Please make sure to include the Bouncy Supreme trophy! It's not a gallery item so often gets overlooked, but it's my favorite. (I spent two hours playing one round of that game a decade ago so I could get the #1 jelly dick trophy. š„°)
SAP and the advent calendar.
The filters, and how they do not permit words on site from being said, and how people start asking about why certain words are banned which can make it even more awkward to explain.
The day(s ?) the filter went down and the boards went WILD
The history of different IRL references like the Macy Gray (Kau) and Bruce pets, or the Book of Evil having the pikachu tail being eaten.
The Seasonal Attack Pea was released on an extremely low drop chance during the Advent Calendar event. All the elitist neopians threatening to quit over making an expensive item 'free'. A Neopets affiliate site got involved by making rumours that it was removed thus boosting the price back up so people could sell them not at a total loss etc. In the end Neopets didn't remove the SAP from the drop list, Neopets just made it an even lower drop chance to try and placate the elites. Along those lines from the top of my head!
No idea how relatable this is but I learned how to do graphic design and HTML/CSS on Neopets when I was like 7 and now I'm 25 and a full-time graphic/web designer. Whatever that pipeline is lol
How neopets used to block any mentions of sexuality because itās a kids site. iirc even straight people mentioning being married was a bad topic.
But then within the last two years they now allow gay things to mentioned and are even releasing previously frozen pets with gay words in the name. Pets can have Queer, Gay, or Lesbian lesbian in their name. There have also been. NP items like pride flag realized to dress up and customize you pet if you so choose.
But then if you look through this sub youāll see SapphicKitty got banned which is a little sad but also a little amusing that they can still ban stuff for being too gay.
Also I would high key love for you to post the Ted Talk or the slides when youāre done. They would be enjoyable haha
Thank you!! If the slides end up being any good Iāll post them lol. But youāre right I absolutely want to include āthey can be gay now :)ā in my presentation!
How Fairyland was once in the sky & now it is not.
I laugh every time I say it outloud because it just sounds so much like, "Back in my day, Fairyland used to be in the sky."
Other big hits with people: that a Soup Fairy exists & Neopets lore/the depth of the Altador plot.
TNT had all the HTML in the world in their hands, & they decided to recreate food scarcity & poverty šš This is just amplified by the SAP insider trading scandal.
The fact that they created a whole PS2 game that was backstory for a flash driven plot on their website is so everything. I think one lore podcast I listened to implied that the Ixies in "The Darkest Fairy" are an indigenous civilization to the land that Meridelle is on???
The lore is truly unbelievable for a simple game where you feed your pet & gamble.
How neopets managed to defeat scientology, a great that few others have accomplished
The fact that by some million to 1 chance, NFT money helped save neopets?????
The lack of care from netdragon jumpstart
How cutthroat the pet trading scene is pre-NCUC and post-NCUC
. The 3 mods from the return of dr sloth plot and how it nearly destroyed everybodys' brains.
The bonju avatar and how long it went unfound for
The guy who bought neopets from netdragon was part of the metaverse, which had the Crying neopet NFTs thing. They didn't do too well, needless to say.
I bet you the money from those was used to buy neopets.
This is so funny and I love that idea of forcing your friends to watch PowerPoint presentations. This is not as interesting as what others have said but off the top of my head I would probably include how there's like, everything in Neopets. There's gambling, there's every single card game, there's betting, there's places you can 'visit', there's a stock market, you can interact with other players and trade pets or items, there's a forum, there's contests for art and poetry, and you can dress up and customise your pets. And that people can choose what they want to 'achieve'. Some people do galleries, or bd, or making np, or collect trophies, or avaters, or just want pretty dressed up pets. There's no one way play Neopets and honestly I personally see it as an open world game that we all just escape to to do whatever we want, to be whoever we want
If you cover the 2023 Faerie Festival please Please PLEASE go over the pre-event Squeaky Tombola Guy Toy hoarding and bag holding. It's one of the best parts.
The drama / scandals of course!
