uhm.
i'm not quite as addicted to NH as i once was but i can relate in some sense - i used to l o v e BOTW and whenever i saw a large cliff or hill i was like "well, i can just PARAGLIDE down it!!!" xD
If I'm driving in the passenger seat, I legitimately look out the window and look at people's front lawn and am like "Oh, interesting, maybe I could use that for my town" or like "Oh dang, that's not so good, I'd do something else, myself." and, despite that, I don't actually do anything with my own front yard in real life but, y'know... I do look at this stuff differently now XD
Every time I see benches, specifically the iron garden benches, in someone's yard it always makes me think of AC! Also, my neighbor has exactly 6 rocks roughly the size of the in-game rocks and I always think "why don't you break them so they respawn in a better spot"? Then I realize...
This more of a result of playing the series as a whole, especially growing up with it in my formative years, but whenever I see a bug, fish or painting in real life I always think back to how I obtain them in Animal Crossing and what Blathers had to say about it.
Partly AC, but more so since the BellTree fair, I can't stop checking what kind of clouds are in the sky and get excited when they are the big fluffy white ones.
Also sometimes I want to time travel irl.... before I realize I can't change the date.
Was literally talking about this with my best friend the other day. After playing ACNH, I will always look at hard rubbish piles and think about how I can customise items to make them look like new again. Unlike my rep, I’m not “handy” at all unfortunately.
(I’m not sure if it’s an Aussie/Kiwi-only term so let me explain: hard rubbish is unwanted items - usually furniture - that people put in front of their houses which are later taken by council workers to the dump. Anything is up for grabs before it’s taken away! Yesterday there was a news story in my city - Melbourne - about someone putting an unused coffin out for hard rubbish lol)
I noticed it when I was the mayor in New Leaf. I would be the passenger riding through a neighborhood and be like " hmmmm... I could for sure plan the trees and flowers out better than this. these trees are too close! who did this?" Plants are the thing that have changed me the most. I was at my old apartment a few years ago, and I was able to identify an azalea bush as it bloomed. I was so excited, you don't even know.
I moved into a new house last year that we're still furnishing and decorating, very slowly and on a budget. So I'm simultaneously working on my AC house and my irl house and sometimes I see stuff on sale and am like "oh I was looking for one of those!" And then, "wait, did I want a little wood stool for my house or in AC...? Either way, I'm putting a plant on it."
AC has been a good outlet while the irl house has been moving more slowly than I wanted. I also accidentally decorated my AC living room with the same palette I had been considering for my "home office" while I was setting that up, lol.
I just realised that our "island representative" is full of gifted talents such as super strength, endless stamina, and a knack to learn stuff quickly than any human.
In reality, you can't even perform any of these feats yourself.
hmmmm... I could for sure plan the trees and flowers out better than this. these trees are too close! who did this?" Plants are the thing that have changed me the most. I was at my old apartment a few years ago, and I was able to identify an azalea bush as it bloomed. I was so excited, you don't even know.
