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So, i have been playing this game, like, everyday, it's so catchy, so lovely, I love my island, my villagers, everything feels great, but recently, I kinda started playing less and less time.

My normal runs on this games are based on: Wake Up -> Check mailbox -> buy something at Nook's (medicine, if a villager is sick) -> failing at fishing -> catching the same 3 bugs -> talking to Octavian -> talking to other villagers -> talking to Octavian -> looking at everything at Able's sisters without buying anything -> Talking to Octavian -> Writting any letter -> Talking to Octavian -> talking to villagers again-> getting a bad answer from Octavian for talking too much with him

And It's really getting old, I have nothing to do, nothing, I have knowledge of this franchise improving everything you can do, going from just hanging around to a cozy decorator, but i know this game is beloved for having its own charm, what else I can do?

So, I'm in second semester of interactive design, and one of the signatures I'm taking is called "objects of design" , a signature about learning the functionality and creation of products. Last week, my profesor assigned us a project about creating an idea about an appliance made for people with mental and physical disabilities, my project was about creating a blender for people with amnesia and similar memory disorders

I gotta mention that, even though I have a group of friends, they usually don't have space for me in this kind of projects, so I have to work with different people from the career, and I've been working with a girl that gave up from her engineering career, I worked before with her for a stop motion final project, the past semester, she is not really creative, in her own words, she constantly thinks and questions that if she really has to be in this career, if this is really for her, etc etc etc

The stop motion project that I mentioned, she started randomly creating characters with chat gpt, human like robots, not made for being clay crafted, keep this tendency for preferring chat gpt for everything in mind. The first thing we had to do for this project was a mood board, an idea and concept board for this project, where we decide the inspirations and elements the blender will have, we forgot about this, until the past Wednesday, at 7:00 pm, I told her I was gonna make the mood board since we kinda had no time, I did, it could be polished the next morning, but i did. I wake up on Thursday, and the first thing I see, a chat gpt mood board, she said she also made a mood board on a Canva template (using also AI images only) and it was kinda better than mine, so we presented it. On my mood board, I used amnesia representative colors and functionally buttons, I explained myself really bad in the presentation, so she took the word, and she said the color were "cute" and couldn't say which kind of button was, so, my profesor decided to give us another opportunity.

The next day, she appears with two paragraphs written by chat gpt about the searching, and another chat gpt moodboard, ultimately, I decided to tell her to use less chat gpt, because the next step in the blender creation is to make sketches that will explain the functionality of the blender. She told me that she had to keep her grades average, and that she always uses chat gpt for this projects without any consequences, mentioning that she will also use chat gpt for the sketches and the rest of the project, except for the final model of the blender, crafter 100% physically by chance.

Now, I have the need to change my group as fast as possible, we have been only two weeks in this project, but idk if there's gonna be another one, so i would have to work with another group or suck it up and keep working with this girl, another part of me says I'm being dramatic, that she's doing what she can do, but idk, i need help to decide and decide what to do.

So, i was watching a video about Just Dance evolution through games, and i saw how really different they look from, not only older games, but some games before 2023 release.

I remember being so confused when previews of just dance 2023 came out, I remember how much I struggled watching them, because they were actually over estimulating. Not only coaches had almost the same color scheme as the background, blending them and making difficult to watch them (ex. MORE, Can't stop the feeling, Therefore i am), but also, the special effects, which sometimes cover and block the coaches, saturating the dances (ex. Wannabe, Psycho, STAY, Disco Inferno), and by last, Camera moves, which sometimes makes difficult to follow the coaches, and they're even worse with dances that mix these three problems

This thing has being solved in recent editions, verbigrace, Jd2025, but some issues are persistent. And is weird how they came after a game that actually mixed backgrounds, camera moves and effects without damaging the dances. This is the main reason why I disliked so much jd2023-24, asides from the weak "story mode", the bugs, the final death of game modes, etc.