>>2983 I was there from the start btw, but please, inform me.

>>2984 Fourscore and forty years ago, in the depths of discord, a pact was struck. Kitalin and Kemooner, sworn enemies, blood dripping from their fingers and pooling in their keyboards, agreed to partition their lands. To Kitalin would go the soychuds, and to Kemooner would go the fluffzis. The pact was sealed by a shared thumbprint left on each ruler's webcam lens, and the pair swore that if ever the other wiped off his thumbprint, doom and disaster would be upon the other. For a time, all seemed paradisical. The soychuds and the fluffzis cohabited in seeming peace, unaware of the pact which left each party under the thumb. Many Averis were posted, many baits were danced around, and the fat of the land was enjoyed by all. But deep inside Kitalin, unknown to all, even his innermost circles for a time, something stirred. The lust for power. For total control. For the soul of the 'foo. It was in that era that he consulted with Uruth-Durin the Goon Enchanter. For a price, Uruth-Durin promised to give Kitalin his kingdom, and Kitalin, in his envy, accepted. To the discord of Uruth-Durin was delivered a photo of Kemooner and an Averi goon caption, and to Uruth Durin himself was sent hair clippings stolen from Kemooner at the barbershop. Uruth-Durin worked his magic. For a time, nothing happened. But, slowly but surely, something changed in Kemooner. An inner restlessness. An urge. A command. One day, it came to a head. He joined a goon server, by sheer coincidence Uruth-Durin's own, and challenged all e-girls present (in his delusion, he failed to realise there were none) to a goon-off. He joined the voice call, turned on his webcam, and, without thinking, wiped the thumbprint off with a spare tissue. In that moment, the bargain fell. A dis-ease fell upon the board. Anons who formerly tolerated each other in peace could suddenly no longer stand each other. The threads grew subtly shittier. Within weeks, the puppet-head of Floof announced he was throwing in the towel. Kemooner was filled with regret. He left the discord, deleted his account, and embarked on a 180-day nofap fast. Kitalin could barely coceal his rejoicing. He grew so giddy that he almost namefagged once, but remembered that the inner circlejerk must leave no names on the 'foo, and restrained himself. He even managed to engineer the rise of the 'boo. For a time, all seemed well. However, Uruth-Durin came to collect. Kitalin, in his impudence, refused to pay. This was his fatal mistake. Through vile cum sorcery, Uruth-Durin spiritually drained Kitalin's soul and balls from afar until he as an utter husk. After a torturous 30-orgasm streak, Kitalin sent the command and ordered the posting of >>2943. And so he drifted into a coma from which he has yet to awaken, and the 'foo and the 'boo slipped from his grasp. This is the trueishmost tale of the innermost circles. You may not understand, and you may even disbelieve, but these are the grapplings of which the 'foo is downstream.

To fully grasp these ill tidings, one must be intimately familiar with the following power players: - The Five Sisters. All male, three of them crossdressers, all of which hate furries. Love them, or die. - Carl the Hippogriff. Impenetrable. Unshakeable. Don't mess with Carl: he will fuck you up. - Jose Sneed Cumsnort. The leader of the vagrant Holodygm discord, Jose is a dangerous man with no limits. If he sees his name, you'll bet he will eradicate all credibility of the post off the face of the world. Watch any post that mentions him. See what happens. - GigaSneedCoomer. A buddy of Jose, GigaSneedCoomer is the muscle behind Jose's brains. He can hack any discord in 5 minutes flat and force you to make a new account. His calling card is a distinctive drawing of Homer Simpson leaning out of a Cadillac and dropping a pistol on the ground, saying "you'll need this in 5 minutes." If you see this, run. He's coming. - BartChuckson. Bart is the sworn enemy of GigaSneedCoomer. A psychology major, Bart will ruin any thread he suspects his arch-nemesis of lurking in. Bart is immune to GigaSneedCoomer's powers because he uses Matrix instead of discord, so no one talks to him. If you're on the 'boo, you can summon him at any time if you use the magic words, and he will do your bidding. Approximately 90% of all thread wars on that site are started by him. These are the hands that roll the dice. These are the hands that play the game. Together they are the Hand That Holds, and when they drop the pieces, the game is over.

>>2984 see >>2985 >>2987

Frog here. I'm kinda bored, ask me anything if you feel like doing so.

>>2942 Thanks. Looking around it the fediverse has definitely confirmed that I still don't like social media, even if this is better than the mainstream. I don't think I'll get too wrapped up in this, but I'll still mess with it a little to see how it goes.

