stationary means not-moving
stationery means envelopes and letters and stuff. you can remember this as "E for envelope"
Show HN: I made an Animal Crossing style letter editor
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#12This was really fun, and instantly brought me back to my island. The share message function is also super cute, but looking at the code, all the bottle messages seem to be preprogrammed in bottles.json? I guess moderation would be a nightmare. Are the bottle messages actually stored or sent anywhere?
The messages are suspiciously wholesome, I don’t think they are from other users at all.
Yeah all the messages you get are preprogrammed from a bottles.json file. At first I was pleasantly surprised at how wholesome the messages were..
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#13For a full experience, you could combine this with animalese! A library that makes animal crossing talking sounds in the browser.
https://github.com/jeff-hykin/animalese
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#14stationary means not-moving stationery means envelopes and letters and stuff. you can remember this as "E for envelope"
Does this make a mailed letter “nonstationary stationery”?
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#15How Animal Crossing letters work:
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#16Such a fun project! ACNH's font is so pleasing to look at. Also, thanks for linking to the source code.
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#17Is dropping cr's on the floor when compressing it into a link deliberate or accidental? 'Save as image' keeps them.
https://acmail.idreesinc.com/#/share?card=Beach&start=BYUwng... vs https://bsky.app/profile/urnash.com/post/3lxmz6vpcy22g
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#18Is dropping cr's on the floor when compressing it into a link deliberate or accidental? 'Save as image' keeps them. https://acmail.idreesinc.com/#/share?card=Beach&start=BYUwng... vs https://bsky.app/profile/urnash.com/post/3lxmz6vpcy22g
I don't know what I was expecting but this cracked me up
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#19Nice! It seems it would be more likely to stay up if it wasn't called "Animal Crossing" Letter Generator and if it didn't have "Tom Nook" all over it.
In any case, thanks. I sent me sister a letter as she loves Animal Crossing
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#20I irrationally abhor a lot of what Animal Crossing is. The aesthetic is really cute and charming, but it's the closest thing to a real work simulator I've played. It is at least partially responsible for making me aware that all game loops are essentially just busy work masquerading as dopamine and cognition sinks.
All of that said, I absolutely love what you've done here. I said all of that negative stuff in preface because what you've done is provided the missing element Nintendo is too afraid to -- other people! The fact that you're sharing these anonymous notes with other people is incredibly charming and it's what Animal Crossing desperately needed.
This looks incredibly slick too. Your design skills are top notch!
(The fact that Animal Crossing asks you to write letters to the dumbest NPC AI and gives you occasional token rewards is downright depressing. It's cookie clicker level stuff.)