Thanks so much
@Blueneko
for letting me put on Clyde for a couple of hours at FWA. It felt incredible (I was honestly like this the whole time) and I'm glad to know I'll easily be able to handle a full when I get a suit of my own.
#FursuitFriday
@Naughty_Lizard
@JoeyBuckaroo
I'm very glad that furry is one of the few places where "I want to be locked in a fursuit and tied up, but undressing is my red zone" is considered valid and legible.
@yinzer_g
@CYinzer10
@WTAE
@anthrocon
621st degree master fursuiter here, have to concur. You never forget the initiation rites of being shoved into an adorable puppy costume, zipper locked up, and being tied down and snuggled by a pile of other suiters. It's what they call "being an animal in bed".
@thetranspecos
@AuralAlliance
While I do think the promoters should have been a little more blatant and explicitly made it a furry event with suits etc (keep furry weird!), I don't see how "furries don't like to buy alcohol" is anywhere close to true... I've seen more open containers at fur cons than college.
@Thrilluwu
@Vectris
And per-instance age gating as a feature.
And ideally all the third party would say is "this person is 18+", not anything about their info... it should be a feature not a bug that you get to start a new account without VRC knowing if you try hard enough.
@Josh20Left
@vanillaopinions
I get my sense of community from a combination of VRChat groups and furry conventions (think "big block party rager in a hotel, where 1/3 of them have elaborate costumes", or the week-long feasts of old). The idea of getting that sense locally is quite difficult comparatively.
@pawbutt
dad: "I know you're going to be tied up over the Fourth" ...had to do all I could to keep from snickering (near completely sure he doesn't know and if he did he would *not* know to say it this way)
@IANSYT
@deepytux
Seagate is awful, I've had 3 drives fail between me and my family and all were Seagate. One Christmas I was at my parents house looking at their computer that had a failure and I told them it was a Seagate before I even popped open the case, and sure enough it was.
@zeekayart
What, you don't like the idea of being in a full kemono suit (covered eyes, tiny mouth) all day when the dew point is 75?
...but really, yes, I want my fursuit to save me from being a Flopsicle, not to make things worse
@LikoClave
One thing I'm very pleasantly surprised about is just how many furries are into fursuit bondage... trappable suit / plushie tf artwork was one of my more secretive guilty pleasures for quite a while before I considered myself part of the fandom, and I thought it was super niche.
@ZizzyDizzyMC
I am sorry to hear that you are having issues. Chrysalis Recovery is always here to help with changeling your cryptocurrency into whatever form you desire. The first step is to put on your verification fursuit so our systems can identify you as the rightful customer.
@ironwolf6464
@optical_96
There's room for both, keeping the convention scene and fandom unmarketable doesn't make everything with anthropomorphic animals verboten any more than MLP would be verboten if Hasbro didn't want to mention bronies.
@dtupper
@RazrLuke
Wouldn't animator complexity need to be added as a perf stat too, since that's one of the few things that differs by avi an can't be culled away?
Come with me and you will see a world of fur conglomeration!
(Pleased to announce that Flopsy will be joining the Kemonokapi family as a full suit, debuting at MFF!)
@_JaxMutt_
I'm not sure whether to agree or dis, I like that cons are a place to let loose (whether with drink, kink, or both) and seem to have become moreso, but I hate the "just take your head off, you don't need a lounge or elevator priority" content creator attitude. Agree as a whole.
@KizmaHusky
Sometimes you're staying half a mile away and don't want to go back and forth 😛
But if there's a reason I wouldn't full suit in line it would be to keep from having to take the head off to show ID tbh
@Sippbox
The fact of the matter is you didn't do anything wrong even if every allegation were correct... best case to make is perhaps you shouldn't have been allowed in ERP instances at 16, but that's always going to be a hard and dystopian thing to moderate about willing participants.
@Pidud_
On a scale from mentioning VRChat to talking about wanting to be tied up in a fursuit and mercilessly cuddled all night in a pile of plushies, what's the damage?
@skeletovr
@VRChat
Chillout isn't going to take off anywhere, it was trying too hard to be a copy of VRC with no distinguishing features except mod support.
@wacky_hijinks
On one hand I absolutely hate "hi". On the other hand, I don't consider "Merry Christmas" to be nearly the same thing, because my problem with "hi" is that it offers no clues about what to say in response.
@GorgonDeDragon
Not quoting the post because it contains a probably-unintended real name (you can find it by searching the maker), but apparently it's because the owner messaged the maker saying they were going to sell the suit instead of wearing it and offered to let the maker buy at cost.
