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There's definitely not a reliable way to know who's gonna win, but I've correctly predicted the winner team all years except for one just by asking myself which side most people would consider cooler  I take into account two factors: the character TNT chose for the team (design-wise), and the theme of the team itself. My reasoning is as follows:
2012: the pirates vs ninjas debate may have been going on for ages, but look up every single poll on the internet and you'll see that ninjas win every time
2013: Similarly, look up any "Day vs Night" poll and night always wins. Besides, the sun's cool and all, but people prefer the more mysterious and mystical moon
2015: Look at this image and tell me which faerie was drawn by the old art team and thus looks cooler and which one was drawn by the new art team and thus looks terrible
2016: This was the year that took me by surprise. I went with Heroes instead of Villains because Jazan has an incredibly huge fanbase on the site, but in the end the Villains won. Then I realised most people who play the GMC are either new players or players that haven't been on the site long enough to even know who Jazan is, so they went with the character that looked cooler, namely the demonic skeleton engulfed in flames
2017: Hubrid Nox is a vampire potato with a moustache, so of course Magax won.
2018: Chivalry always wins over thievery. Not to mention whoever drew Hanso in the GMC homepage made him look surprisingly scrawny... if I didn't know who he was I'd would've chosen the cooler-looking character i.e., Brynn (they used old art for her).
 
 

I got all excited about the ladder bookshelf but was worried I'd not be able to use it with the backgrounds I have, but I'm actually very happy with the result I got. ?

What I'm visualising here is a cute little wooden A-frame, like this one for example!

with a reading loft up in the apex, with a living willow balcony rail, because how awesome would that be! ? I'd not thought of using that willow fence indoors, but I'm totally enamoured with it now! I am somewhat plant-obsessed, so this is absolutely the kind of thing I wish I could do for real, I'd spend all day up in that space, once I'd got a nice patterned throw and some colourful cushions to disguise that dull grey sofa, that is.
Hopefully there'll be more good wearables coming along shortly for us all to play with, has anyone else used the ladder yet?

I made a Neoboard about the Advent Calendar and guess who stopped by !!!
SCRAPPY 
yes SCRAPPY herself was on my neoboard !! and she chatted with me and other users 
I'm still in awe 
here's a link to the board  
http://www.neopets.com/neoboards/topic.phtml?topic=159734934&next=21
 

I'm sorry to hear you're one of those who lost NP due to the Nerfing. I get TNT made it too powerful, but, would they do something like a "nerf" to a book or stamp? I mean, the Stuck in Space book from this GMC was going for over 800k on the day it was released. TNT wouldn't let loose a few hundred or thousand extra copies of that book through random events or something to bring the prices down would they? Nope! Of course, that Magic Gridlock Gun before the nerfing was a 21 iconer WOULD have made some of the weapons in the Hidden Tower defunct, even MORESO to some of the even older weaponry sold there. It did seem to be a little too good to be true, but after the Wraith Resurgence weapons, I just figured TNT knew what they were doing. lol Silly me. ?
Exactly! Hmmm... Looking at the amount of icons the Sword of Malum and Blazing Embers do. The Sword of Reif might have a slightly higher maximum, but is it worth the NP to buy when Blazing Embers is pretty close in it's average? Sword of Malum isn't much worse for wear either. I'll go through my notes when I tested both Blazing Embers and Sword of Malum. I didn't do an average back then, but I can and will go back and take a look at the average icons are for the tests I did. Both weapons have about 16 constants I believe, and that's only 2 icons shy of the Sword of Reif's average. So you'd probably be unlikely to have too many turns with attacks below 18 icons. I'll look and work out those averages in just a little bit. Sometime tonight before midnight NST I should update this post, or post a new one by then.
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EDIT: Ok, so I tallied things up and for me, from my testing during the plot, Blazing Embers had an average damage of 19.79 (rounded up to nearest hundreth) and Sword of Malum had an average of 19. Probably just luck, because those averages seem rather high. I should probably battle more and build a bigger set of numbers to average out. However, one caveat for Sword of Malum, is that despite icons displayed, the damage was a fair bit less than it should be when checked against TDN's Damage Calculator. With my pet's strength boost, the Sword of Malum should've done an average of 304 per use, however. The actual damage read in the battle logs, when I average those, it clearly states that Sword of Malum only did an average of 290.125 damage per use. SO instead of doing 19 damage per icon, it actually does around 18.1328125. Which is what I get when I divide those damage averages by 16, again, the Strength boost for my pet.

