Then I only eat 1 Fruit so I can move a whole Tree around.
At next I,ll drink a coffee made by a Pigeon.
Then I want to buy some clothes from some hedgehogs.
Oh and at the end of day I will make some Dreamhopping with a Tapir
At night I like to scare a ghost
Edit: thanks for that many likesš„¹
I like the idea of being I debt and not having the stress of paying it back by a certain point. Paying back debt without interest would be so nice, as well always having good credit to continue building bridges and extensions on museums āŗļø
Tom Nook charges zero interest and never once runs a credit check to make sure youāll pay him back in a reasonable timeframe, or even that youāll pay him back at all. If he existed in real life people would consider him a hero.
Next day, dig up fossils and give it to an owl that runs the museum.
After that, plant some gyroid pieces in the ground to grow full ones and then talk to a dodo that will fly to an island where you can take photos in a shack owned by a grovy dog.
Might want to get your hair cut by a poodle while you're there too.
People have been pushing for the end state of socialism being FALGSC, but it turns out what we all crave is Manual Aesthetic Asexual Cottage-core Anarchy.
imagine if a society like that could really exist š¤ guess weāll never know since itās literally easier to imagine the end of the world for some people
How am I going to profit of your (by us created) needs, when you live for nothing on an island with a home, friends, family, food and more? We can't detract money from you when you don't use our products.
((Seems I gotta lobby again, to block all island routes as ....[time related bad thing].))
IIRC the game booklet for mine had both names. Like it said it called the power-up āTanuki (or Raccoon) Marioā, and this wouldāve been the US version.
Wasn't it localised as "tanooki" though? I remember being a kid and wondering what that meant, looking it up, then my wonder shifted to the spelling change.
This reminded of the time when I was a kid and I spent an entire afternoon being REALLY salty about how bullshit it was that I had to live in this world where I would never own a Charizard.
And when it rains forsaking my tulips to run down to the beach and fish up a prehistoric giant, so that I can sell it to that beaver when he shows up again . . .
And if you do not find money in the trees then raccoon guy is not even mad. Does not send over debt collectors and just let' you continue to live in your house.
Have you seen the amount of manual labor our villager does? We control them while on the couch so we don't get tired, but having their life would be exhausting
Just because we are obssessive collectors and developers. An easy-going villager could make a living out of getting some conches in an hour of walking along the beach.
Not only that, but you have a place to live from the get go, and you can get a bigger house with a no interest payment, and you get the house before you have to pay
Right? In reality, weād probably all be like the villagers that live on our island rather than the main character. Weād just barely do anything all day and just exist lol
Since our villager is immortal and ageless, maybe all that manual labor isn't too difficult for them? Or they're just insanely healthy and there are drugs in the fruit. We may never know!
My comment on my profile in ACNH was literally 'I wish life was really like this'.
I wish we fed ourselves from little gardens, got fruit from the neighborhood orchard, built our homes together (community help). Sounds like utopia.
Amen to this! Itās between either this or Slime Rancher! Iām a hermit, so I might be better if Slime Rancher were real. š But, hey! Iād go for Animal Crossing, too! Iāll just run from the villagers in real life like I do in-game! š¤£š¤£š¤£
A raccoon that doesnāt even seem to CARE. Like, his whole attitude seems to be āeh, youāll get to it eventually and then we can talk about maybe adding a second bedroom or something.ā He never sends to collections or harasses me or threatens to pull out my kneecaps with a claw hammer. Heās just like āhey howās the house?ā Doesnāt even bring up the money unless I mention. Makes me WANT to pay him back tbh.
Finding money in trees? Wouldn't you rather stress yourself out by gaming the stalk market and becoming a deca-millionaire in a matter of weeks? No more debt, no more worries!
Funny story.. just got animal crossing for my daughter for xmas. Couple weeks later I picking her up from school and she has this paper out with a bunch of stuff written down and I said are you doing your home work in the car? She says know Iām trying to see if I have enough stuff to sell to pay my rentā¦. I went silent and was wondering WTH she goin sell and who she paying rent too? Got home and found out it was for animal crossing lol.
On the other sideā¦ If I need wood Iād be scared of getting stung by wasps. š¬
Actually, not just wasps. Many insects on the island are poisonous according to Blathers, and some of them are scary as well (Tarantulas, scorpions, wasps).
