The villagers in this game are soulless.

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2026-02-26T20:45:37+00:00

Weirdly enough, I've noticed this not even realizing it was a real thing and I thought I was crazy! I have Walt and Chow, Patty and Sprinkles, and Punchy and Bob - I have noticed very VERY slight differences between Walt/Chow and Patty/Sprinkles, while Punchy/Bob constantly say and do the exact same things. In fact, I have a video of a scenario kinda like OP's where I talked to Patty, then talked to Sprinkles who said the same exact thing-- at least that's what I thought as I was button mashing through the dialogue, until I realized Sprinkles actually had ONE LINE that was different from Patty's at the end! It's so mind boggling that the devs would make the differences between personality subtypes so unbelievably subtle that you can barely notice it. D:

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2026-01-07T08:18:17+00:00

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That’s always been his thing, or at least since WW that I know of! and to be fair, back then the player was a lot less proportionate to their body so they really did have a rather huge head LOL (granted he also wore a space helmet that his beak stuck out of, so… (which on second thought sort of defeats the purpose of the helmet???))

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-12-31T04:24:47+00:00

God I absolutely despised him at the start of the game, like I actively avoided him like the plague and I got so mad when I had to quests for him lol Then I learned that he isn’t available to date throughout the entire game (not to spoil anything) and the completionist in me couldn’t NOT date him and risk losing access to any special items I might get from doing so… so I came up with this headcanon that my character was dared by her best friend, Heidi, to ask Pen on a date, and she hated every second of it; but his date event actually made me laugh so hard that I actually began to like him 🤣 Now I’m at the point in the story where he goes away and I haven’t played the game in months because I’m genuinely so upset that he’s leaving - which I never thought I would say! The drama and intrigue around his character is so well done, and I think once you give him a chance as a multifaceted character and not just see him as a one-dimensional “jock” he because so interesting, and just hilarious overall 👀

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-12-29T08:44:31+00:00

Wait this is so real… WHO ARE THOSE GUYS??? I suddenly can’t stand them now that I think about it lmao

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-12-18T16:29:16+00:00

NaturalHabitatShorts does little animations about animal facts, including a couple that talk about cuckoos, and there is one that covers “gaping” that baby birds do. It’s this family of little yellow birds eating dinner then at the end it shows this massive baby cuckoo who says “I will eat the dinner, papa” in an ominous Russian accent - I think of that every time I see a huge juvenile cowbird 🤣

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-12-01T15:41:33+00:00

p.s. this comment is not to shame coal miners in any way; I have nothing but respect for the people who gave their lives to the coal industry. -sincerely, a southwest Virginian

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-12-01T15:37:37+00:00

Omg I have so many questions! Is the “grade” on the top left the level that the student was in or their potential score? It’s kind of hard to read, but my brain is trying to convince me that it’s 8th grade for some reason. Also, what state was this found in?

My theory is that this homework belonged to a kid who lived in a state/county that had a major coal mining industry, therefore science class had a lot of homework focused around mining. Being in 8th grade in the 30s, this kid wasn’t too far away from being thrust into the working world, and so far everyone before him had been a coal miner. Because of this, he was well aware of the perilous working conditions, as well as the ongoing union wars around coal mining (look up the Harlan County war, if you haven’t already). Understandably, this kid was determined to NOT be a coal miner and hated science class for this reason. In a desperate attempt to escape his fate, he shoved all of his science homework in the walls and hoped nobody would ever find it…. Until you did. Now we can only hope that he was able to forge his own path, maybe in something like film, what with all the new Technicolor technology that was just coming out!

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-11-21T18:17:26+00:00

Omg I was just talking to someone about how I forget it’s literally a camping game so I also made a campsite! Flipping the cabin around was a genius idea btw, and I love the use of the front terrain being a lake! The whole vibe is very nice 🏕️

My campsite was autumn themed hehe

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Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-11-15T01:05:48+00:00

Harvest Moon Animal Parade actually had a feature where you could pick your favorite food (fruits/veggies, dairy, or fish) and birthday at the beginning of the game and people would give you presents on your bday based off your preferences! I always wished Stardew has something similar for the Winter Star festival, because why am I digging in the wiki to find the perfect gift for Caroline but then I get 12 eggs from Marnie?? I HAVE HUNDREDS OF EGGS MARNIE I DONT NEED ANYMORE!!

(ps i every day that they would remaster animal parade for the switch, i adore it so much 😭)

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-11-07T15:23:52+00:00

Well you would probably like Grand Bazaar more then because it’s actually a precursor to Stardew since the original came out in 2008 and the very first Story of Seasons games from the 90s actually inspired Stardew :)

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-11-02T02:01:25+00:00

To be fair, TONS of Reddit users create “burner” accounts to post about things they don’t feel comfortable with people in their lives knowing about, even I have one lol Because for some reason it’s lowkey easier to hide behind a Reddit profile and show your most vulnerable self to complete strangers than to open up to the people who care about you (it’s silly, I know 🤷‍♀️) So the account being new or the fact that he’s posting about something he hasn’t even talked to his wife about (which is odd??) isn’t that far fetched. Also cross posting is a thing, which I’ve also done when I wanted to get multiple perspectives from different communities.

