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As the title suggests, I am looking for an experienced, willing coder to help expand our growing furry-friendly Starbound server. We have become fairly popular, and are slowly improving our features and stability, but have nobody with the experience to truly take it to the next level.

Anybody that is willing to help is greatly welcome. Pay can be given if necessary, but will be limited until we truly expand.

As of now our server has a regular playerbase of around 20, with peak times sometimes hitting up to 35 players at a time.

We are looking for YOU!

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Hi r/furry! I'd like to try drawing your fursona. I would have posted this in one of the more art-themed furry subreddits, but they seemed pretty inactive, so I've posted here. A few rules about requests:

• I do line art, so no color. I may try coloring if there aren't many requests

• Please give a fairly detailed description of your character. Helpful information includes, but is not limited to: species, gender, body build, height, clothing (or lack thereof), and pose.

• SFW only. Your character can be without clothes, but I won't draw anything explicit.

I'll try to draw two sonas a day starting tomorrow and lasting until the 31st. Make a request in the comments. I'm not a pro artist at all, just someone who likes doodling, so don't be too upset if my pictures don't turn out to be exactly what you wanted.

EDIT: Wow, I greatly underestimated the number of requests. Sorry, but no more new requests! I'll post a pic on imgur and reply to your post. I'll respond to older posts firsts but may skip around a bit, if I see a request that has more info or seems more interesting to me.

/u/fe-addict: http://imgur.com/LZo26Zp

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Hey for those of you who don't know. Their is a app on android called furrtrax that let's you fund local furs. Its not the best app but if enough people use it it might get better. Check it out .^

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Has anyone else ever bothered with this scam of a site? I registered once, realize you had to pay out the ass to even send a single message, and never used it. Now I get these 'new messages' all the time which you have to pay a minimum of $13 up front to even look at, and I can't seen to find any option, or get any reply about closing that account. Does anyone here have anything to do with this bullshit site?

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Sheriff Callie’s Wild West is a new CGI animated TV series for preschool kids, coming soon to Disney Junior. Starring the voice of Mandy Moore (Tangled), it tells the story of Callie — a calico cat, the loyal and heroic sheriff of a little western town called Nice and Friendly Corners — and her friends and associates as they learn important little life lessons. There’s an article at Entertainment Weekly that includes a preview video of the show. Sheriff Callie’s Wild West is available now at WATCHDisneyJunior.com and the WATCH Disney Junior smartphone and tablet app. It debuts on the Disney Channel and Disney Junior in early 2014.

image c. 2013 Disney Junior

bored again and need something to do. Might as well practice :P post a ref sheet or ref image or a detailed description and i'll give it a shot.

First two guaranteed, after that it depends on if I feel up to it

Fred-931: Done

Snowmew: Done

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Here it is, if you're curious. Just yesterday I found an old media player filled with this stuff. Personally I don't like it. I used to think most furs have heard of it, but I guess I'm wrong. What do you think?

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Does anyone here have borderlands 2 for the ps3? Im looking for a friend to play with. Im almost level 30 and started true vault hunter mode.

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Papabear,

I want to go to a furmeet, but when I asked my parents, they were worried about stranger danger due to problems with my vision, lack of physical strength, and trouble interpreting social cues. I used "furry convention" instead of "furmeet" because I thought that if I'd said "furmeet" they'd worry that I wanted to meet a fur I'd been talking to online (the online communication was discovered and ended long before I asked my parents about going to a furmeet). Other than "if you're worried about my safety, you can be my chaperone" and "I've taken self-defense classes" I can't come up with any convincing arguments. Do you have any? The reason I'm telling you this is because I'm uncomfortable bringing it up with my parents.

Alec (age 18)

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Dear Alec,

Thanks for writing. Sounds like you might have some physical problems and mild autism? I can understand why your parents might be concerned. Since you are physically weak, as you say, yeah, I don’t think the “I’ve taken self-defense classes” would work, plus it implies that you might think there would be a reason you’d have to take such classes. On the other paw, having one or both parents chaperone is not a bad idea at all, and, if you haven’t suggested it already, you might give that a try. 

As an alternative, do you have any friends or other relatives your parents trust who would go with you to a furmeet? That would work just as well as one of your parents going.

My question to you would be: what do you do in other situations where there is social interaction with people your age at a party. Do your parents trust you to do things independently and, if so, why wouldn’t they trust you with a furmeet? It’s not really a con, but if you don’t like the word “meet” try “party.” Why treat a furmeet differently from any other social gathering?

I also suggest that before going to a meet like this, you have some of your furry friends come by the house and meet with you and your parents. You see, your parents are nervous because they don’t know any of the people you are about to see at the meet, yes? But if they actually knew them and met them, and came to know them as your friends not just strangers at a party, then they would get to know and trust them. If your parents are comfortable with your being a furry, surely this would not be a problem. Once they know you are just going to hang out with furries you already know and perhaps meet a few new ones, they should be more comfortable with the idea.

Understand, Alec, that your parents are only concerned about your welfare. It’s not about not trusting you, it’s about your safety. Try the suggestions above to get them to feel better that you will be safe and you stand a better chance of going and having a good time.