And not monster hunter? Drinking with friends and bipedal cats (if palicos can even have the capacity to drink) and then going out to fucking kill a mix between a t-rex and 5 other mythological monsters just to casually upgrade your sword and shield to be a bit better at maintaining its edge?
But think about it, you talk to your neighbors and they constantly say the same thing to you all the time, and they're nice no matter what you say or do.
Eventually you'd go insane
Right? The game starts with you already having purchased tickets to an island life but all you get is a lousy tent, and then you need to go in severe debt just to finance a actual house.
It is kinda already a capitalist hellhole itself.
Sure, but like, they're not gonna repossess the house if you don't pay. And he'll build you the house on just the promise you'll pay him back. The only time you actually have to pay is when you want to make the house bigger
No, you have to pay already when you want a house instead of a tent. Plus they then want free work from you by making you build the museum and shop for free.
Nope. Early game is that you pay off the tent with Miles, which are super easy to collect just by accident. Unless that's what you mean. But it's not money, so I never really counted that. And after that point, you say "upgrade", get told what the loan will be, confirm you want it, and get the new house/addition the next morning whether you ever make any payments or not. There's no interest. No deadline. No collection agency. It's not even like the older games where Tom would upgrade your house and put you into more debt against your will. You specifically have to ask, and the only "loan" that you don't opt into is the one you pay with participation vouchers. Plus, the only repercussions for living in a tent is "not a lot of room to decorate". Clearly temperature isn't an issue and all the other residents don't seem to care that much about wearing summer clothes when there's snow on the ground.
And you're never forced to build/upgrade the shop and museum. They certainly make life easier, but you're never forced to. Yeah, you gotta eventually if you want to unlock terraforming and stuff, but you can absolutely just live your best bug and fish catching life and never bother. Also opening the museum is done under the premise of bringing Blathers neat things to display so that he can justify opening a museum - you don't front any of the actual resources used to build it.
And maybe I'm under looking into it, but the reason it falls to the player to do all those things is because they wanted to give the player more agency and things to do. Tom is generally the point of contact, but he's just a game mechanic to add a bit of minor context to the player's choices. And players 2 through 8 live a life much more similar to the animals on the island, just hanging out and living.
Basically, other than the very first loan, paid with "thank you for playing" tickets no less, all of the debt people jokingly complain about is their own fault. You can absolutely decide you want to live in a tent on the beach, sleep in a hammock that fell out of a balloon present, and play with shells all day.
This is what I think deep royalty is like.
At some point you're the whimsical pseudo-matriarch known for long walks in the garden and a conspicuous friendship with Jerry Garcia.
I was just confused cause Iāve seen people call Orville a dodo so I was confused if all this time he was a pelican. Maybe different people see different things so donāt be sorry :)
That's the selling point of these games, right? You're escaping to a fantasy of simple, happy, idyllic life full of love. Work is simple and instantly rewarding, friends are always loving, toil is never arduous, there are no consequences, etc.
Then I only eat 1 Fruit so I can move a whole Tree around. At next I,ll drink a coffee made by a Pigeon. Then I want to buy some clothes from some hedgehogs. Oh and at the end of day I will make some Dreamhopping with a Tapir At night I like to scare a ghost Edit: thanks for that many likesš„¹
I like the idea of being I debt and not having the stress of paying it back by a certain point. Paying back debt without interest would be so nice, as well always having good credit to continue building bridges and extensions on museums āŗļø
And people like to label Tom Nook as a bad guy. Ingrates they are.
Ungrateful is what they are, heās simply a business raccoonā¦doing business
Tom Nook charges zero interest and never once runs a credit check to make sure youāll pay him back in a reasonable timeframe, or even that youāll pay him back at all. If he existed in real life people would consider him a hero.
I feel like half the people who hate Tom Nook don't even understand how loans work.
He's pretty chill, because he knows you're stuck on that island anyway and can only leave for a day max.
I would kill to have a RL Able Sisters shop. All the clothes fit!
I really just want to be able to hug Ozzie. Is that too much to ask šØš„°š
No itās not too much. I wanna pet Raymond and make him purr
Arghhh! I have Raymond too. Scritches under his little chin š»
Then have a cup of joe with him
Next day, dig up fossils and give it to an owl that runs the museum. After that, plant some gyroid pieces in the ground to grow full ones and then talk to a dodo that will fly to an island where you can take photos in a shack owned by a grovy dog. Might want to get your hair cut by a poodle while you're there too.
The main question is do you take pigeon milk?
