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Cliffs:
- Jade, Scrappy and Raven are interviewed (idk who that last one is)
- Our users are sooOoooo important
- Planning the 20 year anniv was fun
- Some new writer called Scribbles wrote the 20th anniversary riddles
- TNT lurks the boards a lot, Scrappy says she gets in trouble every time she posts with ppl asking about the Battledome / "answer my ticket" etc
- New merch in 2020 but no specifics yet
- new neopets species: they have an idea, there is a plan to have a plan (...). The artists draw up species for fun, one producer sends in ideas sometimes
- The alien nimmo from the 20th anniversary pics was a creation of Dr Doodle or something and doesn't sound like a hint of what is to come
- More notes to follow when I've listened to the rest, watch for my edit
edit:
- html 5 conversion going well. Customization, items, etc is a lot of work. Games wise, starting with 20 most popular games. Then build from there. They said meerca chase was already done.
- number 1 most played game is Kass basher. Meerca chase is popular, faerie bubbles. Destructo match. CEO's favourite game is Kass Basher.
- re the neopets X demo at comic con. Coming along well, starting off at a beta sometime early next year. It's a 3d world builder, has crafting elements, social elements. There is another team focused solely on this game.
- what is the wildest thing they've seen on the boards: they had difficulty answering. Jade (?) apparently tries to save boards to read later but loses them. They mentioned the day when the moderators were gone (the Day of Sin). They came back and saw screenshots and said welp, temporarily went from child friendly to not.
- "curiosities" segment: favorite weird item. Jade (?) researched some: bacon tape, sobbing onion, and adhesive tape tostada. She credits Reddit for those finds. Scrappy (I think) brings up non lethal sandwich.
- softball blah blah questions about what food they'd want to eat sorry don't care enough to transcribe. Someone's favourite food is cheese pizza woooo. Someone wants to know what Borovan tastes like
- neocreation week is a favourite time
- RC: 260 entries, scrappy and jade took weeks to decide. Re the capsule itself, they said the original art was perfect as is and didn't even have to be redrawn
- what did you know about neo before arriving: scrappy says a few ppl were superfans, she was not. Now she went down the rabbit hole playing, doing "research". She gives herself all items and customizations. She has 5 kougras. Her least favourite is jubjub (gasps all around the room). She thinks they're hard to customize.
- podcaster mentions xwee was supposed to be fugly (per Donna's comment in a Reddit AMA) and it turned out to be so popular
- jade: re getting rid of a species question in editorial. Was shocked by the question.
- who is the most popular pet? General muttering about there being a page about this ranking somewhere (hint: yes)
- Jade's least fav pet is skeiths (how DARE u). Podcasters do not like skeiths and buzzes. In case u care
- Raven: Aisha is used when first creating new items, and blums. One 4 legged one 2 legged.
- controversy on Aisha pronunciation
- scrappy asks podcasters what fav thing is to do on neo. Answer: av collecting. And the other podcaster likes playing games. Woo
- Jade's first assignment from Scrappy was to go thru the site and play every game. Snot splatter is her fav. To general shock. She links the satisfying feeling of popping bubbles to ASMR? Lol
- last words, anything to promote? Everyone: uhhhh advent calendar? Next year will be big. We want to do more events like ComicCon to meet ppl, it's so fun to meet people. Raven: fun to see the love and dedication ppl have to neopets. When having a bad day, scrappy hangs out on site, read messages ppl send TNT.
- jade: there is an NT article that was entitled I love you scrappy and it's left in the database so scrappy can read it and be happy. Jade is not allowed to delete it. (This was cute)
- Raven moved to neopets recently and it was overwhelming to learn the lore. There is a lore bible apparently that is huge. Raven calls it a wormhole, she does dailies, has a gallery of plushies
- jade checks neopets nation daily
Bonus:
Neopets HQ pictures from the ladies who run the podcast
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The offices look to be a far cry from the former HQ that held so many employees in the neopets heydays. Still fun to see!