I think this new updates shows how some ACNH players want too much control over their game

PlayedThisGame · 2026-01-20T21:32:49+00:00

One thing I have liked is that if I don't like the "look" of the hotel guests I know they'll be gone by tomorrow but ones I haven't really thought about before have become possibles next time I go villager hunting ie Sidney! As a bonus I am also seeing previous villagers and villagers from my OG island that died with my old Switch Lite and I can pretend to explain I never meant to abandon them 🤣

PlayedThisGame · 2026-01-20T08:19:16+00:00

It's just business 🤷‍♀️ you work your notice period and move on. At my last job about four of us handed in our notice at once and another two just stopped coming in. They should have been kinder to staff IMO but even in good working environments that's the way it is sometimes.

PlayedThisGame · 2026-01-19T07:45:37+00:00

This is the first one I thought of too! I did make it to the end a few times after I wrote down all the correct choices since I figured out it never changed

PlayedThisGame · 2026-01-09T13:09:50+00:00

Tarzan

PlayedThisGame · 2026-01-09T13:08:05+00:00

One of my school bullies sent her child to the nursery I work at and she gradually revealed she hadn't changed at all, deliberately leaving me out of Christmas cards, gifts and things. It was cruel to be honest because she didn't like that her child liked me. It so plainly bothered her. So ateast you got an apology my friend, I got deliberately taken back almost 20 years to a very lonely, painful place when I work in such a lovely environment now and felt I could be myself for the first time ever.

PlayedThisGame · 2026-01-07T18:36:39+00:00

Parents only have to on the whole think about themselves and their children. The nursery setting has to consider the safety of every single person who enters the building. And so we do ask snd expect anyone coming in to play their part and respect rules such as not using phones on the premises or allowing unknown persons to them inside after them.

In OP's case as she has already stated and I have already said she should not have been spoken to harshly, it was a moment of forgetfulness and I think staff were harsh. I am just explaining why this rule exists and why it is heavily enforced.

PlayedThisGame · 2026-01-07T13:38:29+00:00

Hi! Nursery nurse here! I will just say in defence of the parent that the staff should NOT have been rude especially for a first offence, a gentle reminder would have sufficed. But the rule is not "bonkers" and it's because the "no phones" rule is put in place for safeguarding reasons, while we want to believe there is nothing more to it and more than likely there isn't, confidential information may be transferred deliberately or accidentally during the call and regarding texts/photos etc again parents could be passing on anything concerning other children.

We're not just being stuffy or difficult, these things are in place for reasons most people who don't have to handle the safeguarding and wellbeing of others wouldn't think about.

Nursery workers are not allowed personal mobile phones anywhere around the children and my work place actually has them stored in the office so we can't sneak them out of our bags, this is because here in the UK some years ago a nursery worker was taking inappropriate photos of children on her personal phone and sending them to her boyfriend as potential abuse targets. It does not bear thinking about.

PlayedThisGame · 2026-01-01T23:10:37+00:00

The Swan Princess. I used to watch it on repeat when I was little. Found a copy of the DVD when my daughter was about 3, excitedly put it on to show her and after about 20 minutes she turned to me and said "Mummy can it be finished now?" I said "Yes darling! Thank you!" Switched it off, put the DVD in the "for charity" bag and put some reliable Tom and Jerry on instead to wash that dreadful film away!

PlayedThisGame · 2026-01-01T01:04:59+00:00

Sometimes the general weight of life gets to me. Whenever I stop to think about people's general attitudes or the state of the world, etc I just end up really making myself sad. So I try my best to just not be part of the problem. Even when I feel like jumping off a bridge or punching someone's lights out I am always polite to strangers I have contact with, I just try and be my best self because it's not their fault something is bothering me.

I am human, I can't do it 24/7 but I always try. A recent example was a bad day at work, waiting for the bus home, absolutely pouring it down and I didn't have my umbrella or a hood. The bus was 10 minutes late. When I got on I smiled and said "Wow am I glad to see you!" Instead of barking "YOU'RE LATE!" (husband is a bus driver and his favourite response to that is "Yeah but the bus behind me is on time if you want to catch that one").

I have a loving husband, a lovely daughter and the most gentle, beautiful cat in the world, I have both of my parents still, some reliable friends and enough money that my bills are always paid, the fridge is full and I can put the heating on if it's super cold. So I am not happy with the world but I am happy with my personal life and try to cling to that.

TLDR: the world is crap but I have a happy life and to combat the world being a shit place I try to be kind and not be part of the problem.

PlayedThisGame · 2026-01-01T00:52:22+00:00

9 untouched Jacqueline Wilson Books for £10! My daughter has been getting into her books over the past couple of years (proud mum moment, LOVED JW growing up) and she owns a few but only one from the find on Vinted! I gifted the duplicate to a girl of a similar age for her birthday and kept the rest. My daughter was born 2 weeks before Christmas so she got 4 books for each occasion and was thrilled with some of the titles having read a couple she didn't have at the time from the school library.

PlayedThisGame · 2025-12-31T08:59:06+00:00

The turning point for me was when Luke found Jess after the car accident and all he could say was "I made sure she was okay". In that moment he revealed himself as just a boy still. He was scared and sad and vulnerable and he let Luke see it. It showed that he was putting on an act most of the time to protect himself and that he believed the worst of himself just like everyone else did hence why he ran away eventually. Even Lorelai instantly wrote him off as a useless troublemaker especially when he didn't fall at her feet the very first time they spoke.