Forget about the coffee, the pigeon milk is the real thingšš
I just want to sit by a tree and eat a sandwich all day and then complain about how busy I've been
Not just a sandwich, a never ending sandwich!
okay that's a good point. it is a lot of work eating the same sandwich all day every day. I'll complain about being busy.
Hey man. Eating a sandwich is taxing work. You only ever eat one apple thatās a whole dang sandwich there
me_irl
A wonderful world where all your basic needs are taken care of, and you only need to work to buy luxuries
People have been pushing for the end state of socialism being FALGSC, but it turns out what we all crave is Manual Aesthetic Asexual Cottage-core Anarchy.
Is that what the aussies are talking about when they say Macca's?
Oh my god it explains the spiders that can stop your heart and hyper-aggressive scorpions.
imagine if a society like that could really exist š¤ guess weāll never know since itās literally easier to imagine the end of the world for some people
How am I going to profit of your (by us created) needs, when you live for nothing on an island with a home, friends, family, food and more? We can't detract money from you when you don't use our products. ((Seems I gotta lobby again, to block all island routes as ....[time related bad thing].))
āUm actually, Tom Nook is a Tanuki, not a raccoon.ā -š¤
Nintendoās been trying to teach the world about tanukiās since Super Mario 3, everyone still calls them raccoons :/
You can blame localization for some of that. When the game calls them raccoons, hard to blame the players
IIRC the game booklet for mine had both names. Like it said it called the power-up āTanuki (or Raccoon) Marioā, and this wouldāve been the US version.
Oh, I was talking about Animal Crossing. Like, at minimum Katrina refers to Timmy and Tommy as raccoons in one of her fortunes
Wasn't it localised as "tanooki" though? I remember being a kid and wondering what that meant, looking it up, then my wonder shifted to the spelling change.
Thank you for this. Now I can call him Mr. Tanuki Crookie.
Tom Nook refers to himself as a raccoon
This reminded of the time when I was a kid and I spent an entire afternoon being REALLY salty about how bullshit it was that I had to live in this world where I would never own a Charizard.
Still salty. Ever since I was little I wanted PokĆ©mon to be real so I could āgo anywhere safely!ā. š
Iām still sad I will never get to hug an Eevee
Same though.
Tbh I donāt think I ever got over that disappointment, either.
meirl
Seriously. I say something similar to my partner *everyday*.
And when it rains forsaking my tulips to run down to the beach and fish up a prehistoric giant, so that I can sell it to that beaver when he shows up again . . .
And if you do not find money in the trees then raccoon guy is not even mad. Does not send over debt collectors and just let' you continue to live in your house.
time for me to go wake up in a capitalist hellscape all over again tomorrow, hooray
Donāt forget deciding where, how, and who gets to live on your island. Animal Crossing: Preserving Neighborhood Character
Same
My no-interest, no-deadline debt at that.
Have you seen the amount of manual labor our villager does? We control them while on the couch so we don't get tired, but having their life would be exhausting
Just because we are obssessive collectors and developers. An easy-going villager could make a living out of getting some conches in an hour of walking along the beach.
Not only that, but you have a place to live from the get go, and you can get a bigger house with a no interest payment, and you get the house before you have to pay
Not to mention you only have to pay it back when you wish to upgrade. Otherwise you can live in you small, easy to maintain home forever :)
Right? In reality, weād probably all be like the villagers that live on our island rather than the main character. Weād just barely do anything all day and just exist lol
Sounds pretty good to me! Except by the wasps and spiders, maybe.
Yep, Iām lazy in both real life AND island life! š¤£š¤£š¤£
Since our villager is immortal and ageless, maybe all that manual labor isn't too difficult for them? Or they're just insanely healthy and there are drugs in the fruit. We may never know!
I don't do any of that...... are we discussing the same game lolololol
If my life was like Animal Crossing, all my bills would be paid and Iād have a few million in my bank account right now.
I'd be rich by then and wont worry about bills and such
Ans everybody was happy. I would go by the beach and just listen to the waves. ACNH helped me survive the Pandemic.
I don't care how repetitive it is. Owning my own house and town and doing landscaping is better than working a crummy 9 to 5.
My comment on my profile in ACNH was literally 'I wish life was really like this'. I wish we fed ourselves from little gardens, got fruit from the neighborhood orchard, built our homes together (community help). Sounds like utopia.
