Kyle moved away from my island recently, he does in fact rule
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Sheâs a little boring unfortunately, rarely leaves her house or says anything weird. Nice though!
Sheâs always telling me about her dreams about dinosaurs with mortgage woes
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In an effort to secure more time for the big Mario Maker jam, Iâve started a major âhurry up and waitâ project in Animal Crossing: custom t-shirts now occupy one out of every 9 unoccupied contiguous squares, such that the rocks I broke today should only reappear in the spots I have designated for them. While my landscape is so littered, itâs difficult to continue working on my gardens, so I can just put my hybridization work on hold until next week.
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Sylvia writes me really good letters, but Dotty wrote me a letter yesterday about how much she pukes from motion sickness and her tips for not puking so Dotty is 100% my favorite villager now
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Norma, the, uh, painfully normal pink cow, was wandering around talking about how she wanted to move, so I said hey, sure, you do you.
Sheâs spent the rest of the day moping and crying about how much sheâll miss my island.
Sheâs boring as can be but if one of yâall get her, be nice to her.
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I did the same for Baabara, a snobby sheep, but she was always ranging from neutral to nice whenever we interacted so I was sadder than I thought I would be to let her go. Thinking back to the gamecube game what I miss in this one besides the music is villagers who would be mean and nasty to you, treating you as the non-animal outsider, but then again I can appreciate why they wanted to align the dialogue with the iyashikei effect that AC settles into.
I distinctly remember Peanut calling me a quote âuncouth sub-humanâ back in my GameCube village. Fucking brutal.
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My partner has decided she really doesnât like Mathilda the kangaroo and has started hitting her with a butterfly net. I donât mind Mathilda really, but she says sheâs gotta go, so whatever. But being purposefully mean to these guys does not make me feel good at all.
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That reminded me of the evolutionary timeline in the fossils wing of the museum that connects the villagers to the giant ancient creatures youâre digging up. It has a spotlight at the very end that turns on when you stand under it, overshadowed by the rest of the species, and I think itâs showing that animal-person supremacy never really went away even when youâre the only one with any agency
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We are laid low by our beastial masters smh
Spider-Man Unlimited predicted this, but we didnât watch, and now look at us
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I keep hearing conflicting info on this stuff. Last I heard, contrary to popular belief, being mean to villagers does zilch in affecting their decision to move. Just means you wonât get the benefits of having a friendly villager until they do decide to leave.
oh no
if anyone has mint in their village hit her with a net over and over and say its a mesaage from FAAART
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I wanted Biskit to move in because I had the fondest memories of him from GC. I was tempted to look at Amiibo scalping pricesâŚbut I think $11 is too much for another homebody guy.
It feels like villiagers you interact with more are more likely to leave? I could be wrong about this, though. It just seems like all the ones I go out of my way to say hi too are way more likely to just decided to get out of dodge at random.
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I hope Beardo never abandons me.
Feels like it - I had SHERB of all people say he was thinking of moving out yesterday. I went on my hands and knees and begged that weird son of a bastard to stay.
Meanwhile, Sylvia is still going strong, and I canât remember the last time I talked to her.
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Hereâs the thing, though: those animal silhouettes get a spotlight of their own when one of your islanders comes over to it and poses beneath in the corresponding location. If anything, ACNH seems to be the first real instance of the games affirming the coequal sentience of animal people and allowing them to overtly coexist with e.g. quadruped frogs, hamster cages, etc. (To be clear, those things existed before, but the museum exhibit calls out and distinguishes in a way that feels new.)
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Huh! Iâve never been inside the museum at the same time as one of the villagers so thatâs something to look out for! Thatâll teach me to read grim undertones in something thatâs been pleasant as hell these two months.
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