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It all links back to one very simple thing that has dominated our culture for far, far too long:
 
Being female is seen as "weak" while being male is seen as "strong".
 
As such, it becomes okay for a woman to do things seen as "for men" because she's "moving up" and "acting stronger", while a man doing things that are "for women" is "moving down" and "being weak". And it's a horrible double standard, and total bull crap, but that's the mindset behind that particular reaction.
 
Really, it shouldn't matter what anyone likes or wants to do and no one should be ostracized for doing anything they enjoy doing (provided they're not harming someone else, obvs)...

Heh, if you're amused by Metroid's age comment: Ian and I are both 23.
 
Thank you to everyone for your comments. :D It's awesome people like you that keep us working on the site. ^_^

10 years goes by so fast! I've been a member for about 6 years and a staff member for 5, but in some ways, it feels like time has gone by so fast!
 
It was such a great experience being a member here and I jumped at the chance to apply for staff and it's been such an amazing experience, helping out with the site and forums and getting to work with all of the great staffers, past and present.
 
I've met so many great people here and I've met two of my closet friends here.

Congratulations, Ian, and the TDN Team! Happy 10th! May there be 10 years more, (or more more), of wonderful birthdays! Thank you, Ian, and TDN Team, for all of the hard work and for providing this great site, so we may all enjoy and be able to chat about Neopets! Woo-Hoo! (*Throws Confetti*)

I also was unable to record something in time but I wanted to take a moment post my congratulations!
 
Way to go TDN. I can't believe it's been 10 full years & I'm happy to have been a part of some of them.
 
TJ

Happy Birthday TDN!
 
With my very messed up schedule, I did not have time to record anything but I still wanted to wish this website all the best for the upcoming years!
 
Cheers!
 
:jerrypteri:

In case you didn't know, it's The Daily Neopets 10th birthday! Happy birthday, The Daily Neopets! Head over to the front page of TDN to watch a special birthday video from our team members.

 

I haven't gotten it yet and I'm below that number, and I DEFINITELY didn't donate each day. If I get it at 125 we'll know for sure. :D

They didn't specify very well, did they? Any item with the category "School" can be donated. If you bring up an item in your inventory you'll see a "Type" field in the information. Anything that says "School" there will qualify. This is generally notebooks, folders, pencils, ect. Be careful though, if an item is r101 it's type "Special" and will not count even if it's a relevant kind of item (such as notebooks from old Advents). You can also sort your SDB by type. Selecting "School" there will bring up the relevant items (though again, take care about r101 things).

I just got a Lost Desert Draik Egg from donating a bunch of hoarded books in my SBD. 
 
I think I'm in shock. 

They didn't specify very well, did they? Any item with the category "School" can be donated. If you bring up an item in your inventory you'll see a "Type" field in the information. Anything that says "School" there will qualify. This is generally notebooks, folders, pencils, ect. Be careful though, if an item is r101 it's type "Special" and will not count even if it's a relevant kind of item (such as notebooks from old Advents). You can also sort your SDB by type. Selecting "School" there will bring up the relevant items (though again, take care about r101 things).

I did some checking, and yes, 5 is the upper limit. So when donating, the first item can be whatever, but after that, the rarity of the next item must be between the rarity of the item before it, and that rarity plus 5 inclusive.
 
So, if r is the rarity of the item preceding this one, and n is the rarity of the current item to be added:
r ≤ n ≤ r+5
 
And the dropdowns will helpfully sort this mathy stuff out for you as you go so you can't accidentally try and donate things that aren't properly sorted. You won't even be able to make the selection.

Yes, you can donate the same item several times. I donated 5 Yellow Tonu Folders earlier in one go.
 
This does include books and wearables (I missed that tidbit when I made my earlier post, since it's an offhand remark in the event description...). But the wearables all things in the cross-section between "wearable" and "school" or "clothes" or "books". And while a lot of wearables are clothing items, most clothing items aren't wearable. People are far more likely to donate the piles of cheap, unwearable clothes items laying about than expensive wearables. The same goes for books, really- people are far more likely to donate cheap junk books you can get from dailies or the BD than anything particularly expensive.
 
Also they've changed the donating style from last year, so JN may have just copied the old one over to start with. Instead of being "five items in this range" it's "five items, with each one being no more than 5 rarity points above the previous". So an r76 can have up to an r81 after it. (If that 5 turns out to be wrong forgive me, I haven't tested this in depth yet but it makes sense as a breaking point.)
 
Note that the above goes double because last year's end prizes were ridiculously little compared to the effort a lot of people put in. I'm personally going to donate several times so I get a trophy, but it'll mostly be things from my SDB and dailies fodder.

I did some checking, and yes, 5 is the upper limit. So when donating, the first item can be whatever, but after that, the rarity of the next item must be between the rarity of the item before it, and that rarity plus 5 inclusive.
 
So, if r is the rarity of the item preceding this one, and n is the rarity of the current item to be added:
r ≤ n ≤ r+5
 
And the dropdowns will helpfully sort this mathy stuff out for you as you go so you can't accidentally try and donate things that aren't properly sorted. You won't even be able to make the selection.

Yes, you can donate the same item several times. I donated 5 Yellow Tonu Folders earlier in one go.
 
