I was reading Digg today and noticed an article about, of all things, Neopets. A Neopets rebellion. Interesting.
So, as I've said, I haven't been a Neopets player for a long time. I would guess my obsession ended sometime in 2005. But I did find it interesting that the way I learned about it was through Digg. Aww. How sweet.
So really, this doesn't concern me, right? I do still have my Neopets website, although since the redo of the site, it's mostly irrelevant. And for a little while, I did plan on updating Darkest Faerie Lair, but I've kind of lost interest.
And now this.
The rebellion is basically because Neopets is charging real money for, well, something. I don't know exactly what.
Now, merchandise, fine, of course they can charge money for that. "Neopets Premium", yeah, I guess that's all right. It doesn't really give players who pay for it a huge advantage or anything. From what I'd heard, it did have little things, like letting the Shop Wizard find the cheapest whatever item, but there were limits. You could only search once a day or something like that. But I guess this new thing, the "mall" I think it is, is a major part of the site, that if you don't pay for, it puts you at a disadvantage.
There's really nowhere I can go to read intelligent discussion about it. You've got the Digg comments on the article, but the discussion mainly consists of making fun of the people who play Neopets/people who still play Neopets. Then you've got the people on Neopets, and well, they can be immature too.
So I'm going to say something.
Who the fuck cares how old someone is? Anybody can play Neopets, whatever age they want. Look at Diggers — they still read comic books, watch movies about Spiderman, play Playstation. And you want to call these people losers? Yeah.
Actually, going off on a tangent here, but Digg is getting lame. You know, there was that article with the guy's girlfriend baking him a World of Warcraft cake or something, and then the comment: "buried as inaccurate: WoW players don't have girlfriends". You know, that was funny. But now when every article that mentions women has a comment saying the same thing, how there are no women on the interent. It's getting old, Digg. It's not that I'm offended by it, because yes, I think it's funny. But get a new fucking joke.
Going off on even more of a tangent, I saw a link on Digg to a MadTV sketch with Steve Jobs unveiling a new "iTechnology" — the "iRack" — and then they proceeded to parody George Bush. That was pretty funny. But it they should've stopped after the first two minutes. The last half was lame.
I guess that's just how sketch comedy is. I still don't like Monty Python. I loved "Life of Brian". I haven't seen "Holy Grail" for a long time, but I remembering liking it. But the TV show, the sketches? I don't see what's so great about them. A lot of their jokes just go on two damn long as well.
To me, comedy needs to be fast-paced. You can't keep kicking the audience in the head and saying "HEY, THIS HERE, LOOK! THIS IS THE JOKE! LOOK AT ME? HA HA HA! COME ON, I'M A JOKE! I'M FUCKING HILARIOUS!", and that's what MadTV and Saturday Night Live and Monty Python does to me.
Would I make a good comedy writer? I think so. I think I'm fucking hilarious. Maybe I'm not. Maybe I'm too subtle. My story yesterday, I think it was pretty clever. I could've made it more obvious that the Crosby part was about the song "Almost Cut My Hair". I could've hit you over the head with it if I wanted. Then maybe the thing with the mirror and the police car would make more sense.
But you know what? If you get it, you get it. If not, then go watch fucking MadTV.