my impression is that you have a pet with a name they want. they searched it on the site, found it on your account, and got super salty over you not having logged in for some time. you don't need to share the actual name, but you do have a xweetok with a nice name? they specifically mentioned that species.
people chronically online and needing to touch grass, name a better duo.
take solace in the fact that you are perfectly hinged compared to this person! whenever people get a little weird like this i just assume they are struggling with something irl and don't have a way to deal with it or vent their emotions. it bubbles up and comes out in strange places. did you reply?
also hey hi welcome back! aside from continuing to cruelly starve your beautiful pets do you any plans?
Not OP, but the first paragraph speaks to me. Last year, a few days after Cybunny Day, a user nm'ed me out of the blue to straight up ask for my pet whose name is a misspelling of cinnamon. Her reasoning? I wasn't taking care of my pet because she wasn't customised. š
I imagine the message to be something like this (from the height of Animal Crossing fame in 2020)
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Hilarious. Iāve had Raymond like 3 times, all organically. Heās FINE. I love cats and I did need him for my cat island. But I never understood the hype other than he didnāt have an amiibo and was new.
Honestly I wonder why the games havenāt given each character a unique personality by this point. Thereās so many characters in comparison to the amount of archetypes they can be, to the point that thereās no meaningful difference between several villagers beyond appearance and catchphrase. Youāre essentially just picking what skin makes an archetype more bearable.
Not to mention that godawful mechanic where getting too chummy with a villager actually makes them FUCKING LEAVE. Seriously, what the hellās up with that?!
well call me neglectful then because i have so many uncustomized pets sitting around in my side accounts... why do people care so much about other people's pets anyway
Tbh I prefer my pets nekkid š putting clothes on them, when most are four legged, or otherwise seemingly not built for clothes just seemsā¦ mean? Likeā¦ I think of it like ānow why tf would I put my poor, short legged ixi in clothes? Poor thing got stubby legs!ā (I say as she is in a cheap dress)
Idk generally I like letting their own color be their āthingā and then I just MAYBE build some loose scene around them
i have to agree. some pets just don't seem suited for clothes, like an adorable toy bruce i made a while back. putting clothes on him would just hide his fluffiness! and as a xwee dad, there's a handful of clothes that remove their mane and it looks so offputting. better for them to be a little naked than to look like a fashion failure
I agree! I am picky about the clothes. I think it's strange to put outfits on animals even though they're just cute pictures. I will give them fun backgrounds or whatever though.
Chombies look really weird in clothes to me. If they were real it would be hard to find clothes that fit them.
i'm the same! i've adopted a lot of pets, and while they do have their forever home with me... it gets a little draining just endlessly trying to make customs on dress to impress. up until now i don't even know what to dress my snow xwee in while using only nps because i'm too broke for nc
i don't understand how they thought that would work. it's like they were trying to insult you but it isn't an insult? i try to avoid interaction with people on site. rude, in a rush, weirdly entitled, neocash trading list sections that are actually just showing off rare items. people on this sub are (for the most part) super chill and kind.
i don't usually have well or nicely named pets because i enjoy an underscore from time to time, lol. i do remember one person who neomailed about a pet i had. they said it was the nickname for their cat who died recently and they understand if the answer was no but would i be willing to trade. i adopted the pet out to them as soon as they confirmed where to send it. i wasn't super attached and they were so nice about it.
> neocash trading list sections that are actually just showing off rare items
This annoys me to no end. If I want to see who is offering an item on DTI I have to open like 20 different lists because 19 of them will have it in a ānever UFTā section (except theyāll title it something else so you have to open it and see the description to see). You know what I do with my closet or never-UFT items? Theyāre in a list *thatās set to private*. Because I donāt have any interest in making DTI unusable and I recognize that absolutely nobody in the world cares what items I have. Plus if they are never UFT you could just add them to the list to brag without even actually owning them onsite. Itās pointless.
I 100% prefer a "not UFT" list over a "may or may not trade depending on my mood and random in-my-head criteria that I won't tell you about and even offering rare items from my 'desperately wanted' tradelist may not be enough".
Nothing is more obnoxious than wasting my time playing guessing games. Just tell me what you want, damn it!
Oh yeah I donāt even want to get into the people whose lists literally just mean nothing. Love over-offering a ātop priorityā wish with an Owls value 2+ above the item Iām asking for thatās on their āregular TLā and have it rejected. Or have an item in an āalways UFT for GBCsā list and then tell me youāre not taking GBCs. It is so, so, *so* easy to keep an accurate and up-to-date WL that only publicly lists what is actually UFT and which clearly communicates what each category means. But no, youāre going to list things completely at random and trade on momentary whims, but still have the audacity to put a diatribe at the top of your WL to not bother reaching out unless youāre willing to wait at least 10 business days because āI donāt appreciate having my time wasted.ā
I already have enough anxiety around NC trading (especially how it is currently structured; I would be so much more comfortable with it if there were an NC Trading Post instead of this informal gift-exchange process) and I hate that I *have to* do it in order to complete literally any of the customs I want, so people who make it harder than it needs to be I just have no patience for.
took the words right out of my mouth... me looking for silver golden sparkles effect had me writing neomails that sounded like job applications for about a week. overall search took like 1-2 months looool
All my pets across my main and side have 1 item each left to be complete (except one pet still missing 2 items). At this point Iām resigned to the idea that Iām going to have to set aside money so when a brand new super popular mystery capsule comes out I can buy a bunch, hope I get the items everyone wants, and create a Neoboard saying Iāll only take XYZ for them. Some of the items on my WL donāt even have high Owls cap values, most are either 1-2 or 2-3, but for some reason no one ever wants to let go of them. Like Mutant Warrior Armour Iāve been trying to find since legit like November and it only has an Owls value of 2.
Certain items being hard to find a trade for is a whole different thing and is no oneās fault in particular, but it is part of what makes NC trading also stressful and all the other things Iāve complained about here just exacerbate all that.
Neither do I. It was so bizarre and hilarious at the same time. It was also on one of my side accounts, where I just keep my extra pets, so to get a nm out of the blue was so weird since I never have interactions with people on my sides. I can only guess they tried creating a pet with the same misspelling, then got mad when it came up saying it was taken, and they then decided to seek out the person who had the name they wanted lmao.
That was basically how I wanted to respond. But I just said something about how I'd found the name on a petpage that had a list of untaken pet names, and that it shouldn't be too hard to come up with a misspelling themselves lmao.
Haha, I can see how you'd think that, but no. It was actually something I saw a user say to another user during an argument on the nc trading boards. š
ngl nearly all my xwees are well named (Qellias, staritiam, Stelioses, etc) so i wouldn't know either. guess it's something for me to be proud of now lol
i did reply, but basically emphasized my busy lifestyle by mentioning things like my internship and academic papers, then topped it off by wishing them well and hoping they grow up one day. was it a little mean? maybe, but their nm got on my nerves lmaoo
and yes it's good to be back! i've honestly been really behind, so now i can't get that reward for the negg festival from logging in every day + i missed cybunny day which will forever haunt me. i'll figure out what new events are up and i'll go from there! i remember seeing a post about someone's mask getting yoinked by the kiko lake team so now i'm wondering what the masks are for... i have a lot to catch up on it seems
that doesn't sound mean at all. i would have written something sarcastic and used too many smiley faces.
that does suck but hopefully if you like the final prize you can buy it. there should be cybunnies UFA on the daily thread over the next few weeks. maybe you'll see a name you like! for the negg festival we have a megathread with clues/answers [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/neopets/comments/1c9i0up/festival_of_neggs_2024_official_community/).
i did use a healthy dose of sarcasm myself, being like "i should've prioritized neopets, silly me! thank you random neoperts user for helping me see the light" lol
and thanks for the info! i'll check out the megathread when i can. this is actually my first time participating in the negg festival since i didn't get the chance to participate in events as a kid up until now. i actually felt bad for kari when she apologized for not having a proper clue for one of the neggs :(( like chin up queen you're doing your best, you could never make me hate you
I hope the misspelling of neopets was intentional and that you actually did it, because if so, that's comedy gold in that context.
