I am not even sure how to describe Animal Crossing to someone, but it is even crazier to assume that most people haven’t heard about it in some form or fashion. Do you know the amount of collabs the franchise has had by now? But, I would like to make a post about it anyways, since the new DLC came out.
You start with the basic game: Animal Crossing
What is the game? You have taken to Island living with a bunch of other like minded animals, and as time goes on you learn more things and make it your version of Paradise. There is something addicting about how whenever I want to, I can go to my own paradise and see (within logical restraints) my idea of perfection. I also am in total control, who is there and when they are active. But then its also its own thriving community, when I am away for a couple of days the villagers talk amongst themselves about me. More info here: https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/animal-crossing-new-horizons-switch/
Something else that totally surprised me about this game was the sense of community among players in and out of game. Like, if people treated each other this nicely in the real world-World peace might actually be a thing. But there have been free updates for about 2 years. Most of the updates were minimal, the holidays were a big deal, but the most recent update is the last free one and they went out with a bang. SO MUCH CONTENT. I actually really like all they have done, and someone just starting from the beginning has a lot to look forward to.
End of the free means…pay to play. The first, and I am not sure if it is going to be the last, paid DLC is Happy Home Paradise. Which if you look bears a similar feel to what used to be a separate game for Nintendo 3DS
This DLC is $25 plus the $59.99 game. For the price, it is a very good value. You have more to do in your island life, but then a lot of aspects from the vacation island bleed over to your home island in time. It is not the price of a full price game, but it is beautifully incorporating what was a separate game into an already existing game. Where else does $25 dollars get you hours of gameplay?
By the time you get to where I am at, I have had the game since COVID started since it was the game that was easiest to do during COVID. (A sad goodbye to the days of couch co op). I have played the game, bought some merchandise, bought amiibo cards to use in game, and now the question is…to DLC or not DLC? If you ask me, I say go for it. By the time you invest a couple of hundred hours into the game…what’s a couple of hundred more?
Please! I’m desperate and in a really scary position. All the funds I’m supposed to be able to access have fraud safeguards that have made it impossible to accually get the money and pay bills. My income etsy for the last 90 days is just over $600. I haven’t been able to feed and clothe two adults and pay for food, shelter, water, heat and light.
I really need emergency help before I’m evicted again.
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November 8th, 4:55pm
I’m suffering a set back after writing some utility checks in the hope I don’t get cut off just as it gets cold.
I’ve totally gotten lost in this game over the last year. I’ve been obsessed with getting my island finished (it still needs work, though).
And now with the new 2.0 update and “Happy Home Paradise” DLC, I’ve gotten even more lost in it. It’s something that I can play with my niece and nephew that we all enjoy.
All of my spare time and energy has gone into it. It’s just so cathartic and stress-reducing. I like the ‘work-at-your-own-pace’ feel. And I like collecting outfits, designing things, and just putting my own stamp on it all. It’s good, clean, fun and most of the villagers/NPC’s are so cute!
If anyone who plays wants to add me, my switch friend code is: SW-2602-2143-8242.
I’ve never felt so personally attacked by a fictional TV show/character before.
According to the spiteful 12 year old writers on “Legacies”, country music is ‘garbage’ listened to by ‘garbage-people’. The fact that they wrote this as a throw-away line, like everyone should just automatically accept this as true was truly insulting. And that it was said by one my former favorite characters, Rebekah, really ticked me off.
I really wish that writers would stop using shows as their own personal pulpit to push their Hollywood agendas. Like if you don’t subscribe to whatever popular/mainstream PC BS that they forcefully put out, then you’re somehow inferior and stupid. Sorry, but I prefer to do my own thinking for myself.
Cancel-culture is getting out of hand and just plain asinine these days. I watch TV to be entertained, not preached at or judged. Having my own personal preferences slammed and thrown in my face is not entertainment to me. That really puts me off and leaves a bitter taste in my mouth.
Whatever happened to free will and letting people like what they want to? As long as it hurts no one and doesn’t promote anything bad, then why do you even care? Who are they to judge anyone for having different tastes? Why was this hurtful comment even necessary?
Who are they or anyone to look down their noses at it, as if really intelligent people can’t like country music. Like it’s all nothing but ignorance and white trash.
