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[(Anonymous)]

Am I the only one getting tired of hearing about Lorwolf going into beta and its honestly boring wolves? And they didn't even give it a unique tag to make it avoidable on the saltmine. I don't fucking care. I am there for Flight rising salt, not dogs on a site that may have vaguely similar emblems for concepts to FR.

Lorwolf

[(Anonymous)]

Lorwolf art is ugly and it has site features that are clearly heavily inspired by Flight Rising. And no wonder, if you go into the Lorwolf official discord it's 99% Flight Rising users hoping to join the petsite elite by getting in early on a webgame. The same way they wished they were around for Flight Rising's first festival and beta era. Who's gonna tell them that's not a sustainable model for a website? There's only two Devs, for the love of fuck.

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Subeta's gossip blog closed down. Does this mean it's officially a dead site? :(

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Wank/gossip places closing happens. It's no big deal. This is the second anon comm. Drama rising has had two incarnations, and there's now the salt mine.

I don't know Subeta, but the gossip blog closing isn't that big a deal.

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

subeta's been dead for years

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

I miss the days of webrings, fansites and forums. I miss livejournal and you could actually catch up on any fan discussion by searching posts by the date, instead of twiter's infinite scrolling and tumblr's evil game of "oh, you want to follow this entire conversation? have fun searching 20 different reblog chains!"

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Tumblr is so awful for discussion. Very grateful to our mods for maintaining an LJ-style forum for FR drama, at least.

I get that we both probably sound curmudgeonly and every generation likes to go 'X new technology/platform is killing fandom!', but things like tumblr are just such giant and obvious steps backward...

Pet sites

[(Anonymous)]

Besides FR of course which pet sites are still active?

Re: Pet sites

[(Anonymous)]

Lioden, Wolvden, Dragcave come to mind, but they have their own issues.

Lioden and Wolvden are MUCH more RNG based, can be pretty pay to play in terms of getting the lions/wolves you want or those that make you money. Also, your pets can die or run away, and keeping them fed/happy can be a pain with larger prides/packs.

Dragcave is pretty much just collecting and sniping, and if you're a "G1- aka Caveborn" purist and want older breeds, you're gonna have a hard time as a new player. Older/luckier players (who won prize dragons) have more weight in getting trades and kind of "own" the trading market. Aside from collecting, there isn't much to do with them.

Re: Pet sites

[(Anonymous)]

Sylestia is active, and is now having an 'event' though if you just join, you probably won't be able to participate much.

Gryffs, last I looked, had a few new account slots open, and while not ACTIVE active, has a core of active players (think single digit numbers, but still they are usually active everyday and helpful)

Chicken smoothie is active, but is more of an adoptible site rather than pet site (as in you just adopt pets and hope for pretty outcomes)

FelisFire is active, but not sure how much. I lost interest quickly because it just wasn't to my tastes.

Khimeros and Leayphs might be active, but Khimeros basically is just being run by one person (the person recently got banned from FR I belive, because they were trying to pay artists to work on their site using gen1s and things like that. Or something like that), and I think I heard from someone that Leayphs is becoming less active.

A pet site that MIGHT become active is Arillio. The people working on it, at least one, plays Gryffs, and they were mentioning a while ago about revamping things and trying to get it going again, but I don't know how soon it will be, or if it will ever go. I hope it does, I liked what was there for the original game.

Re: Pet sites

[(Anonymous)]

There is Tattered World (formerly Tattered World) which gets so much love in its frequent updates and genuine attention to user feedback from part of the staff but just kinda isn't very good at grabbing your attention? Like, I like it, but I stopped playing for a while there and can't make myself go back for some reason.

Beast Keeper is intriguing in that THEY'VE GOT AN ADVENTURE MODE AND IT'S SIMPLE AND CUTE AND IT MAKES ME JEALOUS, but managing the pets made me feel stressed and stupid and all the really pretty ones are premium anyway and I kinda wilted and gave up there.

Sylestia is fun too but I got stuck in the latest dungeon because you apparently need expensive equipment (like armor and stuff) and expensive pets that have been stat-enhanced through repeated breeding and stat boosting items to navigate that, which takes several months and lots of money if you want to do it yourself.

