#the package has arrived

[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!!!

[permo2003]

Panas 💛🤝💜

[blueskittlesart]

ups is just fucking with me at this point i think

[carriesthewind]

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[transmechanicus]

I know that logically everything that happens beyond my knowledge is a result of entirely mundane forces, but also I've got terminal pattern recognition and number association autism. So when two huge Admech reveals come on the day of and right after a really shit personal holiday, the Powerwolf album is releasing on another Day That Will Be Hard, and consistently throughout my undergrad warhammer reveal shows, codex releases, and band album drops would be like The Day after a major exam or challenge, it is really hard not to start considering that a subtly divine level of correlation.

[knightzp]

having a normal one today

ITS SO OVER

[toddandersonn]

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[altruistic-meme]

i have ordered a small travel companion but i fear he will not arrive on time :((((

[angryborzois]

much to everyones disappointment im back (might disappear again though lmao)

[simplydnp]

Can I ask a slightly odd question? I want to buy the paperback of Dan’s book BUT I am kind of self conscious of my family knowing I’m buying a YouTuber book at my big age 😭 do you know if the packaging of their shops is discreet or if it has branding on the outside? I know I’m over thinking this haha

aww anon i totally understand. thankfully my family doesn't really get what youtubers even are, let alone if it's dnp 😂

here's the recent packaging i've gotten from dan's shop:

(don't mind the red circle, they accidentally shipped mine Express last time)

to me, they're very discreet. if your family specifically reads the packaging info, it does say what it is, but nowhere is it 'youtube merch'.

i hope this helps!

[barbwalken]

Guys, look at this angry little man. He is so fucking soft and bigger than I thought 😩😭💕

[pirunika]

im thinking that So i saved your mail for you while you were away to be an ongoing thing for Blade's romance... its cute and innocent for a long time but later when they are secretly together it becomes a code like Hello welcome...I have your mails..in my quarters come with me I will..give it to you there :)

[anotherpapercut]

bro what the fuck are they doing with my package

[koririmao]

"W-What? G-Gyuvin? G-Gunwook? W-w-what's going on?" Hao stammered as he looked at the figures beside him back and forth. "Hao..." Gunwook growled "Hao-hyung..." Gyuvin whispered huskily. "Y-yes?" Hao nearly whimpered from how anxious he was. "D-do you.... do you know where the bathroom is? Gunwook has been holding it in since we got here" he continued, earning a slap from the younger. "Gyuvin!" "Ow, I whispered it!"

[araneitela]

You know, I guess it works as a warning in case it were... still needed; but if you choose to follow me (or follow me back), you need to be inherently ready for (usually) long answers to even the simplest of things. Or long tag rambles at the very least. This is also why I can take quite a while to respond to things, but I get to them inevitably. I'm also actively working on getting things out faster. You know, when it isn't in the 30s/nearing a 100 degrees.

I'd apologize, but this is just the way I function. Hi, I'm Sae and I still over-analyze in 2023. Honestly, Franz Kafka couldn't have given me a more perfect OOC tag.

[spookdoodles]

My big merch project for Sunnycon is almost done 😭