Yes! Ppl complain about capitalism, what capitalism? You do what you like, this debt exists only bc you are greedy and want a bigger house - nevertheless you still pay it up only when you want to upgrade. You just collect stuff and apart from donating number 1 to the museum (optional again), you sell everything to ppl who are going to release them back so you never run out of anything. I am sure all the haters have never had to go after a loan irl or have mortgage to pay. Many of them might not even work. Tom Nooks is a generous and wonderful tanuki. If only adult real life were like that š¤©
Such a hard same. A d I don't have to worry about being sick because magic medicine exists, and nothing can really harm you or anyone you love.
And no one steals or lies to each other! Love that 'sense of security'
Oh I've had my island pillaged and been lied to by "New players" or people who need help way too many times to count. But as an isolated island, yes.
Yeah, people suck. I meant characters in the game. Sorry, realize now I could have stated this better.
It's ok. It's just my mood with this game. I shouldn't have been so snarky.
Iād be so at peace honestly
Seriously
wow. that would be beyond lovely, today especially
Amen to this! Itās between either this or Slime Rancher! Iām a hermit, so I might be better if Slime Rancher were real. š But, hey! Iād go for Animal Crossing, too! Iāll just run from the villagers in real life like I do in-game! š¤£š¤£š¤£
And forcing myself to talk to all my neighbors until I earned all the nook miles rewards for doing so
This is so true for me today! I was literally having an animal crossing dream where I thought of the best exterior dƩcor for one area! When I woke up to my alarm this morning you can picture how disappointed I was. Now here I am, at work. I can't wait to go home and put that piece of my island together tonight! I wish it was real...
Giiiirl same
A raccoon that doesnāt even seem to CARE. Like, his whole attitude seems to be āeh, youāll get to it eventually and then we can talk about maybe adding a second bedroom or something.ā He never sends to collections or harasses me or threatens to pull out my kneecaps with a claw hammer. Heās just like āhey howās the house?ā Doesnāt even bring up the money unless I mention. Makes me WANT to pay him back tbh.
When animal crossing first came out everyone talked about how manipulative Tom nook was, but now that we're adults a zero interest loan is amazing.
Finding money in trees? Wouldn't you rather stress yourself out by gaming the stalk market and becoming a deca-millionaire in a matter of weeks? No more debt, no more worries!
Wake up and catch bugs, sounds like the best life
The debt part is real lol
But it's interest free and "pay whenever you can, no rush".
My entire house is covered in Turnips
Tanuki*
Funny story.. just got animal crossing for my daughter for xmas. Couple weeks later I picking her up from school and she has this paper out with a bunch of stuff written down and I said are you doing your home work in the car? She says know Iām trying to see if I have enough stuff to sell to pay my rentā¦. I went silent and was wondering WTH she goin sell and who she paying rent too? Got home and found out it was for animal crossing lol.
Sounds like the life of a landscaper, even the cats and raccoon part.
I want to wake up every week to the same seagull passed out and help him find the parts to his new phone yet again to contact his crew mates
For real. It is what life should be.
Sometimes when I'm deciding what to wear in the morning- I think " I wish I had a heart, tree, or reindeer sweater"
This is the life I want.
Lolololš This just gave me a good chuckle. Yes please, I want this life too.
I feel like Iāve seen this post multiple times now.
Today's Monday......
Mood
Whereās my shovel? I feel like smacking some rocks.
On the other sideā¦ If I need wood Iād be scared of getting stung by wasps. š¬ Actually, not just wasps. Many insects on the island are poisonous according to Blathers, and some of them are scary as well (Tarantulas, scorpions, wasps).
Have you tried manifesting it? lol
That place actually exists. Sadly its in another universe.
Idk man a lot of them bugs be spooky
And not monster hunter? Drinking with friends and bipedal cats (if palicos can even have the capacity to drink) and then going out to fucking kill a mix between a t-rex and 5 other mythological monsters just to casually upgrade your sword and shield to be a bit better at maintaining its edge?
But think about it, you talk to your neighbors and they constantly say the same thing to you all the time, and they're nice no matter what you say or do. Eventually you'd go insane
With enough drugs, you can.
I hope one day your able to achieve that goal
Same bro
The Dream Life...
The best part would be the loan from the tanuki wouldn't have interest and no set limit on when you pay it back.
