>>2953 the new site, that is

>>2953 In the 99% chance that you are frog, you made up a problem and went hysterical over nothing like a woman does. Calm down and stop this gay depressed teenager faggotry. If your site was dead, no one would have responded to you, and this behavior only shows you don't value the people who do still return. You're going to kill a niche part of the internet and then wonder why everything online is fake and gay now. Pic rel from their art thread. There's still people who care, and the site means something to them.

>>2955 You're not wrong. Maybe the single thing that irks me the most about the situation is that the 'foo was growing. It had just hit its all-time high number of concurrent users when Floof announced the shutdown. Small altchans aren't dying. Little imageboards aren't dead. There are people out there who want a place for anonymous funposting. I am not the only one unwilling to send in scans of my ID and dox myself to talk about cartoon fox waifus on Facespace. People were coming. The foo's userbase was growing, right up until the day floof said "I'm shutting it all down, lol." I'm not claiming that anyone did any of this out of malice. Floof has a life and I have no claim on his time and energy. If fronge wants to shut it down, I cannot make the argument that he somehow owes it to me to devote his time and resources each day to keeping the site going if it's not what he wants to do with his life. That's not what I'm saying. I'm not saying anyone did morally reprehensible things here. I am saying, however, that there was an audience, and it was growing. One of the things that is fundamental, one of the basic, foundational assumptions, when you begin frequenting a little imageboard, participating in discussions, posting content, creating content, is that it's going to be there tomorrow. When you seek out a little niche place to talk to your fellow autists about our little niche interests, if the plug could get pulled at any instant, there's no point. They're anonymous strangers and you'll never meet them, you'll never know their names, but you talk to them civilly and you make stuff for them, and it's fun. When the site owner announces that he's going to turn the big machine off, it all feels like a waste. It all feels pointless. Why would you stick around? You feel like you might as well leave now and beat the rush. You might as well look around for some other place to post the goofy Maid Marian pictures you drew for that one funny guy who uses all the emoji. Maybe you can find a new place that'll have cool people who like this stuff. Maybe the new place won't vanish in a little puff of electrons in a week. Maybe. Maybe?

>>2943 >look it up >"hornyposting" gets (partially) blamed lmao This solidifies my belief that the staunch anti-porn types on imageboards are unstable and not any saner than /trash/ gooners

>>2957 They're likely right about some things, but their wider solutions tend to be badly thought-out.

We have a fediverse account now on Cawfee Club. I don't intend on doing a gigantic amount with it (I'm not really into social media at all), just figured it might be a decent way for non-algorithm-fried people and ex-anons to find the board. https://cawfee.club/users/kemonoboard

>>2939 It looks like a fun place. I wish you well with the project.

>>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

>>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.

>>2919 He is so sigma, he is the rizzler. Sorry. It was a compulsion.

one day i will draw something happy and wholesome but that day is not today >>2919 uhhhh maybe i will do more stuff with him one day cute kitty as always

>>2933 >one day i will draw something happy and wholesome DO EET

>>476 what is the webring? I've been hearing some drama about it that might be totally unrelated to this website but i'm curious

>>2940 A couple semi-related imageboards which were born out of the fall of 8chan or previous webring sites. Their individual sites' board pages link to boards on other webring IBs

>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.