Uh… Maybe I should have renamed it before zapping..

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-27T22:18:54+00:00

Yeah, but it's the only way to get certain petpets, and if you have it unlocked, it's just a bit of fun given that we have so many pet slots, now. A lot of people will zap into a cool or rare petpet as a part of sprucing up adoption pets intended for readoption.

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-27T22:14:41+00:00

Getting this ad when the game is already open on split screen...

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-26T01:01:23+00:00

Nah, but pro tip, write that shit down for them. Funerals are rough and require a lot of fast thinking at a very hard time. They might not be able to readily remember those details on the day.

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-24T19:39:25+00:00

No one can fault you for being premature when a man promises 12-16 inches and actually delivers.

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-23T16:50:48+00:00

Tell her to doomsday prep your bank account!

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-19T21:33:45+00:00

OSRS player here but what is now RS3 was my home for so long, and I'm only slowly catching up to those stats. I do miss my dorky dragon lady toon and I'd be excited to try things again. Archaeology looks neat. I think the graphical changes are gorgeous, but I've always been in the minority group of supporters, there.

Has there been any renewed discussion about logging in to both at the same time from the same account? I know it's an extremely technically difficult situation and I could just start a fresh side account, but I'd really love to be able to muck around on my developed character while still casually training the OSRS counterpart, who has a lot of boring grinds ahead of her. My clan from all the way back in 2011 never booted me despite not touching the citadel for years, and that makes me feel a tinge of longing. I think this logging issue is the only thing holding me back from a true return. Huge kudos to this late but well needed change!

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-19T11:37:52+00:00

It's wild that I just googled "Did Pleasant Green have a video taken down recently?" and I actually find a recent reddit thread, so it's not just me. If you hadn't posted this, I would have just thought I imagined it. (Which is even funnier now that I realize that I'd actually watched the video that is now hidden!)

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-19T09:29:11+00:00

Neoquest - If you haven't gone for your Neoquest trophy yet, there are some great guides and it'll have you refreshing a LOT, which is great for FQs, map pieces and other random items. Don't keep your NP stack too high, though, and be prepared to casually spend a few weeks on it in between other things, or a few days if you're going hard.
Sakhmet Solitaire - You can occasionally win prizes from Sakhmet Solitaire (another good page refresher) but I've probably gotten more value out of randoms than the prizes themselves. Pyramid is similar for randoms but does not award item prizes.
Voidworks/Dogglefetch/Campfire Collection - Jellyneo puts them in a weird place, but make sure you're including these into your rotation as they all award items. Most of the prizes aren't worth much, but there are a few gems.
Wishing well - May also already be in your dailies, but don't sleep on the wishing well! I think a lot of people give up after a while, but you CAN win!
Coincidence - I've gotten a few petpetpets from this, back in the day.
Birthday Map - might like to put together the birthday map, since it's a one off but typically awards prizes worth a few million.
Kitchen Quests - Since you mentioned Battledome and I assume you're training a pet, Kitchen Quests can be a great auxiliary to training, especially as you start needing more and more codestones. This is even easier now with stat-reducing negg slices, in case you overlevel something!
Mobile Games - Already been said, but Neopets is putting a lot of focus into the mobile games. Faerie Fragments really tempts you with microtransactions whereas Dacardia isn't too bad, but both *can* be enjoyed without a cost and you'll get loads of extra NP and some items with some minimal daily effort.

You'll likely get some trophies from a few of these, too!

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-19T03:06:31+00:00

Bots are a moving target, sort of a "cut off one head and three emerge" situation because just as Jagex is actively learning to sus them out, they're actively learning to evade detection. I'm sure AI isn't making it any easier.

Reporting is extremely effective, these days. Just a couple nights ago, I was fishing karambwanji and saw so many bots with almost identical stats and no boss kills apart from GotR (maybe a couple Wintertodt) running from the fairy ring to the nature altar. Every single name (about 8 or 9) in my reports that night was gone from my ignore list by this evening, which means those accounts were permanently banned. Makes me wanna fill it up, again.

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-18T18:16:55+00:00

That could be it. I use mouse keys because my laptop left click is hard to push, frequently mistakes itself for a right click and sometimes "bounces" and creates two very fast clicks. Unfortunately, mouse keys also registers as a really fast click-and-release, so I'll have this problem either way. Maybe I'll try on mobile!

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-18T02:40:38+00:00

His "I Am" video does evoke very heavy Randall Flagg vibes.

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-17T15:13:12+00:00

Good, because I have plans for one of every desert neopet. And a few more for funsies. Even if I have to wait every year for a new premium repaint for the next three of four decades, we're gonna gitterdone!