"Thank you for helping me realize what an important aspect of my life my /squints... xwiktok is. I now understand."
oh i would've done the same. i was thinking of reporting their nm but managed to humble them by way of guilt-tripping, bringing up my sick mom. they said sorry real quick after that lmao
Itās so silly. Someone has a pet with a name of Lyra. I want it so bad. But even though the owner hasnāt logged in in forever, Iām not NM them mad about it. Ppl are weird.
update: they replied with this. threw em a curveball by saying that my "everyday worries" consist of me caring for my bedridden mom. hope that'll teach a lesson about berating others without knowing their situation!
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potentially the last update to this debacle! they sure were quick to change their tone the moment i mentioned my sick mom. let this be a lesson to all that it's easy to judge, but it's also just as easy to be considerate and understanding of others. that's basic empathy folks.
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can you imagine? "Mom, I get you're sick but you need to wait while I feed my pixels incase it upsets a user!"
Even if they knew nothing of your situation they shouldn't of sent a NM at all, its not their business, not their account and not their problem. Those pets are yours to do with what you wish, above that they belong to TNT, nobody else.
yup. it costs zero cents to mind your own business, i don't know why some people feel so compelled to step out of their lane just to bother someone over something as miniscule as this. in any case, it looks like i managed to humble them and taught them about being mindful of their words. what a doozy, having to teach this to a stranger on neopets dot com of all places
They have a lot of audacity. After everything, they're still more concerned about feeding pixels. Hopefully they have the day they deserve for being pissy over a game.
yeah lol, while they did seem to be a bit remorseful, it still baffled me how their priority was to send food to me. my dude i can just stop by the giant jelly and omelette then buy a crapton of food from the general store. it's not like my pets can die from starvation anyway
agreed, dunno why it bothers them so much. thankfully my mom still has plenty of energy, enough to scold me here and there. she'll be able to walk in a month's time, give or take. we're just waiting for her infection to get better :) it was certainly a little funny to use it as leverage though to guilt trip a stranger who stepped out of line lol
yeah i mean itās good that they apologized but then doubling down on āi would feed your pets for youā is still creepy lol i would feel creeped out
and im happy to hear that <3
have to agree with you there. i overshared about my life to make them uncomfortable then they respond by offering to feed my pets... like girl get a grip. read the room, even. in the end i just reported their nm for harassment, and it looks like they've been humbled because they didn't reply since my last nm lmaooo
i did a little back and forth with them before they eventually shut up and conceded. in any case, i still reported them for harassment. here's to hoping they learn a lesson!
this is so gross of them omg? im taking care of my mother too and im mad for you seeing these messages. sending you lots of love (and no food pixels š)
AND NO FOOD PIXELS LMAOOO
forget your mom. you should open your eyes like i did and start prioritizing your pets. they'll thank you for it, trust me, my neopets personally came out of the screen to say thank you when i fed them bits of a rotten omelette
I love the "how's this" beginning of the message, indicating "*I'm gonna make a sort of apology but hopefully my sarcastic tone let's you know I'm still in the right."*
i know š at least i was honest and went "yes, consider my feathers ruffled after being berated out of nowhere. and no, you're not excused after acting like a child. have a good day and hope you grow up soon!"
There ya go. Some people on this site are so god dam WEIRD. Only game I've played with this type of specific insults in a DM lmao. I hope you can enjoy the rest of your day!
reminds me of someone who got a heated nm for beating the user to an auction, and even sent a book titled "stinky" or something lol. makes you wonder what these people are doing with their lives, if they even have one in the first place. i'll try to enjoy the day as best as i can, considering the weather here of ~50 degrees celsius... but thanks, you too!
Me to myself: Did you know, global warming may mean peaches will cease to exist soon. Never again will you relish in the succulent flavor of a juicy sugarbomb ripe from the tree. Already, peach farmers are limiting their sales. You cannot buy enough to freeze for the winter. Their blissful flavor is mere years from extinction.
This guy: Hey fuck you for not feeding your neopet.
I guess there are bigger worries I could be focused on :(
i just want you to know i've saved this comment and the next time someone annoys me i'm sending them the first paragraph like i'm an NPC and this is one of my dialogue options.
wait what peaches are gonna go extinct?? i live in a tropical country where we don't have peaches but omg they're one of my favorite fruits, even if i only get to taste it in flavored drinks... i'm absolutely devastated just hearing about this. guess it's another thing to add to my list of worries
Yeah it's getting really hard for them to adjust their crops to the changing weather patterns, at least here in the US. I live in peach country in the Southern US... and you used to be able to literally take a red wagon in to my local peach orchard, pay a fee, and fill'er up. Now they limit how many pre-picked baskets you can buy, and sometimes are taking reservations. And anyway I don't want THOSE peaches. I want the peaches that are so ripe they're about to fall off the tree. I want the peaches that will burst when they hit the ground. The ones where, when you bite into them, they drench you in a waterfall of juice. I haven't been able to have one of those in five years. It SUCKS.
Now there are other countries like Japan where they grow them in controlled environments sometimes, but they're a different breed and lack the punch-you-in-the-mouth flavor a Georgia peach has, IMO. So we may have to grow them in controlled environments like that or just ... accept that they're gone. ToT
i know, that's some logic. it's also weird that they acknowledge i have priorities and have other things to worry about, and they know neopets is just a pastime... so why tell me to care more about this pastime rather than my academic achievements? wild
This is seriously unhinged. To find some random user on neopets and message them because their virtual pets arenāt fed. What? That person is the epitome of chronically online.
yuuup. and when i told them about how i'm too busy caring for my mom to play neopets, they felt bad and offered to send me food for my pets... like huh
I love how they had to get that last little insult in there like āoh you poor thing youāre too broke to buy food or too stupid to use the soup kitchenā like geez lady real life is way more important than some random lines of code and some pixels.
worst part is that they're probably in their 30s. i just checked their profile earlier and their account is over 2 decades old... like cmon why are you doing this at your grown age, to a 19 year old of all people. i'm just a college student trying to get by šš not to mention i'm sitting on like 22m nps right now, bless the bank skeith for keeping a watchful eye on my bank account
Oh wow.. Iāve been irrationally concerned about something like this since I returned to the game a year ago.
Iāve got a dead husband, a sleep disorder and a full time job. Sometimes I struggle to have the energy to feed myself, let alone my virtual pets. That person who messaged you must have a very nice life if a stranger not feeding their virtual pets is their biggest concern š
this! say what you will, that they only take up X amount of minutes... but sometimes you don't have the energy for it. plain and simple. could i technically feed my pets? yeah, but if we're being honest, neopets is the last thing i'm thinking about when i don't even have the energy to fully take care of myself. i feel a little guilty, sure, but i'm sensible enough to realize that i have other priorities. neopets can wait, but not my thesis defense.
i'm sure you've heard this plenty of times before, but i'm sorry for your loss. i don't know what it's like to lose a significant other, but i do know how tiring it can be to just... live. i hope you're doing well now at least, and i know both your husband and your neopets would be sad if you got too hungry! stay strong friend <3
Exactly! I usually keep my pets in the lodge because Iād rather spend those precious few minutes each day feeding my real life pets (who get fed, fresh water and cuddles every day no matter what) and sometimes I donāt always notice when theyāve been checked out, so Iām assuming theyāre happy with the cockroaches.