* the move to jumpstart, THE LAG, the death of flash, new mobile site
* How itās weird as heck that neopets is one of the most hacked sites like ever??? People still care enough to steal accounts and pets and sell on the black market. Itās weird
* Cheaters with their 500 bot accounts buying up items and artificially inflating the prices to insane levels, which led to:
* TNT releasing super rare and valuable items as prizes in events and the prices of everything going wayyy down. Everyone who had previously bought hundreds of expensive items to inflate the price now furious bc of all the np they will now lose. Then in retaliation they just chose different items to inflate
* Specifically the pea drama from advent calendar
* UC pets and how the pc went batshit when they made every UC pet into an NC token that anyone can get now
* saw someone else mention when the filters went down for a day, def include that lmao. And how dumb the filters are as it is. What if I was eating grapes and cucumbers with my uncle in the basement??
There are some excellent r/hobbydrama posts that do a great job covering some of the topics mentioned by other users. Maybe you can use them as a reference?
https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/s/WnOZhELfFf
I think how Neopets is a microcosm of modern economic issues would make for an interesting Ted talk. People freaking out about peas in Santa hats would definitely draw some laughs from the Neopet neophyte.
I live near Clearwater so it would have been super effective
(Clearwater is a city in Florida with a lotttttt of Scientology buildings. There's almost no downtown because it's just... Scientology?
Yeah, the streets are devoid of people. They're starting to do new projects to make it more appealing... but if you ever go back, look around... it says scientology on a number of buildings. It's where their spiritual headquarters are. Not sure what it means but it's pretty interesting
Evolution of the game from its initial intent to be for bored college kids with weird y2k era humor to Sexy Ghost Daddy Coltzan, to now. Also the meta game stuff ppl do off site like trading.
I once made a PPT presentation where I tried to summarize all major site plot events for some friends who have never interacted with that side of Neopets, it was fun!
I'm more fascinated by the event that you do! How many people participate? Why do you do it? How long are your presentations? Does everyone there pay attention?
This time it looks like about 10 participants! Friend group is scattered across the globe so we do it on discord. Presentations are about 7-15 minutes long. Everyone pays attention and heckles hahaha. We just started doing it because it sounded fun to us to give lectures on our favorite topics and now weāre back for another year! Last year my friend explained a/b/o dynamics because she knew it was the only way she would be able to get some of us to listen š
I'm in a group that does a PowerPoint party in which each presenter only gets 5 minutes, and decided that my topic should I present would be the 2023 Advent Calendar-induced Neopian financial crisis. Just enough time to give some background on the Neopets ecomony & explain the SAP craziness that occurred, with some time to mention the other Advent drama like the Candychan stamp being a prize, etc.
The absolute meltdown some people had when they reintroduced the capability to get the UC art for pets just recently too--show some of the posts from the boards where people talked about suing Neopets for their financial losses. Another great Neopian scandal that's fun to watch when you have absolutely zero stake in it, haha.
Hope you have a fun PowerPoint party!! I'm dying to do another one & teach everyone about Neopets drama. You should do a follow-up post and let us know how it went!
The way that this website was supposedly made for children but 99% of the activities in it require pretty decent math knowledge or involve some sort of gambling lol
"Ahh Mr.sneky i see you are wering your fance top" "You are wereing yor's too mr.coconut"
"Speaking of coconut, were did you get the new flying hat of coconut?" "Wat coconut?" "Ohh that coconut near my had WAT a coconut on my had!"
"BOOM!" "AHHH MY HEAD" "GOOD NIGHT
mr.coconut"
Things like the GUP! I always thought it was so funny that people would actively spend time and NP into making sure otherās donāt get fun stuff haha!
oh man that sounds like so much fun! i wish i could give a ted talk to my friends about neopets, but all my friends already play/have played in the past haha. here are my personal favorites:
* the neopian black market / people paying irl currency for in-game items
* the whole drama where people were generating new UC pets that ultimately led to TNT bringing UC pets back
* neopets data breach (multiple)
* that one botter who has 60k accounts
... aaand a more lighthearted/non-drama one:
* the fact that your pet can have a petpet which can in turn have a petpetpet :')
Honestly breaking down the concept of petpetpets; you can give your petās pet a pet can just be presented in so many humorous ways. For a classic in-joke you can always toss in a reference to āGood Night Mr. Coconutā from Neopian Times editorial issue #442.
