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In the past, people in the Animal Crossing community would make fun of Tom Nook as a sleazy landlord. Since then, he's really rehabilitated his image as this 'heart of gold' businessman (he's the one who puts bells and furniture in trees for you to find! he adopted orphans! he donates to charity!), but New Horizons genuinely paints the most devious version of him.
He's successfully privatized settler colonialism: you pay HIM to move to a "deserted island" (which apparently the oceans in the AC world are just full of) and start a colony that he is directly invested in. At best he's running a weird vacation package scam (you arrive on the island with no money and in debt for "using his services"). At worst, he's using you to set up company towns. For god's sake, he literally has his own fake currency that he forces you to use to pay off your debt. But don't worry, he's repackaged it in a way that definitely doesn't sound like an MLM scam: the Nook Mileage Program!
You're no longer just his tenant or his temporary part-timer, you're his business lackey. The entire tutorial section of the game has you spending actual weeks running around completing tasks and doing hard labor to set up his colony. You're even tasked with preparing his properties and finding buyers for them. No, you aren't a tenant anymore. You work for the landlord. You are directly responsible for finding tenants for him. And he doesn't even fucking pay you. Not for setting up town hall and museum, or his nephew's shop –– which is the ONLY store on the entire island that sells necessities –– or bringing KK Slider to town, or helping populate his town. Not a single cent. No, actually, you have to pay HIM to BUY infrastructure like bridges and stairs and park benches. And all the while, he's telling you're the "resident representative"; you get to call the shots! That the reward is the community's progress. That what you're doing is in everyone's best interest (but most importantly, his).
Since NH's release, people have done a lot of legwork to say that Tom Nook isn't a capitalist while the game shows him at his very worst. He owns the only general store in town. You're forced to use a phone that he modified and branded as his own. Buy Nook-branded furniture and merchandise at the self-serve kiosk in the town hall, a governmental building! There's no conflict of interest here!
But hey, if you're tired of being the landlord/business mogul's goon, you can also find work as a deluxe resort home designer for a company that also pays you in their special company currency that can only be used to buy their products instead of a real salary! Because that's what the Animal Crossing franchise needs! More vacation homes!!!
#this is a really long winded way to say i really really really really hate new horizon's storyline and player role#i really hate that not only your house but the entire TOWN. the whole COMMUNITY you're a part of is owed to tom nook's business#i really hate the “vacation getaway package” angle because it shows just how commercialized the entire premise of nh is#and how lost the game is in its original core concept#animal crossing is about the experience of moving to a new town and becoming a part of that community#just to compare: all past ac games have a similar opening#you're on a bus or train or taxi to someplace new. a stranger strikes up a conversation and you get to know them before arriving#new horizons opens with you at customer service desk filling out an client application before a flight.#in prev games working for nook in the tutorial is meant to be demeaning. you want it to be over with so you can actually start living life#but in new horizons working for tom nook IS your life. and it's so rewarding! don't you feel rewarded?#you aren't a person. you aren't a new neighbor. you're tom nook's client. and then his unpaid employee. and the game insists it's fun to be#that's how void the game is#because it's bad enough that a rpg life sim got turned into a sandbox game where you have to build the town yourself#but the only reason why you're building it is because the landlord who you're in debt to TOLD you to build it.#everything is a rewards program! everything is a tour service! be sure to do your daily tasks to earn nook bucks to spend on nook merch!#that really sucks imo.#i mean. the entire game is based around the vacationing industry. of course it all feels fake and temporary. it's only a vacation.#long post#rant#not art#god the fact that your starter villagers can't even decide where to live you have to decide for them#i've never played a game that does the opposite of handholding#where instead it's the PLAYER who has to handhold the npcs through everything. and newsflash!! it's really exhausting and boring
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i don't normally participate in these redraw challenges but it's megumi so i'll make an exception
#my art#jujutsu kaisen#jjk#megumi fushiguro#fushiguro megumi#fanart#jjk fanart#jujutsu kaisen fanart#jjk megumi#megumi#looks at clock UHHHHHHHH oops#i got lost in the sauce that is rendering his gd chin and under his lips.... ive been in stylized anime mouth land 2 long i fear#i had forgotten how much of a pain those shadows are :'>>> eSP at a lookdown angle#fought a bit but little did he know i spent years doing coloured pencil portraits. this is My domain#god but the rest of the skin render was so FUN i love . warm grey in2 brown in2 red/orange fr the deep underneck shadow#lip tint heavy blush freckles glossier model fushiguro megumi...........im a believer i fear#had a bit of a hard time finding a middle ground between how i normally draw his hair and a more Realistic take on it#the model in the og has hair that's pretty close but i think the strands r a bit short n too heavily curved fr my tastes#its my brand im afraid i simply must give itfs both longer hair#nothing else feels Right#but god i underestimated how Good this photoshoot is as megu material . i get the hype now i get it#i did the sketch n i looked at it and i had an oh /oh/ moment#smh megumi put those lustrous emerald orbs away before u hurt some1#his gaze is too powerful . slaps a red bg on him makes him my new icon :)#anyway its 6am it is morning time do i sleep fr like 3 hrs or do i say megumi voice Whatever we shall see
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Multiple timelines of open projects are united in the metamorphic molten core of NEW VAGUE CITY as a new kind of film, the poemification of reality. — Hollywood, Lost Angles.
