Yep, the only two instruments I need now are the ukulele (Club Tortimer item) and double-neck guitar (which comes out on the 28th). I also need the music floor and wall, but I can get those from Saharah.

Anyone without Best Buy, let me know if you need the Best Buy items.

Ah, Kaz, I found out what Gulliver item I had before: the Statue of Liberty. If you want, I'll give you one (to repay for the bagpipes).

Only 26%? Ungrateful lot...


Come on... (Also pictured here is a person I can't name, so for now we'll call him L)


Any time now...


There's a pitfall to the right of Julian


WHAT.


WELL DONE.


Hmmm.

I funded the dream suite, got a Triforce from fortune cookies, and I have 3 Varia Suits and 2 Samus Helmets if anyone is interested.

If anyone wants either of those I also have Varia Boots.

Here's a little Did You Know: Kapp'n the "turtle" is actually a Kappa, a frog-monkey-turtle creature from Japanese folklore. They're a bit creepy: http://www.scaryforkids.com/kappa/

What I want to know is why all my villagers are starting to suggest traffic signs for public works projects. Where's the road?!

Does anyone have good turnip prices? I couldn't find a good deal all week and I've only got 2 more days before my turnips spoil. >_<

If you want to get a villager out, keep pushing/hitting them for a while. Respond to every "I want to talk" emote the villager you want out. Eventually you'll get "I'll be leaving on <date>".

Well, one of them is leaving....

Kody is leaving on the 18th. Although I kinda liked him, what he said to me when I said he was free to go actually kinda touched me.

"It was good knowing you Fub! Don't let me hear you skimping on your training!"

Now that I think about it... He made it sound like he was dying.....

I haven't had anyone leave my town yet, and I just got my tenth villager from the campsite.

Europeans get a free Slushie Machine from SpotPass today.

Also Turnips are 73 bells each here. NOPE.

I got the game right before I left and seemed to make it a good ways in. Many of the other tress are planted and have been harvested, started my first public works project (a bridge) so I'm waiting for that to finish. beyond that got the first bug badge and starting a plot of roses (currently yellow white and red). Got the first expansion almost payed off and then back in debt I go lol.

Looking for someone with Turnip prices of over 200 bells. I don't want to be stuck with them all week!

Picture time! ^^


The Elite Scavenger Hunt Tour is easily one of the best ways to earn quick medals. 16 medals per gold rank.


Cat loves his coffee.


Funny story with this scorpion.

I was talking with Cat at the time about going to visit his town. My eyes were on the computer screen while I was trying to run up to the train station. When I look down, I see a scorpion with its stinger pointed at me...and I had my net out. >_< I ran- and it started chasing me. As soon as I got to the train station area, I had enough distance from myself and the scorpion to turn around and catch it~


Jake and I have the same hairdo...with matching shirts. =w=


WE LOVE EMOTIONS!


I was walking through town and I looked up randomly to see this: it's my first Golden Slingshot. :3


I recently visited the Aika Village. It's a creepy town with a ton of symbolism to hint at the backstory. The Aika Village mayor speaks in Japanese for the most part, but the residents tend to speak in gibberish. The mayor is Aika with the other 3 residents being Aika, Aika, and Aika. This town alone holds a lot of speculation and I don't think the maker revealed the story she used for it.

This seems like a good time for me to add you guys all to my 3DS's friend list. I'm going to add every FC that I can find in your profiles right now, because I think the game would be... well, something completely different if we could get together.

The project is currently going very slowly and is probably going to slow down my progress a lot.

If anyone has, you know, spare money then please pop over and donate :3

My Club LOL has opened today, but I'm island farming so I haven't got a chance to visit yet.

Here's my little guide on beetle farming.

• To optimize your island:
  • Remove all deciduous trees from the center of the island to prevent fruit beetles from spawning.
  • Trample the flowers to prevent butterflies from spawning, which must be captured to remove.
  • Remove the hibiscus bushes.
  • Remove the palm trees facing the southern beach.
  • Gradually cover the sand in shells to prevent hermit crabs from spawning. To make it easier, sell conches (the blue ones) to Leila so you'll always know that most conches are hermit crabs until you finish.
  Once you have finished the first four, you can run around the beach and slowly approach the palm trees from the front of the island. The skittish beetles are far less likely to flee if you approach them from behind. They have a great cone of vision to their sides.
• Advice based on beetle type:
  • For goliath beetles (the large red ones) and cyclommatus stags (the ones that have huge mandibles), you don't even need to creep up on them. Just walk up behind and snag them.
  • For atlases (the large black ones) and horned elephants (the large gold ones), you will need to creep (hold A). Swing your net when you are 1½ spaces behind the tree.
  • For golden stags (the small gold/black ones) and horned Hercules (the large gold/black ones), you will need to creep and barely tilt the circle pad. These two are very skittish, so you will need to swing your net at the earliest possible moment at which you can catch them.
  I usually use the lines in the sand to determine when to swing, usually when approaching the second line in front of a given tree.
  
• Bring your fishing rod around at all times. If you see a fin, catch it. Sharks are worth as much as the beetles.
  
