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Luigi… thunder.
This is still the most confusing post this blog has ever made
what have i done
the idea that this might have been made in 2012 is fucking terrifying because it sounds like it’s supposed to be a parody of Thunder by Imagine Dragons
The longer this post goes the more questions it raises.
the only plausible explanation is that imagine dragon’s thunder is a parody of luigi thunder
What the fuck
“blog’s previous owner”?? What happened to them
and why would you delete it?!???
Huh. Every time I see a tourist holding a bag with a fruit on it, it's my island's native fruit. I wonder if that's always the case.
I love New Horizons and really think it improved on SO many aspects of Animal Crossing, but it REALLY REALLY REALLY needs to get its stuff together when it comes to very basic quality of life features.
It should not take 15 seconds of button mashing to buy a SINGLE bell voucher. It should not take multiple minutes to assess 4 fossils and then donate something, not even accounting the extra time it takes if you want to have Blathers describe every fossil individually. It should not take 5 minutes to craft 20 freakin’ bags of FISH BAIT.
Why do I have to take off my wand outfit and wet suit myself if I wanna go into the changing room? Why is there a line of dialog for every single one of the five things I have to select to construct or demolish a bridge? Why is the button to speed up the pointless shop dialog the same button that closes the shop menu? Why can’t I disable the game describing critters I’ve already caught to me when I catch them again?
There’s a checkmark to show you’ve crafted an item, why isn’t there one to show you’ve BOUGHT an item? I can check the variations of items I’ve bought in the shopping catalog, why can’t I see what the variations for a DIY recipe are without having to go to a crafting bench to check? I can do a search for specific items in the catalog, why can’t I search for a specific item in the DIY recipe list?
Why does doing ANY construction suck so bad? Why isn’t there an option to hold A or something to let me run in a straight line to paint a long path? Why are the controls so clunky? WHY ISN’T THERE A TILE INDICATOR IN A TILE BASED GAME?! Stardew Valley, a game made by one guy, has easy to place paths and a tile indicator, while Nintendo, an enormous company, still forces you to make paths blindly and one single tile at a time.
THE VERY GIMMICK OF THIS GAME IS POORLY IMPLEMENTED. Everything surrounding crafting is EXTREMELY TEDIOUS. Why can’t I craft multiple items? Why can’t I craft complicated recipes with recipes inside them in one go when I have all the materials in my inventory? Why is customization a separate menu? Why can’t crafting benches in my house draw from materials in storage when a closet OUTSIDE lets me alter outfits from my house’s storage?! Why are villager DIY recipes completely random instead of giving a larger chance of getting new recipes when balloons drop new recipes more frequently? WHY CAN’T DIY CARDS GO INTO STORAGE?! I LOVE being able to craft stuff but every step of the process is a CHORE!
I could keep typing. I just keep thinking of more and more inconveniences every time I finish a sentence. On their own, each point isn’t usually that big a deal. But there are SO MANY of those small things that they add up. This game is missing the usual polish that most Nintendo games have. I don’t have the same shopping list of complaints for games like BotW and Mario Odyssey, which also sold very well, but not as spectacularly as New Horizons. Thankfully, New Horizons is still being updated, so they still have a chance to fix some of this nonsense, and I really hope they do.
There will be no more major updates so there is no longer a great change at them fixing any of this nonsense.
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Well… at least you can put DIY cards in storage now?
Well, I just found this post again. Wild that there ended up being another major update.
They only fixed 3 more things though.
I wonder if collecting specific items causes related DIY recipes to become available for villagers to give you, because if not, I just got insanely lucky.
Basically, I'm making couple farms and restaurants on my island, and I wanted to use bottle crates to decorate them. Unfortunately, I didn't have either the bottle crate in my catalog or the stacked bottle crates DIY recipe. However, I do have the DLC, and I happened to have bottle crates from that catalog, so I bought a bunch.
Then, and this is the wild part, the literal day I got my bottle crates in the mail, I went next door to Frobert's house, and he just so happened to be making stacked bottle crates. He had the recipe right when I wanted it.
If the available pool of DIY recipes is not determined by your catalog, that was a wild coincidence.
I REALLY wish I could just change my airport color.
Like, why can't you? The only thing it affects is the color of 8 items in the Nook Stop, but they could've just made it so changing the airport color doesn't change the item colors.
It's not the worst thing, considering I got a blue airport which actually nicely matches the colors of the dodos who run it, but I would really prefer a yellow airport, as it goes better with the decorations I have on my island.
I learned yesterday that you only need to hit A once when catching a fish instead of mashing it and while it's probably better for my controller health, it feels so unnatural to do.
I miss when villagers would follow you around in Animal Crossing.
Like, in ye olden days of... New Leaf, when a villager asked to visit your house, you'd lead them there.
It just feels really jarring that whenever you get asked to go somewhere you're just instantly teleported after the conversation. It makes my town feel disconnected from the buildings in it. It also makes the villagers feel less like people with the ability to just... navigate places.
I don't know. It's probably a weird thing to care about, but it kinda made me notice that all the NPCs only exist in 2 states: Standing in a place, or roaming randomly. The don't really... go... anywhere. They move without purpose and only go into buildings after being teleported there when you trigger a loading screen, with only a couple exceptions. IDK if that was the case for the other games, but being teleported with villagers like in ACNH made it feel more obvious to me. They'd feel more alive if they just looked like they had places to be.