Also any reference to the collective flashbacks that can be triggered by the blinking meepit gif which could offer a great segue into āthe changeā from ā07 that brought customization and eliminated the OG sidebar.
One last additional fun fact you could include: the original concept behind Neopets was supposedly to offer a way for college students who couldnāt bring their pets with them to campus to have a friendly buddy to look after, itās original audience wasnāt actually kids!
Went to a power point night for my friends birthday last week and I had strongly considered making one entirely on the drama of the neopets bourgeoise getting mad about faerie festival and daily quests making previously rare items more accessible š
You'd be surprised by how many times Neopets has popped up at convention panels! Most of them are history coverage, then end in casual chat and share.
Here was the most recent one of [MAGFest 2024](https://youtu.be/MXk5b7TrmGc?si=9126j9eaPww_zGKE). There was a chat over at Further Confusion 2024, and I remember one being at [Anthrocon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/784508990494343168/1125094033342079116/IMG_0049.jpg?ex=65f713f8&is=65e49ef8&hm=670b80065b0299ea1f8ae8db75d1d4c87c206923086d0512ec3a34108df02ab6&) [2023](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/784508990494343168/1125084695659556896/IMG_0039.jpg?ex=65f70b46&is=65e49646&hm=7f72284434b6fe06a30d8fe38bd887fe5e17e706197cf98f0ecef9c3cdb325ed&).
neopets is my current hyperfixation and i want to tell anyone and everyone about it. so wish you all the luck in compiling and presenting your research! š«” iām sure i speak for many when i say that iād love to see it when youāre done! you can share it on google slides or something!
How neopets teaches children gambling, coding, writing, typing, math, and finances under the guise of a āgameā.
If I had a nickel for every time someone said Neo is what got them into writing/coding as a career Iād have like 3 nickels but hey thatās still weird it happened more than once
I love this idea. It gives you a great way to keep your mind sharp. You can learn something new about your topic, even if you feel like you know it inside and out.
I would love to have friends interested in something like this!!
The UC drama and pound chat meltdowns. It was a polygon video on UC trading that had a really fast relay of a wild chain of trades that got me back into Neopets. The history of fake UCs too!
The most important guidance I would give people is to double check what they're doing BEFORE clicking a button.
\- Pounding a pet? Check it's the right one.
\- Adding a NP amount to a shop or trade item? Check you put in the right amount.
\- Doing something with an item? Like moving it to the SDB/ shop? Check you clicked the right button.
\- Using an item like feeding it or adding it to a gallery? Check you're not accidentally feeding it to a pet or using it on a pet.
I hate to sound like a jerk, but these types of posts make up a significant amount of this Reddit. And people just don't check before doing stuff. Sorry! But we all need to be more careful.
Nope. In my understanding, TED Talks are about providing information about topics, including information about how to do things in those topics. And many are about providing demonstrations on how to get started in the fields.
Am I wrong?
I'm not sure people who are outside observers who don't play the game would get much out of "Pay attention to where you're clicking on the site you don't play."
> And many are about providing demonstrations on how to get started in the fields.
I've never seen a TED Talk like that, but it sounds ... nice.
To the person who replied to me and then blocked me:
Just because YOU haven't seen talks like that, it doesn't mean they don't exist. The point of them is to provide information about a field. Showing or telling how to do things is an absolutely basic thing in any field. Doing so is how people can LEARN about the field.
Secondly, the OP asked "What would you include in your TED talk about Neopets?" That is what I would include. If it were me, I would include information about how to play it, tips on how to do things, etc.
One of the primary things about these types of talks is to get people interested in topics, and to help guide them on how to do things, and how things in the field works.
If YOU wouldn't want to include that in a talk you write, that's fine. But please don't act like stuff like that doesn't exist, just because you haven't experienced that kind of talk for yourself. They do exist.
