Check it out: https://gamesdonequick.com/schedule/33
It's second in the whole schedule and I will be commentating the run

I'm gonna go to iFC again, and I have a room and I'm registered and everything. It'd be cool to meet up with some friends there!

After three whole years it's finally done! You can get it from itch.io. I hope everyone likes it!

I'm gonna be 22 on the 19th. Figured I'd say so here.

I'm trying to get a single-pose, SFW reference-style picture of Nova that's up-to-date with how she's normally drawn nowadays,
sort of like the references I've gotten for other people. I'm aiming for $35 as a cap and something in a cute style like I am in a pic Lia commissioned from Tyroo.

Does anyone have any suggestions for people? Anyone I've found with art and prices that are good enough seem to have been closed for months. Most of the people that have been recommended to me have no experience drawing furries and I don't want to take the risk.

Since Nova is usually drawn with hair and since my current reference sheet is kinda too realistic for my tastes I think I should get another at some point.

Does anyone know who's even open and does reference sheets (and has a cute cartoony style)? I'm guessing Sarge would be a bit of an issue.

I'm going to go to my first convention this August, at IndyFurCon and I'll be there all three days.

Anyone want to come meet me there?

After actually getting to do some story stuff I found out I actually suck at it, and when other people say they've been playing since the 90s I start to feel really intimidated because I've only actually been able to start doing this kind of stuff (a little tiny bit) in 2016 and I'm the only person without significant amounts of experience.

Everything that goes on seems really advanced and I always get lost, but that doesn't matter because the scene just keeps going anyway without anyone acknowledging my existence at all and I eventually just leave. I don't know how to lead or come up with ideas at all and I don't feel like I'm contributing very much.

It's really getting to me again that I'm only good at sexual stuff.

I feel like I need practice in order to get better but I don't know where to get practice if everything that happens is above my skill level and no one wants to work with me.

Help?

This is something that has been frustrating me for a very long time, that I don't see any solutions for. Back when I had just started roleplaying back in 2008 I got to do all sorts of story roleplays and people included me in things.

Then, that suddenly stopped. For whatever reason, for the past 7 years or so people only want to do sexual, story-less roleplay and nothing else, or with the story only serving to lead into fetish-based play. Usually I'm pretty good at dealing with it, but it's really been bothering me lately and especially with some people making flimsy excuses and continually disappearing at convenient-for-them times I'm starting to really feel used. I have a whole bunch of thought put into my character and her world and I never get to use any of it, because all people want Nova to do is transform them and that's it.

I've looked all over the place, on AnthroChat channels, FurNet channels, a MUCK, F-Chat, and the problem persists. No one is interested in starting anything with me and helping me learn. I don't know if I'm somehow looking in the wrong places, or if I'm putting people off somehow, or if people just only want to play with people that already have a firm grasp on what they're doing. To me it feels like the situation people complain about in job searching, where all the companies that are hiring want experience but you can't get experience without a job.

The MUCK seems to be open with roleplays, but it's very focused on science fiction, which doesn't interest me at all, and I only get ignored when I try to contribute anyway.

Anything I've tried to start myself just ends up dying, and when I try to join in on something that's already going I either get ignored or everyone drops out of whatever's going on. Anyone else with a similar amount of character development says no when I ask. It hurts that all I seem to be good for is helping people fap.

Can anyone help me?

I'd like to get an avatar that's actually drawn to be an avatar rather than just being a crop of a picture, and but I don't know who does them for reasonable prices ($5ish? $10 at the most) and who actually knows how to draw squirrels well. I think the person who said they'd do it months ago in return for me buying her something gave up on it.

Anyone know any artists? :p

Edit: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19048732/ boop boop

Might as well put it all here instead of bits and pieces of it when people ask me how I'm doing.

2015 has been a really awful year. It started off with really high expectations because I was in love and in a relationship and everything seemed to be going really well. College felt like it was going to be enjoyable at the very least. I was really hopeful for the future and optimistic about life after college.

