Jeff's ACCF Blog

The fishing tournament was held today, and Goldie said she didn’t care about the results. (Neither did I.) But she was just happy to see that Chip was happy and full (from scarfing down all the fish that the contestants brought him).

Winter has arrived to the world of Animal Crossing, and I used the opportunity to build my first snowman of the season. He was pleased with his appearance, so he should be sending me a reward in the mail.

I attended K.K. Slider’s show at the Roost, and he performed “My Place” for me. I like it a lot, even though it’s not quite in my top tier of K.K. songs.

Gwen asked me for a new catchphrase to replace “woof woof,” which she apparently learned from Goldie. I hate when villagers use phrases meant for a different species, so I told her to say “pen gwen” instead. It’s not my best work, but at least she’s not barking like a dog now.

Gwen also asked me to deliver something to Maelle, and I agreed to help out again. The gift was a dice shirt, and Maelle said she’d try to find a good spot for it. Spot, get it? Okay, I’m sure the pun wasn’t intended, but I tend to spot puns regardless.

When I told Gwen the delivery was completed, she rewarded me with a sea bass. Wow, you might as well just give me a shirt if you’re handing out awful rewards. Or stationery, even!

However, a couple of other villager requests went unfulfilled tonight. Simon asked me to catch a centipede for him. I banged rocks like crazy, but all I found were pill bugs. Also, Big Top wanted a stego torso…but specific fossil requests are always long shots. Besides, I only found two fossils tonight, despite going around town multiple times really looking closely for them! Sorry, guys.

If you haven’t yet seen my recent house tour video, here it is!

I listened in on a conversation between Big Top and Goldie last night. Big Top asked Goldie what smelled so good, and she said it was her coconut hair spray. Big Top then said Goldie was like a walking lollipop!

The conversation was pretty awkward by that point, but Big Top took it another step further. He asked Goldie if he could chew on her hair!

When it comes to regular dialogue, I know that City Folk is one of the weaker games in the series. But the animal-to-animal conversations are an exception. I love these interactions in City Folk! So bizarre and funny.

Today, I worked on my house a bit. And in fact, I finished it and recorded a new house tour! Watch for the video on my channel tomorrow (Sunday).

Tonight, K.K. Slider was in town. He performed Lucky K.K., but I didn’t feel very lucky, because my batteries died out shortly after the show.

Gwen asked me for a fashionable sea bass, and I agreed to help out (since sea bass generally aren’t that hard to find). I caught one on my first try, and Gwen rewarded me with 516 bells. That’s an unusual number of bells.

Near the museum, I shot down a balloon present…and timed the screenshot perfectly. I found a starman inside. To refresh your memory, balloons often (but not always) contain Mario furniture in this game.

I hope you’re all enjoying your weekend. See you next time!

On Saturday, I received three letters in the mail. That included Rizzo’s goodbye letter and a letter from Wolfgang, thanking me for the recent medicine. But I also received a letter from Queenie, who finally responded to the letter I sent her on her birthday. She thanked me for the letter and gift, but she did not specifically acknowledge that it was her birthday.

On Tuesday, I spontaneously decided to buy an axe and throw it in the fountain. Serena popped up, and surprisingly, she actually gave me a silver axe. Of course I’ve earned silver axes before, but it’s fairly uncommon. She typically keeps your axe or gives you the same one back.

Today (Thursday) is Thanksgiving in the U.S., which is known as the harvest festival in this game. Mayor Tortimer was outside of town hall, saying that today is the day we feast like kings. Or pigs. Or teddy bears. Yeah, something like that.

He gave me a knife and fork, and I had to keep an eye out for Franklin. But before I found the hiding turkey, I spotted a new house in town. Rizzo’s replacement is Curt the cranky bear.

That’s not exactly much of an improvement. Not much at all.

A few minutes later, I found Franklin freaking out behind Guest’s house.

I gave him my knife and fork, and he gave me a harvest chair. I went back to Tortimer to get some more silverware, and I continued searching for Franklin.

I repeated the process over and over. Ultimately, I found him nine times and earned nine pieces of the harvest furniture set. I sold them all for 27,864 bells, which doesn’t sound like nearly enough considering how much work it is to keep saving his life.

In the city, Phineas gave me an orange balloon. I realized that I now have one color of each balloon (at least the standard balloons, not counting bunny balloons). So I started to straighten up my incredibly messy main room. I still have pitfalls everywhere, but this is actually cleaner than it was.

I posted a new video taking a look at 16 things that City Folk has introduced to the Animal Crossing series, which are still around today. I’ve had this video in the works for a long time, but I was waiting for the big New Horizons update to arrive. (Three of these things weren’t originally in the video until they were re-added in Version 2.0.)

I hope you all had a good Harvest Festival, Thanksgiving, Turkey Day, and/or Thursday!