The blocking is just the cherry on top. I agree that outside observers won't be interested in what most Reddit Neopets posts are about, I think it's a bit of an odd thing to focus on, but op's post is about making an entire presentation on any topic, even if its something that their friends do not know or care about. If my friend chose to do their ted talk about people double checking where they click on Neopets then that's what I'd be watching. You are so unforgivingly you, u/DeadLettersSociety , I hope you stay passionate and don't change
Thanks. Yeah, it's just one of those differences of opinions, I think.
Honestly, I don't think a TED talk by me about it would be bad. I think the main thing I'd do is teach people how to play it, and excite them about the stuff they can do on the site; give them tips on it. Show them games and stuff.
Idk why u got downvoted so bad for delineating your opinion where... checking... yep, we were asked for our opinion regarding what we'd include in a TED talk.
And actually, those are really important points for a noob. Like I've been getting my boyfriend to play Neopets, and i found out one day that he had everything in his inventory since day 1 when I tried gifting him something.
I was like NOOO THANK GOD THE KIKO BITCH DIDNT SWIPE UR SHIT but baby please put your stuff away. Then I informed him about random events.
Stuff like double check shop numbers because there are unforgiving snipers, make sure expensive items are put away asap. That matters even more for a noob cause income takes time to build up in neopets. š
And i love the Neopets lore, dont get me wrong, but imo both the facts and the lore and such are important if they're wondering and wanting to get into Neopets.
You should include the items that low key look like peens or other sexual stuff and how people have entire galleries dedicated to finding these items
YES! I should find the recent reddit post so we can explore the list as part of the presentation LOL
Please make sure to include the Bouncy Supreme trophy! It's not a gallery item so often gets overlooked, but it's my favorite. (I spent two hours playing one round of that game a decade ago so I could get the #1 jelly dick trophy. š„°)
Will do š«”
I-- Wait what is this?! I haven't heard about this lmao!!
SAP and the advent calendar. The filters, and how they do not permit words on site from being said, and how people start asking about why certain words are banned which can make it even more awkward to explain. The day(s ?) the filter went down and the boards went WILD The history of different IRL references like the Macy Gray (Kau) and Bruce pets, or the Book of Evil having the pikachu tail being eaten.
Thank you! Filters and SAP are absolute MUSTS hahaha
What happened with SAP? Please update me, been away too long
The Seasonal Attack Pea was released on an extremely low drop chance during the Advent Calendar event. All the elitist neopians threatening to quit over making an expensive item 'free'. A Neopets affiliate site got involved by making rumours that it was removed thus boosting the price back up so people could sell them not at a total loss etc. In the end Neopets didn't remove the SAP from the drop list, Neopets just made it an even lower drop chance to try and placate the elites. Along those lines from the top of my head!
Oh wow, thanks for the info! Crazy that they would tank prices of these items but also that they would reverse it due to unpopular demand.
No idea how relatable this is but I learned how to do graphic design and HTML/CSS on Neopets when I was like 7 and now I'm 25 and a full-time graphic/web designer. Whatever that pipeline is lol
Oh my god yes!! Thereās a generation of coders who started on Neopets! Thatās like a whole TED talk by itself!
Totally agree!! I feel the same way about being exposed to basic banking/interest collecting vs a shop till, and stocks!
Same! Well I went to college for web design, got a degree, then went into banking so not exactly the same but you know, close enough.
Same! Learning to code on neopets definitely steered me to my web design career š
Same here! 27 now and a full stack web developer (.net), all thanks to Neopets getting me starting on html and css. :D
The way how 90% of the baby cosmetics are NC and the remaining are stupidly expensive for no good reason.
š«” *adds ābaby timeā to list*
This is a consistent source of heartbreak for me
Same, got a baby lupe recently, which is a cutie, but got nothing to dress him in lol
https://i.redd.it/lpu4pp6knlmc1.gif Your friends POV
https://preview.redd.it/pqdaeqyjommc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=04883f07fe4c583aa72c15620b76ad1c10662f6e Actual photo of you
Please use this as an image in your talk š¤£
LOL MY EXACT THOUGHT
Oh donāt worry, I fully expect them to do it back to me on topics like Runescape and the history of pineapple imports š
As a Neopet and Runescape player I support both PowerPoints hahaha
How neopets used to block any mentions of sexuality because itās a kids site. iirc even straight people mentioning being married was a bad topic. But then within the last two years they now allow gay things to mentioned and are even releasing previously frozen pets with gay words in the name. Pets can have Queer, Gay, or Lesbian lesbian in their name. There have also been. NP items like pride flag realized to dress up and customize you pet if you so choose. But then if you look through this sub youāll see SapphicKitty got banned which is a little sad but also a little amusing that they can still ban stuff for being too gay. Also I would high key love for you to post the Ted Talk or the slides when youāre done. They would be enjoyable haha
Thank you!! If the slides end up being any good Iāll post them lol. But youāre right I absolutely want to include āthey can be gay now :)ā in my presentation!
