Month: July 2020

Just after 4 a.m. last night/this morning, I caught my first evening cicada. Seemed like a weird time to find an evening cicada, but a new catch is a new catch, so I’m not complaining. 😛

A few minutes later, I ran into Wisp! Since an Animal Crossing day doesn’t start until 5 a.m., that meant I had Leif, Celeste, and Wisp yesterday! After collecting Wisp’s spirits, he gave me a sailor’s hat.

I also caught my first blue weevil beetle. Donating it to the museum resulted in one of Blathers’ finest lines of dialogue I’ve seen yet. 😛

This afternoon, I checked Nook’s Cranny for another wet suit…but there wasn’t one on sale today! I was assuming they’d have a different version every day, but that’s not the case. However, Breezy sent me a leaf-print wet suit in the mail, so I’ll be using that for now. Thanks, Breezy!

Nook’s Cranny had a (wet) floor sign for sale, so I bought one for the main room of my house. 😉

Hornsby taught me the “pride” reaction. That is my 40th reaction, with only four blank spots remaining on my list.

At Agent S’s house, I was quite surprised (and happy) to see that Agent S was displaying the heart doorplate that I gave her for her birthday! I didn’t even think there was a chance she would use it, since villagers don’t display wallpaper or wall-mounted items that you give them.

I caught a couple of new fish, a puffer fish and this mahi-mahi.

While diving, I caught my first scallop. And that caused Pascal to pop up and demand ask for it! I gave it to him, and in return, he gave me a recipe for a mermaid wall. He also gave me some words of wisdom about lost socks. 🧦

He swam away, and I followed him. I now know what Pascal does with scallops: He eats them!

At 10:00, I opened my gate for Friday Night Forest. Timo, Sacky, Logan, Bran, Alex (from Pawnee), and Ryan (from Petal Burg) came over for a visit. We headed over to the bog for a frog race. To my surprise, I actually won the first race! After I won, I announced the prize was one billion bells. 😉 And now I’m in debt to myself.

By the way, I figured out a way around me having a party popper in my hand after firing the starter pistol (popper). All I have to do is grab a single party popper, instead of holding the whole stack. So after firing it, my hands are free. And that probably helped me out.

We got set for a second race, but Sacky wasn’t interested this time. That’s when T. Zelda showed up. I invited her to join us, but at first she was just visiting villagers. She then changed her mind and joined in the next race. This time, I had a lead again, but I was a bit slow taking out my ladder at the end. Ryan passed me up for a last-second win.

I then suggested that we go for a swim…while still wearing the frog caps. I suggested going to my pier, so I led the way. And that’s what it happened. I fell into my own pitfall! I knew it was there too, but I wasn’t far enough out of the way.

We made our way to the pier and kept diving off repeatedly. For something that’s so simple, it sure was a lot of fun. 😀

After several minutes of that, I swam to my “private” north beach, and a few frogs followed me. We then had a bit of a revolving door sequence: TZ left, Alex (from A-Nation) arrived, Bran left, and Nami arrived. We headed over to the museum to look at the fish exhibit and see some of the new creatures. Sacky then left, Bran returned, Alex left, and Sacky returned. We hung out in the aquarium for a while, and then Sacky left again.

Valentine arrived wearing a fancy-looking dress. I commented that our outfits were all so random…a frog, a baby, an astronaut, etc. It was like a costume party (although Valentine changed outfits prior to this photo).

We then headed over to my house, and Ryan suggested that we recreate the thing from my old ACCF Wi-Fi Moments series where we’d clap when the lights were turned out, and then act shocked when the lights were turned on.

Around midnight, Logan left. The rest of us did one final frog race for the night, and I won fairly easily. Maybe the lag was preventing the others from doing as well tonight, but it felt weird for me to win this race, especially twice in one night. 😛 After the race, we took some group photos.

We visited the campsite, Spectacle Rock, and the north beach. I had a lot of fun, and I got some good video clips…enough that I may be posting Wi-Fi Moments #7 on Sunday. Around 12:50, I ended the session for the night. See you all next time!

Agent S had a birthday today, and I made sure to stop by her house to attend the party. Hornsby was also there for the occasion. Agent S didn’t waste any time in asking for her present. 😂

I gave her a heart doorplate that I bought at Nook’s Cranny, and she seemed to like it a lot. I hung out for a couple minutes before leaving the party. But Agent S (and Hornsby) seemed to be having a really good time. Happy birthday, Agent S!

