blackberrypatch

I got the gold Food Club trophy today. =) Prior to this, I'd never even gotten close to high score board for Food Club.

I think the deflation of these items is more so to get players interested in training a battle pet, without it costing an arm and a leg, now that the Skirmishes have become a weekly occurrence. The *hope* is that you train your pet, taking dubloons out of the market.
 
There is no way that this will deflate smugglers cove items. They come few and far in between and never restock (I assume we're talking big time items here).

I actually prefer crisp outfits like these. Most owners nowadays tend to spam every category of wearable they have onto their submitted pet. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but I think we've just been accustomed to seeing loads of foregrounds and accessories so this particular outfit may seem plain.

Thank you for the book! It's one that my pet hadn't read yet. =)

Well would you look at this
http://www.neopets.com/petlookup.phtml?pet=Influenza (frozen acct)
http://www.neopets.com/petlookup.phtml?pet=Polio
http://www.neopets.com/petlookup.phtml?pet=Sickness
(there are several others, including Disease, Virus, Streptococcus, Pneumonia...)
 
It's the name of a virus, not an intent to offend someone. And, as Siniri said, it's also the name of a river.
The pet was also named 2 years ago, before the panic and spread of misinformation that's happening now.
The problems I see lie with the people who are panicking without any actual knowledge of the virus or how it spreads, not with a Neopet. Maybe we should try to spread facts and information about the virus, instead of trying to find offense with things that shouldn't be a problem?

Ebola is a river in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Ebola virus was named after that river because one of the first outbreaks occurred in a village near that river.
 
Yes, there is a serious Ebola epidemic right now. However, that pet is nearly two years old. It's possible it was named after the river instead of the virus, or maybe it was a random combination of letters that mimicked a real thing. Or maybe it was named after the Ebola virus -- but in a context in which there was no current outbreak, no one dying of it.
 
I have a friend whose real-life cat is named Yersinia. As in Yersinia pestis, the bacteria that caused the plague (the Black Death) -- because cats were domesticated to control the rodent population, the carriers of the vector of the plague. My friend is a doctor. Many people in the health sphere have "gallows humor"; it helps them cope. It's not meant to be disrespectful, but I can get how some people think it is.
 
Naming a pet after a virus is not necessarily even meant to be "gallows humor," either. I know many virologists who really respect the lifeforms they work with. They're fascinated by how such a short snippet of genomic material, coding just a handful of proteins, can reproduce and thrive. Ebola is actually relatively simple, startlingly so, considering the devastation it wreaks. I know it might seem weird to find something so small and so deadly beautiful, but it's not much different than people fascinated by poisonous snakes, or sharks, or spiders.

OMG!! you're amazing. I would bake you a cake if I could :D
 
Just played a game of freaky factory. Yep, that should satisfy my neo addiction for the day. Much thanks!

Hi all, figured I'd share this. I just realized I could access Destruct-o-Match II by going to the google cache of the Game Graveyard (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:Fzq0_aNAXcsJ:www.neopets.com/halloween/gamegraveyard.phtml+&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&client=firefox-a). This version of Destruct-o-Match is my favourite. :)
 
Ice Cream Factory and a few others also work (I haven't had time to try all of them).
 
Enjoy!
 
 

Be careful, you're breaking the rules with the wording on your trade. Taken from this Editorial:
 
"There is a huge debate gong on in the Help Chat surrounding the issue of paper clip trades. If you don't know, a paper clip trade is where a user starts with 1 piece of junk and trades it repeatedly for a better item each time. Often in the wishlist it will say something like "Paper clip trade: offer one item only." Are these or are these not against the rules? ~futurevet89
As long as they aren't spamming the trade or begging, with things such as "Paper clip trade, only offer something worth more!" or "Please help me with my paper clip trade!" it seems fine enough to us."

Blumaroo are good for customization. I want to see how those bellbottoms look on one. :)

Both of the King Skarl ones. Will he never laugh at my jokes or kick me out of the castle? D:

Just played a round, and I have to say that I would like it much better if there was a way to turn off the board switching animations.

