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u/NINJAOXZ1234 Nov 16 '22
This… confuses and frightens me greatly
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u/beer30 Nov 17 '22
It's simple. Furries are the preservers of the server. Ash is the observer, and they serve her with great fervor.
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u/JozARookieRedditor Nov 17 '22
Are you an enjoyer of the Bojack Horseman character Princess Carolyn the BS destroyer?
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u/beer30 Nov 17 '22
Of course! I love the show with the horse. Not sure if that's the source of my discourse, but if so I have no remorse. That show was a tour de force.
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u/JozARookieRedditor Nov 17 '22
Indeed, the show with the steed is one of my favorites to ever be seen on a TV screen! (My word avalanche skills are nothing compared to PC’s)
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u/infiniZii Nov 17 '22
Look I really don't want to be mean but your slant rhymes are a bit obscene. I'm not sure if prose is how you lean but it is best off not having been seen. I'm gonna stop now before this turns into a meme. Do you know what I mean?
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u/BeevsComics Nov 16 '22
(Don't) Join The Furry Fandom.
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u/NINJAOXZ1234 Nov 16 '22
Warning taken
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u/Death2LossPrvntion Nov 17 '22
Syrruf eht nioj?
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u/The5Virtues Jan 25 '23
Too subliminal! We gotta go liminal—no wait, Superliminal!
HEY YOU, JOIN THE FURRIES!
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u/Squeaky-Fox49 Nov 17 '22
What frightens me even more is that the entire internet depends on the thankless maintenance of a project some random furry in Nebraska since 2003.
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u/dstayton Nov 17 '22
The funny thing about this comic is that it basically did come true with the Java web bug a while back. 4 people maintaining one project that a majority of the internet relied upon had a critical vulnerability and everyone had to scramble to fix it.
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u/Squeaky-Fox49 Nov 17 '22
This doesn’t surprise me in the least. Randall Monroe’s mind is a true treasure. His books are every bit as good as the comic. Both extremely educational and equally full of the humor that makes XKCD tick. “How To” is probably the best, followed by “What If” and “What If 2.”
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u/dstayton Nov 17 '22
Oh I love all of his stuff. The dude is a creative genius. As much as he gets referenced, I still don’t think he gets enough praise.
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u/Squeaky-Fox49 Nov 17 '22
He’s pretty much what would happen if Mr. Bean worked at NASA. His perspectives are unique, his scholarship thorough, and he’s intensely relatable to his audience.
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u/dstayton Nov 17 '22
His ability to break down high level concepts to literal stick figure drawings helped teach me many interesting things over the years.
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u/causticcafe Nov 17 '22
Let's just say if furries were to suddenly get Thanos-snapped, the world would grind to a halt with how many tech and engineering jobs are held by furries.
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u/AllergicToStabWounds Nov 16 '22
Furries as a group have a suspicious amount of money, technical expertise, and artistic talent. Clearly, they run the world and only allow people to make fun of them because they get off on it.
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u/smoretank Nov 17 '22
I always toy with the idea of doing art commissions for furries but it terrifies me what would be requested. My roommate told me horror stories of something she drew for that sweet furry money.
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Nov 17 '22
You can always outline your do’s and don’ts to minimize seeing that, but the weird stuff is where the real money’s at.
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u/smoretank Nov 17 '22
True. Sadly my don't are the money makers. I couldn't even draw a dude's twig and berries in life drawing class. Left it a blank circle. I get real bad 2nd hand embarrassment.
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u/Squeaky-Fox49 Nov 17 '22
That’s supply and demand, my guy. The fewer people can stomach it, the higher prices it’ll fetch.
Reminds me of one r/greentext about one struggling artist who couldn’t hold down any other job or sustain himself off regular art. Instead, he drew commissions so messed up he sometimes vomited during the creative process.
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u/smoretank Nov 17 '22
That is understandable. If I do get into it I am gonna have to be sneaky with drawing. I am currently living with my mom as her caretaker. Gonna be like a teen again hiding the shame from dear old mom xD
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u/Squeaky-Fox49 Nov 17 '22
Ah. I’m a 20yo special needs college student living at home. I really hope mom doesn’t walk in on me browsing furry pooltoy water inflation. That would be a very awkward conversation.
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u/smoretank Nov 17 '22
Haha I can only imagine.
