I am cautiously optimistic about this. I think MMOs could in theory really shine in vr, though so far they haven't been all that great, often relying on old and tired tropes.
A meadow with mobs evenly distributed that have a sight range of a few meters is something that I have a much harder time immersing myself into in vr.
The countries in the EU simply haven't really needed to spend a whole lot. Most of what our military did for the past 20 years was uselessly fucking around in the middle East at the behest of the USA. Having a low military budget at this time made sense.
Times have changed though. The geopolitical landscape looks different. The US itself is a possible threat, having stated invasion of Greenland was not off the table. Russia is a threat and even if they can't convincingly beat Ukraine they can be a massive pain in the ass and an existential threat to the Baltic countries if NATO collapses.
Yeah, we have to invest more in military. I don't think things would have been massively different through most of the 2000s and 2010s even if the EU and the US weren't close allies. Perhaps Russia would have been bolder earlier.
I think the top right one is actually kind of ok in a single line minimalist sort of way, almost like a wacky graph. The lines are all decently clean too. The detailing takes away from it though imo.
The rest are really just doodles and framing them seems crazy lmao
I think using your left signal if you're leaving on the third exit of a four exit roundabout is actually standard practice in some countries. I saw people do this a lot in Norway for instance.
Maybe I'm controversial but I'd rather not have kids around at furry conventions at all. While the fandom is not a kink thing like, say, the BDSM community, the sexual aspects permeate a pretty good chunk of it. I'd rather exclude kids than having to restrict self-presentation due to their presence, which I personally inevitably do even though I don't wear BDSM gear around at cons.
The pup gear absolutely is fetish clothing, and I prefer cons where there's a place for it, though even then I'd prefer it just being there at late evenings and events rather than in my face all day long.
I don't think you have to worry about the fandom becoming overly sexualised. It always has been.
Given how we've been the punching bag of the internet since forever, it's inevitable that opportunist American politicians will do the same as there's really very little difference between them and internet trolls.
If you want to have a convention that's much more sfw go for it.
Funny that a site giving me this message when trying to reject cookies writes about software freedom.
"We offer you the option of rejecting individual data processing. If you have made a selection for all processing purposes, you can save it. Please note that consent to personalised advertising is always required for use without a Pur subscription."
Trash website.
Security through obscurity is generally considered terrible practice in the cybersec community. It's much better to actually find and fix the flaws than just put your head in the sand and hope no one notices the issues.
Exploits in games and the exploits used by hackers for various other purposes are very similar in nature if less often in effect.
That is how I learned to draw. You can also use existing bases that you just colour in, and some ugly sketches that you can give artists as reference material. They'll be thankful to have something to go off of rather than solely a description.
Finding an artist that is popular can be an exercise in frustration, finding one on Fiverr with commissions open is comparatively easy.
I might get crucified for this, but I think AI is a good brainstorming tool to see if various colour combinations and such work, as it can be hard to tell if the colours are something you actually like without seeing any approximation of what you imagine the finished design to look like in practice. You might not want to send it to an artist as a reference image though, I can imagine that not being looked at too kindly by many of them lmao
Try to make small steps. If you're comfortable chatting with people online, get to know a few before the meetup. If you become friends online there's a good chance they'll want to use the chance to get to know you in real life as well, at least in theory.
The important part is to just not stop trying. It will get better when you're 18 most likely, but beyond that the only way to get better at socializing is to do it. No one will break your shell but you, I wasted a lot of years thinking otherwise.
Making it a taboo for a furry to date a non-furry is silly, and thankfully that hasn't been my experience, and I'm sorry if you've experienced that.
As for the reason why it's common to find dates within the fandom? We have a culture that's very open, often intimate, and extremely weird to many outsiders. Also Tinder fucking sucks and Grindr isn't much better, the fandom is a better way to meet people than those apps.
Couldn't what we typically call concern trolling be a type of toxic empathy? Of course you could make an argument that concern trolling is entirely removed from empathy, but then things like toxic positivity tends to only be positive at a very surface level view.