>>2939 Neat. If nothing else it's a good place to post status updates, even if fediverse instances are prone to going down for 20-47 minutes at odd hours. When I was moving off of Twitter last year I migrated to the fediverse instance stereophonic.space at the suggestion of a racist furry shitposter friend, and it's generally been a fun time. The format is definitely influenced by social media and there is a fairly intense recency bias, but there are also many people who just use it as a (micro)blog and link aggregator. Frankly, it replaced image boards for me for a while, though I'd never wander from a small cozy board like this. If you're going to use the fediverse, there are a bunch of domains that should be autoblocked (mostly honeypot ones for CP and fedposting), and a few that you may need to block yourself. The biggest and most obvious one is poa.st, which is populated by right-wing indian slop accounts who think Pepe the Frog is the funniest meme on the internet. I can give you a full list from my profile if you care; I know many anons dislike this kind of blocklisting but it's a sad necessity of anything with the dynamic of social media due to the abundance of AI slop and digital littering.

>>2947 t. just bought more land in the Fediverse

>>2949 That's the best part. It's free!

>>2959 Are you saying it's free real estate?

>>2868 I missed the PDF link, but it's okay because I found the book in real life.

>>2873 It's always nice to find something in a used book store, isn't it? Look around and you will find a LOT of Piper's work at Project Gutenberg. And this is a fanpage: https://zarthani.net/ Paying the animation tax.

>>2868 >Could you give some examples? All the modern multiverse fiction. Bioshock Infinite, Sonic Prime, modern MCU and MCU-adjacent slush that leaps to another world whenever the current one is getting stale. It's especially obvious when a character dies and the gang has to go do a different dimension and get a replacement version of that character. Your example Time Patrol story, purely from your description, is not what I'd call a Many Worlds story: it's a what-if story with a particular type of alternate or speculative history, similar to the DC Comics Elseworlds stories ("what if Batman were a pirate? what if the Joker were Jack the Ripper?"). A Many World story truly needs more than just one or two places in order to be judged by that moniker, because otherwise it's just a story about two places that have effects on each other. That type of story is perfectly fine - frankly, it's the basis of a lot of good fiction - but it's fundamentally different. Strict adherence to the Many Worlds theory is also required for me, where every single possible point of deflection or choice manifests as a different world. Obviously such a setting is impossible to become invested in because there are literally infinite copies of every possible character with every possible permutation. I admit I'm a purist about definitions like this, and I prefer straightforward stories that are written and told well; craft matters to much much more than theory, and by that same token if that Time Patrol story is told well then I'm sure I'd enjoy it.

>>2908 Understandable. I will admit that I haven't been to a movie in a theater in years and years. The cape movies are something about which I see memes, not something I watch. I will also say that I used to read a lot of science fiction, to include splatbooks for pen-and-paper RPGs when especially bored. The tone of sci-fi published since the end of the Protracted Struggle does not appeal to me very much, and the authors whose work I enjoyed are dead. The RPG stuff often had really clever ideas and worldbuilding but not really so much in the way of coherent story. When I was bored enough, and I'd been able to find this stuff at a used book store, or in some ancient undisturbed FTP archive somewhere in the pre-SEO, pre-AI Internet. The GURPS Infinite Worlds books had clever ideas along with some japes that didn't quite hit for me ("we call this timeline the United States of Lizardia, and it's exactly like present-day Earth in every single way, down to the names of celebrities and the current popular music, except that everyone is an anthropomorphic dinosaur," are you people serious? who approved this?). There's also a GURPS Horror worldbook called "The Madness Dossier," which has to do with a war between humanity, waged largely by secret government agencies, and time-traveling entities whose exact nature is not understood (alien conquerors? demons? evil ancient gods? pick one or make up something weirder) who are fighting and flipping the world back and forth between two timelines: the world we know, and a world where humans are the slaves of these hostile entities, which has a lot of good writing and evocative ideas and could have been the core conflict of a very good skiffy novel instead of an RPG. One of the core concepts is that stuff can sometimes survive intact from the "other" timeline when things flip back and forth, resulting in possibly somewhat cliched plot bunnies like "someone found the shiny alien superscience weapon that was never created and shouldn't exist and sold it to a pawn shop, so now you have to track it down and retrieve it before whoever bought it blows up the city, or, worse, attracts the attention of the evil insane alien gods who want to enslave us."

>>2868 Having finished the last story in the volume, I gotta concur with >>2908: these are enjoyably weighty time travel stories, not many-worlds fiction. Thanks for telling me about the book: it was pretty fun to go through. I find it interesting how a major complicating factor (if not the true one) in every story except The Only Game in Town was an agent's affection for a woman, and that Everard was always on the sidelines of this.

>>2928 I know, right? I heard the artist might even be a human.

>>2929 I don't think the average human has even seen a kemono in person.

>>2930 What about a kemono in a kimono? ...also, this shork thread is five and a half years old and I don't see a shork saying "oh nyo." Clearly we need to address this.

>>2931 Is there something about seeing a kemono in a kimono that's more likely than seeing a kemono not in a kimono?

>>2936 "Just yesterday I saw a kemono in my pajamas! How she got in them, I'll never know!"

