Edwynn

1 minute ago, gunder401 said:

Hi! I am also back after a hiatus. Also didn't realize about the snowglobes until a few days in! 

Hah! Welcome, my fellow "I thought those were just cute additions to the videos" brethren!

But glad to see I'm not the only returner, as of late!

Added a picture for an example. It's been a long while since I used this site, and I swore, when I did, the pages were more horizontal in their appearance; it created a less bulky feel, and let you see more topics at one time as a result.

Since returning though, I noticed now that, if a topic has multiple pages, it goes vertical, making the posts appearing rather unruly, and having it be hard to see more than maybe three topics at one time.

Did I completely misremember, and the page alignment always was this way? Is there an option I'm missing to make the page numbers appear in the way I desire it?

I guess for the most part, it's not the most massive of deals. Many topics rarely ever have more than, at most, a few pages. But I was just deeply curious if something either changed, or I'm missing something here.

Man, that outfit certainly looks cluttered. But it does do a good job at what armor is made to do; protect and be bulky! Needless to say, not a big fan of this species-outfit.

That color though? Oh my gosh, now that is a haunting Bruce! The subtle gore of torn flesh on the face, the way the feet look half-stuffed, as if they had been deflated before. Those bug-eyes work wonderfully on their normally small, cute dots, and even the bow, despite being dilapidated, is a lovely shade of blue; really complements everything!

Overall, looks like Bruce got a half-and-half day! The outfit isn't that great in my opinion, but that color is fantastic for macabre fans!

27 minutes ago, Mouseykins said:

Welcome back to Neo and to TDN! The Advent Calendar is currently happening, so don't forget about that. I hope you decide to stick around longer this time!

Oh, I've been doing it every day since I joined! (Managed to get back in the swing right when the Advent Calendar started!) But, it only took me until just today to realize there's hidden prizes. I thought those snowglobes were just Easter Eggs to give a more Christmas-like feel! So hah, missed a few days of secret prizes there!

If I had a bigger impact on this forum, one would dare say this is a running gag. But alas, I'm just an irregular, who likes to make appearances whenever the desire for Neopets takes hold!

Anyway, hello to all old and new! A few days has passed since I revitalized my Neopets account, with quite a few changes in the wings. But, ramblings is neither here nor there for a return to form, hah!

I hope that, for once, I'm able to stay longer than a fortnight or so before fading into the abyss again! Especially since Neopets is going through quite some changes now, in their bid to keep the site going during the final days of Flash!

And, most importantly, I hope to make many an acquaintance to the people of these forums! I'm sure you're all wonderful folk!

Ah, this has been the best game for me so far by a landslide. I had a high score of 2.9k, so AAA was a cakewalk with this. Did get tricky around level 3, I remember I used to play this game a lot since it was one of the easier ones for 1000 NP when the ratio was good, but level 3 has more amorphous shapes that make it less obvious where the smaller pieces go.

Basically it is easiest if you just do a double window thing with the puzzle solutions, but if advice is preferred and not just getting told the answers, big advice I can give is, stick with Easy Mode. Hard isn't worth the stress it gives for the extra points, when you can pretty easily get to AAA's goal in Easy. Level 3, I'd say focus on the bigger shapes over the smaller ones first, and then gradually work towards the smaller shapes, since the bigger shapes should give you a better idea of where the smaller ones align. And don't forget, while you can rotate the pieces with space, you can also flip pieces with the Up Arrow, and reset with Down Arrow. Some puzzles need to have the pieces flipped, so it's key to remember that.

Otherwise, easy puzzle game. By far the most immediately easy game in this batch.

You know, today I was so scared that this would break my gold streak, same day run for the Daily Dare. Ultimate Bullseye is in no small part one of my least favorite games, since I feel the "physics" don't work right at all, and the fact the only advice pretty much anyone could give was "be lucky" really shows how little this game goes down to with skill.