Hugs,

Papabear

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I looked in an Under Armor store. What is best for fursuting? Cold or warm gear? Long or short sleeves? I'll get compression when the time comes. Get gloves too? I'm not buying right now. Its for in a year.

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When I was asked to become a regular contributor to [adjective][species], I couldn’t have been more excited. I had been following the site for quite some time, and I thought its approach to discussing the furry fandom was something interesting, unique and long overdue. Thinking about this fandom as a society, a segment of the population the same as any other, elevates the way we think about ourselves, legitimizes our little section of the Internet, encourages us to take ourselves a bit more seriously than we do. I was excited to be a part of that conversation.

So I sat down and thought up a good post that would serve as an icebreaker between us. This was right around Thanksgiving, so I thought using an anecdote I had heard about the first time the Native Americans had encountered the Europeans would work. It would segue into a rumination on perspective, and how we only find the things in the world that we look for. There were some kinks to work out, but I thought it would be a good thing to open our relationship with. With you in mind, dear reader, I opened up a new document and started writing.

Over the days I was working on it, though, I could feel the gears in my brain running down.  The act of focusing became difficult, and the effort required exhausted me quickly. I became frustrated with how quickly I tired, and that frustration used up even more energy. It took more and more time to do less and less, and with work and everything else on my plate just getting through the day took more out of me than I had. That “energy debt” accumulated became this weight on me that grew by the day, and exhaustion became normal. Sleep did nothing; my mood sunk and the daily stuff got to be more than I could handle. But I had to handle it.

http://www.depressioncomix.com/posts/013/

I suffer from chronic depression. I’ve been living with it long enough to know that I was having a depressive episode, and that the thing to do was NOT struggle to get everything done. I knew I didn’t have the energy for that. It was going to take most of what I had to just get through the day, so I focused on that instead. I delayed the posts on my blog for a month, tabled my first blog for [adjective][species], and focused on re-establishing my coping mechanisms. I take Prozac every day, though I can forget sometimes during really busy periods. I try to meditate every day, which trains my mind to be still and improves my focus. Exercise actually helps me out too; a good run makes me feel better about myself. And talking about it helps, though that’s difficult to do. Discussing depression, especially when you’re in the midst of it, can be uncomfortable. It’s hard to make someone who’s never had depression understand what it’s like to be gripped by it. But trying to do so makes me step back from my own head, which helps me reason through it.

Depression is being suddenly trapped in a labyrinth with high walls with no idea how you got there. The walls are so close that just moving through them is work, and so high that it’s impossible to know what the world is like outside. It takes a lot of work at first, but trying to describe your depression is like scaling one of those walls and taking a look at the labyrinth from on high. It might not help you get through it right away, but it at least helps you to see what you’re dealing with.

In any given year, NIMH (the National Institute of Mental Health) reports that 26.2% of the population over 18 suffers from a mental disorder in any given year. This includes chronic major and mild depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders and social phobias. For a bit of perspective, that meant that—according to averages—1,460 attendees at Anthrocon 2013 suffered from a mental disorder this year.

That’s a huge number. And many of those people are going undiagnosed and untreated, unable to find a way to deal with the way their own minds are betraying them. We all know someone who acts a little weird online, says things that make you wonder what they’re thinking, or expresses anger, boredom, sadness or confusion consistently. It’s quite possible that these folks—our friends and fellows in the community—suffers from a mental disorder that for some reason hasn’t been addressed.

The holiday season is an especially hard time for those of us who suffer. There are a wide variety of reasons for this—being with family can be an alienating experience, or being unable to be with family may dredge up a lot of painful memories. This time where so many people are focusing on the connections they have, the pain and loneliness we feel may be exacerbated. It’s difficult to know what to do with that, especially if we have no idea how to talk about it.

I realize that there’s no easy way to deal with someone struggling with a mental illness, especially if it’s gone unaddressed. I know that when I was in the darkest of my depressions I would say and do things that were very difficult for those closest to me to deal with. Even now that I’ve seen a therapist, developed coping mechanisms, take medication to manage my depression—interacting with people while I’m having difficulty is fraught with anxiety. Still, I really appreciate it when people make the attempt. Even if someone isn’t able to express gratitude at the time a gesture is made, trust me—it’s noticed, and it helps. There are some people who helped me through the worst of my depression and never gave up on me, and today I would do absolutely anything for them.

If you’re depressed or helping someone who is, know this—you are not alone, and this is something that happens to many, many people. Even if professional help (therapy and/or medication) isn’t available, there are things we can do to help those around us who are suffering. Here’s a link:

http://www.helpguide.org/mental/living_depressed_person.htm

Depression is a serious issue that we haven’t learned to discuss or understand properly, I feel. It’s very important to know what’s happening to us or our loved ones when they’re in the grips of illness. It’s as real as any other disease, and treatment requires patience and compassion. It’s difficult, of course it is, but that connection can mean the difference between finding your way out of the labyrinth and being stuck there, suffering alone, far longer than you should.

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I'm new to this. It's something my friend introduced me to then I was a young teenager but never had the courage to do anything about it.

Does anyone know any groups or hat online they could point me in the direction off?

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