>>2473 modding source games le fun

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3481150/MOQR_Company/ Autistic game that seems to ape old PC-88 games but not ape their looks opting for a monochrome scheme. Also Jacob got off his lazy ass and gave a release date for Two Beasts Or Not To Beast; November 11th if you were waiting on this game.

>>2580 Derp November 7th is the release date for the game that Fakku is publishing https://www.fakku.net/games/two-beasts-or-not-to-beast-english

>>2580 If any of you guys own a CRT, how do games which use these shaders look when they're played on an actual CRT monitor? I hope you can turn it off, as even if some of these newer filters are decent enough, I think it's good to give players the choice of whether to use these or not. The game looks decent, by the way, so I'll probably try it when it comes out. Thanks for sharing it, anon.

Pocketpair is going to drive Nintendo out of business.

>>2694 Thispair was so popular even their fan-made kid got porn.

Need wife

>>2918 Nerd wife

>>2921 Nerd Wai Fu when?

>>2915 This is a very important point that will define all sharing of information in the coming century - you should probably post it in a different thread so it isn't buried by porn slop here. People have already begun to become so detached from reality that they can't discern simple differences between things like species of bugs, or the likelihood of weather, or any number of perfectly natural things that you or I could do as children. Most people are post-literate due to the proliferation of emoji, character limits on social media sites encouraging short form posting, and the ubiquity of third party reaction gifs (Tenor, Tumblr) giving everyone a visual mental vocabulary which is far more accessible and immediate than typing out words oneself. The topic of image cleaning filters was relevant during the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, where footage that had an original resolution/bitrate that made it pretty clear was provided (by the prosecution, I think) at a much lower bitrate that turned images of Rittenhouse's body into blurry messes. Then the TV in the courtroom had to be adjusted to ensure that it wasn't doing anything. The first quarter of the 21st century marked the steps from a pre-future world to a post-future world. The next quarter century will mark the step from a post-future world to a world of futuristic mundanity. We may live to see the machine stop in our lifetimes, but not until every possible source of fuel has been exhausted.

>>2922 NOW. Nerd waifu fu. >>2923 I encourage you to be optimistic. I do not think the trends you describe are universal. And if the trends were universal, it would be unsustainable and collapse almost instantaneously.

>>2937 not today

>>2940 Man, it's astonishing to think someone could have found a site on the webring without knowing what it was; kind of like standing stones hidden deep in a forest. Short version, when old 8chan started dying in 2019-20 (because the owner, Jim, wanted to turn it into a news site for boomers in the wake of Trump's election and all the Qanon insanity), there was a huge diaspora of anons who went onto build their own sites. Initially anons clustered onto a few sites that had functional /v/ boards, and as you'd expect it got quite territorial. The usual drama followed, legitimate and otherwise, offsite and on. It ultimately led to a failure cascade of several larger sites, and anons collectively realized that having a single point of failure was a bad idea. We decided to spread out to other sites that would interlink to one another and allow anons some redundancy. It has generally worked decently, though there have been boards and sites that withered in the wind (such as recently prolikewoah, the primary board for old 8chan's /animu/, the shitposting haven counterpart to /a/). It was all very autistic. I am happy things have settled into small boards without the constant threat of takedowns.

>>2966 >Man, it's astonishing to think someone could have found a site on the webring without knowing what it was Ummm akshully, this imageboard is not on the webring

>>2933 this void troopers remind me of the overwatch soldiers from HL2, would you think that something similar to a stalker would be too horrific in their universe? >>2960 Even in the situations portrayed, these funny doodles between the drawings always get me haha --- Another try on a comic page, after making everything in one sheet I realized that would be better to draw everything separated in smaller sheets and assemble them digitally, oh well next time And also another try at a low-poly model, this time I'm trying to use that "action-figure" approach that GTA III and other games from this period used, making each of the limbs individual meshes, I think that it would be easier to texture and animate afterwards

>>2968 loled at the wifedog. at least he is staying faithful to her... in his own special way? >this void troopers remind me of the overwatch soldiers from HL2 i was reminded of them as well when coming up with them. except they would not be cannon fodder, even if they don't care about dying >would you think that something similar to a stalker would be too horrific in their universe? i like to believe they would give enemies of their own species the dignity of an execution instead of that fate >Even in the situations portrayed, these funny doodles between the drawings always get me haha nobody is immune to the-sticking-tongue-out-close-camera-shot!

>TysonTan drew his goat girl again I question whether she'd be all that warm with the exposed legs and boob window, but mountain goats are hardy animals so she probably knows what she's doing.

>Oraingen suddenly starts uploading art to Pixiv again Can't say I'm a big fan of the delay, but I'll take it. It's crazy just how much damage Twiter cracking down on nitter instances and the death of their RSS feeds did to the kemono thread and this place in turn. So many of the imagedumps turned out to rely on that one technology, and dealing with current year Twitter is so bad that most anons just don't bother following artists with it.

>didn't hit the filesize limit >had to split it into two posts anyways kek

Kemono pudge is still the best.