Animal Crossing: New Leaf - Weed Pulling Badges Made Easy!

Phineas' badges were a welcome addition to Animal Crossing: New Leaf and something I really enjoyed striving towards. Admittedly some of them are just simply outrageously time-consuming and difficult, the majority of them will come naturally as you become addicted and sacrifice days, weeks, months, years of your life to your own town and its residents.

One badge that seems to really annoy people is the one for pulling weeds. Weeds appear daily in your town (as long as you haven't enacted the Beautiful Town ordinance) and can be plucked with B. At first the badge seems easy - especially if you could visit a dream town that's overrun with weeds? Well no, you can't. They have to be in either yours or a friends' town - and weeds seem to be scarce now the Beautiful Town ordinance is a thing.

So allow me to share my method - the somewhat less time-consuming and actually quite cost effective methods of farming and plucking "weeds."

1. Talk to Kapp'n and pay 1000 bells to visit the Island.
2. Talk to Leilani and go on a tour - I recommend either bug catching or fishing. Do not pick item matching, ore collecting or fossil matching, these won't work.
3. While catching bugs/fish, pick up the flowers that are dotted around - fill your inventory
4. Finish the tour, put the flowers in the drop-off box.
5. You will have enough space for another full inventory and a few more - so complete 2 more tours. Any flowers you can't fit in the drop-off box, plant outside on your island.
6. Once your box is full, return to your town. Open the drop-off box, fill your inventory with flowers and plant them all over your beach. 
7. If you want to get the badges even faster, put away any hybrids or flowers you want to keep in storage and cover your whole town with these flowers.
8. Talk to Isabelle and pick any ordinance EXCEPT beautiful town - we want these flowers to wilt, so ignore them, don't water them and don't trample them.
9. Either wait or skip your DS clock forward a day - many of these flowers will have wilted. Wilted flowers are classed as WEEDS. Pluck the wilted ones and replace them with fresh ones from the Island.
10. Repeat this process until you've managed to pluck FIVE THOUSAND wilted flowers. Hey, it's quicker than plucking 1-4 weeds each day!

Animal Crossing: New Leaf RVs - Blanca

Today I'm going to show you around the RV of one of my favourite Animal Crossing characters - the playful prankster cat with a mysterious face - Blanca.

Blanca is a local RV, meaning she shows up randomly in your campsite without the use of an Amiibo.

For blogs on other Animal Crossing: New Leaf RVs - click here.

The exterior of Blanca's RV is patterned in bright red and yellow and decorated with comic book style speech bubbles.

The interior of Blanca's RV is primarily Cabana themed and includes some nods to her joker personality, in the form of the Jester Shirt and Makeup Case, and also a nod to her species with a Cat Tower.

Furniture for sale:

• 1 piece of wallpaper
• 1 piece of carpet
• 2 pieces of clothing
• 7 pieces of furniture

Total cost: 33 MEOW coupons.

Yellow Flooring (Carpet)

Can only be bought from RVs

Cabana Armchair (Furniture)

(This piece is customised)

Can also be purchased from the Island gift shop for 40 medals

Cabana Bed (Furniture)

(This piece is customised)

Can also be purchased from the Island gift shop for 40 medals

Cabana Lamp (Furniture)

(This piece is customised)

Can also be purchased from the Island gift shop for 40 medals

Cabana Table (Furniture)

(This piece is customised)

Can also be purchased from the Island gift shop for 40 medals 

Cat Tower (Furniture)

Can only be bought from RVs (was previously available as DLC)

Crayons (Furniture)

Can only be bought from RVs

Daisy Tee (Clothing)

Can also be purchased from Able Sisters 

Jester Shirt (Clothing)

Can also be purchased from Able Sisters 

Makeup Case (Furniture)

Can also be purchased from Timmy & Tommy 

White Brick Wall (Wallpaper)

Can only be bought from RVs

The Unwritten Rules Of Animal Crossing Island That Everybody Should Follow!

As a regular frequenter of the Animal Island in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, I have compiled a list of basic rules that everybody should follow. If Nintendo ever decide to write an Animal Crossing Code Of Conduct - they should take my advice!

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1. Say hello - Whenever someone new arrives on the island, just say "hi", or even "yo", it's two letters and it'll make them feel welcome. I like to chat to people on the island, mainly because I'm quite a fast typer and I like to make new friends, but when people don't even acknowledge my presence, I get a bit pissed off. ¬_¬

2. Don't ragequit - If someone pisses you off, block them and leave.  There is no fucking need to turn off your wi-fi. I must've lost about a million bells' worth of bugs and sharks due to wankers ragequitting - whenever I get that sodding error message, I feel like KILLING someone. 

