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Post by Breakingchains on Jul 30, 2017 21:36:25 GMT -5
Customisation is the most important task, but it isn't the biggest. The customisation app is the only real work - once that's done the actual flash assets can mostly be converted automatically. Games by far and a way will dwarf the amount of work changing customisation will take. Fair enough--my technical knowledge in this area is basically nil--but I think the point still stands. We have no way of knowing how much is already done or what the release timeline was prior to this announcement. I do wish they'd give us some more information though. |
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Post by Carolyn on Aug 4, 2017 17:30:06 GMT -5
Here's the new editorial:
Who comes up with all the plot ideas? I've always loved them growing up. Have any of them come from ideas from the users?~daenielle_roxz
Well, that is a long, dark question. I guess to start we would have to go back to the beginning. What happened in their youth to make them want to take over Neopia? Why do they want to be rid of an entire species? Why can't we all just live in peace and harmony? Sadly, I fear we will never know the answer to these questions. All we can do is fight and keep protecting the land we love!
Huh. That seems to suggest a BD plot. Otherwise this answer seems very random, lol. But for real, if you've yet to buy a BD set or hoard codestones for training, I highly, highly suggest it. With this editorial, people are almost certainly going to start inflating all things BD.
Oh and.... Yo' Scrappy, sup?! Question: You would tell us if there were not going to be any more charity corners, right?~ meeshell362
I would...I would? Eh, I probably would....maybe...depends on my mood. Although, I can say Granny has still got some pep in her step...
Make sure to hoard r90s once again, ahaha... |
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Post by doctortomoe on Aug 4, 2017 18:16:04 GMT -5
I still need to get a reply from the editorial about the missing prizes from PC 2100.
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Post by tom on Aug 4, 2017 20:43:25 GMT -5
Keep in mind that just because Flash isn't supported after 2020 doesn't mean it still won't run. It might just be like the current Shockwave and 3D Life Player games. Neither of those are supported by Chrome or Firefox any more, but people can still play them on Internet Explorer. So there could still be a period after 2020 where people can continue using older browsers and have Flash installed to run any flash games and other site content.
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Post by Breakingchains on Aug 4, 2017 23:18:39 GMT -5
Keep in mind that just because Flash isn't supported after 2020 doesn't mean it still won't run. It might just be like the current Shockwave and 3D Life Player games. Neither of those are supported by Chrome or Firefox any more, but people can still play them on Internet Explorer. So there could still be a period after 2020 where people can continue using older browsers and have Flash installed to run any flash games and other site content. I mean, true--it's just not a state you want your site in. It takes a certain type of player to do fiddly business with outdated software so they can keep playing That One Game, and while the current neopets base is probably at least that dedicated, it will build in an extra wall between Neopets and new or returning players. So no, it's not like it would be instant neo-mageddon, but it's still a lousy prospect. |
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Post by Patjade on Aug 5, 2017 6:34:16 GMT -5
There are also Firefox alternatives that allow Flash to run as well. Waterfox and PaleMoon being two examples. They keep all the security updates of Firefox (Waterfox even uses the same database as Firefox on your system), but are't as restrictive on the add-ons.
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Post by Jae on Aug 5, 2017 21:45:47 GMT -5
Here's the new editorial:
Who comes up with all the plot ideas? I've always loved them growing up. Have any of them come from ideas from the users?~daenielle_roxz
Well, that is a long, dark question. I guess to start we would have to go back to the beginning. What happened in their youth to make them want to take over Neopia? Why do they want to be rid of an entire species? Why can't we all just live in peace and harmony? Sadly, I fear we will never know the answer to these questions. All we can do is fight and keep protecting the land we love!