Also the best equipment is apparently found by winning battles in a coliseum arena thing that requires you to have a team that is an exact level (level 25, level 50 etc.) so you need to level them up there and then buy an item that freezes experience gain, and I had to go to the forums to find out what was up with that because the game itself doesn't explain that and I'm kinda frustrated now.

Also they need some better incentive to releasing pets like fr's exalting, because the current incentive (increasing the appearance of rare pets in the Ultra Hard Last Dungeon I mentioned getting stuck on) requires you to hold on to your pets for a long time (like, over a month, I think?) so basically most pets are worthless and don't net you currency by themselves.

GPX Plus is still holding on out of sheer nostalgia. Pokefarm Q is still there but the owner seems to want to make another site? idk what's going on over there.

Neopets technically still exists but I hear it's a shadow of its former self.

Dappervolk is still there if you like grinding and gambling or paying real money and gambling. (It's gacha based so joking aside if you've got gambling or gaming addictions beware.)

Dang, I could swear there were more?

Re: Pet sites

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah, there's also Mycena Cave? I remember that before Dappervolk that was the one game that was luring away FR users.

Re: Pet sites

[(Anonymous)]

The other responses to this thread sadden me. To think that there could be some real competition in this genre if other sites were even halfway competent, but other sites' owners either refuse to pay site artists, site operations people, or both, or just behave so unprofessionally that FR staff treating their jobs like an actual job comes as a breath of fresh air. You'd think FR devs making questionable game design decisions as frequently as they do would hurt them more, but it's not like players have better choices when the whole "industry" is a circus.

Re: Pet sites

[(Anonymous)]

Re: Furvilla

i can't believe its been around for 5 years. the most recent announcement only has 3 comments and its been up for a week

its super disappointing because the art is gorgeous

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Ppl who gaslight are so weird. If you get caught in a lie (esp with receipts) just do the normal thing and apologise. Or fuck off in embarrassment while everyone laughs at you.

But nah it's "wdym??" "I didn't say that" "you're crazy" You a lil bitch

What happened to deviantart?!

[(Anonymous)]

I used to browse deviantart like, eight years ago or so, and just remembered it existed.

What the hell happened to it? Not just the color scheme change from greens to black, but like, it's all wonky and bad now, I don't get it, how did it get so incredibly bad???

Search is a joke, the browsing categories nuked and replaced by generic terms, I'm non-sarcastically, non-ironically confused, what did I miss in these years? Did they sell the site to someone else and they ruined it for a quick profit, or...?

WoW Rant

[(Anonymous)]

For the love of all that's holy Blizz:

REMOVE THE SIZE BUFF FROM ZOVAAL'S VITTLES. I CANNOT SEE SHIT UNDER MY FUCKING PETS, AND I KEEP GETTING KICKED/DECLINED FROM GROUPS BC BEAST MASTERY HUNTERS RUIN IT FOR MELEE CLASSES.

I do NOT enjoy having a screen full of nothing but my pet's ass, I need to see shit to kill it, ffs.

dumb dragon names

[(Anonymous)]

I really want to partake in this dragon share game where you go into the poster above you's lair and pick out the weirdest name, but I've been coddling a dragon named BONGLORD in the back of my lair for multiple years now and I don't want him to be exposed to the elements and (likely) force name changed lmaoooo

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Anyone else get stomach pain when it's cold outside and you have to wake up early? I feel like that's somewhat common but it's starting to be kind of a bother cause my new job starts early and I have to travel far.

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

KAVINSKY RELEASED A FULL ALBUM TODAY, AFTER NINE YEARS, AND I AM BESIDE MYSELF.

Is Lorwolf any good?

[(Anonymous)]

.

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

man I hate taxes, I'm too himbo for this

Re: OT Thread

[(Anonymous)]

Why are so many teachers so negative right now? Not just about their working conditions but they seem to hate their students too. Really worries me that children are dealing with such bitter adults every day.

I hacked my 3ds!!

[(Anonymous)]

I won't go into details for the sake of the comm, but I decided to give it a shot and it worked!

Admittedly by "hacking" I really mean "jail broke it based on instructions from someone else, all I did was follow them," but I've never done anything like this before, and I'm kind of proud of myself?