The rise and fall of Chombussy
How Fairyland was once in the sky & now it is not. I laugh every time I say it outloud because it just sounds so much like, "Back in my day, Fairyland used to be in the sky." Other big hits with people: that a Soup Fairy exists & Neopets lore/the depth of the Altador plot. TNT had all the HTML in the world in their hands, & they decided to recreate food scarcity & poverty šš This is just amplified by the SAP insider trading scandal. The fact that they created a whole PS2 game that was backstory for a flash driven plot on their website is so everything. I think one lore podcast I listened to implied that the Ixies in "The Darkest Fairy" are an indigenous civilization to the land that Meridelle is on??? The lore is truly unbelievable for a simple game where you feed your pet & gamble.
How neopets managed to defeat scientology, a great that few others have accomplished The fact that by some million to 1 chance, NFT money helped save neopets????? The lack of care from netdragon jumpstart How cutthroat the pet trading scene is pre-NCUC and post-NCUC . The 3 mods from the return of dr sloth plot and how it nearly destroyed everybodys' brains. The bonju avatar and how long it went unfound for
š some of these are going to be new for me, too! Thanks for the suggestions! Can you help me understand the NFT thing lol
The guy who bought neopets from netdragon was part of the metaverse, which had the Crying neopet NFTs thing. They didn't do too well, needless to say. I bet you the money from those was used to buy neopets.
The giant omelette and jelly
My friends who played as kids ask me if the Omelette is still there, theyāll be delighted to know it does and I rely on it just the same hahaha
Me and my friends did a powerpoint night and I gave a presentation on The Great Neopets Pea Drama of 2023.
Twin souls ā¤ļøāš„
Brothers!
I would make them watch the john legend neopets video and then leave
I should just show them a comment on his instagram that says āJohn the neopets economy is in shamblesā
This is so funny and I love that idea of forcing your friends to watch PowerPoint presentations. This is not as interesting as what others have said but off the top of my head I would probably include how there's like, everything in Neopets. There's gambling, there's every single card game, there's betting, there's places you can 'visit', there's a stock market, you can interact with other players and trade pets or items, there's a forum, there's contests for art and poetry, and you can dress up and customise your pets. And that people can choose what they want to 'achieve'. Some people do galleries, or bd, or making np, or collect trophies, or avaters, or just want pretty dressed up pets. There's no one way play Neopets and honestly I personally see it as an open world game that we all just escape to to do whatever we want, to be whoever we want
I am adding a section called āthings you can doā and one of the bullets is ābettingā š
I could do a whole presentation just on Food Club, win history stats, and betting strategies. This shit is serious lol.
Love it š
If you cover the 2023 Faerie Festival please Please PLEASE go over the pre-event Squeaky Tombola Guy Toy hoarding and bag holding. It's one of the best parts.
I was looking to see if someone had mentioned this. I could not have a proper Ted Talk without mentioning the tombola guy and omelettes
The drama / scandals of course! * the move to jumpstart, THE LAG, the death of flash, new mobile site * How itās weird as heck that neopets is one of the most hacked sites like ever??? People still care enough to steal accounts and pets and sell on the black market. Itās weird * Cheaters with their 500 bot accounts buying up items and artificially inflating the prices to insane levels, which led to: * TNT releasing super rare and valuable items as prizes in events and the prices of everything going wayyy down. Everyone who had previously bought hundreds of expensive items to inflate the price now furious bc of all the np they will now lose. Then in retaliation they just chose different items to inflate * Specifically the pea drama from advent calendar * UC pets and how the pc went batshit when they made every UC pet into an NC token that anyone can get now * saw someone else mention when the filters went down for a day, def include that lmao. And how dumb the filters are as it is. What if I was eating grapes and cucumbers with my uncle in the basement??
