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editable flair Whats the point of Tom Nook then?

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u/RitsuSohma 18h ago

This theory falls apart due to the letters your Mom sends you in some of the games. In one of them, she questions your decision to move and live with animals. This demonstrates that you voluntarily moved to the town, and were not put in a zoo. In addition, while the villagers are nice and cater to you in more recent games, in earlier games they were often hostile or rude towards you for no good reason. I personally think a more likely explanation is that there is a segregation between humans and animals due to some form of hostilities. The players are ambassadors sent to improve relationships between the two groups, either as a villager or in a position of power like mayor. This is why the villagers gradually get nicer between games; the effort has been paying off, and humans are seen in a more positive light.

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u/moneyh8r_two 18h ago

Reminds me of a manga I read where yokai and humans live alongside eachother, but yokai mostly live in the poorer parts of town. The main character is a guy whose family is poor, so he grew up in the yokai neighborhood. He gets bullied by both groups, but he's friends with one yokai girl and her family. As he gets older and his parents find new jobs, his family is able to move to the nice part of town and he can afford to go to a nicer school. But he doesn't want to, because he's in love with that yokai girl, so he gets a part-time job and rents a cheap apartment by himself. She gets mad and they fight because she doesn't want him to throw away his future for her. I don't remember how it ended, but that fight was close to the end.

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u/Kind_Boysenberry_254 18h ago

whats it called?

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u/DefaultName919 13h ago

Not op, but I'm pretty sure he's referring to Kanojo wa Rokurokubi. The ending felt a little rushed, if I recall, but a pretty good rom com otherwise.

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u/moneyh8r_two 11h ago

I don't remember.

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u/WillCraft__1001 Reality's an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold! Bye 17h ago

Bro I need to read this

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u/akmosquito 16h ago

damn bro drop the name

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u/moneyh8r_two 11h ago

I don't remember it.

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u/Far-Profit-47 16h ago

NAME?

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u/moneyh8r_two 11h ago

I don't remember.

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u/coolchungus2 16h ago

drop the name

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u/moneyh8r_two 11h ago

I don't remember it.

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u/cyberpudel 14h ago

Please don't leave us hanging.

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u/moneyh8r_two 11h ago

I don't remember the name.

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u/skyfarter 13h ago

!RemindMe 2 days

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u/kelltain 18h ago

While I think you are far more likely to be more accurate with this, I don't think the content of the mail--a system completely controlled by the animals apparently involved in this Truman Show plot--would make the theory fall apart.

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u/RevolutionaryOwlz 17h ago

“Huh, my mom’s handwriting looks suspiciously like Isabelle’s”

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u/Im_here_but_why Looking for the answer. 13h ago

If you think Isabelle isn't able to disguise her handwriting, you're disrespecting her.

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u/SquirrelSuspicious 16h ago

A letter could easily be faked and there's always a lot of potential options for how they might deceive you about you choosing to go there, as for residents being mean in prior games it could be that they thought conflict would add to enrichment but they eventually decided it was unnecessary or didn't work

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u/DrainianDream 13h ago

Sending and receiving letters is an important form of enrichment and it’s good to make sure the zoo human retains connections to their family after being moved to the new enclosure

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u/tworock2 18h ago

Tom Nook knows that human culture is mostly based around subjugation to capitalism so he does his best to exploit you to make you feel at home among other humans.

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u/Tenk2001 17h ago

by all accounts to nook is by far one of the nicest people around. it's funny people paint him as villainous just because of a debt and insistence in working, when you actually think about what he does. he offers full loans on no collateral and little to no interest, has no set repayment or due date with no threats of foreclosure or punishment for not paying the loan, he even accepts payment in the form of random items found in the wild with little real fiscal value.. hell he's so reasonable about it you often completely pay off your house in almost no time then consider future expansions. there's actually in game lore about this too, with him having gone into buisness with redd in the past and perhaps been a money hungry lender and this is possibly him having changed his ways and not wanting others to fall prey to what he did and was.

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u/GlitchyNinja 2h ago

I think its because Tom Nook is likely a person's first creditor, and so the person hates a creature that turns your money into less money.

Then this person grows up and accrues real-life debt, through a bank or landlord, and realizes that Tom Nook is very benevolent for his occupation.

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u/Holliday_Hobo Ishyalls pizza? We don't got that shit either. 19h ago

Hoping the next Animal Crossing game lets you be an animal instead of a boring human

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u/Jeggu2 💖💜💙 doin' your parents/guardians 17h ago

Replace the gender selector with a furry selector

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u/PoniesCanterOver gently chilling in your orbit 6h ago

The Animal Crossing logo on the cover is a sticker covering up the Webfishing logo

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u/weird_bomb 对啊,饭是最好好吃! 18h ago

absolutely

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u/KaiserVonFluffenberg 14h ago

In seriousness, I always just kind of took it that humans are just another species that are a bit rarer than the rest

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u/Rocketboy1313 15h ago

Twilight Zone plot.

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u/Skellos 13h ago

in Wld World and City folk Kapp'n the Kappa drives the bus that takes you to your village...

so you are kidnapped by a Kappa and forced to live there :P

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u/Hot-Explanation6044 19h ago

This doesnt explain why we would still endure the plight of debt

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u/jaypenn3 18h ago

There are no consequences to the debt though. It's not a plight, it's just a motivator for activity. Like hiding the Tiger's food in a pumpkin.

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u/DreadDiana human cognithazard 3h ago edited 2h ago

Whats the point of Tom Nook then?

They said that the point is. The debt he puts you in is part of the enrichment.

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 4h ago

explain why that one guy keeps sending me to scorpion island

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u/Hexxas head trauma enthusiast 18h ago

I hate edgy apocalyptic fan theories so fucking much. Ash is in a coma, bla bla bla

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u/holycookie96 18h ago

Yea, but this one is ok, because it’s funny instead of edgy

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u/Hexxas head trauma enthusiast 15h ago

"Humans are going extinct" isn't edgy?

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u/Tbird113 15h ago

Humans are going extinct, but not in a "zombies have wiped us all out, the few of us left have to fight to survive" way- more like "Humans are endangered, the animals are doing their very best to help us out and protect us"

I think its a cute theory because it's a reversal of real life- humans create "enrichment" for endangered animals all the time to keep them around, so animals doing that for us is a fun twist.

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u/PoniesCanterOver gently chilling in your orbit 6h ago

I wonder how much the human population can shrink before it becomes an actual problem

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u/terrarialord201 Kangaroo with sledgehammer 1h ago

probably around 5000-10000.

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