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By the time we got home we were drenched and our hands were frozen. Some of it got in Hubby's eyes, so not only were his glasses completely waterlogged, but hail was dripping all off his eyes. It was a miserable time. This is what we get for trying to go for a walk....
So, back to Animal Crossing, I guess. We'll run around in the sun on our digital islands. Take THAT Nature!
If you haven't figured it out yet, it's been another week of focusing on AC: NH and not much else. I've worked on more masks, of course, so we each have a variety to rotate through and I don't have to wash/Lysol as frequently. I'm still doing tweaks to the designs, and it's still taking FOREVER to hand-sew them, but it's something moderately productive, right?
My other project this week? Well, there's two, both equally tedious and stupidly methodical. The first was that I had created a spreadsheet of the fossils I've dug up and don't need, as well as the DIY cards I've received and already knew. I figured, since my group of friends keep messaging each other anyway about what extra things we have and/or need, might as well make life easier. I also included the last few fossils Hubby and I each needed for our museums, and then sent it to about half-dozen people. I figured that way they know what Hubby and I are looking for, and if there's anything they're looking for they could let me know. Originally I had a "free to take" section of my island, and I still have a fancier looking version of that on my island, but virtually no one besides Hubby visits my island anymore, so instead I thought the spreadsheet would be easier.
After a suggestion from Cyhyr, I created identical tabs for each person I sent the spreadsheet to so they could do the same thing. I also included the K.K. Slider songs Hubby and I had access to so we could send them to the others if they wished. Goob, since he was far enough into the game already, switched out his Fossils Needed - of which there were none left - into Items Desired for items in the game he knew existed, but he didn't have access to yet. It's been an evolving spreadsheet, and I like that it DOES seem to have helped, but there's a dark side to this....
Instead of seven individual Facebook messages passing out the spreadsheet, I have people in group chats, and my local friends have turned it into our own marketplace/Discord server. They are constantly on talking about turnip prices - which is awesome, but it also makes me feel like I HAVE to play the game before noon to get the morning prices, and then back on in the afternoon/evening for the afternoon prices - and listing the new fossils, DIYs, songs, and special NPC visitors they have. Goob and Cy do update their individual tabs on the spreadsheet, but two more local friends haven't bothered. What really gets me is that one in particular is constantly asking if anyone has x-song or y-DIY or need z-fossil, when all of that is listed on the constantly updated spreadsheet.
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| Knives from the Scott Pilgrim comic books by Bryan Lee O'Malley |
Yesterday I was on long enough to harvest my rocks, shake my trees, find my fossils - and I didn't even find them all - check my turnip prices, and complete my x2 Nook Miles tasks (not that I need it; I have about 70,000 Nook Miles). That's it. Probably an hour or so all day, which, is kind of the "bare minimum" for dailies. I haven't even checked yet how many messages I missed in the chat by not bringing Facebook up at all yesterday.
So that project has kind of taken a life of its own, and has become mildly overwhelming, but it's keeping a community going between my friends, and it seems to help everyone. So I'm glad I did it.
The other project? While it allows me to just take some solo time, it has become PAINFULLY tedious. Literally. Sitting on the loveseat - which is losing support over the years - with my laptop either on the cushion next to me or on the card table, which is a TOUCH too tall for the loveseat, for hours on end as I play in the living room has been KILLING my shoulders, neck, and back. I have to take frequent breaks, but that's probably for the better since being on the loveseat and playing video games for hours on end isn't the healthiest thing on the planet.
What have I been doing though? Well, after Fang moved to my island last week, I hit my max capacity of 10 villagers plus me. I still have to replace Chops with a different Smug, and Hubby has the replacement's Amiibo card already on the way. I also need to figure out what to do with Elmer. He's already a duplicate Lazy personality, and once I get my replacement Smug he'll also be a duplicate horse. Alternatively, the Lazy I wanted as my actual duplicate would be Erik the deer, but Fuchsia is also a deer, so I'd have a duplicate anyway? Another option would be to lean hard on the Beastars joke I have with Tiffany and Fang - especially since Fang does look like Legoshi, wears a red jogging jacket, like Legoshi does, when he works out, and I just gave him a blue sweater-vest top that looks like Legoshi's school uniform - and add in a "Louie". There don't seem to be any red deer in Animal Crossing, with the closest option being Erik the reindeer. However, there IS a Smug deer named Lopez. He looks more like an antelope to me, but he IS smug, and his starter outfit/poster pose are very reminiscent of Louie. It would STILL be a duplicate deer though, and a duplicate Smug. Not sure where I want to go with that.