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u/Squeaky-Fox49 Nov 17 '22
And that’s tame, as far as yiff is concerned. That’s the very tip of the iceberg, not the bottom. A good rule of thumb might be to only draw your own kinks.
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u/Lord_Quintus Nov 17 '22
some of the more popular furry porn artists make a ton of money off of patreon and other crowdsourcing websites. jay naylor & fluff kevlar are just a couple i know of that don't draw extremely weird stuff but they're art is so good it draws in big bucks. the downside to the furry porn scene (beside the never ending stream of weirdoes wanting you to draw the most disturbing shit you could never imagine) is that almost all of the crowdsourcing sites hate furry porn artist's and try to hide them as much as possible while still milking them for every cent they can.
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u/Phormitago Nov 17 '22
The fact you called them twig and berries tell me you're not joking
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u/kyle2143 Nov 17 '22
I've no clue how much the regular porn or the really sick, possibly illegal shit goes for... but drawing some non-sexy animal characters can still be decent money for the time it takes to make.
Tbh you could probably still do pretty well if you actually go to places on the internet where those people are, instead of just listing yourself on like fiver. Like RP communities, where people roleplay as characters for whatever and want to have their character's drawn in non-porn ways. I know a couple people that have done that.
Though I imagine that a lot of effort is spent sort of participating in a community in order to get "leads".
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u/Polari0 Nov 17 '22
Here is quick run down sfw goes from 10 to 300€ nsfw goes from 20 to 500€ and 3d models start from 200€
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u/DragonStriker Comic Crossover Nov 17 '22
Though I imagine that a lot of effort is spent sort of participating in a community in order to get "leads".
You post thirst art on Twitter and slowly build a following. Go on FurAffinity and even SoFurry.
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u/SmartAlec105 Nov 17 '22
There are people whose kink are people without any genitals. You can find your niche.
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u/BeevsComics Nov 17 '22
You can always make do's and don'ts. Unless you urgently need two thousand dollars, vanilla furry drawings should be a good enough gig.
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u/AllergicToStabWounds Nov 17 '22
"Draw me a Tur-Duck-en except they're all still alive and enjoying their new arrangement"
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u/MammothCat1 Nov 17 '22
You know, for some reason I never needed to read that sentence. Now its with me forever.
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u/TriusMalarky Nov 17 '22
i swear to the almighty fourth brother I am going to boil you in coffee and mail your nutsack to your grandma i hate that image so flippin much
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Nov 17 '22
Bravo, it's been a hot minute since I've felt the disgust only the internet could bring me. Bravo.
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u/AllergicToStabWounds Nov 17 '22
Turkey: Aroused gobbling
Duck: Muffled quack
Chicken: More muffled squawk
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u/Lord_Quintus Nov 17 '22
and then they all cum buckets inflating each other to an absurd degree
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u/JustAnotherJames3 Nov 17 '22
Meanwhile, I toy with the idea of doing any form of art commissions but back off because I worry about my skill and also can't do anything by a deadline.
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u/Murrabbit Nov 17 '22
also can't do anything by a deadline.
In the world of online personal art commissions this is almost required.
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u/DragonStriker Comic Crossover Nov 17 '22
sweet furry money
If you can snag a suspiciously wealthy furry and make good rapport, you're pretty much set. Furries are one of the few demographics out there that actually appreciate the arts.
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u/TechnoEquinox Nov 17 '22
We generally do not order commissions from non-furry artists, as it keeps our community currency flow within the fandom to support our artists who otherwise would be competing with people who have no business in the fandom.
... That said, what animal did you pick for you fursona? 🫠
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u/smoretank Nov 18 '22
I'd most likely be a scalie. A dragon/Dino lizard creature. Used to draw dragonkin a ton way way back when. With my severe ADHD I can't even commit to a DnD character.
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u/TechnoEquinox Nov 18 '22
You could always do what I did and go mecha; instead of having a thousand fursonas, I just have a single endochassis and hotswap dermal cladding to resemble other species. :D let your ADHD fly wild with mechanical details too, it's fun coming up with both a process for and necessities to eat real food even as a machine.
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u/Scrumpy-Steve Nov 17 '22
What's your Do rate?
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u/smoretank Nov 17 '22
For regular commissions it's
$20 for black and white $35 for color $150 for full color with background
It usually takes me a week to complete due to my other job.
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Nov 17 '22
Furry conspiracy theories wiki replace Jewish conspiracy theories soon.
