#temporary buildings

[bixels]

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!!!

[arc-hus]

Shelter for Homeless Women, Barcelona - Vivas Arquitectos

[54625]

Mcyt fans. You can resist. You don't need to do it. You can get over your addiction of making everyone into a bird. I believe in you. You don't need to make qPac with wings into popular fanon just because of a cosmetic in a separate minecraft PvP event completely unrelated to QSMP. You don't have to keep doing this to yourself

[ilta222]

my winter work station ❄️

[yellow-jellybean]

the bearjewel kit from build-a-bear is so cute...my slug looks fabulous

[vintage-tigre]

[aceofwhump]

Heroes 1x14 "Distractions"

[boygirlctommy]

anyone ever think about ranboos ugly ass house

[dd-is-my-guiltypleasure]

[tunakitchen]

apparently tubbo said that the snails were not supposed to be anything like the qsmp eggs😓 Sorry man i just saw some clips. attachments have formed. theyre named. theyre doing activities together. its over

[gyroncraft]

central station progress, the building itself is based off a public library in chicago lol, still need to do the roof, plus stairs+elevators to both platforms

[anonymusbosch]

oh no, i established myself as Capable Of and Willing To Perform some minor annoying administrative tasks at work and now am being tossed additional requests to perform said tasks

i know that in a strict financial view it makes sense to spend 20 minutes of junior engineer time on mundane-annoying-task than 20 minutes of senior staff engineer time but have you considered: I Don't Like It

[milolunde]

If Fairy World oeprates on schooling and being tall enough for the job (ex. Cookie's Court; A New Wish) maybe Peri turned down dentistry because he was too short

[my-name-is-apollo]

Plutarch, On Music (Trans. William Watson Goodwin)

Athena Apollo bonding activity <3

[raizelsknights]

oh charles you absolute dumbass . . .

[joelletwo]

woke up at six am was still late for my orientation getting lost and found by the extremely kind grace of another attendee seeing me confused as fuck in the parking lot kjsf sat thru five hours of c suite dick sucking and ice breakers w ppl i wont be working with. go home to my injured dog sweaty as hell eat five bites of potato salad. drive to my actual job do another hour and a half of corpo modules that dont apply to my position. go to get my chickenpox booster cant. go to report to my actual boss to do actual work for a few hours shes like lol just go home its late enough so i do. sweaty as fuck again. grocery shop bc i used all my food this weekend not cooking. cook dinner. eat dinner. time to walk my old ass dog. and then i have to go to BED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and im working every day this week to pack in practice so this is just what its gonna be like every day. BYE FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [for a week or two]