So, I'd stick with Blazing Embers and Sword of Malum for now. Also, that way you can save your NP, or use your NP to purchase other items like defensive, healing, stealing (though stealing is still broken), or freezing item(s).
With my set, Blazing Embers is my Strongest Multiple use attacker right now. Though G-bomb is my heavy hitter, a shame it's once per battles. ? lol I've been tempted to go after an anagram sword too, but that wouldn't be much of an upgrade. Even if I still used my Stone Foam Finger and Altador Cup Throwing Star, it'd be a better upgrade from either of those, but thanks to Blazing Embers especially, I'm fine with my primary equipment for my battle set for now.  ? Training will bring out your equipment's true power. The final boost of 16x the icons of your weapon makes a BIG difference over having an undertrained pet with even some of the best weaponry. ? I'll keep Sword of Malum in my battle set for now, and when I use it I'll jot down the icons and damage it does so I can see if I can refine that average a bit more accurately.

I've been using sword of malum and blazing embers as well. The next step I was going to take damage-wise is to buy a Ghostkerbomb, it's over a million cheaper than an anagram sword. Minimum 21 icons, average 25. I stick to 1p battling though, idk if an anagram is better for 2p. 
 
I get that 21 icons was too much for an easy prize. They should have made it 14 to begin with, or no-trade if it was higher. Nerfing after release all the time is sloppy. 

I didn't buy any but I think it's really mean of TNT to do this. They should know the outcome. This prize was for an easy challenge so loads of people got it and it was too powerful for masses of them to be out there. So why put it out so powerful in the first place? And when you do and ppl are spending a fortune buying/selling, nerfing it can leave some restockers out millions.
Not a good outcome for anyone.

Today I will analyze the possibility of 1 million NP being made within 25 days!
Therefore an average of 40K needs to be made in a day.

For Trudy's surprise, the average amount gained in a day is 17815 (provided you stick with playing for 25 consecutive days). But in reality, even getting that amount is impossible, due to the 'rotten luck bonus' interfering, so I'll just round up the average Trudy gain to 18K. Also note that starting the Trudy chain nets smaller prizes than the consecutive days, so do not worry if you don't actually hit 40K within a day. Just follow the analysis and take my word for it that the Trudy reward does average out to 18K within 25 days.
Cumulative NP: 18K
NP left to hit quota: 22K

There's an additional guaranteed 1.5K that can be gained in the Battledome
Cumulative NP: 19.5K
NP left to hit quota: 20.5K

But we also gain items in the Battledome, very often codestones! They are very easy to sell so the asset can be liquidated into NP very quickly
So I shall estimate an average of 5K of items that can easily be sold. Even if you're skeptical about, let me just include items and NP won from free no-risk dailies like Coltzan, Forgotten Shore and Anchor Management
Cumulative NP: 24.5K
NP left to hit quota: 15.5K

Dailies such as the quiz and crossword pretty much guarantee an extra 0.8K provided you pay attention to the answers given by TDN
Cumulative NP: 25.3K
NP left to hit quota: 14.7K

Then we should be able to play games. Just about anyone can get 15K solely from games, can they? Everyone has their own skill at games, but generally it's easy for people to play the games they like. game viabilities are subject to change due to updating NP ratios. Here are my personal favourites (these games always have favourable NP ratios):
'Zero effort' games: Fashion Fever and Catch Petpet, earning a total of 2K
My '3K' games personally are: Kass Basher, Hot Dog Hero, Nova Defender, Snowager (there's more but these are the quickest ones for me I won't groan at playing), earning a total of 12K
'Ultra quick' games to help push the NP a teensy bit higher, like Meerca Chase, Darigan Dodgeball and Tunnel Tumble, earning a total of 3K
Cumulative NP: 42.3K
NP left to hit quota: 2.3K exceeded

Diligently following this routine for 25 days will earn you a total of 10575000 NP!
So keep playing everyday and enjoy! :3

Especially since they could have easily seen this coming... seems silly to change it after the fact

Especially since they could have easily seen this coming... seems silly to change it after the fact

It looks like it takes that "Hat/Wig" zone, which is what's causing this issue.
I am sure it is a zoning error and hopefully enough people bring it to their attention to fix. Markings, earrings, glasses would be far better suited as the item is very pretty! 

As someone who got suppeeerrr excited and bought two more, so I could have two as my new primary weapons, and one as a money venture, am really unhappy with tnt for changing it after it went live.  I feel like some people made great money and others lost it

Today is my kiddo Carter's birthday! He turns 6 today! Happy birthday to a handsome lil man! ?

What happens if you fail to complete one of the daily challenges?
The Piper Panic is too frustrating! lol
 
It means that he/she put very minimum effort in playing the games. Because to obtain the top gamer avatar, you need to play and submit scores for 250+ games. lol
 
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I prefer the Daily Dare over the GMC as I tend to go with Abigails scores since they are easier to beat, haha. ? But I still participate in the GMC every year and do my best.
Today was a good day to start on, I  chose Team Knights!
I remember playing Snowmuncher for months to get the avatar ages ago, lol. Took me a couple of tries to get the score needed today.
I`ll be playing a few extra games each day so I won`t have to play a ton of games on the last day to get the challenge of sending 50 game scores or whatever it is.

