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Author: crossaffliction Contributors this month include crossaffliction, dronon, Equivamp, Fred, GreenReaper, Higgs Raccoon, mwalimu and RingtailedFox. read more Find the full article here: flayrah – furry food for thought Creative Commons: Full post may be available under a free license.

Anybody else here planning to make their way to Dallas next week for Furry Fiesta?

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Author: rodney If you’ve got to get the bad news (or maybe good news if you’re lucky) about this crazy weather that we’re having, why not get it from a cute little bunny? “Weather Rabbit is a unique combination of weather app and virtual pet that rewards you for keeping your rabbit happy by dressing […]

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The phrase "what the... I don't even..." was invented for things like this.

If you ever wanted to live the life of a bizzaroworld goat you can get it for $9.99 at Goat Simulator.

Pre-order on our website for 3 days early access on Steam: http://www.goat-simulator.com OKAY INTERNET YOU WIN, IT LOOKS LIKE GOAT SIMULATOR IS OUR NEXT IP Goat Simulator is like an old school skating game, except instead of being a skater, you're a goat, and instead of doing tricks, you wreck stuff.

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It would of been difficult to have not heard about Flappy Bird – the smartphone game for iPhone and Android – as it flew to the top of the charts, catching the attention of the tech and video game press. When the creator decided to pull down the game, it was virtually impossible to avoid as the media speculated what brought down the game that was at one point earning the creator $50,000 a day in advertisement revenue.

As an optimise I am going to believe vietnamese game developer Dong Nguyen was sincere when he claimed he did not utilise artificially tactics to push Flappy Bird up the charts and that he was burnt out from the attention as well as disheartened by the amount of time people played the game.

Flappy Bird will live on as a curious tale in the history of mobile video gaming and joins an esteemed elite of mobile games featuring seemingly legless round birds including Angry Birds and Tiny Wings.

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Is it possible to be too clean? There are some who suggest that the modern Western lifestyle contributes to allergies, asthma, and other diseases by limiting exposure to microorganisms. And others say the notion is preposterous. This week we discuss the merits and drawbacks to the theory while advocating cleanliness at all times at a con.

Also, we spend a while pondering how hygiene standards may differ in a world populated by anthropomorphic animals.

Metadata and Credits WagzTail Season 3 Episode 4

Runtime: 30m

Cast: Levi, Spenser, StarlightWolf, Wolfin

Editor: Levi

Format: 128kbps ABR split-stereo MP3 Copyright: © 2014 WagzTail.com. Some Rights Reserved. This podcast is released by WagzTail.com as CC BY-ND 3.0. If distributed with a facility that has an existing agreement in place with a Professional Rights Organisation (PRO), file a cue sheet for 30:00 to Fabien Renoult (BMI) 1.67%, Josquin des Pres (BMI) 1.67%, WagzTail.com 96.67%. Rights have been acquired to all content for national and international broadcast and web release with no royalties due.

Podcast image belongs to gabriel, used with permission. Hygiene - Is it possible to be too clean? There are some who suggest that the modern Western lifestyle contributes to allergies, asthma, and other diseases by limiting exposure to microorganisms. And others say the notion is preposterous.

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It is a well produced tutorial video: good video quality, clear audio, relaxing background music and the drawing itself is decent.

This time something else than a tribal tutorial. Wanted to show beneath all these existing character sketches a furry tutorial. If you want some, I could do some about head and hand design. Hope you like it. And stay tuned for other tribal tutorials! Don't forget to leave comments and wishes for other tutorials!

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I actually have Joe Ledbetter’s illustrated book Creatures of Habit, so it is cool to years after find out he’s making a living selling vinyl figurines of the cute articulately shaped rabbits.

Follow artist Joe Ledbetter as he takes you through his entire toy design process with his "Chaos Minis" project.

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Fred Patten:

Many Furry conventions have been very helpful in answering questions, but some profiles are full of question marks. None have refused to participate, but some have ignored three or four e-mails. (With some, I am not sure I even have their correct address. Does anyone have an address for the discontinued FranFurences in France?). Others have replied that they are very busy, but that they will answer soon. After more than six months, I am not holding my breath.

