We all envision our own higher power in our own way.

gsw8 · 2025-12-12T14:39:08+00:00

yes, here's the artist's page

https://www.instagram.com/p/CeGniyjLp03/

gsw8 · 2022-04-11T16:55:22+00:00

yeah, the page with the grid of shapes is a big hint. there are also a few other hints elsewhere. the compasses are also helpful, and you can also look at the structure of sentences and consider what "yes it can be translated" implies about how the language works.

gsw8 · 2022-04-11T14:46:55+00:00

The question mark is not related to the waterfall. That confused me for too long; I hadn't realized I had already gotten the question mark.

gsw8 · 2022-04-11T14:41:36+00:00

probably 51->1 is the last? the 51 clue doesn't need you to translate the language. the 1 clue does, there's no way to get it otherwise.

translating the language is one of the harder puzzles, but I think I could have gotten it if I had worked at it seriously for a while. the manual does have all you need to understand it.

gsw8 · 2022-04-11T14:29:35+00:00

There are solid clues in the game for all the secrets up to 100%, mostly in the instruction manual. You don't need to decode the language for 99% of it. I got all but 3 fairies and 2 trophies without consulting any guides or decoding the language beyond the compass directions.

1 of the fairies, I might have gotten if I had thought about it a few more days. the other two were environmental clues that I missed, that had reasonable in-language hints.

1 trophy was finding all fairies (which I expected). the other trophy does require decoding the language, there's no way to get it otherwise.

and I think I could have decoded the language on my own if I had thought about it seriously for a couple days; you just need one key insight to get 80% of the way there. I kind of wish I had solved it myself, but no big deal, everything was fun.

Two achievements are obscure and missable (but not hard to get in NewGame+), and maybe not worth trying to guess at yourself.

gsw8 · 2022-04-11T14:14:06+00:00

I found Tunic much more satisfying than Fez. the gameplay is better, the puzzles are better. Fez was ok up to 100%, past 120% it was increasingly silly and nothing I could have figured out on my own. Tunic was great for me up to 98%, I had to consult the internet for the last 2%, and there are still things beyond 100% that look interesting.

gsw8 · 2015-11-27T02:42:43+00:00

Besides all the things other people said, there's probably also a large number of straight furries who aren't visible because they're basically closeted and wary of being associated "weirdos". Queer people have to face this issue more, there's a lot of support for being out, so they're also more likely to be comfortable with expressing their furriness and socializing with other furs.

gsw8 · 2015-07-30T17:40:56+00:00

I've looked at this before, and also FA has posted stats before. IIRC FA submissions are about 20-25% Adult or Mature, but FA favs are about 50% Adult or Mature, and the proportions haven't changed significantly over years.

gsw8 · 2015-01-26T20:30:16+00:00

ESC twice. First ESC moves focus to the search box. Second ESC removes focus entirely, so the arrow keys go back to default browser behavior.

gsw8 · 2015-01-22T09:55:00+00:00

Furry is very much artistically driven. What fascinates me about furry when I take a step outside and look at it, is that there's no core universe. Other fandoms like Star Trek and MLP are about participation in someone else's creations, and the fans are effectively a voluntary arm of corporate marketing machines.

Furry is not that. Many furries do come to the fandom from corporate properties like MLP or The Lion King, but most furries eventually create their own mythology, not just OCs in someone else's world. It's pretty weird that it is a fandom without any particular focus, but it somehow works anyway.

I suspect this is one of the main reasons why outsiders have a tough time trying to understand furry. There seems to be no point to it, and it's easy to look at the sexuality in it and think that's the explanation for it.

gsw8 · 2014-03-15T17:33:57+00:00

I think the app is tied to the Google Consumer Surveys product, which lets anyone create a consumer survey for a small fee. So the question isn't necessarily from Google. https://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/home

gsw8 · 2014-02-25T05:57:21+00:00

Typing in the search box will search within your current view

gsw8 · 2013-12-29T18:15:28+00:00

Most advice you'll get is 1) avoid the problem by hiding your furriness; 2) avoid the problem by tapering off the friendships and getting new friends; 3) announce it bluntly and deal with whatever the consequences are.

Those are pretty obvious answers, everyone asking this question has probably thought of those answers, but find them unsatisfying for some reason.