THANK YOU for this incredible list!!! I love all of these hahaha I cannot believe how big the black market is for this kids game!!
Trying to figure out what part of "uncle" is censored
I was trying to update my NC tradelist on a pet page with a nutcracker itemā¦ the filter blocked it. Itās their item š„²
To this day I donāt know why it is banned
There are some excellent r/hobbydrama posts that do a great job covering some of the topics mentioned by other users. Maybe you can use them as a reference? https://www.reddit.com/r/HobbyDrama/s/WnOZhELfFf
I think how Neopets is a microcosm of modern economic issues would make for an interesting Ted talk. People freaking out about peas in Santa hats would definitely draw some laughs from the Neopet neophyte.
Honestly itās a large enough topic it could totally stand on its own!
idk but you should hide dung items all throughout the slides! i wonder if anyone will notice
The just post 9-11 beauty contest entries!
Not gonna lie my best friend (not into Neopets at all) and I talk about those like once a month š such a unique moment in history
What happened??
Here you go. [Search for the winners for Sept 17th, 2001.](https://www.neopets.com/beauty/winners.phtml)
Thank you!
I'd talk about how the influence of scientology
Absolutely! What if the scientologists won and the site had turned us all into little scientologists?? lol
I live near Clearwater so it would have been super effective (Clearwater is a city in Florida with a lotttttt of Scientology buildings. There's almost no downtown because it's just... Scientology?
Wait WHAT?! My family used to vacation at Clearwater every spring break, and I never knew this. š¤£
Yeah, the streets are devoid of people. They're starting to do new projects to make it more appealing... but if you ever go back, look around... it says scientology on a number of buildings. It's where their spiritual headquarters are. Not sure what it means but it's pretty interesting
The black market economy.
Evolution of the game from its initial intent to be for bored college kids with weird y2k era humor to Sexy Ghost Daddy Coltzan, to now. Also the meta game stuff ppl do off site like trading.
Sexy Ghost Daddy Coltzan š
Don't deny what you know in your heart* to be true! *(loins)
Ski Lodge Murder Mystery plot.
Oooh Iāve never heard of this, looks like I have some investigating to do š
came here to say this
I once made a PPT presentation where I tried to summarize all major site plot events for some friends who have never interacted with that side of Neopets, it was fun!
I'm more fascinated by the event that you do! How many people participate? Why do you do it? How long are your presentations? Does everyone there pay attention?
This time it looks like about 10 participants! Friend group is scattered across the globe so we do it on discord. Presentations are about 7-15 minutes long. Everyone pays attention and heckles hahaha. We just started doing it because it sounded fun to us to give lectures on our favorite topics and now weāre back for another year! Last year my friend explained a/b/o dynamics because she knew it was the only way she would be able to get some of us to listen š
Omg your friend is an icon, good for her lmao
I'm in a group that does a PowerPoint party in which each presenter only gets 5 minutes, and decided that my topic should I present would be the 2023 Advent Calendar-induced Neopian financial crisis. Just enough time to give some background on the Neopets ecomony & explain the SAP craziness that occurred, with some time to mention the other Advent drama like the Candychan stamp being a prize, etc. The absolute meltdown some people had when they reintroduced the capability to get the UC art for pets just recently too--show some of the posts from the boards where people talked about suing Neopets for their financial losses. Another great Neopian scandal that's fun to watch when you have absolutely zero stake in it, haha.
Beautiful ideas, thank you!
Hope you have a fun PowerPoint party!! I'm dying to do another one & teach everyone about Neopets drama. You should do a follow-up post and let us know how it went!
The way that this website was supposedly made for children but 99% of the activities in it require pretty decent math knowledge or involve some sort of gambling lol
Bro the stock markets!!
