have multiple orgasms. In real life, if you have to expose yourself in a bedroom, self-consciousness and shyness kick in big time for many people. Many furries are young, inexperienced, and awkward in the bedroom—many are virgins—and so they shy away from real sex (and good for them for not recklessly jumping into the fray). But there are some, too, who are yiffy IRL as well as online, and some of those don’t play safe.

They key is, Steve, that you can make of the fandom what you will. If you want to do the X-rated thing, you can certainly find people who will be willing to do that. But if you want to have the Family Experience with the fandom, it’s very easy to do that, too. I guess what I’m saying is that you shouldn’t be afraid of going to a furcon, furmeet, or just meeting some local furries. It’s not like we’re all sex-crazed freaks who are going to rip your clothes off and pounce you when you walk into a room. Most of my friends are furries and my experiences with them have been very tame and friendly.

It’s all about the furiends you pick. That will determine your experience in the fandom in real life. I hope you make the leap from the virtual world of furries to the real one. I have found it to be well worth it.

Bear Hugs,

Papabear

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Savrin and Fuzz have returned from the wilderness with tales beyond imagining! Rambling email tales of assholes, larp, and nonsense! Shiva has a severe case of Tetrisitis still and is MIA. This is a long one! Use our coupon code 'knot' at AdamEve.com for a great deal. Episode 212 - Derpsplosion

How would you design a furry convention? We here at WagzTail give it a shot in today’s episode, sharing what we would most like to see and what venue it would take. So come on, share your thoughts below!

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Episode 57 – Furry Convention - How would you design a furry convention? We here at WagzTail give it a shot in today's episode, sharing what we would most like to see and what venue it would take. So come on, share your thoughts below!

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Hey there artists, I'm relatively new as a commissioner, and my primary subject matter is fetish art. I've had a few customers request commissions that they want to stay private - meaning they don't want me to display the image I've drawn on FA or any other image site. I've been charging a bit extra for this, but I'm starting to question the entire thing. I'm agreeing to be disallowed to exhibit my own artwork - is that messed up? Does anyone else do this? I could use some insight, if you have any.

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Following in the footsteps of Rise of the Guardians (sorry, we’re just sayin’…) comes Holiday Wars, a new full-color graphic novel coming this April from Th3rd World Studios. Based on the on-line continuing graphic story (written by Scott King and illustrated by Michael Odom), once again we have story where holidays are represented as living, breathing beings. “Holidays reflect the current culture of a society and like a shifting tide they change. Realizing this, The Easter Bunny declared war on the other Holidays in the hopes of gaining the one thing that can guarantee his immortality: The Holiday Spirit. Foreseeing The Bunny’s betrayal, Santa hid The Holiday Spirit and marked Tegan Cassidy, a human infant, granting her the ability to find it. After sixteen years of war, nearly all the Holidays have been killed or have joined The Bunny. Led by Earth Day, the rag tag group of observances still fighting, turn to a now teenage Tegan in the hopes that she can lead them to The Holiday Spirit.” Pre-order information for the trade paperback is up on Amazon.

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So. I'm wanting to go to FWA with some friends, but the problem is the badges presumably have your name on them. Your legal name. I'm trans, and really don't want to be shouting my legal name to the world.

Does anybody know their policies regarding this?

If there's no way around it, I'd rather not go at all, and that makes me sad. :C

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