In the last three days I...
- Won a bug-off contest and the gold bug trophee. At first, I beated whoever was first place (I think it was Robin) with a beautiful Raja B. butterfly that landed me 80 points, then I beated my own record with a beautiful Agrias butterfly that landed me 83 points. I got two prizes. One of them was a boxing barricade that I could care less about, I put it on the flea market and made a neat litlle profit. The other one was a firefly lamp that I chose to keep.
- I bought a beautiful Cypres plant from Harvey in Groundcamp. I also bought the snow globe from Jingle the day before.
- My approval rating reached 100% (which means Tortimer Island should be unlocked soon enough) after I donated a bunch of critters to the museum, watered flowers, and sold stuff in the flea market (did I mentioned how much I freaking love my museum? It has like thirty different species of fish and I started playing just a few days ago, I love fishing, I also have about fifteen different bug species so far and a bunch of fossils, but I'm not interested in fossils as much as I am interested in fishes and bugs, I'm only getting the fossils so I can complete my museum, someone said online that it took them four years to complete their museum, I need to find checklists online for all the fishes and bugs, and fossils too I guess. Though my museum will always be 99% complete because I'm so not getting a mosquito in mine, no freaking way).
https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/Mosquito#New_Leaf
(Quote) "As in the previous games, the mosquito will chase the player around its room of the bug exhibit, and will bite any player who tarries about for too long. If the player sits on a bench and a mosquito comes and bites them, they stand up on the bench." (Unquote)
Who wants to be bitten whenever they tarry about for "too long" instead of being able to take their time, relax and enjoy their museum? Not me. Unless you I can catch one just to register it and get the museum sign informations and then release it outside. Which I doubt. I bet once a critter is in your museum, it's there to stay and you can't release it or remove it from the building. I'm not letting this one in my museum. No one can fault me for a 99% completion score on this museum. I don't want a freaking blood sucking parasite in my museum, especially if it's going to target and bite ME. In the summer, especially in the evening, Mosquitos are a plague. Not just in our world but also in the game. I've been bitten by mosquitos a few times while I was hunting for bugs and fishes and that was annoying.
I also paid my loan of 39 800 bells. As of tomorrow, I can start enacting town ordinances and I'll be able to start public work projects (also known as community projects in the Japanese version):
https://www.gamesites.nintendo.com....imal_crossing_new_leaf/mayor_publicworks.html
- Once I talked to Isabelle and saw the option to complain about problematic villagers. I lodged a complain about Apollo and Isabelle said she would give him a stern talking to. Ever since then, Apollo has been polite, he's not smug anymore, he stopped flirting with me and stopped calling me "baby". Ever since then he's been a freaking model of virtue. I know who to send if someone is bothering me in the village. Ever since then he's polite and helpful. He tasked me with delivering a package to Aurora, something she forgot at his place, an iron set. Aurora had invited me over for a chat and listening to music and I had promised to be there at 8 PM, so I would just give her the package then. I talked to her several times, she wouldn't take the package. I didn't know how to give items to my villagers because the game wasn't exactly clear on that. So when Goose asked me to buy him a piece of furniture because he feels that his house looks empty, I tried to talk to him about it and he didn't react. So I decided to just wrapped the piece of furniture in wrapping paper and drop it in the mail with a letter attached to it. I think I did this all wrong because afterward he asked me for the furniture and I was like "Oops, I dropped it in the mail." But he's going to get it anyway, right?
Aurora didn't take the package even after I talked to her three or four times. So I tried this: I opened/unwrapped the package (I felt terrible about it) and I tried to "show it off" to her. Tada! No freaking reaction. I decided to quit without saving because I wanted a do-over so the wrapping would still be intact and I decided to drop the package in the mail attached to a letter just like the other one. Some psycho named Resetti yelled at me for quitting without saving. How is that any of his business? Who is he to shame and guilt trip me over this? I wanted a do-over. I felt terrible about opening that package, I had no nefarious intentions, I just wanted to give her her property back and the game doesn't exactly tell you how to procede. It's only after I left Aurora's house and talked to her again after we were both standing outside and talking that I was given the option to give her the package, I gave her the package... with its wrapping intact. She unwrapped it and said she thought she had lost the iron set and that she had bought another but that she was going to keep this one just in case. Doing tasks for villagers is confusing especially for beginners like me because it's it's a slow process made of trials and errors.
