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baby kougra

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the neopets april fools joke is mildly unhinged

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I made some chibi version of my neopets bc I love them too much <3

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kissy the valentines kougra 💕

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theyre going on a date

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I think instead of uncovered pets and converted pets TNT should release a third secret pet

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strap in folks it's time for another neopets drama update

some background reading before we begin: back when neopets wanted to introduce customisation (i.e. dressing up your pet) in 2007, they decided to 'convert' all existing pet art to align with a rigid body structure, rather than all having unique poses. it was just not feasible to create new pieces of art for hundreds of different pet poses every single time they released a new clothing them

customisation had been highly requested up until this point. however, the conversion was NOT popular. in some cases, particularly for basic colours, the change wasn't huge, but in other cases.... uh....

you get the idea. the more expensive colours like plushie, faerie, grey, royal and darigan got the worst of it because they had the more unique poses pre-conversion, and therefore it was largely agreed that the change to the stiff 'samey', frankly kinda goofy converted look did not look great

most users did not get a choice in having their neopet converted and it was done automatically, but if you had one of these colours where the change was huge, you were given the choice of converting or retaining the old pose (but not having the option to customise your pet). those pets that retained the old, pre-conversion poses are therefore referred to as 'unconverted', or UC for short

once a pet is converted, there's no returning to UC. you also couldn't create UC pets anymore, making UCs a limited resource that would only increase in value with time, particularly as people abandon their pets, leave the site, get frozen, etc.

i could write an entire dissertation on the drama that UC pets have caused for the pet trading economy, the neopet account black market, and general retention of the userbase, but to sum it up, people REALLY want UC pets. they are the single most coveted status symbol on the site

we skip forward now to 2023

the neopets team are planning to introduce UC pets back to the site, so that people will be able to create their own UC pets again for the first time post-converstion (legally at least)

they drip feed bits of information over the year about what this will look like. the main points are

changing a pet to UC will be done via some kind of item bought with neocash, the premium currency on neopets that you need to spend real money to get

putting this item on your pet will give it the UC art style appearance

so. not much really known. but expected release is set for january 2024

yesterday, they hosted an AMA focusing on the new UC pet system and how this was going to work. noticeably absent is any explanation of how much this is actually going to cost and whether it is going to involve any kind of gatcha mechanic, so that's causing our first lot of concern

second lot of drama is that the new UCs aren't actually going to be COMPLETELY the same as the old art, as they're making some small changes for style consistency, see below (old on top, new below):

the biggest drama, however, comes from how they're dealing with the 'original' UC pets. ALL pets will be getting forcibly converted on the 23rd, with anyone who has a pet that is already an original UC immediately receiving the UC neocash item. there's mention of possibly some kind of trophy or badge recognition for particularly old pets, but it's vague, and generally seems like it won't be possible to distinguish between the original UCs and these new ones

the people who already have OCs are not happy about this

people are allegedly pounding their pets, cancelling their premium, and quitting the site in protest. the boards are flooded with people complaining about the changes and laughing at the downfall of the 'neo-elite' in equal measure

it's t-minus 5 days until the second great conversion goes live. let's all pray for our souls

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hi!! i'm still around! i've been drawing neopets in my free time lol

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Season's Greason's

I was inspired to make a neopets version

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petpages are still down T_T...since they are all so tiny i wanted to add detail shots... they are too small to see but everyone has starry eyes <3

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what is this did potato counter change since i last played

i stopped counting around 250

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AWESOME renders by scattergirl on neo from 2003

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A pink Poogle and a Faerie Skeith before bed !

They want to know if you have games on your phone

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please elaborate on the adam drama

so we all know that adam is one of the founders of neopets along with Donna, his current wife/then girlfriend. As such, he (was) a bit of an idol in the eyes of many neopians.

basically he came into the neopets discord server to try to shill for his new crypto game, started calling everyone idiots bc we "just dont understand crypto" sent a selfie giving us the middle finger, repeatedly asked a respected member of the community for their phone number (???) asked to be banned, eventually got banned. Then came to the neopets subreddit to complain about how unfair we had been to him etc. but it turned out he was shadowbanned from all of reddit so only mods could see his posts, but he thought it was the mods who had banned him. THEN Jellyneo posted about the whole event and he went on to comment on Jellyneo. At one point he said that he "fucking hates neopets" and "wishes [he] had never made it". He also apparently has no idea how the internet works and thought that Jellyneo, r/neopets, and the neocord are all run by the same people (was begging on JN to be unbanned on reddit - which again, he was shadowbanned on reddit - not something mods can even resolve) Then Donna, his wife/cofounder of neopets, (who had also been in the discord with him but was being nice and was not banned) allegedly commented on the Jellyneo article calling us all filthy pervs. (the jellyneo account couldnt be verified as actually donna so those comments were deleted)

Oh and i almost forgot! he promised that his new crypto game would have "much better moderation than this hell you have created"

It was honestly so funny and silly.

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Was tagged by the lovely @scribeprotra thanks!

Rules: Tag (9) people you want to know better and/or catch up with, then answer the following:

Four Ships:

Bowser/Luigi: It’s so good on so many levels. Like, I can’t exactly put it into words other than I’m weak to enemies-friends-enemies pairings and I think they could be really really good for each other and that it can be really really funny with like. The early stages of the relationship for literally everybody involved.

Peach/Mario: I’ll be honest. I can be. Preeetty picky with established/canon media pairings, but like. These two got me within seconds of actually playing the games and delving into game lore/history/fandom/ect. It’s. The mutual pining. Another big weakness of mine. They’re so sweet and cute together but also shy about going any further than friendship in the games. It’s cute stuff.

King Boo/E. Gadd: *seth rogan laugh* It funny. Two debatably terrible people who have, as far as I can tell, have never interacted in the games having some sort of relationship. Heck if I know what it is.

Lupin/Zenigata (+OT5 in general): TALK ABOUT PINING AND ENEMIES TO LOVERS. They hate each other. They care about each other. They would sell the other for a corn chip but also pay millions for them. They are absolutely insane

Last Song:

Head On (Hold on to your Heart) by Man Man

Currently Reading:

Aside from various fanfic, I just finished reading Harriet the Spy and plan to start Are you there God? It’s me, Margret soon 

Last movie:

The Super Mario Bros Movie. It was a lot of fun and I absolutely plan on getting it on DVD 

Craving:

To finish and post a couple wips, specifically the next chapter of Devil Dealings sometime this month. Maybe work on and finish another wip from a different fandom but the Mario Bros have such a chokehold on me it’s a smidge hard to bounce out of that headspace for longer than reading something else for a bit. Oh! And to actually finish one of my switch games for once! That’d be nice.

I’m not really great at tagging folks/kinda shy about doing so, so if you wanna do this too, go ahead and say ​I tagged ya.