3. Ask about tours - If you want to go on tours with other people, just ask them! "Wanna go on a tour?" or even "tours?" will suffice. I get a bit pissed when people just go and set up tours without me. And if they don't want to - that's fine, just leave them to whatever they were doing and go by yourself!

4. Take turns picking tours - If someone does agree to go on a tour with you, ask them what they like to do. It pisses me off no end when people don't ask what tours I like and I end up doing wank ones like the hammer tour. Also, ask about the difficulty - I can easily do the 3-star tour of all of the levels, so when people pick beginner, I feel like pulling out my hair. 

5. Look at peoples' TCPs - Just seeing what badges they have, what their personal message is or even when their birthdays are can open up some conversation. I have the web address to this blog on my TCP, and I love it when people say "hey, what's that website?" or "is that a link to a blog?" and I'm like YES READ IT PLZ LOL KTHNX. 

6. Have your friend code written down - Some people use the island as a way to exchange friend codes and you cannot press the home button and see what your code is when you are online. Having it written down on a piece of paper or in a notebook makes everybody's life easier. 

7. Don't try and steal bugs/fish - If you see someone fishing by a shark or approaching a bug on a tree with a net in their hand, LEAVE THEM ALONE. They saw it first, they're entitled to it. There's a time and a place for competing, and that is on tours! While you are working together, you can also compete to see who can catch the most and earn the most medals. 

8. Don't take your 3DS into the bathroom with you - Not only for reasons of hygiene, straying too far away from your Wi-Fi router or hub can cause your 3DS to lose connection and give everyone else an error message, causing them to resent you. I've done this by accident once with my fiancee Shelly and she wasn't happy. :)

9. Don't fucking beg for bells - Jesus Christ if there's one thing that pisses me off, it's wankers who beg for bells. Yes, I have 50 million bells in the bank and 4 fully upgraded houses. I earned my money through catching bugs on the island and my time-travelling turnip scam; but why the fuck should I give it to you? Begging for money is for filthy gippos (British slang, look it up) - if you want money, make me an offer. Sell me your shoes or something. But stop fucking begging, you whinging, greedy, lazy prick holes. 

10. STOP FUCKING RUNNING - If you see someone with a net or a fishing rod, they are obviously trying to catch bugs or fish - do them a favour and fucking WALK. It's not difficult. The island is only small, you hardly need to be fucking charging around like a gazelle on steroids. I have so much resentment towards people who scare away rare beetles and fucking sharks. 

11. Stop digging holes/cutting down trees - Seriously, why do people do this? Especially when they see me with a big net, they take it upon themselves to chop down all the sodding trees. OK, fine, if you want those bugs that live on tree stumps, cut down ONE tree. As for digging holes, I've come across a lot of islands where people are making fucking 'mazes' or some shit, but seriously, what is the fucking point? 

12. Watch your fucking language - Lmao. OK, well I play Animal Crossing online at like 11PM at night, sometimes until like 3AM. I sometimes swear when I talk to people, but little kids shouldn't really be playing at that time of night. But during the day or if you suspect young players are on the island with you, watch what you say - especially when it comes to anything sexual or suggestive. I'm really surprised Nintendo didn't put a block on swear words like they did in the other Animal Crossing games - and they weren't even really focused on playing online as much as New Leaf is. 

13. Counter-troll the trolls - For some reason there are a lot of trolls who go to the Animal Crossing island. You know, those wankers who beg for money, run around to scare your bugs and fish, try and block you in by digging holes and basically doing everything I've mentioned above. Well the best way I've found to deal with them (other than blocking them of course), is to KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON. Keep trying to catch stuff. They can't scare away butterflies, they can't be on both sides of the island at once and they can't scare away sea creatures. One troll soon decided to leave me alone after he didn't manage to stop me from catching 5 Goliath beetles and a saw shark. Alternatively, if there are two or more people on the island - block the trolls in by using holes and yourselves. If you both stand on either side inbetween two lines of holes, they can't get out. :)

Animal Crossing New Leaf: FLO HAS GONE! (How To Get Rid Of Annoying Residents!)

I told you I'd win. :P

My method of getting rid of annoying residents who have screwed up my town layout is as follows:

 

Firstly, every time you see them you SPAM them with your bug net.