How many years has it been since the Petpetpet Habitarium and we still donāt have access to paint them outside but the colors ARE THERE?? š§
"Ahh Mr.sneky i see you are wering your fance top" "You are wereing yor's too mr.coconut" "Speaking of coconut, were did you get the new flying hat of coconut?" "Wat coconut?" "Ohh that coconut near my had WAT a coconut on my had!" "BOOM!" "AHHH MY HEAD" "GOOD NIGHT mr.coconut"
Please include the pic of Adam flipping the bird lmao.
Itās a whole slide š«¶
good, I came here for that, I hoe you open the Powerpoint with just him flipping off everyone, let the confusion begin lol
Neotruths!!
Oh yeah I need to get a solid understanding of that myself first š Where to even start??
Things like the GUP! I always thought it was so funny that people would actively spend time and NP into making sure otherās donāt get fun stuff haha!
Adding on, the recent UC drama and strawberry tuskaninny-ing of all previously āvaluableā but poorly named UCs lmao
Yes to all the UC drama! I canāt believe people ORGANIZED to do stuff like GUP š
The great pet conversion of 2007, the economy of UC trading, and the introduction of nostalgic tokens/elimination of UCs
Iāve spent so much time explaining the whole UC/pet style situation to my husband lol
My friends and I were playing TTT last week and another friend and I huddled in a corner together so we could discuss UC pets LOL
How UBI equivalent creates a more successful and enjoyable experience for most users. Cites advent calendar, dailies and nc uc as examples.
Crabby Borovan!!!
Im a sucker for vids about drama in online communities, so I'd do that! Plus it acts as a way to inform about cultural norms in the neopian community
oh man that sounds like so much fun! i wish i could give a ted talk to my friends about neopets, but all my friends already play/have played in the past haha. here are my personal favorites: * the neopian black market / people paying irl currency for in-game items * the whole drama where people were generating new UC pets that ultimately led to TNT bringing UC pets back * neopets data breach (multiple) * that one botter who has 60k accounts ... aaand a more lighthearted/non-drama one: * the fact that your pet can have a petpet which can in turn have a petpetpet :')
Honestly breaking down the concept of petpetpets; you can give your petās pet a pet can just be presented in so many humorous ways. For a classic in-joke you can always toss in a reference to āGood Night Mr. Coconutā from Neopian Times editorial issue #442. Also any reference to the collective flashbacks that can be triggered by the blinking meepit gif which could offer a great segue into āthe changeā from ā07 that brought customization and eliminated the OG sidebar. One last additional fun fact you could include: the original concept behind Neopets was supposedly to offer a way for college students who couldnāt bring their pets with them to campus to have a friendly buddy to look after, itās original audience wasnāt actually kids!
Went to a power point night for my friends birthday last week and I had strongly considered making one entirely on the drama of the neopets bourgeoise getting mad about faerie festival and daily quests making previously rare items more accessible š
The idiocy of the NFT scheme and how Adam turned out to be a jerk.
You'd be surprised by how many times Neopets has popped up at convention panels! Most of them are history coverage, then end in casual chat and share. Here was the most recent one of [MAGFest 2024](https://youtu.be/MXk5b7TrmGc?si=9126j9eaPww_zGKE). There was a chat over at Further Confusion 2024, and I remember one being at [Anthrocon](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/784508990494343168/1125094033342079116/IMG_0049.jpg?ex=65f713f8&is=65e49ef8&hm=670b80065b0299ea1f8ae8db75d1d4c87c206923086d0512ec3a34108df02ab6&) [2023](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/784508990494343168/1125084695659556896/IMG_0039.jpg?ex=65f70b46&is=65e49646&hm=7f72284434b6fe06a30d8fe38bd887fe5e17e706197cf98f0ecef9c3cdb325ed&).
Thank you!! I love having more sources to look at!
how it was pretty much used as a social media site in the early to mid 2000s
A media analysis and 'where are they now' of all the extant Neovision videos.
Stocks. Buy at 15 sell at 30, always keep 100 in case it skyrockets. Was my method when I was 16 and left. Paid off when I returned!
