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aquanut β€” Your Worst Nightmare

Published: 2012-10-01 08:51:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 746; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 28
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Description Neopets Art Gallery, Page 1611
Art Gallery trophy #50

I keep looking at this and imagining how bizarre it must seem to players who don’t remember Chomby and the Fungus Balls. When I first joined Neopets, I found all the in-jokes really frustrating and mysterious, and I had to devote myself to tracking down all the information about Jelly World and the Hidden Tower and Meepits and everything else. If I had seen something like this back then, it would have bugged me and bugged me until I finally ran across something that made me understand what the joke was. I forget sometimes how new and mysterious the world of Neopets seemed back in those early days. That was a good time, a time of discovery, when I had so many spare afternoons to read back issues of the Neopian Times and learn the history of White Weewoos and Chet Flash.

Coincidentally enough, my prize for this was a Ghost Paint Brush.
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Comments: 5

surfersquid [2012-10-01 16:14:06 +0000 UTC]

Haha, a very fitting prize. I think that was one of the things that hooked me on Neopets so soundly, its inside jokes and combination of British pop culture references and whimsical fantasy out of the heads of Adam and Donna.

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aquanut In reply to surfersquid [2012-10-05 09:50:03 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, they did a very good job building an immersive world with its own culture. I never found another pet site that managed to do it so well; Neopets just had a certain character and humanity, and I really like all the creative contests that encourage users to get involved with imagining their own interpretations and further expand the world.

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surfersquid In reply to aquanut [2012-10-05 16:09:03 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, I remember trying a few other virtual pet sites but none of them had the same sense of culture and lore as Neopets did. I also really enjoyed their creative contests, even though now I look at the stuff I did for them that got accepted and I just cringe. But then, I'm sure you do that with your own stuff, too.

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aquanut In reply to surfersquid [2012-10-05 19:12:16 +0000 UTC]

Considering I started entering those contests when I was 12 and that I was obsessed with Neopets and spent an inordinate percentage of my life producing fanwork for them, I'm just thankful that the most cringe-worthy stuff I produced never actually made it onto the site. But I actually feel a kind of fond pride in the memory of how accomplished and encouraged I felt back then by the fact that my submissions were accepted, even though looking back on them now it's obvious they were made by a young kid. The thing I really like about Neo creative contests is that they're open to all ages and there isn't much competition in them; they're just a fun creative outlet for young and old alike, where people can express themselves in a low-pressure, low-risk environment. (I cringe more when I get into the AG nowadays with a picture I didn't put much effort into, but I think I've resigned myself to the fact that my AG doodles will always pretty much just be doodles rather than full pieces. ) I still find the creative contests relaxing because there isn't as much competitive pressure as there tends to be on other sites, and I really like the fact that they encourage young kids to get involved and be creative.

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surfersquid In reply to aquanut [2012-10-05 20:00:33 +0000 UTC]

Haha, that's a good way of looking at it. It's great that there's no sense of elitism in Neopets creative contests; I do appreciate the lack of risk and pressure. It lends the site a great sense of cooperative community.

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