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Hopefully the my icon here tells you my position.

Video game soundtracks and electronica can make some great background thinking music.
soundtrack to vvvvvv
portal (I might have bought this on a CD)
crystal method
wintergaten (that marble machine guy)

Once upon a time, there seemed like there were quite a few users who would post to yiffit and at least some amount of general activity. These days it seems like there are only a few posters. So what happened to everyone?

It often works, but sometimes fails in very quiet ways. https://pawb.social/post/8422352 and https://yiffit.net/post/8267386 are the same mealtime video post (Technology connections kettle), but very different comment counts. I usually see it as posts or communities that just stop showing up even though nothing changes. The other day I played with the stories community here from a remote community, but nothing showed up until I made a comment on a post that didn't show up initially.

yea federation can be weird sometimes.

Just one? One on many instance? Multiple on one instance? Biggest reasons?

The app I use for lemmy, Voyager, is dropping support for lemmy 0.18 in a few days due to authentication changes in 0.19.

Any news on upgrading yiffit?

I was about to change my profile picture and I got that error, I assumed it was an occasional problem because my PC has a lot of space available so I tried to upload an image and I couldn't either because of the same error code.

I tried to upload an image on another instance (to that same instance) and didn't get any errors so it's not my PC. I suppose it's possible that I could upload an image to a Yiffit community from another instance but I'm not sure if it will be reflected on Yiffit.

Is anyone else having this problem?

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I don't mean to be annoying, but it's been some time since I submitted my registration request, and I still haven't received an update on it, so I don't know if it will ever be accepted.

I need a project to occupy my time and improve some skills. I can write a RISC-V core, and maybe use the building of as a teaching aid for VHDL. The ideal result would be highly configurable core, similar to Micorblaze/NIOS

My other option is write a website. It would be a mix of FA, Patreon, artconomy, microblog, and maybe some others mixed in. The best analog would probably be itaku, but open source. I know python and have been playing with flask.

Every time I open e621 I spend between 30 minutes to 2 hours every day (or sometimes more than once a day) and it's because every time I open it there are ALOT of new posts and artists that I didn't even know existed and I look at all their posts and repeat.

I'm not asking for help and I can control this, but it's like what the Youtube algorithm is for some people who spend a lot of time just scrolling without watching any videos.

Honestly, it's impressive the quality that's in e621.

Does this happen to you?

It seems a person, Mark Merlino, involved in getting the first conventions going passed away the other day. So it made me think, was the emergence inevitable.

Personally I'm sure that if e621 had some kind of 'following' functionality I would probably follow hundreds of artists but as far as I know e621 doesn't provide this kind of functionality, so how I usually keep up with my favorite artists' posts it's just manually searching by their name but just as I said, I easily know more than a hundred artists and usually going one by one is pretty tiring, besides, how am I supposed to know the name of each artist? I barely know by heart the name of the ones I usually look for, but there are many others that I just favorite a post I like and forget about them, because I forget their name and I have many favorites...

Are newspapers really generating just-in-time AI generated articles based on random search engine searches? I searched DDG for "derpibooru top artists" and this was like the 4th search result.

Everyday things would be different. You have to account for tails everywhere. Bandaids wouldn't work with fur. Would shirts be worn, or would natural fur coats be all that is there? Food workers would have full body nets. Claw tips come out of a different area and would make some tasks that use fingertips difficult (typing)...

Do you like what you do? Do you like your industry but dislike your job? Do you like your job but not the industry? If the salary was $200k what would your ideal job be?

I don't have a better outlet, and wanted to write something.

Death sucks. Whether its a celerity you follow, someone online you follow, family, or someone else, it just sucks.

For me, I don't follow celebrities. The most I've felt for people online I follow felt like a gut punch, and I thought about them for maybe a week, and then once every few months. For family, its a bit of a cry and thoughts still fairly frequently.

My grandparents are/were all at about that age 85+. For clarity I will refer to them by the familial titles I use Grandmother(father) for my Mothers parents, and Bubbe and Zaide for my Fathers.

My Grandfather had a fairly large stroke about 10 years ago and died after 8 years. He went from being one of the most active 85 year olds you would know to being bedridden for nearly 10 years. It was hard on everybody, and although there was a relief when he finally passed, for me I don't think it was any less sad. I play the clarinet, probably influenced because he did. I have his old clarinet and soprano sax, and think about him whenever I play. I have some other hobbies and interests from him as well.

My Grandmother is doing well, and much less stressed for the passed couple years.

My Zaide said he wasn't old until he turned 90, well he turned 90 last year and I was just told he passed. He had had mobility issues for a few years, and if he were a bit younger would have likely had a knee replaced. In my Dad's youth he was a salesman and moved a lot. As long as I've known him, he's owned a business. He was also an artist, wood carving. He made many beautiful bowls and "doodles", they are all over everybody in my families houses. He liked to tell stores, some true, some jokes, but I always liked them. His passing was not unexpected. He had an infection that sent him to the hospital a month or so ago, and his mind deteriorated to the point of requiring professionals.