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#zu art#comic#studio#zudio#cross!sans#dream!sans#undertale#undertale au#utmv#music break ♪٩( ᐛ )و#(more like a quick progress xp)#song: Dancing in the Moonlight (Toploader's version but both the older & newer ones are good <3)#did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?#insanity is. drawing without references. over and over again. expecting the right angle and pose to appear :'D#but the result is worth it <3#''it's the 3rd time we see him showering while—'' [Cross] does take a shower too but only in the morning unlike [Dream] (he's still zzz xp)#oh wow 7am gotta zzz too—#(btw rock-paper-scissors is the reference to dude & bruh' battle where Cross lost to Epic because of scissors (but not this time xd)
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when my grandfather moved to the us after living through wwii in occupied norway he said the most striking thing he noticed here was the waste. the wastefulness, the sheer amount of excess stuff and the fever for consumption and how blasé people were as they threw it all away. and despite nominal awareness of the issue since then and and sometimes-counterproductive efforts to recycle, overconsumption trends have only gotten worse. trash, like any other ‘flow’ of materials, goods, etc, has gone global, and accumulates unevenly between where it is produced and where its burdens fall
which is a tangible, material disaster for the people living next to incinerators and landfills (in environmental justice communities of the imperial core; or abroad, in the poor countries where the rich ones dump their waste), and for the people doing the also-toxic and dangerous work extracting all the materials and making the things that are destined for the landfill, and it’s also a psychological and paradigmatic disaster for the overconsumers: to be so disconnected from where your stuff comes from and what it really costs, to expect endless cheap varieties of food and consumer goods from all over the world, to think no further than the instant gratification of next-day-delivered fast fashion orders or a new phone every year, to not realize that what you throw out never really goes away. the ‘western consumer lifestyle’, wherever it’s practiced, depends on and enforces the willful ignorance of its consequences and the disinclination to see other people and places as real. and while most waste is industrial, not just your personal household trash, the finished products you throw out have an industrial history too, and are tied to far more waste than you’ll ever personally see. which is to say not just ‘we shouldn’t buy so many things’ or ‘we shouldn’t send our trash to be dumped in other people’s countries’ - true, but also most of these things should never even be made
#this is a very broad point ofc much more to say from many angles#bought a stupid cheap umbrella this morning bc I lost mine and thought abt the horrors of it all#still in the supply chain spiral but idk if I’d call it enrichment. spectator to a train wreck maybe#waste#consumerism#skravler#economic geography
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POV: You're a scientist and the little creatures you've been observing have discovered one of the hidden cameras you placed in their natural habitat
#Was looking up Red Dwarf posters for my new apartment on Ebay came across the Lister one and I lost it#Saw the whole cast was involved in this shoot and lost it even more#I love everything about them: the Malcolm in the Middle ass camera angle#the range of expressions#Rimmer The Cat and Kochanski standing right in front of some kind of stand (?)#so it looks like they're being propped up by a clothing rack or something#how goofy they are#If you were to ask me which of the five I like the most I couldn't tell you they're all So Good#Red Dwarf#Dave Lister#Arnold Rimmer#The Cat#Kryten#Kristine Kochanski#Craig Charles#Chris Barrie#Danny John Jules#Robert Llewellyn#Chloe Arnett#Original Post
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#Lucy MacLean#fallout tv series#fallout#idk what to tag as#closer up of her face cause I like it less from farther away -_-#what a pip boy actually looks like has been lost to science unfortunately#science also hasn't figured out how to draw hands or guns or hands holding guns or feet from that weird angle#science hasn't figured out how to get a reference of that either because it just can't be bothered#remains another one of lifes beautiful mysteries i'm afraid#while watching the tv show I was like “ha! her face is going to be soooooooo easy to draw”#and then the first thing I did was draw her at a really difficult angle that I had no real reference for#and I wanted to abandon these sketches immediately#i've been humbled#YES I wanna draw the ghoul too
