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Ugh, yes. People trolling and being generally rude on a Nickelodeon-run pet site? Do they really have nothing better to do? Free slaps to them all.

Tattoos, eh? I don't really have that strong of an opinion on tattoos either way, however I do completely disagree with Mr. Pompous Parsons. Tattoos are a choice and are gotten for many many reasons. My aunt has a celtic tattoo on her arm and has had it for yeaaaars. To this day, I don't think she'd look quite right without it. My old best friend's mother got a tattoo after she had a stillborn as a tribute to the baby and my current best friend has a tattoo as a tribute to her sister, who was stillborn also. MY father is contemplating getting a tattoo in memory of my great grandmother, and I've always thought that tattoos can be beautiful. I also think they can be tacky and in poor taste. It just depends. And as for his point about people regretting it when they're old, I recently saw a woman who was somewhere in her 60s or 70s who had almost every inch of her body covered in tats and she looked fabulous. Or 50 year old biker men with tattoos that still somehow look awesome. So whatever, tattoos are a choice and it's up to the person to decide what is considered "tacky" to them. All I know is that I may be getting a tattoo in the near future to commemorate my love for the moon. :P

*throws up hands* There are so many things wrong with your argument I don't even know where to begin picking it apart. I've seen many people, mostly white cis het men, complain about stuff like this. Crying about how women no longer need feminism because they're the ones doing the oppressing and whining about how the poor white man is becoming the new oppressed minority. That's not how it works. The things you are complaining about with double standards is an indirect result of the patriarchy. As Anime (and a few others said), the double standard exists because men view femininity as weakness, it is 'less than' masculinity, it is inferior. So a man 'sinking down' to the level of femininity is worthy of ridicule because he is suddenly 'less than' a man. With a single stroke of femininity, masculinity crumbles in the eye of society. I find it ironic. But whatever. I'm not here for your cries of unfairness, because it is usually that people like you would like to 'fix' the patriarchy so that you no longer have any ill effects from it, while still keeping it in place to hold others down.
 
"Of course, I could create a whole other topic about how minorities have switched, and while minorities like blacks have fought for equal rights, they got a bit more, and now white males are actually forced into being minorities, but I'll save that for later..."
I think you should keep that post to yourself before I rain down my feminist fury on you. Men, especially white men, are not minorities. Y'all don't even know what true oppression is but you're so quick to claim it. Get outta here with that nonsense.

I was inspired by all the other pretty/shiny nail arts to do one of my own.
 

*Before and after I ruined my nails by trying to add 'clouds'. And I would put the pictures under a spoiler tag, but I have absolutely no clue how.
 
And your nails look awesome, ~Emily~. I thought about getting the strips before, but decided against it because I didn't know how well it would turn out.

Happy 8th birthday, The Daily Neopets! To celebrate, we've redesigned our entire site from the ground up. There are dozens and dozens of new features, which you can check out at the What's New page.
 
 


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Just wondering if you know that 50 Shades of Grey literally started out on the internet as Twilight fanfiction. The author just changed the names and a few details when she decided to publish it. It doesn't take much of a stretch at all to see the glaring similarities in stories. I think it takes more of a stretch to point out the differences.

I am...very bothered by the amount of people who are saying that it's offensiveness is 'harmless'. Actually, at the end of the day, it's not about 'offense'. Its about blatant racism/homophobia/fatphobia/etc. being wrapped up as a 'joke'. I hate the excuse of "well I/it/they make fun of everyone equally so I'm not racist/sexist/generally a bigot'. That's not how it works. It just makes you 'equally' ignorant. Why don't a few of you go read up on representation in media and how it can, indeed, be harmful. Just because something is in the context of a joke, that doesn't suddenly make it okay and harmless.
 
When I was 13-15 I liked Family Guy and the like, but then I grew up. And I've never liked South Park. They are trash.

