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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Project Phoenix
« on: April 28, 2014, 04:21:35 am »
Like this really important one. How can you expect anyone to develop new useful things when the ridiculous site documents aren't already loaded in???

This pattern of implementing the kitchen sink (in this case, adding in routes to documents that are ultimately not critical to any functionality as if it were a general sort of web site-ish CMS) with some of these projects is actually somewhat amusing. Then, when I think about it, it makes sense; furries don't know how to keep shit simple.

I'm hoping this attempt doesn't encounter a downward death spiral, but I'm not optimistic.

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News Media / Re: Vivisector gets an unexpected shout-out
« on: April 12, 2014, 12:54:28 pm »
Bondage, taurs, pregnancy, and multiboobs. If there's a third one I think they'll have to move onto anal vore, diapers, and cum inflation.

I'm... not actually convinced that's vanilla pregnancy. That might very well be unbirthing!

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Scandal! / Re: Ren Queenston gropes people in their sleep.
« on: January 28, 2014, 06:20:42 am »
(and that's just his musical career)

Oh, ho.

So you see, if you check out the definition of slander, you would realize that we're not slandering Renard. We're actually being quite honest!

Worse, no one here is actually doing any slandering unless they, you know, actually make meat sounds to that effect. The defamatory remarks you read as written on the Internet are actually libelous! It's one thing to push air through your meat parts to defame someone, but it's another to use your wiggly meat parts to make a persistent, lasting mark somewhere that defames someone.

Actually, it's just against the law to use your meat parts at all. There are no more civil suits. All meat acts are henceforth criminal. Hope this helps.

But, really, apologizing on their behalf for their misdeeds is not exactly something that anyone else should be doing. A grown individual like Ren is more than capable of being accountable for their own actions. Full stop.

Good show, though, "Girlnextdoor," on the "both in the wrong" bit. I actually slow clapped for that one.

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Project Phoenix
« on: January 22, 2014, 04:56:35 am »
The real good stuff is in the comments section, where the new "PR Guy" Nanuk has taken to talking like he's been on staff forever (as opposed to a week) and getting everything completely wrong the second he opens his mouth.

You gotta admit, though, that he can seriously talk the talk. Dude's seriously pro. It's about damn time, but it's a shame that the only pro on their team is in spin control and not, you know, infrastructure or development. But, hey, good public relations!

Apparently he has not been filled in on the dozens of people who have tried to offer their free time over the years. All being ignored. Some of them have gone on to help with Weasyl, which has yet to fall over due to the Anti-Furry Conspiracy those people were all a part of.

No, no, not ignored. Disregarded. We were all trying to start drama! We weren't "popufur" enough! We didn't like inflation fetishism! We were associated with Arcturus!

Then again, not doing shit for the furries is the only common sense solution at this point, which is perfectly fine by me. It means I have more time to myself for more, uh, personal projects.

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Project Phoenix
« on: January 20, 2014, 02:19:09 pm »
Look at all those suckups in the comments. Gullible fools, every last one of them.

Thanks for reaffirming what everyone else is thinking. Do you have anything of any real substance to contribute, or are you just going to continue to post useless quips like this?

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Other Topics / Re: Plans for FC2014?
« on: January 18, 2014, 03:46:49 pm »
Presenter dropped out.

... did you just make a funny?

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Project Phoenix
« on: January 16, 2014, 05:44:36 pm »
PR's Bad.

Authorities said, "Seriously."

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Project Phoenix
« on: January 16, 2014, 06:13:28 am »
I can see why Piche would choose him since he joined the site recently, in 2012 and so has no idea about all the other failed attempts:

In Nanuk's defense, much of what I've seen from him has been level-headed (albeit somewhat lawyer-y, but seeing as he's going for his JD, this shouldn't be surprising) even if it has been sort of ignorant or naïve, given that he's lacking a lot of the context. This might just be the one decision that I've agreed with when it comes to people that Princess Piche has picked.

I'm hoping he sizes up to be a decent PR person here all things considered. I'm also hoping that he doesn't get so invested in it that he loses sight of what's actually going on and tries to bail out a sinking ship.

