Call it an addiction, call it an obsession, call it the blue oyster cult. I love Animal Crossing, both on the Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo DS. Ostensibly just a game, it is a virtual life inside a small bucolic town inhabited by anthropomorphic animals.

As fun as this game can be on the surface; earning money, buying goods to decorate your home, or catching bugs and fish — there is something magical that happens deep inside the game. Like many other role-playing games, Animal Crossing takes these fun little tasks and rewards you with little bonuses. Eventually, there is something satisfying that clicks in your brain when the tasks are completed that makes you coming back for more.

Despite your reservations, robogomo… bite it… bite it hard…

JOIN US…

 

 

I’m a stickler for certain social graces. I am a sucker for the romantic times where people were more reserved and the written word was a more important form of communication. I, like many have fallen into this digital cloddishness where the simplicity of technology. Email, desktop publishing, and digital video have certainly managed to make the world smaller which is fine in some certain implementations. However convenient, this has ruined my ability to do things the old fashioned way.

Writing a thank you note was excruciating. I enjoyed choosing my words and selecting the pen however, I skimped out on the card. I didn’t give myself much time to write it out so it was going to be a crap job from the get-go. Putting pen to paper, I flailed but managed to get my glyphs down. Stepping back… it looked like the handwriting of a psychopath. As a global thinker who is easily distracted, I have no control over my hand to consistently write script. Hopefully the recipients will be more touched with the fact that I wrote a thank you note and overlook that I completely failed 4th grade writing.

Back to the oversized 4-partition lined cursive paper for me…