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Oh gosh, if you're taking questions I have like, a bajillion. The neopets "style" has been pretty loose over the years but... What sort of guidelines did you have to follow? Were there any hard "no"s? Was there a style guide or bible? In terms of design, what were you most proud of? Anything that was rejected that was disappointing to not see come to fruition?? Pardon my excitement!
From my recollection there was no official style guide, which I'm sure is pretty apparent from the art on the site—we'd run things by our art director Anthony/Tigercatcher for feedback, or by Adam or Donna to get their stamp of approval, but otherwise it was relatively lawless. It is fun to be able to look back at the old art and immediately tell who drew it, though!
A couple memorable anecdotes:
There was this brief phase in the early years where we had anthropomorphized neopets, but we hadn't really standardized how we drew them. They eventually got fingers and fully rendered eyes BUT I do love this transitional period where I just drew a bunch of sexy aishas with nub hands and dot eyes:
At one point there was a moratorium on giving the anthropomorphic characters helix piercings. It had become a kneejerk instinct to just toss a couple hoops onto a character's ear as you were designing them and it got: wildly out of hand
the worst notes were the ones we'd get on the Neopets Magazine covers, hands down. We could have so much fun with the on-site art, but anything public-facing like merch and the magazine were under way more levels of impenetrable scrutiny. The feedback was always to make the smiles BIGGER and B I G G E R
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Watching the Fallout TV show has made me so nostalgic for 2010s tumblr when New Vegas was all the rage
Apparently if you like FNV the most now you get shidd on and I'm confused when that happened because back then that seemed mostly popular opinion
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do you ever have a conversation and think “I am not heterosexual enough for this”
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When people get a little too gung-ho about-
wait. cancel post. gung-ho cannot be English. where did that phrase come from? China?
ok, yes. gōnghé, which is…an abbreviation for “industrial cooperative”? Like it was just a term for a worker-run organization? A specific U.S. marine stationed in China interpreted it as a motivational slogan about teamwork, and as a commander he got his whole battalion using it, and other U.S. marines found those guys so exhausting that it migrated into English slang with the meaning “overly enthusiastic”.
That’s…wild. What was I talking about?
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Late Night with the Devil | Cameron Cairnes / Colin Cairnes | 2023
David Dastmalchian, Ingrid Torelli, Laura Gordon
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Late Night with the Devil (2023)
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sometimes you dont eat fruit for awhile and then you eat some fruit and you're like oh fuck its fruit
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I got more black cat mugs! :3
Restocking tomorrow (Friday at 5 pm ET) along with a brand new cup design I'll show tomorrow!
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Eat organic foods! (FOOD IS MEDICINE!) Buy local products! (STOP SUPPORTING CORPORATIONS!) Go vegan! (CONTRIBUTE TO LESS SUFFERING!) Eat mindfully! (SLOW DOWN & GIVE THANKS FOR EVERY BITE!!)
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you ever get surprised by your own recurring issues. like come on man. I thought we were past this.
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ough to be a cat sleeping in a dandelion field. eepy sleepy
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Ideal work schedule:
I show up and am given a list of cognitively engaging but achievable tasks
I complete the list
I leave immedietly
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“I thought it only fair to warn you about the dangers ahead...”
When I saw him doing this thing with his hand, looking at his nails, I knew what to do.
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