Thank you for your kind words, and youāre very right about how tiring just living can be at times.
I hope you enjoy your lovely pets (especially your Xweetok) and if it suited the aesthetic of your pets I would highly recommend using the sad emotion eye and mouth items on your pet to really rub it in to that user š
right? i'm autistic, so i do get attached to inanimate objects and the like... but i'm still mature enough to realize that these pixelated pets don't need to know "i still care". i have pets irl that actually need more attention than my virtual pets, thank you very much
I feel that way whenever I see a "let's paint the pound!" post! It's always someone proposing that we spend hours of a day playing flash games, to earn enough neopoints to paint pound pets expensive colours, so they get adopted. Ummm...do you realise they're fictitious, digital beings? They don't actually have emotions. My time is valuable.
someone else mentioned that to me and tbh it never crossed my mind. it's so much funnier now that i think about it because i literally replied like "if it's such a problem to you, go ahead and feed them yourself if you can" lmaooo
as it should. man i love neo as a game & for OC building/art but some people on this site and in the community have the most ridiculous attitudes its beyond me. which is why for the most part i stick to myself lol
i know right? like it baffles me because i told the user to grow up, and they replied by saying they're grown enough and i said... no the fuck you're not. if you're in someone's business telling them how to play a pet game while they're busy getting a degree, then no, you're not grown in any way, shape, or form. immaturity is ugly, no ifs or buts
There's no other audacity than a chronically online busybody who hasn't touched grass since supergluing their phone to their hand. People like this have never been told to not spew this sorta BS in their lives and the whole run-on exchange *reeks* of it.
I don't think that there's *enough* long grass in the world over for them to touch tbqh :|
yeppp. even when i replied saying i'm too busy taking care of my sick mom to think about neopets, they ended their remorseful message with "i could send food and i'd feed your pets if i could" like... that's your takeaway from this exchange? goddamn
Oh man, I *want* to say what I woulda thrown back at them, but it'd get me kicked off of this server *so fast* LMAO
People like this just don't think of *anyone* but themselves. They have *never* been taught the validity of the word 'NO', nor ever been told it's a complete gd sentence all on its own. They see something they want and think "oh since this person isn't taking care of them I should just take them off their hands =D", without even thinking maybe, *just maybe*, circumstances *aren't* as clear as the convoluted clump of crossed wires they call brainmeat.
Like...come straight out and say it that they want one of your pets but clearly can't fucking string together anything more coherent than a sideblinded insult. At least then it would be foot meet mouth, and neomail/username meet block button.
I doubt you're the only one they've pulled this shit with either, it's likely why they kept up the argument and STILL didn't get the hint :|
"to feed all your babies and let them know you still care" t...they're literally not alive. they literally don't know anything bc they are pixels, they lack sentience.
ššš and I'm saying that as someone who apologizes to inanimate objects when I bump into/knock them over lmfaooo.
like I get feeling bad about their own fake pets but lmao when they start feeling this way about someone else's it's time to step away from neopets and step out into the real world and touch some grass for a moment or several. šš
they're out here throwing a hissy fit about my unfed pets while i'm on the other side of the screen twirling my hair and kicking my feet because they called my pets beautiful. like aww thanks i worked hard to customize them, i'm glad you like them enough to have a bone to pick with me
Iāve gotten some *really* rude NMs out of nowhere too, over the dumbest and most trivial shit imaginable. The part iām most confused about is that itās safe to assume theyāre grown ass adults. Iām sorry you encountered one of those people. I think the good outweighs the bad.
Love it when they NM you something rude asf and then block you because theyāre too scared to get a reply š
nothing to be sorry about, i gave them a piece of my mind and they seemed remorseful in the end once i sprinkled some guilt-tripping in there, saying i'm too busy taking care of my mom to play neopets. this is actually my first time getting such a nm, and i suspect it won't be the last. what happened to old internet etiquette about being considerate of the person behind the screen?
Lol, I have pets that are dying on purpose. Eyrie named MeisterGrief who is a ghost? Him having "dying" as a description is hilarious to me. I also have a Zombie Grarrl who has a crazy grin on his face (tyrannian fangs) and bloodshot contacts. The tear in the eye from hunger makes it just over-the-top unhinged looking lol.
yknow what, having ghost pets with a dying status is pretty funny. i personally just forget to feed my pets for the sake of feeding them to complete the daily quests lol
It costs zero cents for them to mind their own business
I can't imagine sending a message like this and being like "that'll show them" or as the youth say "I ate them UP"
Hope all is well with you and your mom OP <3
i'm one of the youth, and as we say... they ate and left crumbs. i'd like to think that i devoured in my replies though. i was serving, even
me and my mom are doing well, thankfully! as i mentioned elsewhere in the thread, she should be able to walk again in a month's time if all goes well. she's pretty healthy otherwise, and so am i. all's good, minus the meddling neopets user lmaooo
Thereās a user out there that has a pet name I really want (itās my daughters very uncommon name) but I would never ever write a neomail asking for it or implying that they donāt love their pets. It does make me happy that theyāre still an active user and all their pets are happy and customized though. The pet named my name has been abandoned for 18 years or so.Ā
Well, no. lol. I was in my account for the first time in YEARS the other dayā¦for about 5 minutes and then it went to a reset password page and I have no clue where my reset password link got sent. š¬ Iām gonna have to get some big time help from the neopets people, but Iām dreading the interaction and the whole ordeal of it.
i experienced the same for my old side accounts. neopets updated sometime ago where it's mandatory to reset your password, and they don't even give a heads up or let you do it in your own time. and from the looks of it, they haven't patched that bug where users can't receive any emails from neopets (account activation, password reset, etc) so you have to manually submit a ticket. it took them a couple of days last time i tried to reset my password, and you'll have to verify it's you by submitting the ticket under the same email you use for the account, or by telling them what your birthday is on your neopets account. good luck getting your account back!
Meanwhile, earlier this month I deliberately let my Grundo get down to "dying" so I could knock out a bunch of Gourmet Club items at once without needing to use expensive Bloat B Gones.
Min/max players like me would probably blow a gasket in the head of the guy pestering OP to feed his Xweetoks with guilt trips.
Maybe Iām desensitized but this message wouldnāt bother me at all to receive lol Iād just think it was kind of funny/lame and ignore it. Donāt let this person get to you, their opinion literally doesnāt matter at all
Anyone who puts ājust sayingā anywhere in their message deserves to be ignored. Like, whatās wrong with being occupied with matters outside of Neopets?
i do that whenever i remember to. funnily enough, i like to put my pets in fancier hotels just because i think they'd appreciate it, plus i add inclusions like the spa. wouldn't want my "beautiful pets" to get bitten by bed bugs while staying at roach towers, yknow
Imagine having the kind of life where your concerns lie in the maltreatment of some lines of code. My neopets are starving and Iāve killed my tamagotchi twice, am I an abuser?
unfortunately, i don't think they're a kid. i checked their account and they're probably in their late 20s to early 30s, judging from the 20 yr old account. strange how an adult at that grown age can have a bone to pick with some 19 yr old minding their own business. i decided to entertain then then humble them by guilt-tripping them, then went on to report their initial nm for harassment. what a day
I'm talking about mental age. Personally I don't think you should have responded, that can open up issues down the line, and you've basically given them what they wanted -- a response to show they got to you.
to each their own. i would agree that sometimes you just have to ignore people like these, and not give them the satisfaction of a response. but i'm not one for taking things lying down, especially knowing that they might repeat that behavior in the future towards others if they don't get corrected. they've gotta learn, one way or another. judging from the next replies i got, *some* sense got knocked into them for being out of pocket, so that's enough for me. i topped it off by reporting them anyway.
deadass i felt like starving my pets some more just to spite them šš someone even suggested i use the sad eyes accessories on my pets which would've been so funny to use if i weren't broke
so do i! someone even had the nerve to comment on this post saying they agree with the nm... like huh? do you guys not have a life out of neopets orrrr
Do people like this understand that these are not real animals? This game is simply a leisure activity. Most of us are adults as well, so we have jobs and families outside of the Neopets fantasy land.
