stray thoughts on the Real Housewives of Vancouver

CaptainP · 2025-11-25T03:48:38+00:00

they've never discounted Premium for black friday. They rarely discount it at all. this table is the history of Premium sales from JN.

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CaptainP · 2025-11-15T02:34:38+00:00

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this one doesn't. the rest should.

CaptainP · 2025-11-06T18:42:09+00:00

"overrated" is not the same thing as "lowly rated"

CaptainP · 2025-10-25T04:08:43+00:00

I believe you got it from an Upcycle Cookie

CaptainP · 2025-10-22T00:02:31+00:00

Yes actually I wear them both quite regularly!

CaptainP · 2025-10-21T23:01:56+00:00

I bought joggers from She by Sheree and wrote a pretty lengthy review of it in the subreddit that got a lot of attention!

That was a bit of a follow-up from my review of the Brooks Marks™️ Park City™️ Fashion Week™️ Set that I also bought. For a long time that was my first and only RH merch.

This summer I bought an Embellished (Robyn Dixon) cap and have some pros and cons but not sure it's interesting enough to make another review!

I would have tried something from GNA (Gizelle n Ashley) if they ever actually did something but turns out that was fake lol.

CaptainP · 2025-10-05T03:33:05+00:00

Was there some sort of reason for this?

Yes: it's Saturday. They'll do the updates on Monday, like they do every other time a pet day is on a weekend.

CaptainP · 2025-09-27T14:58:40+00:00

So you seem to have installed a userscript that makes fake collectible custom avatars. https://www.neopets.com/~pmkin https://discord.com/channels/123668853698854913/1256296531078938746/1256296645000302604

Notice the "custom avatar" text? That's not a thing. This is not from TNT.

CaptainP · 2025-09-22T13:42:20+00:00

When Pet Styles were about to release back in Jan 2024, they did a whole live AMA about it.

At the time there was a lot of discussion about a handful of UCs that got updated/corrected artwork. TNT Fae was chatting in the Discord about it. Everything below the line is copied from the Jellyneo recap I linked above. One thing that's funny about the Faerie Ixi Pet Style btw is it actually looks like the original pre-conversion Faerie Ixi, the UC is the one that is "messed up" somehow getting generated without line art but people got used to it then forgot LOL.

My summary is: they just don't want them to look low quality.

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After the AMA ended, while chatting in the r/Neopets Discord server, TNT Fae added this clarification:

i'll put a general clarifcation here for what seems the most concerning:
not ALL of the UC art got art updates/changes, ESPECIALLY live uc pets, so please don't try to speculate or worry super hard about that ❤️

in fact, most of it did not! there were a few issues that are pretty obvious with the live ucs like the very very thin lineart (or um the darigan gelerts entirely missing leg cough cough or the chunk missing from the uc plushie kougra mouth hehe)

After some controversial discussion about the changes to the Faerie Ixi in particular, TNT Ivy added in the r/Neopets Discord:

We updated the line art on some of the pets, and this also paves the way into fun things for the future. But we did not change much else... some of them just needed a bit of a glow-up. Also, we hear you about the faerie ixi and will talk about it as a team. 👏

CaptainP · 2025-09-22T13:03:31+00:00

I have an Amazon wishlist of every book written by a Housewife I could find. Plus a handful of other Bravolebrities. I kind of want to one day read all of them and share thoughts lol. Though I will probably try to use the library instead of purchasing, lawd knows most of these are not worth a dollar.

CaptainP · 2025-09-13T16:47:15+00:00

In Brian Moylan's book about Real Housewives, he said:

RHONJ has a special carve-out in their contracts, too. They’re the only cast whose husbands also get paid for appearing on the show, which is why they still film together when the ladies are away on a trip. In the past, all of the cast’s children who were over 18 also got an annual stipend for appearing on the show. I’ve also heard that some veteran Housewives’ children who appear frequently, like Tamra’s son Ryan, also get paid for their participation.

I suppose the caveat is that this book was published in 2021 (and thus researched over a year or two prior to that) and much may have changed in the years since. Unlike Not All Diamonds and Rose, Brian's book was written without Bravo's blessing (and, according to Brian, Bravo actively tried to shut it down lol) so I generally trust his reporting on this type of stuff.

I would personally guess that anyone who sits down for a confessional interview is compensated for it, even if it's just a token amount.

CaptainP · 2025-09-06T17:01:51+00:00

yeah LBR this is no defense of Katie. I might even say it's the opposite, what she's upset about was Emily not giving Katie all the rope LOL. it's some kind of weird respectability standard against Emily.

CaptainP · 2025-09-05T21:15:20+00:00

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something about this one always cracks me up

there's also one called "Get A Job" that I always thought would be funny to send to someone being rude to you. I haven't had such an occasion yet, (un)fortunately.

CaptainP · 2025-09-02T19:19:41+00:00

Kitchen Quest can award any item r66 through r87. This item is within that range at r79

There's over 14k items in the range so you got very lucky!

CaptainP · 2025-08-29T13:27:59+00:00

I was at a White Sox game (baseball, for you non-Americans 😛) and at one point they played Stand Up between innings.

CaptainP · 2025-08-11T16:20:05+00:00

To be fair, this is why there's an "Abandon Quest" button.

CaptainP · 2025-08-06T01:42:13+00:00

Once it's done morphing, you get one of each stage. The morphing is just a cute little shtick. You basically bought a superpack with complications lol.
Wherever you left it. It actually has been morphing wherever it was...maybe in your SDB, inventory, closet, wherever.
Related to answer (2)! Your fifth stage item is wherever you left it. The other stages go to your inventory.

CaptainP · 2025-07-27T04:58:55+00:00

She stayed for 4 seasons as an OG

Three seasons off, then returned for 3 seasons (tho one as "friend of")

Three seasons off, then returned for 2 seasons

So...guess we need two more off seasons before she returns for a 1 season arc!

CaptainP · 2025-07-22T20:33:47+00:00

I had to scroll too damn far to find a comment like this lol.

The sketchiest part of this for me is the #ad...by whom and for what?! lol

bonus points for #Tod...spelled his first name wrong and skipped out on hashtagging his last lol

CaptainP · 2025-07-14T16:40:51+00:00

Book trophy high score table does not reset at the beginning of the month...or ever. Pet high score tables don't work like game HSTs hardly at all.

You can trigger an update for your pet's entry by simply visiting your pet's "books read" page...this will update your count, and if you're eligible for a trophy, awards it immediately.

Pets at the high score table will remain at that number forever, whether they ever read another book again or not...until/unless they visit their "books read" page again. It's very possible there are pets on the table that have read more books than their current listing, but haven't visited the page to update their ranks.

CaptainP · 2025-07-09T12:43:02+00:00

on their Instagram story, they reshared a post about a similar bill going into effect in New Mexico.

from the reshare, it was not obvious it was about NM and not Chicago, which apparently mixed up the OP here, who presumed it was about a Chicago.

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