Ever since the end of middle school finding people that are willing to spend time with me has been really difficult and throughout high school I think I was only popular because I was entertainment. Nobody wanted to spend any time with me outside of school. I'm a very social person and I feel like I need to be around people. I get really sad seeing my siblings constantly having friends over when I don't have anyone that shares my interests that will hang out with me, nor anywhere to find anyone like that. Now that I've graduated from high school, almost nobody there that I don't currently go to college with even bothers to stay in contact with me. I feel like after college I'm just going to end up being all alone. Having a relationship made me feel like I was going to not only have someone to be around that would actually accept me and have the same interests, but they were going to stay around; I could end up spending my life with her. I actually had something concrete to look forward to after college, a goal to make it feel like college was actually meaningful. This helped me get through some classes that were really difficult for me.

Then the relationship fell apart after the end of my second semester. I was very depressed and I couldn't find the motivation to even eat usually. I had an awful birthday that was full of disappointment. I had another relationship but the person had faked everything to look like a good fit.

Then my third semester starts and I'm still optimistic; maybe college will help me be less lonely? But then it turns out that the college recently lost a lot of good professors and the ones for classes in my major are pretty bad and for the worse one I'm keeping a list of all the stuff he does that makes me really upset about his incompetence, intending on meeting with someone higher up in the department later to do something about it. College felt really meaningless without a specific future or any plans waiting for me at the end of it but now it just feels like a complete waste of time. I haven't learned anything at all except some Java stuff I could have learned on my own.

I'm having no luck finding anyone at college that wants to hang out with me and that has interests anywhere near similar to mine. The only group I managed to really get into feels toxic anyway because they just get drunk a lot and also make fun of professors or students in the class and are super insensitive and offensive a lot of the time.

I don't know how I'm supposed to find any good friends that will spend time with me offline that share interests and aren't just hanging around out of pity. I certainly don't know how I'm going to find a girlfriend either. I'm never in a position where I'm going to meet any girls (college, the one place where I meet anyone is like, mostly dudes in all of my classes, and dudes that don't share interests at that) much less any that would be interested in me. Nobody responds to me on dating sites or bothers to message me. I feel like I'm just a freak that nobody is going to want because I'm way too exotic and unlike everyone else here. I don't fit in with pretty much anyone that lives nearby and I don't really feel like I fit in with my family either which is completely unlike me and which I feel like I have to hide most of my identity from (like, I'm really not certain about my gender identity, but I have to just pretend like I fully identify as male because otherwise I know I'd have serious issues with my parents that seem hateful of trans people. I can't explore). I don't have anything that really feels like a family to me or a group to fit in with, online or offline. I don't fit in anywhere nor am I an important part of any community. I tried to put a group of friends together but it just fell apart.

I've had a lot of opportunities that seem like they're going to help a lot with loneliness but the person always ends up backing out or disappearing anywhere from a few days to a month later. I had a person that I had a crush on and that seemed interested in being close friends with me and we would roleplay a bit. Spending time with her really helped. But now I guess she's too busy to respond to me at all for the most part except some rare days when she'll talk to me a little bit. She's not too busy to hang out with her offline friends or anything.

To make everything worse, about two weeks ago my first ex, that had been friends with me up until this point apparently decided she doesn't want to be friends anymore? I no longer really have anyone that really understands me and is anywhere as helpful as she was when I wanted to talk about something in my life. I think maybe she just feels horrible whenever she sees me like this because I didn't really think I needed a girlfriend until I actually tried being in a relationship with her. And now, knowing what it's like to really feel loved, I can't not want it. I want to experience all of those emotions again and I want someone to spend my life with. But nobody is going to want me, not in this dumb town where I can't find any furry activities. Not in any online communities where people only keep me around for roleplay or where they just don't pay any attention to me at all.

I just lately have been wishing I didn't end up a furry and weren't as weird as I am. I would have been way better off if it weren't such a big part of my life. If F-List is anything to go by, people are scared away by anything that makes someone stand out. I don't think I'd be happy if I just pretended I were normal, though. I lose either way. I just feel like everything is hopeless because I don't see a method of changing my situation at all and I think anyone that tells me that things are going to change are just wanting me to somehow be happy when I'm all alone and just hope that things are going to magically get better. They've been shitty for years, I've just been lying to myself all this time that being all alone was okay. I don't think it's going to get better.

http://www.infiniteneslives.com/action53vol2.php
This cart has both Double Action Blaster Guys and Sliding Blaster on it, as well as a game I collaborated on and a Conway's Life simulator I wrote, as well as a bunch of other games that other people did. Several of the games have multiplayer. You should totally buy a copy and help the nesdev community.