• Scare off anything that isn't a palm tree beetle or a shark. You can try to catch long fish, but be prepared to throw back a lot of sea bass.
• Beetles can only spawn off-screen, so run to the far edge of the island.
  
• If your inventory fills up, drop your fishing rod (or net if you just caught a shark) and dump everything in the box immediately.
  
• I typically put my threshold at 6,000 bells. Anything worth less than that doesn't come home with me.

My town is finally down with all the prep and developments I've planned. All I need is more Public Works Projects and maybe the villagers might shut up But now I will freely let people into the town of Florimo, or for English speakers "Flower Meadow." Except YOU. You know who you are AND what you did. Special thanks to Suicune for his help and those perfect oranges which are now healthy grown trees (...for now anyway...)

And just YESTERDAY I got my first Resetti appearance! Oh yes, I feel like I've just really experienced Animal Crossing.

Yesterday, after clearing up some areas dense with trees, Isabelle announced that my town had reached perfect status! Maintaining shouldn't be too hard, as I can hold off on public works projects and extra trees for fifteen days so that I can keep my status pristine. I also love planting flowers, which only add to town status, so being free to leave those around is great.

My reward for paying off my entire home:

I finally got a chance to go to Shampoodle's today and get a nice new style.

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I know there are a lot FMA fans on this site so I'm posting this.

If anyone has any flower hybrids they are willing to sell, please notify me. I can pay 20k per flower, though I am open to negotiations depending on the flower.

I received some extra blue roses from someone, and I'm not sure I want to keep them. I'd prefer to breed them myself.

I need someone with a turnip price of around 110 bells. I don't mind if it is 10 lower but I am desperate as I need to sell them today otherwise they will rot!

Today was a pretty eventful day:

First off, my tower was finally built. For those who don't know, the tower is the most expensive project at 726,000 Bells.

Secondly, I repaid off my debt but was stupid and now I have a wall being built tommorow instead of an expansion.

Today was also the bug-off. I won with a Raja Brooke Butterfly and got 3 things total out of the tournament including the trophy.

Also, it was K.K. Sliders first proper visit today and he played K.K. Jongara for me.

Pictures soon!

All I can say is, zsaber is a life saver.
(Thanks!)

Dangit Cat, what are you hiding in these things!?


These are the best business hours ever.


Oooh, floor cake!


Shrunk says the punch line first...though he does have a great point for this joke.


Found this nice sloppy table in Re-Tail last Saturday.


And then a 2nd one on Tuesday.


And then a sloppy stereo on Thursday. Three really rare items in a week, I did good.


LOLOMGYOW-LOW!!!!!!!11111111. Timmy/Tommy's expression shows the standard reaction to that statement.

I missed half the contest, but I managed to turn in a Raja Brooke butterfly and a goliath beetle. I was about to turn in a cyclommatus stag too, BUT IT TURNED 6:00 LITERALLY WHEN HE SAID THE SCORE OF THE GOLIATH BEETLE. Thanks for that. >_>

Oh man it's already midnight I missed my chance to claim my first place trophy for the bug contest. >.>

Seeing Totakeke perform acoustic was amazing. It would've been nice if someone had told me that I can't request the song to take home, but I like K.K. Disco anyway. Still, after that I probably requested K.K. Metal about a thousand times.

My quest for the Triforce isn't going smoothly. Every fortune cookie seems to be filled with Pikmin hats. And not just all of them, only RED Pikmin hats. I have like 4 or 5 now? Are Timmy and Tommy doing this to me on purpose? >:I

I've also started a new look for myself, Danny Fenton/Phantom! (It's still NOT an obsession ) I have the pro designs for the shirts and the shoes from Kicks, now all I need are some black and blue pants. Then I'll feel comfortable trying to change my hair. I heard it's difficult to get what you want...

Picturrrrrz.

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Rant time.

The HHA Showcase is the second most poorly-designed piece of crud in this game (only behind the villager move-in mechanics). Everyone stuffs their houses full of Nintendo junk. (Not like my hideous balloon room is any better; HHA thinks it looks nice, but it's gone once I get all the rewards.) I can't delete the houses I've exhausted of useful items with terrible design. I can only order five items per day, forcing me to come back and actually remember what I ordered and what I didn't. Once school resumes, this will be a pain because I'll also be getting updated houses every 45 minutes. The only saving grace for this ruined feature is the ability to mark houses as favorites, which is useful for tagging which houses still have things of interest--oh wait, that guy just changed his house and removed the items I was interested in. THANKS, USELESS CATALOG AND POORLY-APPLIED FEATURE. >_>

Yeah, I do know a lot of folks barely even get StreetPasses, but hey, this system was designed for the Japanese where the typical person gets plenty of StreetPasses, and this part of the game should've been designed a little better for those who do get tons of 'em. I just really want to delete all those Nintendo- and balloon-filled houses. >_>

I haven't had a single hit from streetpass with someone with this game since I got it. I haven't had a chance to really use the feature.

Then again my house is really just random stuff put together for now.

