IRL stuff I've only seen on Animal Crossing before

On topic, Animal Crossing taught me English! I'm not a native speaker. When I started playing ACWW, I was 10 years old and I didn't understand a thing, but through the years it has definitely helped me learn the language. And the bugs and fish of course as well.

Oh, wow! That's quite a feat! :D It truly is a great game, isn't it ;v;
I'm also not a native speaker, and games, tv shows and etc. definitely helped me, but sadly not AC, as I only started playing this year.
 
i actually never knew what cicadas looked like until i played animal crossing. i've always heard them during the summer, but i've never seen one up close.

they're very cool bugs, tbh.
 
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Bringing this back because I just found a picture of an Oarfish and whoah!

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You should visit the Netherlands! Fields of tulips, and windmills everywhere. Sometimes even together!

On topic, Animal Crossing taught me English! I'm not a native speaker. When I started playing ACWW, I was 10 years old and I didn't understand a thing, but through the years it has definitely helped me learn the language. And the bugs and fish of course as well.

I'm a native speaker of English (and Portuguese kind of) but I once wanted to learn French so I just changed the language to French and most of the time I can understand what the game is saying.

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Wow a lot bigger than in Animal Crossing
 
Yikes! Throw it back!

It is really cool to see these things outside of the game :D

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On topic, Animal Crossing taught me English! I'm not a native speaker. When I started playing ACWW, I was 10 years old and I didn't understand a thing, but through the years it has definitely helped me learn the language. And the bugs and fish of course as well.

I've also set my game to other languages to immerse myself more in them. Amazing that you could learn from the games in so many ways!
 
i actually never knew what cicadas looked like until i played animal crossing. i've always heard them during the summer, but i've never seen one up close.

they're very cool bugs, tbh.

I have a really bad fear of cicadas, coincidentally the year they came out (2012 or 2013 I forgot) I read a book called Cicada Summer, and since they only come out every 17 years I had no idea they existed lmao, so I just thought whoever wrote the book made up cicadas.

but yeah, they scare me. I was always afraid to walk home from school because there are a lot of trees by my house and I would sometimes mistake a shell for a cicada... man

I hate cicadas
 
It's not uncommon that people in my life ask me, "How did you even know what that fish was?".

Was pretty excited when I learned what an Ocean Sunfish was in real life!
 
There was a tarantula chilling out in one of the carports at my apartment complex several weeks ago. Pretty sure they're not native to my area so I figure it was someone's pet that got loose. I've seen various rose colors at the Rose Gardens in L.A.
 
So a random fact about me is I collect dead things, I have posted this around a few places, but a bulk of my collection is bugs. I actually have a lot of the bugs in game, that I hadn't previously seen IRL, including a Cicada and a jeweled beetle. Let me see if I can find pics of the displays I have...
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Those are the two displays I have, and then I have multiple single butterfly displays, as well as loose local bugs I've found dead in jars and stuff, but these displays have a lot of non-native bugs that I hadn't seen IRL so it's neat having them. As you can see there's also a longhorn and a few other in game bugs. =D I hope someday to get a shadow box custom made with the most expensive in game beetles and have a little sign saying like "Break in case of Bell Emergency" or something silly.
 
Animal crossing taught me A LOT about insects and fish! I bet nobody I know irl would know the names of those fishes and bugs you showed us. Sadly, I believe the only thing in Animal Crossing that I saw in real life is the common butterfly, but maybe there's more out there :)
 
I just recently saw a walking leaf for the first time ever irl.

I've seen countless walking leafs in ACNL.
 
Most of the insects and fish I have never seen in real live. Where I live there are no such fishes and insects.
 
I just recently saw a walking leaf for the first time ever irl.

I've seen countless walking leafs in ACNL.

I actually got one a few years ago, sadly it had died by walking onto the insecticide line at my work. =[
I had only previously seen the stick bugs, not the leaf ones. But now the little leafy guy is part of my collection. =]
 
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