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BYE I PAUSED THE MOVIE 😭
#soup talk#I WAS REWATCHING THE MOVIE TO STUDY & DRAW SHOCKWAVE FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES 😭😭#AHSHGHJA I LOST IT AT ELITA 1 LAUNCHING#transformers#transformers one#soundwave#shockwave#elita one#elita 1#orion pax
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🎩"Fashion is my profession~" 🎩
Today he decided to try out something classy~
Taking part in @scimagic 's 'Puzzles in different outfits' trend :)
(also shoutout to @artfennec for her art that inspired me to finally sit my ahh down and draw something, lol)
#look at this distinguished gentleman#i found the reference for these on Pinterest and then lost it#pls don't sue me#still figuring out how to draw with whiteboard markers#why is drawing his head in different angles is so difficult??#smg4 puzzlevision#smg4#puzzlevision#mr puzzles#mr puzzles fanart#smg4 fanart#smg4 mr puzzles#marker art#my work#artists on tumblr#mr puzzles in different outfits#mr puzzles in different outfit
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what I think most of us (including me) expected: Crosshair's depression era, Hunter's unhinged "Mandadalorian" era
what we fucking got: Hunter's depression era, Crosshair's unhinged "im going to scream at you when im let out of here and literally headbutt commandos" era
#the putting the goggles on the exact angle to look over to Omega's room where Lula's been left waiting for her was truly a touch.#A line of everything that he lost so recently.#the bad batch#the bad batch spoilers#i full on laughed when he did his little RAUUUGH
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i love going for a gallop through the hollow woods and getting stuck on invisible polygons
version without speech bubble :)
#sso#star stable#sso oc#ssoblr#my art#horse#i like to think hunter falls off every time WizardEgg comes to a sudden stop due to one (1) polygon that's at an odd angle#<-things i think would be horribly inconvenient but really funny if SSE implemented in their horsegame. player character ability to fall of#inspired by the time i fell off the OTTB lesson horse I rode a number of years ago. fell on my head and lost a boot :)#he was very polite about it though. did a little lap around the arena and then came back to check on me.
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TWO YEARS IN A ROW 😭😭
#when i tell you i lost my SHIT seeing this angle#😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭#i’m STILL fucking laughing#wwe lb#wwe#wrestlemania#wrestlemania xl#wrestlemania 40#cody rhodes#roman reigns#the rock#wm lb
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Celebi trying to matchmake her two partners
#future trio#futuretrioshipping#celebi#dusknoir#grovyle#pmd2#my art#pokemon mystery dungeon#her attempts with dusknoir are way more mocking and teasing than her attempts with grovyle#probably bc she gets too lost in grovyle's eyes#in spite of grovyle's front being his most unflattering angle#or most flattering if you like funny (looking) guys#then again dusknoir has a face on his belly but i think he makes it work hes like 7 feet tall
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my very specific prediction for the upcoming AITA video: he'll open by explaining that last week on the gaming channel he had an 'AITA' moment himself [insert clips from the dan eye incident here]
then he'll lead into the vid by saying something like "and that inspired me to ask you all for your 'am I the hole' moments", and only then will he bring up that this time, he asked for specifically dating/love-related stories, leaving us to piece together that the intro is a dating/love related story via the maxim of relevance
#val comes out of hiding#comparing the intro and the rest of the vid like pointing out congruent angles in similar triangles#it's perfect bc it's not a hard launch but it could be. if you wanted to write a formal proof explaining why#we've had tons of phan 'proof' essays. where's the phan 'mathematics/logic-style formal proof' doc hmmmmmm#he modus on his ponens til they conclude. or whatever#dnp send you a hard launch confirmation in the mail after you successfully defend your proof#please ignore that grice's maxims are not formal logic they are pragmatics i'm trying to be funny#pragmatics my beloved cover your ears i'm so sorry#phan#amazingphil#fun fact. this post took me like 1+1/2 hours to write because i got lost in the Linguistic Rabbit Hole again whoops#ling shit
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