I'm working on an NES platformer game that I've been wanting to make for like 6 or 7 years, and I have a soundtrack (made in Famitracker) composed but I don't think my songs are great so I'd appreciate if someone could help with making songs longer/better or composing better songs.

I'm using the Famitone2 music engine so these restrictions are in place (from the readme):
- Allowed notes are C-1..D-6, Note Cut (rest note)
- Only Volume, Arpeggio, and Pitch sequences (no Pitch for noise
channel) supported
- All instruments should have volume envelope assigned
- Only the loop part of sequence is supported, release part is not supported
- Pitch envelope accumulate the offset at conversion time only, thus
it can't go further -64..63, and can't accumulate the offset with loop
- Only first step of Duty envelope for pulse and noise channels is used,
there is no Duty sequence
- 64 instruments max
- No volume column at all
- Tempo is set with the global setting, speed can be changed with effect
Fxx (1..21)
- Bxx effect for looping without an intro, does not support forward
references
- D00 effect to cut patterns early
- No effects other than mentioned above are supported
- Up to 17 sub songs in a file, they will share instruments and pattern
data

Also I'd prefer not to use DPCM samples.

phone-tagged by  kelvinshadewing

RULES :
1. Pick a character you've created.
2. Fill in the questions/statements as if you were that character.
3. Tag at least four people to do this meme
4. Tell people that they been tagged with a link from your journal

Character: Nova

1. What is your name?
Princess Nova Equinox Storm of Toasterland

2. Do you know why you were named that?
Nova - Latin for "new"
Equinox - thrown in to make my initials NES, also related to seasons and weather I guess??
Storm - my element is electricity

3. Single or taken?
single, unfortunately

4. Have any abilities or powers?
videogame logic derived abilities, and transformation magic

5. Stop being a Mary Sue!
no

6. What's your eye color?
#0000ff

7. How about hair color?
no real hair, but #00ff00

8. Have you any family members?
two squirrel sisters, Eclipse and Isis

9. Oh? How about pets?
not in the traditional sense

10. That's cool, I guess. Now tell me something you don't like.
being ignored or lonely

11. Do you have any activities/hobbies that you like to do?
programming, flying

12. Have you ever hurt anyone in any way before?
mostly emotionally

13. Ever… killed anyone before?
nope

14. What kind of animal are you?
tree squirrel

15. Name your worst habits.
being manipulative

16. Do you look up to anyone at all?
mostly just Simba (the AnthroChat one)

17. Are you gay, straight, or bisexual?
I really prefer other girls

18. Do you go to school?
yes, majoring in computer science

19. Ever want to marry and have kids one day?
marry yes, have kids no

20. Do you have fangirls/fanboys?
I have a huge number of followers

21. What are you most afraid of?
loneliness

22. What do you usually wear?
blue dresses of varying fanciness

23. What's one food that tempts you?
pizza

24. Am I annoying you?
no

25. Well, it's still not over!
ok

26. What class are you (low class, middle class, high class)?
high, since I'm a princess

27. How many friends do you have?
a lot

28. What are your thoughts on pie?
I prefer cake

30. Favorite drink?
fruit smoothies

31. What's your favorite place?
my castle

32. Are you interested in anyone~?
not anyone that's actually interested back

33. That was a stupid question.
yes

34. Would you rather swim in a lake or the ocean?
lake

35. What's your type?
princess

36. Any fetishes?
yes, mostly vore/transformation stuff

37. Seme or uke?
N/A

38. Camping or indoors?
indoors

IRC only tends to have the same group of people every day, most channels seem really dead and the people I meet usually don't take me very seriously.

F-List introduces me to lots of people but due to the nature of the site I'm pretty sure most of the people I talk to there only really care about me for helping them get off. Most of the friendships I have seem to be pretty heavily focused on roleplay in the first place, way more than I would have liked. Most people don't contact me unless they're horny. (I have met a small handful of people on F-List that care about me though)

Second Life runs really horribly on my laptop most of the time and when it doesn't, in the places I know of to visit, pretty much nobody will pay attention to me and the people I talk to usually turn out to be too closed-minded to be okay with my fursona.

