moogly-guy; popularity and penis

[a pigeon]

Moogly-Guy has had a thread made about him on those something-awful forums (for which you will need an account to see), the NSFW thread is http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3109533&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=1

As someone posted in that thread, He posted on the forums about how he had had his penis subincised (cut in half up to the head) [I don't think you will need an account for this]:

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3017588&userid=98275

I enjoyed sounding already and read in all of the literature about it that it tended to increase sensations in that regard. Mostly, though, I just liked the way it looked. It's certainly not for everyone, or even very many people at all, but I enjoy the way my junk is.
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Oh, plus there was the whole "having a catheter in for a month and a half" bit. Yeah, that wasn't fun. It was convenient, but it sure wasn't fun.

His furaffinity account, with its complement of journals is here:

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/mooglyguy

He works in the computer game industry, it is so important that you know this that he has mentions this in his profile:

Artist Profile:
I am one of the few fellows who has managed to get into the game industry in a capacity other than a tester. I'm a Software Engineer at an Albany-based game company, and in my time off I get my kicks hanging out with friends and spending more money than I ought to on commissions. Don't hesitate to drop me a line, as I'm always happy to talk to folks.

The current list of games on which I have worked as a software engineer / programmer is:
{snip}

& In Journals:

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/678150/
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/603465/
http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/382490/

He has thrown large sums on money around to purchase popularity:

Well, Anthrocon was a pretty epic shindig, if I may say so myself.

Highlights:
- Chilling for the maority of the con with nek0gami, lilglenndoggy , iceman, ganador, bodak , ori ,  and deviox, and finding out that as so-called "famous" people go, they're pretty fucking chilled
- Checking my bank account, expecting a $200-$300 quarterly bonus, finding a $2800 bonus instead
- With the above point in mind, starting in on my reputation as being "that guy who shows up at Anthrocon and throws money around left and right"
- With the above point in mind, seeing my friends' reactions when I came back from the liquor store with several hundred dollars' worth of booze
- Likewise, seeing a couple artists' reactions in Artists' Alley when I went up to them, commissioned a badge, and forked over twice the requested amount with the justification that "their art appears to be worth more than they're charging"
- Likewise, randomly footing the bill for food for parties

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/420593/

His "furry goals for 2009" involve more splash of the cash:

- Attend Anthrocon 2009 as a Supersponsor, with an additional charitable donation of at least $500, preferably $1,000
- Host the second annual "Furs In the Videogame Industry" panel at Anthrocon 2009
- 2, possibly 3 nek0gami commissions
- 1 spunky commission
- 1 purplekecleon commission
- 1 duo  commission
- 1 pinkuh commission
- Appear in one of ganador's Peach Fuzz videos
- Appear in at least one porn flash animation that is not of my own creation

Given the prospective bonuses that I'm looking at for my work on Guitar Hero: World Tour, I'd say that this is certainly all doable.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/618119/

However, he later posted a journal indicating his dissatisfaction about how he doesn't have any fans and doesn't get the respect he deserves:

Fans

Every once in a while, the sorts of things that get a person fans in the furry community really begin to weigh upon my mind, as the iniquity of what is given versus what is gained is quite vast.

I make no secrets about the fact that my line of work lies in video games. In fact, I was a programmer on the Wii version of a little number that you may have heard of called "Guitar Hero: World Tour".

When I stop to think about it, the fact really weighs upon my mind that here I am, having a hand in creating a game series that is rarely not found at a furry gathering of more than ten people or so, and not a soul knows who I am. I spend months of my life, working plentiful overtime, poring over arcane lines of code, subjecting myself to exhaustion for the purposes of creating something that furries and other people will enjoy for weeks or months after it comes out. Still, nobody knows who I am.

I have no fans, I have no people to dote on me, to invite me to fun parties except when invited by my other friends who do. Why? Because my income doesn't come from inked-and-colored dog dicks, that's why. It is a tragedy of the commons that the furries who make things that give other furs weeks or months of pleasure are forgotten about by the masses, who choose instead to fawn on the people who draw something that they'll toss off to once or twice and then forget about.

Why am I writing this journal? I don't know. I guess I just felt it needed to be said.

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/583085/

If this is true, he earns a lot of money:

http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/640245/

About $80k inc. bonuses, but was it ever more apparant that money cannot buy you happiness or but cupboard love.

This is what someone who apparently went to university with him says:

No good stories from school, sorry. Everyone avoided him, monopolized class time with asinine questions, drew anthro fox heads on the chalkboards. i assume that's normal furry shit. He was my cohort's "that guy" so I wasn't exactly chummy.

The end.

[ProvincialTwit]

I find it incredibly difficult to believe anybody in the games industry who isn't upper management is making $80k right now.  Especially in Albany.

That said, I don't really see much to separate this guy from any other furry: Attention-whoring, crying for popularity, false sense of self-importance, delusions of grandeur, throwing around money for ego inflationary self-portraits (haha people give pinkuh money), and so on.

His ability to be this goddamn stereotypically furry and yet survive as long as he has on SA is somewhat impressive, but ultimately meaningless.

[rodox_video]

    I like how he thinks that since he is an IMPORTANT GAME INDUSTRY SOFTWARE DEVELOPER, he needs to ask permission from nintendo to release his fixed N64 driver for MESS. Never once did it occur to him to maybe, you know, use a different psuedonym for that shit. I cannot emphasize how fucking amazingly retarded that is.

    Not only is he a useless furry, but he's a useless everything else too.

[LordNagetiere]

He probably writes the manuals or something...

[GreenReaper]

If you think Albany's a fun place for a game development company, try Michigan. It was snowing earlier this week. The rent's not bad, though, if you don't mind the bullet holes.

Not sure why he feels the need to criticize testers - it's an important yet mostly thankless job already. (We only have one official tester at Stardock; everyone ends up testing games extensively before release.)

If he really wants to save money from the taxman, he should put it in a Traditional 401k or IRA. Then at least it won't get taxed immediately. Personally, I'd invest in a Roth and pay the taxes now - 15% or 25% really isn't bad considering other countries, and chances are rates will rise in the future. But if he's spending all the money now, he's probably not thinking that much about the future anyway.

[Kindrift]

The government should sometimes take it upon itself to euthanize certain members of society that are big enough douchebags that they'll never really contribute anything worthwhile to society.

I feel that if he wants to keep money from the government he'd do so better by offing himself.  Anyone who truly believes ^^^ can perform no higher service to their country.

[LordNagetiere]

I don't think it's anything new that some of the most 'enlightened' people in nerdom are closet fascists, as long as the government doesn't ban their anime.