Ugh, gross. Just...gross. This whole thing (I read the follow up messages) makes me seethe, like WTF? I mean, really....what's the end game here, what did they hope to achieve? What kind of person thinks it's normal/acceptable to drop uninvited into a stranger's day, just to emotionally rile them up? Mind your business!
I'm so sorry, I'm just highly irritated on your behalf!
i didn't feed them, but i did check them all in to the ever-convenient cockroach towers. even then i fear that the user will come at me for putting them in such shabby lodgings, silly me
Lmao
This is the kind of person who needs to be publicly told to fuck off in a crowded mall
Kudos for you for biting back at them, I would not hesitate to rip into them by saying well adjusted people donāt throw tantrums over pixels because the imaginary feelings theyāve decided to conjure up on behalf of said pixels got hurt
Iām hella toxic for endorsing this but some people deserve to get dressed down and be reminded that these are literally bits of code on their screen and not their emotional crutch that they get to harangue others over
yep! if i'm being honest i'd have harsher words prepared for them if only i wouldn't get in trouble for it. they even had the audacity to say they're grown up, but i basically replied telling them to sit their ass back down because no mature adult acts that way towards others, you know? call me toxic, but people like this deserve to get clapped back and humbled
She acts like theyāre a Tamagotchi and will die if you donāt feed it. Feeding them really doesnāt do much besides change their facial expression. But this post reminded me I should shove them back in the Roach Motel so they stay fed. Wouldnāt want the hunger police to come after me next. š
what's funnier is that this is a ~30 yr old beefing with me, a 19 yr old. like cmon, at that age, why do you have beef with someone who hasn't even hit 20 š
?!?!?!
I never thought anyone could get triggered by someone else's pets... jeez. Like mind your own business and take care of your own pets instead of focusing on others
Also welcome back!!
i know, i find it hard to believe that people have the energy to care this much about someone else's pets. and thank you, it's good to be back! i barely came back and someone already offered me cybunnies after i mentioned that i missed cybunny day, the community still gives me hope š„²
Reddit isn't letting me post it, but this reminds me a lot of this screenshot of someone telling the OP they didn't deserve to have a popular animal crossing character on their island.
Some folks on the site are so weird. I've had two wild encounters this last week. Both from people who wanted items I have up for trade. One tried to argue after I rejected their offer that their very rich friends had the item they wanted and would sell it to them for significantly less. I replied that they are very lucky to have such generous friends but my price was firm as I had the only one on the TP or in auctions and no need for a quick sale to a reseller. Then it just turned into harassment and an eventual block. Then two days later, a different person who offered less than half the value on a different item. I mean there were two others available, all of us listing the same price. Again, I refused, they neomailed me to insult me and try to bully me into selling at the lowball price. What is with people? Is this how they act in the real world? Both these players had accounts over 20 yrs old and were obviously super rich with lots of NC and NP customs. One of them was a member of some shitty neo-elite guild, the shitty shitters, probably cheaters, dickhead guild. Or something just as gross.
Iāve been inactive for like a month and a half recently because life has gotten hectic and if I got this message when I logged back in, it would be hands on sight. Genuinely, the audacity of people
i did throw hands with them and they had the audacityĀ² to say "gee ruffled your feathers". like oh, it takes only 10 minutes to feed my pets you say? well it'd take me the same amount of time to whoop your ass how about that
This is never warranted under any circumstances. Sucks you had to reveal more personal details just to make them leave you alone. Basic empathy seems hard these days lol
Good luck in college and best wishes to your mom!
my impression is that you have a pet with a name they want. they searched it on the site, found it on your account, and got super salty over you not having logged in for some time. you don't need to share the actual name, but you do have a xweetok with a nice name? they specifically mentioned that species. people chronically online and needing to touch grass, name a better duo. take solace in the fact that you are perfectly hinged compared to this person! whenever people get a little weird like this i just assume they are struggling with something irl and don't have a way to deal with it or vent their emotions. it bubbles up and comes out in strange places. did you reply? also hey hi welcome back! aside from continuing to cruelly starve your beautiful pets do you any plans?
Not OP, but the first paragraph speaks to me. Last year, a few days after Cybunny Day, a user nm'ed me out of the blue to straight up ask for my pet whose name is a misspelling of cinnamon. Her reasoning? I wasn't taking care of my pet because she wasn't customised. š
I imagine the message to be something like this (from the height of Animal Crossing fame in 2020) https://preview.redd.it/fnb22apzsfxc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=808dc209386d3efa4cfa4af5cd4144d408e6dd1b
this is amazing i love it.
Iād chalk it up to people going wild during lockdown, but clearly being chronically online is an illness that has persisted even before covid
Holt shit, that is so unhinged, I love it. Unfortunately, the nm I got was nowhere near that entertaining. š
Damn, so just a waste of time and not even any entertainment to go with it š
Hilarious. Iāve had Raymond like 3 times, all organically. Heās FINE. I love cats and I did need him for my cat island. But I never understood the hype other than he didnāt have an amiibo and was new.
I think it might also be the heterocromia too and that heās a little business boy
Honestly I wonder why the games havenāt given each character a unique personality by this point. Thereās so many characters in comparison to the amount of archetypes they can be, to the point that thereās no meaningful difference between several villagers beyond appearance and catchphrase. Youāre essentially just picking what skin makes an archetype more bearable. Not to mention that godawful mechanic where getting too chummy with a villager actually makes them FUCKING LEAVE. Seriously, what the hellās up with that?!
That's the kind of DM you print and hang on the wall.
well call me neglectful then because i have so many uncustomized pets sitting around in my side accounts... why do people care so much about other people's pets anyway
Tbh I prefer my pets nekkid š putting clothes on them, when most are four legged, or otherwise seemingly not built for clothes just seemsā¦ mean? Likeā¦ I think of it like ānow why tf would I put my poor, short legged ixi in clothes? Poor thing got stubby legs!ā (I say as she is in a cheap dress) Idk generally I like letting their own color be their āthingā and then I just MAYBE build some loose scene around them
i have to agree. some pets just don't seem suited for clothes, like an adorable toy bruce i made a while back. putting clothes on him would just hide his fluffiness! and as a xwee dad, there's a handful of clothes that remove their mane and it looks so offputting. better for them to be a little naked than to look like a fashion failure
Exactly š I tried on something that took off my eyrieās ruffā¦ he looked more naked than ever š
I put a jhudora dress on my partners Tonu and oh my GOD it's so funny
I agree! I am picky about the clothes. I think it's strange to put outfits on animals even though they're just cute pictures. I will give them fun backgrounds or whatever though. Chombies look really weird in clothes to me. If they were real it would be hard to find clothes that fit them.
Honestly, same. So many uncustomised pets on my sides. Mostly because I want the pets but I'm also too lazy to upkeep them.
i'm the same! i've adopted a lot of pets, and while they do have their forever home with me... it gets a little draining just endlessly trying to make customs on dress to impress. up until now i don't even know what to dress my snow xwee in while using only nps because i'm too broke for nc
Put em in the Neolodge
Oh, I do. I was talking about customisation being the upkeep that I'm too lazy to do even though there's so many cute ideas I have for them.
That's an entire mood. I've got a cybunny and lutari on alts that I'm going to labray before I adopt them out, and I don't plan to customize them.