Cheese: Rotten Cheese
Action: Dive right
Times: 67, 71, 55

Casura looks great! I especially like her pretty robe. Congratulations! :)

autumn_irene- Thanks for the book!! You are so kind!! :laughingsmiley:
 
blackberrypatch- Thanks for the advice!! :)

Emily's outfit is so cute! What a lucky kitty. The cake looks great too. :)

AND IT WAS AWESOME! :D
 
My cat, Emily, turned 1 on July 31st. She is my very first pet, and a dream come true (I've always LOVED animals and wished for a pet for most of my childhood). So I thought: "what the hey, it's gonna be cute!". And it was!!! :D
 
I want to share this unique moment with you guys :)
 
The theme of the party was Marie (from The Aristocats, a very proper theme, right? :D ):
 

 
Me and the birthday girl in her very first dress:
 

 
"Blowing" the candle (there was a german pie for the humans and wet cat food for Em :icecream: ):
 

 
My friends, Emily's "godmommies" <3 (no faces because I'm not sure if they want their faces out here):
 

 
...And the goodie bags! :oneeyed01:
 

 
Crazy cat lady in training, anyone? :P
 
 

Cheese: Rotten Cheese
Action: Dive right
Times: 67, 71, 55

I already had 200 NC left over from when I got some a few months ago. It was just sitting there, the 150 from Expellibox made it 350.

Wow, I didn't know you could win 350 nc from there! I thought 150 was max. :P

I voted. Good luck!
 
..I always assumed peophins floated/swam in air. Otherwise how do they manage that pose on their bellies? :S

Woohoo! Nice find! Does it give out rare item codes?

I found the Neopets Puzzle Adventure game in a GameStop for $3... Went to buy it and they gave me a brand new copy, priced at $20. (That means I still get the prize codes~) It's actually a pretty cool game, and I'm excited to see the stuff I can unlock. :D

... and I am at a complete loss of words. I really am.
 
Before I explain, I want to clarify something: I'm a highly spiritual person who has gone through many religions in her life, but decided that organized religions and creeds weren't for me. If an idea resonates in my heart, that is my belief. I don't consider myself a member of anything because I don't believe it's right to call myself something if I don't believe in every single one of their beliefs. That being said, I do pray a lot. To God. And I do attend a church (it has a denomination) but I go there because I like how I feel when I am there, and I like the company and fellowship.
 
Anyway, I've had a rough week or so. I've been out of work for a long time, and my brother recently lost his job. We don't get much income and we have two cats (now) and an extra mouth in the house (yes, it's human.) The car has been in the shop nearly the last two months; the expenses have increased (as they usually do in the summer) and though it's usual, we were out of money and out of food. It made me feel useless as a provider and I would often go without dinner (despite being a diabetic who has to take a lot of medications, most require food) and it makes me feel sick and weak. I feel like my minor brother should eat before I do.
 
My friend had a stroke not long ago, and his wife passed. He was in the hospital yesterday for panic attacks. Another friend fell in a nursing home and got hurt. I met a guy who was short on his luck and I helped him... I had to give up Gizmo to the animal shelter, the other day, I rescued a kitten covered in mud who was abandoned by his mother cat. His little ribs were showing and I bathed him, fed him, and found him a good home within two hours of finding him.
 
Last Wednesday, I attended church and spent a while at the altar just pouring my heart out. I prayed so hard for us to be able to eat. It broke me to see my brother go into the kitchen, open the fridge, close it, open the cabinet, sigh, close it, then go back to his room hungry.
 
My friend's husband bought some food for us to last over the weekend, and I cried because the soup kitchen was closed on the weekend and I was worried.
 
A good friend of mine called me out of the blue today, the same friend who's husband got food for us over the weekend, offering to take me to get food from a church. I was lucky enough to get food from there today, as well as a voucher for clothes. I am going to get the clothes tomorrow, and my friend said she would take me to this other church for assistance.
 
Now, I don't need to visit this other church.
 
Something happened with a friend of my brother's. She got kicked out of her place and asked us to hold some furniture for her, so we obliged to help her out. My brother came home about an hour ago (it's in the middle of the night here) and told me to get up that I had something to do in the kitchen.
 
My brother brought in FIVE tall white GARBAGE bags FILLED with non-perishables! His friend said we could have it. No room for it.
 
Now my kitchen cabinet is literally overflowing with canned goods and beans, rice, noodles, and such.
 
This was completely unexpected, and I am just completely at a loss of words. I had faith as I always do, but I am completely floored. I'm completely stricken with gratitude, you guys.
 
I just received an answered prayer and a MAJOR blessing.
 
I can't stop the tears. I feel like a big burden has been lifted off of me. I really can't describe how I feel right now. :')

Not sure if it's considered an achievement, but it's the most I've ever won on either slot and I was basically just wasting whatever neopoints I had left!