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Post by Kengplant on Apr 5, 2022 13:42:22 GMT -5
Hi! A few things have lead me back here. I was talking with a friend about old RPs and I started gushing about the unhinged nonsense that was the guilds and guild wars. Then an artist I sometimes follow on youtube started doing neopets art on their blog and nostalgia hit hard. That still wasn't enough to push me over but then April Fools day approached and it always makes me think of guild wars again.
So I started lurking around a few days ago. I've been combing through old guild threads and am actually shocked by how many photobucket images survived!
And as I poked around I noticed that some of you crazy people were still active not that long ago.
It's been ages, I don't remember why I stopped coming by. But I've never really forgotten this place. It's special.
So I'm swinging in to say hi, how're you all? Who's still here?
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Post by Celestial on Apr 5, 2022 14:19:50 GMT -5
Hello Keng! I remember you, welcome back! It is quiet here these days, but we have a fairly active Discord and such. So we've still got a community. Glad to see you again. <3
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Post by Killix on Apr 5, 2022 16:22:00 GMT -5
Hello and welcome back!
The activity has slowed down a lot over the years, but we're still kickin'.
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Post by Kengplant on Apr 5, 2022 17:07:11 GMT -5
Hey! I remember you both! It's good to see you guys again!
It's so great to see you're both still drawing. I am absolutely going to lurk through your recent stuff!
I did see the sticky post about discord. Is there an invite link somewhere so I can join in? I didn't see one anywhere. I figured it was for security reasons against raids.
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Post by Twillie on Apr 5, 2022 17:28:07 GMT -5
Hi there! :3 Looks like a missed you by a few years, as I joined almost nine years ago, but it's nice to meet you now! I can go ahead and DM you an invite link to the Discord server, since yeah we like to keep it to trusted forum members.
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Post by Kat on Apr 5, 2022 19:26:09 GMT -5
KENG HI I REMEMBER YOU oh no another person who remembers Kat's past shenanigans -
Welcome back, I fell back into the NTWF not too long ago myself before falling back into Neopets as well. Good to see you again!
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Post by Killix on Apr 5, 2022 19:48:49 GMT -5
Hey! I remember you both! It's good to see you guys again! It's so great to see you're both still drawing. I am absolutely going to lurk through your recent stuff! If I ever stop drawing, you'll know that I died for reals. 8D
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Post by Kengplant on Apr 5, 2022 20:56:41 GMT -5
KENG HI I REMEMBER YOU oh no another person who remembers Kat's past shenanigans - Welcome back, I fell back into the NTWF not too long ago myself before falling back into Neopets as well. Good to see you again! Kat!!! Oh great purple knight! I just passed your character intro in my very slow re-read of guild wars 2. I am so grateful to the work that went into preserving that thread after it disintegrated. I've been snooping on some of the other player profiles and I feel like I just missed some people by a year or two based on most recent activity. Which doesn't even feel like a wide miss given how long its been. Even just looking back a couple pages on this board its cool to see how many of us oldies come back to visit. I'm note sure if I'll fall back into neopets. I'm glad I missed the NFT debacle (I think???) But I DID go look up my old comics. What a trip. I think I still have the original watercolours somewhere at my parent's place. I might dig them up over easter. But if I remember any of your nonsense I can only imagine you remember some of mine too! --- And thank you very much for the discord invite Twillie !
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Post by Ian Wolf-Park on Apr 5, 2022 21:22:01 GMT -5
I vaguely remember you. Anyways, welcome back.
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Post by Huntress on Apr 6, 2022 4:03:40 GMT -5
Ah-HA, knew this'd be your thread before I clicked it because I saw you online the other night =D
...guh, on the one hand you just gave me a great big flashback to the frankly dumb amount of work I once put into extracting GW2 from the gaping maw of What Even Was This Heck, but on the other hand I'm now strangely proud-glad that it's still paying dividends twelve years later.
(I will not go off to reread, I will not- oops. It's actually stood the test of time surprisingly well, hasn't it?)
How's life been treating you?
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Post by Kengplant on Apr 6, 2022 20:33:00 GMT -5
hahah! I forgot that the bottom of the forum homepage showed who was online!
It's great to see you're still here! And with the same banner! I always loved that image of Huntress walking away.
I'm doing pretty good. A little restless as I'm not quite ready to go back out into the world just for there to be another pandemic wave, but I'm actually doing art for my career now. Animation school payed off in the end! I recently got a dog and am just generally in a good place (state of the world aside)
But yes! The writing isn't half bad though I forgot how long it could take for things to happen when 6 characters all need to react to the same thing.
I hope life's been alright for you too!
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Post by PFA on Apr 7, 2022 0:18:36 GMT -5
Keng!! I remember you, welcome back!
GW2 was a fun time, but I don't think I could go back and read it at this point. My old posts are probably SO embarrassing, haha.
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Post by Huntress on Apr 8, 2022 9:04:56 GMT -5
Man, my banner is that old? I'm still fond of it too, though, which is why I never had a reason to change it xD I hope life's been alright for you too! Either supremely boring or an absolute rollercoaster, depending on how you may want to look at it. Married Fraze, had two kids, got two cats, translate books for a living, still halfway active in the Neopets and NT scene, mostly hampered by the fact that work takes up a whole lot of time and creative juices. Ahh, adulthood. Doing increasingly well all things considered. (We also named our son after Rider.) (Well, unintentionally.) (Rollercoaster.)
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Post by Kengplant on Apr 8, 2022 13:52:39 GMT -5
Keng!! I remember you, welcome back! GW2 was a fun time, but I don't think I could go back and read it at this point. My old posts are probably SO embarrassing, haha. Oh yea, looking at some old posts definitely has given me some weird secondhand embarrassment for my past self. But in a fond way. I'm kinda enjoying it. Random-core of internet past sure was something. And boy did we stretch it out past its time on this forum. I remember always seeing your username and never being able to remember what it stood for even if it was in your siggy, and that as the guilds were slowing down you were one of the last holdout ninjas. Huntress Translating books sounds really cool! What languages do you do? I hear you about creative energy and work. I go through bursts of being able to draw outside of work and then I get burnt out again. Whatever weird inspiration I get to do things for myself I need to grab hold of while I can it(hence the dive into GW haha)
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Post by Fraze on Apr 9, 2022 2:12:15 GMT -5
Oh heeey, good to see you back!
I still remember how you were technically the first forumer I met, since we were in a guild together before I joined the NTWF. Then had a moment of "Oh hey I know that person!" when I saw you around here.
I'm a math teacher now, which mostly means trying to convince teenagers that quadratic equations are as cool as I think they are. And yeah, Hunty and I finally made good on our 'ship tease. Now the smoller kid is snoozing on my chest while the lorger is humming to himself in the living room.
So you're doing animation now, or some other kind of art? Either way, that's awesome to hear!
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