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bixels · 2 months ago

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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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ubomag-blog1 · 2 years ago

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Get Your Board and Card Games at The Game Getaway in Folsom, CA

Owner Ronald Petersen owns Game Getaway where he features some nostalgic games such as Monopoly, Chess and Scrabble, just in time for the holidays. He also has some new and unique games like Tokaido and Catan available for purchase.

By Aaris A. SchroederEditor-In-ChiefWelcome to The Game Getaway, located in the heart of Old Folsom, CA where you can pick up some of your favorite games!Owner Ronald Petersen owns Game Getaway where he features some nostalgic games such as Monopoly, Chess and Scrabble, just in time for the holidays. He also has some new and unique games like Tokaido and Catan available for purchase.Monday…

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#aaris a. schroeder #Board Games #Christmas Gifts #holidays #modern strategy #party games #Ronald Petersen #The Fat Rabbit #The Game Getaway #ubo mag #ubo magazine #ubomag

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gebo4482 · 3 months ago

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Fears to Fathom - Woodbury Getaway

#fears to fathom woodbury getaway #fears to fathom #rayll studios #indie games #horror games #screenshots #steam

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jetlagsblr · 4 months ago

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he's such an icon

#ben doyle #jet lag the game #the getaway

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trainsinanime · 4 months ago

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The Getaway, the new show by the Wendover and Jetlag team over on Nebula, is really fun. Basic premise: There's a game show where there's money to be won, but as far as the players know, one of them is secretly the snitch who undermines them all. The not-so-secret twist, which is in the trailer, is that everybody is the snitch.

So there is a lot of interpersonal intrigue and conflict between the players, which is what the show is ostensibly about, but then there's also the bigger story of the twist.

The way they shoot and edit it is to frame it as a cat-and-mouse game between the production team (specifically the Jetlag crew, who are all well-known YouTubers in their own right) and the players. We get almost as many confessionals from the producers as we do from the players. There are times when the players do a confessional, and the producers then react to it on camera.

The show also takes great pains to take their players seriously. Their thoughts and their decisions (they vote people out regularly) are given weight and taken seriously.

What this means in practice is: A player does something. The show could cut to the producers, who then go, "haha, those idiots!" But instead it cuts to the producers who go, "oh that's clever! I wonder whether they're close to figuring out the twist!" To me that's really crucial to why the show feels more fun than mean.

If you're into internet-based streaming game shows, there's a certain amount of overlap with Game Changer, notably the Bingo episode. Which they should frankly lean into; there's no way to make a second season of this, but if they combine it with Game Changer, perhaps without telling Sam, Ben and Adam (or at least Sam), that could be something.

#the getaway #jetlag #jet lag the game

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redbean-nom · 5 months ago

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din djarin, age 10: clone wars refugee child

boba fett, age 11: in federal prison for destroying an entire venator while trying to kill mace windu

#star wars #din djarin #boba fett #redbean talks #meanwhile jango; age 14: the actual mand'alor #very funny to realize that din and boba are almost the same age #when you look at the difference in what they were doing for most of the clone wars #din at age ten was a small frightened child hiding from super battle droids behind a space dumpster(?)#boba at age ten was jangos copilot/getaway driver for jedi-hunting missions (and also an equally small child)#then three years later was a full blown crime boss and involved in human trafficking #i really want to see more of the mundane conversations about raising grogu #like among the mandos there's #din (children of the watch hardcore mando): i must teach my small son to shoot #boba (literally-lifelong bounty hunter raised in child soldier central): do you want recommendations for good starting blasters #bo katan: i asked the armorer to make a custom set of knives too btw #the armorer (already made armor for small son): dont you think he needs a flametrhower for his birthday #and then the Associates #they've got ig11 (trigger happy assassin droid); fennec (experienced bounty hunter who fought cad bane at age early-20s?)#krrsantan (crazy gladiator probably-madclaw); koska (tackled boba as an introduction); axe (stabbed paz over a game of chess)#and then. there is Luke.#imagine everyone pondering over how to modify a disruptor rifle to fit very small arms #(because boba's absolutely going to spoil his small green nephew)#and luke just in the background like 'maybe we should. not? give the preschooler a deadly weapon? this is not safe?'#din: eh he's smart he'll be fine #luke; fearing for his life: it's not him im worried about-

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darkkdeity · 3 months ago

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SUNSHINE GETAWAY Demo Release!

☀️ "A place so full of joy, you might never want to leave." ☀️

Sunshine Getaway is a psychological horror game set in the 90s in southern California. You play as Rien, a struggling ex-detective who begins to get ads for a “mental health resort” called the Sunshine Getaway. He decides to go there, hoping that it’ll put him back on his feet, but he soon finds that the place is hiding something truly terrible.

My first indie project, Sunshine Getaway, is now released! Thank you to all who supported me and helped playtest my game!

Note: This is a short demo and the game currently does not have many horror elements. Look forward to the Act 1 demo for a more fleshed out experience!

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#sunshine getaway #sunshine getaway game #indie games #indie dev #indie developer #rpg maker #rpg maker horror #rpg maker mv

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thewheatgerm · 4 months ago

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#jet lag the game #ben doyle #the getaway

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worstloki · 8 months ago

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AU where Loki gets banished for Thor/Warriors 4 going to Jotunheim and he just settles down on Earth. Copes with the blue arm by ignoring it completely since he's been disowned and dumped on Earth anyway. There's probably a way to 'prove himself worthy' and 'get back to Asgard' but he never bothers with it.

#years later Thor uses it like a getaway home #which would annoy Loki more if he didn't decide not to care about everything already #Thor running off to him after arguing with their father over some petty thing and asking if he can stay over a while #basically staying over at his bro's house bc his bro moved out and is far away now #Odin never restricted Thor from visits but is getting impatient about Loki returning #Odin was waiting for Loki to get back to promote Thor to king #but Loki has no intention to do that and when Odin realises this he blows a gasket #no wonder Thor's always pouting and dragging his feet around the palace #no brother his friends don't fare perfectly fine on quests anymore and his father delayed his coronation for the foreseeable future #smh #at least Loki's place has video games

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thecoldcoffeecup · 1 year ago

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