That psycho Resetti, I didn't think he would listen to someone who wanted to have a do-over, so I told him that my battery ran out of juice. Tough chance, he yelled at me and didn't listen. And Isabelle looked freaked out and was like "I hope in the future you'll remember to save before you quit". Like what the hell? Is Resetti threatening or blackmailing her? Isabelle who gave Apollo a stern talking to won't stand up to Resetti and tell him to leave us alone? That doesn't look like her. I've been playing for what know, about four days, and this "game" scares me at times. Some people think the inhabitants of the Crossing world, our villagers, are "programs" and that everything they do is "programming". I mean come on, folks. Do programs really think and act like that? Do programs shame, threaten and intimidate you or try to police your interaction and how you do things like Resetti does? Do "programs" write personalized letters to you and tell you exactly what you send them in the mail like some of your villagers do? Do programs have longings, desires, dreams and aspirations of their own like villagers do? Do "programs" manifest such spontaneous and genuine emotions like that pure joy or that raw anger and reacting to all kinds of things the same way WE do like some of your villagers do? That looks more like self-aware sentient aware beings to me, who live in a parallel world or alternate reality in the multiverse, but who are just as self-aware and sentient as we are. What if they were more than just "programs"? And what if they were more like us than we think? What if we could communicate with them through virtual or digital codes or through the choices we make and the interactions we have in the "game"?
Resetti is acting like a mafia boss and he want to build a surveillance center. If that doesn't freak you out, nothing else ever will. What in the freaking world is going on in the Crossing universe? With "friends" like Wall Street late stage capitalist crook Tom Nook and authoritarian control freak Resetti who needs enemies? I'm thankful for Cube, Goose, Robin, Aurora, Curlos, and even Apollo to an extent. If my interactions were limited to the Nooks and Resetti, I think I would have lost it long ago. Curlos moved into my town after I moved out of my tent and into my house, he's my next door neighbor. Some people and websites claim he's smug, but I don't think that's true. I know smug when I see it and he isn't smug. He's been nothing but kind and friendly to me since he moved in. And he even bought one of my items at the flea market. Also, another villager is going to move into my village soon, someone named Sylvia, there's another house being build by Tom Nook's business company near my house, a work in progress (just like the house that was built for Curlos). I wonder how Sylvia is like? I also wonder how many villagers you can have in your town. I wouldn't mind to see more nice and cool NPC villagers moving into my town. I got two additional ones since I started playing, and I don't even have Amiibo cards. I can only hope that I'll get a few more friendly faces in my twon soon.
I gotta pay $98 000 if I want to expand the one room I have in my house. I bought the "colorful gravel" and I should get it tomorrow. Apparently, you can't get another room built or a room expanded if you ordered a roof, door or pavement. You have to wait until you have the new roof, door, or pavement you ordered before you can expand a room or build a new room. This "colorful gravel" costs me 2800 bells. Not bad. I have to pay 98 000 bells to expand the only room I have in my house, I need 20 000 bells to active the ebautiful town ordinance, and I need a couple thousand bells to spend at Timmy and tommy's shop and the Able sisters' shop if I want to unlock Kick and Shampoodle. I can't wait to be able to get haircuts. I will also change my character's eye color to brown or hazel, because that's my eye color and I want her to have the same eye color as me. Also I love the haircolors "Moody" (purple) and "Angel Wing" (silvery white). Also "Clear Sky" (light blue) is kinda nice too. I'll definitely go for "Moody" first (my favorite color is purple and a few years back i dyed my hair purple once, the same shade as the one we see in this game, I like it and I definitely want my character to have purple hair, but the other two colors are nice too so I'll definitely try them but most of the time her hair will be purple) and change it at a later time so I can try the other two. Most of my villager are open-minded and non-judgmental. They won't tell me "you're too old for this, you're too old for that" and they won't tell me that I'm too old for colorful hair or a Hello Kitty shirt or a plush panda on my dresser.
