robyn's neoblog

designer and ts fan mentally stuck in 2003

[elmaxlys]

I got an ad for top surgery. And the ad in itself seems to come from a very sweet sentiment! But the URL at the bottom is sending me.

Boobs. Are they worth the trouble?

[adobe-outdesign]

alright I think these are all the best ones

[crimeronan]

god i wish i wouldn't have to explain the intricacies of the neopets economy to you guys to give the full context for this but. the new neopets team that took over from jumpstart pledged that they were going to curb the inflation of rare items, which is great because a lot of rare items are worth literally hundreds of millions of neopoints, they are unbuyable unless you've been playing actively for 20 years. they did this earlier with a site festival that included random loot boxes, some of which had Unbelievably Fucking Rare And Precious items worth 200 million neopoints apiece.

well.

today they have gone a step further. by releasing this year's trick-or-treat bags. and having the trick-or-treat bags be stuffed to the brim with unbelievably fucking rare stamps, weapons, paint brushes, defense magic, and other unbuyables. (all prohibitively expensive and in-high-demand types of items.)

jellyneo, the premier neopets website, has recorded prices of some items plummeting from 2,000,000 neopoints to 4,000 neopoints IN THE LAST THREE HOURS. this is when most people haven't even heard about the event or OPENED THEIR BAGS YET.

and of course. cherry on top. 20-year-old account holders are crytyping on the site events neoboard about how mean and cruel it is to make rare stamps part of the prize pool, because their entire identity hinges on being part of the neopian bourgeoisie, and they are having MELTDOWNS over their assets being devalued until they're part of the lowly proletariat.

this is a children's game for children btw.

none of the money is real.

i'm having such a good time.

[omelet-youfinish]

My absolute favourite thing about Neopets is the unhinged economy and how badly TNT have managed it in the past.

Like can you believe that they allowed an illegal black market economy that exploited bugs in their site code? And they did this and allowed other companies to profit because they didn't want to sell flat .pngs themselves, even when their site was failing and they badly needed the revenue???

That site is an economists nightmare or wet dream, I'm not sure which

[crittaslink]

kitty need blunt NOW

[clearlyaginger]

Beyong

[manicpixietboy]

I'm sorry, what???????

[omelet-youfinish]

you don't know until you try

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Protected by mama

[lemedstudent2021]

tumblr let me reblog ads i beg

lil guy!!

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So obviously I went to the website and it's just some lady's blog??? Loomis is indeed featured regularly, here's my favourite post with him:

What a great handsome boy.

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Further updates no one asked for:

So I left a comment on one of Surlycakes' posts, asking what prompted her to run ads for her blog. To date, my best guess was that maybe a certain ad budget was included with her WordPress subscription for hosting the blog, so she just picked a random picture and headline, not expecting any visitors.

And she confirmed that!

This could actually give us some insight into Tumblr ads in general. Since they're so unhinged, I assumed that maybe they were created by bots who were just really bad at putting together ads? But then who would pay for them, if there were no returns. This might help to explain the issue. It's possible that the ads running on Tumblr are so unhinged for this combination of reasons, plus the fact that Tumblr ads are so poorly targeted. Whereas other main advertising platforms (Google, Meta) do a really good job of targeting ads. Regardless, all hail Sir Loomis, a truly perfect cat.

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ChatGPT still on its ass-kissing bullshit I see

Asked for help iterating a project and organizing the necessary information for development and it spit out this:

[lemedstudent2021]

tumblr let me reblog ads i beg

lil guy!!

[omelet-youfinish]

So obviously I went to the website and it's just some lady's blog??? Loomis is indeed featured regularly, here's my favourite post with him:

What a great handsome boy.

[adobe-outdesign]

We really need to take a moment to give Neopets' petpages a shout-out

Hundreds of pages full of oftentimes niche useful information or helpful resources

Oftentimes fun layouts and designs with personality, harkening back to the pre-mobile internet days

Unironically taught an entire generation of kids HTML and CSS

Hosted right on the site so it's extremely easy to get started

Other users are nice enough to make layouts and graphics for everyone to use

Last bastion of the internet pre-enshittification (along with Neocities)

While we're at it, here's a few of my fav pages:

Quality Petpages, Kalux Directory: Petpage directories!

Dream Colors Directory: Fake pet designs and edits!

Silent Serenity, That Kills Me, Sygyzy, Alula, Hime's CSS, Jinx: Pre-made templates for userlookups and petpages!

Filter Solutions, Trudial's Coding Help: Coding help and troubleshooting!

Neopian Times Community Feedback, Neopian Times FAQ: Neopian Times and writing resources!

Owls, Valisar: NC trading values!

SeasonalAttackP, Battle On!, Battledome NP Rewards: Battledome info!

[omelet-youfinish]

DAE remember informational petpages from the early 00s that were filled with info on like, how to save the rainforest or stop the ice caps from melting?

I really did my part when I was 9

[heedra]

thought you all should know that neopets is currently experiencing a sitewide bug that prevents anyone from doing nearly anything on the site because it says that none of us have gender

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tnt, iconic nb allies

[xierru]

a literal chococat!!

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Neopets Pride paintbrushes 🖌️

[masterhallmark]

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Neopets ISO

Looking for:

5-7L floral, colorful, toy/plushy, ocean, woodland themed names (misspellings OK, or French aesthetic words) for permies (see below permies for an idea of what I'm looking for)

BD pets (1000ish HP) (basic or WN, see above) with above style names

My current permies are named Captieuse, Algei, Oseani, Cielles

Offering FFQ customs / unlimited NP customs - nm me: stereofidelica or chat on tumblr Can draw your pets too as a side gift, if you message me here on Tumblr!

💖

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