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#91 Post by sily_sicily »

Collected the Xmas Bori Plushie. Yay.

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#92 Post by VeXeD »

Aww, what a cute little plushie to add to my gallery! <3
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#93 Post by Mnemosyne »

Wow, I wait all month for them to release new items decorated with holly, and not only do they release *4* new items in the shops, *both* of the advent items have little sprigs of holly on them! :D
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#94 Post by Pink »

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#95 Post by Mongrel »

Does anyone else feel that this year's animations are kind of halfhearted? I mean, they've reused music from other games twice now(Itchy Invasion, previously mentioned, and today's from Neoquest I), and the animations are generally very short and lame-joke-ish.
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#96 Post by Ange »

They also used a sound effect from Snowmuncher...the "munching" sound, actually. I think it's fine that they reuse sounds, but it should be made up for in the quality of the animation, I think.
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#97 Post by sily_sicily »

angisfab wrote:They also used a sound effect from Snowmuncher...the "munching" sound, actually. I think it's fine that they reuse sounds, but it should be made up for in the quality of the animation, I think.

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#98 Post by satiran »

For the 19th of Dec:

You find 182 Neopoints!!!

You find a Starberry Cider!!!
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You also find a Decorated Prison Cell Bench!!!
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And a very weird animation lol
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#99 Post by Alex »

The animation was weird, but it amused me :P
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#100 Post by GIR »

Moongewl wrote:Does anyone else feel that this year's animations are kind of halfhearted? I mean, they've reused music from other games twice now(Itchy Invasion, previously mentioned, and today's from Neoquest I), and the animations are generally very short and lame-joke-ish.

Lame? I found several quite amusing, especially the crazed Techo fan from the Altador Cup and the snot-covered cookies. But I would definitely say that about half of them have been... not great.

I don't recall that music (yesterday's) being in Neoquest I or II, though it is similar to a song form NQ1 in that there is a french horn in it.

However, I do remember today's being used for a previous Advent Calendar.

EDIT: I just went through some of last year's animations, and many of the sound effects are identical to this year's. Not necessarily a bad thing; they work just as well, and allow TNT to spend more time on other things, such as Haunted Woods Plot prizes.

The music for the following days are the same:
-December 26th, 2005 and December 13th, 2006
-December 25th, 2005 and December 19th, 2006
-December 20th, 2005 and December 6th, 2006
-December 19th, 2005 and December 9th, 2006
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#101 Post by charlixsparkles »

I love the decorated cell

It's shiny <3

But the animation was weird though
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#102 Post by Pink »

My "replace" still hasn't been replaced by something.
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#103 Post by Mongrel »

The sound effects being reused, I don't have a problem with. After all, Sloth's laugh is probably hard to reproduce, and if you already have a convenient "munch munch" noise, why make a new one?
I would just like, when the music is two seconds long, not to hear something I've heard a lot before. Now, if the animation were related to Destructomatch, and they played the Destructomatch music, I think I'd be okay with that. Just not two things that are completely unrelated, like yesterday's animation.


GIR wrote:I don't recall that music (yesterday's) being in Neoquest I or II, though it is similar to a song form NQ1 in that there is a french horn in it.


Okay, they're not identical, the music has been slowed down and it's just a short phrase of the song that loops, but it's that same song from Neoquest I. The song is called "Conquest." I could not mistake it for anything else, not after hearing it a zillion times.
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#104 Post by apranum »

No prize for today ? :(
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#105 Post by StarryEyed502 »

Don't go yet! I just got nothing :(
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