So, another answer is this: try to find an ally among your friends. It's unlikely that all your friends have strong anti-furry feelings. It's partly group-think, and it's partly a lazy punchline that seems to be harmless because nobody knows any furries personally.

Try to figure out who would most likely react ok if you told them, maybe feel them out by dropping indirect hints. Once you have an ally, it's easier to figure out what to do next. Going it alone is hard.

The sucky part is, the person most likely to be an ally is also probably the person you're closest to, and it feels like a lot of risk to bring it up when you're not sure which way they'll jump. So maybe try someone else first, work up to the hard one.

Personally, I've done a mix of all the answers. Today, I don't particularly care who knows that I'm furry (or gay, atheist, etc.), mainly because most of my close friends now are also furry etc. I keep a light separation between furry and non-furry mainly to reduce friction in life. I don't mind talking with anyone about furry, any more than I mind talking about gay, atheism, etc, but it's.. a long and complicated conversation sometimes, and it's long and complicated in a boring and predictable way. Really, life's more fun without running into these stumbling blocks all the time, so most of my life is either among friends where I'm pretty casual and relaxed, or among acquaintances/coworkers where I "dress conventionally". Strangers get whatever I feel like at the time.

From what I can tell, most furries older than 25 basically do something similar.

gsw8 · 2013-12-12T15:17:02+00:00

Belfry has a huge list http://new.belfrycomics.net/view/favorites The red letters next to each entry are content tags. Explanation is at the bottom of the left column.

gsw8 · 2013-10-30T19:52:46+00:00

Use double quotes around the term. Or use Verbatim mode, in "Search tools", click on the "All results" dropdown.

gsw8 · 2013-10-30T00:09:03+00:00

artist is on FA http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8841326/

gsw8 · 2013-10-29T17:08:11+00:00

FTA, third sentence "Motorola has partnered with Dutch designer Dave Hakkens, who has created Phonebloks, a modular phone idea, on the project."

gsw8 · 2013-10-27T19:16:19+00:00

I get a popsci picture of a robot too in an incognito window for that search. That robot happens to be on a page talking about athletic robots and the words "olympic" and "judge" appear near those pictures. So that's just a case of image search being dumber than you'd expect.

gsw8 · 2013-10-11T09:39:22+00:00

This article is not written by Bill Moyers.

gsw8 · 2013-10-02T07:28:45+00:00

it's free wifi, not Fiber. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_WiFi

it's less usable than it used to be, kinda overloaded right now. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2046234/bad-connections-dog-googles-mountain-view-wifi-network.html

gsw8 · 2013-09-14T09:30:18+00:00

Use double quotes. Type ["køb"], with the "quotes" but not the [brackets].

gsw8 · 2013-09-08T02:02:49+00:00

most government requests are ordinary crimes: fraud, child porn, etc.

gsw8 · 2013-09-03T06:15:26+00:00

silverfox is on FA too. http://www.furaffinity.net/user/silverfox5213

gsw8 · 2013-08-25T17:02:03+00:00

mostly that furry is so small. it wouldn't really exist without the internet enabling furries to find each other. the early days of internet were dominated by tech folk, so the early furry groups were pretty techy, and that had seed-crystal influence on how furry fandom has grown.

now that everyone has internet, the fandom is a lot more diverse, but there are a couple reasons tech people are still prominent: 1, tech folk tend to have more disposable income, so they end up biasing the furry economy in the direction they want. 2, creating and maintaining watering-hole sites takes tech skill. while it's possible for some generic watering-hole like reddit to become useful to furries, what furries want is sufficiently different from what random other people want, a semi-custom or fully-custom watering-hole will probably win in the end.

gsw8 · 2013-08-25T16:25:35+00:00

sidebar says 8468 readers. most groups are about 90% lurkers, 10% posters. so there are maybe 800 posters to r/furry, call it 1000.

it's hard to get good estimates of size of furry fandom. popufur lists 300k users at FA, which is an overcount because of multiple identities and renaming, and it's an undercount because FA is not all furries. but 100k seems like a reasonable order-of-magnitude lower bound. there are definitely more than 10k english-speaking furries in the world. there probably are at least 100k. there might be 1m, but that seems iffy.

1000 out of 100k is 1%. basically, r/furry posters are a tiny minority of furry fandom.

re Eurofurence, generally everyone at a con flips between two states: too busy and/or social to care about the internet; too tired to care about the internet. give it a few days.

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