I'm not really sure where I'm supposed to go to try to make friendships that aren't just based around roleplay, with people that are willing to take me seriously and give me a chance. Even offline, nobody seems willing to give me a chance and there's only two people I know at all that are willing to hang out... Though, I did start going to a counselor so I hope that will somehow help socially (but I don't think there's anything I can do to make people want to give me a chance more).

Also, ever since  fluffylinn broke up with me I've been wanting to get in a relationship again now that I know what it feels like to be in one, but I have absolutely no clue where I'm supposed to find any girl furries (IRC only has dudes, gay dudes and trans girls). Most people I've had feelings for (furry and otherwise) either turn out to be terrible, lesbian or just plain not interested in me. Are there any furry dating sites that are any good? I'm kind of desperate at this point, and I keep getting scared of ending up alone just because I don't think I'll be able to find anyone willing to give me a chance.

I've been trying for like, years, starting even before I was a squirrel myself, to find some often-online taken-seriously squirrel playmates for the sorts of things I like to do, trying all(?) of F-List's resources (ads in statuses, easy-to-notice ads on my profile, ads in LFRP channels, hanging out in rodent channels, the character search) at different parts throughout about a year. I've also looked around on FurNet in relevant places.
There've been like three or four that just lasted a few weeks to several months that just ended up disappearing or explicitly telling me they want to cut off contact. I also tried running an F-Chat channel for awhile about squirrel transformation, and while 7 people were interested, the results weren't satisfying because nobody ever took squirrelliness seriously except one person who's never around.
Anyone out there able to help, or know someone who can? An FA journal is kind of my last resort.

Yeah, I turned 19, but I don't plan to have anything special for it really. The specialness will be when I have my graduation party in 2 days which will be awesome.

and it was a good thing too because I had like, level 8 super deluxe ultra senioritis. Now I'm going to sign up for classes for a college I already got accepted into and then I'll major in computer science or something

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I got a 3DS for Christmas as well as Animal Crossing: New Leaf

My Ouya finally came yesterday and I've been playing tons of games (of which DubWars and Fist of Awesome seem to stand out as coolest). I'm probably not actually going to try to make games for the store just yet but it's even more motivation to finish my NES game so it can be in EMUya's store (and so when another cartridge like the Streemerz bundle happens I'll have a better game than Forehead Block Guy to have on it).

I'm gonna be 18! I've been waiting for this for like 5 years lol

Since my laptop is my last remaining actual computer I have to use my Android media player just to keep getting online. Due to that, I probably won't be most places I usually am but I'm making an effort to at least be on AnthroChat and Steam as much as I can. The new charger should get here in like 3 to 7 business days.

Edit: It got here, and I'm back

Oh yeah I kinda fried that second computer too, and on top of that the $30 computer is sold out so if I wanted to replace it I'd have to pay even more money for the replacement. Let's just go through all the various things I've done wrong! :D
1. Tried to insert the RAM backwards the first time
2. Static electricity everywhere; also NOTHING IS GROUNDED because our house is so old and only has 2-prong outlets
3. I actually left the plug in because I thought just turning it off with the button would be enough

RIP Toasterland

I don't even know what happened, but once I opened up Toasterland's case to install the additional RAM I bought, it stopped booting up at all so I bought a cheapo $30 computer (that STILL has better specs) to be the new Toasterland. Of course, the only really way this'll affect anyone is that you won't be able to connect to toaster.iotairc.net until I get the new box (just use nyancat.iotairc.net instead while you wait) and my bot won't be on.

Bad staff or not, I'll be staying as long as FurAffinity is full of activity (and with how big FurNet manages to be, the general population of the fandom obviously don't care about a staff team that makes bad decisions anyway). As with everywhere else, the amount of people who do care won't put a dent in any activity and FA definitely survived the last mass "I'm leaving the site!" thing over the cub porn incident and I'm sure it'll survive this too.
I do have a Weasyl registered to reserve my name but don't expect to actually use it (much) and won't bother to submit any of my stuff when it won't get any attention anyway and the gallery I have put up on SoFurry works just fine for showing people my stories. If it gets to where I actually run into Weasyl submission links anywhere at all I might.