Unique Geometrical Insights
Mar. 3rd, 2005 10:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alfvaenAfter seeing it mentioned by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
silverblue a little while ago, I decided to try out Neopets. It seemed like the kind of site where you could sort of keep your own pets online, like a big Tamagotchi network.
Well, it's somewhat more than that. It's also got a boatload of Flash-type games(and a few web-based ones), a rudimentary economy, and way too many users. It took me a few days to figure out how to get food reliably, since it always seemed to be gone from the stores as soon as they restocked. As Ackanomians would say, it's heavily Huberted--getting there first is heavily rewarded.
I got myself one pet, but Simon has gone up to the maximum of four, even though of course they take four times as much feeding. You get Neopoints from a variety of sources, but mostly through playing the games. And it's really mostly me playing the games, even when Simon's technically logged in, though Simon does often play them on his own computer time, too. Though they might be palling, and it's not impossible that our Neopets may quietly starve from neglect.
There are some half-decent games there, but there are also annoying ones. Many of them are clones of other games, though the worst offender is perhaps the Lucky Charms one(yes, there is a certain amount of in-game advertising, though it's not too extreme)which is a direct Pac-Man ripoff. One of the funniest is Advert Attack, where as time goes on the game gets overwhelmed by fake pop-up ads.
Overall I get the feeling that there's a big huge world that I only barely know about. Unlike some of them, that I instantly want to get involved in and spend all my spare time on, it doesn't compel me. ...Yet, at least.
silverblue a little while ago, I decided to try out Neopets. It seemed like the kind of site where you could sort of keep your own pets online, like a big Tamagotchi network.Well, it's somewhat more than that. It's also got a boatload of Flash-type games(and a few web-based ones), a rudimentary economy, and way too many users. It took me a few days to figure out how to get food reliably, since it always seemed to be gone from the stores as soon as they restocked. As Ackanomians would say, it's heavily Huberted--getting there first is heavily rewarded.
I got myself one pet, but Simon has gone up to the maximum of four, even though of course they take four times as much feeding. You get Neopoints from a variety of sources, but mostly through playing the games. And it's really mostly me playing the games, even when Simon's technically logged in, though Simon does often play them on his own computer time, too. Though they might be palling, and it's not impossible that our Neopets may quietly starve from neglect.
There are some half-decent games there, but there are also annoying ones. Many of them are clones of other games, though the worst offender is perhaps the Lucky Charms one(yes, there is a certain amount of in-game advertising, though it's not too extreme)which is a direct Pac-Man ripoff. One of the funniest is Advert Attack, where as time goes on the game gets overwhelmed by fake pop-up ads.
Overall I get the feeling that there's a big huge world that I only barely know about. Unlike some of them, that I instantly want to get involved in and spend all my spare time on, it doesn't compel me. ...Yet, at least.