When I returned home, I checked my mail. Gulliver sent me a tubeteika, which is a type of hat. I wish Gulliver’s gifts were all furniture, like in the older games. I’d like some more large monuments to decorate my town with, like the Stonehenge he sent me months ago.

Able Sisters had some sports tanks for sale, numbered one through eight. I wondered why there wasn’t one with a nine on it, but then I realized it’s probably for online play. If you were having a race of some sort, each player could wear a different number.

My 2nd Jacob’s ladder…or lily-of-the-valley…appeared today, up on Spectacle Rock. I kind of like having it there.

Regarding visitors, Leif was in town today…but I didn’t buy anything from him. Celeste showed up later on, and she gave me a recipe for a Cancer table.

The game update for July went live tonight, and I promptly downloaded it. After starting the game back up, I had a letter from Nintendo waiting for me. It thanked me for downloading the update, and a snorkel mask was included.

Nook Shopping informed me that new seasonal items were available. I only saw one new item though, some bamboo grass, which is a Japanese item for “Tanabata.”

But most importantly, there was also a letter from Nook Inc. It informed me that the waters around the island are safe for swimming, so wet suits are now available. I rushed over to Nook’s Cranny, and I bought the only one: a horizontal-striped wet suit. It’s ugly as sin, but it will have to do. 😛

I ran to the pier and dove in. Swimming is officially here!

The controls are similar to New Leaf swimming. You can press A repeatedly to swim fast, or hold A to swim a bit slower. You press Y to dive, but this is where the differences begin. While underwater, the camera angle changes to an overhead view.

Catching sea creatures seems considerably easier here than it does in New Leaf. I didn’t have any trouble at all catching anything I found. Maybe I just haven’t encountered any fast critters yet. Of course, I only spent about 15 minutes swimming, but to this point, catching sea creatures seems easier than, say, catching a fish or bug. Just in those ~15 minutes, I’ve already caught nearly one-fourth of the sea creatures in the game.

You can catch other things besides creatures, too. I found myself a pearl!

It can’t be donated to the museum, but it can be sold at Nook’s Cranny for 10,000 bells! Not bad!

I swam all the way around my island. But as you can imagine, the game doesn’t let you swim up the rivers. But hey, I had to give it a try!

Swimming may not be something you’ll want to do for hours at a time, but it is fun in short bursts. It is certainly a welcome addition to the game. Have a good time swimming, everyone! I’ll be back with another entry late tomorrow night. 🙂

One other note: I uploaded a new video today, taking a look at a number of typos and mistakes in New Horizons and some older Animal Crossing games as well. “Kindess” isn’t the only mistake around. 😉 Check it out!

Gulliver was in town today, and he again made a space reference to his UFO-piloting days in Wild World and City Folk.

I helped him out by recovering his five communicator pieces for him. He will send me a reward in the mail.

My frog race course is causing some problems for me. Two of my fossils today were buried in awkward places like this:

It wouldn’t let me dig them up diagonally, so I had to use the island designer app to fill in some water spots with land so that I could dig them up. I could avoid this problem by using certain types of paths (stone or wood) on those spaces, but I don’t want to do that. It wouldn’t really fit the theme of the frog race itself.

I suppose I could use an invisible pattern there… but that could cause a different problem: Kicking off the pattern during a race when trying to run. So I’ll just deal with the occasional inconvenience for now.

Nook’s Cranny had an arcade fighting game for sale, so I bought it…even though it cost an absurd 64,000 bells.

I put it in my arcade at the amusement park, replacing the dart board.

I’ve been noticing a number of blue pansies popping up, so I’ve decided to put them around Hornsby’s house. Even though he currently has pink cosmos around his house, that’s only because I mistakenly thought that was Midge’s house a while back. Oops. 😛 So Midge will now get those pink cosmos.

July is here now, so that means lots of new bugs are out! I caught and donated a horned dynastid, miyama stag, walking leaf, saw stag, cyclommatus stag, and earth-boring dung beetle. It’s weird seeing a dung beetle in the summer, even though it’s not the snowball-pushing kind.

I also caught a new fish, the Napoleonfish.

There are still more new creatures to catch, but the peak season is just beginning. It’s going to be a lucrative summer, and much museum progress will be made. 🦉

My third gold rose is budding, as are a bunch of new blue hyacinths.

That’s all for tonight, but the game update is coming tomorrow night! In less than 24 hours, I may be swimming for the first time! See you then!