#It sucks that we're so societally conditioned to think a certain way that I even feel guilty at all

[malhare-archive]

Anytime I start to feel guilty about being lazy I like to remind myself that physiologically and mentally speaking, the lives that humans live nowadays is nearly incompatible with how we’re meant to live and attain fulfillment  

[cosettefauchelevente]

unpopular animal crossing new horizons opinions

super terraformed islands with a ton of little cliffs and waterfalls suck. walking through them is a pain, the animation on them is often laggy, and I've rarely been on any that were actually cute, I think there's been 1 or 2 out of every one I've been in that I've actually enjoyed. ditto for islands with stuff packed all over the place. in my eyes, there's nothing beautiful or fun about islands that are frustrating to navigate.

nat was a better bug off host than flick. nat was a cool elderly explorer and naturalist. he was the david attenborough of animal crossing. but flick comes across as an edgy 13 year old's fursona that they upload animesque drawings of on deviantart

cottagecore themed islands are usually not great. I like cottagecore a lot when it's outside of the realm of new horizons, but in new horizons, the cottagecore themed islands i've seen have all looked beige and bland.

ppl who act like certain villagers are their in-game s/o are weird. Ik we're all starved for romance bc of the pandemic, but come on, they're digital animals. he's a fictional cat not your boyfriend

hippeux and rodney may not be the cutest villagers, but they don't deserve all the intense hatred they get :(

people who charge ridiculous amounts for their unwanted stuff are insane. a few weeks ago I saw a post by some girl who was clearing out her storage and the entry fee to rummage through her old items was not just a couple of nmts or a stack of materials. oh no. this one was asking for an entire pocket of bags of 99k bells or nmts to visit her island. I kid you not. for that price, you should be offering seasonal diys and furniture that can't be accessed anymore without tting, celeste and mermaid diys and furniture, gold nuggets, star fragments and other such items. not your random old junk you're getting rid of to make space in your storage.

even though the graphics are objectively better in new horizons than any previous game, in some ways the aesthetic got worse. the colour palette seems wayyy too saturated. worst offenders are the colouration of the grass and cherries. have you ever seen grass and cherries that oddly bright? cause I haven't. even though the old games have much worse image quality than this one, the colour palettes are so much more pleasing to me. I put down a grass pattern in most of my island that's the same shade of green as the grass in new leaf bc i really don't like the shade of green used in new horizons.

people who ask for handouts of bells and diys when they restart their islands are annoying. what's the point in restarting your island cause it got boring but then asking other people to basically play the game for you?

ppl giving someone else one of their villagers in boxes, but only on condition of them being allowed to visit the person who adopts their villager's island so they can see the villager, is absurd. if you're that attached to the villager, just don't agree to let them move out. this isn't family court, when you're giving someone else your discarded villager you shouldn't be demanding visitation rights lol just hold onto them.

fauna, molly and maple aren't really that cute. they're not ugly, but they're all pretty boring looking compared to others in their species imo, idk why they're all tier 1. im suspecting it's mostly just because they're brown and that goes with the beige cottagecore themed islands mentioned above. fauna's eyes disturb me almost as much as naomi's, if im being honest

rilla isn't that bad. while i think the gorilla model itself is poorly designed (nintendo did the poor gorillas dirty), i actually like her as the choice to represent hello kitty. not all hello kitty fans are the thin, conventionally attractive, kawaii bloggers in imported japanese clothing you usually see on social media. sometimes people who are bigger in size, or who don't fit societal beauty standards like hello kitty and cute things as well. so I actually like rilla being the villager who's a hello kitty superfan.

not an unpopular opinion, but related to the above: the sanrio villagers aren't meant to be animal crossing versions of the sanrio characters themselves, they're meant to be fans of sanrio characters. sanrio wouldn't let nintendo make representations of the actual characters so they created original characters who are fans of various sanrio characters and own merch. (If i see one more person asking "whyyyyy isn't hello kitty a cat???? why is she an ugly gorilla 😡😡😡" I'll gouge my eyes out. the sanrio characters debuted in 2016, you could easily just google it if you're confused).

ppl who make posts asking "is this a good villager? should I adopt them? what are they like?" are sooooo irritating. all villagers of a given personality have the exact same dialogue. they're essentially the same character in different shells. if you like their appearance, they're good. if you don't, then they're not good. but their speech itself is not unique. I understand if it's a new player who hasn't realised the villagers don't have individualised dialogue yet, but most of these posts are just ppl who want to brag about encountering raymond, judy, or another tier 1 villager.

hazel's monobrow is iconic. it doesn't make her ugly, ppl in the west just aren't used to seeing monobrows cause they aren't a common feature here so they think hazel looks weird and she ends up getting hate even though she's actually really cute :/

nearly everyone who makes posts about how their kid deleted their island and now they have nothing are just lying to make people feel sorry for them and give them free stuff. there are several steps to deleting an island, I doubt your 3 year old was capable of doing it, janet

similarly, i highly doubt your kid accidentally let your favourite villager go. it's not as unbelievable as the first scenario, but I do think the majority of those posts are people lying to get someone to take pity on them and get their dreamie into boxes for them

ppl who start jumping on posts and messaging the op when they offered to help a certain person out with bells or certain items saying "i want some too" are just embarrassing. make your own post, don't try to piggyback off a post made by a person who needed help and received it.

ppl hosting giveaways but having super complex rules boggles my mind. sometimes i'll see a post that's like "guess what year I lost my virginity and i'll give you a million bells! oh, and I'll throw in 100 nmts if you can guess my partner's venus sign". those giveaways aren't fun for the ppl trying to guess, and I don't understand why the host would get pleasure from them. plus those giveaways seem like they'd take forever. Idk about anyone else but I can't be bothered to wait till someone guesses correctly to give them a pocket of stuff. If I'm doing a giveaway with only one winner I either select the winner with an online raffler or just give the prizes to the first person who comments. so much less painful than waiting around all day till someone guesses right.