ANIMAL CROSSING: NEW HORIZONS

this is the hybrids guide I've been using
https://www.belltreeforums.com/threads/acnh-guide-on-hybrids.516964/

oh wait! so i should use an object as a "gate", so i can still enter and exit the fenced area by clambering over it. that'll work, thanking you!

Whoever wrote up how to control rock spawning used a toilet as the gate to his rock garden as a reminder to dump that fruit energy.

I enjoyed a work video chat today where people were asking what kind of game AC is

You do work and build things and swear at a raccoon for holding your mortgage, I said. Also, there are outfits

The MayDay maze island was fun - I'd forgot the last AC game had that thing where you could go and do comps (mazes, speedruns etc) and I hope they do more of that. The maze puzzle reminded me a bit of Links Awakening.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auTi3stuL5M

implementing these changes would take nintendo about 2 weeks, but would also drop the time people spend playing the game from about 30 minutes a day to about 15

Goddamn Aussies living in the future making me think I already missed the May Day tour window

People complaining about animal crossing need to go outside and try to dig up real weeds for about an hour, and then go make friends while covered in sweat and dirt

Wasnt the mayday tour window only til the 4th or 5th though?

fun little maze

At a mere ten days, Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ cherry blossom season is woefully short. Many players didn’t manage to find all the accompanying DIY recipes during that time frame. Players could time travel so that they don’t have to wait nearly a year to get another chance. But there’s another option. You just have to be willing to drop a ton of bells.

Nookazon, the leading Animal Crossing marketplace, launched an “auction” feature in early May that lets players bid on items of interest. A Nookazon representative tells Polygon that, so far, the biggest auction on the site was over a bundle of 100 cherry blossom petals. Initially posted at 10,000 bells, the auction closed with a bid of a whopping 2.8M bells.

The price point, while outrageous, makes sense. Most players aren’t in early spring anymore, meaning that items belonging to that season are now rare and therefore open to be sold at a premium. Anyone who had the foresight to stock up on their seasonal crafting materials, rather than using them up, can now sell them at a huge profit. The wider pricing trends just two days ago saw a single petal hit a high of 40,000 bells — though Nookazon lists the “average” price at 25,000.

polygon.com/2020/5/8/21251979/animal-crossing-new-horizons-cherry-blossom-acorns-pine-cones-diy-bells-economy-acnh-nintendo-switch

wait...i have 10 cherry blossom petals, so...am i rich?

I succumbed and bought this game

Purple mum, blue pansy, and black rose have sprung up. I convinced my workout obsessed pig neighbor to move away and a workout obsessed cat moved in. The golden retriever sent me a very needy note this morning.

i skipped a few days and when i got back to the island the purple mouse ran over to me and was like "omg i've missed you so much you really have no idea" and i was like ok then let's chat and all she had to say was "i saw C earlier today she looked pretty happy" and then walked away.

brilliant

my cantankerous horsey neighbour fucked off yesterday, and a rather pleasant but socially aspirational lion is moving in tomorrow

I visited a friend's island that had the most terrifying clown neighbor imaginable (Pietro?). My current fave on my island is the sheep that wears a vest decorated like a watermelon slice who does tai chi in the square every morning and has rock star delusions.

Also it was Curlos the ram's birthday last Tuesday and the party in his house was definitely something. The Glee Reaction was a good move to the K.K.Birthday song.

Ha I got the KarenHorse to move out too. The trick is to not talk to them/send them letters. Its rude but eh. She was replaced by a rastafarian looking sheep with a hamburger for a hat.

I hadnt seen Redd at all since the museum got its gallery wing which is weird, he doesnt seem to have a set day he shows up, so I've only the 2 paintings so far. Then on Friday a villager just randomly strolls up and says "hey fren have this gift" and gave me a freaking legit painting!?

I wonder if the game felt sorry for me cos Id missed redd or something.

I've been wondering that about Redd - I got one real painting and a fake winged victory statue that I sat outside the museum surrounded by rosebushes and haven't seen him since.

I'm gonna have to keep more of an eye out for his shanty boat up the back of the island I guess - maybe after those first 2 he doesnt come onto land?

i've also had no luck finding him lately, and i've been checking the back every day!

Seems it might actually be a known issue, possibly related to tt? But I havent tt - well not strictly speaking anyway. I do sometimes alter the clock but only to "catch up" if I didnt play modt of the prev day - I never go back past already-played time, but maybe that still counts :(

His boat was noted on the map when he was there, so I'm hoping that's always the case. His landing is near my campsite, but I don't usually climb up the cliffs when I'm there.

I've never tried time travel, so maybe/maybe not?

yeah, i've never time traveled before either

it's like come on redd, i just want to try to buy some of your fake art, come on get over here

BTW there are ways to spot the fakes, its not just random chance! You have to know the artwork in question and look for flaws or missing parts. eg I dunno, Venus di milo has arms, that sorta thing.

oh, nice! i've only bought one thing from him (the mona lisa), which was legit

i like the idea of the fake mona lisa, though! "hey, i know EXACTLY why she's smiling! wait a second"

I feel bad for the itinerant merchants when I don't want to buy anything. They come all the way to this remote location and unload all their stuff out of the back of a DAL seaplane, and for what? Idle chitchat and a few nook miles for the effort?

Haha yeah Kicks never has much of what I want, shoes? pft I just buy the doc martin looking things from able sisters.

I buy stuff like crazy, love it when my buds wear gifts I gave them. Antonio can’t get enough of the paisley bandana. Also, designing your own fashion line for the display at Able’s and then seeing your villagers wear your stuff is special

Yeah, I need to do that

i'm still doing the basic infrastructure - i need at least two more inclines and another bridge or two

i'm moving a snail's pace but i'm enjoying it. honestly i wasn't sure i'd still be playing a month or two later, but here i am, every day

yeah the bigger infrastructure stuff is keeping me interested. putting down paths is satisfying

Im regretting where I put the museum cos I want it to have a big forecourt now and I cant movbe the river near it.

Lil Jurg Frey’s four person object-based noise improv performance in Animal Crossing https://t.co/7G4lczIm8r

this is some “belongs in the MoMA” type shit. would listen to the audio alone & love it, but seeing their actions in the video is 🤯. headphones recommended

— Good Willsmith (@GoodWillsmith) May 13, 2020

ha, no way! the sister of one of my good friends is in that group!

she wrote the music for her sister's wedding, too - it was amazing

#coolsisters

that video A) is great B) reminds me that I’ve have subconsciously adopted the animal crossing habit of swinging my arms back and forth when standing around in my house

btw they're playing again tonight, at this e-venue:

https://www.twitch.tv/experimental_sound_studio

it's a set with other musicians, but their 30-minute set starts at 11pm EST / 8pm PST, i believe

our friend la lechera played one of the ESS live streams

Shouts out to Lou Mallozzi and Alex Inglizian.

Mallozzi, who runs ESS, was a professor of mine at SAIC.

Thats awesome stuff :D Reminds me of the amazing soundscapes you could make if you had heaps of gyroids. I hope they bring gyroids back I miss them.

https://twitter.com/nook_st_market

got a gold rose. only need a blue rose now

so it's been five days and i'm already at the "what do I do now?" point...i guess I can keep doing those Nook Travel islands...
seems like it's going to take an insane amount of time to get 30 iron nuggets, since i get <1 per day

google how to get the most out of smacking rocks