It is understandable that the business of life and its hectic chaos can prevent organisers from getting round to replying to what would be considered low-priority requests in the grand scheme of the day, but as a firm believer in history and keeping records of our subculture for posterity I hope people in the know can help out in giving him the facts. Whether its from remembering a source of information that was posted on an FA journal to being a friend of an organiser, every little piece of information helps builds a grander picture of the fandom.

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A few weeks ago two tweets caught my attention.

A big welcome from us to the many, many talented furs who joined SoFurry recently! You are awesome, and we'll keep working hard for you!

— SoFurry (@sofurrynews) January 22, 2014

Welcome, New Users! - Hello, everyone! First we’d like to express our gratitude for the recent spike in... http://t.co/KAwSQzVcUG

— Weasyl (@weasyl) January 23, 2014

Coincidental timing that both furry media galleries should post tweets about a spike in membership registration. I reached out to GreenReaper – administrator of Inkbunny – to see if the same was happening to his site and was informed that they were experiencing a spike in activity whilst registrations were increasing at a normal rate.[1]

The joy of furs being willing to branch out into trying other furry art galleries is subdued by the speculated motivation relating to allegations mentioned in the linked Flayrah article. It would be nice to think people are trying the alternatives based on merit and having grown tired of FurAffinity, but the reality might be that some are moving just to make a point of principle (even if it might be on unsubstantiated grounds).

Regardless, FurAffinity is still going to be an influential force and as observed by Sonious when you look at his analysis of Alexia statistics:

While we can see that while Weasyl had gained traffic, FA has not suffered any noticeable loss. Essentially artists have their feet wading in more pools now rather than a select few. Whether this means furry artists are diversifying their portfolios in a simple wariness of Fur Affinity's decisions or is an actual beginning of a shift is yet to be seen. However, at this point it would be foolish of those in charge of the largest furry website to not take notice and weigh carefully on future decisions, lest giving rivals more ground.

[1] He attributed this to InkBunny being one of the oldest of the new wave art galleries (Inkbunny went live in 12th June 2010, whilst SoFurry 1.0 went live 26th December 2009, it was not until 23rd January 2012 that version 2.0 was launched) and so most people who could of registered accounts have done so whether as backup or curiosity.

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When I learnt about designing relational databases at university it was actually pretty simple on paper when you worked through the step-by-step methodology for determining the relationship status between tables and where the redundancies were. However in real world usage it is actually a headache for the inexperienced, because you have to be aware of how tables structure can lead to resource intensive queries, or discovering you need to change design resulting in a domino of changes you must roll out.

So I found GreenReaper’s explanation for changes being made to Inkbunny’s database an insightful read into the challenges an art gallery faces. It is easy for a bright eyed developer to want to change the fandom by making the FurAffinity-killer but articles like these reveal the kind of issues you must be wary of.

GreenReaper’s piece is technical but also accessible to anyone with some beginner knowledge of databases, a thorough recommendation for anyone who works in coding development. Here is a favourite passage:

The primary key is often set to be a steadily-increasing number which otherwise has no meaning. This helps avoid issues with relations to other tables. (Usernames are unique, and could be used as a key, but they can also change; we don't want to have to update every table relating to a user when they do.)

Numbers are also small. Think about how fast unread submissions can rack up if you're watching a lot of users. We have members with tens of thousands of them. (This brought down FA in December.)

What we've used to date is an eight-byte integer (whole number) key. Eight bytes doesn't sound like much, but it can store 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 different positive values. It's good to be optimistic, but the reality is that Inkbunny will never have 9,223,372,036,854,775,807 users, past or present.

It's a fair bet that we'll also never have 2,147,483,647 users, the maximum for a four-byte signed integer. We can therefore use a four-byte key, saving space in the user table and every table which relates to it. This same reduction can be applied to submissions (even deviantART has only used 420,000,000 submission IDs), private messages, comments, keywords, etc. 

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