People of ALL AGES AND ALL SKIN COLORS have colorful hair:
https://www.nextavenue.org/hair-dyes-boomer-women/
https://www.revelist.com/hair/black-women-rainbow-hair/8498
https://www.totalbeauty.com/content/slideshows/want-colorful-hair-ideal-shade-160919/page2
http://rebloggy.com/post/hair-fashi...urple-hair-long-hair-colored-hair/27141822332
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1OKWM_frCA770CA770&sxsrf=ALeKk03ECOBwEGJMl92db3zRZG-_cRSk6g:1624244958409&source=univ&tbm=isch&q="colorful+hair"&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwipnZj-36fxAhUumeAKHdd_AqwQjJkEegQIBhAC&biw=1280&bih=646
By the way, I was right not to tell Resetti that I wanted to have a do-over (this psycho won't allow any room for making mistakes, learning, trials and errors, etc, he is bordeline sociopath, you gotta get it right on your first try every single time or you're in for intimidation and pretty much bullying), also I'm so not going to build the Resetti surveillance center, a-hell no, look at this authoritarian control freak :
https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/Resetti
(Quote) "In earlier installments, specifically before New Leaf, at a certain number of resets Resetti may force the player to answer questions using a slider with dubious labels or to repeat sentences exactly as written. Additionally, resetting the game too many times on earlier installments will lead to a fake "reset", intended to scare the player into not resetting again." (Unquote)
Resetti is a psycho, folks. He really is.
(Quote) "In New Leaf, for the first time, Resetti is optional: after the first time the player quits without saving, he will appear in the lobby and talk about how he cannot appear again until the Resetti Surveillance Center has been built. From then on, Isabelle will remind players about saving their game when they quit without saving unless the Resetti Surveillance Center is built." (Unquote)
I'll have a freaking do-over and reload my last save if I want to. People have the right to have room to make mistakes and to learn through trials and errors. That's not a freaking crime, it's freaking human!
(Quote) "When the Reset Surveillance Center is built, Resetti will appear every time the player quits without saving the game. When he appears, he will ask why the player reset, giving the player the options of "I wanted to reset!", "My batteries died", and "I don't remember."
- If the player chooses "I don't remember," Resetti says that he can't help you if you don't remember, and quickly leaves.
- If the player chooses "My batteries died," Resetti will give a short lecture on how keeping batteries charged is important, then will leave.
- If the player chooses "I wanted to reset," then Resetti will give a much longer speech, similar to previous Animal Crossing games. This option is also the only way to make Resetti angrier with the player each time he visits.
By not ever saying "I wanted to reset", or not building the Surveillance Center in the first place, this marks the first time to where the player can avoid being lectured or yelled at by Resetti every time the player would reset their game." (Unquote)
Ditto here. I'll have a freaking do-over and reload my last save if I want to. People have the right to have room to make mistakes and to learn through trials and errors. That's not a freaking crime, it's freaking human! I will NOT build the surveillance center and I won't let this authoritarian control freak mole scare and bully me and my townsfolks. He can go blank himself. If I had been given clear instruction on how to deliver a package to someone or how to fulfill those kinds of requests for my villagers, none of this would have happened. And Resetti is being a jark. It seems that some people in the Crossing universe are hell bend on making me feel bad about everything even when I have the best intentions in the world, and mean no harm to anyone. To those people no matter what I say or do it's never going to be good enough, you can't win with those people. My villagers are nice and on my side and they love me as a mayor even if I'm fairly new at being one. But there are nasty people out there who want my villagers and myself to feel bad about it and I'm not gonna cave in to
(Quote) " As of the Welcome Amiibo update, Resetti will make an appearance after the player sells their town to Tom Nook after at least 50 days since it was first created. Afterwards, Tom Nook will tell them that he has invited an "old friend" as the player starts their new life. Resetti will then tell the player some advice for starting a new life, before dismissing them afterwards." (Unquote)
So those two are friends, huh? Why am I not surprised. Birds of a feather flock together.
Thank God Resetti is not in HHD if you don't have/scan his Amiibo card. I'm all the more glad that I didn't buy any, I don't need them, and I can trade for what I want on the wi-fi.
- I took the time to appreciate how LGBTQiNB friendly this game. Your villagers won't freak out or judge you if you are technically "non-binary" or "gender-fluid" or are just into crossdressing, they won't care one bit about the player's character/mayor's gender identity and gender expression or if the player's character/mayor is wearing "feminine clothes" or "masculine clothes".
