Today is “Lah-de-Day”, it seems. This seems to involve all my animals singing possible town tunes at me, and then I decide if I want them as the new tune. Er, great. Found some fossils, and then went and sold a load of fruit so I’ll have a bit of money for turnips tomorrow. I also have a new storey on my house, so decided to make that the “exotic” floor, and the ground floor is now the “blue” floor. …
Well. I’m not sure if I shouldn’t just give up. I spent TWO HOURS playing the end boss, and managed to get past his first phase only twice in that time. It is too random as to whether you’ll survive a rebound off of him, so you can’t rely on skill or practice to beat him – you just have to keep trying, over and over, and hoping that you won’t bounce off Bowser and down the plughole. Accidently, I …
And off out into the Desert Sea I went. Found the biggest Big Trak ever out in the middle of it, and killed the guys hanging around it. Also killed a load of sand people, and stole their clothes. Moved further into sand person territory, in disguise, and tried to make it into their enclave. No chance – I have no translator and there are too many of them to actually kill. Trudged back out again, and found a guy …
Nook was buying turnips for 58 bells in Cheese today, so I didn’t bother selling them. Instead, I wandered round collecting fruit and fossils, and also milked a rock for more bells. After that, I decided to have a tidy up in my house, so bought a dresser and filled it with all the junk on my floor. Also decided to “standardise” on furniture, so sold some of what I had and bought some Exotic and Blue things. Then it …
Went to visit Tami in Fraston, as she put out a plea on the newsgroup for some apples. Took some of each fruit with me, and dumped them all there for her and Paul (who was also visiting) to enjoy. Spookily, Tami not only had the same hairstyle as me, but also the same colour flower in her hair. Faced with such a coincidence, we got into bed together. As you do. Dropped off my shirt design in her tailor’s …
This arrived today (so no box scan yet). It is a compilation of 10 or so “table games”, although how Breakout is a table game, I have no idea. Played Breakout (which bizarrely has to be played with the d-pad and not the more obvious stylus), Mahjongg, Patience (“Solitare” for you merkins), Othello (“Reversi”, again for merkins), a card game I figured out how to play but don’t know the name, and what I know as “Shisensho”. They were all …
DAMN YOU, EEEVEEEL NOOK. I HATE YOU, AND I WISH YOU WERE DEAD. How DARE you offer me only 41 bells today. HOW DARE YOU. I’LL KILL YOU. Sleep well. Loev, deKay xxx
Well, Nook’s was back open today after its “revamp” to Nookingtons. There’s a hair salon in there now, and Timmy and Tommy, his irritating nephews, run the “home wares” department upstairs. I decided to have my hair cut, but it seems you can’t just pick what hair you want – you have to answer questions to determine what would suit you best. So I have a ginger basin cut. Hurrah! I think. And Nook wanted 65 bells for my turnips, …
Someone new joined the ugvh Sk8crew today, and had actually beaten some of my scores. They’d got a few hundred thousand points more than me, for both the Run and Combo scores at Vans, so I thought I’d best have another go at them. And lo, 20 minutes later, the crown was regained by me. Hurrah! I then had a go of Trick Attack against some random person, and beat them 2,800,000 to 850,000. BEST.
And the “no-one online” RUBBISHNESS continues, with, well, no-one online in Mario Kart DS. I waited. And waited. Then expanded my search from “Friends” to “Regional”, and then waited some more. Then went to “Worldwide”. And waited. And waited again. No-one was there! Pah.
Off I went, clutching my turnips, to Nook’s. Only to find he’s shut. “Closed for Remodelling”. Clearly it’s his face being remodelled, by some other unhappy customer. “Never mind,” thought I, “I’ll visit someone else!” But no-one on my friend’s list was online. RUBBISH.
Decided to have another crack at the end of game boss. And failed. Again. Gah. The main problem is hitting him invariably sends Mario rebounding down directly between both flippers, giving you no chance to survive (make your time – ©AYB 1997). And then you have to start killing him again. I can only get two hits in (I assume he needs three, going off other bosses) before the blue pipe barrier is gone and I fall through the hole …
On Dantooine, there is a Jedi Order, and after speaking with them they told me “the Force is strong” in me, or something. So I was to become a Jedi Padawan. Whatever that is supposed to be. First, there were three tests. One was knowing the Jedi equivalent of the Scout’s “I’ll do my best” thingie, another was to build my own lightsaber. I chose to become a “Jedi Consular”, as that seemed most rounded of the three choices, and …
Sunday is Turnip Day! Went and picked then sold more fruit for a bit more money, and then spent AGES wandering round trying to find Joan. Eventually, after checking every square millimetre of town $hlmun times each, I found her hiding behind a tree. I had enough bellage to buy 500 turnips this week. I hope I don’t end up making a loss on them this time, as my mortgage really needs paying off and the money I spent on …
Hurrah! I didn’t think I was going to be able to do this one, as the remaining tapes were hard. Managed the hidden tape in The Streets, which left four to go. Ticked another off by getting the 30,000 point Pro Score in The Mall, and then I was down to three with only Downhill Jam to find them (well, and some stupidly high Pro Score on some other levels). Thankfully, the hidden tape, 40,000 pro score, and 5 Valves …