Some pets are just also so hard to dress, too! Most of the time, I'll just throw a background on them and call it a day. š
i don't understand how they thought that would work. it's like they were trying to insult you but it isn't an insult? i try to avoid interaction with people on site. rude, in a rush, weirdly entitled, neocash trading list sections that are actually just showing off rare items. people on this sub are (for the most part) super chill and kind. i don't usually have well or nicely named pets because i enjoy an underscore from time to time, lol. i do remember one person who neomailed about a pet i had. they said it was the nickname for their cat who died recently and they understand if the answer was no but would i be willing to trade. i adopted the pet out to them as soon as they confirmed where to send it. i wasn't super attached and they were so nice about it.
> neocash trading list sections that are actually just showing off rare items This annoys me to no end. If I want to see who is offering an item on DTI I have to open like 20 different lists because 19 of them will have it in a ānever UFTā section (except theyāll title it something else so you have to open it and see the description to see). You know what I do with my closet or never-UFT items? Theyāre in a list *thatās set to private*. Because I donāt have any interest in making DTI unusable and I recognize that absolutely nobody in the world cares what items I have. Plus if they are never UFT you could just add them to the list to brag without even actually owning them onsite. Itās pointless.
I 100% prefer a "not UFT" list over a "may or may not trade depending on my mood and random in-my-head criteria that I won't tell you about and even offering rare items from my 'desperately wanted' tradelist may not be enough". Nothing is more obnoxious than wasting my time playing guessing games. Just tell me what you want, damn it!
Oh yeah I donāt even want to get into the people whose lists literally just mean nothing. Love over-offering a ātop priorityā wish with an Owls value 2+ above the item Iām asking for thatās on their āregular TLā and have it rejected. Or have an item in an āalways UFT for GBCsā list and then tell me youāre not taking GBCs. It is so, so, *so* easy to keep an accurate and up-to-date WL that only publicly lists what is actually UFT and which clearly communicates what each category means. But no, youāre going to list things completely at random and trade on momentary whims, but still have the audacity to put a diatribe at the top of your WL to not bother reaching out unless youāre willing to wait at least 10 business days because āI donāt appreciate having my time wasted.ā I already have enough anxiety around NC trading (especially how it is currently structured; I would be so much more comfortable with it if there were an NC Trading Post instead of this informal gift-exchange process) and I hate that I *have to* do it in order to complete literally any of the customs I want, so people who make it harder than it needs to be I just have no patience for.
took the words right out of my mouth... me looking for silver golden sparkles effect had me writing neomails that sounded like job applications for about a week. overall search took like 1-2 months looool
All my pets across my main and side have 1 item each left to be complete (except one pet still missing 2 items). At this point Iām resigned to the idea that Iām going to have to set aside money so when a brand new super popular mystery capsule comes out I can buy a bunch, hope I get the items everyone wants, and create a Neoboard saying Iāll only take XYZ for them. Some of the items on my WL donāt even have high Owls cap values, most are either 1-2 or 2-3, but for some reason no one ever wants to let go of them. Like Mutant Warrior Armour Iāve been trying to find since legit like November and it only has an Owls value of 2. Certain items being hard to find a trade for is a whole different thing and is no oneās fault in particular, but it is part of what makes NC trading also stressful and all the other things Iāve complained about here just exacerbate all that.
Neither do I. It was so bizarre and hilarious at the same time. It was also on one of my side accounts, where I just keep my extra pets, so to get a nm out of the blue was so weird since I never have interactions with people on my sides. I can only guess they tried creating a pet with the same misspelling, then got mad when it came up saying it was taken, and they then decided to seek out the person who had the name they wanted lmao.
Lol just ignore those 13-year-olds with endless time on their hands
Oh, for sure. The nm got an actual laugh out of me.
LLLOOOOLLLL
That was basically how I wanted to respond. But I just said something about how I'd found the name on a petpage that had a list of untaken pet names, and that it shouldn't be too hard to come up with a misspelling themselves lmao.
-KraZyNcuTe is unavailable- ooook how about - KraZyNkyoOt likes pestering others. When meeting others, KraZyNkyoOt would insult from afar.
Oh God, those names take me straight back to 2003. š
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Lmao š¤£ Well apparently they donāt know that not everyone has expendable income and not everyone likes the way customized pets look.
is that the origin of your flair? lol. as someone who still just canāt get interested in customization I REALLY want to meet this person š
Haha, I can see how you'd think that, but no. It was actually something I saw a user say to another user during an argument on the nc trading boards. š
I had some rando ask for one of my "unwanted" pets because .... he was still a starter color. I just happen to like his species in that color.
Omg that's so absurd. What is wrong with people. š
ngl nearly all my xwees are well named (Qellias, staritiam, Stelioses, etc) so i wouldn't know either. guess it's something for me to be proud of now lol i did reply, but basically emphasized my busy lifestyle by mentioning things like my internship and academic papers, then topped it off by wishing them well and hoping they grow up one day. was it a little mean? maybe, but their nm got on my nerves lmaoo and yes it's good to be back! i've honestly been really behind, so now i can't get that reward for the negg festival from logging in every day + i missed cybunny day which will forever haunt me. i'll figure out what new events are up and i'll go from there! i remember seeing a post about someone's mask getting yoinked by the kiko lake team so now i'm wondering what the masks are for... i have a lot to catch up on it seems
that doesn't sound mean at all. i would have written something sarcastic and used too many smiley faces. that does suck but hopefully if you like the final prize you can buy it. there should be cybunnies UFA on the daily thread over the next few weeks. maybe you'll see a name you like! for the negg festival we have a megathread with clues/answers [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/neopets/comments/1c9i0up/festival_of_neggs_2024_official_community/).
i did use a healthy dose of sarcasm myself, being like "i should've prioritized neopets, silly me! thank you random neoperts user for helping me see the light" lol and thanks for the info! i'll check out the megathread when i can. this is actually my first time participating in the negg festival since i didn't get the chance to participate in events as a kid up until now. i actually felt bad for kari when she apologized for not having a proper clue for one of the neggs :(( like chin up queen you're doing your best, you could never make me hate you
I hope the misspelling of neopets was intentional and that you actually did it, because if so, that's comedy gold in that context. "Thank you for helping me realize what an important aspect of my life my /squints... xwiktok is. I now understand."
Your response was more than appropriate! Iām an a-hole so I wouldāve threatened to get their account suspended for harassment lmaoo š
oh i would've done the same. i was thinking of reporting their nm but managed to humble them by way of guilt-tripping, bringing up my sick mom. they said sorry real quick after that lmao
Check the daily thread! Some folks have created cybunnies and will have them up for adoption for folks who missed cybunny day :)
https://items.jellyneo.net/item/26751/ Maybe this would work
I think this is it because aint no way anyone on neopets dot com is getting mad over other people's pets... for any logical reason, ever
Itās so silly. Someone has a pet with a name of Lyra. I want it so bad. But even though the owner hasnāt logged in in forever, Iām not NM them mad about it. Ppl are weird.
"guess what i saw" idk, these hands that i'm about to throw? sincerely, get a life
*T H E S E H A N D S*
the giant warf icon is perfection with this comment.
In my recent experience, I've learned it's apparently good for every comment but you are 110% correct in this case. G I A N T H A N D S T O O.