Honestly, I hate them. Hate them so much. I know they're supposed to satire, and a commentary on our society, but I feel that it is poorly done. I am hugely offended or disgusted every time I watch an episode. One of the perks I found to leaving an old job was that I wouldn't be working with teenage boys that would watch it in the break room while I was on my lunch. So. Much. Hate.

Nope. Everyone this year who challenged Chadley but only beat Abi immediately sank from Gold/Silver to a medal.
 
Anywho, as other people stated, the day-of completion reward should remain as simply a bonus instead of something that would give a huge advantage. I took more than 1 day to beat Chadley at jolly jugglers and Goparokko. It'd be very irritating for me to have taken all that time and effort to beat him when it would've been more rewarding and easier to just beat Abi on day-of-release. That said, if you tweaked the points system a bit, I think it would be waaaay better than the system in place now. People shouldn't be able to beat Chadley/AAA everyday on release day just to get a participant trophy because they got suspended for the last day or something. It is also kinda irritating how some people can cruise along with Abi for the entire DD and just get 1 AAA score and be on par with people like me who busted our butts trying to get as many Chadley/AAA scores as we could (for bragging rights and personal satisfaction).
 
I think the points system should keep all the current trophy tiers in place, with Gold being nothing but AAA's scores. Silver would be a bit of a safety net for those people who put in the time to get all AAA scores but missed a day or 2, but it would also require more effort than just 1 AAA score in a sea of Abi challenges. Bronze would catch those people who did mostly Abi challenges with maybe 1-3 AAA scores. It would also be there for people who started out with nothing but AAA but then couldn't do the rest of the Daily Dare for whatever reasons, or vice-versa. The medal would just be the "An attempt was made" prize for people.

TNT specifically added the day-of prize system because under the old system, people who beat Abi every single day got better prizes than those who beat AAA in every game by the end of the DD (which is much, much harder). In your system, these people would tie, which seems horribly unfair. I don't think people should be punished for not completing day-of (beyond not getting the bonus prize).
 
That being said, people knew exactly how things would work and exactly when it would end. If you knew you were going to not have internet access during the final day(s), you could set your participation based on that knowledge (or find a way to get internet access to at least do the dare -- note that the last day's dare took less than a minute to complete, even against AAA). I think TNT could fix this issue by extending the end of the competition a couple of days for "catch-up" with no new games being released, but a lot of people would complain. And this is how every single other site event works. I got a crappy trophy in AotA because I missed one of the last days (not the last day, 3 before) because my hard drive died. I went to the library the next day to complete the requirements, but there was no way for me to catch up (TNT allowed people who missed the first day to catch up, but not those who missed the second day). It sucked, but it wasn't really TNT's fault (and they've adjusted things since then). In other cases, an event ended while people were evacuating or without power due to a hurricane. Again, not much TNT can do to work around these things. It's the nature of MMPORPGs (or whatever the acronym is).
 
In the past, if you challenged AAA and didn't beat him (but beat Abi's score), you'd get credit for an Abi win in the final trophy standings (you just would forfeit the prizes for that day by choosing the wrong challenger). I'm assuming it worked the same this year. So I don't know how it could be more fair, without adding in too many trophy levels.
 
I'm not trying to be unsympathetic to those who couldn't do one of the challenges for whatever reason and got stuck with participant -- I know how much that sucks when you put the work in until circumstances kept you from completing. But as much as it sucks, you got the trophy TNT said you would get for that level of effort.

What's saddest to me is the fact that people can claim the shooting "wasn't about race at all," when it's so obvious that even if you give Zimmerman the benefit of the doubt and assume he really was just a nice guy looking out for his community~~ - if it had been a white boy walking home in the rain Zimmerman wouldn't have been suspicious at all, plain and simple.
 
That's what really gets me - America really is a different place for nonwhite people. I can't even begin to imagine.

