Animal Crossing

Dear Diary, It was another fun week on the island of Xanadu. Well, except for the part where I had to shell out a whole lot of bells because of my hoarding… That wasn’t that much fun, if I’m being honest!

Recently I bought Animal Crossing New Horizons to play on my Nintendo Switch. I grew up playing Animal Crossing on the Wii, so I got a wave of nostalgia when I fired up the game for the first time. Animal Crossing is probably best known for the quirky talking animals…

Dear Diary, I didn’t learn anything new this week, but I still got some new stuff and one of those items is something I’ve been after for quite some time!

Over three years of colorful nonsense. — At the start of the pandemic, I bought Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I hadn’t planned on it — I was never a fan before then and I didn’t have any desire to when it came out. …

I woke into a universe that was not my own. It was pretty presumptuous of me to think I owned anything, let alone a universe; a blanket of narrative to shelter me from the coldness of its entropy. …

If you manage to trade all the real paintings and statues from Jolly Redd and complete the art collection in your Museum, congratulations! By now you probably already remember most of them, especially the famous ones; Monalisa, Girl With a Pearl Earring, or The Birth of Venus. Now if you…

From A Childless 20-Something Who Loves Video Games — Finding out what your kids are playing can be hard, and finding actual information about it online can feel even harder; that’s where I come in. I love video games, but while I have a running list of YouTubers and bloggers to hit up for the latest info on all…

Dear Diary, This was a nice and quiet week on Xanadu. Sure, we had a couple of big events, but I missed one and purposefully avoided the other! Ahhh…

Due to the emerging outbreak of the coronavirus, millions of people were subject to social distancing rules and required to self-quarantine at home. Thus arrived a worldwide epidemic of fear, anxiety, depression, and concern about the future (Dagnino et al., 2020). People were faced with social isolation and lost connections…