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mod blog post

It'll require more effort/energy than I have right now, but I'm thinking of trying to spruce up the blog theme a bit (doesn't apply for those on apps/mobile, though, sorry lol)

this is solely because I was trying to find a post/general time period and there's no damn timestamps-- and it's also just kinda boring honestly

anyway, so, just a heads-up that things might get tweaked slightly

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I'm not gonna lie to you guys, I would probably buy a runty turnipling plushie...

... okay, I'll give it that there are a few pets I'd buy plushies of, yes

straight-up Anji art on things though, no

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dv stop trying to make merch happen. It's not going to happen.

Even if it does happen, it shouldn't. Focus on other things please because only 12 people might actually buy something

who wants merch of anji’s atrocities

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I was banned a few years ago for allegedly referral grinding points and I'm still mad about it lmaooo

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Since everyone is questiniong the “cat” pet I made a stupid little meme  about it while bored.

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AI anon here: Wasn't trying to start a witch hunt, the macarons just looked off to me. I'm glad it's not - I've seen many many petsites start sneaking AI in even when they have multiple artists. I do like the cocodile, he is so cute, the art just looked a bit blurry to me but I think it's just the style/image on the wiki.

I saw someone say Spinaria works on a higher resolution/canvas size, so that's probably why

I think DV uses their side-artists so infrequently that they wouldn't need to use AI. Anji doesn't exactly have them put out 50 items each every month— they rarely get times to shine, sadly.

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The macarons look really awesome, so pretty and well done, but seeing, for example, Chocolate Mousse right next to Prism Macaron is just really bad.

Quis must've really ran out of time on her items. They're way underdetailed compared to the usual level, which only makes the macarons look more out of place.

(mod please add an image of those two example items from the prize shop, thank you 🙏)

it's super disorienting

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as you scroll down the anniversary prize shop to previous years items they make this year's look not so great.

like compare the chocolate mousse from this year to the pearl gala treacle from 2 years ago. what happened?

yeah the downgrade is pretty bad

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To the person who said the new gator is missing a foot and there for could be AI.

It acually does have it's foot. just can t see it cause the way it's posted but look carefully you can see a small bit of it's leg 

https://i.imgur.com/n2mu5cT.png

So it's there just hard to see maybe due to coloring and how it's posed but it makes sense why hard to see in this type of pose.

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the macrons just look like real pictures that were put through several snapchat filters, they clash heavily with everything on the site, i wonder how they were even approved

they do look very realistic, don’t think at all they’re photos originally but I’m sure Anji doesn’t care about the result much. The macarons seem like they should belong to a better game lol

There’s been a few pieces from another event that I don’t like using just because they’re slightly off on style (carnival items) and it bugs me. They’re closer than the macarons, though.

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as someone who almost never wins any of the prize contests, Nico's Prize Boutique getting 30 button pets when you only get 25 buttons for the one allowed contest entry feels bad. it only gets worse if you also collect the hatchables to use as totems. and that's before any clothing, because this update is another 80 buttons worth. I know it's probably meant to be a long term thing but so was the last update and I haven't bought everything from that one yet, either,

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iirc spinaria made the macrons

gotcha

they're pretty, don't get me wrong, but they're so out of place with everything else

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Can we not with the AI art witch hunt shit? "This art is too detailed, must be AI! Oops spotted a mistake, humans always draw anatomy perfectly. Hmm those brush strokes look too smudgy, no real person would have a style like that! Uh oh this fanart mimics the real thing too close, no human artist could ever be skilled enough to pull that off!" ffs there's no escaping it! And yeah I'm fucking crashing out about this, I'm so sick of innocent people getting chased offline for this shit.

I'm positive none of it is AI

but we all know why the neapolicat looks like that, and it's because Anji drew it and AI wouldn't mess it up that bad

I did look at the other two mentioned pets though and I don't see what they mean, they look perfectly fine to me

edit:

spinaria's beauties

vs.

anji's la creatura

at least I know exactly what species the top two are because this thing is not a cat

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I think the anniversary event is really cute <3 I wish the staff were more celebratory and there was like, more excitement - five years is a pretty neat milestone even if it's been a rough go of it sometimes (looking at u, Polished Button trenches)

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Didn't clock it on the macarons til I saw the other ask, but both the macarons and the cocodile look. Very Odd. In a way that makes me wonder if there were AI shenanigans somewhere. The macarons are hyper realistic in a way that I haven't seen before on the site, and the designs on top of them are a bit wonky. The cocodile is just weirdly blurry? And possibly missing a back leg.

Who even drew them-- do we know?

We have multiple artists, but only god knows who does what

edit: also the croc is adorable, look at this fucker, how dare you

even this dude is fine, it's the macarons that are too soft appearing

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i never post in the "[blank] the pet above you thread" because every single time there's always at least 15 people who post in it who never interact with the pet above them. nobody calls them out on their shit either. pisses me off. it's just not worth it to post in them, i just do the random pet button on the great bake off page nowadays. i don't even think the rewards you get from the pet reaching max lvl are that great from it, either?

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stop fucking posting in the thread without refreshing you bitch

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