With bank shutting down, there is now a timer on when I can get my coveted shiny celebi. If anyone has advice for making the soft reset grind any easier, lemme know.
My best friend is wearing a hat I made her a few years back and it happened to be made of cheap acrylic yarn. The kind that squeaks when you work with it. I saw it on her head and was mortified, but she loves it to pieces. She has since shaved her head and now that acrylic is itchy on her scalp. It's just a plain, cat ear beanie with single crochet, so I said I would make her another with better material so it doesn't bother her. What she doesn't know is I'm going to make her five of them.
My problem is I'm definitely going to need to buy better yarn, but I'm not sure what brand to get. My friend deserves the best, but I can't afford alpaca or anything. My plan is to make her five new beanies in black, white, pink, blue, and purple.
So what brand of yarn should I go for? Assuming I need 5-6 skiens total, and I don't want to break the bank. I have a Michael's and Hobby Lobby nearby, I'm a bit more hesitant to order something online.
I'm dog sitting for a friend who I've known for years. She got a pair of poodles (ages 2 and 4 I think) who I agreed to watch over while they are away for a week. I went over to their place to talk about the feeding schedule and meet the dogs. Both were sweet, a bit shy, but let me pet them and give them treats. I figured it would be fine.
Flash forward a week, I came over to the house for the first feeding and the two of them began FREAKING OUT. Fleeing upstairs, refusing to eat or go outside, every time they hear me move the barking starts up again. It's been off and on for 3 hours, barking like I'm some kind of intruder. I am not chasing or cornering them, I am not reacting other than talking in the same sweet voice I did before. I offered some treats that they refused, so I left them on the ground and went to sit on the other side of the room. I tried to approach the calmer one at one point so she could sniff me and see I was ok, but she began to growl and whimper, so I immediately backed off and gave them their space.
I've been watching dogs for years now and I've never seen behavior like this last for so long. I know dogs get stressed with their owners not around, but I'm supposed to be here a week. How can I best build my trust with them and not go insane from the barking that's making my ears ring?
We went through a video tutorial and I talked him through it. He even wove in the ends! My 20 years vs his 2 hours. He says he wants to learn a bunch of granny squares, so if anyone has reccomendations of which to teach him lemme know!
I finally finished my LONG journey to get perfection with only coffee! So here's a post to share the farm and my whole experience with you guys. I also have a LOT of pictures and have made posts about this previously, so I'll link those posts if you wanna look back at older pictures and progress. They'll be linked at the top of each relevant section. Pictures of my farm at the end!
I based my rules off of Poxial's Parsnip Only Run. A very fun video if you haven't seen it, but my base rules were as follows:
Poxial ended up downloading 2 mods to help him in his parsnip run, but I was doing this on the switch, so I decided to allow myself 1 exploit and one bending of my rules in order to save my sanity. I'll share them when relevant.
The early game was somewhat simple. I couldn't afford to buy a bean with 500G, so I waited for the mines to open up and slayed dust sprites until I got one. Then every harvest after I replanted EVERYTHING until I physically couldn't keep up with watering any longer. That inital wave of beans was set aside until I could make coffee out of it, and since I couldn't grow anything in fall or winter, I spent that time in the mines, gathering resources for quality sprinklers. Using Poxial's video as a map, I knew I didn't want to waste precious free time sleeping, so I kept up the grind as long as physically possible.
Once I had my first taste of profit and had a dozen sprinklers, I went the joja route and unlocked the greenhouse. Planting there meant I wouldn't be totally dead in the water early on. I also used that money to buy a few starfruit. This was my first rule bend. The starfruit wasn't for selling or gifts; it was so I could have Junimo huts made. Coffee harvests every other day for 2 seasons, so I knew I couldn't keep up at the scale I needed without them. Poxial got the tractor, I built Junimo Huts. The rest of my money for the year went to buying out the rest of joja mart and making it to ginger island.