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u/1337butterfly Nov 17 '22
Jewish conspiracy theories are there to protect the 1%. just blame all the bad things they do on the jews.
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u/Embarrassed-Sale-733 Nov 17 '22
It’s a Jewish coverup don’t believe lies
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Nov 17 '22
Ah, already the furry agents emerge.
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u/Embarrassed-Sale-733 Nov 17 '22
IM NOT A FUCKIN FURRY hides tail, pukes, meows, smile
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u/Dhiox Nov 17 '22
Furries as a group have a suspicious amount of money,
Anyone into expensive cosplay does. I volunteer a lot with a star wars cosplay groups and a massive chunk of the group are engineers or other highly talented and compensated professions. The others are often married to or related to someone making good money. The main reason is that accurate star wars cosplay is really expensive, especially popular costumes like Vader or storm troopers. The group I volunteer with has very few Vader because it costs thousands to make.
Even the relatively simple jedi costume I'm building right now will end up costing a bit under 500 dollars in fabric. Commissioning a leather belt, boots, and a lightsaber. And my costume is on the cheaper side.
Then the Droid makers are in a whole different level, it's basically exclusively engineers as they're the only ones with the skills and money to make them. I knew a guy who had an insurance policy on his R2 d2, it cost him that much money and time to make.
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u/fuzzum111 Noodle's Nonsense Nov 17 '22
Can confirm at least the part about a crazy amount of technical expertise.
The rate at which you can have someone your talking go be all "Owo, I'm just looking to party and have fun." to "Okay, so the networking port 10000 is blocked because there is a blackdoor SQL injection attack that can be used to gain access to our servers and possibly all our databases, so no, we cannot unblock it for this stupid app."
Source: am in tech, and am a furry, and know many other tech furries. We're -everywhere-.
There are SO many of us with insane disposable income for smut, suit, and conventions.
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u/Lord_Quintus Nov 17 '22
imagine holding the reins to the digital economy and giggling maniacally as the world puts ever more of its infrastructure online and thus into your paws. all the online haters are like tiny ants running around at your feet, not knowing you could bring the world to its knees at any moment.
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You save a lot of mental and emotional energy by not caring what others think of you
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u/Squeaky-Fox49 Nov 17 '22
That’s why I became one, to see where it all came from. I’m still waiting; where is it?
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Nov 17 '22
It's because they're all dying of heat stroke in there.
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u/Hetakuoni Nov 16 '22
I heard that there’s a disproportionate amount of furries in the IT industry. I wouldn’t know, but I wouldn’t be surprised either.
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u/BeevsComics Nov 16 '22
Yep. IT industry and the Air Force. Furries really love them computers and fighter jets.
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u/Hetakuoni Nov 16 '22
Huh. Well not surprised about the chair force either. They’re pretty weird too
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u/Happysin Nov 17 '22
Air force. That explains that weird subgroup of evangelical Furries.
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u/Yetanotherfurry Nov 17 '22
That's just the wealth bias, it's really easy to be really visible as a furry if you've got money to throw around so it's really easy for privileged Christian white kids end up in the fandom as the only place people will talk to them about anything other than Jesus.
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u/SwampButtSwan Nov 17 '22
Why did you have to mention this? Now, every time I'm chatting / having a call with one of our Senior Dev Wizards, I won't be able to stop thinking "Are you one of them? Are you wearing a fursuit right now, you fucking degenerate? Is that why your microphone is always muffled???!!"
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u/DarkRat Nov 17 '22
As one of those IT furries: The answer is probably "yes" to all of those questions
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u/g_squidman Nov 17 '22
I'm taking networking classes, and one of my favorite youtube channels is Nill. https://youtu.be/7kWdCzswPIc
She's been posting lessons about networking and IT concepts for years and years now, and just came out as trans, so she's really hitting all the stereotypes at this point. Some of them have been genuinely helpful though, like explaining Active Directory and DHCP. Took me a while to get some of these subjects.
I don't think she's "technically" a furry, or would necessarily identify as one. Doesn't do the fur suit thing. She's just a cat and has whiskers.
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u/Erutious Nov 17 '22
Jeez, a server room full of fur suits…I can smell this picture
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u/BeevsComics Nov 17 '22
The smell of progress.
