{"id":3696,"date":"2020-01-21T21:26:40","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T02:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/acblog\/?p=3696"},"modified":"2020-01-21T21:30:18","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T02:30:18","slug":"surprising-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/acblog\/2020\/01\/21\/surprising-move\/","title":{"rendered":"A Surprising Move"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

When I played on December 29th, I found a letter from Jingle in the mail. Balloon Fight, the NES game, was attached as my holiday gift. He sends the same gift every year, but I won’t complain about a free gift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early January<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On January 2nd, I got a surprising goodbye letter in the mail; it was from Snake!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"What<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

For over 3 years, every villager that moved out has been the newest villager. They would move in, and then right back out a few weeks to a month later. But Snake has lived in town since October 2016<\/a>! While he wasn’t one of my “permanent 13<\/a>,” I was starting to wonder if he had somehow become permanent too. But apparently not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Long-time readers of this blog may remember that something similar happened with Kitty. She lived in Forest for years before eventually moving out in 2011<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay, now do you want to hear the weird part? I went to meet Snake’s replacement, and guess who it was. Guess!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was KITTY!<\/strong> She has come full circle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Kitty:<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In an unrelated note, Kitty has been stuck in my ACCF town for years too, but City Folk’s moving in\/out system is completely different. Still, it’s odd that she’s lasted so long in City Folk as well, so this is all kinda weird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mid-January<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On January 13th, Spork moved out. That sets up Kitty for potentially another long stay in Forest. Spork’s replacement was a spoon and fork. Oops, I mean Derwin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Derwin:<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Candi was in an igloo, and she wanted to play a game for her wagon wheel. She said the starting price would be 40,138 bells. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Candi:
Yowch, no thanks!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

January 21st<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When I spoke with Belle today, she commented on not seeing me in a while. She said I was like a total ninja, in a tutu!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Belle:
But I’m not even wearing my tutu at the moment.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I found Gulliver on the beach, so I woke him up. He gave me a Lady Liberty for “saving his life.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gulliver:<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\"Gulliver:
This Gulliver dialogue is about the only time the game mentions the year, other than New Year’s Eve\/Day.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Kitty asked me for a ball so that she could play with her young relative. But Puck was standing nearby, so I had to wonder… is Puck like Kitty’s nephew or something? \ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Kitty:
“Pucky, get away from the edge of that cliff or I’m telling your mother!”<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I fetched her a ball, and she immediately kicked it off the cliff. But still, she rewarded me with some kitchen flooring. I’m glad I didn’t have to get the ball back, because it’s near impossible to get a ball up a steep cliff like that!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Up-Nate on My Other Towns<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While working on a video last month, I had my character from my Ohio town visit my other secondary town, Aja Blu. In the process, Nate moved from Ohio to Aja Blu. So a few weeks later, I was surprised (and utterly confused) when I saw Nate still in Ohio!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Nate:
As if I could forget that green unibrow.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Villagers who moved to another town by train can still visit their original town. So he was just visiting. Since I hadn’t used train travel in so long, I had completely forgotten this fact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Nate:<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Recent Videos<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Since last month, I’ve put up several videos related to the GameCube version of Animal Crossing, at least in part. This first one is all about the GameCube game, showing what makes it unique and special in just 99 seconds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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