If they ask you to run errands - deliberately fuck them up, unless they are to benefit other residents. Open their parcels, read their time capsules and forget about your appointments to visit each others' houses. Never speak to them, especially on holidays. Then, if you don't care about getting weeds - set your 3DS clock forward a year. After Flo had gone, I found two others who built their houses in stupid places where I was intending to build public works projects - using the above strategy and then setting my clock forward a year worked every single time - when I loaded it up again, they were all GONE. :D

Animal Crossing New Leaf: FLO IS A CUNT & SHE HAS RUINED EVERYTHING

I am SOOOO pissed off right now.

I've recently been playing a lot of Animal Crossing: New Leaf ever since thanks to Nintendo's sexy promotion, Shelly managed to nab me a free download code when she bought a 3DSXL and a copy of New Leaf. I love the way you can customise your town and make it exactly how you want it. With that in mind, I've made fruit orchards, a mushroom farm, a Japanese-style park with a hot spring, sand garden and lots of bamboo shoots and a communal garden area with a stone tablet in the centre, surrounded by flowerbeds.

I've also put down a lot of paths so I can stop wrecking my grass when I'm running about everywhere. Anyway, in the middle of a square of paths, I built my flower garden, everything was nice and decorative. Until THIS HAPPENED:

(My town currently has snow because I'm playing the game day-by-day, starting from January 1st.)

 

As you can see, this little bitch took it upon herself to build her fucking house right in the middle of my damn paths. The path to the right is also the ONLY path that goes around my house, as I built it a little too close to the river. So she's fucked up my garden area, my access to my house and just generally RUINED EVERYTHING. I've previously had a villager build their house in the middle of a fruit orchard, but that wasn't so bad - I just planted a new one elsewhere. This however cannot be corrected - there's ponds and public works projects in the way. The way I had it was the only way it could work. And she has RUINED EVERYTHING.

 

I decided to let her know what I thought:

 

And then informed any potential new villagers of my mayoral policies on building shitty houses:

 

She has now moved in and I've taken it upon myself to INGORE her. If she asks for favours, I will open all of her gifts, mail and time capsules. If she asks me to think up a new phrase for her, it will be "I'm a stupid cunt!" (This actually works because Broffina, the transvestite chicken currently has "I'm a slag!" as her phrase. I love the fact you can input swear words in New Leaf. :D)

 

I'll also take it upon myself to bash her in the head with my bug net every time she comes near me and make lots of noise when she's fishing or catching bugs. Let's see how long she lasts...

Europe VS USA: Virtue's Last Reward - English & Japanese Voice Differences

I LOVE Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. It holds pride of place in my top 20 games of all time. (Look to your right and scroll down a bit. :P) I loved the prequel 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors, but as it wasn't released in Europe, my version is a US import copy. Thank the lord for the Nintendo DS being region-free.

Anyway, for some reason, despite the first game in the Zero Escape series not being released here in Europe, the sequel Virtue's Last Reward was, on the PS Vita and the Nintendo 3DS. From what I've heard, the PS Vita version is better, due to the infamous save-erasing crash bug that is present in the 3DS version (which I've never ever come across and I've finished it twice) and because you can choose between the original Japanese voice acting and the English dub version. The 3DS version only has the Japanese audio.

In North America, both versions came with the English dubbed audio set as standard, with the CHOICE to change it to the original Japanese. There shouldn't BE A CHOICE. The original Japanese voice acting is AMAZING. The English dub is FUCKING AWFUL. Just like most animes and Japanese films, any dub is just terrible.

Here's my reasons as to why the Japanese audio is vastly superior:

1) The original was recorded with the original script. Some lines had to be changed for the English translation. Some examples are the character Zero III ending his lines of dialogue with "usa", the Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound a rabbit makes. In the English subtitles, he simply makes funny rabbit puns.

2) The voice actors are AMERICAN. They ham it up far too much and make the funnier lines simply cheesy and the more serious lines cannot be taken seriously at all.

3) In the original Japanese voice acting, the character Dio has a slick, sinister sounding voice. In the English dub, he just sounds like some American douchebag who is trying too hard.

4) In the original Japanese voice acting, the character Zero III manages a cute sounding voice while still managing to be evil and cruel. In the English version, it's just cheesy and makes me dry heave.

5) When the English voice actors swear, there's no feeling in their dialogue. It's like a little kid saying a bad word in front of their grandma.

6) The character models' mouths are synched to the original Japanese dialogue. Thus making for oddly synched mouth movements when they are "speaking" English.

7) The game is Japanese. It has a very Japanese art-style, storyline and characters. Why ruin the integrity by replacing the original lines of dialogue?

Just to prove my point, I've recorded a sound clip of the same point in the game of both the English dub and the original Japanese voice acting. The English one was recorded from a YouTube video, the Japanese one was recorded from my 3DS speakers. (They're embedded below, the Japanese one on the left, the English one on the right.)

