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| April 2022 | Issue #1 |
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 ✿ Congrats to Sharon for winning personal favorite! And congrats to the other prize winners - I know I can't wait for Silverfish's next contest! DTRH Stamp Contest #1 @ WW ✿ Congrats to Amanda for first place! If you're a stamp collector you should check out the post, so many great stamps!  ✿ Rebecca has a Stamp Sales post on WW! ✿ Search Hint: Check out some Showroom posts on RKC/WW ;) |
DUKE'S GROUP WINTER OLYMPICS | by Bird
 You know that feeling, after the holiday season, where you have so many cool new petz but you don't know how to start playing with them all? Even if you tried not to adopt too many, the combination of advents and special petz on PUGS/TFM can easily overwhelm you!
This year, in Duke's Group (DG), several members had a beautiful idea - A six week "Winter Olympics" event that ran from January 9 - February 19. The Olympics featured five unique gameplay challenges per week, and we were only allowed to enter petz received in December and January. It was the most fun I'd had with petz in months! Everyone was divided into two teams - Team Alpine and Team Snowflake (nothing gets DG-ers more competitive than having random names assigned to them). Though one of the two teams would eventually "win", I honestly believe these games were truly WINonly like we nicknamed it. Each one of us got to spend lots of quality time playing with our petz. We had a variety of fun challenges and all in all it was an enjoyable and relaxing event. The first week people introduced their petz, scheduled lots of playdates, dressed up petz in team colours, and updated avatars and signatures. There were also a LOT of stamps to collect!  Week two was dogz focused - frisbee catching and posing. But there were also neutral activities like drinking hot chocolate, playing in the snow and petz meeting each other for the first time.
The third week was cat focused - cat shows and cat dancers galore! Lots of fun pictures of cat dancers with or without disconnected poms, whether we liked it or not! It was certainly a week that brought out everyone's creativity. By week four I had covid and was having a rough time, but DG's love and enthusiasm during the event really made a difference. The challenges were a great distraction and made way for not only getting to know my new petz, but also the other participants! |
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I could go on about the final weeks but I'd rather encourage you to take a peek in the Winter Olympics 2022 boards on DG to see for yourself how every participant met their weekly challenges. Every person had their own way of doing and sharing their challenges and making their threads look nice - whether it was beautiful graphics, funny anecdotes, or gifs.
I am also thankful to our lovely hosts for their enthusiasm for I have truly not enjoyed playing with petz as much as I did during WinOly and I even still remember the names and personalities of every single pet I played with during these games. ❤ |
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TWENTY-THREE! HOW CAN THAT BE? | by Xoops
Can you believe this community is still prevailing after all these years? There are quite literally 20+ year old petz still kicking in 2022!One such pet is Ralph, who you may or may not already know. Ralph is owned by ECRose @ Mythic Silence: Malevolent, who says about him, "Ralph is here for me whenever I call him. He's a gentle, calming presence when life gets a bit rough and rowdy, and he shares my joy when it's time to celebrate. He loves to catch the frisbee, gnaw on chew toys, and spend quiet afternoons digging holes in the back yard." Who could ask for more than that, right? Sounds like a pretty good companion to me! Did you know that Ralph was once doomed for the Recycle Bin?! Crazy! He was thankfully saved and has now become a beloved pet for 23 years! According to ECRose, Ralph feels pretty strongly about his companions one way or the other - but he still has a few good friends and a couple girlfriends, apparently Ralph is quite the ladies man (I mean look at him, can you blame them?) He has a definite affinty for plaid and is often used as a toy and clothing model much to his annoyance at times. I can't count the number of times I've seen a picture of an angry-eyed Ralph modeling something new. It's incredible that not only is this community as active as it is, but that people genuinely love and care for their petz as much as this. So who knows, maybe one day you'll be celebrating the 23rd birthday of one of your petz! SOMETHING HERE?? | by Xoops
Every month I'll be sharing a petz community member interview with all of you! Maybe you'll learn some things, maybe you'll laugh, maybe you'll feel inspired. At least I hope so!So this month I "sat" down with Rylan and had him answer some questions for me. Rylan told me that he started playing Petz in 2002/2003 around the age of 11, but at the time they were only a brief forum lurker and were never truly that active in the commuinty. So really a "Freshman" to the 2022 community, if you will. Fast forward to today and this is what Rylan had to say about finding the community again and choosing to be more active than they were previously, "I was surprised and very excited. I had no idea there was still a thriving community. I think a big reason why I'm more active now than when I was younger is because of Discord. Posting on forums always felt like I needed to have something useful to say, where in discord we can just chat casually and send pics of our petz." |
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Rylan says he's looking forward to, "The friendships, the amazing hexies and bred petz I'll gain along the way. Everyone is really nice and helpful and supportive, it's a really good community!" Rylan also hopes to get a website started and learn to hex, "A website is my biggest goal right now and I've been heavily focusing my hexing on babyz. The skills seem to be transferrable to petz so I'm excited to get more into petz hexing as well!" To end our interview, I wanted to know a few things Rylan loved about the game - because after all that's why we're here right? Rylan says, "I love how customizable everything is, you can make literally anything you want to. I also love that little trill some cats do when you pick them up ❤ I love any cat with the maine coon pattern, and I've always had a soft spot for siameses." Rylan continued to reminisce, "I always loved messing with my petz with the remote control car. Growing up all of my petz wore outfits and I changed them every day! I never liked spraying petz with the spray bottle, so instead, I'd put them in the present box for "time outs"!" Whether you're a newbie or an oldie - what do you love about our community and this game? What do you look forward to and how are you going to keep the excitement alive so this community never dies? Here's to another 20 years! |
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