I played the heck out of Animal Crossing on my old Gamecube. I’d fish and pluck weeds for hours. I don’t know why that seemed so great.  My husband got me Animal Crossing for the Wii, but by then I had too much going on in life to dedicate to such a game.  Then Pocket Camp came along, and I’ve been playing that for a…

First of all, your username is great :) Secondly, in general, Muffy is the best character because everything she wears is a jaunty scarf.  I also like when they busk in my street set. 

I also started playing Pocket Camp a couple of weeks ago and it’s definitely not something I would have continued with under normal circumstances, but there are some truly delightful moments, like seeing Muffy doing 180s on my half pipe. I described the basic gameplay to a therapist friend, how you basically buy…

Couldn’t Splinter’s entire ethos be summed up brogressive contrarianism? I only read it sporadically but that was the general vibe I got from what I did read so a guy who used to work for it coming out saying “popular thing bad” would hardly a revelation

Most of these articles are just fun and written by people who love Animal Crossing and are just playing around in the space. But, shit, that Crosbie article is basically just “hey, what if [benign thing universally enjoyed] is... bad, actually???? THIS IS COMPELLING JOURNALISM.”

I don’t have a switch and I started playing the Pocket Camp version when the quarantine began. In March I was, like everyone else in the northeast, experiencing a lot of anxiety and depression and the mindlessness of the game was really relaxing/distracting. Now that the weather is a better and I have actually…

I understand your trying to take a new perspective (which I respect!) of the game, given the fact you have never played it, however what Crosbie is saying is kinda wrong, mostly because all of the things he has said bad things about are YOUR decisions. You don’t have to kick ugly villagers out, its just some people…

I proposed to my gf using the flowers in AC. I spelled everything out in view of the flight path of the plane when she was flying in. In order to prep for everything I had to plant flowers everywhere because I wasn’t sure about how many I needed, the breeds, and the colors I was using. The result after the fact has…

Clearly at that point he would build himself another simulation inside the first simulation and insert himself into a universe where his daughter did die. And the cycle continues...

Having thought about this for a few days, I’m still pretty firmly on the meh side.

I thought it was kindof meh. I’m not sure this story could have been squeezed into a 2 hour movie? But it also definitely didn’t need 8ish hours.

Man I was hoping it’d be a bit deeper. Like they made a box that has a perfect quantum representation of the real world inside it, so if what’s inside the box is in the same quantum state as what’s outside it, they can literally manipulate the outside world by manipulating what’s inside the box.

I think the thing the show did very well was making us think something worthwhile was coming. Like it could somehow tie it all together in an interesting way. It really had me on the edge of my chair until about episode four. Then, I realized it wasn’t going anywhere but you know quarantine and nothing else new to…

I’m not really sure what would have been a satisfying ending, or if one was even possible, but this wasn’t it for me.

So, Forest had Katie... what, hand-program the simulation to include their memories? Was it white-void “ghost” Forest who asked her to do that (I guess she hand-programmed “ghost” mode at some point, too), or did he do that before? While she’s in there modifying the reality inside the system, why not give them super…

Whoever played Lily is a shitty actress and this show suffered as a result. None of the acting was very good.

The stuff in the box had a heavy Sunshine-vibe, so I was sortof waiting for Offerman’s character to turn into a serial killer for some reason.

I don’t really understand the praise for this show. It was a pleasure to look at, but what this show found thoughtful and interesting I thought seemed like pretty standard and not even particularly interesting sci-fi pseudo-philosophy. Which would have been fine, if a little disappointing from Alex Garland, were the…

I’m not sure if I liked the ending or not. It just felt a bit pat to tease all the stuff about determinism, then break it and say “Uhhh, so they’re in the Matrix now? And everyone’s happy! The end.” I appreciate that it was a bit more complicated and nuanced than that, but it didn’t 100% logically follow from the rest…

I’m still processing this final episode. I can’t say I was completely happy with it, but I’m glad it didn’t just outright suck.