And thus closes the shop. Again.

Sorry again that things were a bit barebones this year. If I somehow get out of the [censored] I've put myself into, Promise it's gonna be much better and less rehashed next year. I was planning to do something with the Power Burger as well, but alas, it was not meant to be.

Here are this year's top 10 kitten holders, with bank included this time:

Thanks to the curious six who picked the Communications Droid to read me rambling pretty much the same things as last year, the seventeen who came to join me on that suspicious tree branch (that it didn't break yet is what makes it suspicious) and Adialmyt for buying a train just for the sake of possessing a sweet Doom Train.

Also Kit, for buying fishies. I'm gonna guess it's not because of allergies, though.... >w>

Oh, speaking of!

You still owe me a custom title >=\

Holy crackers, I completely forgot!   Let me fix that real qu- Oh, you already changed it, so that'd.... probably be rude for me to change it now. I was gonna go with "Patience of a Saint" for waiting this long before asking.

There are also three Random Awards this year (click to see the description):

-> axl536 ->

-> ɴᴇᴢʜᴀ ->

-> Pervyman Trigger ->

I think I used the wrong PSD for those, because that white border shouldn't be there.... ah well.

P.S. love the cat that's now at the bottom; is this permanent?

Never. Despite requests to the contrary, she always leaves once the AFD shenanigans are over. .w.

It looks as though if I still had all my kittens, someone has made a move on them with knives.

Whoever it was may want to watch their back :^]

I tried to zero everyone by just zero'ing all special membersgroups, only to realize regular users couldn't be zero'd, which is why GMods all started with no kittens. It's fine though, I've given the staff their fair share once again.

Words

Nobody tell him. >w>

[KC-MM store]

Guess what day it is

Hello friends! Today is a fine day, for it is the day where the KC-MM store is open once again. Here, you'll be able to purchase wonderful prizes for the low low price of a few cats! The charming little creatures will gather round you every time you post on the forums, so you can then feed them to the global economics machine.

These exclusive items will not be available for long, so do make sure to grab a few while you still can! You can also trade valuable items in the Trade Center, or send gifts to others, to share the joy. How about a Nice Cream?
Oh, and uh, the taskbar icon is still a WIP.

New feature this year, the KCMM Bank is now at your disposal. You never know when someone might "persuade" you with a certain knife to give all your cats away. Your felines will be safe at the KCMM Bank! ... well, if we don't squander them on the stock market. For you see, the safety of your cats has a price. Not only is there a withdrawal fee (but not for deposit: we welcome your valuables!), we will spend about 10% of your cats on the Cat Market every day... A very small price for their safety, I'm sure.

There are some leftover cats from last year, as there is no "global take all the cats away" command. Those who still have 500+ cats still were simply lucky enough to avoid my repeated knifings. Staff members still have a bit of a headstart, and there's still no way for me to increase everyone's initial funds so... post away, and gather more kittens, gentlemen! Or ask kindly to those who have more cats than they have the need for.

I have had literally no time to set up anything better than this, so y'all get a retread. Sorry guys. I'll try to make up for it on the Random Awards/

Seeing as I'm part of the staff, I should probably answer at least the things that concern me first, then adress some of the more general issues.

I fully admit having mostly deserted the site. This comes from a variety of reasons, one of which being my life taking a couple bad turns in 2015, forcing me to refocus my priorities. Seeing as my last major interaction with the SSBB hacking community resulted in a no-joke panic attack, this place logically was the first to go. I know it's unconsequential to the large scope of the site, but I did legitimately feel bad about dropping the Gaming Challenge. In hindsight, I probably should have left it for good and resigned, but at the time, it seemed like a very temporary break.
I've tried to get back into the loop now that things have calmed down irl, but it's mostly been limited to hanging around the KCMM Discord Chat. I do intend to become more active again, but not right now.

I'd be pretty hype for seeing a new forum layout though! We don't have any real graphic artists in the team anymore, after Jack H left and SJS became inactive, so any contributions would be a huge help.

Also no, Vyse has not abandoned the Vault's development, but as mentionned, it's a difficult situation when he's the one in the staff who supports us both financially with a job, and on the entire technical side of things. We're gonna try harder to find a way out of that deadend... It's a shame there has to be a big outburst before things start moving, and I really apologize for that.
We do care about this website though. We may be lazy, or busy, or incomptent, but neither uncaring nor ungrateful. Not with this community.

Using a flamethrower to solve a mosquito problem isn't justified by "the mosquitos started it" though. .w.
Just don't flame people. There's no harm for anyone in ignoring a negative comment and waiting for the moderation team to work on it. (Yes, it takes hours sometimes.) It's not like anyone threw some irreparable shade at you that would ruin your reputation if people read it. So whenever you get a comment like that, brew yourself some tea, think about reporting the issue, and ponder on why furries get so much flak from other web users.