But, thankfully, with a stroke of luck and not only getting a Hagan Balloon and landing an apple shot in the same go (Nice, tasty 50 points right there,) I got it after about an hour of play.

So far, this daily dare has severely tested me. Namely cause it seems a lot of these games come down to sheer, dumb luck. But so far I'm managing.

First day kicked me pretty hard. Took me an hour and a half, but it's namely cause I've always been bad with it, and it always seemed to play against my favor. Kept getting consecutively 500 points below, until I finally got the lucky play.

Today only took a few tries though, thankfully. Pretty easy, thankfully.

18 games to go and I'm hoping it's nothing that's too terribly out of range for my skills.

Well, since I'm always a bit of an over-achiever, did go for AAA for the chance at gold. Took me an hour to go about this, I've always been garbage at this game, but managed.

And frankly AAA's reward is... meh, at best. It's basically a weaker Ultranova Scroll. Does 2-5 Physical, 3 Fire, and 2 Earth, from the 10+ battles I've done to test it. So it's not horrid if you've just started to get a hang of Battledome, but if you're like me and have the Sun and Moon Chakram and the Ultranova Scroll, it's a definite downgrade.

Even if it currently says Thieves has the lowest chance to win right now, I'm missing the Avatar, so I'm going with Thieves.

Good luck to everyone though!

Hi y'all! I'm not the best with customization, usually. I tend to not quite understand how to best combine colors or how to really stick to a theme, and when I do figure a look, I tend to keep it for a long time. A prime example was my main, applexsun; she was rocking the same look for well over three years (Though granted, a lot of that was because I wasn't 100% active during all of that. More like... 10%)

But, I decided to try and give it a gander, what with the summer season and all! And I feel like I came up with a rather cute look, with what I've managed to obtain both now and over time. Pretty much everything sans the hair is new, as I love the hair too much to just toss aside (Plus, I do think it works for a summertime look regardless, even if the bow's a bit outta place,) but I did want to give a fresh look!

I thought I would share, cause I am quite proud of this look. Though if there's some stuff people possibly think could be changed for the better, I'm up to hear too! Like I said, not the best with customization! Sadly, I didn't get the drink from the new Mystery Capsule I wanted to give her, but maybe I'll get it in due time!

Hope you like my little cutie! And hey, maybe share your summer looks too? I'm always down to see how we rock our pets with the season!

Hello there! That certainly is a wild story, you rarely ever consider, let alone hear or even experience, the parents being the source of an issue like freezing. I'm really sorry to hear of the losses with the old account, but I'm glad you're finding some joy and nostalgia in this account again!

Your Cybunny is a darling! Something must be said about the simple customization styles, even if they rarely win stuff like Customization Contests. Truly holds more to the aesthetics of pets that get dolled up by their owners, aha!

I hope you continue to enjoy your return, and to grow the account in the way you like!

Oh! I didn't know there was an article on Premium! Thank you so much for the link, and that *should* give ample time if I make an alt or if I have to cancel a bit. Thank you mate!

Hello guys. I recently got Premium, as I've been considering a sixth pet for a bit now. However, I'm curious on something. As Premium gives the option for a sixth pet, I looked up what happens if premium runs out, but you still have six pets. The answer I got was, after a certain amount of time, the pet will be pounded if not renewed. My question is, does anyone know *how* long it takes a pet to be pounded? I read it was "a few months," but I have no idea how long a few months truly is. Also, does the few months carry over after renewal, or is it a reset time period every time you renew?

I wanna understand this mechanic before I consider getting a sixth pet.

Hopefully someone knows the answers to these, I'm deeply curious on the matter.

So my main pet, applexsun, has a Petpet that won a gold trophy a while back (Week 599) in terms of oldest Island Psimouse. My questions entail mostly on said rewarded trophy. I've been wanting to potentially change the color and name of the Petpet, maybe even changing the Petpet entirely (though I'm heavily unsure, and more hoping on the off chance the Psimouse finally gets a new color,) but I wasn't sure if doing either would actually cause me to lose the trophy. Is it possible to lose it, once rewarded, or is it a case of "I have it now, it's mine forever."