I haven't talked to my Bubbe in probably a year. I most recently saw her about 6 months ago, but I don't think we talked. Unfortunately her as she was has left leaving behind someone who thinks the world is trying to kill her and screams about it.

I don't really have a point to all this, I just wanted to write it out.

Hobby? Skill? Art? Work?

Have any thoughts about fursuits? Cute? Creepy? Want? Have? The AD side?

So there's a possibility the instance I use will go offline. I've never had to think about this until now, but I want to choose a new instance and I'm wondering how this will affect things.

Certain instances have defederated from furry instances right? If I create an account on pawb.social for example, will I lose access to any particular communities? Is that a stable server running the latest version of Lemmy?

Desktop, app? Local, subscribed, all? New, hot, active? Some combination? I usually stick to local or subscribed with new. Every once in a while hot, all.

Art gets lost for a variety of reasons, the artist purges their gallery, a site changes its rules, a site shuts down. Sometimes if you look hard enough you can find something, sometimes you find evidence it existed and sometimes everything is lost to the sands of time. Do you have anything you wished you saved? Do you have anything you swear you saw at one point and were never able to find again? Any other thoughts on lost art?

Do you believe in them? For those with a fursona, do they fit you? For those without what species would fit you?

cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/gaming/t/320300

Former Bethesda character artist Jonah Lobe helped create the Deathclaw seen in Fallout 3 and later games

Archived version: https://archive.ph/E4CXM

Full text:

The Deathclaw is one of the most feared monsters in the Fallout video games. They are able to rip apart low-level or unprepared players in seconds with their long claws and powerful limbs. But did you know that a subset of Fallout players finds the Deathclaws hot? Sexy, even? It’s true—and one of the creators behind the creatures shared their thoughts on all the Deathclaw porn floating around the seedier corners of the web.

Released in 2008, Fallout 3 is not the first game in the franchise but it reintroduced the post-apocalyptic RPG series to modern gamers. And many players coming into Fallout 3 didn’t know that lurking in its wasteland were giant, lizard-like monsters that were extremely deadly and scary. These mutated creatures appeared in past Fallout titles but were redesigned to be more menacing and powerful for Fallout 3. Bethesda artists Jonah Lobe and the late Adam Adamowicz worked together to create the new Deathclaws that would go on to scare players in Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76. Well, they scared most players. Some had a very different reaction to the monsters.

On August 6, an Instagram account dedicated to Fallout memes and jokes shared an image that made fun of all the Deathclaw porn that exists. The image was a screenshot of Bethesda asking for Deathclaw fan art and then comically reacting to the nasty images it received. And in the comments of this post, Lobe shared his thoughts on all the Deathclaw porn that is out there. (And yes, there’s a lot. Just know if you go looking for it, all of it is NSFW.)

“As the creator of the Deathclaw, I’ve been silently impressed/horrified at the sheer tonnage of Deathclaw porn out there…” commented Lobe.

He later retweeted a response from a cursed Fallout image account that the artist follows. The account, Draco Deathclaw, is a big fan of the creatures and shared the initial image, so they felt responsible for getting Lobe involved. The former Bethesda artist confirmed that this account had “absolutely” something to do with the response.

The Deathclaw’s creator explains why people find it sexy In an Instagram message to Kotaku, Lobe explained that he designed the Deathclaw to be “beautiful and terrifying” in a “National Geographic sort of way.”

“I gave it a hulking, long-armed physique, a toothy scowl, and lion-like eyes that regarded the player—not with hate— but as if they were food,” said Lobe.

“But some people enjoy being looked at that way—it can be, dare I say it, titillating? And if you pair that gaze with lion-like eyes and a hulking (although fit) body, well then I can see how that might, er, arouse your interest.”

Lobe also explained that Deathclaws—which he told Kotaku were his favorite monsters he’s ever created—have “soft skin” on their underbelly and a “hint of tender pink” around their noses and nostrils. He added these elements to make them seem more “realistic” but he suspects it might have also added a sense of “touchability” to monsters. And while the monster has always been a fan favorite and has even appeared in a recent Tenacious D video, he never expected people would love Deathclaws this much.

“I mean, I’m just scrolling through Google images and I’m… yeah, I guess ‘impressed’ is probably the right word,” said Lobe. “Unsettled, definitely, but I’m not going to yuck anyone’s yum.

Lobe hasn’t posted any specific pieces of Deathclaw porn on social media or YouTube, yet. But he isn’t lying. There is a “tonnage” of the stuff out on the web, along with people commenting on Reddit and elsewhere about how hot they find the large, radioactive lizards.

I don’t want to kink shame, but I’ll offer a warning: If you meet a real Deathclaw and want to fuck it, be prepared for some rough stuff. You are going to need to have an open mind and a lot of stimpacks.

“I suppose I’m grateful that at least some people out there are giving my baby some love! Still, what has been seen cannot be unseen,” admitted Lobe.

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