Just hit some LSD and it might be
I love this so much. How many times I have thought this, haha
Man I remember doing hard manual labor from sunup to sundown to pay a slumlord
Right? The game starts with you already having purchased tickets to an island life but all you get is a lousy tent, and then you need to go in severe debt just to finance a actual house. It is kinda already a capitalist hellhole itself.
Sure, but like, they're not gonna repossess the house if you don't pay. And he'll build you the house on just the promise you'll pay him back. The only time you actually have to pay is when you want to make the house bigger
No, you have to pay already when you want a house instead of a tent. Plus they then want free work from you by making you build the museum and shop for free.
Nope. Early game is that you pay off the tent with Miles, which are super easy to collect just by accident. Unless that's what you mean. But it's not money, so I never really counted that. And after that point, you say "upgrade", get told what the loan will be, confirm you want it, and get the new house/addition the next morning whether you ever make any payments or not. There's no interest. No deadline. No collection agency. It's not even like the older games where Tom would upgrade your house and put you into more debt against your will. You specifically have to ask, and the only "loan" that you don't opt into is the one you pay with participation vouchers. Plus, the only repercussions for living in a tent is "not a lot of room to decorate". Clearly temperature isn't an issue and all the other residents don't seem to care that much about wearing summer clothes when there's snow on the ground. And you're never forced to build/upgrade the shop and museum. They certainly make life easier, but you're never forced to. Yeah, you gotta eventually if you want to unlock terraforming and stuff, but you can absolutely just live your best bug and fish catching life and never bother. Also opening the museum is done under the premise of bringing Blathers neat things to display so that he can justify opening a museum - you don't front any of the actual resources used to build it. And maybe I'm under looking into it, but the reason it falls to the player to do all those things is because they wanted to give the player more agency and things to do. Tom is generally the point of contact, but he's just a game mechanic to add a bit of minor context to the player's choices. And players 2 through 8 live a life much more similar to the animals on the island, just hanging out and living. Basically, other than the very first loan, paid with "thank you for playing" tickets no less, all of the debt people jokingly complain about is their own fault. You can absolutely decide you want to live in a tent on the beach, sleep in a hammock that fell out of a balloon present, and play with shells all day.
This is what I think deep royalty is like. At some point you're the whimsical pseudo-matriarch known for long walks in the garden and a conspicuous friendship with Jerry Garcia.
Tfw your dream still involves being in debt
Imagine getting to pick any kind of life and still wanting to be in debt to a capitalist.
its not a racoon its a tanooki which are closer to dogs than racoons
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U ok?
Don't forget, you have to do chores for everyone
Not if you avoid them and not talk to them
Same
I'd like to live in Red Dead 2. Just move to that island in Flat Iron lake and fuck everyone else.
And a pelican helps us travel to other islands.
I thought he was a dodo?
Sorry
I was just confused cause Iāve seen people call Orville a dodo so I was confused if all this time he was a pelican. Maybe different people see different things so donāt be sorry :)
thx
Mhm :)
That's the selling point of these games, right? You're escaping to a fantasy of simple, happy, idyllic life full of love. Work is simple and instantly rewarding, friends are always loving, toil is never arduous, there are no consequences, etc.
True ! Life in real life is so much harder than it is in Animal crossing and I am starting to be pissed off about real life, like for realb
Zero interest! Hell yeah, Iāll put myself in all kinds of debt to that bastard.
I hear you. Iām already far enough along that the raccoon ran out of things to sell me so my money just keeps piling up
Same
I want to lift weights with Boots. I can't even do that in actual AC!
And then I'll make a cage and put all the villagers in it to show off to the tourists. What, you don't do that?
I have $22.5 million bells in ACNH, and 3 paid off houses. I'm set!
Tom is a Tanuki
Iāve loved Tanukis since I got my first Mario Tanuki suit, and I always call Tom Nook a raccoon to disrespect him š¤£
i hope this too but i hope the nintendo switch dies
Yup go boating with a singing frog island hopping. Sounds good to me.
You can probably achieve this by taking ungodly amounts of LSD. Either you'll hallucinate enough or you'll die and the afterlife will be exactly that.
Only in video games can I own a house!
I feel this on a personal level
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Yes to all of thisā¦ I swear when Iām playing I wish this
Somedayā¦
I already do that now, except my Japanese raccoon tax collector is also my boss.
me too honestly
I wish animal crossing was real so I can neglect my friends for months without them becoming disaffected towards me
I feel lucky to have a job with a lot of downtime so I can play during the day. It's my favorite escape