I find it funny writing this again, considering literally my last thread was also a returning thread. But, that was well over a year ago, and before I decided to try and delve back into TDN Forums, I stuck to see if I'll be hanging on Neopets for a while. And, given the fact I'm now week 3 into my return, I think it's safe to say that, even if I'm not gonna be 100% avid, I'm here for quite a bit.

But yes, hi all! I'm Edwynn, and this month will mark the 13th year anniversary of my account. I'm still shocked that I somehow managed to keep it alive for so long; it may not be my first ever Neopets account, but it is by far the one I've kept the longest, even considering the few times in the past I tried to remake accounts, thinking I lost the ability to access this one. Still remember the day I managed to get a ticket sent, explaining my situation with the lost email and what-not, and TNT actually helped me recover the account. Been a lovely time since, even if sporadic with my updates and returns.

I'm currently simply chilling around on Neopets. Making a good bit of NP after reading up more with guides (Managed to go from 200k to 3mil so far, I'm very happy!) and trying to plan out what more I wish to do with my account. Perhaps learn HTML some and actually make a proper look-up, or consider looking into more customization options, since my main applexsun's been rocking the same look for so long now, aha! And today is the day my main is, in fact, 13, as she's as anomaly of being older than my account, as she was my first Neopet in ways of adoption (I think at the time there was a bug where you could actually go without making a Neopet? I do remember for a time I had no Neopets what-so-ever, until I adopted applexsun. Good memories.)

But anyways, enough rambling! I hope I manage to keep a good stay here, and I hope I can find myself interacting with others in other forums!

Hello there! I'm Edwynn! A while back I made this account, and for... wow, 11 and a half years now, I've somehow kept my Neopets username from being purged. Guess I've been logging in just enough to not meet an end like that.

I can't really remember the last time I tried using this forum... or, really, tried to play Neopets. I wanna say it's been close to a year? It's certainly been a while, and from what I've seen, the site is actually starting to pick up some interest again? As in, it isn't just being barely updated, but seems to be getting some attention again?

Which, I mean as in Neopets itself, not TheDailyNeopets. I can clearly see this site still is getting updates, the forums look way different from when I last used them!

Anyway, I hope I can try and make a comeback here, and not just disappear within days of arriving. My attention to things dies down so fast, it isn't even funny. But none-the-less, I'm here now! And I hope to have some fun interactions along the way!

I'd say the Viacom Era was more of a middle of the road deal over true Old School. Old School would be back when Adam and Donna ran the site, and I can't speak for it because I wasn't around during that time. From the Viacom Era, I would say I miss stuff like the Wheel of Slime, Keyquest, and Habitarium the most. I also miss the Abandoned Attic, I know it wasn't completely removed, but it's been glitched since 2014 to no longer stock, and since it hasn't been addressed, I'd say it's probably good and gone now.

Another thing I miss is plots. I have no idea if we'll ever see more plots come into play now, the Viacom Era really gave way to some interesting ones. My favorite, to this day, is the Neovia one, and Bruno still remains one of my favorite characters; and the reason I love monstrous characters in the first place. (Ignore this if they have released plots, last I remember was the Faerie Ruin Plot, but I thought that was like the end of the Viacom Era. Not sure if that was actually a JumpStart Era plot.)

Most of all though, I miss the contests and the like. Some still are active, but a lot now seem to be put on an indefinite hiatus. It's sad a lot of the content is now just barely paid attention now.

JumpStart I think may still have time to be a great era, especially since they expressed the reason they purchased Neopets was to focus on the site's now older demographic. But for now, it feels like they still have a long way to go to usurper the Viacom Era.

Hi guys, got a conundrum. Decided to give Ghoul Catchers a try, as someone mentioned it's a very easy 50k a day. So I played it yesterday and got the 50k, and was ready to play it again and have it added to my daily list.

