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Lu: 7.5k (-0.4k)

Bri: 3.1k (unch.)

Eo: 10.3k (-0.2k)

Har: 3.2k (-0.1k)

Main: 3.1k (+0.05k)

Mau: 3k (-0.2k)

Orn: 3.15k (-0.25k)

Tai-Kai: 4k (-0.15k)

Vo: 6.2k (+0.1k)

Zei: 4.25k (-0.05k)



Total: 47.8k (DOWN 1.2k in 10 days)



Mag: 7k (+0.3k)

Sho: 7.8k (+1.9k)

Kew: 16.9k (+0.7k)

Vux: 14.8k (-0.15k)

Cui: 18k (+1.3k)

Zed: 32.9k (+0.9k)



Total: 97.2k (UP 4.95k in 10 days)



Ouch, Ninja trainers, ouch.



No video today.

According to this Neopian Times Editorial, it's not random. But nobody has figured out the exact method of getting the avatar yet...

I love the archivist from the Altador Plot. Librarians are the best.

Transatlanticism, by Death Cab for Cutie. I've known it for years, but only got addicted a few days ago... It's such a sad song :(

All the Rowboats by Regina Spektor.


She's one of my favorite singers anyway, but a few days ago, this song just got stuck in my head. The problem when I find new favorite songs is I listen to them so much, I start to get sick of them.

I haven't had this or heard of it, but I would say the best thing to do is go see a doctor. That's not really something you would want to mess around with.
 
I'd make an appointment with your optometrist as soon as you can. It might not be anything to be worried about, but it's best to have a professional check and be sure.

Speaking of poses, it's also terrible how the grey pets changed for conversion.

OK everybody, prepare to meet my new pet CelestialArcana!
 
http://www.neopets.com/petlookup.phtml?pet=CelestialArcana

Speaking of poses, it's also terrible how the grey pets changed for conversion.

Oh my goodness, the woodland Tonu makes a lot more sense now that you've said "birch tree".

Nope, I think you're in really good company with that.
I've played them both for the avatars, and I got the bronze trophies. I decided that I wanted to upgrade them both to gold though, which was pretty silly. XD I'm finishing off NQ1 on Insane now- still in the Jungle Ruins. *sigh*
 
I don't know if this will help you at all, but with NQ2, to make up for the fact that it's longer than the original NQ, they give you additional people to play as, which makes the game easier. But yeah, it still sucks.
 
I tend to either watch a movie or listen to audio books or something like that while I'm playing it- keeps my mind occupied, so I'm not driven completely mad with boredom.

I actually like the plainer mutant pets more. While the fancier ones clearly have more detail to them, the plainer ones are more consistent with the feel of the site (at least back when they were introduced), and my idea of a "mutant", which is more "awkwardly deformed" than "demonic and evil-looking".

I actually like the plainer mutant pets more. While the fancier ones clearly have more detail to them, the plainer ones are more consistent with the feel of the site (at least back when they were introduced), and my idea of a "mutant", which is more "awkwardly deformed" than "demonic and evil-looking".

Oh my goodness, the woodland Tonu makes a lot more sense now that you've said "birch tree".

Oh my goodness, the woodland Tonu makes a lot more sense now that you've said "birch tree".

I hope it's ok for me to post here even though the thread is a month old - it's on the front page so hopefully it's ok.
 
I LOVE some "low value" coloured pets, I think they're underrated. Some of my favourites:
 
Snow

Snow Grundos are awesome. Look at those carrots in his antennae. Isn't that just cool? Yes. Snow Yurbles are just plain pretty. I also like Snow Ogrins a bit and I've thought about painting my Ogrin as Snow while saving up to make him a mutant.
 
Tyrannian
I love almost all Tyrannian pets. My ultimate goal for my Koi is to make him/her Woodland but I've thought about Tyrannian too. I have a Tyrannian Elephante and it's the best, because woolly mammoths are the greatest (fact).
 