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Zaush:
stripping people of their pride and self importance since 2005.

Man, I wish I kept logs of my conversations with him on IRC from way, way back in the day. He particularly liked belittling me for refusing to use some of the more questionable parts of PHP, like its object system.

As he mentioned to someone else, "But he's passing everything around as hashes!" Oh, if only you knew, Zaush. If only you knew.

PHP lacks structs, and swaddling everything in objects didn't seem like the thing to do. Passing around associative arrays in a manner fitting for PHP that were full of strings containing names of functions (as function "pointers") and other key-value pairs was about as good as it got. It was delightfully arcane, like JavaScript.

Oh well. Gotta use the trendy shit, right?

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Furry's favorite rapist wants to fix FA
« on: December 26, 2013, 03:56:19 pm »
So yeah.  If 3 grown mature professional people are having trouble getting a Maria cluster to work, what the hell hope does Piche's legion of losers have?

Their only hope is to build a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes, and I'd say that they're going to succeed at it.

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: Furry's favorite rapist wants to fix FA
« on: December 24, 2013, 09:30:00 am »
Also my vote for language that Zaush has chosen is Ruby and the platform being RoR.  The UI guys love Ruby.

I heard through the grapevine that it'll be node.js, which means everyone's lost before they've started, especially when it comes to furries and their ineptitude.

Frankly, I don't care what they write it in. They don't know how to scale, so in a handful of months after they finally figure out how to cut everything over, they're going to run into some pretty disastrous problems resulting from not being able to handle all of the traffic.

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You seem to have forgotten the Furry Art Place incident. The rush to that site was SO pronounced, it prompted an astonishing PR campaign on Dragoneer's part, with near daily updates on hardware purchase and setup. FAP really lit a fire under those fat haunches...

Note that the ill-effects from FA's perspective were short lived because Dylan/Ekigyuu got tired of FAP. That writing was on the wall from day one.

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How long would FA have to be frozen to see an uptick in other furry board activity?

Something on the order of about a year? FA was down for months in the past, and that made maybe a negligible dent in things. Maybe.

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Curious that the new database server has rotating disks instead of SSDs...

SSDs aren't the cure-all for applications like this, and unless you really do your homework, you could end up with some seriously shitty disk that will end up tanking on you when you least suspect it. The track record with FA's hardware purchases leaves a lot to be desired, and I wouldn't trust them to be able to spec out decent SSDs, even despite Mr. Piche's fetish with gadget shit.

FWIW, they have a serious boner for using FreeBSD on barely-supported hardware. I'd look there first before saying, "Oh, yeah, just plop in SSDs."

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Scandal! / Re: "Furlaxation" convention chair a registered sex offender
« on: November 09, 2013, 10:47:38 am »
Well, Lightpaws is still the convention chairman and there was some reports about drama after a bunch of the con staff quit at once.

Someone who has that information should post it here.

Despite the fact that you've started losing your shit recently, I'll bite and reply to this thread since we're somehow still keeping it relevant.

Yes, there were a number of individuals who quit pretty much all at once for a myriad of reasons. Before we get into that though, let's discuss for a second how I got roped into this lest anyone ask questions about my morals, the fact that I'm already a morally questionable individual notwithstanding.

A friend of mine came to me at MFF and said, "Hey, can you do me a favor and host a web site for me?" It was an innocuous request, and I begrudgingly agreed since this is a good friend. I was put in contact with "Husky" Crone and Shirk to arrange for migrating everything over. They were freaking out already because the individual with whom they'd acquired the hosting package was attempting to yank everything out from under them. Red flag.

"There's a lot of money at stake here," they said. Red flag.

What once was a web site became everything from DNS to mail to database servers to all manner of other value adds that HostGator tosses in on their shared hosting plans. I fought for a while with HostGator to give me the private keys for their SSL certificates and things to no avail; I ended up just eating the cost of the SSL certificate (since I worked for a boutique managed enterprise hosting provider at the time) to get them rolling. Red flag.

