Daryl Sun's Journal

This week — I Welcome My New Pixel Overlords

TL;DR: I jumped down the rabbit hole of click-based pixel art virtual pets. I also grinded hard in GBF's Exo Cocytus Crucible event, answered some surveys, and discovered some interesting websites.

This is a late, brief update because I had to do some heavy chores last weekend.

(For anyone curious on what I've done at work this week: I've made several preparations for my upcoming training program, while finishing other tasks here and there. Nothing exciting, really.)

"Oh, these virtual pets look cute!" I thought. "They'll just be brief time-killers!"

Hahaha, nope.

I severely underestimated how seriously I'll be mothering these lovingly-rendered pixel art image files. The MelonLand forum thread on click lists of virtual pets and Lost Letter's guide to virtual pet sites enticed me to join Flowergame, then Dragon Cave, then The Final Outpost, and then Magistream.

My newfound... obsession? addiction? even led me to try and join Pixel Cat's End and Forest of Mirrors as well, though I missed the registration window for the former, and for the latter I haven't received a confirmation email and their support email address keeps rejecting my messages.

Pixelated adoptable digital creatures who grow on clicks have taken over my life: please send help.

Virtual Pet Clicklist

A Guide to Virtual Pixel Art Pet Sites

My greenhouse in Flowergame

My scroll in Dragon Cave

My lab in The Final Outpost

My keep in Magistream

Pixel Cat's End

Forest of Mirrors

I got my pass to the Midnight Pub. Yay!
I dedicated one night to joining more anime-related fanlistings. However, at least two of the sites I tried to join looked broken. I haven't reported them yet, since I'm not sure if it's just my browsers being difficult again.
The Exo Cocytus Crucible began this week. Since I didn't manage to beat the level 140 boss (they counter after EVERY attack? WTF), I focused on getting copies and maxing out the level of the new weapon from the event, the Exo Antaeus. This event also gave me the third and last Eternity Sand I needed to uncap the summon Lucifer to six (6) stars! His 6-star uncap art is so pretty...

I answered two surveys this week: one from the Organization from Transformative Works regarding fandom online spaces, and one from Beehaw regardings its current policies and community. Neat!

Celebrating the OTW’s 16th Anniversary

Beehaw survey on its policies and the site's vibes

These are more like things that I've discovered this week: Kagi, the paid search engine, has started a website showcasing personal blogs, as detailed in their blog post. Meanwhile, there's a website called The Hidden Source Community dedicated to secrets and Easter eggs in website source code. I'd like to join these, but the former requires you to suggest two other blogs before adding your own, and I'm not comfortable adding people to their list without their permission, and the latter relies on JavaScript for membership. Maybe someone else would be interested in these?

Tales from the Small Web — Kagi

Kagi Small Web

The Hidden Source Community

That's all. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to check which of my pixel creatures have grown up by now, and get more eggs to hatch and raise. See y'all next week!

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