#this game is exhausting

[callisteios]

Would you like to find out what you would be the god of? Take my new uqiz to find out

[kochei0]

Pleasant dreams

[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!!!

[starlightphil]

Pet Names Dan and Phil Call Each Other in Fanfiction

love

babe

honey

Pet Names Dan and Phil Actually Call Each Other

rat

piggy

stupid bitch

stinky baby

[madeofjules]

She's so tired of him 😭

[temeyes]

redrew an [old Ghost sketch] (cuz im wearing the same sweater rn lol!!)

[anemicjellyfish]

Stolas has been presiding over the Pain Games for a few years, at minimum.

Millie is no longer allowed to participate, due to her causing 9 funerals.

Do you all think Stolas presided over the festival during the same year Millie participated?

Her mother, Lin, said "the last competition," but I'm on the fence about if she means last year or last one Millie participated in.

Anyway, I think it would be a nice little treat for us one day to see Stolas and Millie interact.

Stolas: Wait a moment. Are you the one who killed a bunch of people during the Harvest Moon Festival a few years ago?

Millie: ... yes.

Stolas: Well, at least you're now in the right line of work! IMP is the perfect fit for you."

Millie, adorable as ever: thank you!

The only thing that blows a giant hole in this is Stolas' line to Blitzø. "It's the same every year."

Either he didn't show up the year Millie played... or the Pain Games literally ends in bloodshed every year.

[lemonynuggets]

some creatures I drew in the hospital

[beebfreeb]

Incoherence detected! Degraded visual profile.

[fellowfights]

I'm gonna be so honest with y'all. I don't take you seriously if you complain about the casting of the Percy Jackson show because the poc actors aren't "book accurate."

Because here's the deal. I remember when the internet threw a fit when Rue, a black character, was played by a black person. It didn't matter that it was book accurate, y'all didn't want to see a black person on screen.

For some of y'all, it's not that you are against adaptations straying from the source material- you are simply anti black.

If you are about to argue with me, I want you to ask yourself something. Did you not mind the race change of Grover, but you are against the casting of Annabeth? If that's true, maybe try to address that. Acknowledge it and try to deconstruct your anti-black biases.

[hasello]

games night 🕹️

What do you think they’re playing? 🤔

[ihatebrainstorm]

can't.. no time to draw rn but like guys... I forgot how a big part of Astro Bot is how the little fellas absolutely love to dance- so like what if Astro as an honourary music bot

[snapscube]

Hi Penny, I’m wondering what is your stance on Game Preservation?

i think all video games are bad

[sncinderdoodles]

i'm so tired katniss

[blee-bleep]

ngl kitten, mommy nature is having a bad time rn

[timethehobo]

Thinking about his intense resting face.