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Finally! Went out to my backyard rose garden this morning and found two blue buds growing.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

I played Secret of Mana to completion a little over 10 years ago or so, and I couldn't tell you a thing about it. The characters, the plot, the locations, it's all a total blank.

I also played and finished Seiken Densetsu 3 soon after, and that one didn't fare much better. All I have is a vague recollection of the early parts of Riesz's route.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

The best way I've found to catch the gigas clams is to just sneak up on them the whole time. Slowly swim up to it until you're decently close (but not too close, or else your dive will scare it), dive, and then continue slowly swimming underwater until you reach it.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

I got the bronze trophies for the first time this month, and Flick and CJ both congratulated me for scoring 100 points across all of the Bug-Offs/Fishing Tourneys, so they must be cumulative.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

I just had Canberra ask me "Hey Iron D, I heard people have started calling you Iron D, can I call you that too?" The new update seems to have some minor glitches.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Thanks for the offer, but I'd rather breed them myself, and I'm too far along to quit now. I finally got a special orange rose yesterday, so I'm at least approaching the end.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

After several weeks of getting absolutely nothing out of my orange cosmos pairs, I get two black cosmos in the three days. Got my first green mum today too. Now it's just down to the blue roses to complete my flower breeding quest.

Saharah's visiting me today, and I noticed that she now lets you make another selection rather than just ending the conversation after you buy something, which is a nice change.

Initial swimming thoughts: being able to continue swimming while underwater is a huge improvement over how it was in New Leaf.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Got a couple Love Sources, so now I'm down to just that one item for the Collectopaedia. (I honestly can't remember even picking up the item I needed for the first trade; the second came from beating the Lv105 Unique on the Fallen Arm)
Colony 6 has given me at least one of seemingly every collectable from Agniratha but the one I'm looking for.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Two items away from completing the Collectopaedia, but one is something I missed in a now-inaccessible area, and doesn't seem to be available via trade. Now I can only hope that one of them shows up in Colony 6, I guess. (The other is the Love Source, of course)

Meanwhile, Colony 6 is completely rebuilt, repopulated, 5*, and there don't seem to be any more side quests available, so now I'm off to build affinities and hunt Uniques.

mnkboy907 posted...

Haha, I pretty much just soloed the level 70 UM in the Factory with Riki (lv 69). I had a team of Riki/Shulk/Sharla. It used the flamethrower attack to start and the blaze damage killed Shulk/Sharla right away. I didn't have any blue bar to revive them, so I basically just sat there doing DoT attacks and using You Can Do It whenever it refreshed. Towards the end I got a burst affinity so I revived Sharla (I didn't know who I was reviving, I just hit B near a body), but Riki was plenty tanky enough that I think I still would've won without her. Bless the Heropon's monstrous HP.

"Riki can win by himself!"

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

CaptainOfCrush posted...

Pretty sure I missed the level 57 fortress mechon on Sword Valley. He's easily the toughest enemy there. Super difficult to best the first time you're in that area, and I don't think I ever went back for him.

Yeah, I ended up passing on him too. I barely eked out a victory against the Lv53 Reinforcement Mechon, then that guy marched out to take its place and I just said "nope" and got out of there.

I didn't get the one that was near the Bionis Wound area either. And I also skipped that Lv70 one that shows up in the Factory later on.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Finished the main story, now I guess I have to do some grinding before I can take on any of these quests involving Lv90+ monsters. (my team is only 83-84 and can barely land a single hit on those guys)

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Closed for now.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

I wasted so much time today on that one Agniratha quest that called for 4 New Part Ss. The one time I want the enemies to drop the plain old wooden chests and they refuse to do so.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

So Teddy gives me a Mama bear, then he uses the line "I have a worn-out one at home." I was like, man, that's no way to talk about your own mother.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

I just noticed that the villagers that I included in the wedding party yesterday all got their own Cyrus & Reese photo plates. Nice.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

From what I've seen, the music changes are based on your party's health. If you get everybody healed up out of the danger zone, the music changes back to normal.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Still open for a bit longer, Ketchup now crafting log round table.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Turnips at 408 for the next 45 minutes or so if anyone needs to sell.

3LY63

Teddy also crafting pear dress.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Yesterday afternoon I caught 8 Great Whites in about an hour of fishing.

...I'm not going in the water around my island any time soon.

(Also caught 2 Whale Sharks, a Hammerhead, an Arowana, a Dorado, and a Coelacanth during that time period. Summertime fishing is crazy.)

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Tina Armstrong

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Closing up for now.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Ed is crafting a snazzy pansy wreath (orange, blue, and yellow) if anyone needs that.

Saharah is here with:
Iron entrance mat
Turquoise heart rug
Brown argyle rug
Heavy-curtain wall
Construction-site flooring

And the same pile of extra DIYs is still here for anyone who wasn't here yesterday.

DR2XF

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Closed now.

