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Post by Rose@Paperclip! on Apr 10, 2020 17:29:34 GMT -5
...heroes never die? no no, that's not it. AH! You know what they say... nobody can resist the call of the PC for long ^-^ Welp, here I am. I've been MIA for about 2 years now because of very serious & heavy things in my personal life, but everything is sort of ironing out now, and I miss the love & support of the PC. And, of course, the welcome distraction petz itself brings, especially during these troubled times. I'd like to apologize to anyone I left hanging because of my ((v necessary)) sudden departure in 2018, and I hope there are no hard feelings if I didn't reply to an email/post/adoptions thread or just made you worry lol. I've missed you all but I'm back heh.
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Post by Bec on Apr 11, 2020 4:06:00 GMT -5
Hi welcome back! -Bec-
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Post by Rose@Paperclip! on Apr 11, 2020 9:32:30 GMT -5
^ Thanks, Bec ;D
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Post by Alexzander on Apr 11, 2020 10:48:31 GMT -5
I'm glad to see old players returning ^^ The PC is kind of like an old blanket. It's always there and nice and comforting, no matter what. I'm truly shocked to see so many people still play this archaic game to be honest. When I made my return last year after far too long absent, I was truly surprised to see anything was active at all! Since everyone is stuck on quarantine, I will say it reminds me of my teenage summers and holidays where things absolutely flew and the forums were exploding.
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Post by Rose@Paperclip! on Apr 11, 2020 17:24:40 GMT -5
^ I'm glad to see both old & new faces every time I rear my head back in the PC - it is marvelous how many people do boomerang back to these games that are now decade+ old/archaic as you say ;D
Oh gosh and I totally know what you mean by summers/holidays, the forums were so active & lively it felt so wonderous to me as a teen lol I felt like I could literally be doing something in the PC and be interacting in live-time lol goooood times
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Post by Alexzander on Apr 12, 2020 8:55:26 GMT -5
Back on the days of DIAL UP. Where breedfiles took like 5 minutes to download and Petz.com was the BEST THING EVER. I still remember my first trip there and I was really confused because I didn't under breed files and I'd found an old petzy borzoi I wanted and it took me a while to find the breed file and install it. Then well... everything went downhill from there I used to get all these Petz newsletter back in the day too. Did anyone else have those/do those? It was an email like once a week and kind of served as a mini website - there were adoptions, shows and all sorts of things! It was great fun but oh man were they a lot of work owo
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Post by Sasha on Apr 13, 2020 3:29:47 GMT -5
Welcome backkkk!
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Post by Rose@Paperclip! on Apr 13, 2020 11:06:07 GMT -5
Alexzander - oh goodness, I didn't join the PC til '09 so I missed the heyday of petz + dial up lmao I can only imagine those times of waiting eons for breedfile downloads and all the wonderfully simplistic petz sites ;-; it must have been a fun time to be a part of the community, that's for sure! Also, petz newsletters sound awesome?? It may be something to revist/revive if there's enough popularity, but I think the forums and various other current petz-related websites kinda take care of what a newsletter would..? Correct me if I'm wrong lol they were before my time Sasha - Thank you!! ;D
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Post by Alexzander on Apr 19, 2020 14:43:40 GMT -5
Oh they were! That was back before the days of the free websites too much, and you actually had to know how to code to make anything XD Freewebs and geocities and yahoo were EVERYWHERE xD
I started in 1998 when I got petz 3 I think it was, either that or straight up Dogz 4 lol. I'm so old XD
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Post by Rose@Paperclip! on Apr 20, 2020 22:15:53 GMT -5
^ I really hope somebody out here has screenshots of this era because I feel like I totally missed out lmao you're making me nostalgic for something I wasn't even around for xD
I didn't start playing until Catz 4, which was the first 'big girl' computer game my mom got for me (which she specifically did because there's a tuxedo/b+w cat on the front that looked like our RL cat lol) xD Goodness, what a time lol
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Post by leashykitty on May 8, 2020 2:21:39 GMT -5
Hello and welcome back lol I'm new here myself.
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Post by KeyGlyph on May 9, 2020 17:34:49 GMT -5
Welcome back, Rose!
...there was Petz newsletter?! Details please???
I've been playing since 2001, but I don't remember if I went to Petz.com. I vividly remember browsing the homebrew Geocities/Yahoo/Angelfire kennels, though. What did they have up there?
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