Babydoll106
Princess of Ducks
Most of my experiences have been very positive, a couple just kinda annoying (people running like crazy when you're trying to catch stuff), and thankfully very few truly bad. The bad ones, of course, make the best stories. Let's watch!
- Once, a girl arrived on my island, and immediately came up to me. I was catching things as usual, and she started repeatedly doing one of the "worried" emotes (the one where your character has sweat drops coming off them), and asked "????" She didn't trap me or anything thankfully, but she was pretty irritating. In the end, I gave her precisely 1,000 Bells, so she wouldn't be profiting from that particular trip unless she caught her own bugs & fish
- Just this morning, I was filling up my island box when a Japanese guy arrived. He seemed fine at first, trying to communicate with me, and I responded in awkward romaji as best I could. I'm pretty damn sure I didn't say anything offensive, but suddenly he seemed to be angry with me. I was getting uncomfortable, not being able to really talk with him properly, so I went to leave. However, he wouldn't close his inventory. I tried several times, so the "Please close the window" notification definitely would have shown for him. Eventually, I simply sat down, as he stood behind the chairs. Fifteen minutes later, he realised I wasn't going to give up, so we switched me. Thankfully, a few different people had come and gone so about half of my bugs & fish were saved, but it still sucked. I think I lost a shark and a few golden stags.
- Here's the most detailed story, and definitely the funniest. This time it was an English-speaking beggar, possibly from the US, but I didn't think to check. He was asking for 10,000 Bells or so, to which I told him he was in the perfect place to make his own money (the time was even set to night on this island). He began claiming he was 9 years old and new to the game, having only got it a week ago, and that he just really wanted help.
Now, here's where his story utterly fell apart. He had blue hair, a shirt from Gracie's, and he was throwing out emotes like nobody's business. There is no way he had been playing for a week. He may have had a friend with a more advanced town, but I doubt it. I don't believe you can learn emotes from Shrunk in another town, and he takes at least two and a half weeks to unlock, even if you're playing aaaall the time.
In the end, I told him I didn't appreciate him lying to me, pointing out everything I mentioned above. He didn't really deny it, instead moving on to "please just give me some money". I told him where to stick it, and promptly left to catch myself some tuna. Felt good.
- Once, a girl arrived on my island, and immediately came up to me. I was catching things as usual, and she started repeatedly doing one of the "worried" emotes (the one where your character has sweat drops coming off them), and asked "????" She didn't trap me or anything thankfully, but she was pretty irritating. In the end, I gave her precisely 1,000 Bells, so she wouldn't be profiting from that particular trip unless she caught her own bugs & fish
- Just this morning, I was filling up my island box when a Japanese guy arrived. He seemed fine at first, trying to communicate with me, and I responded in awkward romaji as best I could. I'm pretty damn sure I didn't say anything offensive, but suddenly he seemed to be angry with me. I was getting uncomfortable, not being able to really talk with him properly, so I went to leave. However, he wouldn't close his inventory. I tried several times, so the "Please close the window" notification definitely would have shown for him. Eventually, I simply sat down, as he stood behind the chairs. Fifteen minutes later, he realised I wasn't going to give up, so we switched me. Thankfully, a few different people had come and gone so about half of my bugs & fish were saved, but it still sucked. I think I lost a shark and a few golden stags.
- Here's the most detailed story, and definitely the funniest. This time it was an English-speaking beggar, possibly from the US, but I didn't think to check. He was asking for 10,000 Bells or so, to which I told him he was in the perfect place to make his own money (the time was even set to night on this island). He began claiming he was 9 years old and new to the game, having only got it a week ago, and that he just really wanted help.
Now, here's where his story utterly fell apart. He had blue hair, a shirt from Gracie's, and he was throwing out emotes like nobody's business. There is no way he had been playing for a week. He may have had a friend with a more advanced town, but I doubt it. I don't believe you can learn emotes from Shrunk in another town, and he takes at least two and a half weeks to unlock, even if you're playing aaaall the time.
In the end, I told him I didn't appreciate him lying to me, pointing out everything I mentioned above. He didn't really deny it, instead moving on to "please just give me some money". I told him where to stick it, and promptly left to catch myself some tuna. Felt good.