After going to ConnectiCon I now have about 30 houses at HHA Showcase. @.@

O.K. I need to visit towns to get signatures for Clay's food showcase. Anyone up? Has to be today.

There's this strange thing about Animal Crossing: New Leaf's audio when you turn on surround sound in the system settings: it works. You can actually hear when things are behind, and separation seems to be more obvious compared to regular stereo. It also kind of spoils that the audio is either sequenced or mixed in at least L-R-RL-RR. (Music premixed in stereo never sounds clear when processed by the Nintendo 3DS's surround sound algorithms, as is the case with playing music in Nintendo 3DS Sound and Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity, among others..)

By the way, do you think it might be a good idea to spin off a turnip prices thread on the section?

Either way, bought 1,000 turnips for... 90,000 Bells in total. I'm holding out for a he- no, a price at least 180 Bells.

Could be a good idea. Don't forget to leave a tip if someone has a good price.

144 bells per turnip right now, but keep this in mind:
http://victoryroad.net/showthread.ph...864#post282864

Picture time!

note: I really dislike Klaus.

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...Nice job getting a house full of sloppy items. Don't let them move now.

You'll only like the first one. The next eight will be a nuisance.

Also, Turt, let me know if you want K.K. Metal. That was one I requested three days ago, and you can order music from the catalog now.

So I just dropped 500k for the opportunity to travel to someone else's town and convince Amelia to move to my town. It worked, and I couldn't be happier. She was my favorite villager in the GCN version, and nearly 10 years later it is cool to have her back.

About the silver slingshot. That's what Cat was saying. You'll like the first one you get, but then anytime you see two flying silver balloons you'll go "ugh".

Managed to find a sloppy bed in Re-Tail. I know some of you are collecting this stuff so if you want to buy it off me, just ask.

Is anyone's Garden Store selling Axes? I need one, mine just broke.

I have axes currenly Rotom, although I won't be home for a couple of hours.

Hadn't accessed my town for 5 days prior and I am suprised there wasn't more weeds. WellI managed to get a genuine suprise when visiting the Able Sisters today, I managed to get a mannequin from them! I put my Samus stuff on it and I think it looks pretty nice.

Anyone willing to let me drop by their town today? I need to collect signatures to help T-Bone find his keys...

I've just discovered the joys of being on the island. Well, money-wise anyway. Now I know why so many people suggest it to me. There were just bugs everywhere and a whole lot more sharks than usual. Unfortunately I got back too late and Re-Tail was closed, so I have to sell everything in the morning. Sometimes I wish I had Night Owl so I could make more trips, but then I remind myself I don't like playing at night.

And am I slow? Because I did not know until last night that you can dance at Club LOL. I accidentally tapped a directional pad button and then I stated doing the two-step. The things I learn each day.

Re-Tail is paying premium for sharks today. Looks lie I will be hunting them until Re-Tail closes for the day!

Turnip prices time? I've got 6,000 that need to be sold by Saturday night.

I had 100 earlier, but the shops closed almost 3 hours ago. I'm not going to even see the morning price, so I'm hoping my evening price is good enough.

The Dream Suite has just opened! I have to say, even though it costs money and I can't take any items back, I love being able to visit any town whenever I want. And to DESTROY EVERYTHING. It makes me feel more at peace~ And I love how the Danny Phantom shirt goes with the pajamas.

Even though I have a lot of money and I can complete a Public Works Project in a few seconds, I think I liked being broke more. I didn't always have to slug around so many moneybags. I barely have any room for items. I could start giving them out as gifts...

For anyone who has good turnip prices this week, I'll offer persimmons (or something useful) in exchange for using Re-Tail to sell turnips. I bought 6,000 of them and I don't want my money to go to waste. :c

On the other hand, I didn't buy any this week.

Also, metronome! Last item I need in my music room. Anybody got one? I also would like suggestions for wallpaper and carpet. I've got rococo flooring in now, and it looks rather classy with the rest of the items.

*wonders whether it's normal to sometimes come up with only three fossil dig spots in a day*

I got 4 all the way until today.

I've been holding off on showing pictures until it's complete, but I'll be sure to try that out.

Also, I finally caught that stupid scorpion last night! The trick is to go very slowly and stop when it hisses, but not too slowly that it finds a body of water or despawns.

Moreover, Knox is moving out. If anybody is interested in him, you've got about 17 hours to let me know.

Lastly, I think today is the first time I'm up early enough that the new day has started but none have the shops have opened, and my mail hasn't been delivered.

I think there's a glitch involving the fossils, but usually they're just really well hidden.

Also, last chance time!

These are gone in August, so get 'em now!

Honeybee (bug) - Above flowers, 8 am ~ 5 pm
Tadpole (fish) - Holding ponds, all day
Seaweed (diving) - Large and doesn't move, all day (best time from 9 am ~ 4 pm)

I am about to come into a windfall of cash. Think 10m plus. If anyone it itching for hand-outs, do not hesitate to ask, as I am more than willing to provide. I looooove Animal Crossing: Capitalism Leaf!

Somebody is having fun with turnips.