| Site update 2012-05-25 |
[May. 25th, 2012|11:42 pm] |
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After 5 months, the next update is online.
264 new files uploaded. Enjoy
Sorry for the delay. Sadly, help have been nonexistent so far, and I'm trying to work on updates between works, rest and real life. Added to the fact that I'm working alone is that data crunching can be really BORING. Maybe I should start a stream when I work on an update LOL.
But seriously, that's why update can be slow. When I get too bored, I move to another project. One of which I hope to have ready for the next update.
That project is a search engine for the site. Type dragon and get all content dragon related. Type dragon male and get all dragon TF featuring a male character.
Most of the work is completed, but I still need to do more tests since this added a lot of changes in the core.
I'm also thinking to change the layout... again. The old boxed, Stonegate's black & white theme is starting to get on my back. Adding to the fact that named theme originator is personally OUT of the site for not being available kind of add to the feeling to change it. And the site need a less static interface. Maybe I'll go for a gold and blue theme... NOT :) I know that this colors combination is totally horrible.
Still, once again, I'll have to find time for it, since I don't get the luxury to have other people handle content while I focus 100% on site functionality.
And for last, I think I'll start to upload my commission on the site. There isn't really any online gallery that allow you to freely upload commission with going through an hassle to prove you can. I'll admit, I'm not too pleased with the gallery system, and that's also one thing I need to revamp.
Time will tell what I can get done over time.
Until next update and if you happen to attend What the Fur next week, I'll be there.
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| No Fur Fright 2012 for me... so far |
[Dec. 23rd, 2011|10:31 am] |
Well, Fur fright staff announced hotel reservation opening a few days ago (december 20th) and guess what? IT'S ALREADY FULLY BOOKED after only 2 days.
This is ridiculous. If there is so much attendee, get an hotel that can hold that many people. Overflowing over 2-3 other two hotels is what make people NOT got to a convention. And considering where the hotel is located, it's dangerous. Next to an highway exit, I'm pretty sure it will have to require a furry roadkill, CSI style, before they realize their overflowing hotel next to an passing street is dangerous.
And overflow is a real kill joy. So far, I had 4 Fur Fright.
2008 - At the main hotel. Had fun.
2009 - At the overflow. I hated it. 10 minutes driving to the downtown area. More expensive hotel. No dedicated area to crash in between event. No place to store your stuff.
2010 - Fur Fright is at a new location and I ended up at the 3rd overflow. While driving was only less than a few minutes, the main points of having to place to crash and to store your stuff was the main issue again. I told myself, I wouldn't get another overflow hotel again.
2011 - Reserved within the first month and got to the main hotel. Had a great time.
2012 - ??? If I can't get to the main hotel, I won't attend. Sorry, but just because some people take the whole week off for the con don't mean other have to exhaust themselves when they work the day after the con. I'm not going to go through the carrying around of all my stuff without any place to leave them between panel or event, or without a place to crash when I need to rest a bit.
Fur Fright, it has been fun, but sadly, it's starting to overgrow itself and can't handle it.
Of course, some of the staff seem not to care, but when you have hotel room guarantee, why bother caring? |
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| Furfright. Anyone attending? |
[Oct. 12th, 2011|10:11 pm] |
I'll be heading to Fur Fright tomorrow.
Is there anyone who plan to attend?
A TF gathering would be a nice activity to do.
Share and show each other sketchbook, watch video and movies. Chat. etc
It would be nice to put faces over avatars :) |
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| Fur Fright Approaching Need room? |
[Sep. 16th, 2011|12:22 am] |
Fur Fright is approaching. Less than 4 weeks actually.
This year, I got myself a room early not to get to commute between the overflow and the main hotel. This only kill the mood and get the week-end more tiresome.
However, we're only two and at 400$ for the whole event, I would prefer to split the room share in 4.
So is there anyone who's looking for a room in the Main Hotel for Fur Fright? If so, contact me.
Other than that, I've been quite quiet lately. Kind of been really busy in the past months moving to my new house. Yes. This summer, I decided to leave apartment renting and got myself my own house. Been unpacking, placing stuff, and getting thing set up since then, along with the low summer effective at work and trying to work at the maple farm.
Site and personal project kind of got pushed aside because of that. But things should sort of soon enough. |
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| Latest update |
[Mar. 21st, 2011|12:49 am] |
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The latest update is up. 8 mostly new shows and about 140 new files.