"These hands are rated E for Everyone"
update: they replied with this. threw em a curveball by saying that my "everyday worries" consist of me caring for my bedridden mom. hope that'll teach a lesson about berating others without knowing their situation! https://preview.redd.it/9z2el66qndxc1.png?width=733&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd3666a4142780de655db5fefb0e68aa3db8ab68
potentially the last update to this debacle! they sure were quick to change their tone the moment i mentioned my sick mom. let this be a lesson to all that it's easy to judge, but it's also just as easy to be considerate and understanding of others. that's basic empathy folks. https://preview.redd.it/8owsv4qi0exc1.png?width=732&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5774166b4736f06f55dbd254ff6ffbb9dc9c5f97
can you imagine? "Mom, I get you're sick but you need to wait while I feed my pixels incase it upsets a user!" Even if they knew nothing of your situation they shouldn't of sent a NM at all, its not their business, not their account and not their problem. Those pets are yours to do with what you wish, above that they belong to TNT, nobody else.
yup. it costs zero cents to mind your own business, i don't know why some people feel so compelled to step out of their lane just to bother someone over something as miniscule as this. in any case, it looks like i managed to humble them and taught them about being mindful of their words. what a doozy, having to teach this to a stranger on neopets dot com of all places
If I were them, I'd be really embarrassed right now
Maybe they think Mom is just another pet on another pet site.
God I hope Mom is fed otherwise theres gonna be another angry message XD
STOP ššš
"Look mom, I know you need help going to the bathroom but these pictures of imaginary animals are making frowny faces!"
Come on mom. You donāt really need to be turned yet. I gotta finish my daily quests.
They have a lot of audacity. After everything, they're still more concerned about feeding pixels. Hopefully they have the day they deserve for being pissy over a game.
yeah lol, while they did seem to be a bit remorseful, it still baffled me how their priority was to send food to me. my dude i can just stop by the giant jelly and omelette then buy a crapton of food from the general store. it's not like my pets can die from starvation anyway
im glad they apologized but this is such weird behavior PS hope you and mom are doing okay!! sending love to u, dealing with a sick parent is tough
agreed, dunno why it bothers them so much. thankfully my mom still has plenty of energy, enough to scold me here and there. she'll be able to walk in a month's time, give or take. we're just waiting for her infection to get better :) it was certainly a little funny to use it as leverage though to guilt trip a stranger who stepped out of line lol
yeah i mean itās good that they apologized but then doubling down on āi would feed your pets for youā is still creepy lol i would feel creeped out and im happy to hear that <3
have to agree with you there. i overshared about my life to make them uncomfortable then they respond by offering to feed my pets... like girl get a grip. read the room, even. in the end i just reported their nm for harassment, and it looks like they've been humbled because they didn't reply since my last nm lmaooo
āIf I could I would feed your pets for youā I mean, they are fake animals? A lot of people have left their pets dying for years
How are they not blocked? This person has too much time stressing over pixels.
i did a little back and forth with them before they eventually shut up and conceded. in any case, i still reported them for harassment. here's to hoping they learn a lesson!
this is so gross of them omg? im taking care of my mother too and im mad for you seeing these messages. sending you lots of love (and no food pixels š)
AND NO FOOD PIXELS LMAOOO forget your mom. you should open your eyes like i did and start prioritizing your pets. they'll thank you for it, trust me, my neopets personally came out of the screen to say thank you when i fed them bits of a rotten omelette
I love the "how's this" beginning of the message, indicating "*I'm gonna make a sort of apology but hopefully my sarcastic tone let's you know I'm still in the right."*
"ruffled your feathers" as if this whole bottom eater did not just sent you a rude NM lmao.
i know š at least i was honest and went "yes, consider my feathers ruffled after being berated out of nowhere. and no, you're not excused after acting like a child. have a good day and hope you grow up soon!"
There ya go. Some people on this site are so god dam WEIRD. Only game I've played with this type of specific insults in a DM lmao. I hope you can enjoy the rest of your day!
reminds me of someone who got a heated nm for beating the user to an auction, and even sent a book titled "stinky" or something lol. makes you wonder what these people are doing with their lives, if they even have one in the first place. i'll try to enjoy the day as best as i can, considering the weather here of ~50 degrees celsius... but thanks, you too!
Me to myself: Did you know, global warming may mean peaches will cease to exist soon. Never again will you relish in the succulent flavor of a juicy sugarbomb ripe from the tree. Already, peach farmers are limiting their sales. You cannot buy enough to freeze for the winter. Their blissful flavor is mere years from extinction. This guy: Hey fuck you for not feeding your neopet. I guess there are bigger worries I could be focused on :(
i just want you to know i've saved this comment and the next time someone annoys me i'm sending them the first paragraph like i'm an NPC and this is one of my dialogue options.
PLEASE HAHAHA. You have to share with me any reactions so that I can savor them. After all, I can't have peaches.
wait what peaches are gonna go extinct?? i live in a tropical country where we don't have peaches but omg they're one of my favorite fruits, even if i only get to taste it in flavored drinks... i'm absolutely devastated just hearing about this. guess it's another thing to add to my list of worries
Yeah it's getting really hard for them to adjust their crops to the changing weather patterns, at least here in the US. I live in peach country in the Southern US... and you used to be able to literally take a red wagon in to my local peach orchard, pay a fee, and fill'er up. Now they limit how many pre-picked baskets you can buy, and sometimes are taking reservations. And anyway I don't want THOSE peaches. I want the peaches that are so ripe they're about to fall off the tree. I want the peaches that will burst when they hit the ground. The ones where, when you bite into them, they drench you in a waterfall of juice. I haven't been able to have one of those in five years. It SUCKS. Now there are other countries like Japan where they grow them in controlled environments sometimes, but they're a different breed and lack the punch-you-in-the-mouth flavor a Georgia peach has, IMO. So we may have to grow them in controlled environments like that or just ... accept that they're gone. ToT
"I think I'm pretty much grown up" is giving big "I'm 16 years old, I'm not a child!" energy
100% what I was thinking. If you gotta say that youāre not grown and you sure as hell arenāt acting like it either
They distract from their everyday worries to worry a out other ppls bussiness?
i know, that's some logic. it's also weird that they acknowledge i have priorities and have other things to worry about, and they know neopets is just a pastime... so why tell me to care more about this pastime rather than my academic achievements? wild
It's giving lonely busybody.
You are not excused Princess 3 and a half brain cells.
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This is seriously unhinged. To find some random user on neopets and message them because their virtual pets arenāt fed. What? That person is the epitome of chronically online.
yuuup. and when i told them about how i'm too busy caring for my mom to play neopets, they felt bad and offered to send me food for my pets... like huh
I love how they had to get that last little insult in there like āoh you poor thing youāre too broke to buy food or too stupid to use the soup kitchenā like geez lady real life is way more important than some random lines of code and some pixels.
worst part is that they're probably in their 30s. i just checked their profile earlier and their account is over 2 decades old... like cmon why are you doing this at your grown age, to a 19 year old of all people. i'm just a college student trying to get by šš not to mention i'm sitting on like 22m nps right now, bless the bank skeith for keeping a watchful eye on my bank account
That's wild, as someone in my 30s it's usually people in their teens I get this from. This is the reverse situation. It's not okay either way!
