Picking ACNH back up :)
So, anyone played the new update? I have. I tried not to hype myself up too much for it while I was waiting for it so that I wouldn't have my expectations too high. So far, I really am enjoying it! I've been pretty meh on the game for the past year or so, a combination of just my usual playing style of neglecting it or being obsessed (no inbetween) and not liking the game as much as I loved New Leaf. But to be fair, I've been intimidated by how much work people put into the looks of their islands, I've never cared too much about that type of stuff, I just like the actual gameplay and growing close to my villagers. I do LOVE the interior design stuff, so of course this new update is a lot of fun for me! I think this is personally a thing I wanted, not just the quality of life improvements with bulk crafting and using storage materials but more rooms to decorate and make cute. Decorating an island is just tedious and pointless to me, since I'm not showing it off to anyone online. Maybe I should try that sometime to see if I like it more?
Either way, I've been playing a lot more of ACNH since the update, and I'm going to formally announce that's what I'm doing for a while instead of making any blog posts or working on my websites new layout. I'm also playing Palia, which I like a lot so far, and decorating my yard is so much easier on there lol...
I've got the main pages basically done, but I still want to add more things for people to actually enjoy on there that I think is a bit creative, at least for me it is lmfao. I know I won't get the same engagement on my website that people who make consistent updates do, but I think that's probably for the best. I've been wanting to take some time to actually engage with people's websites through their guestbooks, chatboxes, and the like, because I know this can be a stagnant time for a lot of people, and I'd love to sort of idk "dust off" some of my favorite websites before applying the new changes to my own. As I keep working on this layout, I become more optimistic about my ideas and in turn that helps me become more comfortable with being creative. I want to join a small web focused forum or discord in the near future, also, but for now I want to do my own thing.
Actually, I hope I can upload my screenshots and photos I've taken in AC recently with this new update, I think I've taken some rather nice ones, and I would love to dedicate a separate webpage to all things Animal Crossing on my website, something fun and charming that collects all my screenshots and shows off my island, my acnl town, maybe even my acww town too, if I think I'm up to pulling it up and getting screenshots to my PC. I'll have to learn how to do that so if anyone knows how to my email is always open... And I think this, where I do the things I love to do in life, is the core of what my personal website is to me. I want to have something that I use to further engage with what I already love, because it can honestly be easy for me to forget what my own interests and feelings are sometimes. I want to keep each flame alive and make something the represents how much enjoyment I get from it. I guess that's why seeing my playtime and achievements for certain games makes me feel happy, because even though I'm struggling to remember what I'm into and it makes me doubt I feel the same sort of love for it that others more clearly have, I know through these things that I'm not some sort of fake or casual fan. I know I can have a lot of love for something and put in a lot of effort, and it's nice to have a more objective validation to confirm that. I don't want to be dependent on validation but I sometimes have to outsource it when things get to be too much.
Anyway! Right now, I've been gathering so much stuff on my island, and I'm strongly considering taking all of the outside furniture away since my heart was never really into those attempts, anyways. I think much of what I want to do is get rid of all the things I'm starting to get really sick of seeing, because all of it was done like 2 years ago and I'm just wanting to focus on things like collecting all the recipes I can and making every single one anyway. Oh, and since bulk crafting is finally here, I am going through my materials way faster, and money is easier to make! So it's time to plant a shitload of things, catch a bunch of fish to cook, and of course make a bunch of axes for all the tree chopping I'm in for. I'm going to try and get as many achievements as I can, too, such as ones for sending postcards which I have woefully neglected. Idk how long this burst of energy will last but I'm always down to talk animal crossing with anyone. It's been a while since I've just let myself play video games during my entire free time but dammit I'm going to! I know I have to get on to drawing more and working on my website but those can at the very least wait for a week!
See you on the flipside~