This does include books and wearables (I missed that tidbit when I made my earlier post, since it's an offhand remark in the event description...). But the wearables all things in the cross-section between "wearable" and "school" or "clothes" or "books". And while a lot of wearables are clothing items, most clothing items aren't wearable. People are far more likely to donate the piles of cheap, unwearable clothes items laying about than expensive wearables. The same goes for books, really- people are far more likely to donate cheap junk books you can get from dailies or the BD than anything particularly expensive.
 
Also they've changed the donating style from last year, so JN may have just copied the old one over to start with. Instead of being "five items in this range" it's "five items, with each one being no more than 5 rarity points above the previous". So an r76 can have up to an r81 after it. (If that 5 turns out to be wrong forgive me, I haven't tested this in depth yet but it makes sense as a breaking point.)
 
Note that the above goes double because last year's end prizes were ridiculously little compared to the effort a lot of people put in. I'm personally going to donate several times so I get a trophy, but it'll mostly be things from my SDB and dailies fodder.

They didn't specify very well, did they? Any item with the category "School" can be donated. If you bring up an item in your inventory you'll see a "Type" field in the information. Anything that says "School" there will qualify. This is generally notebooks, folders, pencils, ect. Be careful though, if an item is r101 it's type "Special" and will not count even if it's a relevant kind of item (such as notebooks from old Advents). You can also sort your SDB by type. Selecting "School" there will bring up the relevant items (though again, take care about r101 things).

The PB clothes transfer system is a bit funky, and I can see how you'd be kinda confused. It's hard to word in a sensible manner.
 
That said, you've got the right idea for getting the clothes and pet you want moved to your side. What you detailed should work perfectly for your purposes.
 
As for your specific questions, the short answer to both is "yes". Once the clothes are on the side account, you will only be able to move those clothes if you have a Stealthy Draik on that account and transfer it out. You won't be able to move them with a Magma or Purple or whatever other color Draik.
 
To elaborate on how the system works (in a way that hopefully makes sense)....
 
Basically, when a pet is transferred, the system does various checks on the pet and its clothing and items and such. Noting that I don't have exact knowledge of how they've got the backend of the site set up, my guess is that the chunk of code that handles which clothing items stay and go would go something like this:
 
For each article of clothing the pet has on:
   Is this an NC item?
   If yes:
      Remove the item from the pet and place it in the current owner's closet.
   If no, is this an NP item?
   If yes:
      Leave the clothing item on the pet, transfer as is.
   If no (meaning it must be a PB item):
      Check the item against the pet's color. Does this item come with this color of the pet?
      If yes:
         Leave the clothing item on the pet, transfer as is.
      If no:
         Remove the item from the pet and place it in the current owner's closet.
 
Does this pet/color combo come with PB clothes?
   If yes:
      For each article of PB clothing this pet/color combo comes with:
      Does this item exist anywhere on the account?
      If yes:
         Is the pet currently wearing this item?
         If yes:
            Leave the clothing item on the pet, transfer it as is.
         If no:
            Is the item on another pet?
            If yes:
               Remove the item from the other pet. Place it in a "temporary transfer closet". When the transfer is accepted, place it in the new owner's closet.
            If no:
               Remove the item from the closet. Place it in a "temporary transfer closet". When the transfer is accepted, place it in the new owner's closet.
 
I have no idea if that helped you specifically, but that's as straightforward as I can make what the system does when it comes to clothes when you transfer a pet.

Pets can only be transferred once per day, so this is likely a weird glitch with the BD being down that's getting the errors crossed. Just try again tomorrow.

Hello all!
 
We've been running into a bit of an odd issue with our pet lends of late. We've occasionally had pets returned to us with increased stats, something that we would much prefer to not happen in order to keep transfer costs down.
 
As such, we would like to request that everyone refrain from training ALP pets in any way (from actual courses to faerie quests). We understand that occasionally stat boost REs happen, but please keep the pet out of the line of fire by have one of your own pets active unless strictly necessary to obtain an avatar.
 
Keeping your own pets active also goes a long way to preventing rare color or species changing REs from hitting ALP pets, so really doing so is an all-around good thing!
 
Thank you!
 
Anime
ALP Pet Chain Coordinator

I hold onto mine as momentos from those events. I know some people just discard them, but as you have unlimited SDB space you may as well hang onto them. :)

I hold onto mine as momentos from those events. I know some people just discard them, but as you have unlimited SDB space you may as well hang onto them. :)

The language switcher has been wonky since the server move.
 
I've found that if you use a different browser sometimes it helps. IE specifically the language tends to stick better on, so you may try logging in on whatever version of IE is hiding on the dregs of your computer and seeing if that works. I would recommend logging in, doing the reading, and then logging out and not going anywhere but your inventory, however. it is IE.

It may have been changed at some point, but so long as it's not a limited edition pet or a rare color (it's easier to list what you can get....) you should be able to transfer it. If nothing else, it doesn't hurt to try and send the pet. Worst case the system goes "That account can't accept that pet yet!"
 
If it won't let you then a pound drop is an option. For a basic color, common species, it should be fairly simple. I'd recommend being logged into both accounts on different browsers and have the pound up on your side ready to search to make things faster. But no one's going to be trying to snipe a basic pet so if you're quick you should be fine. )