My favorites? Hmm. Lots of dinosaurs in Super Hero Squad Show and some nice make up effect in Face Off.
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| Site update for Décembre |
[Dec. 16th, 2010|11:00 pm] |
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Latest update is it.
Teen Titans, counting for 396 new clips. That one was darn long to do. And having a corrupted storage I have to be careful it won't pollute the backup sure isn't helping. Especially since the replacement drive is a DOA and my storage box keep stalling...
Anyone can get me or behave as a proxy to get me one or two of those:
It's about time for the vacations period to arrive.
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| Post con and other things |
[Nov. 5th, 2010|12:19 am] |
Well, post con summary.
Last week-end, I went to Fur Fright for another year. Ended up in the overflow again. Really, this suck when a con get big enough they need 2 or more overflow hotels. Still, they were all within walking distance ( I still drove though) and the last one was rather inexpensive. Still, when you're at one of the overflow, con tent to be a bit more tiresome as you can't to take a break and rest in your room or you have to carry your stuff all day long.
I'll really plan ahead for next year, reserving a room earlier at the main hotel. Hopefully, I can get at least 2 extra people in it to absorb the cost and I really wish to organize something TF oriented. Maybe a Saturday TF room party.
Still, 2 TF fans roommate would be nice.
In summary, the con was nice. I managed to get 23 sketches done in my sketchbooks and picked up a few year due TF comics from Max Black Rabbit, which he did a great job. Spent some time at panel, but I only found 2 or 3 to be interested or not really far right.
Comus' panel about his book was nice, but I fear the book is going to be more a subjective furry self patting one rather than a objective book about furries if nothing is changed. I mean ok, anthropomorphism is one thing, but the whole 'religious' aspect furries has put on it, the rule of "don't say no to furries" is what give furries a bad look. If you're going to say that furries has porn, just like superheroes fandom or Fantasy fandom, don't forget the extremists furries that don't moderate or draw the line, which other fandom does.
The Kemono panel was very interesting. Bringing the history of Kemono, the anthropomorphism in Japan and taking a neutral view. Sort of reminded me of What the Fur panel about furries. An OBJECTIVE view that take the good and the bad, not a view with pink glasses.
I stumbled on a few TF fan and friends too. Orion-J, Sorethumb, Provolvere, Shuan, Comus, Solidasp, Wfa. Wish there was a more official meeting place for TF fan at the con. I think there seem to be a bit more hidden TF fan at this con too.
On another subject, another drive failed during the week-end I was at the con. The RAID went into degraded mode and was still working but there was some corruption.
And you know what? I'm starting to really, really HATE Linux raid. So far, every single time I end up with a busted disk, the file system would get corrupted to a point of losing files.
Sure, not 100% of the files get lost, but you get a file system that nearly has to be rebuilt from scratch from backup every single time.
At this point, why bother with RAID redundancy, that is supposed to save you time by having the system still working, when you're going to restore everything from backup disks at every failure?
I may as well just put the 5 drives as stand alone disks and backup everything daily in an external disk.
If a disk fail, just restore from the bigger one and that's it.
Also SEVEN left to get the SET! |
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| Site Update plan change |
[Oct. 10th, 2010|12:40 am] |
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The update is up. This one really took a long time to do, mostly because there were a lot of clips and the show wasn't that interesting. Still, it had some dragon.
So 2 more Yu-Gi-Oh! update.
Yu-Gi-Oh!
Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monsters
Regarding further update. I skipped 2 months since the last update. From now on, update are no longer monthly, but as I feel so.
Truth be told, time has taken its toll and I don't feel the magic I once felt working on the site. Lets be truthful, Stonegate is practically KIA. I haven't actively seen him online for years. Some offline AIM message every 6 months but that's it. For the last 5 years, I've been running the show totally alone.
The site is one of the grand-father sites. Not many sites can claim to have been there at the beginning. Not many are still actively updating too. Transfur, CYOC are the only 2 sites I can name that were there a long time ago and still run. Though, some of them suffered from the time too: Tranfur became Transporn and CYOC became a faggotry site.
Still, those 2 sites have something in commons: it's the users that drive the content. The owners are only in charge of hosting and coding. Here, at Shadowlord, I do the coding and I have to provide the content. The hosting is in the hand of someone else, which sort of relieve me of some stress, but still add more as, when something happen, I can't do a single thing about it. It's still a lot of work for a single person, who do everything for free.
