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[girlofprey]

Meanwhile, I am having a time in Animal Crossing. I don't have Nintendo Online, and I knew that was the main way to get different fruits and flowers, but I assumed if you didn't have it you could get them from the Mystery Tours you can buy to 'random' islands. You have to grind long enough for the in-game points to get them. Well, if you can, your chances are extremely low, because I think I've found different fruit once in all my tours, and I go on at least one every day, and never any new flowers. The internet suggests that's all you'll ever get, but Nintendo is being tight-lipped as usual. I also ate the fruit my in-game mum sent me, because I didn't realise you grew trees from an entire fruit, and I didn't think that would be my only chance to get peaches. So now I've got a bunch of recipes using cherries and peaches I may never be able to build, and mounting debt if I want to buy a bigger house, or build in new areas of my island. It's not the biggest deal, but it is weird if there's stuff you just can't get without Nintendo Online. Whatever you think of multiplayer, you have to pay money for Nintendo Online, so if some game features weren't going to be available without it, I'd have hoped they made that more clear at launch.

Also, I was forced to accept an annoying hamster onto my island, because they were the first visitor to my campsite. He held a melting ice-cream all the time I was talking to him, and asked rhetorical questions, then said "I'm glad I asked myself". I waited three days for him to leave before realising I couldn't avoid taking him. His house is computer servers and cardboard, and he keeps making comments about what my (female) avatar is wearing. I'm trying every online trick in the book to make him move out, but so far no dice. And I had to let a nice (maybe dead?) cow poet go in the meantime. The unwanted resident's name is Graham, and it turns out the rest of the internet hates him too. Today I went to his house to harass him, and he was sick and bemoaning his lack of medicine. It feels really mean in the current circumstances, but he won't get any medicine from me. Fuck you Graham. Get off my island.

Comments

[slemslempike]

I thought the hamster must be a dick player when I started reading this, but now it sounds like he's in the game always and they deliberately designed him like that?

[girlofprey]

No, he's a deliberately designed character. 'Smug' is apparently how they classify him. He's the worst.