stationary 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”?
Only while in transit. Otherwise, it’s stationary.
Show HN: I made an Animal Crossing style letter editor
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#22Fantastic work! I briefly explored poking around NDS roms to get the fonts and images out to build something like this.
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#23Your designs are so god damn beautiful. Thanks a lot for this.
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#24This 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?
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! And yes the messages are sent to me, no worries. Submitted messages are sent to an AWS API Gateway endpoint for rate limiting and then to me. I then manually commit the ones that are not rude and don't include identifying info/don't seem to have been submitted by mistake!
I have a couple of reasons for manually committing them rather than using a simple DynamoDB database or something. First, since I have to moderate through the messages manually anyways, it's about the same amount of effort tbh. Second, I wanted the messages to be available forever and having them committed allows for people to save them in the future should they wish to!
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#25For 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
Wait that is actually brilliant, great idea!
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#26Is 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
So that's what's happening, thanks for the heads up! I wonder why it's working on my machine, maybe the whole Mac vs Windows line breaks thing.
Made a ticket for it, thanks again: https://github.com/IdreesInc/Animal-Crossing-Letter-Generato...
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#27Hello all! I posted this last week and didn't realize it would stay in the moderation queue for so long, so imagine my surprise when I started getting notified for so many messages today! Thanks for all of the lovely messages thrown into the sea, I've parsed through today's batch and pushed through the moderated ones. Hope you all continue to enjoy the project!
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#28stationary means not-moving stationery means envelopes and letters and stuff. you can remember this as "E for envelope"
Oh thanks for the heads up, never knew that. Now to fix all the places I misspelled it...
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#29An older version (and lots of other pixel-perfect customisable screens) is also available from the Death Generator: https://deathgenerator.com/#acww
Thank you for sharing that! I had originally started this project with the intention of making an editor for the "mail" from Pokémon G/S/C before I decided to focus on Animal Crossing instead. It's cool to know that I'm not the only one interested in that sort of thing, but shame that they never added the mail from that game.
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#30I was just able to write a thank you letter to my sister for having me over to her house last night using this and having sent her that letter I leave very impressed. I know she will enjoy it because we both have loved animal crossing since the original US version came out and we were given a copy in 2005. Thank you for making such a delightful tool that both works with the nostalgia of those game consoles, yet has a…
Thank you! Especially for noticing the mobile UI, I'm always the worst at those so I'm glad to see it worked out!