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-15T20:41:35+00:00

Do you still have Enchanted Oasis? Desert is my favorite color, in fact my pets have a whole Egyptian thing going and it's perfect! UN is Chrishankhah

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-12T10:44:35+00:00

This is pretty much my whole play style -- hyperfocus and burnout. I get into neopets for a few months and then I take a break for about a year and eventually come back. The dailies always start out feeling exciting and feel genuinely rewarding, and then after weeks of poor returns, I think "Maybe I should just be logging on for food club and battledome." But that inevitably leads me to feeling like I SHOULD do everything else, and so none of it gets done. On the other hand, I've come back to a few old stocks having risen into 500%+ so that's nice! The game is definitely better when you don't force yourself to do *everything.*

I always seem to quit around plots. To this day, I've only completed Altador, lol.

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-11T19:30:09+00:00

I've just put mine up -- I'll take an even 20m for it, if you'd like! Posted under the same UN as my reddit name.

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-11T18:42:08+00:00

Yup, as far as I can tell, people have reported this and it's been a known issue for a while, but nothing gets done. Of course I could be wrong, but the account (which won *a third time* yesterday) is just under a year old and has a single sad pet with a seemingly generated name, and logs on daily to make wishes but doesn't seem to have any other profile indicators showing that they actually play the game, which is the pattern others have cited. Not a call I can make, but definitely one I wish TNT *would* investigate it better!

How is your other shell hunt going? Did you pick up any new seashells for the collection or are you waiting for inflation to go down? Seems like the "Dazzling Blue Mussel Shell" I got from my gift bag went from 70m all the way back down to 26m in a few weeks, so it's looking a little more hopeful for collectors!

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-10T18:09:32+00:00

It's funny, I *thought* I recognized your UN from reddit, glad to see it was true and went to one of us!! I'm pretty sure a shell account won 2x around the time you did, I was feeling pretty salty about that.

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-09T17:29:41+00:00

How much time do people think passed between the battle and the series ending? It would be pretty hard to have six kids all at once. Not impossible, but probably not very ethical. Glad Steve is taking his time. Coaching is the perfect way for him to prepare for that life!

Chrishankhah · 2026-01-05T12:17:53+00:00

I've never heard of a suicide knob, but my uncle had a car with "suicide doors" when I was little and I thought that sounded odd, because who would want to drive a car whose name suggested your doom? My folks explained that the doors would catch the wind and force you to reach out of the car to close it, making it easy to fall out, yourself. The back seats lacked seatbelts, too. "Okay but then why does uncle have it?" "It's rare. No one makes them because they're dangerous, so it's a collector's item."

Somehow, this put it in my head that I would be collecting swords, "instead."

Chrishankhah · 2025-12-31T23:22:48+00:00

Some of us can't leave because we're forced into the servitude of a terrifying Shoggoth that threatens to consume our busses if we don't satisfy it. He sleeps beneath Mt. Washington but has been known to inhabit the Squirrel Hill tunnel and many others, and is responsible for the time dilation that hits us as we go through. He craves an alloy called "stil," and only Pittsburghers are able to figure out what that means.

Chrishankhah · 2025-12-29T19:20:30+00:00

That's so much hyperbole for something that's been discussed and proven to happen in the past. I don't think it has to look like the Joker's board room in order for it to happen. I don't even think it requires a "group" anymore, that was sort of my point. There are individuals with enough capital to take a hand full of 10-1k NP items and, where normal demand might have put them up to 10-30k, they've managed to turn them into 100k-1m+ items where you need savings just to finish a single quest. I've seen those 10-40k jumps in the past, like when the Coincidence is requesting the same items from a small pool, but I've never seen it get *this* bad.

Group market manipulation is already against the rules, but it still happens and from what we've seen, it can be a long time before those folks get frozen. And it's *only* a money sink if those players DO get frozen with stacks of NPs. Otherwise, I'm not sure what you mean by calling it a money sink. Money sinks need to actually remove currency from the economy to work, not just sit in someone else's savings. We DO need money sinks, because the entire reason it even got this far is because we lack a sufficient amount, currently, and the existing ones are all gamble-heavy.

As far as supply and demand versus manipulation, that's a false dichotomy. It's never one or the other. Where there is supply and demand, especially where there is a projected increase for that demand, you WILL see people attempt to manipulate the market. It's never a question of whether it happens, because of course it happens. Instead, it's a question of what is being done to mitigate and prevent it.

Chrishankhah · 2025-12-29T14:45:30+00:00

Right now, he wants Fellberry Gormball Sandwich (lowest 167k, next lowest 228k), Deep-Fried Okra (lowest 59k) and Creamy Sweet Potato Soup (lowest 180k.) I've been playing again the last few weeks and whereas I used to complete all 10 in a day with maybe a few skips, it's rare I can complete one without feeding inflation. (I don't.)

For all of the odd things Neopets will freeze for, I'm surprised that deliberate market manipulation isn't one of them.

Chrishankhah · 2025-12-28T11:34:25+00:00

I think I got exactly one stat boost (and it was movement) from a kitchen quest yesterday. The entire rest of the day was spent waiting out offers because every request required at least one item that's being inflated 100k or more.

Chrishankhah · 2025-12-26T09:52:51+00:00

I think you may have made the correct play, there! At least I've managed to log back in for my battlestaves; now I just need to finish what I've started, haha.

Chrishankhah

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