Animal Crossing: Winter's New Leaf

Donation goal: $34.99

What will this money be used for?

All donations will go towards the purchase a copy of ACNL to be used as giveaway town open to all ACNL tumblr users. The giveaway town will be open as often as humanly possible and will contain free unorderable DLC, lots of series/sets to catalog, and any donations from the community. Even the villagers are up for grabs!

Donation perks:

Donate at least $1: Get a little something to brighten your day.

1 random hybrid

Donate at least $2: Get a snack to whet your appetite.

Your choice of one of the following: Pumpkin Pie, Afternoon Tea Set, Songpyeon, Wheat Bundle, Dango, or Veggie Basket

Donate at least $3: Get a new look for your bedroom.

Your choice of one of the following: a full 7/11 set, a full Card Series, or a full Creepy theme.

The top contributor - Will get to name the town and have a permanent spot on the FC list allowing them to visit the town anytime they please. Top 2-5 contributors - Will have a character named after them. Bonus: All donors will receive priority to adopt any villagers who leave the giveaway town. Can’t donate? Anyone who helps spread the word by reblogging this post will be entered to win a 7/11 set!

Another ACNL Giveaway!

I was trying to get the mush, flower, and zodiac sets for myself and decided to expand it a little to my friends, and then more to a Tumblr Giveaway!

Here’s the business:

1st Place:

-full zodiac set -Choice of either Ice or Flower/Weeding Day sets -5 full baskets of Perfect Apples -3 four-leaf clovers

2nd Place -Either Ice or Flower/Weeding day set (whichever 1st place does not choose) -full Harvest set -4 full baskets of Perfect Apples -2 four-leaf clovers -choice of 3 items from the “Extras” category

3rd Place -full Harvest set -3 full basket of Perfect Apples -1 four-leaf clover -choice of 2 items from the “Extras” category (whichever 2nd doesn’t choose)

3 Runners-Up

-1 basket of Perfect Apples each -2 random items from “Extras” category each

EXTRAS:

hydrangea bed

violet screen(x4)

bouquet (x2)

sunflower stereo(x2)

mush closet (x3)

mush wall

mush floor

mush tv (x2)

mush hanger ( x2)

mush end table

mush dresser

four-leaf clover

snowboard

snow matryoshka

HOW TO ENTER/RULES:

Re-blog this post (only once), I will not be counting Likes!

Your Tumblr MUST have posts from before September 2013. I don’t want anyone to make blogs just to enter multiple times

You don’t have to be following this blog

Giveaway ends Saturday, October 12th at 2pm EST! You must have your ask box open so I can PM you. If you do not have your box open/don’t reply to my PM within 24 hours of the end of the contest, you will lose your place. In the event of someone not replying to a message or having their box open, I will bump-up place-holders. For example, if first place doesn’t reply, the second-place person will become first, third-place becomes second, etc. 

I will be using Random.org to choose winners.

When you issue a public apology, ideally, it’s because you’ve found yourself waist-deep in moral quicksand and wisely decided that stubbornly thrashing about in the name of abstract concepts like machismo - read, the worst reason for doing anything, ever - is less productive than admitting fault. More than that, though, an apology should be intended as a reassurance to others that you’re not going to keep bungling things in the same spectacular fashion. Without that critical element of self-analysis, you’re not apologizing; you’re just groveling for its own sake. You’re not really acknowledging or addressing the causative elements of the situation at hand. And that helps no one.

The uproar over Mike Krahulik’s onstage comments at PAX Prime this week is not unexpected for anyone familiar with Mike’s storied history of controversial outbursts. But as the years have gone by, I’ve learned to appreciate, with a mix of resigned sorrow and consternation, the ballooning delta by which Penny Arcade misses the point in their otherwise whole-hearted apologies. Mike, like most people tempering their personal narratives, believes himself to be a good person. But at the point where uninformed behavior persists in the face of corrective critique and becomes stubborn, offensive naiveté, your best option is to cut ties.

In this sense, one of the best pieces of life advice I ever received was from my high school driving instructor. Of people who aggressively and erratically endanger others on the road, he advised: “Pull back, don’t be stupid with them. Let them have their accident somewhere else.”

I used to be a huge Penny Arcade fan, and always enjoyed Mike’s art and Jerry’s prose. I still do, when I see it. My brother owns all their books, and I proudly wore their apparel in high school (Jesus, it’s been that long?). But at some point - likely Dickwolf Kerfuffle Prime - I began developing the sinking feeling that things would continue trending steadily downhill; each year, injecting another complicating factor into Penny Arcade’s gendered House of Usher. And each year has borne me out, gifting me with a new, massive bone to pick with gamer culture and Penny Arcade in particular about the state of sex and gender discourse in the culture they have in many ways come to represent.

I’m a straight, white, cisgendered male in the Pacific Northwest. I am never the target of discrimination (minus the occasional anti-semitic slur). I do not suffer any social background radiation that pecks and claws at me as I make my way through life and industry. I’d love to have a celebration of an inclusive games community, including sexual assault survivors, trans people, and others. I also value honesty, open-mindedness, self-analysis, and empathy on a fundamental level. For all those reasons, I have not attended PAX since 2011. And after reading Mike’s misguided apology, I do not plan on returning anytime soon.