{"id":7958,"date":"2024-02-29T09:17:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T14:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/acnhblog\/?p=7958"},"modified":"2024-02-29T09:21:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T14:21:36","slug":"leap-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jvgs.net\/acnhblog\/2024\/02\/29\/leap-day\/","title":{"rendered":"No Mention of Leap Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Late on Saturday night, I built one last snowman just a couple of hours before the snow melted for the season. But he wasn’t rolling up just right, and I accidentally built him wrong. Oops. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n\n\n

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A couple hours later, I took another photo as the surrounding snow had melted.<\/p>\n\n\n

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On Sunday, I bought 7,780 turnips from Daisy Mae, at a price of 107 bells apiece.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pascal popped up when I caught a scallop, and he started talking about vocational training for sharks. Because of course he would. \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n\n\n

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Believe it or not, today is the first Leap Day since New Horizons was released! Even though the game came out in 2020 (which was also a leap year), release day was just three weeks after <\/em>Leap Day. So I was looking forward to seeing what New Horizons did for the occasion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But today, I saw nothing. No announcement from Isabelle, no special dialogue from villagers, and not even a post on the bulletin board. After City Folk<\/a> and New Leaf<\/a> marked the occasion, I thought we’d at least get something<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is one small exception though, as I saw on Reddit<\/a>, if Leap Day is your birthday. The villagers at your birthday party will acknowledge it only happens once every four years. But for the vast majority of us, there’s no mention of the occasion. That’s a bit of a Leap Day letdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, something special did happen in my town this morning. The Nooklings were paying 552 bells for turnips! I gathered up my turnips and made several trips to sell them all. The grand total was 4,379,760 bells! This was easily my biggest turnip payday ever!<\/p>\n\n\n

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    I made huge progress towards my Nook Miles turnip achievement, as you can probably imagine. I went from 5.5 million bells of profit earned, to nearly 9.1 million. Less than a million bells to go! I totally got this! \ud83d\ude01<\/p>\n\n\n

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    After putting my money in the bank, my account balance topped 84 million bells.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    I recently posted a video discussing the features introduced in New Horizons, and which I think should stay in future games, and which should go. Whether you agree or disagree, let me know your thoughts in a comment, either here or on the video itself. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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