Entering year 2, I hit the ground running. I only had a few days before coffee would be coming out of my ears and I wanted my sheds to be set up for that. Initially I thought I would need 3, but once I started processing mass quantities of beans, I realized I only needed 2. The third shed was kept and turned into a little coffee shop for funsies.
Ginger Island was also well on it's way to being developed and with the help of Deluxe Retaining Soil I was able to make the most of my greenhouse without ever needing to water again! I was able to buy all 4 oblisks and was saving up for the golden clock while I chipped away at other goals. Still needed to finish the museum, catch every fish, become a monster slayer hero, and be everyone's friend.
I decided to follow Poxial's lead and only gain friendship through the gift of coffee, so you KNOW that I married Harvey and everyone else was given coffee for gifts. Since Jas and Vincent are the only two to hate it, I made no efforts to get close to them. Yes there are other ways around this, but I decided it wasn't in the spirit of the run.
Ultimately I ended Year 2 at 44% and was ready to lock in.
By fall I had mostly covered all my bases, bought the golden clock, and finished all non-coffee related tasks. I managed this by ignoring my main farm, leaving the Junimos to their own devices, and grinding everything else. Once friendships were secure and monsters slain and I never had to think about debris again, it was all about catching up on the mountain of beans my buddies harvested...
I spent all Fall and half of winter turning beans into coffee and coffee into triple shot espresso. This repetition was MIND-NUMBING even if I was multi-tasking. I did it in my college zoom meetings, I did it watching tv, I brought my switch to work and used a few lunch breaks to continue the madness. This is also where my one and only exploit came into play. I was turning coffee into triple shots, both so I could see how many cups I had sold (there is no counter for regular coffee shipped anywhere) AND so I could get the bonus from Qi Seasoning.
Back when I was getting perfection and buying crafting recipes, I spent a little extra of my Qi gems to buy some Qi Seasoning. This would turn my triple shots from regular 450G per cup, to gold star 675G per cup. This would be a really good way to speed things up without trivializing the game.
...so my second exploit was to create a second player temoprarily and duplicate as much Qi seasoning as possible. I'm not going to explain how that was done here, just check out this video where I learned to do it if you want to give it a try. I like to considered this my "Artisan Bonus" if that makes any sense. If you consider this cheating, by all means do the run yourself and tell me how it goes, I estimate it probably only saved me about one in game year.
My final form of revenue secured were the crystalariums. Using all the resources I got from skull cavern dives, I crafted and placed them mostly in the quarry, with some on my farm. Every 5 days the diamonds were ready and I traded them at the desert for more triple shot espressos. Just another year round bonus for me to take advantage of.
My limit of natural perfection had been reached at 74% by year 3. I decided not to cook anything other than triple shots, so I couldn't do anything for the recipes. I also missed one crafting recipe, the solar panels, since I couldn't ship any island ingredients per the rules of my run.
That meant I needed to buy 26 perfection waivers from Fizz, worth around 13 million gold if I wanted to reach the summit. I truly got extremely close to that, but I did need one season of year 4 to push me over the edge. All I did was grind out gold espresso until my hands cramped and dumped the gold at his feet on Spring 19th. I was honestly surprised how fast that went by, I was expecting it to take much longer, but coffee is SHOCKINGLY lucrative if you take the time for it. This matched most of my other perfection runs in terms of in game time. So spring 20th I joined Harvey at the summit and celebrated my freedom from this run!
We first have my coffee themed house. My children Mocha and Brew, and my pets Puppiccino and Meowcciato.
We also have the guest house I decorated for funsies.
My two sheds that I spent half of my playthrough trapped in... the layout is specifically designed for coffee since you can have trouble sticking them in kegs horizontally.
And this was my bonus shed I converted into a coffee house!
To the left you'll see my barn and lone cow Latte. She's here both so I can headcanon that we have milk for the unholy amount of coffee I drink, and so I can have cheese. The cheese was just used as a steady food source in skull caverns. Latte lives in luxury with the junimos for company now, pampered to her heart's content.
And finally, my Ginger Island layout. I had some spare trees I added for decoration, but this little patch nets me around 2000 beans + 1000 from my greenhouse every other day. Not optimized, but I needed some asthetic.
