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Since there's various tiny children bopping around on the forum again, just thought I'd mention this site a few of us have messed around with in the past.

https://www1.flightrising.com/

It's another one of those cringy-yet-shamefully-addictive browser pet games like Neopets, except in this one you're breeding a bunch of different varieties of dragons that look like glitter encrusted rainbow vomit, and dressing them up and stuff.

Just remembered an account I haven't touched in two years existed and have been looking through it again, and I don't know, I kind of like it.

There's some occasionally neat lore and the economy is balanced I think impressively well via the ability to combat train and rid the otherwise infinite supply of dragons from the game for currency--there's the ability to buy currency too but really zero need for it unless you're that guy that's like YES, I MUST have this rare collection of pixels that was released only briefly in 2013.

Though on the surface it's all very kid friendly to the point of stupidity. Dragons "breed" by magic and the exalting mechanic whereby you send dragons you don't have room for anymore to "be with their god" is totally NOT death, you guys, the dragon just went to live on a farm in the sky.

Also, sometimes fleshy chunks off the animals in the entire ecosystems you rip through end up in your inventory, but those are just Shade-possessed spectres, no animals were harmed. You also absolutely don't melt down your dragons' beloved, trusting pets--some of which are sapient races with cultures of their own whose armed forces your dragons routinely rampage through--into a cauldron for alchemy ingredients, we don't need to talk about that. (I am pretty sure the devs are winking at the camera at times.)

Typical gameplay is either five minutes a day of collecting items, clicking nests, and tossing excess junk (including dragons) in the auction house, or you can grind simple old school Flash looking JRPG style battles for hours to collect loot and level dragons for your elemental Flight leaderboard if you're INSANE. There's also this whole side of it where people write elaborate biographies for their dragons, for a different kind of insanity. There are various no pressure outlets for whatever your personal autism is in that way, but the real game of course is about hoarding pretty pretty pretty dragons until you can afford to alter their genes with unethical magic and then put them in the perfect outfit.

I think technically you need to be 13 to play, but Avo just ask your mom to unblock it for you and then lie when you register.

Well I'm going to turn 13 in 2 months anyway, it's not that long.

If you have any old festival items they might be worth quite a bit of pretend money.

Wait were you one of those QUIRKY gay kids writing about QUIRKY gay dragons? The community sure has a lot of those, my eye kind of starts to twitch after about ten seconds browsing profiles over there.

Now that the contest is over and I can trust myself to open this thread: yes, I played this. It was too much of a time waster for me though so I had to force myself to quit

They was this race I came up with when I was ten or eleven called Faerie Dragons that contributed to a little bit of an obsession since the Faes were similar enough that I could project a bunch of those ideas into them.