As someone pointed out:
(Quote) (Animal Crossing: New Leaf is LGBTQiNB friendly and even accomodate people who like crossdressing. Boys can wear dresses and girls can wear suits, girls can disguise themselves as male characters for Halloween and boys can disguise themselves as female characters for Halloween, and so on and so forth. You're not a gender, you're an experience, and Nintendo is keen to let every player know that from the game's opening moments. You can even have haircuts that are considered to be "of the opposite gender" provided you unlocked them. In this game you can wear any outfit regardless of your gender. So this game is friendly to all people no matter what their gender identity and gender expression are." (Unquote)
As someone said:
(Quote) "
Animal Crossing: New Leaf is the first game in the series where all clothing is general-neutral and players as well as villagers are able to wear any outfit regardless of the gender that they choose at the beginning of the game. These changes along with gender-neutral face options for the player make it possible for a variety of gender expressions throughout the game. Some fans noted that
Animal Crossing has been largely progressive regarding gender and gender discourse compared to other large franchise titles. Additionally, in-game villagers like the one in the image above seem to be accepting of non-traditional gender expression. The villager Pecan said, "Well, there's nothing wrong with that. It's 2013. Boys are wearing makeup. I say deal with it!" Crossdressing and non-traditional gender expression can be seen in later entries as well, such as with multiple players' gift of a maid outfit to a new villager in New Horizon, Raymond." (Unquote)
As someone who is technically "non-binary" or "gender-fluid" myself, a person who is a relatively even mixture of femininity and masculinity, I'm glad I can buy and wear both "feminine clothes" and "masculine clothes" and wear whatever I want and none of my villager will bat an eye or make any kind of judgmental or bigoted comment. Though they did make fun of me when I was stung by a bee. I got my lesson, now when I shake trees for money or free furnitures and I get stung, I "save and quit" and reload the game which erase all the damage caused by being stung by bees (no more swollen face, I don't have to be the butt of jokes and I don't need to spend my bells on medecine). If I see a shirt or pants or shorts or accessory that's beautiful and that I want or like to wear, I fail to see why I should refrain from buying it and wearing it just because some people consider it to be a "traditionally masculine" shirt, pants, shorts, or accessory. My villagers don't bat an eye and don't mind. I can just be myself and a lot of people are happy and relieved that they can just be themselves without judgment in this game.
- One of my daily initiative would land me 2 Meow coupon, I have to catch a freaking tarentula and it's not going to be easy, I might fail. I saw one the day before but it quickly disappeared and I didn't know you could quickly equip your bug catching net using the cross-pad or d-pad. Now I know. But it's still won't be easy:
- I've seen Apollo and Robing hanging out with each other a lot, even singing and dancing together, and Apollo has started saying "la-di-da" a lot. Okay. Can we expect a wedding soon? Obviously, they're going to be pronounced husband and husband. I'm fine with that. Then the three of us can be friend and Apollo will never again flirt with me. If he wants to be with Robin and that's what makes him happy I'm all for it. In New Leaf, Reese and Cyrus are a married couple, and there's a wedding outfit set too. So it's obvious that some of those folks settled down. So if Apollo and Robin want to to get together and get married, all the more power to them. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, in MY town we have marriage equality and equality in general.
- Apollo asked me if I am more of a "spaghetti person" or a "mac and cheese" person. And I replied that I'm more of a "mac and cheese person" (I love spaghetti, I just love mac and cheese more). And turns out that he also has a preference for good old fashioned mac and cheese, especially with gouda and even likes it cold too. It made me smile. I also caught him planting flowers. Another stack of four flowers (they all have four flowers per stalk) appeared out of nowhere and he was bent forward and I noticed that he had planted another stalk of four flowers, so there were four stacks of flowers instead of three. I took out my watering can and watered the flowers he had just planted. Robin showed up and Apollo and Robin started singing and dancing together. So Apollo is planting flowers and singing and dancing with Robin? I'd say that's love at first sight. Funny how since Isabelle gave Apollo a stern talking to (for being a jerk to me) and he started hanging out with Robin more he's a jerk no more. They seem to have a good influence on him. Maybe Isabelle played matchmaker for Apollo and Robin. Well all is well that ends well I guess.
Spaghetti or good old fashioned mac and cheese?:
https://www.belltreeforums.com/threads/spaghetti-vs-mac-n-cheese.79701/
https://thepigandquill.com/smoked-gouda-instant-pot-mac-and-cheese/
- Apollo wanted to trade me a shirt for my catfish, but I had to decline because I had only one catfish and it belongs in the museum. He looked disappointed, but when he goes to my museum with some of his friends and see all the fishes in there including the catfish, he'll see that it was for the best. If I had more than one I wouldn't have hesitated to trade one for the shirt.