So from what I gather from that answer, either she doesn't want to talk about previous TNT staffers from the Viacom and Adam & Donna eras, or it's against Jumpstart protocol to talk about them. Because she was Olympian with how she dodged the intent of that question. I wouldn't be surprised if JS didn't want to talk about old staffers, particularly because certain users tend to disparage the current staffers as not being as good as their predecessors so it has to be a touchy subject, but it's nice to have that (implied) confirmation for future editorials/Q&As. In regards to the Flash discussion, I agree that they need to shape up the Flash because it will harm the site's ability to attract new players if they force people to use an outdated, unsafe add-on. I guarantee that the very day Flash becomes unsupported, there will be about a million or so exploits tossed in meant to target people, like Neo users, who want to visit Flash based sites. If the site hasn't transitioned to HTML5 by 2020, I personally believe that it's the writing on the wall that they are trying to squeeze as much blood from the Neo-stone as possible before closing it. |
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Aug 14, 2017 15:18:42 GMT -5
A bit late, but some notable picks from this week:
So this should be interesting. I'm going to take this as a test of JS's understanding & interpretation of the characters, a sneak peak of how the upcoming plot's story may be like. "Isn't that a bit extreme? Presumably it'll just be Scrappy writing Fyora's & Xarthab's dialogue, not the whole team who would be working on the plot's script". True, but Scrappy is (or at least seems to be) the head of the Content Department and I think is also the one who had the most exposure to Neopet characters interpretations being the editor of the Neopian Times (well, her and Country Queen). Now I'll be open to their interpretation, but I still have some expectations.
Welp, there goes the article I was planning. Oh well, I was having problems with it anyway and this gives me time to work out the kinks for 850. I also now know I probably should send in my article 10 issues ahead of time for now on.
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Aug 20, 2017 3:42:23 GMT -5
So the In The Sky collab NT is finally here and, as Scrappy promised, this issue's Editorial is done by Fyora and Xarthab! How does it go... let's take this one question at a time: Fyora's response was fine (and as previously hinted, something Faerie-related is coming up), but Xarthab... eek. Granted, Xarthab's character really didn't get much established on in the Return of Sloth comic (only appearing in Chapter 8 and 10), but from what we read he clearly wasn't a "take over Neopia" kind of character. From the comic we're told he's hot headed and he's shown to be prideful of the Grundo. We can also see he makes decisions on the spot though is able to stop and analyze their situation. I feel Fyora could have worded that better. Also I could have thought of a better answer as well, like there is no male Faerie because that is how the Faeries are in Neopets. As past Editorials have said, Faeries don't work like that. Okay, I think I got what Scrappy was trying to do with Xarthab. She's trying to make him the comic relief, which could work since he is hot-headed and makes quick decisions. But at the same time I don't think Scrappy has a feel for his character, infact so far he has just been making off remarks (granted, so far the questions have been directed to Fyora but he has had no interesting input). This recent one kind of makes him sound insensitive a bit, a bit forgivable if the idea was that he says what's on his mind without thinking though I'm not sure if that was the intent. Okay, all these were much better. That said, man, there must have not been a lot of questions for Xarthab. Of course not the fault of Scrappy, then again she could have maybe chosen some generic technical questions than for him to answer like she did for the World Challenge. When Jazan & Hanso answered the NT they both got equal chance to answer questions (though they were often surprise quests so never had any questions directly asked of them). Sadly a question that old TNT and long time players know the question but not JS staff. The reason there's no Purple Grundo visible on Kreludor is because originally the Return of Sloth plot was going to have the Grundo Civil War be a more involved part. Orange Grundo lived on the light side of Kreludor, the part we can visit, while the Purple Grundo lived on the dark side of Kreludor. However when the plot was scrapped and then brought back the Grundo Civil War was downplayed and essentially sidelined, thus a lot of things they had set up was left stranded. Like the Grundo Civil War was also suppose to explain why Purple Neopets originally had orange spots. the Purple Grundo were originally meant to be the instigators and manipulated by Sloth hence why they were living on the dark side of Kreludor, to symbolically show they were on the wrong side, but when they realize they were tricked they'd reunite with the Orange Grundo