Granted, there are some very redneck-y country songs. But not all of it is like that. That’s why I hate ‘blanket-statements’ like this which are used to encompass an entire genre. There are some country ballads that are truly beautiful, IMHO.
What kind of music do they listen to in their writers’ room? Probably Bieber and KidzBop. So only they can do what they want, but if anyone else does it’s suddenly wrong? Guess they’d better never use any kind of even slightly country-sounding music at all on the show ever again then. Otherwise they’ll be blatant hypocrites.
As if I needed yet another reason to hate this shit-show!! If there was a petition to get this show off the air, I’d sign it in a heartbeat! I don’t even know if I want to watch “TVD” or “The Originals” on Netflix anymore.
That statement just really alienated me from wanting anything to do with any of the shows/fandom anymore. Talk about promoting toxicity/marginalization. So much for trying to ‘be inclusive’. Apparently that only applies to people who fit a certain conforming ‘narrative’. Only this is seen as ‘progressive’ now, I guess.
But don’t mind me. Guess I’ll just be over here in the corner with the rest of the ‘garbage-people’ blasting Luke Bryan all night, getting drunk, and enjoying myself while flipping these no-talent assholes off.
Apparently I’m not classy enough to impress such snotty Hollywood people. But I don’t much fucking care either. They can feel as superior as they want. I’m not gonna let it affect me or my life.
This is me, this is what I like, take it or leave it. If you don’t like it, that’s your prerogative. But I’m not gonna change what I like or what I post just because it’s not popular or accepted. I’m going to listen to the music that I want to. And I’m going to watch the shows/movies that I want to.
I’m just as valid as anyone else. No one has to follow me or read my posts if they don’t want to. You don’t have to agree with me either. You can like or dislike what you want also.
Just don’t expose yourself to things that you don’t like and don’t punish those who do like it. Live and let live, people. Why is this such a difficult concept to grasp?
Sorry that it’s been such a long while since I’ve posted here.
There’s been so much going on this year, to put it mildly.
I’ve been pretty lucky compared to others. No one I know has had Covid as yet (thank god). It’s still hard to get used to all of the new rules for everything, wearing masks, staying 6 ft apart, not having large gatherings, etc.
I’ll be glad when most of it dies down.
I hope that you all are doing well and staying safe!
~Tara ;)
All I know is that you’re so nice
You’re the nicest thing I’ve seen
I wish that we could give it a go
See if we could be something
I wish I was your favourite girl
I wish you thought I was the reason you are in the world
I wish my smile was your favourite kind of smile
I wish the way that I dressed was your favourite kind of style
I wish you couldn’t figure me out
But you always wanna know what I was about
I wish you’d hold my hand
When I was upset
I wish you’d never forget
The look on my face when we first met
I wish you had a favourite beauty spot
That you loved secretly
‘Cause it was on a hidden bit
That nobody else could see
Basically, I wish that you loved me
I wish that you needed me
I wish that you knew when I said two sugars,
Actually I meant three
I wish that without me your heart would break
I wish that without me you’d be spending the rest of your nights awake
I wish that without me you couldn’t eat
I wish I was the last thing on your mind before you went to sleep
Look, all I know is that you’re the nicest thing I’ve ever seen
And I wish that we could see if we could be something
Yeah I wish that we could see if we could be something …
“The Nicest Thing” by Kate Nash
Legs and limbs and lips
All open with your fingertips
You make holes in me
And little slits
You use as mouths
For you to kiss
Close my plastic eyelids
You say this is the love we all hope to find
So don’t cry, don’t worry
You’re supposed to bleed the first time
The books, sad songs, and cinemas
They all lied lied lied
Why didn’t anyone tell me
Love is like being fucked with a knife?