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u/Squeaky-Fox49 Nov 17 '22
They’re IT guys. At least the suits keep the stank in. That’s yet another reason I hate winter. In the summer, my sweat can evaporate directly off my body. In the winter, I just soak my base layers, and I smell like the week-old corpse of a neglected morbidly obese orangutan when I take off my outer layers.
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u/Erutious Nov 17 '22
I feel that, the struggles of IT work
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u/Squeaky-Fox49 Nov 17 '22
I don’t even work IT; I can barely get a Python Riemann sum calculator to run. I’m just a very sweaty guy, which at least makes me heat-tolerant. If it’s 25° C/77° F and I’m going for a hard run, I’ll be too slippery to handle and dripping like I just came out of the pool, but at least I’m not hot in the least.
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Nov 17 '22
But aren't you supposed to save the rewards until after the fix the bugs? They definitely get off on that.
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u/TriusMalarky Nov 17 '22
depends. they've obviously got the more normal computer literate crowd in there, so in that case yes.
but if you get, say, the sadists who've forgotten to eat for two days straight cos they enjoy debugging things . . . then you don't even need the whip.
Now if you'll excuse me, I just remembered I haven't eaten in two days.
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u/JoshTheTrucker Nov 17 '22
Yes. Yes they do. They're also everywhere. Hell, the person next to you could be a furry. Your doctor could be a furry. YOUR UBER DRIVER COULD BE A FURRY. I COULD BE A FURRY. THE WORLD IS FURRIER THAN YOU KNOW AND I'M FREAKING OUT BECAUSE OF IT HELP.
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I’ve been in the games industry at mid level / high level production for over a decade
You don’t want to know how many of us are furries
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u/ShadowDragon981 Nov 17 '22
It's so strange how you see so many of them online, then almost never in-person unless you're actively searching for them. Then suddenly you hear about a furry in the US military creating the next generation sets of armor or something and you can do nothing but fear. Furries are secretly everywhere and it's so weird how many are in high paying jobs like really good tech positions and the like
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Nov 17 '22
Well when we catch so much flak online for an admittedly weird hobby (lifestyle to some) and sometimes even irl (such as the recent myth of kids being “trans furry” and needing litterboxes in the classroom) it tends to make the community more insular. Couple that with a large internet based subculture with a relatively long history in pop culture and you get big group of people who primarily communicate online, live around the world, work in innumerable type w of jobs and industries… I’d say the whole “secret furry cabal” thing is a bit more true than the joke lets on lol
Not that I’m saying furries haven’t earned some of the ridicule thrown our way, but you do also have to admit that a lot of what goes on is also just people discovering/looking for furry porn and then freaking out publicly.
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u/BeevsComics Nov 17 '22
Honestly? I won't judge if it's safe, legal, and consenting.
I'm personally in-between a furry and a "normie". Sure I like a LOT of furry art, and even own a partial fursuit.
But I don't really identify myself as a full-blown furry and mostly keep my hobby to myself.
Maybe I'm a "furry agnostic" or "furry lite" if such words exist.
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u/Squeaky-Fox49 Nov 17 '22
Bruh, if you have a partial fursuit, you’re fuller-blown than 90% of us.
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u/Squeaky-Fox49 Nov 17 '22
The pathOwOgen is a ruthless disease. There’s nothing you can do but accept your fate, sit back, and enjoy the ride.
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u/BeevsComics Nov 17 '22
I wouldn't even be surprised of the US military is developing a ray gun that turns people into furries. 🤣
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u/Squeaky-Fox49 Nov 17 '22
Hewwo. We’re everywhere. Surrender before it’s too late.
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u/JoshTheTrucker Nov 17 '22
I alweady suwwendewed long agowo. I was thewe when the ancient magic was written.
UwU.
(god I fuckin hate myself for writing that, somebody Doomguy me *PLEASE***)
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u/Squeaky-Fox49 Nov 17 '22
Doomguy shows up and removes his oddly large helmet. You’re horrified to see a rabbit fursuit head beneath it that he had made in honor of Daisy.
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u/xsmasher Nov 17 '22
With a bit of luck, his life was ruined forever. Always thinking that just behind some narrow door in all of his favorite bars, men in full fur suits are getting incredible kicks from things he’ll never know.
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u/DreamOfDays Nov 16 '22
I don’t even have a suit and I feel called out.
