Neopets

Stories From the Neopets Economy

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therainstheyaredropping:

An account of events in the Neopets economy over the years. Also reading this made me try logging into my old account, but it looks like it doesn’t exist anymore. :(

* That Time Neopets Changed Pet Art, Creating a New Scarce Resource
* That Time People Abused a Duplication Glitch and Crashed the High-End Economy
* That Time Neopets Decreased Sale Friction and Prices Dropped Accordingly
* That Time a Book Got 1000 Times More Expensive Because of Charity
* That Time A User Donated a Billion Neopoints to Help Save the Economy

Tags:

#Neopets #adventures in dragon capitalism #(look there’s *some* dragons in Neopets)

~ Brin ~ Leave a comment

birdghost:

person: so where did you learn html?

me: not…. neopets…

Tags:

#Neopets #HTML #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #learning HTML from Neopets is nothing to be ashamed of #my HTML is a combination of Neopets #an actual honest-to-God held-in-meatspace-and-everything HTML class #and blog comment threads #mostly the last one

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cobrall:

neopets is honestly a horrifying and disturbing look into the faults of late capitalism and the unfettered exploitation inevitable in unregulated economic systems

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Tags:

#Neopets #interesting #I haven’t played in ages #haven’t seen what’s been going on there

new idea for pronouns

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wearemagneton:

skyndilega:

goodson:

replace actual words with guttural noises

ex: nobody can beat mrrgf at turmac roll, gggh is simply the best

can I be ‘sssss’

Dibs on the swedish-chef BORK.

NO WAIT PM can have the bork, I want a crunchy-pickle noise. C:

-Tabs

I want the Spongebob Slidewistle.
—Tom 

What does it say about me that my reaction to this was, not anything about pronouns or word usage, but rather “I wasn’t unbeatable at Turmac Roll, but I was pretty good. I haven’t played Turmac Roll in ages. I should go play some.”

*leaves to play Turmac Roll*

Tags:

#tangents #Turmac Roll