Also I was kinda joking about the being friends thing? But hey, if you guys wanna try, I won't complain.
NoahTehFox X SubZero2 OTP
Anyways yeah, you keep doing your thing and try to keep a level head out there. Good luck on your PSA efforts.

How the hell did this go from "Hey here's a furry hack" "it's bad stop it" to direct personal attacks after only two posts? What the hell guys.

SubZero, cut this crap. One yiffy(??) mod in the Vault isn't reason to go at it like that. [censored], this mature stuff isn't even near some of the stuff we've had in the past.
Noah, don't become over-defensive and go personal for one negative comment, for nya's sake. There's a report button, and there's non-antagonizing humor to defuse situations like that. If you hadn't literally just started posting, you'd probably have gotten a sanction for going personal immediately, so chill.

When I started on this forum a good eight years ago, teenager-me was an overly enthusiastic furry who put on smexy signatures and avatars, referencing and making texture hacks of some furry webcomic. One of the founders/admins at the time, Random, gave me endless crap for it, and kept messing with my profile. It wasn't mean-spirited, but I could have easily taken it poorly. Instead I rolled with the punches and had more fun than if I had antagonized him. Nowadays, we're pretty good friends, chat on Skype whenever we can, and shared a great many RP adventures.

What I'm trying to say here is that I expect you two to become best buds by the end of the year.

Since the project has been canceled, I will close this thread now.

I eagerly look forward to your next endeavors.

We've already got the forum/gallery structure working. No real need to actively separate them, really.
But yeah, with that exploit released, we need to start getting our ass onto it. Feel free to hassle us about it. That's where we get our energy from.

so remind me again why it's acceptable for major transformative hacks to be made for Brawl yet not for Sm4sh

oh wait bitter melee hate lol

A reminder? I'd say that witnessing a "competitive project" draining creative talents away from the community, only to get them under threats of legal trouble by openly competing with Nintendo would be a good reason not to want a second Project M. Nothing to do with Melee itself, although the love for that game didn't help in the grand scheme of things.
I'm pretty sure any other sort of major transformative hacks would be perfectly fine, though.

EDIT:

Is there a different thread going on where everyone is talking about this? Or just PMs as of now?

So far, it's only been discussed in the Staff chatrooms.

And you should try answering the question plainly, without being a [censored]...

The "Safe Search" does not filter NSFW material like Google and whatnot, but unapproved hacks. This is becoming less and less relevant though, since less and less hacks are staying unapproved for very long. Maybe we'll move or remove the button at some point, to avoid confusion.

Everything seems fine on my end. .w.

Seems the full BV database isn't accessed for some reason. We'll just have to wait for Vyse to take a look at it, seeing as I don't appear to have FTP access since we moved.
I'm gonna assume it's just a wrong call while Vyse was reworking the Vault or something of the sort.

In the mean time, enjoy a much lighter KCMM experience!
Reminds me of the old days. Maybe I should unearth the "Texture Gallery" again.

To be fair, the custom title is more permanent. The random award goes away after some random amount of time. :3c

Oh, and I forgot to ask! What did you guys all do with your kittens? I'm legitimately curious. I liked throwing fish, ice cream, trees and various amounts of cats at people.

(Also, I'm not a programmer.)

And thus closes the shop. Seems like you all had a good time, so I'm glad we went for that this year.
Nepeta is gonna be leaving on her year-long break soon enough too.

Here are some final statistics for the days. The top 10 kitten holders:

The top 32:

BV Staff started with 4444 kittens, Special Access with 500, and I can't remember the other ones for mods and admins.

The full items list:

The Power Burger was added in the final hour, first as a trolling attempt directed at a good friend, then to test br3's resolve in whether to keep all his kittens, or achieve a permanent, yet useless reward.

Finally, the list of all the random awards given, minus LC, who bought his at the last minute.

(Click to see the description)

-> Vish ->

-> Miacis ->

-> dRage ->

-> HAX ->

-> Maikito ->

-> Segtendo ->

-> axl536 ->

-> Theytah ->

-> Bad Box Art Mega Man ->

-> br3 ->

-> Lunoz ->

And the one true Random Award went to...

Oizen ->

Things I still owe people:
- A random award for LC
- A custom title for Kit
- Some sleep for myself.

All right, that was a good April Fools. Store will close in about 8 hours, so do whatever silly things you still need to do.

Also I have a few spare magic markers from testing that I need to get rid of. Ask for a custom title here and you'll get it, but I get to choose the title.

I was taking a break from Kc that year lol. Mia woulda had trouble finding one for Kit hehehe

Joking aside, I probably would have merged some generic pink cat lady artwork with actual Kit art, or gone with a furry Rydia. A lot of people had personas/avatar at the time that were almost unknown, so for them either I picked other characters they went by, or did some photoshopping.

So many old faces like GreenThunda, DMN, Deathstroke, Nasoka, Crackerwolf, Random, and Claise.

Cracker and Random are still hanging around in the KCMM furry Skype chatroom. I dunno if the others are still in contact with people from here. .w.