- I'm going to continue filling my museum with critters, I need 50 critters in there to unlock the Roost café and once you have 50 critters in there Blathers will suggest the idea. I've heard that you can get a paid job there and meet all kinds of nice and friendly customers and that you can even order take out coffee and walk around town with a cup of take out coffee in your hand and take sips. And on Valentine's Day you get hot chocolate instead of coffee. It's all so cute, I can't wait to try it and I can't wait to work there for a salary and meet people and just sit there and chill during my break. It'll be nice and I'm looking forward to that.
This guide here tells us about the clients' schedules and how much milk and sugar each client want in their coffees as well as their favorite coffee beans:
https://www.thonky.com/animal-crossing-new-leaf/the-roost-cafe
Keep this link/guide close at hand and use it when you need it, and share it with your friends. I plan to use it myself, I'm so thankful to Thinky for this one.
- One of my top priority will be to get the secret storeroom. Once the second floor is fully paid off I'll be able to get more storage space.
https://www.belltreeforums.com/threads/how-to-get-the-secret-storeroom.398189/
I love Sharp Town and I'm proud of myself because as the mayor I did a good job at working on making my town a better place (planted lots of trees, donated to the museum, helped people, sent letters and presents in the mail, welcomed new villagers, won the Bug-off gold trophee, did my research on public work projects and made some preparations for that, etc, etc) and bringing people together.
Folks, you know what makes me extremely angry and disgusted? It's when stupid people call the great game that's New Leaf a "mistake":
https://kotaku.com/revisiting-animal-crossing-new-leaf-was-a-mistake-1841523873
That article is complete garbage. New Leaf is not a mistake, New Leaf is not perfect and has some flaws just like everything else, but it's a great game and I highly recommend it to everyone. And if some people tease you or try to bully you because you love New Leaf, tell them "haters gonna hate". That's what I do when some people tease me or try to bully me for liking games like "Animal Crossing: New Leaf", "Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer" and "Sonic Boom: Fire & Ice". These are all great and fun games and haters gonna hate.
Edit:
Folks, I crossed path with Apollo last night (he stay up and outside late) while I was busy hunting for bugs and fish because I couldn't sleep and he said, "That tree is the event plaza has a weird sorta vibe to it, like it's watching us..." What does he mean by that? Did something weird happened to that tree I planted on my first day in Sharp Town? What does he mean by "it's like the tree is watching us"?
"I'll bet it'll watch over Sharp (Town) as the town grows bigger and biger, just like the tree!", he added with a happy smile.
Folks, apparently, villagers celebrate birthdays:
How do I find out when is the birthday of each and every one of my villagers? I want to send them letters and gifts in the mail for their birthdays.
Oh wow, the shamrock shirt (it's called "club tee") and the "green tartan pants" in the Able Sisters' shop in this video are the perfect clothes for St. Patrick's Day celebrations. I need to get my hands on these. Also, where did he get this top hat? I want one.
Apparently he got it in the sisters' shop:
http://moridb.com/items/hats/top-hat
This is so cool, there's even a special hat and celebrations:
https://animalcrossing.fandom.com/wiki/Shamrock_Day
https://animalcrossingworld.com/wp-...-seasonal-item-saint-patricks-day-790x444.jpg
One of my villagers traded me a cool, comfy and sporty shirt called a "red warm-up suit" (that's a keeper!):
http://moridb.com/items/tops/red-warm-up-suit
https://newleafhq.com/clothes/red-warm-up-suit
I hanged the "red warm-up suit" on the wall in my room. It's a fall/winter shirt not a summer shirt so I don't wear it right now, but I'll definitely wear it during the fall season (September-October). I have a pair of black pants to go with it. Black (and white) goes well with everything, including red.
http://moridb.com/items/bottoms/black-formal-pants
https://newleafhq.com/clothes/black-formal-pants
Edit:
It's been raining alllll day long and bugs hate rain so they don't come out, I saw only or two I think and that's about it, they flew away when I accidentally rustled a tree. No freaking tarentula, folks. And the weather is against me. I failed at completing this daily initiative and lost two Meow coupons. The day before I had seen a tarentula but it quickly disappeared and I didn't know you could quickly equip your bug catching net using the cross-pad or d-pad. Now I know. But the bugs, including the tarentula, just won't show up when it's raining. I lost two Meow coupons because of that freaking tarentula. Tarentula: 2, Me: 0. I don't like spiders to begin with and now one of them is poking fun of me. Also, when do the sisters start selling rain coats and rain boots? I need to buy these as well. I already have three different umbrellas; yellow, mint, and busted (black).