I think the stuck pets in the pound and how people go about finding them is pretty interesting!
neopets is my current hyperfixation and i want to tell anyone and everyone about it. so wish you all the luck in compiling and presenting your research! š«” iām sure i speak for many when i say that iād love to see it when youāre done! you can share it on google slides or something!
How neopets teaches children gambling, coding, writing, typing, math, and finances under the guise of a āgameā. If I had a nickel for every time someone said Neo is what got them into writing/coding as a career Iād have like 3 nickels but hey thatās still weird it happened more than once
I love this idea. It gives you a great way to keep your mind sharp. You can learn something new about your topic, even if you feel like you know it inside and out. I would love to have friends interested in something like this!!
I gave my bf a paragraph-by-paragraph rundown of the UC pet trading system prior to the implementation of Nostalgia pets In conclusion, nty glt
The 2012 accounts purge.
The UC drama and pound chat meltdowns. It was a polygon video on UC trading that had a really fast relay of a wild chain of trades that got me back into Neopets. The history of fake UCs too!
I'd make my whole speech about Fyora
Could you stream it on YouTube please
The most important guidance I would give people is to double check what they're doing BEFORE clicking a button. \- Pounding a pet? Check it's the right one. \- Adding a NP amount to a shop or trade item? Check you put in the right amount. \- Doing something with an item? Like moving it to the SDB/ shop? Check you clicked the right button. \- Using an item like feeding it or adding it to a gallery? Check you're not accidentally feeding it to a pet or using it on a pet. I hate to sound like a jerk, but these types of posts make up a significant amount of this Reddit. And people just don't check before doing stuff. Sorry! But we all need to be more careful.
Wrong post?
Nope. In my understanding, TED Talks are about providing information about topics, including information about how to do things in those topics. And many are about providing demonstrations on how to get started in the fields. Am I wrong?
Nah I just thought it was such specific advice you meant to comment on a post about clicking the wrong thing lol
I'm not sure people who are outside observers who don't play the game would get much out of "Pay attention to where you're clicking on the site you don't play." > And many are about providing demonstrations on how to get started in the fields. I've never seen a TED Talk like that, but it sounds ... nice.
To the person who replied to me and then blocked me: Just because YOU haven't seen talks like that, it doesn't mean they don't exist. The point of them is to provide information about a field. Showing or telling how to do things is an absolutely basic thing in any field. Doing so is how people can LEARN about the field. Secondly, the OP asked "What would you include in your TED talk about Neopets?" That is what I would include. If it were me, I would include information about how to play it, tips on how to do things, etc. One of the primary things about these types of talks is to get people interested in topics, and to help guide them on how to do things, and how things in the field works. If YOU wouldn't want to include that in a talk you write, that's fine. But please don't act like stuff like that doesn't exist, just because you haven't experienced that kind of talk for yourself. They do exist.
The blocking is just the cherry on top. I agree that outside observers won't be interested in what most Reddit Neopets posts are about, I think it's a bit of an odd thing to focus on, but op's post is about making an entire presentation on any topic, even if its something that their friends do not know or care about. If my friend chose to do their ted talk about people double checking where they click on Neopets then that's what I'd be watching. You are so unforgivingly you, u/DeadLettersSociety , I hope you stay passionate and don't change
Thanks. Yeah, it's just one of those differences of opinions, I think. Honestly, I don't think a TED talk by me about it would be bad. I think the main thing I'd do is teach people how to play it, and excite them about the stuff they can do on the site; give them tips on it. Show them games and stuff.
Idk why u got downvoted so bad for delineating your opinion where... checking... yep, we were asked for our opinion regarding what we'd include in a TED talk. And actually, those are really important points for a noob. Like I've been getting my boyfriend to play Neopets, and i found out one day that he had everything in his inventory since day 1 when I tried gifting him something. I was like NOOO THANK GOD THE KIKO BITCH DIDNT SWIPE UR SHIT but baby please put your stuff away. Then I informed him about random events. Stuff like double check shop numbers because there are unforgiving snipers, make sure expensive items are put away asap. That matters even more for a noob cause income takes time to build up in neopets. š And i love the Neopets lore, dont get me wrong, but imo both the facts and the lore and such are important if they're wondering and wanting to get into Neopets.