Harp the Wigglytuff @wigglytuffitout@computerfairi.es

@InspectorCaracal LOL yes, i admit i'm nicely mollified now that the mod explained they'd left a message for me but then had to run out so had to nuke the thread because the risk of the phbb overlords seeing it while they were out was sadly too high. i do wish they'd gone to pm me instead but they were able to grab the post for me so i didn't even have to re-bbcode it, which was nice!

aha, there we go, talked to a mod and got an explanation that phbb forums are notoriously difficult on any mention of anything that may hint of piracy, including downloading abandonware.

but, guide up again! on the remaining nexus of petz fandom! http://petzforum.proboards.com/thread/66307/overview-windows-petz-play-nicely

just you know with step zero of "acquiring petz 5" replaced by me doing the linguistic equivalent of looking straight at the camera and giving a big ol' wink #petztalk

i ate too many "Extreme Sour" sweettarts and now my mouth hurts

the hubris of mankind.........................

@citlali@kitty.town "why did you spoil GoT for me when you know i was going to read it and when you know i was looking forward to experience those twists myself? that was really hurtful."

or toss politeness gently out a window on this one tbh, you're allowed to have some anger on that

@InspectorCaracal honestly - legit lmao, i had forgotten how you have to play the minigames to get more toyz

fortunately the bug squashing one is dead easy LOL

@InspectorCaracal but then if i turn off my internet connection i'd have to stop browsing mastodon and shit which is clearly A FATE WORSE THAN DEATH v:

the installer seems like it's a really nice and solid upload! it'll be a shame i can't link it to people on the petz forums, but it's a hell of a lot nicer than trying to piece together an .iso out of 22 .rar files

anyway, he fits

so he did a sits

#petztalk

ok here we go, i did a little writeup of how i got it all to work in windows 10 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n3tpKU01fne4fuQFvRAxLL7mS6FNZhOyfU0Qed4sYBU/edit?usp=sharing (the forum i found deleted this, so, to gdocs!)

using the other little utility to just change the date instead of the full petza utility (that allows you to just change values with sliders, which is... idk, kinda boring to me) is something that i remain all too fuckin pleased with myself for LMAO

#petztalk #gameing is this old enough for #retrogaming ? i mean probably not but why not

@heartles@pdx.social i came in all "pff accidental racism, yeah right, it's rarely an accident", but then

Oh No

oh no that poor sweet summer child

@InspectorCaracal oh god fucking bless you would you toss it in a google doc for me

@InspectorCaracal maybe because i mentioned that petz is abandonware and that's too close to piracy? yeah, that's probably it

........woulda been cool if a mod had like. idk. gone "hey we removed it because x!" or "hey we edited this/please edit this" instead of just nuking it but lol

time to go to the mods all "please can you at lease lemme recover the rest of what i wrote"

oh. well it looks like my writeup's gotten deleted for some reason. ^^;;

maybe a mod will uh... eventually tell me why....

@InspectorCaracal oh i know adoption date is likely very easily hex edited in there somewhere - but i also can't remember if bad shit happens if you roll the clock ahead then set it back tbh, so it may be that's totally fine LOL

>posts link to petz writeup

>sees board stats go from 20 guests to 60 guests

:3c JOIN ME IN PIXEL KITTY HELL, EVERYONE #petztalk

a topical meme for @lynnesbian to wake up to, given what i can judge what happened last night from scrolling back

listen i try to not be too much into e-celeb drama but like

y'all

james charles exploding and self-destructing is kind of delicious

@mare well it's the block form that's the problem here clearly, you needed to do some shredding to get it to become a grate idea :^)