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Dr. Shrunk, right? I think he's supposed to be an axolotl. I paid off the dream suite today, so I'll get to enjoy dream suite funtimes with the rest of you soon.

If anyone here is still not playing Animal Crossing, you need to get right on that. It might be the 3DS' killer app right now. Even speaking as someone who really didn't care about the previous Animal Crossing games at all, it's hands-down my favourite game on the platform. (at least until Pokémon comes out)

I got the fifty hour badge some time last week and I know there was at least one day in my activity log that was just a solid mass of New Leaf time.

I keep forgetting to add folks when I'm using the 3DS. Sorry. It's easier if you just PM me, usually, 'cause I lose track of who I have and don't have. UPDATES! my new side room came in! My house is now big enough to renovate the exterior, so this is my last day with the "mansion" exterior. Tomorrow it'll look completely different! I paved and repaved everywhere. I just wish this tile set had corners... the park's coming along swimmingly. I had another streetlamp installed. my first ever painting! looks like a new store is opening soon! and the Nooklings are upgrading, too! :0 Lu and Sno came to visit! OuO Summer Solstice Celebration woooooo

I decided to mostly read today instead of play Animal Crossing. I think it's my first day where I haven't turned a profit. welcome to Swank Manor. The west wing is larger now and there'll be an east wing tomorrow. Also, check my sweet buns puttin' in a new streetlamp I'm like 80% certain that if the animals could drive vans, Vladimir would have somebody stuffed in the back of his Redd finally showed up! I correctly identified which piece was not a fake. And they said Art History would be useless! Streetpassed this cool guy. The fire thing plays the Super Mario Bros. castle music Have I mentioned yet how much I love Lloid's weird Adam West affectations?

So I read the first volume of Wandering Son today and liked it so much that I immediately bought the next three.

Man, Unico is unexpectedly depressing. I finished it just now. I really appreciate it when kids' material ends on a sad note though.

Oh, as a side note on the Lego Movie... who else actually saw Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs? Because it's a really, really fantastic film that was marketed as though it was some terrible Dreamworks thing. The same directors also created Clone High, which should give you some idea of what it's like.

I kind of hope that this attempt at damage control doesn't stop people from being wary of Microsoft.

Did you guys keep reading that Tony Hawk review and get to the part about Mountain Dew and Doritos? Because that sentence just makes the whole article like 110% more amazing. edit: also the whole "Citizen Kane of games" tumblr concept almost deserves this sort of treatment: http://www.nohomophobes.com/#!/today/

Super Smash Bros. is more like the Expendables of video games.

That Gay Gamer link is 404ing for me. What was it about?

There's the mermaid too! Being a huge, huge Lego fan; I am unabashedly excited.

It's a dude from Talking Time, but I can't for the life of me remember his username.

fuck FUCK also my favourite villager almost moved out at least I got a sweet new addition on my house and paid it off so I can expand it and got over 10,000 points from the HHA! They mailed me a rad shirt

Super Wii.

This console is being made for people with the grubbiest apartments.

I've been reading comics again, for what feels like the first time in ages! Here's what I've been reading! Atomcat by Osamu Tezuka is fucking weird. It's a short series in which a boy adopts a kitten which, after being accidentally run over by their car, is granted all the powers of Astro Boy by a pair of well-meaning but dense aliens. Each chapter is pretty much completely unrelated to every other chapter, which would be a lot less egregious if it weren't just seven chapters long with no closure to speak of. It's still good, but it's like reading an incredibly strange prototype for something that never quite came to fruition. I'm two chapters into Unico right now (three if you count the prologue), also by Tezuka, and it's a significant step up. It's tonally fairly similar to the groundbreaking Princess Knight, filled with fairytale melodrama, but rather than the step-by-step narrative of Princess Knight or the disconnected incidents of Atomcat, Unico's main narrative hook is to tell small but fleshed out stories that mirror each other in theme and tone with only one or two characters connecting them. It's very similar to Tezuka's masterwork Phoenix; but more fantastical, and clearly skewed at younger female readers. The big issue when this edition of Unico was first pitched was the colour printing, and it looks really, really good, occasionally spectacular. I have only two minor issues thus far: text sometimes gets dangerously close to the center of the (obscenely thick, very expensive and nicely-produced) book and I don't want to risk cracking the spine by opening it too far; and it seems odd that the customary disclaimer about use of racial depictions in Tezuka's era that usually has no relevance to the story at hand is absent from Unico, whose first chapter is about the relationship between a Native American boy and a European settler girl. It's not particularly objectionable, but why put it in Atomcat and not this? I also picked up the first volume of Wandering Son by Takako Shimura today with some store credit I had. I haven't read this particular translation yet, but I read a few chapters from an early scanlation a few years back. I remember discussing LGBT themes in anime and manga with a friend years ago where they summarized the situation as "Japan is perfectly fine with having gay people in cartoons, because as far as Japan is concerned gay people are fictitious." It's proven to be a frustratingly valid statement; so I found Wandering Son -which primarily concerns itself with a pair of transgender schoolchildren; refreshingly fair- sympathetic, and entertaining. I'm really excited about reading this professional translation to see if that aspect still shines through. I might even have to grab the rest of the set if it's as good as I remember it being.

So I guess you can really tell which browser Microsoft owns now.

I just recently read Equal Rites. Early Pratchett is a little hard to get into at times. I'm currently reading Small Gods and enjoying it, though. It's particularly to read after having read Carpe Jugulum a few weeks back.

I started laying down some temporary tiles for paving. I'll be replacing them with something nicer once I get QR code sharing unlocked. Hopefully by then someone will have ripped all of the default tiles so that players can make curves and stuff. A few end of the day screenies: doing some work on the orchard and the park Three story house! The cutie-pie bedroom, the "random crap scattered over the floor" main room, and the seduction parlour The UFO is rad. It spins and floats in place and intermittently beams down a tiny alien told you the villagers would point it out!

If Nitronic Rush is the Tron of video games, then Distance is the Tron Legacy of video games.

I added you. I have to go do stuff, though. So I'm just gonna' leave the 3DS plugged in with the gate open for a while. EDIT: closin' the gate now.

It's afternoon. I'll leave my gate open for a while in case anyone wants in. just don't mess up my stuff.