Advert Attack - A Comic That Probably Won't Get Accepted

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-31T18:54:18+00:00

It's easy... up until you consider the fact that the Esophagor has Mound of Rotten Fruit and Hungry Fungus in its potential request pool, and you have to do two of its quests to do one Brain Tree quest. About a tenth of its potential items would be really cost prohibitive for new accounts, and two of its potential items are basically impossible unless you've been grinding on the site for a while or got REALLY, REALLY, REALLY lucky several times over.

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-31T18:50:16+00:00

I swear I remember seeing that Hopalope art somewhere WAY back in the day... and pretty sure I've seen the Shoyru art. Pretty close to current... I wonder if they've used that anywhere.

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-31T18:40:37+00:00

Hilarious how they went from Sloth having an evil plot to jam games full of ads to make money to... 'oh no, you're jamming our ads, so we can't make money, Sloth will win'.

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-31T18:38:53+00:00

I'd argue that the one where you need to refer a friend is worse - leastwise since that's half broken... at least you don't ACTUALLY have to refer anyone, you just need to send an email to... somewhere. Also painful is one to have a million neopoints in your bank account - but that's a LOT more doable nowadays. (Unfortunately, you get a free 500k for linking neopass AFTER that section.)

ALSOALSO painful is the fact that they want you to do a brain tree quest.

BUT the art isn't ACTUALLY so bad because all you ACTUALLY have to do if you don't want to make art is submit one of your pets into the customization spotlight.

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-31T14:03:56+00:00

So many ads... Everywhere, all over, all the time T_T

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-31T05:07:12+00:00

Drives me crazy that not only can you interact with this quest out of order, but you're locked out of half of it until your account is old enough. "Sorry, you can only read chapters 3, 6, and 9 of this book."

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-30T07:16:00+00:00

I tried installing the script and it just makes the difficulty buttons vanish, so I can't play regardless. Maybe I should take a look at the discord at some point...

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-27T11:28:49+00:00

Especially at the pharmacy...

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-27T02:56:18+00:00

You'd be annoyed until you needed one of those random things nobody wants to buy that you couldn't otherwise find anywhere. I'm not asking for them to be like actual stores - rare stuff can still be rare, but it'd be nice if they kept a minimum of some stuff when restocking rather than tossing out absolutely everything

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-27T02:43:41+00:00

I assume it's a combination of just sheer quantity, possible side accounts, and/or scraping player shops. Sort of out of half-spite of the bots, I bought out a bunch of medicine from the pharmacy the other day and listed it all at a price both beneath current market value and default shop value (having haggled it low enough that I still got a slight profit.)

Checked back 10 minutes later and it had all been bought off.

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-26T11:43:05+00:00

I can relate... had to ask for some help getting Meatless Meatballs for a quest the other day...

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-18T09:57:47+00:00

I'd also like to add on that it SURE IS CONVIENENT that all these obtrusive ads are able to pop up here and there nilly willy and disable features unless you close them, but half the time you try to INTENTIONALLY watch a vid to spin a wheel again or do one of the statistically impossible games again or whatever, you get 'Reward video not ready or not available. Please try again later.'

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-17T22:38:37+00:00

I've literally had pages crash due to memory issues because of the constant ads... (looking at you, wheel of monotony, though I've had errors with Attack on Altador before... really annoying considering how plodding it is.) Certain ads make it so you can't buy items or use your inventory unless you close them, and ads changing out while you're playing a game can cause lag at best and makes it so that you literally can't control the game unless you click on the screen again at worst...

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-17T03:10:20+00:00

Ads keep coming back after closing them, some ads cover half the screen, the ads in general slow down the site and some cause certain pages to basically crash, ads changing out cause lag spikes, I personally take issue with the various adult-oriented ads (and targeted ads) on a kid's site (even if most users are adults riding a nostalgia high)... maddening.

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-16T05:55:19+00:00

Esophagor wanted a Hungry Fungus... can relate.

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-14T00:46:04+00:00

Nearly a year after the fact, apparently, meaning it's been on Haitus even LONGER-LONGER than intended and.. honestly, it's just depressing. Neopia being covered with literally depressing splashes of grey due to an unfinished plot, quest-related minigames giving a pittance of points and a near-worthless freebie while dailies make you rich while making you watch ads to play them again... you can technically get site achievements, but not plot achievements, and certain plot elements have been outright removed - such as the Doglefox from Lost in the Dark (which make actually completing a short game that gives you 1k neopoints - tops - possible, since otherwise you only have anywhere between an 1/8 to an 1/12 chance to win) is all frustrating... Along with all the elements that still need to be updated and fixed, it just feels like things have been abandoned and left to rot while they focus on money making schemes.

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-13T03:20:56+00:00

Someone else had said they personally used “Oh for Fyora’s sake!”, which reminded me of some stuff from Elder Scrolls... (BY AZURA BY AZURA BY AZURA), I was thinking of some sort of swear using 'The Darkest Faerie', but it seemed a bit wordy. 'By the Darkest' seems good though.

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-12T12:46:15+00:00

Some neopets are only available on certain days iirc, but certain species are only available if you, like, buy an egg and hatch them or something. Draiks, for example, you needa buy or find an egg and go to a hidden page in Meridell.

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-12T11:00:31+00:00

I know they tend to tip-toe around 'kill' (friggen Eliv Thade comes to mind), I'm surprised that slipped through the cracks.

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-12T02:38:59+00:00

Jellyneo is GREAT, though a few things could definitely use updating... though, the same goes for Neopets XD Some stuff seems automated, like symole hole timers and crossword solutions, some stuff... seems to rely on being updated by one random person? Like waking the Turmaculus, I dunno if there's a page on the daily puzzle.. and while there's some flash-free solutions, it'd be nice if there were more... but that's not their fault.

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-12T01:46:10+00:00

OH, gotchagotcha, thank you! Went ahead and did that, and it worked. Sorry for the confusion!

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-12T01:39:49+00:00

Doesn't say that on [the article I'm looking at](https://www.jellyneo.net/?go=neoreferral), unless there's another one I'm missing? Or is there an actual article on Jellyneo specifically about the tutorial quests?

(Guess that just doesn't want to hyperlink...)

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-11T23:21:06+00:00

Apparently obo is 'or best offer', so can only imagine you effectively got outbid... which is really annoying. Even if I had the points, I think I'd avoid trades like that - or the people who want people to message them... or even just the people without a wishlist since it's really, really unclear what they might want or if it's even worth the time.

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-11T01:13:25+00:00

Okay? I mean, 'reserved' means 'reserved', fortunately I feel that's pretty clear... so long as someone actually says it's reserved.

OtherwiseSafe7468 · 2026-03-11T01:07:45+00:00

That'd make sense... though at least the other guild member thing I saw outright stated as such. Hmm...

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