I also restart often! Like you, I really enjoy the first week or so of island play where my efforts are spend cleaning and planning. I find I get bored as things come into play, and I end up doing a lot of time travel. I’m determined to do this one without time travel, but we’ll see how long that lasts. So far, so good.

I don’t really have any interesting areas yet because my catalogue is so limited. I’ve been designing in HHP trying to unlock that sweet, sweet catalogue so I can start ordering things for villager yards. This is my first design with designated villager yard areas.

I’ve never looked into weather seeds. What do you end up using it for most often?

I’ve had 100% success with this method:

It was the Gameboy commercial when red/blue came out.

I saw it and was like, “What’s this game about? Those creatures are so cute! You collect them? I need to check this out!” I babysat a bunch, saved my money, bought Pokemon Red, and I was hooked. I started watching the animated series, collecting the TCG, and playing with friends. Been engaged ever since.

Not for the first 400h, but after that what do you have going on? I have 6900 hours into SdV on Steam alone, and I have no idea why I keep coming back to something I’ve beat to perfection already.

Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley. I have at least 10k hours between both.

I’ve been passing on a Golf R for the past 3 years for this exact reason.

Go for perfection.

I’ve only done it on one farm, but I’m glad I went through with it. I’m thinking about doing it on my Switch, but I find Switch combat controls iffy so idk

Thank you!

I don’t care what the reasoning is behind the decision (customer feedback vs. changes to safety ratings), I’m just glad it’s happening and I hope all manufacturers follow suit.

This has been my gripe with new cars ever since I found myself needing one in 2022. Everything I looked at had a huge infotainment system front-ending climate and cabin controls. Want to turn your steering wheel heat off mid drive? Ha! Tap this specific spot on this screen 3 times and hope the car doesn’t bounce while you’re doing so or you’ll accidentally turn something else on. Want to use voice controls? Joke’s on you, they only work 50% of the time.

God forbid something happens to the control board (which costs thousands of dollars to replace if you’re outside warranty), because then you’re completely hosed.

You know what always worked without fail? The buttons in my 2005 Corolla.

Thanks for the recommendation! I’ve checked them out before but found them a bit too bulbous.

Same, and I’ve never used an iOS device as a daily driver outside to work. I would literally dump my whole investment in the Android ecosystem over favourable form factor, especially now that Apple is on board with USBC.

I’d buy another 13 Mini, but I’m worried about how long it’ll be before planned obsolescence takes over.

Yes please. I really dislike iOS, but I use the iPhone 13 Mini for work and it’s the perfect form factor. I desperately want an Android phone that’s the same size, but I’m rocking a Flip which is the best I can do for small form factor right now.

My favourite PB and P sandwiches are built on the junkiest white bread you can find. I’m in Canada, so my top picks are Pom or Betty bread, which are cakey and sweet like Wonder bread. I use unsweetened chunky peanut butter (Kraft brand), and Bick’s garlic dill pickles. I slice my pickles up and blot them so they don’t sog up my trash bread.

These are my favourite brands of peanut butter and pickles outside this monstrosity, so I’d say you can’t go wrong with what you already like.

Same boat. I’m really happy with my current look and feel, and I have no reason to change at this time.

Broccoli for breakfast is so underrated. Broccoli and eggs were my breakfast staple for years.

I have 2.

Peanut butter and pickle sandwiches. Best served on the lowest tier white bread you can find.

The second is onion rings and maple syrup. I wish someone would do maple battered onion rings because those would definitely be delicious.