-How many plants is that?! 2383
-How many Coffee Beans do you get a harvest? Roughly 15,000 including the 3k from ginger island and the greenhouse.
-How many triple shot espressos did you make? 35,755 according to my kitchen. About 80% were with Qi Seasoning.
-How much gold did you make in total? 29,974,908G and NONE of it went to Pierre. Do this challenge if you hate Pierre. I might play one more day to make it a nice 30mil.
-How did you plant all that coffee in one day? I used a strategy where you plant some winter forage seeds a few days before the new year and let them die. This preserved the tilled soil so I only had to plant the coffee on the 1st and not fret about watering.
-Don't you feel like you were cheating? Not at all. I used the tools and mechanics available to me and I still had to put in a lot of work to get to this point.
-Are you insane? Probably.
Thanks for reading and watching my journey, all of you have lovely days, and tell me if I should do any other farm challenges! I'm trying to keep myself pumped for 1.7!
I love seeing people draw the mane 6 as humans. It's cute! I love the art! One thing I see all the time and want to ask about is why is Pinkie always made black. I LOVE BLACK PINKIE I SWEAR SHE'S ADORABLE! But she has blue eyes and her family are very clearly Amish inspired, and the Amish are of Germanic origin. I'm mostly surprised more than anything that I've never seen a white Pinkie Pie in fanart.
So I'm very neurodivergent, and so is my husband. When we got married, we agreed to make the main rule in our house "Ask Don't Guess". You want something? Ask for it directly. Don't assume it's free to take or that they're restricting it for some reason. We're very open with friends and family taking what they need from us so long as you directly ask for it first.
My father and mother are very... different. Both are neurotypical (I'm adopted) and they seem to have the mentality that asking for something that doesn't belong to you is extremely rude. If someone offers an item to you, you can accept it no problem, but you don't ask for a "free handout." The problem is they will drop hints that they might want to borrow something and neither I nor my husband are picking up those hints. They get sad when we "ignore them and don't share" but when I respond "well did you ask?" They admit that they didn't.
I want to emphasize my parents are sweet people. They're not asking for something expensive, but if we're going out to eat, they might want us to bring something home for them. Or if my mom runs out of flour or sugar, she might need a cup or two. Nothing extravagant. My husband and I do NOT mind sharing with them at all, but we are struggling to know when they want something. They're trying to be more direct too and have gotten better in some ways, but I just feel we are missing too many cues from them and I want to try and bridge that gap so we can all be closer and happier.
So what can I do to help my husband and I communicate better with my parents about what they want, without them pushing too far past their comfort zone?
I'm (mostly) enjoying the anime and I want to see more like it. Already watched Tomodachi Game, and I wasn't a fan of Squid Game because I got tired of the characters.
I was overstimulated, didn't want to go, knew it would be too loud and filled with painful little sounds. But I love my husband who is helping me learn to navigate and use the accommodations I have needed my whole life. He wanted to see the new spiderman movie with me and I agreed to go.
The earplugs worked like a *dream.* Nothing fancy, just foam, but it was enough to drone out a lot of the popcorn crumching and my grandfather's restless leg syndrome that was getting bad by the end. Even the movie was easier to enjoy because I wasn't going deaf with big booms and music. I cannot *believe* I waited almost 15 years before trying this.
I have been attempting to get perfection with ONLY coffee and I have finally hit the limit on natural perfection! Shown in order we have:
My farm on the last day of summer before I got the golden clock. This layout netted me about 15,000 beans every other day with the help of my junimos. They pick, I process, they get fall and winter off to dillydally.
My ginger Island farm. Combine this with my greenhouse and I get 3,000 beans every other day. Not as much, but enough funds to tie me over in the off season.
My lovely coffee loving husband Harvey. We have two children together; Mocha and Brew.