You are more than welcome to call me that. :) But just because there's some 'reason' behind his personality, it doesn't suddenly make him okay. And coltom, you need to slow your roll. Your comments are incredibly kink-shaming. And it seems to me that you are shaming lifestyle/bedroom choices that you know very little about. Again, BDSM is based on being safe, sane and consensual. If both parties agree to the bondage or whatever, then there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

I'm so close to rank 22 I can taste it. Just need to barrel through 66 more rank points and then I can go back to not suffering through 6+ hours a day on Neopets.

Sounds fun, but that's a ton of calculating. I'm making the ballparkiest of ballpark estimates.

Urgh I'm soooo close to Double All-Star! just three more ranks...as far as this page:
 
http://www.neopets.com/~absolutecorruption?t=4s
 
I'm now trying for "#1 TM Player" by the end of the tournament. Wish me luck!

Rank 20 finally. I was starting to get tired, but now I'm motivated to reach my original goal of 22. I'd love to have another bye day (or 2).

There's too many goals on the site, it'll be shut down before I accomplish them all. I don't even want to think about this question.

There seems to be a lack of neopets nailart! I used the war as an excuse to do some. Here's my attempt at the Sway nailart.
 

I know, the pictures are blurry and the insignia is hard to see, but it's there!

Since people are having a hard time grasping the concept of being able to debate without attacking one another for another persons opposing beliefs, I am locking this thread.
 
I highly suggest that everyone looks over the rules for the Debate Forum if you wish to continue participating in future debates.

Has the team that you're rooting for to win the cup changed? It has for me. I'm totally hoping for TY to lose against Altador and for Altador to win the cup. Nothing against you dedicated Tyrannians, but...and no it's not just because you have Neo[Removed]. It's because you have them bumping up your scores a ridiculous amount and some of your members are being terrible about it on the boards. I know ya'll didn't ask for them, but to deny their presence and then shove your wins in everyone's faces has made me start to root for your downfall.
 
 
(yea. I know not all of you are being jerks, but it doesn't make me feel any better those members who are terrible)
 
Anywho, time to break my fingers maxing out SOSD.

Now that I think about it, this topic is probably just a ploy to figure out the best people to kidnap and hold for ransom. :P

I hate it with the fire of a thousand suns. I hate it so much that, until today, I haven't touched it. And even trying to suffer through it for the sake of my team, I only got through 8 games. I only plan to play it on days when it has bonus points and as you can see, I won't do much. I think part of my loathing comes from the fact that the very first year I participated in the AC, I mostly played SLSL.

Sounds fun, but that's a ton of calculating. I'm making the ballparkiest of ballpark estimates.

Sounds fun, but that's a ton of calculating. I'm making the ballparkiest of ballpark estimates.

I got a letter for jury duty a few months ago. I actually want to do it, as I'm fascinated by criminology and psychoanalytic theory, but I'm a full-time student, so they usually don't call us.
 
I think it's a good way of ensuring the trial is as fair as possible, being judged by a jury of your randomly selected peers. However, for many people, it's kind of a pain. I'm not sure how it works in other places, but in Ontario, if you need to travel or miss extended periods of work due to the trial, you're only reimbursed a fraction of your costs/missed wages (I think it's 60%, or something). So for someone living paycheck to paycheck, or someone who can't afford to miss work for an extended period of time, this could be a huge problem.
 
As far as benefits for the court, there's the aforementioned "fair trial" aspect. In a perverse way, I think it also alleviates the court system of a little responsibility as well. If the jury reaches a controversial verdict, the court system gets to deflect at least some of the blame for what may be considered an unfair sentence or verdict.
 
Though I do think it's more beneficial in terms of a fair trial, the way it's set up doesn't exactly inspire people to want to do it, if even for the aspect of having to miss work, potentially travelling in bad weather, disrupting personal plans/events, etc. If people were given more choice (like you got to select days/times of the year that would be more convenient for you) or there was better compensation, I think a lot less people would resent being called to do it.