Boredom-Fueled Blog

I mentioned last month that I didn’t know what to do after having donated every fossil to the museum, upgrading my house for the last time, and donating enough bells to my town to build a lighthouse. Shortly after writing that I didn’t know what to do, I decided what to do: unlock and receive every “gift” from Tom Nook’s Point Tracking System. For every 100 bells you spend at Tom Nook’s store he gives you one point. Once you get 10,000 points you will have unlocked every gift. Gifts can be exchanged for points, so if you ask for a gift worth 5,000 points you must 1) have 5,000 points and 2) be willing to give up 5,000 points and work back up to it. So in all, you’ll be required to earn 61,300 points, which means spending about 6,130,000 bells at Tom Nook’s store. To accomplish this I repeatedly bought the most expensive item available – a Nintendo DSi Bench worth over 18,000 bells. You can resell it for about 5,000 bells. It wasn’t long before I unlocked every item, and I’m currently working on racking up enough points to receive every gift; I hope to have every gift by… I dunno, let’s say October. (Cool in-game glitch that you get to see after unlocking the last item: The game programmers forget to/chose not to capitalize “kart.”)

After a long day of fruit-picking and fish-catching, I like to go to The Roost, the coffee shop inside the museum. If you talk to the barista, Brewster, every day for a while, he’ll begin to open up to you, and he’ll tell you about his interest in gyroids – the weird little robotic Animal Crossing collectibles that make percussion-like noises when activated. He’ll offer to store your gyroids for you. It’s basically like a little addition to the museum where you can try to collect all the gyroids.

My birthday was in August, so I received a cake from one of my least favorite animal residents.

Nintendo Animal Crossing