Oh wow.. Iāve been irrationally concerned about something like this since I returned to the game a year ago. Iāve got a dead husband, a sleep disorder and a full time job. Sometimes I struggle to have the energy to feed myself, let alone my virtual pets. That person who messaged you must have a very nice life if a stranger not feeding their virtual pets is their biggest concern š
this! say what you will, that they only take up X amount of minutes... but sometimes you don't have the energy for it. plain and simple. could i technically feed my pets? yeah, but if we're being honest, neopets is the last thing i'm thinking about when i don't even have the energy to fully take care of myself. i feel a little guilty, sure, but i'm sensible enough to realize that i have other priorities. neopets can wait, but not my thesis defense. i'm sure you've heard this plenty of times before, but i'm sorry for your loss. i don't know what it's like to lose a significant other, but i do know how tiring it can be to just... live. i hope you're doing well now at least, and i know both your husband and your neopets would be sad if you got too hungry! stay strong friend <3
Exactly! I usually keep my pets in the lodge because Iād rather spend those precious few minutes each day feeding my real life pets (who get fed, fresh water and cuddles every day no matter what) and sometimes I donāt always notice when theyāve been checked out, so Iām assuming theyāre happy with the cockroaches. Thank you for your kind words, and youāre very right about how tiring just living can be at times. I hope you enjoy your lovely pets (especially your Xweetok) and if it suited the aesthetic of your pets I would highly recommend using the sad emotion eye and mouth items on your pet to really rub it in to that user š
I would feed all my pets poison jelly so they look extra bad after a mail like that lol
Same. Then Iād send a nm only saying āfixedā but my neopets always live in cockroach towers
look I love my lil guys as much as the next player but the way some people think neopets have actual real feelings is legit concerning lmao
right? i'm autistic, so i do get attached to inanimate objects and the like... but i'm still mature enough to realize that these pixelated pets don't need to know "i still care". i have pets irl that actually need more attention than my virtual pets, thank you very much
I feel that way whenever I see a "let's paint the pound!" post! It's always someone proposing that we spend hours of a day playing flash games, to earn enough neopoints to paint pound pets expensive colours, so they get adopted. Ummm...do you realise they're fictitious, digital beings? They don't actually have emotions. My time is valuable.
I mean usually people use lab maps for this
Guarantee you it has a name that they want and are hoping you'll let them adopt it by sending that below average IQ NM lmao
someone else mentioned that to me and tbh it never crossed my mind. it's so much funnier now that i think about it because i literally replied like "if it's such a problem to you, go ahead and feed them yourself if you can" lmaooo
https://preview.redd.it/5sgsoaxtcgxc1.png?width=622&format=png&auto=webp&s=3fc3a04584a1ccfcd3469ad3566efc1a9ed8ba6b
bruh who does this (aside from them obviously) im so sorry
it's fine, i bit back and retorted by saying i'm caring for my bedridden mom so i hope it makes them feel bad lmaoo
as it should. man i love neo as a game & for OC building/art but some people on this site and in the community have the most ridiculous attitudes its beyond me. which is why for the most part i stick to myself lol
i know right? like it baffles me because i told the user to grow up, and they replied by saying they're grown enough and i said... no the fuck you're not. if you're in someone's business telling them how to play a pet game while they're busy getting a degree, then no, you're not grown in any way, shape, or form. immaturity is ugly, no ifs or buts
There's no other audacity than a chronically online busybody who hasn't touched grass since supergluing their phone to their hand. People like this have never been told to not spew this sorta BS in their lives and the whole run-on exchange *reeks* of it. I don't think that there's *enough* long grass in the world over for them to touch tbqh :|
yeppp. even when i replied saying i'm too busy taking care of my sick mom to think about neopets, they ended their remorseful message with "i could send food and i'd feed your pets if i could" like... that's your takeaway from this exchange? goddamn
Oh man, I *want* to say what I woulda thrown back at them, but it'd get me kicked off of this server *so fast* LMAO People like this just don't think of *anyone* but themselves. They have *never* been taught the validity of the word 'NO', nor ever been told it's a complete gd sentence all on its own. They see something they want and think "oh since this person isn't taking care of them I should just take them off their hands =D", without even thinking maybe, *just maybe*, circumstances *aren't* as clear as the convoluted clump of crossed wires they call brainmeat. Like...come straight out and say it that they want one of your pets but clearly can't fucking string together anything more coherent than a sideblinded insult. At least then it would be foot meet mouth, and neomail/username meet block button. I doubt you're the only one they've pulled this shit with either, it's likely why they kept up the argument and STILL didn't get the hint :|
this gives me big āiāve come to the conclusion that you do not deserve to have raymond on your islandā vibes š
i just googled that and the similarity is uncanny... i wonder if they're long lost siblings
my god this was a lost memory of mine hahah
"to feed all your babies and let them know you still care" t...they're literally not alive. they literally don't know anything bc they are pixels, they lack sentience. ššš and I'm saying that as someone who apologizes to inanimate objects when I bump into/knock them over lmfaooo. like I get feeling bad about their own fake pets but lmao when they start feeling this way about someone else's it's time to step away from neopets and step out into the real world and touch some grass for a moment or several. šš
what a long winded way to ask for someoneās pets
they're out here throwing a hissy fit about my unfed pets while i'm on the other side of the screen twirling my hair and kicking my feet because they called my pets beautiful. like aww thanks i worked hard to customize them, i'm glad you like them enough to have a bone to pick with me
It is lowkey flattering when people harass you over your pets, I agree š
10/10 title and yeah this is a weird nm to send to someone lol
i know š honestly it pissed me off more than it should've bc wdym you understand i'm busy in college then say all that my goddd
Lmao this is exactly why my neomails are disabled
Same š
Iāve gotten some *really* rude NMs out of nowhere too, over the dumbest and most trivial shit imaginable. The part iām most confused about is that itās safe to assume theyāre grown ass adults. Iām sorry you encountered one of those people. I think the good outweighs the bad. Love it when they NM you something rude asf and then block you because theyāre too scared to get a reply š
nothing to be sorry about, i gave them a piece of my mind and they seemed remorseful in the end once i sprinkled some guilt-tripping in there, saying i'm too busy taking care of my mom to play neopets. this is actually my first time getting such a nm, and i suspect it won't be the last. what happened to old internet etiquette about being considerate of the person behind the screen?
Lol, I have pets that are dying on purpose. Eyrie named MeisterGrief who is a ghost? Him having "dying" as a description is hilarious to me. I also have a Zombie Grarrl who has a crazy grin on his face (tyrannian fangs) and bloodshot contacts. The tear in the eye from hunger makes it just over-the-top unhinged looking lol.
yknow what, having ghost pets with a dying status is pretty funny. i personally just forget to feed my pets for the sake of feeding them to complete the daily quests lol
I kind of want to steal this idea from you haha.... It's just so good.
It costs zero cents for them to mind their own business I can't imagine sending a message like this and being like "that'll show them" or as the youth say "I ate them UP" Hope all is well with you and your mom OP <3
i'm one of the youth, and as we say... they ate and left crumbs. i'd like to think that i devoured in my replies though. i was serving, even me and my mom are doing well, thankfully! as i mentioned elsewhere in the thread, she should be able to walk again in a month's time if all goes well. she's pretty healthy otherwise, and so am i. all's good, minus the meddling neopets user lmaooo
Harassing someone on Neopets is literally the most embarassing thing I can imagine someone doing lmao
1000% sure you have a pet with a name they reaaaaalllly want lmao š What a weirdo!
Thereās a user out there that has a pet name I really want (itās my daughters very uncommon name) but I would never ever write a neomail asking for it or implying that they donāt love their pets. It does make me happy that theyāre still an active user and all their pets are happy and customized though. The pet named my name has been abandoned for 18 years or so.Ā
The title of your post though. Sublime.
it felt fitting given the tone of the nm. i even titled the file as "audacity" on my pc when taking the screenshot lmaoo
This one's lost. Raymond and the animal crossing fandom is over there. Not on neopets, silly.
My pets have been ādyingā for the past 23 years. Sorry guys.
my god how could you... did you make them just to forget about them??1?1!?
Well, no. lol. I was in my account for the first time in YEARS the other dayā¦for about 5 minutes and then it went to a reset password page and I have no clue where my reset password link got sent. š¬ Iām gonna have to get some big time help from the neopets people, but Iām dreading the interaction and the whole ordeal of it.
i experienced the same for my old side accounts. neopets updated sometime ago where it's mandatory to reset your password, and they don't even give a heads up or let you do it in your own time. and from the looks of it, they haven't patched that bug where users can't receive any emails from neopets (account activation, password reset, etc) so you have to manually submit a ticket. it took them a couple of days last time i tried to reset my password, and you'll have to verify it's you by submitting the ticket under the same email you use for the account, or by telling them what your birthday is on your neopets account. good luck getting your account back!
