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Upcoming Concerts and a note about IMVU
10 years ago
First up, concerts!
For those who helped make it possible for me to see my dad and help him in a time of need last year, I have successfully livestreamed once from my laptop. Now it's a matter of time till I get practiced enough to start playing those concerts I spoke of.
In the meantime, I am appearing as a guest in Baker City, OR on March 27th and 28th playing at Earth and Vine, 2001 Washington Ave, Baker City, OR 97814 at 7pm both nights. No cover, casual dress. :) They are a wine bar. ^^
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On IMVU: FurAffinity is going through many growing pains (and is probably a growing pain in the arse for some!). A vocal minority has likely turned running the site into almost a nightmare and the costs of running ANY site that bears most of the community will likely get driven to go commercial, or out of necessity go for-profit themselves. Just to not succeed themselves into failure. This doesn't mean that FA has failed completely, but I am on the fence about so much right now. There are many good options; I am expecting to see similar happen to Weasyl and/or to other sites in the coming years for two reasons:
1) Unless the owner of a site is ridiculously wealthy or has a personal datacenter, if we all more or less convene on one site - it's going to cost more than we're willing to pay.
2) We create content and I think we are a pretty good group, as groups go. Facebook (which is as old as FA) showed the world how much people and their friends are worth to advertisers. I am surprised that something like this did not happen sooner. They asked for money, got DDOS'd many times and new memes started instead.
After what happened at an event I ran in February, I almost quit being a furry completely and shutter my own events because of what I collectively call 'lessons learned from premeditated stupidity'. The only time I hear about Weasyl is when something happens on FA. Much like the only time I heard of Dreamwidth was when Livejournal did something stupid. Or illegal. Or screw over its users by doing something stupid and illegal. I joined Dreamwidth and then never posted. Chances are I'll establish alternative accounts elsewhere, but every time I move sites I am less and less likely to connect or to use those sites.
Before Livejournal, I used to be on Journalspace (which... well... http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/03/jo.....ny-deadpooled/ ...is dead and gone. Anyway, if you're here reading this, may I convey that I'm tired and have other things to do than to move my accounts.
For those who helped make it possible for me to see my dad and help him in a time of need last year, I have successfully livestreamed once from my laptop. Now it's a matter of time till I get practiced enough to start playing those concerts I spoke of.
In the meantime, I am appearing as a guest in Baker City, OR on March 27th and 28th playing at Earth and Vine, 2001 Washington Ave, Baker City, OR 97814 at 7pm both nights. No cover, casual dress. :) They are a wine bar. ^^
- - -
On IMVU: FurAffinity is going through many growing pains (and is probably a growing pain in the arse for some!). A vocal minority has likely turned running the site into almost a nightmare and the costs of running ANY site that bears most of the community will likely get driven to go commercial, or out of necessity go for-profit themselves. Just to not succeed themselves into failure. This doesn't mean that FA has failed completely, but I am on the fence about so much right now. There are many good options; I am expecting to see similar happen to Weasyl and/or to other sites in the coming years for two reasons:
1) Unless the owner of a site is ridiculously wealthy or has a personal datacenter, if we all more or less convene on one site - it's going to cost more than we're willing to pay.
2) We create content and I think we are a pretty good group, as groups go. Facebook (which is as old as FA) showed the world how much people and their friends are worth to advertisers. I am surprised that something like this did not happen sooner. They asked for money, got DDOS'd many times and new memes started instead.
After what happened at an event I ran in February, I almost quit being a furry completely and shutter my own events because of what I collectively call 'lessons learned from premeditated stupidity'. The only time I hear about Weasyl is when something happens on FA. Much like the only time I heard of Dreamwidth was when Livejournal did something stupid. Or illegal. Or screw over its users by doing something stupid and illegal. I joined Dreamwidth and then never posted. Chances are I'll establish alternative accounts elsewhere, but every time I move sites I am less and less likely to connect or to use those sites.
Before Livejournal, I used to be on Journalspace (which... well... http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/03/jo.....ny-deadpooled/ ...is dead and gone. Anyway, if you're here reading this, may I convey that I'm tired and have other things to do than to move my accounts.
Personally I see nothing wrong with having multiple accounts places. ^^ But trying to get people to close one account down to use a different one somewhere else instead seems shady as all hell.
I may do a 'I told you so' should Weasyl find itself in the same predicament as FA.
*gives many hugs*
That said, I do have a Weasyl page, but time will tell how much I use it.
Pulling legs is dangerous since legs has feets which has claws. ^^
Music isn't stopping at all; and hopefully I'll have something local too - the Hillsboro farmers markets are starting up in May I think, and I may find myself playing at those again. ^^
***edit***
I can edit my comments now. Wh00000t! :V
Add experience levels and voila! Real Life: The RPG! ^^