With the blade on a butterfly
I’ll make a hole in you
I will kiss it and stick my tongue in it
Hard enough for you
To feel it in your stomach
I’ll fist it with knuckles full of rings
Give you back the love you said was mine
So don’t cry, don’t worry
You’re supposed to bleed the first time …
“Flowers of Flesh and Blood” by Nicole Dollanganger
I’m wide awake and so alive
Ringing like a bell
Tell me this is paradise
And not someplace I fell
‘Cause I keep on fallin’ down
I wanna feel the car crash
I wanna feel the capsize
I wanna feel the bomb drop, the earth stop
'Til I’m satisfied
I wanna feel the car crash
'Cause I’m dyin’ on the inside
I wanna let go and know
That I’ll be alright, alright
Just push me 'til I have to fly
I’ve shed my skin, my scars
Take me deep out past the lights
Where nothing dims these stars
Nothing dims these stars
I wanna feel the car crash
I wanna feel the capsize
I wanna feel the bomb drop, the earth stop
'Til I’m satisfied
I wanna feel the car crash
'Cause I’m dyin’ on the inside
I wanna let go and know
That I’ll be alright, alright
So right
It’s all wrong
I’m wide awake and so alive
I wanna feel the car crash
I wanna feel the capsize
I wanna feel the bomb drop, the earth stop
'Til I’m satisfied
I wanna feel the car crash
'Cause I’m dyin’ on the inside
I wanna let go and know
That I’ll be alright, alright …
“Car Crash” by Matt Nathanson
Look at me, what have I become
I am lost I was once a gentleman
But the thief came out in my London town
So I must leave you now
But I will remember the ups and the downs
Goodbye my friends
Goodbye to the money
Adieu to the fuckers that think that it’s funny
I just want to turn the lights on
in these volatile times
I just want to turn the lights on
in these volatile times
Look at me in the apocalypse
My European guilt, expecting instant fix
I imagine all the brutal services
Of ancient infidels
Of all the wounded and the crying witches
Goodbye my friends
Goodbye to the money
Adieu to the fuckers that think that it’s funny
I just want to turn the lights on in these volatile times
I just want to turn the lights on in these volatile times
I drove through countries like a marching funeral
In the search of fools and utopias
Along the lonely roads with all the empty human souls
Filling their heavy hearts
With slum religion and Coca-Cola
Every book is read and I’m paralyzed
Every fist is clenched, but I’m so tired
Goodbye my friends
Goodbye to the money
Adieu to the fuckers that think that it’s funny
I just want to turn the lights on
in these volatile times
I just want to turn the lights on
in these volatile (volatile) times …
“Volatile Times” by IAMX
Can hold my breath, only for a little while
‘Til reality starts sinking in
Once again, I’m settling for second best
Turn the page and skip to the end
To where I swore that I would try
Since the last time I crossed that line
In the back of my mind, I know
It only hurts when your eyes are open
Lies get tossed and truth is spoken
It only hurts when that door is open
Dreams are lost and hearts are broken
Miles away, promise from a burning bed
Two worlds should never collide
One word would end it if you ever heard
Tear the page out that reminds me
When I swore that I’d be strong
Now, the next time has come and gone
Well, maybe I’m wrong, I know
It only hurts when your eyes are open
Lies get tossed and truth is spoken
It only hurts when that door is open
Dreams are lost and hearts are broken
I know what you’re feeling
It’s hard to believe in someone
Someone who’s not there
I know that you’re waiting
'Cause love is worth saving
But only for so long, so long, so long
I swore that I would try
Since the last time
The last time
It only hurts when your eyes are open
Lies get tossed and truth is spoken
It only hurts when that door is open
Dreams are lost and hearts are broken
It only hurts when your eyes are open
Lies get tossed and truth is spoken
It only hurts when that door is open
Dreams are lost and hearts are broken …
“It Only Hurts” by Default
Feels like coming home
After traveling a million miles
I am not alone
Searching for the starlight in the darkest skies
A complex surface
Laid out right before our eyes
Everything makes sense
Now that you are by my side
I’m as light as I can be
You got me feeling weightless
You take me on an odyssey
You got me feeling weightless
You make me float free
My love for you is endless
No ties are binding me
Oh I’m in zero gravity
Now I’m in zero gravity
Oh I’m in zero gravity
All the pain in me
No more needs to be expressed
Feels like I can breathe
You lift a burden off my chest
Traces of sadness
No more chain me to the ground
I am limitless
Ever since you came around
I’m as light as I can be
You got me feeling weightless
You take me on an odyssey
You got me feeling weightless
You make me float free
My love for you is endless
No ties are binding me
Oh I’m in zero gravity
Now I’m in zero gravity
Oh I’m in zero gravity
Now I’m in zero gravity
Oh I’m in zero gravity
I’m as light as I can be
You got me feeling weightless
You take me on an odyssey
You got me feeling weightless …