and as penance they'd incorporate some bit or orange in the Purple colour. But anyway, back to the characters. Eh, I guess this is maybe in Xarthab's character, though at the end of the comic the Orange and Purple Grundo had made up so it's a bit out of character. And that's it. So, what should we take from this? Well, I think maybe for popular characters we'll get an okay portrayal, but for obscure characters who haven't had a lot about their characters shown their might be given a different interpretation that may ignore previous things established about them. Now for hosting a NT Editorial this is alright, this is non-canon. But that won't be true for an actual plot, anything the characters said and does during the plot would be considered canon. At this point all I can say is that I just hope they learn up as much as they can on any exiting characters they decide to bring into the plot, think about how the character would act in the situations they'd put them in, and any twist they may decide to do would be done in a way it's understandable the character would do it. Still, I don't want to discourage this. I had my complaints obviously, but I say Scrappy did a nice job here. She made the characters personalities distinct from each other and it was certainly an interesting combination to do and I'd think even Droplet (or whoever did the Jazan & Hanso Editorials) might have had problems with these two characters interacting. Next time just read a bit more about the character, make sure both have equal amount of questions to answer, and I look forward to Scrappy's next attempt.  |
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Post by Breakingchains on Aug 20, 2017 15:36:56 GMT -5
I feel Fyora could have worded that better. Agreed. That is completely off-base. Dx I mean, to begin with, it implies that rather than faeries just existing as a species, they are being deliberately made according to pre-sets? And whoever is in charge of this process (Fyora?) not only understands but subscribes to a distinctly modern-western-human concept of gender binary? And has decided one is necessary and the other isn't, and just... doesn't make the "unnecessary" ones? Like that alone starts to imply some creepy authoritarian themes that I really don't think they want to do that with these characters. (I mean I get that it's Neopets and we're on a level of censorship here previously unknown to science, but you'd think at the very least some faeries would be trans.) Second, it sounds like something a straw-feminist from a particularly crappy 90's cartoon would say and just, no, we are past that, please stop. xD; |
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Post by Geodude 🌻 on Aug 22, 2017 7:05:48 GMT -5
Pfffft. This is why Fyora doesn't do many interviews. That male faerie answer is not exactly Fyora-like at all. Oops.
Faeries are highly advanced humanoid species that don't conform to anything humans might conform to. They certainly don't care about age. Maybe they are unaware of gender at all and just see each other as liking different things. From the outside, we may see them as female but maybe it's just all a misunderstanding. They might still be authoritarian though. Xandra had some words about that.
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Post by Jae on Aug 23, 2017 10:17:36 GMT -5
I feel like the answer was Scrappy trying to shut down anyone thinking that faeries reproduce like humans do without actually saying it. If they REALLY wanted to appeal to feminism, they could have gone with something like what Geodude 🌻 suggested and have Fyora say that faeries don't follow the same gender binary as people and Neopets. They identify as female but biologically they aren't. Instead the answer was at best a cringy "We're strong independent womyn who don't need no men" and at worst vaguely Eugenics-y with the "no creature deserves to exist unless I can personally find a use for it" undertone. Xarthab's answer that implies that he's a male faerie (I realize he was saying that he thought males were useful, but he was replying to Fyora who was clearly only talking about male faeries not having a use) was the icing on the poorly worded cake. Wait... Now that I think about it... Have Grundos been male faeries all this time? News at 11. |
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Post by Duke Pikachu on Aug 23, 2017 12:03:35 GMT -5