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I've seen some really pretty neighborhoods between visiting friends' islands, Hubby's island, and seeing gaming streams. I want to rework everything, but I have to kind of move the houses away from where I want the neighborhood to be in order for me to then move them BACK in the more organized manner I was originally aiming for. Each move is 50,000 bells. Not that big for me since my house is fully upgraded and the loan is payed off, so I now have nearly 4million bells in savings. Still, that's 500,000 to move all of the houses, and then another 500,000 to move them back. Plus, each move takes a day to complete. That's one-million bells and 20 days to get everything set the way I want them. I do NOT want to delay the neighborhood build any further by screwing it up and having to shift things AGAIN. I want to make sure it's right the first time.
So I've been trying to map out my island with painstaking detail and scaling. That way I can manipulate that map first to make sure everything will look alright. Also, that way I can figure out how much more terraforming I need to do, how much I need to thin out my fruit orchard, and where to put the 3 houses of My Girls so I can finally create side-accounts for each of them and bring them in... for flavor and some fun.
I mean, I already re-designed my character a few times to give kind of prototypes of what I can do for The Girls. Still need some work, but I have a base idea at least.
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| Lia |
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| Trish |
Anyway, the process of making that map I told you about has been.... rough. Trying to figure out the gridding and spacing of the island, what parts you can build on, which ones you can't, which ones you can't build on but can still place things on, etc., has been TEDIOUS. I've worked on this project off-and-on for probably close to 10hrs this week, and this is my progress:
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Two more things before signing off for the week. First, poor Fang must have woken up on the wrong side of the bed on the 8th, because I caught two different conversations he had with villagers, and I'm beginning to figure out why he's considered a cranky personality.
To be fair, though, I was on Fang's side in both conversations.
First up was his conversation with Chops. Now, again, Chops is the Smug villager that was my first camper and auto-moved in. I am not a fan of the hair he has - both the slicked down hairstyle and his mustache - or the outfit he defaults to, or his catchphrase of Zoink, or the music he listens to in his house, or how pompous he is with his random French insert-words and constant talking about himself. I mean, Graham did that too, but it was only on occasion. Chops seems to do it all. The. Time. Also, out of the dozen or so times I've checked to see what DIYs he's working on, I think there have only been like 2 or 3 that I either didn't already know or actually liked the look of the project. So I'm not even getting good crafting projects from him. Literally the only things I like about this character are his personalized home layout and the adorable way the pig characters' ears flop when they turn their head.
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| Chops official artwork |
Same, Fang, same. I mean, for whatever reason when the Lazy characters like Ozzie or Stitches comment about how they organize their snacks by "mouthfeel" it seems endearing, but when Chops does it? It just FEELS creepy. It's like how normally I don't mind the words "lick" or even "moist", but after watching the infamous Cherry Scene in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders, I now shudder whenever Hubby purposefully says the word "lick" similarly.
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| Character created by Hirohiko Araki |
Similarly, there was this interaction later that day between him and Tiffany. This has such big Beastars energy to it too...
Coy Tiffany not really pulling her punches, is she?
So... yeah... I'm beginning to see the Cranky personality in Fang, but he's still so adorable, and I am on his side most of the time, so....
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First is the fact that one of the reactions - emojis, basically - you are taught is the sneeze reaction. Worse yet is how you learn it. For a reminder, Biff was the one who taught me... but sprinting up to my character and sneezing on me. Twice. Shortly followed by this interaction.
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| Biff: "Some think sneezing is contagious, but that's not true, right? Why are you making that face, squirt?" Game Narration: I learned the Sneezing Reaction! Wah-CHOO! |
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Also, just a reminder that Ellen has had health issues - non-COVID related - that had her in-and-out of the hospital a lot of January and February, and she's immunocompromised, so she's been mandated by the NHS to stay indoors - not even go out into her family's yard/garden - until June! Aaaand then she gets that message in the game she uses to escape. Poor thing.
If those aren't bad enough, on the 7th I had this interaction with my Peppy character Maddie. Now, the Peppy characters are a little ditzy and tend to focus on finding ways of becoming famous. Most of them wish to become popstars. That's where this dialogue comes in.
Maddie, hun, that is NOT the kind of publicity you want. ESPECIALLY right now. Also... that's not what "going viral" is supposed to mean....
So, um, yeah...
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Anyway, how have all of you been? I know not everyone has been on lockdown, so I hope you are all trying to stay safe and well.
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