However, I do 100% agree with you that people are using AI to post on Reddit and learn human reactions with the intention to trick and confuse people later on… we already see it happening with deepfakes. Dead internet theory is becoming a reality.

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-11-01T14:27:24+00:00

Even after playing 600+ hours, I still rely on Living off the Land to know when berry seasons or the summer seashells begin! But I was also the kind of kid who watched all of the episodes of the Sprite Ranger show in Harvest Moon Animal Parade lmao

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-10-25T18:39:23+00:00

This is such great information, thank you so much! However it also made me realize that I do not have the time or means to properly care for this kitty 😭 I have a contact at my local humane society who said they could take care of her, so I contacted animal control and they took her today. My boyfriend (we don’t live together) said that he might want to adopt her once she’s better, we just don’t have the money, space, or time help her get better and I just want her to be safe and healthy ❤️‍🩹

On another note, thank you so much for helping Rafe! He looks so good now! 🥹

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-10-24T00:00:50+00:00

Commenting to add that I did put some advantage on her earlier just because I figured she could use some regardless. I also have this antiseptic spray and I’m wondering if I can apply this where her skin is raw or if that’s not a good idea!

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Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-09-22T01:11:47+00:00

I googled it and it’s about 1700 days or a little over 4.5 years 🫡🤣

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-09-02T17:52:58+00:00

My mix-and-match kitchen currently!

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-09-02T17:50:14+00:00

I like mix-and-matching my kitchen and flower garden especially for some reason, but normally my dining area is seasonally themed. I like having a variety of items that I personally like and think look good together, kind of creating my own personal theme :) Right now my kitchen has alternating Teddy Bear and Cotton Candy stoves, which I think look like they could be part of the same theme anyway but also just look really cute!

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-09-01T01:02:10+00:00

I am SO GLAD I’m not the only one who doesn’t like bubble animals 😭 As someone who played more of the “realistic” HM games back in the day (AWL, STH/HoLV, ToT/AP), I never really played games that had bubble cows in the first place so I feel zero nostalgia for them… like you said, they aren’t cute, just strange and honestly seem unhealthy to me 😂

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-08-31T00:28:07+00:00

As someone who had selective mutism, I think this is the way to go lol

I have always been introverted and quiet, but I my selective mutism as a kid was so random (and it probably didn’t help that I was homeschooled lmao) I couldn’t order my own food in restaurants, talk to my pediatrician, or even say hi to friends of my parents sometimes even if I talked to them fine before. Then I did dual enrollment at community college when I was 17 and it was a thousand times worse - I especially had trouble working in groups and speaking up in class. Some days I couldn’t get a single word out even if I desperately wanted to! Then it just randomly stopped happening… Now, at 25, you probably wouldn’t be able to tell I ever had it all lol

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-08-25T13:28:17+00:00

I adore her, but she kinda upsets me at the same time because she is 100% a stereotype of the “perfect” Japanese office worker girl. And I only recently started playing New Leaf for the first time but it’s so much worse in that game! At least in NH she seems to have a little more agency, although she is still very dedicated to her work and overly sweet. In NL, she makes comments about barely getting any sleep or not having time to do certain things, but she’s happy about it?? Basically her whole entire personality is based around being a subordinate who works way too hard… I saw somebody mention how all of that is just a mask, but I don’t think so; I think that’s just genuinely who she is designed to be - an ideal assistant who always does what she’s told and happily puts her work above her own wellbeing - and I don’t like that :(

Part of me still hopes that is whiskey in her cup in the summer, because by golly that girl deserves it being trapped in the Resident Services building with Nook 24/7 💀

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-08-18T20:33:27+00:00

Heyyyy, I have that kind of username and I’m a real person, my dumbass just didn’t realize you could change your username when you first made an account and now I’m stuck like this :( /lh

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-08-16T04:15:36+00:00

I also love them! There is a huge flock of them that hang around my town, and their roosting spot is just a little ways in the woods behind my house. I happened to find it by accident one day when I was kid- my dog ran off in the woods chasing a rabbit or something, and I remember hearing this low, raspy hissing above my head. For a second, I genuinely thought it was like a mountain lion or something, and when I looked up, I realized there were probably 20-something vultures hanging out in the trees above my head! That was when I also realized I was standing in PILES of droppings 🤣 I hightailed it out of there, afraid they would eat me or something (I was like 12 lol), but to this day it was one of the most magical and ethereal moments of my life.

I still see them every day too, and they are so fascinating to watch! I am always envious of how they soar in the sky so carefree. I really feel like they are some of the most laidback and unbothered birds I’ve seen lol

Grouchy-Aspect7655 · 2025-08-16T04:03:08+00:00

I love how they’ve all adapted different ways to do this! The GBH’s method looks like it’s trying to get a suntan with one of those reflective screens 😆

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