Neopets Word Filter - I HATE YOU

Jan 22, 2011 07:24

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I play various Flash Games on the kids website Neopets.  C recently introduced me to a cute little game, Neopets Habitarium, where you build an adorable tiny garden and your insect minions will gather materials and construct buildings at your command.

Neopets is a kids site so they have certain language filters in place, so pedophiles can' ( Read more... )

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eve_the_just January 28 2011, 11:41:24 UTC
I played Neopets back in the day when I was in Business School. I tried to send a message to a class-mate through that service about something sucking. And I think the context was not "this thing is awful" but something like "a friend of mine sucked some tapioca up her straw and nearly choked, it was funny" or "I was vacuuming my parent's basement and their vacuum wouldn't suck up the pet hair" so a sentence that really needed "suck". There was some idiotic censorship on that site.

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eve_the_just January 28 2011, 11:44:11 UTC
It's late and I'm tired and for some reason thought you were someone else. Duh, the person I tried to send that message to all those years back was you of course. I haven't played Neopets since leaving Ivey and the boring case discussions. It was a bit of a life-saver (sanity-saver) in those classes.

So how've you been?

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