Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26869801-20160513230203

April 14th, 2016  ' '  Where should I start, uh? Well, I don’t see any better way, so let’s just do this.

Do you know that online game for kids called “NeoPets " ? That one where you can take care of virtual pets, play games, and just do all kinds of stuff with your virtual companion? So, I was completely addicted to that game a couple years ago. I would just spend most of my time on that webstite, playing and making everything to earn “money” and make my account great in every way. Plus, earning money on that game is not easy at all, and if you have no patience, you’ll end up giving up very quickly.

Even with all those difficulties, I would spend all off my free time playing. I felt a special  affection  to my little "Koruga". <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:PT">I could never have any pets at home (I lived in an apartment), so it was the closest thing I had to a “pet” at the moment.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:PT">As I aged, all of my addiction to that little game ended up just going away. I was a mere child at the time, and I discovered other games like " Ragnarök"  and " World of Warcraft" , which led me from the colorful world of “NeoPets” to something darker and more violent.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language: PT">So I just ended up forgetting “NeoPets”. <span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language: PT">I forgot my account, and the “pet” I once viewed as my best friend.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language: PT">A couple years later, during a conversation with some friends at college, I ended up remembering the website. Apparently, one of those friends had lived a part of his childhood on that “magic world”, like me. We laughed a lot and I even said I would start playing again if someone made a “pirate” version of the game where it was easier to get items and virtual money. That friend of mine, which is actually majoring in informatics, said he would try to find something, with the help of his hacker classmates, so we could have some old timy fun. I tought he was just kidding, so I told him to tell me if he eventually found something.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language:PT">Yesterday, around midnight (I know it’s kind of clichê, but it was in fact what happened), that friend of mine texted me on Facebook saying he had found a really cool website. I asked him what was it about, and he told me it was related to NeoPets. I was kind of confused, thinking of why would he spend time searching for stuff like that. NeoPets at our age? And I know there are a lot of older people who still play, but seriously... there are better things to do, am I right? Well, I’m not gonna be na hypocrate, I must say I would still go and check my account every now and then.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language:PT">At first I thought it was a prank, and it wasn’t the first time he’d done one of these. I thought it was weird that the URL was just numbers, it seemed like it was one of those Deep Web strange sites or something like that. He warranted it wasn’t a prank, so I just went for it. At first nothing happened, I tried lots of times and the “Error 404” message would always show up.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language:PT">" But really, where did you find this? "

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language:PT">" Just enter! "

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language: PT">With an answer like that <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:PT">, I didn’t have much to expect on those numbers <span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size: 8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language:PT">. I kept refreshing the damn website for half an hour, until it finally loaded! It was so fast I couldn’t even think about it, I was just happy it loaded.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language:PT">That was grotesque. What just opened on my browser was a deformed version of the good old " Neopets" . Instead of the happy yellow layout, there was really dark black one ( more than normal, if that’s even possible ), and the little starts had been replaced by some creepy red spirals, which caused a bizarre optical illusion. Looking at that was like being sucked by pshycadelic leeches. The creepiest was the name: " Neoneovets" . The logo looked like just letters in a random position. Oh, and that red star on top? Ughhh… The rest was only worse, there were so many weird things I couldn’t even handle it. The menus e guides were just painful to look at, they were this deep red on the black background. There was no more  "Neopets on Facebook", and the "NC Center" and the "Premium" button were gone as well, it was like they were scratched with a red marker. Who did that, probablly didn’t like that stupid tactic they used to earn money, just like me. I made a close inspection to that home page and it was just… horrendous.

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language: PT">There were just two ads:

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language:PT">Instead of that useless “Giant Omlet” ad, there was one of the... " Giant Brain" . Yes, It was a damn picture of a giant brain, awfuly drawn being devoured by other (also badly drawn) “Pets”. The message was exactly the same: " Take a trip to the giant brain and eat ‘til you can no more! "

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language:PT">The other one was warning the shutting down of the bets for the “Mortal Duel”,  where a "Lupe" and a "Ruki" where positioned, UFC style, with mad facial expressions..

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language: PT">Next to it, instead of the "Neopet Star", there were... japanese symbols? Yeah, it was something like that. Maybe a bug on that awful website. Below there was this weird pet, that I couldn’t really identify, but it looked like a  "Chia", full of injuries on what seemed to look like a cage. There was a yellow liquid surrounding it on the floor. I should say it was a really bad drawing, just like everything else on that website.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language: PT">It was on the “New Items” section I really started not believing. I actuallty laughed, yeah I was finding all that disturbing, but that was funny. Some lunatic wanted to make a website for kids into this hall of diabolic instanities, like those weird websites you find on the "Deep Web".

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language:PT">In “NeoPoints”, there was the image of a seryinge with the label "heroin", and below there was an " Heineken"  <span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language: PT"> bottle <span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size: 7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman"; mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language:PT">labeled "Hineken Beer" ( yes, it was misspelled ). The serynge was drawn, however the beer bottle was a stock image you would find on Google. There was nothing written on “NeoCredit”.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language: PT">The lunatic who created this website wanted to sell drugs and alcohol to virtual creatures. I can’t even imagine how sick and insane a mind like that would be.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language: PT">I was really into exploring that website and all the other pages that were changed by that sick guy, but it suddenly refreshed automatically and back to the "Error 404" message it went. I refreshed that darn thing ‘til my finger hurt, but it just wouldn’t load.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:12pt0cm;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language: PT">I’m gonna talk to my friend again, and I’ll try to make him tell me where he found this. That really doesn’t matter, but I guess my curiosity is talking louder that my sanity. I wanna play “NeoPets”, I mean, "Neoneovets" again. I’ll update this as soon as I make the website to load again. Until then, thank you for reading this and I guess I’ll see you later.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:12pt;"><span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;border:1ptnonewindowtext;padding:0cm;">PS <span lang="PT-BR" style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"TimesNewRoman";mso-ansi-language:PT-BR;mso-fareast-language: PT">: Sorry I didn’t take any screenshots, maybe next time I enter the website I’ll take some and bring something for you.

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