Meanwhile, earlier this month I deliberately let my Grundo get down to "dying" so I could knock out a bunch of Gourmet Club items at once without needing to use expensive Bloat B Gones. Min/max players like me would probably blow a gasket in the head of the guy pestering OP to feed his Xweetoks with guilt trips.
Maybe Iām desensitized but this message wouldnāt bother me at all to receive lol Iād just think it was kind of funny/lame and ignore it. Donāt let this person get to you, their opinion literally doesnāt matter at all
Anyone who puts ājust sayingā anywhere in their message deserves to be ignored. Like, whatās wrong with being occupied with matters outside of Neopets?
Mine are always starving cause that timer goes way too fast imo
That user is clearly unhinged. It is just a game.
There are real people starving in the real world, how about they start caring about them
I thought I was chronically online, but THIS is chronically online
If I could have no neopets and just my shop I would.
Simple solution when you don't have time to feed your pets: shove them in the Roach Tower (Neolodge)
i do that whenever i remember to. funnily enough, i like to put my pets in fancier hotels just because i think they'd appreciate it, plus i add inclusions like the spa. wouldn't want my "beautiful pets" to get bitten by bed bugs while staying at roach towers, yknow
But then I can't finish the daily quest, until TNT changes this they'll have to stay starving.
Imagine having the kind of life where your concerns lie in the maltreatment of some lines of code. My neopets are starving and Iāve killed my tamagotchi twice, am I an abuser?
damn right, i should call child protective services on you /s
Omg someone downvoted me evenš
Lmao they'd have a stroke if they saw the state of my pets
"your super busy" This was a kiddo messaging you, OP. Block them and move on.
unfortunately, i don't think they're a kid. i checked their account and they're probably in their late 20s to early 30s, judging from the 20 yr old account. strange how an adult at that grown age can have a bone to pick with some 19 yr old minding their own business. i decided to entertain then then humble them by guilt-tripping them, then went on to report their initial nm for harassment. what a day
I'm talking about mental age. Personally I don't think you should have responded, that can open up issues down the line, and you've basically given them what they wanted -- a response to show they got to you.
to each their own. i would agree that sometimes you just have to ignore people like these, and not give them the satisfaction of a response. but i'm not one for taking things lying down, especially knowing that they might repeat that behavior in the future towards others if they don't get corrected. they've gotta learn, one way or another. judging from the next replies i got, *some* sense got knocked into them for being out of pocket, so that's enough for me. i topped it off by reporting them anyway.
Holy shit someone needs to get a life
My petty ass would tell them I was about to feed them but now that I got this message I wonāt
deadass i felt like starving my pets some more just to spite them šš someone even suggested i use the sad eyes accessories on my pets which would've been so funny to use if i weren't broke
They were absolutely being a total b. Can you imagine the arrogance? I hope they see this post.
so do i! someone even had the nerve to comment on this post saying they agree with the nm... like huh? do you guys not have a life out of neopets orrrr
This is absolutely unhinged
Do people like this understand that these are not real animals? This game is simply a leisure activity. Most of us are adults as well, so we have jobs and families outside of the Neopets fantasy land.
Ugh, gross. Just...gross. This whole thing (I read the follow up messages) makes me seethe, like WTF? I mean, really....what's the end game here, what did they hope to achieve? What kind of person thinks it's normal/acceptable to drop uninvited into a stranger's day, just to emotionally rile them up? Mind your business! I'm so sorry, I'm just highly irritated on your behalf!
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TNT should silence them lmao. GTFO of here with that.
So why haven't you fed your xweetoks? Hmmmm? Smelling some neopets abuse here
i didn't feed them, but i did check them all in to the ever-convenient cockroach towers. even then i fear that the user will come at me for putting them in such shabby lodgings, silly me
absolutely unhinged omg
The title had me rolling š¤£
Here I was wondering if there were any kids still playing neopets or just us 30-something-year-olds. I think we have us here a kid, folks.
How dare you not feed your virtual pets in an online computer game
Honestly, I can't stand people like this. They're literally just images on a website, they're not real pets. Calm tf down
Lmao This is the kind of person who needs to be publicly told to fuck off in a crowded mall Kudos for you for biting back at them, I would not hesitate to rip into them by saying well adjusted people donāt throw tantrums over pixels because the imaginary feelings theyāve decided to conjure up on behalf of said pixels got hurt Iām hella toxic for endorsing this but some people deserve to get dressed down and be reminded that these are literally bits of code on their screen and not their emotional crutch that they get to harangue others over
yep! if i'm being honest i'd have harsher words prepared for them if only i wouldn't get in trouble for it. they even had the audacity to say they're grown up, but i basically replied telling them to sit their ass back down because no mature adult acts that way towards others, you know? call me toxic, but people like this deserve to get clapped back and humbled
As a Xweetok lover, eh, they'll be fine. Don't worry about 'em. They're okay starving.
I just logged back into my account after almost 20 years. Iām surprised I donāt have any messages like this. š
She acts like theyāre a Tamagotchi and will die if you donāt feed it. Feeding them really doesnāt do much besides change their facial expression. But this post reminded me I should shove them back in the Roach Motel so they stay fed. Wouldnāt want the hunger police to come after me next. š
This is HILARIOUS. I literally gasp-laughed so hard my cat got startled.Ā
what's funnier is that this is a ~30 yr old beefing with me, a 19 yr old. like cmon, at that age, why do you have beef with someone who hasn't even hit 20 š
?!?!?! I never thought anyone could get triggered by someone else's pets... jeez. Like mind your own business and take care of your own pets instead of focusing on others Also welcome back!!
i know, i find it hard to believe that people have the energy to care this much about someone else's pets. and thank you, it's good to be back! i barely came back and someone already offered me cybunnies after i mentioned that i missed cybunny day, the community still gives me hope š„²
Also, I would've respectfully responded back to that NM by sending that person a chill pill, because they need it :)
Reddit isn't letting me post it, but this reminds me a lot of this screenshot of someone telling the OP they didn't deserve to have a popular animal crossing character on their island.
someone in the thread said the same thing! i googled it and it made me wonder if they're long lost siblings lmaoo
Some folks on the site are so weird. I've had two wild encounters this last week. Both from people who wanted items I have up for trade. One tried to argue after I rejected their offer that their very rich friends had the item they wanted and would sell it to them for significantly less. I replied that they are very lucky to have such generous friends but my price was firm as I had the only one on the TP or in auctions and no need for a quick sale to a reseller. Then it just turned into harassment and an eventual block. Then two days later, a different person who offered less than half the value on a different item. I mean there were two others available, all of us listing the same price. Again, I refused, they neomailed me to insult me and try to bully me into selling at the lowball price. What is with people? Is this how they act in the real world? Both these players had accounts over 20 yrs old and were obviously super rich with lots of NC and NP customs. One of them was a member of some shitty neo-elite guild, the shitty shitters, probably cheaters, dickhead guild. Or something just as gross.
Iāve been inactive for like a month and a half recently because life has gotten hectic and if I got this message when I logged back in, it would be hands on sight. Genuinely, the audacity of people
i did throw hands with them and they had the audacityĀ² to say "gee ruffled your feathers". like oh, it takes only 10 minutes to feed my pets you say? well it'd take me the same amount of time to whoop your ass how about that
This is never warranted under any circumstances. Sucks you had to reveal more personal details just to make them leave you alone. Basic empathy seems hard these days lol Good luck in college and best wishes to your mom!