The Perfection Tracker after buying the Golden Clock in fall. Because of the restrictions for the challenge, I can't ship anything on the Shipment List (other than BEANS), I could only make friends with gifting coffee, so Jas and Vincent were out of the question, I can only cook triple shot espressos, and I could craft everything except the Solar Panels since they're locked behind a special request to ship 100 pineapple/taro/ginger.
With all of this in mind, it seems coffee can take you 74% of the way there. That means I need 26 waivers, or 13 million more gold to reach the summit. Wish me luck!
This is SO FREAKING CUTE oh my gosh. I love that he's not a generic dude, he's putting so much effort into ACTUALLY cherishing every girl and all the girl friends are slowly forming friendships too! I can't stop smiling, why does this get ANY hate?!
I just can't make it work, it drives me CRAZY with how it's laid out and it feels so cramped and restrictive.
I'm at the point where my symptoms are bad enough I keep headphones on hand in case I get triggered and I do need to drown it out. The problem is, I then cannot hear if someone is speaking to me or how loud I might be. I overcompensate by not making a sound and minimizing my movements until I know I'm clear of the noise. My husband says he's glad I'm finally taking that step to protect myself and is willing to help me navigate (I'm usually out with him anyways), but we need a way for him to signal if he's trying to talk to me.
Does anyone have a good system with their partner for situations like this? One headphone doesn't help, and no matter how quiet 2 headphones are, it'll either be too loud to hear someone or too quiet to drown out my triggers (whistling, repetitive clicking noises).
My pitch for a Black Mirror Episode: AI has become so good, companies have a "future need" service where you are automatically shipped items they predict you will need based off your profile. It's extremely reliable and many people enjoy the convenience of being shipped extra food only to find out they have surprise guests, or a part for an item they need to repair the day before it breaks.
One day a man opens his delivery and finds a gun. He has no idea why he might need a gun, but he hangs onto it all day. Jumpy and suspicious of where he needs to use such a weapon. When he gets back from work however, he finds out his girldfriend is cheating on him, so he uses the gun on her and her affair partner. I have three possible endings.
Ending 1: He ends up leaving the bodies to go to a dinner party. On the way there or at the party he gets attacked and the gun was meant for THAT situation, not killing his gf, but he's out of bullets.
Ending 2: He decides not to shoot them, but the police are already at his door. The same system that provided the gun called and reported the crime before he even committed it and now his life is over.
Ending 3: We see someone working in the company notice an error. He was never meant to be sent the gun, but they are told by a manager to "leave it be. Sometimes when sales are low, we send leftover stock to people and charge them anyways. Most never notice."
Alternatively, make it an anthology so three characters each go through something similar and we can see all three endings.
I have some very kind and very generous friends who occasionally offer to buy or make something extravagant for me. Probably a couple hundred to a few thousand dollars type of thing. I was raised to NEVER accept a gift if you couldn't return the favor. Even if I did accept some of these gifts, I genuinely have no use for them. No time, money, or place that would be appropriate, so these things would end up collecting dust in my tiny apartment and I'll feel sick with guilt that they wasted their money on me. Still they try to insist and offer and I want to puke just at the thought.
How do I politely tell my friends to NOT buy or make anything for me that I have no use for? Obviously if they already did it and handed it to me I would accept graciously and lovingly, but I want to stop these plans before they start without hurting any feelings.
I'm a newish nursery leader and I honestly have very little experience with young kids. Mostly it's chill, we have a snack, I talk to the kids, and we play games until singing time. Now we have a new kid entering nursery for the first time and I'm at a loss. She is terrified of being seperated from her mother, and will cling to her for dear life, refusing to let go. I've offered to let mom stay with us so her child can feel safer in the adjustment, but she says she would rather just go to class with her kid since the idea of leaving her baby behind stresses her out.
I want to know what I could do to help make the transition easier for both parent and child. I want mom to be able to attend relief society and sunday school worry free and I want my new student to stay in nursery, even for half an hour. All advice welcome!
...I need to throw up. My husband wants to erase all memory of it. Horrible, awful, disgusting...
I loved it!!!
Not just the sodas themselves, but ALL coke vs ALL pepsi