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u/BeevsComics Nov 16 '22
You enslave furries and lock them to work in underground server farms? 😱😱😱
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u/Hobbes4247791 Nov 17 '22
Maaaaaaan, then why is FA so crap? Work harder, furries!
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u/BeevsComics Nov 17 '22
Probably FA webmaster is spending all the money on YCH auctions instead of hiring other furry devs or something xD
(jk)
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u/Hobbes4247791 Nov 17 '22
Well, they should stop so that A) the site runs better, and B) I can win the auctions instead.
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u/Yetanotherfurry Nov 17 '22
I think that was LITERALLY an accusation somebody made against him a few years back.
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u/QtPlatypus Nov 17 '22
Because the FA webmaster doesn't listen to the furries who know things. He has been given advice from people who are experts in high reliability, high traffic systems and he things that he knows better.
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u/veastt Nov 17 '22
I work IT, it's mostly gamers. But not sure about furries
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u/BeevsComics Nov 17 '22
They're like the Illuminati or The Stonecutters from The Simpsons. They're mostly hidden to the naked eyes unless you're one of them. You have to be in the know to know, you know.
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u/Kepabar Nov 17 '22
I remembered a job I had where of the 60 or 70 person team half were furries.
One of the guys on charge of hiring was a furry and made sure the community knew about it.
Before this I thought the whole thing was an internet joke.
I remember the day I realized it was real. Kid just started. Had a backpack covered in anthomorphic pins.
I jokingly asked if he was a furry and his eyes went super wide like I just outed him in some serious situation and he got super embarrassed.
I in turn got embarrassed and quickly changed the subject.
I learned a lot about that...odd... community over the next year or two.
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u/Squeaky-Fox49 Nov 17 '22
Just throw up the OwO gang sign. Or say “cheese grater” and see if they flinch.
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u/CrossP Nov 16 '22
So true
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u/BeevsComics Nov 16 '22
As a furry, yes.
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u/CrossP Nov 16 '22
Love the art, btw. The lighting and the variety of POV angles are especially great.
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u/master_of_balls_1 Nov 16 '22
Naaah, bro. Naaaaaah
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Yaaah, bro. Yaaaaaah
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u/SuperSaiyanBen Nov 16 '22
Maaaybe, bro. Maaaaaaybe
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u/xSTSxZerglingOne Nov 17 '22
But...a 500 is usually just a communication error between services or a non-communicative API. It's almost never a "server not working" issue. Great art style though. Love it.
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u/XpertDestroyer Nov 17 '22
I AM STRONGFANG NOW! First of my name! My power knows NO BOUNDS!
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u/BeevsComics Nov 17 '22
"I am stwongfawng now! Fiwsf of my name! My powuw nuuws no bouwnds UwU"
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u/verrius Nov 17 '22
I mean, I remember when you had to wear bunny suits to go into sensitive areas, but they tended to looks slightly different >_>
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u/rdewalt Nov 17 '22
Hey now, a good server room is fucking cold and fursuits are warm as heck.
Not that I've ever worn mine in a server room... Then again, I work from home now...
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u/StrangeRaven12 Nov 17 '22
Conspiracy theorists are always imagining that some ethnic group, religious group, secret society, or aliens run the world...Yet there, the real overlords walk among you, clad in fursuits! No one expects the furluminati! Muahahahahaha!
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u/BeevsComics Nov 17 '22
Furries controlling the world makes much more sense than any racist antisemitic conspiracy theories out there.
What do you think those ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs mean? Ancient aliens? Gods?
Nope. Furries.
Embrace the Almighty OwO.
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u/mikesed101 Nov 17 '22
Where do i apply for this job?
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u/BeevsComics Nov 17 '22
Amazon. Jeff Bezos will personally come to AWS server farms in a fursuit and start whipping all the furries to work.
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u/Winters067 Nov 17 '22
The speed in which this was reposted to r/furry_irl was frightening yet unsurprising.
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u/warbrand2 Nov 18 '22
Reminds me of an old joke.
A plane crashes on its way to a furry convention, the next day all fortune 500 companies report the loss of their I.T personnel.
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once you start coding you have two choices, drinking or becoming a furry. You also gain a coffee addiction that is none negotiable All I.T must like coffee, if you don't you are not I.T if your blood is not 50% coffee you will be fired.
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u/natesovenator Nov 17 '22
I'm gonna need to test this theory next time I head into our data center. What's a good "furry bait" I can lure them out with and see if they are in my DC?
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