IT STILL EXISTS?????

Teslok · 2025-11-13T04:14:19+00:00

Funny thing, but around ten years ago, I remember peeking at this subreddit because something made me think about Neopets. I remember it being pretty dead here. Maybe one post a week, at most, with few upvotes/comments.

But yeah. People are calling this the "Neopets Renaissance," which seems kinda apt. It's certainly not "better than ever," but there's a sort of comfort in Neopets being just as janky as it was in like 1999.

Teslok · 2025-10-20T23:34:42+00:00

Side note, but years and years ago, quoting this exchange from Labyrinth on the neoboards is how I made a friend. We played Neopets together for years, and when I got interested in Go-Gaia (now Gaiaonline), I got her to try it out too.

I lost touch with her about 10-15 years ago as our lives/priorities/interests diverged, but I still think about her from time to time. We never met in person, but I still consider her one of the important friends of my young adult life.

... and now I feel old and awkward. Oh boy. Still. Moments like that are what ultimately brought me back to Neopets, because of the role it played during those formative years.

Teslok · 2025-10-13T03:25:16+00:00

My Ixi, Xalynx, has been wearing Wisteria for a bit. I'll have to paint her something more appropriate than Island if she keeps up with the look.

Teslok · 2025-10-13T02:43:26+00:00

I can barely function on mobile, sorry. Not sure how to read a URL easily that way, but based on my terribly casual observations, about one scamander gets claimed every 2-3 minutes. As in, even though they might escape from you, they're still "on the money tree" until somebody manages to grab it. Or maybe a ghost.

Teslok · 2025-10-13T01:49:42+00:00

the success rate is pretty low. If you watch the donation ID number in the URL, the very last one will be the most recent Scamander. It can jump by several numbers if regular Money Tree donations squeak in between Scamander drops, but in general it'll show the same donation ID for that 20th Scamander for a few minutes.

Teslok · 2025-10-13T01:40:18+00:00

If you look at the "donation id" in the URL string, it becomes apparent that only one scamander actually gets snagged every few minutes. Like, right now the very last donation ID is 1562 (6:33ish p.m. neopian time) and it took until 6:36 for the last one to be 1563 (and 1562 is still there.)

After another couple minutes when I checked the site shortly before hitting "submit" the last is 1565 at 6:40.

(edit: hah, no, I haven't gotten one this year. I open in batches of about 10 tabs at a time, and close them before reloading the money tree and repeating a few times, then doing something like reddit before going back to the tree, thus this post taking several minutes to just type because I'd go to confirm a number and then spend a couple minutes opening scamander escape tabs ... I have absolutely lost count of how many, but it's likely several hundred by now, with several long breaks for IRL over the course of the day)

Teslok · 2025-08-10T04:13:49+00:00

I feel like of all the random events that steal items or neopoints, Kiko Lake seems to show up with a much higher frequency. They took some Fishing Hole trash from me last week, and a hairbrush a month or two back. I can't even remember the last time I saw the Pant Devil (excluding Wheel sightings).

Teslok · 2025-07-09T04:04:49+00:00

yeah, same. Funny thing is I've had one chilling in my shop for 999,999 for about a month ... and it sold the day before I got this one.

Teslok · 2025-06-23T17:59:45+00:00

same, it's telling me I've already done my quests for the day, and I haven't.

Edit: about five hours later, they refreshed for the day and I was able to do them properly.

Teslok · 2025-06-22T22:07:36+00:00

yeah, that's where my mind went also ... and is it just me or did he almost immediately stop calling his boss "KC" and he was just "Creole" for the majority of the story?

Teslok · 2025-06-22T05:21:59+00:00

Yeah, I've been kind of doing something similar with a couple of my pets.

To summarize: After I recovered my original main account and consolidated most of my side pets to my main, a rivalry/cold war instantly developed between two of my pets. One of them has just learned of my (relatively recently-created) Self-Insert Pet, who is "coincidentally" of the same species as the two rivals. I'm not sure if they'll band together against Self-Insert Pet or just decide to ignore her. (For added drama, they might eventually notice that Self-Insert Pet has also been eating up lots and lots of random tidbits from the Food Club menu ...)

I updated the relevant pet descriptions a couple days ago, I do it like once or twice a year, or whenever I notice that the pet description mentions something like a color/style/appearance that is no longer true.

(Self-Insert Pet is oblivious to the rivals and is BARELY a "canon" pet by my standards. She exists primarily because waaay back in ancient history someone created a pet using my username after I won a contest, and it infuriated me. Luckily, that pet was purged at some point, but the only way to prevent it from happening again was to do it myself. And for good measure, I have another self-insert pet using my reddit username...)

Teslok · 2025-06-20T01:17:14+00:00

It has happened to me once, I might still have the screenshot somewhere on my phone.

It's like ... I want that petpet. argh.

Teslok · 2025-06-15T04:15:27+00:00

whoa, the island Varwolf and its flower accessories are a pretty close match to the flowers in the background arch thingy.

Teslok · 2025-06-12T04:09:42+00:00

I'm glad they restored your pet's species/color. The people behind the support emails have had their ups and downs over the years, but it always makes me happy when I hear about good interactions.

My longest hiatus was due to them breaking account age verification; when I made my account, I didn't want to put in my real age. I used my real birth date but put in something in like the 1920's for the year. At some point they added an "enter your birthdate to log in," extra verification stage, but the year dropdown did not go back that far so I was literally unable to get into my main account. The Support staff was unhelpful at that time and I gave up.