I hope you agree with the points I've made and if you buy this game, change the DEFAULT fucking language to what it actually should be. You'll enjoy the game much more. I could NOT play it with the awful English dub, a serious game with dark tones like Virtue's Last Reward does not work with cheesy American voice actors.

My Pokémon Gaming Trends

WARNING:

The following post contains excessive Photoshopping and probably isn't suitable for children. :P

As I've recently been re-playing Pokémon SoulSilver on the DS (actually on my 3DS because I've only just started to notice how bad the backlit screen was on the original DS), I've been thinking about all the previous Pokémon games I've played and noticed this weird trend.

Of course, I started with Generation 1 on the original Game Boy. I was going away on holiday and I didn't have my own handheld console to play, so my cousin Mark (who is fucking awesome), lent me his original Game Boy with a light attachment and Pokémon Blue - AND said I could START MY OWN SAVE. How epic is that?! Never to this day would I let ANYBODY even PLAY on my saves, let alone start their own and delete mine!

So, my point, I started with BLUE - which when you say the two games together, it's "Red and Blue" (which is what I mean by "the secondary title"). I picked the secondary of the two games. I also picked the fire-type starter Charmander, because fire types are awesome, Charmander in the anime was awesome and he was just always my favourite.

 

Time passes. And I mean it REALLY fucking passes. I didn't even get my first handheld until the original GBA, then I grabbed a GBASP. I did however, obtain a GAME BOY PLAYER for my GameCube from 2003, so I always had that. As I'd missed out as a child, I got a copy of Pokémon SILVER next, to play on my GB Player.

Again, notice the trend? Pokémon "Gold and Silver" - again I picked the secondary title and again I picked the fire-type starter, in this case Cyndaquil.

 

 

 

Following this, I grabbed a copy of Pokémon SAPPHIRE and picked Torchic. Also, as I was now able to choose a gender, I obviously chose a girl. The trend continues, as you can see...

Now this is where shit gets interesting - at this point in time, my best friends and I all had GBAs and we all picked up copies of FireRed and LeafGreen. Well, THEY picked FireRed. I picked LeafGreen. "FireRed and LeafGreen" - and again I picked Charmander and the female character.

Onto around 2007, I was at secondary school and I was in with a major crowd of geeks - we all had DSs and practically all of us (me included) picked up a copy of Diamond or Pearl on LAUNCH DAY in the UK. (From ASDA, by the way, who still to this day do some amazing launch day prices - except pissing Luigi's Mansion 2, which they didn't even stock until like 3 weeks after launch!).

Now this is where I broke the trend. I chose DIAMOND. The primary game. I also chose PIPLUP. The WATER type starter. (I did however keep a female character). Now this could be down to a number of reasons.

 

1) Every fucker else chose Chimchar. I could own them all.

2) Chimchar was SHITE. I still don't particularly like Gen 4 Pokémon.

3) Turtwig wasn't brilliant either.

4) Dialga LOOKED way cooler than Palkia.

5) Dialga was STEEL/dragon, Palkia was WATER/Dragon. 'Nuff said there.

6) When it comes to jewellery, I'd rather have diamonds than pearls. *

 *This statement doesn't ring true with ALL of the other titles, however. I do prefer silver jewellery to gold and sapphires to rubies, but I'd rather wear red shirts than blue ones and also wear "fire" red over "leaf" green.

I returned to the trend with the release of HEARTGOLD and SOULSILVER. The greatest remakes of any video game in history. The only thing that could steal that title would be a remake of Final Fantasy VII. (Yes, the remake of Pokémon Gold/Silver is better than LOZ: Ocarina Of Time 3D! Suck on THAT!)

Anyway. SoulSilver, secondary title. Cyndaquil, fire starter. Female character.

 

 

I REFUSE to play ANY Pokémon game released after 2011. Generation 5 can suck my cock. And Generation 6 can rot in a hole and die while being raped by the fully evolved forms of all previous generations' starters.

 

 

 

Saying that, if I ever wanted to play these games (probably if I had a lobotomy or something), fuck knows what I'd pick. I like BLACK because I only ever seem to wear black. But I like WHITE because, as Ben Yahtzee said: "I went for Pokémon White because I felt some sort of racial connection to it."

 

And as for X and Y... It would be X - because as a female, I have no Y chromosomes and being a big raving lesbian, I hate men and thus wish to have no connection to any Y chromosomes. Ha, eat my fucking wacky as shit reasoning. :D