Neostalgia: The Neopets Thread

because i couldn't find one, and wanted to scream about a lot of things after rediscovering it, and god damn i had forgotten just how much i loved this site when i was a kid, warts and all. :'D

 

aw, I too loved neopets! I still have an account there for playing the flash games. And Cheat. I have no idea how many hours I've actually poured into playing Cheat, but...it's probably embarrassingly high.

 

neopets was one of the first two accounts i made myself, other than some game on the teletoons site or something.

man i wasn't around for it but wasnt there some murder mystery event that involved the staff getting all Clue on each other in a snowed in....mansion? it was in an archive or something. i just remembered that it was apparently for college students originally

 

I did the thing where my parents signed a form and we mailed it to them. Oh man, what a different time.

 

I was in college at the time and I got a kick out of it. It satisfied my craving for cute pet monsters without being as ~popular with the kids~ as pokemon ^_^

Of course once it got sufficiently popular I just had to bail because I liked things before they were cool before it was cool to like things before they're cool

 

i know nothing about neopets, i had webkinz, but there was a fairly popular rumor that went around the school i was at for elementary school that if you had both a neopets account and a webkinz account, your webkinz would die. now, i'm not ridiculously gullible, but i cared WAY too much about my digital stuffed animals to even risk something like that. some time after i first heard the rumor, someone gave me a neopet that they didnt want anymore and the moment i realized it was a neopet i cried a lot because it deserved to have someone take care of it! but not at the expense of my other digital pets!

i have no idea what happened to the neopet, and i haven't thought about any of this in like ten years.

 

Oh man I had my first Neopets account at twelve, so, uh, back in the day. I've got one now, too! I go back every few years for a while... actually, I have a premium account, I should probably start playing again or cancel it.

 

aa neopets was the first site i made friends on!!! we had a guild, id stay up til 3am talking to them (~timezones~), we had our in-guild chatboard and calendar wars and a public guild thread (which once disappeared because the OP got silenced) those were some fun times and some good people :') (some of whom i'm still in contact with! ...ok one of whom im still in contact with, one of whom i dated for a Long Time before we cut contact completely, and a whole bunch I still think of very fondly, though I don't dare to talk to them anymore since we've all grown to be completely different people, probably.) i had ocs. i tried to draw my ocs. i wanted to write stories with my ocs. oh mannnnn.

 

man oh my god neopets pretty much was my childhood, i remember being like 6 and begging my older siblings to let me play on their accounts

it's hard to narrow down even a short list of specific things i have Many Fond Memories Of but i read the neopian times and storytelling competition religiously for years and years, p much one of the biggest single reasons i learned to write and draw and did it like a child possessed by the devil was because i wanted to draw some motherfuckin neopets, and i would flip ballsacks over any new development/update in one of the plots

to this day almost any mention of neopets stuff makes me go '!!!!!!' internally

i don't know if i have the 'tism but neopets is one of the biggest points in favor of it imo

 

ah yes, neopets. or as i like to call it, encouraging small children to become filthy capitalists through the power of furries.

i've been on there for six years and i only play off and on but i Love it

 

I had an ancient, well loved account that I lost because younger!me gave them a fake birthday in the interests of 90s-era Internet security and promptly forgot said fake birthday :V Then years later in college, me and a friend made a joint account where we grinded the flash games we were good at for cold hard cash like the grown up Neopet Capitalists we'd always dreamed of being as children. Gotta love the ice cream factory, destruct-o-match, and Hasee Bounce! Also gotta love those old Altador telescope plot puzzles!

 

I learned some HTML (!!!) to make a ~fancy~ page for one of my pets.

Also my account got hacked at one point, they stole all my money and my account got banned/frozen/something and I had to get in contact with support to get it back. That was devastating. I think I cried about it.

 

Heh, this thread has me remembering, baby me actually met my first boyfriend on Neopets. We ran into each other a few years later on LiveJournal, which is when we got together.

I have now fully dated myself.

 

I gave up playing bc I was, we'll, in college and struggling with depression which meant trying not to get kicked out of school and I just started to feel like playing flash games to earn enough points to buy my nimmo food was more than I could handle, but I felt so bad, every time I logged in there he was starving and crying and telling me he was on the brink of death. I felt so bad for my little nimmo, and the thought of him actually dying due to my neglect just about broke my heart so in the end I gave him up for adoption and I never went back to the site. I just couldn't stand it.

;_; I'm still so sad about it, I miss my little nimmo. He was yellow and his name was Heewack and he loved his monkey puppet and his purple top hat So Much ;_;

 

so it's late and this is sloppy and possibly a bit inaccurate but i bet you this adorable little fucker is running around the haunted woods carnival happy as can be

 

...my two accounts ( because I'm a filthy multi-account person ) that I mainly remember were dozr and uni_222.

I think I started playing when I was... 10? Fuck. I dunno. Damn.

 

That is adorable and perfect thank you ^_^

 

(also aaahhhhh you're welcome! :'D)

 

man this brings back memoriesss. I used to be super into Neopets for the longest time.

But I think the problem with Neopets is that it hit its peak and then very promptly began stagnating. There's been all sorts of cosmetic changes and a bunch of insignificant items thrown into the site, but nothing really substatial. I'm not really one for change, but at a certain point you do need a bit of change--if only in the form of new content, new pets, new ANYTHING. A new game mechanic. Something.

But instead they haven't changed in literal years, and after a while that gets boring. There's nothing new to do, nothing new to experience.

I remember the sitewide plots were amazing and super fun, but after a certain point they just... stopped doing them. Which was super, super disappointing.

Man, though, I had some really fun times coming up with ideas and stuff for Neopets... I would avidly read the comics section of the Neopian Times, and I remember being SUPER ENTHUSIASTIC about wanting to start up my own ongoing comic series (I even got one really shitty comic in once!!). And to that end I had started an epic collection of pets I had adopted from pound surfing (which, let me tell you, was weirdly super fun).

... I still have a lot of sentiment for my main pets, though. I still remember their personalities... I had Kimahri_Kitty (aka Kimmy) the magma Draik who was a super avid Altador Cup fan and was pretty chill most of the time, Alethio_16 (or just Alethio), a Tyrannian Lupe that I modeled after my late Alaskan Malamute and therefore always drew her with a curled tail, and 6t4, a very sweet and very nerdy ghost Chomby. The fourth slot was sort of a constantly rotating pet that I don't remember anymore...

ANYWAYS. I still get hit with nostalgia now and then and am sad the site's basically died but at the same time I'm not about to go back.
...especially since I got my account permanently silenced on the day the forum filters went down cuz I heard about it and went OH BOY TIME TO GO BE A LITTLE SHIT AND MAKE UP FOR THE LITERAL YEARS WHERE I COULDN'T SAY THE WORDS "AS BAD AS" IN THAT ORDER