No, I haven't lost my love for Transformation. But the online community has taken a very bad direction. All is about porn, porn and more porn. Good transformation, not wank fodder, are getting rare. Transfur get more transporn as it "sell". And new artists sadly seem to take that approach too. A few months ago, for instance, one new artist offered transformations sketch to people. When she started taking commission, she moved to FagAffinity and practically all her work ever since are all bad porn. This is nothing to make things better.
Added to the fact that people are more vocal and expressive toward that kind of content, returns and feedback are pretty low, if not nonexistent. To a point where, when I wanted to work on this update, the question "what's the point of doing this?" often came to my mind.
Until the clouds start to disperse and the sun start to shine again over the TF community, I will keep most of the transformation for myself. Update will still happen, but not as predictable as they were. I'll make myself happy first, the community second. For instance, I do plan to get more TF sketch done for Fur Fright. This will be a change to what I find online. There's much satisfaction there.
I'll post update information and any change of thought at the same usual place:
So, stay tuned there for more info and active feedback is welcome.
Thanks to the few that gave back support, arts and comments. I really appreciate it, especially the arts :)
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| No room left... for Fur Fright |
[Aug. 19th, 2010|12:01 am] |
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For Christ sake, what kind of con organizer choose an hotel that can't hold all the people for a con, and which completly fill the main overflow hotel.
Fur Fright is already fully booked. The overflow too. Now they're making plan for a 3rd one.
Each time I went to a con and I ended up in an overflow, it always what made me drop that con.
Anthrocon 2004: people bailed on us and Stonegate and I ended up in the overflow, paying twice the planned cost. Never went to AC ever since.
Further Confusion 2006: I stayed at Stonegate place, drove back and forth everyday. Losing too many travel time (1 hour each way) every day. With the child pornography in one of they panel a few years back, decided to never go there again
Fur Fright 2009: Overflow hotel was 5 km away. Need to travel by car each time. And having no place to take a snooze, between events, the con was more tiresome than fun. Meet some nice people, but when you're more tired on your way back, it's not as fun.
And thanks for me not having a stable group anymore, I can't really reserve in advance and hope to find someone. Or just pick stranger. Last thing I want is stumble with over cuddling people or people not changing themselves...
Seriously, if that 3rd hotel is not close to the con, I may consider drop it for MFF.
And they at least could mention the hotels status on the main website... |
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| Disk, Fur Fright and MFF |
[Jul. 25th, 2010|01:07 am] |
****** Disks Fail... Recovered ******
Remember my last journal about Disk Failure?
In the end, it turned out that the power supply was the one that got hit by the brown out.
After replacing, all the 5 drives started to respond and I was able to recover everything before performing a surface test.
2 drives had a SINGLE bad sector while the 3rd one had 12, from the PS breaking down. I was able to fix them and I've restored the system.
I did get one of those enclosure to put in the box though.
In the long run, I'm still planning to get that Nine Hundred case so that I can easily access all drive, but it will have to wait a bit.
But at least, I managed to get back on track without losing anything, just time and some stress.
****** Fur Fright ******
Fur Fright is approaching and this time, I want to be ready. I don't want to end up at the overflow hotel. From experience, both time I ended up at an overflow hotel, the con were always less enjoyable. Not being able to take a rest between panel or activity can really ruin it.
From what I take it, they have more room this year, but still, better be safe than sorry.
So, I'm either looking for a room with space for a dragon, or people to share a room. Preferably, I would prefer a room with 4 peoples or less in total.
I can also share ride if anyone is in the vicinity of the Longueuil to Sherbrooke through the 10 and to Cromwell through the 91. This year, I'm sticking to ONE highway and avoiding Lacolle.
****** Midwest FurFest ******
This year, I'm pondering giving Midwest FurFest (MFF) a try. There's some people going there I'm sure would like to meet, Kuma among others. I've checked and the airplane ticket I can get to that period is quite cheap.
Still, I still need to secure a room. A friend going there said that maybe I could share with him if he gets a bad surprises (he's staying with a local friend), but I can't really go on a maybe. If I don't get an hotel room, it would be the same as with an overflow, minus I would be without transportation. Or taking a room for 1 person at full price.
So, the same questions goes as for Fur Fright. Anyone going to MFF that need a room or has room for someone? |
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