Articles: Petz questions 2—Electric Boogaloo (featuring Thor and my roommate)

[WordPress] Petz questions 2: Electric Boogaloo (featuring Thor and my roommate)

Original Post Date: 2025-03-21

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Last time I did something like this, I was getting my questions sourced from old, old polls on the RKC Petz Forum, but this time I’m getting my questions more organically!

I posed the question “What should I do for my next posts?” to Petzcord, and the lovely Thor of, well, Thor’s Petz Site, responded by giving me an idea to do another questions page!

… But that wasn’t enough! So I got my university roommate to ask me a thing. (Roomie has been involved with my Petz escapades before, but has never played them themself.)

And that still wasn’t enough to sate my desire for being grilled! So I went back to the forums. (Lol.)

So, without further ado:

Thor's Question: How do you usually play Petz?

Most of the time, when it comes to Petz, I’m doing breeding projects or just trying to test hexes. I’m always trying to see what stuff I can get from combining features! (I think the parrot-opossums were one of the cutest. Maybe I’ll show some of them off later…)

When I actually do things in-game outside of breeding, usually it’s during free time, with me opening Petz to check on any creatures I’ve got at that point, feed them, play with them, and then return to whatever I was working on.

There have been occasions, mostly before I started hexing like crazy, where I actually would play the game as vanilla as I could. I’ve been trying to get back into that, actually…

Roomie's Question: Why did you unleash these monstrosities upon the world?

Because I like creating weird creatures and breeding weird creatures. The “I Love Hybrids” clique on my Cliques page isn’t undeserved.

(I kept saying this out loud as “monstrosipies uton the world”. Spoonerisms.)

RelevantForum Questions: Wow much do you use brainsliders?

All the time. When I’m in the middle of a breeding project, expect a lot of Age slider usage. Now that I have Prism’s PetzA fork, though, I’m using the Age slider less in favour of the “Age to 100” button.

Before the hexing began, I would also use the Fullness slider to ensure my picky Poodle, Cherry, would eat. (Lowering it to 0 means that the pet will immediately eat anything without issue. Is it cruel? Arguably, kind of…)

Top 3 favourite pet toyz?

I assume this is without any hexed toys, so here’s those:

  1. Love Potion – Every vanilla breeder’s godsend
  2. Auto-Rolling Ball – Great for entertaining pets while AFK
  3. Bird Feeder – Seeing the cute hummingbirds was always the best, and for some reason my old file of Petz 5 never used to give it to me at the start…

With hexed toys, though, they’ve got to be:

  1. Oasis’ wacky weasel ball – It’s just like the autoroller but with a cute little weasel toy attached!
  2. Funfetti’s butterfly terrarium – I always loved the butterflies from Petz and having a portable one is perfect!
  3. Filthy Hippie’s moth decor – I adore moths and these hangable decorations are amazing (the cecropia moth is my favourite because we get them here in Canada!)

And treats/foods?

Vanilla:

  1. Catnip – It’s so fun to watch petz be silly.
  2. Leftovers – I loved watching the different foods disappear. This also looked appetizing to me as a kid.
  3. Cheese – I love watching mice collect the crumbs!

Hexed (I don’t actually use a lot of hexed food or treats…)

  1. Mythic Silence’s flavoured bowls (and Gyiyg’s cheese bowl as well!) – Super handy for picky petz!
  2. Gyiyg’s edible clover – It’s cute and also actually a good indicator of when you haven’t fed petz enough, since they’ll automatically default to eating the clover if no other food is around.
  3. Mythic Silence’s edible decorative mushrooms – They also catnip your petz, which is honestly hilarious to me.

(Plugplugplugplug for everyone mentioned in these two questions! If you like this site, go check everyone else out! More of the community is on the Links page.)

How do you choose names for your petz?

Sometimes, I think long and hard and deep and come up with a name that’s the very essence of a petz’ being (e.g. Sunny, UV, Charcoal). Sometimes, it’s Roomie (e.g. Forceps, Sneefer, and Kuro).

I love both methods.

Random Forum Questions: What’s your star sign?

Virgo.

Which web browser do you use?

Firefox.

What real life pets do you own?

As of right now, just my bird, Bonnie.

Favourite computer game?

Besides Petz of course, other ones I’m fond of include Speedy Blupi/Eggbert, Angry Birds, Bejeweled 3, and a whole bunch of Flash games. It seems that liking games that are hard to find copies of is kind of my thing.

Favourite types of these things…?

Ice cream:

  1. Mint chip. (It does not taste like toothpaste. If it does to you, I want to know where you get such tasty toothpaste!)
  2. Good old plain chocolate.
  3. Lime sorbet. (Technically not ice cream but eh.)

Candy:

  1. Anything sour. My poor teeth disagree.)
  2. Fruit snacks.
  3. Pretty much any chocolate.

Chips/crisps:

  1. Just plain lightly salted.
  2. Bacon flavour. (Ruffles Sour Cream and Bacon comes to mind.)
  3. Sour cream and onion.

How do you pronounce “data” and “beta”?

“Day-tuh” and “dah-tuh” are interchangeable. It’s always “bay-tuh” though. (My roomie said the same thing. Maybe this is a Canadian thing.)

And, finally...: Favourite kind of tea?

Mint-chamomile, or just mint.


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