That was cool. They liked that. Things ran smoothly until the day of the con loomed in the distance. I got a phone call from the aforementioned friend asking for help to get on-site reg ready for primetime. "Oh, boy," I thought, "This is going to be one of those things where I'm going to be the lone tech guy with the albatross around his neck." Red flag.

(See also: Furries think they know tech, but damn do they tend to fuck shit up.)

That all said, my reasons were mostly unrelated to most of the goings on. I incited drama only when there was some sort of fundamental "Wow, really? What the fuck were you thinking?" kind of brain damage being discussed on the mailing list. Past that, who-fucked-whom and any other sort of gossip-worthy topics stayed the fuck off my radar. I legitimately Did Not Care™.

Naturally, not everyone felt the same way I did. Other folks had issues with the fact that Shirk had a sex offender conviction on his record and that his name was pretty much plastered all over the event. Other folks still had issues with how the corporation was structured, citing that it was a conflict of interest to have the Chairman, Chief Executive, and Treasurer positions filled by the same individual. This is, in fact, a violation of Ohio state law. Red flag.

The corporation didn't have documentation of D&O insurance. Red flag. (I actually retained an attorney to protect myself against this.)

There were rumors still about how the financial accounts were set up. I heard something about the convention's accounts being linked to Shirk's personal accounts or some such contrived nonsense. Red flag.

If I had to have an issue with anything, it was Shirk's leadership style, or lack thereof. He was authoritarian yet sort of wishy-washy, and he made a number of decisions unbeknownst to anyone and pretty much failed to communicate most things about, e.g., the arrangement with the hotel, their requirements for our day-to-day operations on-site, and so on. Red flag.

There was a huge local contingent full of people who were "green" in re staffing conventions. The Dorsai minions who sat in Ops with me all weekend remarked, while we were getting breakfast at Tim Horton's on Saturday, that the dregs of the volunteering barrel at IFC probably could easily make up the upper rungs of volunteers at Furlaxation. Red flag.

From there, it just spirals sharply downward.

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FA Obsession Collection / Re: FA does another thing, screws it up
« on: September 12, 2013, 06:39:03 am »
I'm wondering how this would take anywhere near 2 days to complete though. All FA typical bullshit aside, can't it be as easy as copying the database from one drive to another? I don't think that should take anywhere near 2 days, unless they're using Wi-Fi, or like, Bluetooth to do it.

Typically, in well-run ops shops, these kinds of migrations happen in stages that span a couple of weeks because of how ITSM change control works, amongst other things. FA eschews all of that in favor of just fucking doing it, which is nice, but you need to have competent people in place _and_ failsafes (like database backups and a lot of extra disk) handy in order to keep from causing a catastrophe.

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I guess it's too hard to put "Users must use their REAL BIRTHDATE in the birthday field or risk being age blocked" in the rules?

Probably. Honestly, anything there would work as long as it reads between the lines as, "Don't be dumb, and we won't kill your boner."

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Hopefully by making sure such a large number of people have seen mine, it will be clear now that this isn't just some nonsense sparked up by users who broke rules and got banned for it.

Here's to hoping that none of this gets lost in the din of furry history.

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Maybe this is the sort of thing you just kind of 'get' after doing it a few times - I look back now and think "wow... I did that?" and feel a little shy blush with a smile creeping across my face.

Stop talking.

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Haha - the people over there seem more focused on whether you use "extend paw" in a document than the mass of content released. I've made it clear from the start what the goal was :) . There's been progress. Given the sheer

What you say explicitly at the outset could be wildly different from what your non-verbal cues say. The way you carried yourself through all of this seemed to indicate that you were accepting and even welcoming the newfound attention, very much like a celebrity would welcome it.

This is contrary to someone who is striving simply to be informative, who most often dumps the information and then retreats into the shadows

Half-tempted to buy FA from him, but firstly - lol - "over $50k" - no, unrealistic valuation. And secondly, apparently he won't accept any price for it.

His responses to my questions on Formspring really made his intent quite unmistakably clear, and that's right about when I stopped caring about this whole mess.

(Yes, I'm that StamenWhiskers fellow.)

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