Spotted
People have posted their favourite spotted pets already so I won't repeat it but I really like that they look like real animals.
 
Custard
I like the custard pets especially Kau and Ruki. I don't know why people hate custard pets so much.
 
Swamp Gas
Just like custard, they get way too much undeserved hate. They look like badass swamp monsters.
 
I'm not even going to mention Biscuit pets because my Biscuit Yurble is one of my favourites, I think it's a fun colour. And I like rainbow in general.

When I say "low value" I was referring to the whole trade craze and the mass amounts of colors no one seems to want. So value being in terms of trading, rather than actual price tag. Magma is hard to obtain, but there are few people who would value magma pets as easy to trade.
 
Dimensional is another color with an expensive price tag that isn't well liked, as well as Fire. But look at these babies!
 

I really love checkered pets. My Jetsam was really cheap but its my dreamy :wub_anim:
 

Hooray for unappreciated inexpensive paint brush colors!
 
Some striped pets are unique-looking:

Some of the Christmas-painted pets look a bit ... much, but some of them look very nice without their pb clothes, like the Ruki, Uni, Peophin, and Bori (which I would post pics of, if I knew how to). Other Christmas pets look neat just as they are:

My personal favorite is the Cloud Gnorbu:

I like most of the older Mutants, they were simple but got across what they needed to get across. The Lenny, Lupe (not the UC one, the converted looks nicer), Ixi, Gelert, Skeith, Mynci...those are amazing designs. I like the Mutant Acara...but I think it would be better suited as a whole different color...some sorta space demon. It doesn't look "mutant." As for the Poogle, it's awful. Looks like some sort of rock demon, and there's too much going on. Just because you slap a bunch of detail on something doesn't make it good. It doesn't have much depth to it. The Acara is much more simple and more pleasing to look at. In design, it's better to have a balance of detail and negative space for something that's more pleasing to the eye. That Poogle barely has any negative space where the eye can "rest." Wayyyy too busy.
 
Some of the newer Mutants are awesome though, like the Chomby. The Lutari is nice too but I think the shading is a little too much. But I think a lot of the newer ones go a little too overboard.
 
That's why some Maractite pets look better than others.
These are way too busy and look terrible:

I dunno what's going on with that Cybunny. The shading is so off and the head looks pasted on. The Kougra missed out on something creative, the artist should've made the stripes into the Maractite swirls instead of pasting the swirls over the stripes. Missed opportunity.
You can barely see the Skeith's arms.
 
Compared to a lot nicer looking Maractites:

Not nearly as busy, you can still make out the parts on the Neopet, and a nice balance of the darker base shade to the lighter swirls.
 
That's why I wish some of the TNT artists would stop thinking that an overload of detail = good, because it really doesn't.

I actually like the plainer mutant pets more. While the fancier ones clearly have more detail to them, the plainer ones are more consistent with the feel of the site (at least back when they were introduced), and my idea of a "mutant", which is more "awkwardly deformed" than "demonic and evil-looking".

I actually like the plainer mutant pets more. While the fancier ones clearly have more detail to them, the plainer ones are more consistent with the feel of the site (at least back when they were introduced), and my idea of a "mutant", which is more "awkwardly deformed" than "demonic and evil-looking".

I actually like the plainer mutant pets more. While the fancier ones clearly have more detail to them, the plainer ones are more consistent with the feel of the site (at least back when they were introduced), and my idea of a "mutant", which is more "awkwardly deformed" than "demonic and evil-looking".

I actually like the plainer mutant pets more. While the fancier ones clearly have more detail to them, the plainer ones are more consistent with the feel of the site (at least back when they were introduced), and my idea of a "mutant", which is more "awkwardly deformed" than "demonic and evil-looking".

I actually like the plainer mutant pets more. While the fancier ones clearly have more detail to them, the plainer ones are more consistent with the feel of the site (at least back when they were introduced), and my idea of a "mutant", which is more "awkwardly deformed" than "demonic and evil-looking".