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Sometimes I Feel Like I Hurled Meself in Too Deep

I thought I should write something about last month’s free update to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, since it did add a fair amount to the game. I also looked up how to do a few other things that I could … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Art, Food, Gender, Japanese, Mythology, Names, Philosophy, Video Games | Tagged animal crossing new horizons, birds, blaise pascal, brewster, brewster's roost, dogs, happy home academy, kapp'n, kappa, otters, pascal, pigeons, tortimer |

Strangers with Bizarre Fruit

WARNING: SPOILERS for the Sims 4 Strangerville expansion I’ve gotten back into The Sims 4 recently, although I’m starting to get a little tired of it now. A while ago, I read something where people were complaining about how the … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Conspiracy Theories, Monsters, Sims, Video Games | Tagged aliens, animal crossing new horizons, bella goth, the sims 2, the sims 4, the sims 4 strangerville, the sims livin' large, the sims medieval |

Egg Overload

I have a few video games I either want to start playing or get back into, but my game-playing time these days is taken up entirely by checking on my Animal Crossing: New Horizons island. It’s a pretty relaxing game, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Current Events, Easter, Food, Holidays, Mario, Monsters, Video Games | Tagged animal crossing new horizons, bunny day, cherry blossoms, easter bunny, easter eggs, eggs, luigi mario, mario mario, princess peach toadstool, rabbits, rhinoceroses, wario, yeti, zipper t. bunny |

No Animal Is an Island

Animal Crossing: New Horizons – I got this as a Valentine’s Day present, and I’ve been trying to put a little bit of time into it every day. I’ve played AC on the GameCube and New Leaf on the DS, … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Conspiracy Theories, Humor, Video Games | Tagged animal crossing new horizons, animal crossing new leaf, blathers, gulliver, gulls, mice, nintendo power, nintendo switch, owls, pigs, sloths, startropics, tanuki, timmy and tommy nookling, tom nook |

Do You Want to Kill a Snowman?

I had been wanting to write something about snowman characters in video games, with one that immediately came to mind being Rusty the Snowman in Earthworm Jim, who breathes fireballs. Sounds like he’s as self-destructive as the They Might Be … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Art, Donkey Kong, Humor, Kirby, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Prejudice, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, They Might Be Giants, Video Games | Tagged animal crossing new horizons, antisemitism, bad mr. frosty, banjo-kazooie, battletoads, bleak the snowman, book of hours, chilly, clayfighter, cool cool mountain, donkey kong country 3, dr. freezegood, earthworm jim, evil the cat, frosty the hit man, michelangelo buonarroti, mr. blizzard, mr. frosty, penguins, robots, rusty the snowman, sir slush, snowman's land, snowmen, super mario 64, teenage mutant ninja turtles ii: the arcade game, weather, winter, yoshi's island |

Guests from Another Game

You might well know by now about my mixed feelings on crossovers, how I love the idea but think they bring their own headaches, particularly when it comes to continuity. What’s kind of strange is that crossovers in the Mario franchise … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Captain N: The Game Master, Cartoons, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Games, Magic, Mario, Metroid, Monsters, Pac-Man, Sonic the Hedgehog, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Toys, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged basketball, behemoth, bomberman, cactuars, captain olimar, crossovers, culex, dungeons and dragons, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iv, fortune street, fox mccloud, golbez, inklings, king bowser koopa, link, malboros, mario and luigi: partners in time, mario and luigi: superstar saga, mario and sonic at the olympic games, mario hoops 3-on-3, mario kart, mario kart 8, mario kart arcade gp, mario kart tour, mario sports mix, mobile golf, moogles, mushroom kingdom, mushroom world, namco, nes open tournament golf, nintendo, ochus, otyughs, pac-man, punch-out, samus aran, slimes, splatoon, super mario bros. 3, super mario rpg, super smash bros., wario, wario blast featuring bomberman, warp zones |

Cactus Creeps

Picture by BlazingDazzlingDusk Although a lot of people keep small ones in their houses, the cactus is a pretty terrifying plant, so I’m not surprised that some video games use them as enemies. The two that immediately come to mind … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Cartoons, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Mythology, Super Mario Bros. Super Show, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged 1000 needles, 10000 needles, bobcats, cacti, cactiballs, cactrots, cactuars, cactus cats, cats, cryptozoology, doki doki panic, dragon quest rocket slime, dragon quest v, fearsome creatures of the lumberwoods, final fantasy vi, folklore, gigantuars, gyroids, haniwa, link's awakening, mario hoops 3-on-3, mario sports mix, oracle of seasons, paper mario color splash, paper mario: sticker star, pokeys, saguaro, super mario bros. 2, super mario sunshine, super mario world, tetsyua nomura, tombstone city, william t. cox, yoshi |

Kirby’s Come Undone

One game I’ve been playing recently is Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn, the 3DS port of the Wii game that came out some years ago, which I was interested in but never played. Kirby was turned into yarn some time before Yoshi … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Cartoons, Kirby, Magic, Mario, Monsters, Music, Television, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged angie, coo the owl, dark matter, dimitri, dream land, kine the ocean sunfish, king dedede, kirby right back at ya, kirby's dream land, kirby's dream land 2, kirby's epic yarn, kirby's extra epic yarn, meta knight, moosh, mount dedede, oracle of ages, oracle of seasons, patch land, prince fluff, rainbow islands, rick the hamster, ricky the kangaroo, yin-yarn |

Where There’s a Will, There’s a Wisp

The term “Will o’ the Wisp” refers to a sort of light that appears over swamps and marshes, caused by photon emissions from gases. Or at least that’s the scientific explanation. There’s a lot of folklore devoted to these weird … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Authors, British, Christianity, Dragon Quest, Etymology, Fairy Tales, Final Fantasy, German, J.R.R. Tolkien, Japanese, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Plays, Poetry, Religion, Science, Scottish, South American, Video Games, William Shakespeare | Tagged a midsummer night's dream, ariel, boitata, bram stoker, dracula, dragon quest iv, fairies, frodo baggins, ghosts, gollum, hobbits, ignis fatuus, irrwisch, jack o' lantern, john milton, karl haupt, lord of the rings, lost souls, paradise lost, puck, rogue wispers, samwise gamgee, snarks, st. elmo's fire, st. erasmus of formia, the hunting of the snark, the tempest, tonberries, umibozu, will o' the wisp, wisp, wisps, yokai |

No Ordinary Rabbits

I don’t know if anyone was at all interested in last week’s post on rabbits in the Super Mario series, and Easter is over now, but I’m going to do a follow-up about rabbits in other games anyway. I’ve already … Continue reading →

Posted in Animal Crossing, Animals, Authors, Comics, Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, Lewis Carroll, Magic, Mana/Seiken Densetsu, Monsters, Monty Python, Mythology, Sonic the Hedgehog, Ultima, Video Games, Zelda | Tagged a link to the past, black mage, bunicorns, coco, dragon quest iii, dread killer rabbit of caerbannog, final fantasy ii, final fantasy iv, final fantasy v, final fantasy vi, final fantasy xii, final fantasy xiv, ghosts, gyroids, haniwa, horned rabbits, humingway, jabberwocky, lagomorph, link, majora's mask, monty python and the holy grail, moon, mugu mugu, mysidia, mysidian rabbit, namingway, ocarina of time, phantom hourglass, pols voice, rabbits, rabites, samurai warrior the battles of usagi yojimbo, seppuku, setzer gabbiani, spiked hares, springer, the legend of zelda, ultima online, usagi yojimbo, vorpal bunnies, way of the ronin, wizardry |