Tom nook is not a landlord ffs, he gives you a house that you own, and the only reason to pay him back is to have him work on upgrades.
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I mean nothin stopping you from going out and pickin fruit in the real world. I know the spots if you want to join.
laughs in US trespassing laws and destruction of local environments
I know not everybody can do this but where I live many houses have apple trees and a whole lot of them go unpicked, I just knock on the door and ask to pick and mostly get a yes.
My local elementary school has like 6 cherry trees that anyone can pick and blackberries are an invasive weed here and are literally everywhere.
There might be more available to you than you realize.
I've looked around. There is nothing in this farming town that has absolutely destroyed the local ecosystems to make miles of monoculture cropland.
Not to mention the community is a US Southern MAGA cesspool. You go knocking doors you're likely to get shot.
Unfortunately, places like mine are more common than places like yours in this fuck up of a country.
I believe it, sometimes I forget how good we have it in some ways in the PNW
Oh man. I love the PNW. Used to be a truck driver, did hot shot for a few years a decade ago, and fuck me I loved getting called to take a run in that direction.
Didn't matter if I was being called at 2 AM, if they said somewhere that was there or the New England area my ass was up and chipper because it meant I got to leave the shit hole that is the US South and got a nice, paid, road trip across the country.
I mean I've got two gallons of jam made from local wild blackberries in the freezer but you do you
Trespassing is part of the fun and even in most urban areas there are spots if you know where to look.
In the cities sure, but in rural bumbfuck surrounded by miles of cropland and nothing else, man does it get rough and you're likely to get shot if you go trespassing on any of the good land nearby.
Not even on purpose, just accidentally as people like to shoot their guns out here damn near every day and if you're out in their fields or their tree lines, you risk catching a stray shot.
Can someone Photoshop this to be a 4 panel comic but keep the 6th panel as the punchline?
It's not that Tom Nook is a good person, or better than any other lender.
You just don't notice as much when the economy is so busted you can afford a mortgage by selling shells you found on the beach.
Animal Crossing represents the dream of a society where labour is well compensated and you can meet all your financial needs with ample money left over.
My head canon is that there isn't truly a capitalism on the island and that Tom Nook is doing all this to help you, the weird human who needs to accumulate value, to acclimate to the town. Ultimately, selling fruit just guarantees people around you have food and in return sometimes they give you stuff they find or make.
That makes sense. I mean, how suspicious would you be if he just gave you everything for free?
As soon as the humans find out you're doing a communism or whatever, you risk "liberation" so... best just to play up the business aspects. π
I reject this notion. The entire idea requires accepting that humanity needs to be subjugated to survive. This is what authoritarians believe and the fact that everyone just accepts it because a movie presents the concept with cool actions sequences is very disappointing.
The sequels are trash. Terrible weak storytelling that was greenlit because capitalist wanted to milk the success of the first film.
The problems of humanity cannot be solved with emotions, good or bad. Even if the reason is fated lovers. That's the lizard brain being tickled. We suppressed ourselves with this nonsense. At least we get warm fuzzies while we do it, right? Totally worth all the suffering.
Nook never charges interest and gives you infinite time to pay him back with no threat of foreclosure, that makes him better than any other mortgage lender in existence.
Tom Nook gets the chop too sorry hun. Homeboy is a scummy businessman like the rest
Infinite time on a loan and no interest means scummy? Damn...
He employs children to perform child labour for him to make him money, he is at the heart of basically any get rich quick opportunity he can take, he invades your privacy, installing apps on your phone without asking, and putting things in your pockets without asking, and he's literally a tanuki, a trickster spirit commonly associated with greed :P /hj

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