I joined Team Raiders!
 

 
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"If the portal didn't befit, you must acquit..."

I'm so glad I'm not the only one who was completely lost. XD  I ended up searching for 'Magon' on JN, thinking this must've been someone from some ancient plot, only to feel mildy embarrassed when I realised I'd forgotten the name of this really recently introduced character. ?
So, @jellysundae, you're remembering this way better than I am!

I too started playing around 2002-2003. I was about the age you are now. I had just moved to S Korea at the time - knew no one and was bored and lonely. I played neo CONSTANTLY. Unfortunately I don't have access to my original account either... I got hacked about 2 years in and ended up quitting bc I was too frustrated to start over at the time. I sure wish I had kept it though - I can just imagine the Food Club wins lol.
My current account is almost 7 years old, and I can't imagine letting it lapse. Doing dailies with a cup of tea is my favourite way to start the day! I hope you stick around!

I feel invasive as I make this post to be quite honest but this is truly a mundane post. A digital message in a bottle, I think.
For a little bit of background, hello, I'm from the UK and I made a neopets account when I was around 6-7. I am 23 now. I never REALLY got into neopets, but I checked in on my old account. I've lost access to it now and I don't think I even have the associated email anymore. I was on a nostalgia trip and saw a YouTube video about neopets and something in it tickled me and I went looking for a forum. Forums to me feel almost like a relic (I don't mean this in a rude way I used to spend a lot of time on forums as a young(er?) kid) (In truth I spent far too much time on the internet in general). Imagine my surprise to find an active one right here!
I am going to make an anonymous admission to you all:
I am in love with all of you and all of this. Something about this tickles me (not in a mocking fashion). I have been struggling and finding this was genuinely beautiful. Something about the concept of this whole thing feels really beautiful to me, and it moved me to legitimate tears (my face still has that feeling of dried tears on it).
I don't think that I was moved to tears by the specific content of this forum so much as just the concept. I know sometimes the internet is miserable but something about small communities like these that still exist on the internet feels genuinely beautiful to me.
I hope that this message finds you well, I truly love things like this. it truly feels like some kind of art.
 
Also for the sake of more discussion I was 6-7 when I played neopets which was around 2001? I did play for a few years. Nonetheless the question I mean to ask is, how old were you when I was playing neopets? how long had you all been playing? Did you maybe get into it after me?

I hope this does not come across as mocking or insincere I am genuinely just emotional about the concept of forums and small communities like this. 
 
I don't really expect much but I would genuinely love to talk to you all
If you read this incoherent ramble, thank you :^)

Good morning, everyone!

The Qasala event is live! There's a new site theme  http://www.neopets.com/desert/thelostheirloom/index.phtml 
  Something has happened! × You are now eligible to use The Lost Heirloom as a site theme when browsing Neopets.com! 

Best phrase ever. ?
Fun art Celine ? Elephantes clearly have a trunk solely to enable petpet snuggling, because their arms are too short for snuggles as we'd manage them, now THAT is evolution at its finest, surely! ?
 

Hello there all and hope you are all doing well. Today I thought since my Vandagyre Day pic didn't make it into the Art Gallery, that I would share my most recent Neopets Art. Hope you enjoy! I may do requests from time to time, just ask. :)

Some are a link because too big, hope that's allowed. : 
https://www.deviantart.com/celinedgd/art/Neochronicles-Devils-Delight-768743062
https://www.deviantart.com/celinedgd/art/GET-OUTTA-MY-SWAMP-770163813
https://www.deviantart.com/celinedgd/art/Pets-and-their-pets-770295866
https://www.deviantart.com/celinedgd/art/Sophie-s-ruined-stew-770700940
https://www.deviantart.com/celinedgd/art/Pets-and-their-pets-Side-771957090

Hope you enjoy!

I did a bit of research yesterday - that makes it sound worthy and studious, doesn't it, lol - and found that snippet of info. Of course it said accounts over accounts over 49 months, which meant zip to my beleaguered brain, but when I checked my look up...

So not long before I gain access. ? and if you'd not made this thread I'd undoubtedly NEVER have noticed that little button, because I'm STELLAR at missing things like that, so thank you‼

I got a lucky zap and have the Valentine Rock; so cute!

I've looked at the Petpet colours a lot over the years, but there are so many, that I somehow still haven't seen half of them. XD
I've just fallen in love with the Maraquan Ghostkerchief (it's a little octopus! ??

I can't decide whether I think the Robot Slorg is adorable or terrifying:

And Desert Warf is just brilliant :

 
(If anyone's looking for me, I'll be staring at petpet colours for the next few hours. )
 
*Edit: Look! Desert Rock!: