_wickedwolf_

I was reading the fine print on the Expellibox this morning, and I saw that you can't put wearable items on invisible pets. That's bogus! I feel like that would be so much fun to just have floating hats and stuff!!
 
Is this true? Does anyone have an invisible pet?

I think it's less about the gore, and more about relation. At some level, humans need to be able to relate to something in order to really like/admire it. I think that life nowadays (though I guess I really can't speak for any other time, since I haven't lived it) is absolutely zombie-fied. Wake up, go to work/school, check phone/Facebook/Twitter throughout the day, go home, more work/schoolwork, go to sleep. Repeat forever.
I personally feel the life being sucked out of me. And just like being a zombie, there's no real escape. Once you're in the system you have to stay in it until you die. You can;t expect to live a half-decent life with medical care, reliable shelter, and a constant source of food without buying into this system and working for money until you can't work anymore.
There's less and less time for fun, I feel. Sure, lots of people waste their income by spending it on frivolous items (the newest electronics, a new, ridiculous car, a giant mansion for them and their dog), but a lot of people need to work all the time just to get by, just to pay their bills. It's really unfortunate.
So on a whole (sorry, this ended up being kind of a rant on society lol), I think that "zombie culture" is really just an expression of people feeling like they're going through the motions in life. Like if they just stumble on to do what they're expected to do they'll survive another day.
I think that deep down, we all feel like a zombie.

I think it's less about the gore, and more about relation. At some level, humans need to be able to relate to something in order to really like/admire it. I think that life nowadays (though I guess I really can't speak for any other time, since I haven't lived it) is absolutely zombie-fied. Wake up, go to work/school, check phone/Facebook/Twitter throughout the day, go home, more work/schoolwork, go to sleep. Repeat forever.
I personally feel the life being sucked out of me. And just like being a zombie, there's no real escape. Once you're in the system you have to stay in it until you die. You can;t expect to live a half-decent life with medical care, reliable shelter, and a constant source of food without buying into this system and working for money until you can't work anymore.
There's less and less time for fun, I feel. Sure, lots of people waste their income by spending it on frivolous items (the newest electronics, a new, ridiculous car, a giant mansion for them and their dog), but a lot of people need to work all the time just to get by, just to pay their bills. It's really unfortunate.
So on a whole (sorry, this ended up being kind of a rant on society lol), I think that "zombie culture" is really just an expression of people feeling like they're going through the motions in life. Like if they just stumble on to do what they're expected to do they'll survive another day.
I think that deep down, we all feel like a zombie.

I think it's less about the gore, and more about relation. At some level, humans need to be able to relate to something in order to really like/admire it. I think that life nowadays (though I guess I really can't speak for any other time, since I haven't lived it) is absolutely zombie-fied. Wake up, go to work/school, check phone/Facebook/Twitter throughout the day, go home, more work/schoolwork, go to sleep. Repeat forever.
I personally feel the life being sucked out of me. And just like being a zombie, there's no real escape. Once you're in the system you have to stay in it until you die. You can;t expect to live a half-decent life with medical care, reliable shelter, and a constant source of food without buying into this system and working for money until you can't work anymore.
There's less and less time for fun, I feel. Sure, lots of people waste their income by spending it on frivolous items (the newest electronics, a new, ridiculous car, a giant mansion for them and their dog), but a lot of people need to work all the time just to get by, just to pay their bills. It's really unfortunate.
So on a whole (sorry, this ended up being kind of a rant on society lol), I think that "zombie culture" is really just an expression of people feeling like they're going through the motions in life. Like if they just stumble on to do what they're expected to do they'll survive another day.
I think that deep down, we all feel like a zombie.

They are available throughout Lutari Day, released in small batches. If you keep refreshing at the Create-A-Pet page on Lutari Day, the option to create one will show up sooner or later in the 'Available Limited Edition Pets' area, and you should be able to get one easily. ^_^ Good luck!
 
They're also available through the Lab Ray, but you'd have to be lucky to have that happen.

Whenever that happens to me I have to uninstall and then reinstall Adblock. Then it usually works just fine. :-)

(In reference to the avatar titled "Pteri - Darigan", awarded for visiting the pet lookup of a Darigan Pteri that is exactly 644 days old)
 
One of the avatars I've been most desperate to collect has been the Darigan Pteri avatar. The fact that it's so difficult to come across, and yet is owned by so many people really pecks at my OCD :worried:
So because I couldn't find any information on a Darigan Pteri that was going to be eligible for the avatar anytime soon (all of the ones listed on most websites are either far too old, or far too young), I made it a mission to find one for myself. It didn't take very long, but I had to click through quite a few profiles before I found one. I completed my search a few weeks ago but I made a promise to myself that when it came near the time for the Pteri to be old enough, I'd make a topic on TDN about it to help others that don't have the avatar to also collect it. I felt that this was a very small thing to do to give back to a website that has helped me collect so many avatars that I needed myself.
 
Here is the information that you need:
 
sauraimi the Darigan Pteri - 640 Days Old as of 12:00 AM (Neopets Time), November 17, 2013
 
For anyone that is unfortunate enough to just miss it, or forget to visit her page on the day of eligibility (something I'm scared I might do myself), here is another one I found that is also not too long from being eligible:
 
Alleavia the Darigan Pteri - 565 Days Old as of 12:00 AM (Neopets Time), November 17, 2013
 
I'm too tired right now to do the math for Alleavia (anyone else is welcome to), but sauraimi's eligibility date (the day she turns 644 days old) is going to be Thursday, November 21, 2013 (in four days).

Honestly, I just think zombies are cool xD I love B-movies, so for me, zombies are no different than giant spiders or Godzilla or Frankenstein's monster, entertaining and fictional.
 
You definitely can find cultural themes and allusions within zombie culture (the idea of dystopia and a degenerating of society are prominent, which as a discourse has existed for centuries in philosophy and other studies), which I think is a draw for other people. I choose to look at it purely as a form of entertainment.
 
P.S There's a really cool zombie documentary on American Netflix called "The Truth Behind Zombies." It discusses the various ways that people claim real zombies could exist. For those who are fearful of a real zombie, it pretty much proves that our traditional notion of "zombie" is almost completely implausible :P

I think the big thing about zombies is: they strip away the normality of things.
 
Like wickedwolf said, everyday life is monatonous and expected and really does not lend itself to being blunt or open and up-front. Get a zombie horde? Can't do that anymore! Your life is in constant danger, your loved ones are in constant danger and you may have to do unspeakable things to survive/let others survive. So what do you do? Who will you become? What are your loved ones really like under pressure? How do human relationship dynamics change in the face of such a danger?
 
I think a really good presentation of it is given in The Nostalgia Critic's "Why Do We Love Zombies?" video. You can find it on YouTube or tgwtg.com. WARNING: Strong language and crude humor abound with him. I don't remember anything particularly bad with the zombie video and the one on YouTube should be available for all age groups so it's not that bad.
 
But there are a lot of people who ask that question and a lot of it comes down to (from what I've seen): what happens to a human when the system breaks down and they have their chance to step up?

I think it's less about the gore, and more about relation. At some level, humans need to be able to relate to something in order to really like/admire it. I think that life nowadays (though I guess I really can't speak for any other time, since I haven't lived it) is absolutely zombie-fied. Wake up, go to work/school, check phone/Facebook/Twitter throughout the day, go home, more work/schoolwork, go to sleep. Repeat forever.
I personally feel the life being sucked out of me. And just like being a zombie, there's no real escape. Once you're in the system you have to stay in it until you die. You can;t expect to live a half-decent life with medical care, reliable shelter, and a constant source of food without buying into this system and working for money until you can't work anymore.
There's less and less time for fun, I feel. Sure, lots of people waste their income by spending it on frivolous items (the newest electronics, a new, ridiculous car, a giant mansion for them and their dog), but a lot of people need to work all the time just to get by, just to pay their bills. It's really unfortunate.
So on a whole (sorry, this ended up being kind of a rant on society lol), I think that "zombie culture" is really just an expression of people feeling like they're going through the motions in life. Like if they just stumble on to do what they're expected to do they'll survive another day.
I think that deep down, we all feel like a zombie.

I think it's less about the gore, and more about relation. At some level, humans need to be able to relate to something in order to really like/admire it. I think that life nowadays (though I guess I really can't speak for any other time, since I haven't lived it) is absolutely zombie-fied. Wake up, go to work/school, check phone/Facebook/Twitter throughout the day, go home, more work/schoolwork, go to sleep. Repeat forever.
I personally feel the life being sucked out of me. And just like being a zombie, there's no real escape. Once you're in the system you have to stay in it until you die. You can;t expect to live a half-decent life with medical care, reliable shelter, and a constant source of food without buying into this system and working for money until you can't work anymore.
There's less and less time for fun, I feel. Sure, lots of people waste their income by spending it on frivolous items (the newest electronics, a new, ridiculous car, a giant mansion for them and their dog), but a lot of people need to work all the time just to get by, just to pay their bills. It's really unfortunate.
So on a whole (sorry, this ended up being kind of a rant on society lol), I think that "zombie culture" is really just an expression of people feeling like they're going through the motions in life. Like if they just stumble on to do what they're expected to do they'll survive another day.
I think that deep down, we all feel like a zombie.