They changed the discord tag from OWO to FNDR

I am entirely dismayed : V This is the worst decision ever.

I'm not a goddamn car I don't need no FNDR.

Wow, it's January 1! I survived last year, despite my stomach literally trying to kill me. It's actually trying to do it again or something, honestly don't recommend, but hopefully my medications will kick in any day now! Here's hoping 2024 is at least a little less all over the place medically than last year.

Anyway, just a casual reminder that I do have some characters for sale over here on ToyHouse:
https://toyhou.se/HgRising/characte...../folder:523533

If you're interested in something, feel free to shoot me a note/Toyhouse message/discord pm/whatever. Open to haggling, too.
Prices should be listed on the characters themselves, if you don't see one, I'm still organizing some older files and pulling numbers out of my butt.

Hope everyone has a happy new year!

Doing some folder and character cleanup. A few characters have been sold/transferred to friends, so I'm moving most of their art into scraps, or just keeping it tied to some of my other character folders where there's someone else with them.

So far, these characters are out:
Emily the Glowy Gryphon -> Given to  Atherol
Blair the Witch -> Given to  Breezles
Whisper the Noibat -> Sold to ZiggyZackary over on ToyHouse

I'll probably be removing Catherine and a few others later today.

I actually have a bunch of unused characters for sale over on my toyhouse here: https://toyhou.se/HgRising/characte...../folder:523533
Just send me a note if you're interested and we can work something out.

Good news is I'm able to add a few newer characters in their place! So far, these two new characters now have folders:
Nicole the Glameow
Reyna the Skunk

My girlfriend is starting to experiment selling some adopts, and she has one she just finished up for sale over on her account!

It's super cute, and she would appreciate it if you guys go check it out!

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/47374931/

I haven't updated my journals since March of last year lol

Question tho: I write stories, and I want to write more stories this year. Should I upload more stories here?

It was wild and I freaked out a bunch but I had an absolute blast, it was completely amazing.

24/10 would go again

\oAo/ This will be my first convention. Will let everyone know if I die.

\oAo/ I'm going to my furst furry convention, Furnal Equinox in March next year. Gonna meet up with  Spiderdragon cus she a nerd. Should be a lot of fun ye. I have never done this before aaaaaaaaaa

Ok I got like waaaay too many characters, so I threw some up on ToyHouse that really I'll never do anything/haven't done anything with. Feel free to reach out with offers on any of the ones listed here:

https://toyhou.se/HgRising/characte...../folder:523533


EDIT: Should probably mention I'd be willing to take art in exchange probably. Maybe. Gonna come down to style on that one.

After swapping and replacing everything in my computer, the issue is my CPU. I swapped my i7-7700k for an i3-7100, and everything works flawlessly.

Hopefully Intel will provide support...

I have an issue. Starting around middle January, I started having a problem playing Planetside 2. The game, after I was loaded in and attempting to join a battle, would simply close to the desktop. No error messages. No events in event viewer. No reporting to the OS as to why it's closed. Just closes neatly and puts me back at my Steam library.

I have thrown every possible fix and troubleshooting test that I can think of, and engaged with both Daybreak Games (publisher) and NVidia support, thus far to no avail. A list of things I have tried:

* Turning it off and on again
* Testing for thermal issues on the GPU (card never goes above 65C, easily capable of playing for 1+ hour at 78C with other games)
* Testing for thermal issues on the CPU
* Adding another fan flowing directly at the graphics card
* Microsoft's Memtest (clean)
* Reinstall the game (about 4 times, with and without Steam)
* Reinstall Windows (Overwrote all partitions)
* Installed updated BIOS firmware
* Replaced 600W PSU with 850W PSU (confirming no undervoltage issue)
* Replaced GTX 1080 TI Founders with a spare graphics card I had laying around.
* No overclocking
* Checked and messed with graphics settings/optimization through NVidia control panels
* Unplugged secondary monitors
* Played other games (Skyrim, Just Cause 2, TF2, Space Engineers, The Long Dark- all with no issues for sustained gameplay times of one or more hours)
* Set everything to run as Administrator
* Two separate AV softwares, and no AV software
* Previous graphics driver iterations
* SFC (No validation issues)
* Boot and launch game in Safe Mode

Quite frankly, I've thrown just about every possible nuclear option I and a team of 3 Daybreak support guys could come up with, and I'm not seeing the game write any actual reason for why it's closing out, which is absolutely maddening. About the only lead I developed was after running procmon and launching the game- I caught what I think is my NVidia driver creating some kind of dump file, but NVidia hasn't gotten back to me on whether the dump file actually contains anything useful.

Anyone got any other ideas on what I might be able to try to see if I can stabilize this game or identify a root cause to this?

Thinkin about joining a bird discord group because birds.

I see people with those group icons like for where they live and stuff. How do you go about finding/joining those groups cus I think I missed that part in furry training?

I've been busy and traveling, and I've got like a ton of art to upload aaaaa

Time to go home for the holidays.

Gonna be in beautiful sunny SoCal instead of cold, snowy Michigan for an entire week!

I am in Toronto this weekend on an adventure visiting friends (like  Spiderdragon).

I have discovered that Toronto has a small chain of restaurants called FLOCK.

They offer Bird To Go.

It was absolutely delicious.

Toronto confirmed for bird-themed city 11/10 will be returning solely for chicken sandwiches.

Anyone know of any sites like the ubiquitous Artists Beware but in reverse? Reviews for artists offering commissions?

I melted a laptop.

You guys wanna see this alien species I came up with but don't really do anything with?

They're cute.

To my fellow birds:

Do your non-bird friends ever just call you "bird" or "birb" or do only my friends do that to me?

I, for one, am enjoying seeing how all us birds are flocking together. Post Birds -> Get More Bird Followers Because Birds.

Is this what they mean when they say "birds of a feather flock together."

Are we starting a gang.

I'm gonna upload a porn. Like after dinner. And after I get this cake out of the oven. So like... 20 minutesish?

Ok so I gotta level with you all. After I'm done with all the mostly SFW stuff, all I got left is a ton of porn (because I am a really dirty bird). So just if you were here for primarily well dressed birds, I lied, I have mostly undressed birds because it's all NSFW.

Boy, I sure hope you guys like birds.

I see people that post art they get and their galleries are just full of commissioned works and things. And I do a lot of that. I am wondering if I should post the stuff I get too. I may do that.

Maybe when I'm not in North Carolina.