However, when I clicked it this time, it was perpetually stuck on a screen where it says "Welcome Back ------." The dashes I figure are supposed to be where my username would go, and yet, my username never came up. I waited for a solid ten minutes and absolutely nothing happened.

I tried IE, I tried the IE extension for Chrome, and I just feel stumped. Is this game broken? Or am I doing something wrong?

Before anyone asks, yes, I tried to download the game on my phone, but my phone is so old with its technology, when I try to open it, it auto closes the app. And my old iPhone, which I feel would handle it, says the app isn't available despite what the site says. So I really have no choice but the use my computer.

Oh man. This wasn't so much of a game as it was like a diversion with a DVD, but I remember I had a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles DVD (The movie where they were like puppets? I'm not sure if it had another name.) One of the bonus features was a maze to navigate to get to the Turtles' main base to eat pizza, but had to avoid Shredder and his minions. Those red eyes creeped the heck out of me, and when you got caught, it made a noise that frightened me so bad. If I played that game, I HAD to have the TV muted, it freaked me out that bad.

Another game scared me, not so much as a whole, but one event towards the end. Spy Fox in Dry Cereal or something like that. Towards the end, the room where all the cows were in was being flooded by milk, and I was so, so scared of dooming the world by not saving them in time that I shut the game off and never turned it back on, thinking as long as the game didn't run, the cows would be alive.

Funny now, how that scared me and now I'm a fan of horror stuff in general.

If you're having issues with the boat not moving even when you press the arrow keys, it could mean it's lagging too hard. Try to lower graphics to lowest, and turn off music and sound for optimization and see how that works.

My major tip is to make sure there's always at least one pet in the middle. Rock the boat back and forth enough that they slide to remain there. Jump whenever there's a bomb you need to get rid of, if too many pets are starting to tip the boat without a conscious effort, or if a pet is close to the edge and you need to urge it back towards the middle. Don't bother going after dubloons unless they're an easy nab, they're 30 points but aren't worth a loss.

I'm personally really good at the game, not exactly a trophy winner, but enough to have this game in my daily list for an easy 3k. So I hope I was able to prove of some sort of help.

BEYOND ecstatic now. I got the Faerie Quest Cookie yesterday, and my second quest I got was a Fountain Faerie Quest, with an item that only cost me 5-6k.

My Ixi, Ansolm, is now Chocolate after some heavy debate, since he was my only unpainted pet. Now I just need to customize him for his new color. Will post how he looks soon!

EDIT: Here we go! I got tired of trying to figure out a new customization, so have him with his older one in his new color! It looks a wee bit janky, but he's still cute as a button!

I'm giving an album a gander. A song in a Steampunk Song collection caught my interest, so I'm going to see what the whole album is like.

It's called "The Dolls of New Albion - A Steampunk Opera."

Ah, what a fun thing to ponder...

So far, I'm enjoying the few pets I have, with applexsun, Ansolm and Atrophier. applexsun and Ansolm I'd probably like to paint at some point.

I know for sure I want two more pets (Since I have premium,) that start with A and are just letters. I'd prefer if they were capitalized, or only had capitals on the first letter, but considering applexsun, I'd probably accept a name with all lowercases if the name was interesting enough.

My ultimate dream would be a UC Royalboy Kyrii, but I believe that would be far too hard of a dream to achieve. I have no pets that would be good enough to trade for one, and even then I don't want to part with any of mine. applexsun was my first, and I only made Atrophier and Ansolm recently.

So a more reasonable idea for my final two... I'm extremely partial to Mutant Acaras and Halloween Unis. So perhaps those two would be lovely additions as my final two pets. It would also work well if I tried to do a horror theme with my pets, with the colors being Mutant, Halloween, Darigan, Wraith, and either Ghost or Zombie. Other than the Acara and Uni though, unsure which of my pets would be what. Perhaps Ansolm would be Darigan, Darigan Ixis are amazing, but perhaps also Zombie. And I do feel like applexsun would do well as a Wraith. But that leaves Atrophier, and I don't really like Ghost, Zombie, OR Darigan Usuls. Plus it would waste the two mil I spent on the Eventide Brush. If I had to choose, maybe I'd make them a Darigan Peophin, I do really like Peophins as well.