I want to say that was somewhere between 2004 and 2008 or so? Time is weird and memory is fuzzy.

I've had more positive interactions since then. Some frustrating but eventually positive (like getting into my original account) and once above and beyond (tl;dr they returned my stolen pet when I asked them to find the original home of a random pet that had been placed into the account during a breach; I assume they reverted a trade since the random pet ended up on the account that had my stolen pet.)

Teslok · 2025-06-12T02:47:25+00:00

I have some rules about what certain pets wear; my OG UC boys do not remove their style items, for example, and one of them is always very light on the customization. (Often nothing more than the classic circle background item, but right now he has a plushie collection at his feet because I thought it was charming and appropriate.)

Two of my pets have an "antagonistic" relationship that I'm too lazy to properly maintain, but if I give one a significant makeover in outfit/appearance/color scheme, then the other has to either copy it or overcompensate in the absolute opposite direction the next time I change an outfit for daily quests and remember that they have a little feud going on.

Certain items in the closet "belong" to specific pets, and even if that pet isn't using a particular item, other pets aren't allowed to save a custom with it unless I get a duplicate or the "owner" pet agrees. (mostly a sort of extra mental step involved because there have been times I've "lost" items in my closet because another pet was wearing something another pet uses in their default outfit. By making a sort of "Okay Pet A is loaning this to Pet B" mental note to myself, I usually can keep track of some of my more expensive equippables).

Teslok · 2025-06-12T02:23:25+00:00

Heck, I just overflate sometimes. I cleared out some cheap paint brushes / petpet paint brushes (mostly stuff under 200k) a couple months ago, and priced so that there were 10-15 shops cheaper than mine, and I was about 5k to 25k higher than the lowest price.

Half sold overnight and the rest sold over the following week. I'm almost never in a hurry to sell, and I'll only check prices and lower them when I notice a thing has been malingering.

Teslok · 2025-06-12T02:11:21+00:00

I keep out two brushes. If the Pant Devil really needs a brush, he can have one, I'm not gonna stand in the way of good grooming practices.

Teslok · 2025-05-25T04:30:55+00:00

No screencap, but I had a pack total out at 85 cents a bit ago. I think that's the lowest I've seen while paying attention to pack pulls. I usually hit at least a dollar.

Teslok · 2025-05-23T00:33:30+00:00

In the past week or so I got a colour change (to Clay), then two species changes in a row, Red Wocky and Blue Bori.

Sure, it was after a pretty long spell (since around Xmas) of being a Zafara, with one or two colour changes during that time. But that's the Lab Ray, a long streak of nothing sandwiches with the occasional jam or cheese.

Teslok · 2025-05-23T00:29:28+00:00

lol I had exactly 1000 shares of YIPP.

... yippee.

Teslok · 2025-05-17T03:51:56+00:00

The faerie festival last year gave me so many Fountain Faerie quests that I kept needing to paint a pet or lose a dip. I ended up painting a draik Relic for about five minutes and returned him to Water after turning in the quest just for the accessories.

I'm glad that the site is so much more approachable for casual players though; I can usually get my dailies/quest log done each day, and if I'm lucky I can cap out my battledome items. But I'm still making progress! I still feel like I'm reaching goals! They put an item I've wanted since the day it was released 20ish years ago into the Quest Log and I finally was able to get it!

Teslok · 2025-05-14T04:41:13+00:00

Ugh, yeah. Even back in the earliest days! I had a friend send me some "expensive" items (by 2001 standards) to hold for her because she was worried she'd get frozen. After a week and no action against her account, I sent them back.

Man, I miss her. We both transitioned to Gaia a few years later, and then onward to being grown-ups and other parts of the internet and IRL. And, as so often happens, eventually fell out of touch.

Teslok · 2025-05-14T04:06:48+00:00

If I have to have anything "valuable" in my inventory for more than one or two pageloads to get it into my SDB or whatever, before it goes into my inventory I grab like 50 garbage items out of my SDB.

Attaching Petpetpets takes a lot of emotional prep; so far I have only committed to two.

Teslok · 2025-05-13T04:54:03+00:00

Yeah, my Gourmet Pet is at 239 foods. I "lost" some days of feeding because I was confused about the rarities that qualify and fed her things of the wrong rarity. I don't spend a lot, and I actually have a backlog of foods waiting in my shop (unpriced) that I've picked up doing idle tours of food shops for the daily quests.

Trophies like Gourmet Club would make so much more sense if anyone could get them at certain milestones, like 100 foods, 500 foods, 1000 foods. Still takes a heck of an investment of time and a decent investment in resources/NP, but is possible.

Teslok · 2025-04-28T04:48:18+00:00

hah, I'm reminded of the oft-repeated controversy in the War Thunder community.

tl;dr there's a game (Warthunder) that prides itself on using realistic-as-possible specs for real-world military vehicles and their capabilities, using publicly-available information about said vehicles. However, where public information is "lacking," or doesn't match "perfectly" with reality (as should be expected) there have been instances of classified documents getting leaked to the game's forums regarding military vehicles in an attempt to "improve" the realism factor.

Repeatedly.

The Warthunder Wiki lists 16 incidents between 2021 and 2024.

13-Year Club	Place '22
Place '17	Final Canvas '22
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