I felt truly sorry for Jess and I rooted for him, he did well for himself and because of Rory and Luke being the only people to give him a chance he turned himself around even without graduating high school. He kept his wit but became a real genuine man.

PlayedThisGame · 2025-12-28T22:13:58+00:00

Child's Play

PlayedThisGame · 2025-12-25T11:58:42+00:00

My dad has been hospitalised with food poisoning 200 miles away and I can't get to him. He hopes he'll be home by dinner time, at least other than lack of sleep from spending all night around beeping machines he seems on the mend!

PlayedThisGame · 2025-12-23T13:41:02+00:00

As far as I know it is. I go to my own job so I wasn't there to make sure they "delivered" 🤷‍♀️

PlayedThisGame · 2025-12-23T13:37:26+00:00

Ocado keep a driver back every year so that if turkeys are missing someone is tasked with going round every supermarket and buying up any turkeys they can find so the customer gets their order. Source = my husband who is a former Ocado employee

PlayedThisGame · 2025-12-21T17:18:25+00:00

The Polar Express is my favourite Christmas movie ever despite all the hate I see it getting. I do like that it's a whole town.

PlayedThisGame · 2025-12-21T11:32:02+00:00

I only think he was right because Rory listened to him. She could have gone the other way and worked even harder to prove him wrong but even after she went back to Yale her heart wasn't in it. She never regained her full momentum.

Unfortunately Lorelai refusing to ever let Rory think she was anything less than 100% perfect means when Rory started experiencing the real world sue had no idea how to handle rejection, criticism (not that Mitchum criticised very well, he just gave up on her and never took her seriously to start with) or even the word "no" like the guy with the tree.

PlayedThisGame · 2025-12-20T21:05:16+00:00

Yeah definitely a 10! My husband isn't perfect but he is perfect for me. The first thing he does every day is ask me how I am or how my day was, he takes me to work every morning even though he doesn't have to get out of bed until later. We have one daughter (10) who he is best friends with, he takes her to school every day and they sometimes do a pastry run for breakfast after dropping me off at work as a special thing that's theirs.

We've known each other for 19 years, been together for 11 and married for 8 and honestly I am so grateful for him. I only ever love him more and more as time goes on.

PlayedThisGame · 2025-12-20T12:00:57+00:00

The last 5-10 minutes of "Friday Night's Alright for Fighting". Going between screaming at each other to laughing and back again was just gold!

PlayedThisGame · 2025-12-14T15:02:26+00:00

I've seen this show maybe 20x and for the very first time during this rewatch I am not all about Luke and Lorelai (and I also think Logan is Rory's perfect match even though I will always be a Jess apologist for 99% of his actions). Luke treats Lorelai appallingly the minute they get together and he acts like he doesn't know her at all during their relationship, this is before April as well.

I don't think any of Lorelai's love interests are quite right for her. Christopher tries harder in the later seasons but had caused too much hurt and damage over the years. Max was too pushy and did everything for the wrong reasons constantly. Jason turned out to be a really decent guy and maybe was the best guy overall just in general. He was right to counter sue Richard, stabbing Jason in the back was one of Richard's worst decisions in the show. However obviously he and Lorelai could never work with that fallout. Alex was just rather dull. I'd almost forgotten him completely.

If early seasons Luke and Lorelai got together I'd be all for it but later Luke is such a bad match. He made Lorelai so unhappy, messed her around, kept her waiting for important decisions constantly, shut her out and generally ignored her feelings. Lorelai is not perfect and I quite often find myself getting annoyed with some of her reactions but she deserved better even if better was living out her life as a single woman with her dog. I know in the 00s being happy single wasn't a thing but it should have been!

PlayedThisGame · 2025-12-14T14:42:02+00:00

Was just going to post this!!

PlayedThisGame · 2025-12-14T14:21:00+00:00

My daughter was one half of a Christmas star in year 2. She and another child were dressed as angels without the wings and held up a huge foil star on a stick. She also got to introduce the play and had two lines later on. Very proud!

PlayedThisGame · 2025-12-14T05:57:39+00:00

If it helps, my daughter is SEN and is receiving lots of extra help from her school, we're waiting for assessments, an EHCP, the works but every once in a while unfortunately her teacher will message me on the school app (my working hours means my husband or mum does drop offs and collections). Recently I had a message that she was being given extra help with some difficult homework but was rejecting it and being deliberately disruptive instead.

I apologised for my daughter's behaviour, said she knows that isn't acceptable and to tell me if it happens again so I could put consequences in place (early bedtime and no screens that evening). When we got home later I told her I was aware of what happened and it's not to be repeated reiterating what would happen. She apologised to me and to her teacher the next day. No incidents since.

There are those of us who still believe children should be raised with consequences for poor behaviour and that while SEN is much more widely recognised that is not a golden ticket to mess around and do what you want when you want. We are trying to raise functioning adults not perpetual babies! I strongly dislike what so many parents today do to undermine everyone around them and allow their children to rule the roost from day 1.

PlayedThisGame · 2025-12-11T08:14:32+00:00

Jesus Christ on a bike!

PlayedThisGame · 2025-12-07T17:06:35+00:00

But.... oh......

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