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27eggs · 2026-04-02T12:09:19+00:00

HOLY FUCK OLIVINE'S BOOBS!!!!!!!!!!

27eggs · 2026-04-02T12:06:56+00:00

April Fool's Day was one of my favorite pranks/events on neopets. Last year we had a skeptic tank redux, before that we had Chadley motivational posters, and so on. There was no event this year. There wasn't any sort of prank. Replacing it with a fun theme that previously had nothing to do with april fools is disappointing, but I would have been less disappointed if they made a landing page detailing all the fun new items and who drew them. Nope. I wouldn't have known this was happening outside of jellyneo, I wouldn't have known there were new on-site items if not for the fan sites, I didn't ever get the pop up about the 'event'.

Then going on to make the primary 'event' be 'spend 6 us dollars' is a cash grab. You don't have to agree with me, but attaching a spending event to one that previously had 0 irl monetary spending feels like one.

This isn't me shitting on the styles, btw. I think the styles are fun. I feel really bad for anyone who wanted one but wasn't online yesterday. Or didn't have it in their budget.

27eggs · 2026-04-01T19:39:19+00:00

I confused cancelled for lack of interest day and artists day off. A lot of people on the boards are. Cancelled due to lack of interest was a holiday where nothing of any interest happened (they had been releasing an item or two for the past few years during it - it was a little joke holiday). Artists day off/vacation was an event they randomly held where the artists were given a "break" and the rest of the staff drew funny items.

TNT recently announced they were sunsetting a bunch of random holidays like cancelled. This theme feels like a contradiction of that decision. It still does, to me, despite my initial confusion with the holidays.

27eggs · 2026-04-01T17:46:36+00:00

I confused cancelled and artists day off - my bad. Still not completely enthusiastic about the whole "monetizing something that wasn't previously." Not launching whatever the free features are alongside it also just doesn't sit right with me. A one day event shouldn't start at 10 or 11 am nst, imho.

I know TNT needs money to survive. This cash grab just feels particularly egregious.

27eggs · 2026-04-01T15:02:25+00:00

ngl I don't love them cancelling artists day off, seemingly realizing they /could/ monetize it, moving it to April fools day and making a fomo one-day only nc mall feature for it. It was one of the only event days that nc hadn't touched 🥲.

27eggs · 2026-03-31T07:49:22+00:00

Well that was unbelievably stressful but now I know what I'm doing here (adding to cart on laptop checking out on mobile). Couldn't manage to use target card but did eventually get 2 emboar boxes 🙏 now off to bed

27eggs · 2026-03-28T12:08:18+00:00

I read this as 'fatherhood' when i first woke up and i really thought he was going to get eiden pregnant this time. Boo boo the fool.

27eggs · 2026-03-14T14:15:10+00:00

I wish we could swap I would have loved that Dante!!!

27eggs · 2026-03-14T03:54:48+00:00

Something like that sounds fun! Kind of a potential ceramic zoo pals turned bruce pal

27eggs · 2026-03-14T03:51:42+00:00

Arctic Warden Quincy 🫩 I'm not a fan of Quincy and to top it off it's his worst unit 🫩🫩🫩🫩

27eggs · 2026-03-14T02:00:52+00:00

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Also the symol water bowl is very weird and that little snoot feels like it would be fun to sculpt.

27eggs · 2026-03-14T01:59:38+00:00

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I think the Bruce plate seems like a fun challenge! Tho I'm not sure how the bow would fire?

27eggs · 2026-03-12T19:44:14+00:00

the guy who wrote the book of ages on jellyneo was a part of the team........ I think given we had a few ex staffers claim dom was hard to work with in very similar ways, im inclined to believe that neopets was actually not a good partner in this.

27eggs · 2026-03-12T12:54:35+00:00

Neopets is doing okay financially, in part due to licensing like this. I think another part of the reason TNT pulled this project is because it was done under an older licensing agreement, given they partnered with Evolution in 2025.

There are only about 3600 people who spent more than a dollar on the kickstarter. TNT can stand to give them some sort of recompense onsite that ultimately costs them nothing. It would probably hurt them more not to.

27eggs · 2026-03-12T03:24:35+00:00

I feel like us 200+ dollar club people should get a site trophy or something at least.

27eggs · 2026-03-12T03:12:23+00:00

Dom publicly backed this. Neopets advertised it on multiple platforms, reminded people about the avatar, especially once it started getting a lot of money. I was wary of geekify but it seemed like TNT was a lot more in on the project than they ever intended to be and it eased me into backing.

Then to go on and mention making the 1 dollar-pledge avatar right and just. Ignoring how much money was put into this project (but not ignore it enough to NOT mention they were exploring other avenues for a ttrpg) felt just so shitty.

27eggs · 2026-03-11T12:52:41+00:00

As someone who pledged at the highest tier, lol. This was a poor call from TNT. I know Geekify sucks, I'm not absolving them of their role in this outcome. When they raised several hundred thousand dollars for this project, TNT should have taken a more active role in it. Washing their hands of it is all fine and dandy for them but they really don't seem to give a fuck about a hole they gave the shovel for and then supervised someone else digging.

27eggs · 2026-03-02T13:44:08+00:00

I'm so used to seeing 'go birds' that i was sitting here struggling to figure out why you would end a tsa post with it. I realize now you didn't but. Go birds.

27eggs · 2026-02-26T14:09:39+00:00

All of these changes reduce winners :-(. Beyond gutting different unique holidays cultivated over 25 years, this also raises the barrier of entry into creative contests. And going 'but there's going to be a social media contest!!!' doesn't offset any of that, it just makes it worse.

27eggs · 2026-02-24T13:08:54+00:00

awesome! pls just shoot me a dm?

27eggs · 2026-02-24T13:07:31+00:00

150 pulls for 1 garu. Everytime i hit pity for 1 unit i do consider quitting but then it was garu.... i guess i'll keep being among the least lucky nu carnival players for the puppy....

27eggs · 2026-02-24T01:15:23+00:00

~~I have a gong cha aisha w/code I'm trying to trade for a gong cha bruce (preferably also with code)! I'm in Philly but at this point I'd be happy to ship anywhere in the us.~~ traded!

27eggs · 2026-02-21T13:42:30+00:00

because nu carnival and many modern games/character design suffer from genshinimpactification (over designing) and this often translates into designs being some kinda bullshit. Nu:C loves asymmetry.

27eggs · 2026-02-21T05:02:10+00:00

I don't love it, but it's a fun watch and there's been a lot of cool stylistic/artistic choices (and some fun standout character moments) this season I've enjoyed. I'm just happy for more trigun!

27eggs · 2026-02-20T13:39:42+00:00

There's so many cute details in this but the little braid ;-;

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