Ah man, so many ideas.

I was actually in a mental ward of a hospital for about four days back in October of 2015. It... well, it wasn't like horrifying, like the horror stories of being pinned down and injected if you so much as spoke a tone they didn't like. But it still felt so dehumanizing, so constrictive to be there.

First, we weren't allowed any electronics. All of ours had to be kept with a safe system, no matter if the electronics were a person's main form of coping (Such as me with my laptop.) No handhelds, no phones, not even something small like a tamagotchi. They said it was to prevent stuff from being damaged, which I can believe to an extent, but as time passed, it felt more like they were punishing you. Making you not be able to contact or enjoy your time.

Second, only one long-distance call a day, and it could only be five minutes long at most. People would be allowed to call you, and if the number was within the area, you could call them whenever, but you had to use these horrible payphones that barely worked to communicate. I remember one flat out couldn't be understood because the static was so bad, and another was so quiet that even on max volume, you couldn't decipher much of anything. There were only two phones.

Third, the only true entertainment was a television, and it had to be turned off by no later than 11 at night. Constant arguments over what to watch was no unusual. People yelling to shut up because the TV also was barely loud enough. Insomnia was punished, as you weren't allowed to leave your room, even if something was wrong like pain or a panic attack. There were constant checks, and if you weren't asleep, you were scolded.

Pretty much the only thing you could really do was try and survive the boredom. Hygiene was always a battle, as the showers were designed to turn off after a few seconds, and you were only allowed an extremely small cupful of soap to bathe with. Like, this cup was about tip of the thumb sized, it wasn't enough to clean you if you had really long or thick hair, and yet it was expected to clean your body and wash your hands with, as well. There was no way to request another cup.

The nurses either didn't care or held some malevolence behind a kind facade. I remember on my day of departure, one nurse that had been so nice to me, said that I would go places from here, that this was only a stop to help recuperate, talk about how we were nothing but mental cases. Some nurses flat out yelled at you if you didn't react as soon as possible, some nurses punished you for the smallest of mistakes. I remember my roommate was pregnant at the time, and whenever she talked about pain, she had to wait over an hour to finally get medication, if not longer.

Men and women were separated, you weren't allowed to go past a certain point in the halls. Be even slightly over the invisible border, and prepare to be yelled at. It didn't matter what you identified as, such as identifying as a trans man; as long as you looked like the gender you was assigned at birth, you had to be on that side. Then again, why would you admit you were trans in a place like this, when they'd probably consider that a form of delusion?

There was a quiet room, a place where people throwing fits were supposed to go. One lady always occupied it. You would hear her scream all day. Whenever it opened, the smell was so overwhelming, it was hard not to gag. Once they put her in a normal room when she was sedated. When she woke up, she opened doors and threatened people that she saw. Never a quiet moment.

When it was time for me to go, they tried their best to try and make me stay. I told the doctors at the point, I wasn't sure what I would do. They took that as a sign of me saying "I wasn't ready to go." I had to stress numerous times that wasn't the case, I was more than ready to get out of dodge. It took hours for me to be discharged, much longer than anticipated.

In a lot of ways, we've come far from what mental health used to be. It wasn't long ago you'd hear of buildings packed with mentally ill or disabled people, treated no better than livestock for the slaughter. But when you find yourself in a beautiful hospital, only to discover your stay is in the oldest, most decrepit part... it reminds you, we still have a long way to go.

I would never go back to a mental ward, even if I truly needed it, now that I've experienced it. I went at first because of constant depression and suicidal thoughts. I left knowing that I'd rather feel like dying while having a way to escape, than be trapped in walls with no way to break free.

There's no reason to be dehumanized like this.