Faeries are highly advanced humanoid species that don't conform to anything humans might conform to. They certainly don't care about age. Maybe they are unaware of gender at all and just see each other as liking different things. From the outside, we may see them as female but maybe it's just all a misunderstanding. They might still be authoritarian though. Xandra had some words about that. Well the Faeries are aware of genders because Neopets, Petpets, and I assume Petpetpets have genders. It's as simply as how past editorials handled the question: Neopian Faeries just don't work like that. They're a one gender race and the "gender" just so happens to be feminine in appearance. Why they evolve to take such a form is maybe the question we should be asking. WILD THEORY TIME! Maybe the Faeries started out as elemental sprites with barely a form, one of Neopia's early inhabitants or a magical force that came into existence to bring life and order to the chaotic primordial Neopia (such as chasing the Wraiths away). With life able to take hold, Neopets eventually appeared and Faeries, to form a bond with the sentient species, changed their shape to something that would be considered comforting by the majority of Neopets: a motherly figure. After generations upon generations of sticking to that form it just became the standard all Faeries now conform to. Is it possible the Faeries can shapeshift into a male? According to my theory possibly if they make the shift and stick to it for generations, but that's unneeded and I'd imagine they'd rather return to an androgynous energy form if anything else. I feel like the answer was Scrappy trying to shut down anyone thinking that faeries reproduce like humans do without actually saying it. If they REALLY wanted to appeal to feminism, they could have gone with something like what Geodude 🌻 suggested and have Fyora say that faeries don't follow the same gender binary as people and Neopets. They identify as female but biologically they aren't. Instead the answer was at best a cringy "We're strong independent womyn who don't need no men" and at worst vaguely Eugenics-y with the "no creature deserves to exist unless I can personally find a use for it" undertone. Xarthab's answer that implies that he's a male faerie (I realize he was saying that he thought males were useful, but he was replying to Fyora who was clearly only talking about male faeries not having a use) was the icing on the poorly worded cake. Wait... Now that I think about it... Have Grundos been male faeries all this time? News at 11. Don't see how that's appealing to feminism. That honestly seems like the answer TNT would have given. Appealing to feminism would be more like saying their were male Faeries but, due to having a more aggressive personality that the calm minded female, their magic was volatile and less powerful which cause Faerie magic to start leaning toward the female personality (and thus form). If anything the non-binary thing is more appealing to LGBT but only by proxy. And that doesn't really shut down the questions of Faerie reproducing, at least not biologically, but then again I don't think many of the older players did. By now its generally agreed Faeries come into being via magical means. WILD THEORY TIME! Now we do know Faeries do create more of themselves as we've seen young Faeries (Cassandia, Zaira, Nomi). If I had to guess how they do so, it would probably be in a g-rated reproduction way. Faeries who wish to spread their magic to the next generation all join together for a ritual where they combine their magic altogether. The magic conglomeration eventually splits an forms into new (most likely elementaless) Faeries (question is if the Faeries start out as babies or do they start out as just little children). From there either some Faeries adopts one or two of the children to raise as their own (though they probably need to go through a judging process to approve them of parenthood) or raised in the secret Faerie Academy until they're ready to join Neopian society. And please, everyone knows Dr. Sloth is the closest thing to a male Faerie.  CRAZY THEORY TIME! ... That's it... THAT'S IT! Dr. Sloth isn't the closest thing to a male Faerie, how silly of me, he's what the male Faeries became! Fyora (or a past Faerie Queen) saw no use for the male Faeries so sent them away while assuring more can't be created. The male Faeries, angry at their magical sisters, disavowed magic and instead put their focus to SCIENCE! Years of experimentation caused them to change into what Sloth looks like now (my guess in an attempt to wipe magic from their body while also trying to keep their near-immortality). Either Sloth is still vengeful after all these years or he may be the only one left and so came back to Neopia in order to enlighten them. However, seeing how strong a hold the Faeries have on Neopia had turned Sloth mad thus becoming the villain he is. Sloth isn't a heartless monster, he's a tragic villain controlled by insanity driven grief! #FaeriesAreTheRealMonsters #SlothRules |
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Post by Ian Wolf-Park on Aug 25, 2017 18:59:26 GMT -5
This week's editorial was short, but there's one noticeable aspect. Scrappy's on holiday next week, so there will not be a Neopian Times next week
This also means that issue 800 will be delayed by a week.
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Post by June Scarlet on Sept 15, 2017 22:30:28 GMT -5
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Does anyone have any idea what this question is referring to?? Cars and street signs? Getting in the way of day to day moving around the site? I really have no idea what they're talking about, I am so lost.
Also, cars don't even go in Neopia, so it doesn't even make sense on that level.
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