Great job everyone
All the people complaining about how the trail ruins look ugly remind me of the people laughing at the flattened corpses of Psychrolutes marcidus after they're drudged up from their natural environment.
Like... do you not know what ruins mean? They're supposed to be the remains of buildings that deteriorated and were covered in sediment over a long period of time. Shockingly, things that were broken apart and stripped from their original context tend to look different than what you'd expect from new buildings and properly pressurized fish.
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The neutral judgements are so underrated imo
i just like drawing them as bizarrely as I possibly can
The Conclusion.
I’m really mad that my first overworld death in Legends Arceus was fall damage from an alpha yeeting me off a cliff by screaming real loud.
Worse yet, since I chose to go by “Max” in the game, and for some reason of the 4 items I lost it decided to preview my satchel with the ONE regular Pokeball I picked up in the wilds, it means my lost satchel will just look like a generic low level player’s which annoys the heck out of me.
To add insult to injury, the reason I was by the cliff was because I was looking for that one dude’s sister, who literally fell onto a safe cliff not two meters from where I fell, and when I talked to her she said she was knocked off by a Pokemon, but she survived.
The cherry on top? Of the items I lost, one of them was the expensive AF charm that’s supposed to stop me from blacking out. Just... great...
Man isn’t it just fucking great to download a 100GB game and then not be able to play it because the damn LAUNCHER won’t load?!
Nah. It’s totally great. It’s not like I already spent hours researching the game before even starting the six hour download because I wanted to make sure I could jump in as smoothly as possible. Pssh!
They may have excluded the Feng Shui luck mechanic from New Horizons but you know, I am pretty happy with the new luck system. It’s easier to understand and you can do something meaningful about bad luck.
I mean, man, it feels good to be able to dig up 6 inventories full of flowers and crops without my shovel breaking once. Brings me back to the days where Animal Crossing didn’t have a stupid durability system on basic tools.
hey i just wanted to put a quick post up for people that may not know, cuz i certainly didnt until a couple years ago, but the whole prescription glasses industry is a massive racket, and i wanted to let people know about the more affordable options for buying or replacing glasses
when you go to an optometrist to get your eyes tested, they take a lot of measurements and will give you a prescription that lists things like how near or farsighted each eye is, spherical and cylindrical measurements for astigmatism, etc, but one measure they almost always leave out of the portion they give you is your interpupillary distance, that is, the distance between your pupils, measured in millimeters
the reason they leave that out is because if you have your full prescription, including the interpupillary distance, you can just go online and buy glasses from a place like zenni optical for less than $20 USD. and if you go and buy them online, thats ~$200 they dont get to bilk from you
so, you have two options, you can either request your interpupillary distance number when you get your eyes tested, which they cant legally withhold from you because its medical information
This Is Specifically Enforced By The Federal Trade Commission!
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2016/05/clear-picture-complying-ftcs-eyeglass-rule
they dont get to withhold this! a lot of them will lie to you, or try to skirt around it, because they want your money. raise a fucking stink. this is an argument you can win.
the other option is to measure your interpupillary distance at home, using either a ruler and a mirror, or a phone app which is made for this purpose
https://www.zennioptical.com/measuring-pd-infographic
once you have your full prescription information, you can buy glasses online, made to your specific prescription, for well under a TENTH the cost of ones you would buy at a brick and mortar store
here are some other options for cheaper glasses! DO NOT LET YOURSELF BE SCAMMED BY LUXOTTICA if you live in the US or canada!! places like bon look (canadian) and warby parker (american) will give you paperwork to get reimbursed by your insurance plan, as well.
https://www2.bonlook.com/
https://www.warbyparker.com/
https://www.eyebuydirect.com/
https://www.coastal.com/
https://www.fetcheyewear.com/
https://lookmatic.com/
https://www.classicspecs.com
https://www.39dollarglasses.com/
If you mention getting glasses online to the people at the doctor’s office, they will make a fuss about it. They’ll do the face, try and warn you that there’s no way to be sure the glasses will actually be made right, or that the delay in production is worse- But guess what?
The glasses are just as good as getting them in a store. And they take about the same amount of time to get to you. My mother has nine, I repeat NINE pairs of glasses from online, that she switches between. They’re really good, she adores them and they were hundreds of dollars cheaper than from the store.
I’m getting my third pair of glasses from online soon, and it’s the same deal. I like them, they’re cheaper, and online also has more options than the store usually does.
You can also just straight up lie and say your insurance would only cover them but the glasses you want are at another optometrist that your insurance won’t cover. They make less of a stink when you do that 🤭
If you don’t have insurance and you’re in the US/Canada and want some solid glasses for reasonable prices, Zenni (zennioptical.com) is also very good in my experience. IDK if they work with insurance or not, as I do not have insurance, but my wife and I have each gotten multiple pairs from them (2 for her, 3 for me) and they have lasted, they work, and all 5 pairs, over 4 separate orders, WITH taxes and shipping, were $190.
Also the last order we got came with a little tool for checking interpupillary distance for future orders if we needed to, so that’s handy too.
Literally just ordered new glasses for just $90 with my updated perscription and blue light/anti scratch/glare coatings through one of the sites listed on here: eyebuydirect
100% recommend
Take it from someone who has the worst type of astigmatism and ends up with a whole different prescription from one year to the next.
Just make sure you get that PD and learn to input all your prescription information correctly.