@bubblesfluff_
@phoenixwuff
My maker puts two fans in the top-ish of the head, pointed outward so a user-provided fan up the neck or mouth has a way to exit (and bc heat rises). Or you can be like Kotetsu and just not gaf and do many hours straight every day of AC with no fans.
@GBCreator
@JTwusky
Was one of 4 people I had blocked, I generally block callout accounts and their owners unless they're about scams or targeted harassment. That account in particular didn't sit well with me with the implicit "I define who a furry is" high horse.
@BassetBites
If someone tells me to unfollow someone else I'm muting the person who asked, regardless of context. If I know them well I might chew them out and give them a second chance instead.
@RuTransverse
@skknyuki
@CATCLUB_ViJ
@LesseVR
Cat Club last year was, no question, the best thing I've ever seen in VRChat. Can genuinely say I probably wouldn't be who I am today if I didn't go, because it really got me thinking of what other things I might be missing out on and I ended up going to MFF.
I never met him, but one of the organizers of the first furry convention passed early this morning.
The movement you started has touched many lives. I'm inspired that someone 40 years my elder was still curious enough to join VRChat and use it often. RIP
@sysable
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@avery_online
@crispfallday
@MaryJackalope
I spent a whole furry convention, 90 and somewhat humid, in a fleece onesie, and it didn't get a single bit of sweat on it because of the layer underneath.
@AthyLion
Agree, FWA looked a lot like hard mode for suiting, especially for those of us who aren't going to take our head off while in view of people (and I'm comparing to MFF and its impossibly long skybridge here).
@SuperPonyBolt
@NONSTOPPUP
Even if not compensation, a first-pick room booking slot would be good (where they are encouraged but not required to share with other special guests or suiters who would have a reason to want to be in main)
@MadeFurYou
Using AI for a ref sheet is a very good filter-out, either you don't know what you're doing (ref sheets should be flat w/swatches etc, AI doesn't do that), or you do but you'll probably be a cheapskate about the entire order.
@PineReese
Faster fandom growth means more clients per maker, and price is the fairest way to divy out the slots because it means the maker can benefit / make a living (and encourages more who are interested to learn the skill).
@Kaithral
At least thanks for making it clear that escape from the suit isn't what's important here and that a fully mobile [bipedal] plushsuit kept on with zipper locks or shibari would be fine (as someone who likes that particular concept quite a bit).
@LeoSabertooth
+1, one maker I like has a bucket for 2028 with slots already filled in it. Another maker I really like has a very short queue (probably a year at most).
@matcha_meringue
@Comrade_Gibby
TBH one reason I'd wear a balaclava is so I feel less prone to take off the head in a weaker moment... because with a balaclava showing, something is seriously out of place in a way that even inverse partialing by itself doesn't quite show.
@VRUnderground
It would be a hail mary, but allowing 200 person instances under the condition that all but 80 of the "slots" are VRC+ only would do at least something.
@Pallas_Cat_RS
@ThePurpleWicker
Heh nice pic I wonder who took it 🤭
Anyway mine was idk when I first found out about furries, but I was into MLP in college, got a bunch of plushies the years after graduation, then 2022 joined VRC, friends there (including this one) cajoled me into MFF 23, and now...
This is an example of what happens before any huge fursuit photo
I feel so bad for
@NexusFolf
who checked up on the pile twice before the photo was taken LMAO
#ANE2024
@EclipseStalvok
@AudiMutt
imagine if they said "The Marriott Marquis, they were booked out for something but I was able to use my corporate line to get a room anyway"
@EchoTheNeko
For 7950X3D you should also use the affinity setting in VRC (set it to FFFF) to be extra sure, since Process Lasso doesn't work correctly with EAC.
@some_big_jerk
Slots above 80 being VRC+ only would be a decent perk... basically anyone who starts a large enough instance would be giving VRC+ users a form of prio as a side effect
@emersalad4real
I often don't say I'm ace, only because it would cause people to think I never like to get off, or that they shouldn't express themselves about sexual things around me. But no, I'm mid-high drive and very pro-kink/spicy but just don't really get horny for irl bodies.
@BalticBerlin
I'd add scams to that bracket list (and also add that simply talking about a bad commission experience isn't a callout; if you run a business you should expect your work and practices eg queue length to be critiqued by those who give you money), but agreed
@dtupper
Did you pop into beeg furality? Ran surprisingly smoothly on my machine with a 200MB avi memory limit (tried showing everyone, got a "smooth" 12 FPS until I hit my 64GB system ram cap and then quickly changed it back so it wouldn't start swapping to SSD).
@emersalad4real
"I just want to be stuffed in a fursuit [with no SPH], passed around as a cuddle toy, and tied up in the bottom of a snuggle pile" is usually not what people picture by the word "ace" lol