List of remaining DIYs:

Bamboo-grove wall
Bamboo-shoot lamp
Bamboo doll
Bamboo drum
Bamboo noodle slide
Bamboo shelf
Bamboo wall decoration
Bamboo wand
Basket pack
Fossil doorplate
Golden dung beetle
Green-leaf pile
Iron frame
Jungle flooring
Leaf mask
Log garden lounge
Medium cardboard boxes
Pan flute
Pitfall seed
Small cardboard boxes x2
Traditional straw coat
Trophy case
Zen-style stone
Zen fence

Thanks to everyone from earlier for thinning out the pile a bit.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

List of DIYs edited to reflect what's currently left over.

Rory now crafting pear wardrobe.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

I also have a bunch of extra DIYs lying around that I need to get rid of, so if anyone can take some of these, that'd be great.

Bamboo-grove wall
Bamboo-shoot lamp
Bamboo doll
Bamboo drum
Bamboo noodle slide
Bamboo shelf
Bamboo wall decoration
Bamboo wand
Barbell
Basket pack
Bonsai shelf
Bunny Day glowy garland
Bunny Day table
Bunny Day vanity
Bunny Day wall clock
Cardboard table
Dark bamboo rug
Fossil doorplate
Garden bench
Golden dung beetle
Green-leaf pile
Hedge standee
Iron doorplate
Iron frame
Jungle flooring
Leaf
Leaf mask
Log garden lounge
Medium cardboard boxes
Natural garden chair
Pan flute
Pear umbrella
Pitfall seed
Shell bed
Shell rug
Shell table
Small cardboard boxes x2
Traditional straw coat
Trophy case
Zen-style stone
Zen fence

Also Teddy is currently crafting a trophy case.

22FG3

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

I'm already there, but I don't have the materials to make one. I'll head back and get some.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Yeah, I always get rid of those. But they just keep producing more of them.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

I've only been able to get one hybrid red rose from the basic method so far. My patch of seed whites has been pretty stubborn about producing purples, so I haven't had much to work with. Only three, compared with 9 or 10 oranges. And two of them had to be shifted over to work with my alternate method.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Finally got a big spike, but it's only 316. Aw.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Oh, I've been wanting to get one of those.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

I finally have a five-star island!
...As long as all my spare DIYs are in my pockets, anyway.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

I've been playing since the beginning of April and I'm still missing stuff like the plain old wooden chair.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

For some reason, Teddy is walking around with a fishing rod inside his house.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

16th on the CBIX Expert Challenge.

This contest was probably the closest I've been to making it with a regular bracket, getting knocked off after the second semifinal. Would've gotten on Second Chance too if I'd had the nerve to reverse my ME2/RE2 pick.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

The coelacanth sure are swarming today. I just caught 3 in around 10 minutes or so.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

I miss the finger-guns fake from New Leaf :(

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Got 50 with Dark Souls and that's all. Closest I came on any others were a couple of 48s and 47s.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Hey, I actually managed to somehow crawl onto the leaderboard in spite of all the dumb picks littering my early bracket. Just like in CBX, actually.

...At least this time, I'll be able to stay up there for longer than a day.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Just Division 5.

Was just one point off in Division 4 (Ori/DA:I) and Division 7 (Rocket League/DBFZ).

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

If it's a game that I'm enjoying and the requirements aren't excessively tedious, then sure.

For example, I got all of them in FFX except for the lightning dodging one (after a run where I messed up at around 182 dodges, I couldn't take it anymore).

Meanwhile, FFXIII's ultimate weapons required you to farm incredibly rare materials to craft them, and after several days of trying, I could barely get any of those, so I gave up on it entirely. I never managed to finish the last handful of sidequests, either. Thankfully the sequels weren't nearly as brutal.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

I went into Annabelle's house and she was walking around with her hammer, then she went to her workbench. First time I've ever seen that.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

(Flick is visiting today)

yay

(It's raining)

boo

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

I'm currently split between Teddy's "Iron D" and Ketchup's "superstar". At one point, Dotty suggested "glitter," which was totally not happening.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Man, filled up my inventory shopping at Able's. Oh well, into the trash you go, spare tree branches.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Great_Paul posted...

Is there anybody that missed out on cataloging the Sanrio posters?

me

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Yeah, the poster tab only shows characters that you've personally brought to Harv's Island. Just obtaining someone's poster from another player doesn't count there.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Just 5.

Came close in a couple others, with only one missed point so far in 4 (Ori) and 7 (Rocket League).

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Got back to my island to find Ed also crafting gold-armor shoes.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Isn't this the pear box?

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes

Toxtricity posted...

there's some fairly emotionally effective to me moments in this that are nice and the chords are way cooler than I remember, though i think the melody line itself is extremely boring and that brings this down a ton. I VERY strongly prefer Hamauzu/Nakano (and basically every non-uematsu composer involved in final fantasy series...sakimoto...M.Suzuki, mizuta..Noriko Matsueda, hayato matsuo.....COMPOSERS) over Uematsu, and one of the reasons is usually "everyone else uses 'cool chords' and uematsu doesn't" but this track actually kinda feels like he's imitating Hamauzu's "cool chords" style now that I think about it? there's a few moments with this big cool string chord blocks like what comes in at :44, feels very hamauzu. Interesting!

That's because it (partly) is Hamauzu. This piece was arranged by him.

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"The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present." -Hobbes