Eleven years later, I finally decided to make a new layout! I'm currently taking an entry-level Web Programming elective and wanted to practice HTML and CSS. Hopefully it's obvious to those familiar with the series, but it's basically a simple Animal Crossing grass-and-starry-sky backdrop, with the actual post itself on top of stationery (to be specific, it's Cool Paper!). Honestly I'm super-proud of this layout, so glad I was able to recreate my vision for it pixel-for-pixel (at least in the browsers I checked). Really, my only disappointment was being unable to use the actual font used in New Leaf.

It should loop fine regardless of horizontal screen resolution (although the right side's grass/sky might not line up with the footer's grass texture...), and it definitely loops perfectly vertically if I were to make a super-long post... but I guess if you want to test it without me specifically adding a bunch of padding, here's a textarea you can resize if your browser allows it?



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I've been playing a bunch of Dragalia Lost for the last four months!

It's a gacha game developped by Cygames but published Nintendo, who seem to be reigning in the worse parts of usual gacha games: it's a single-player/co-op PvE-only game and they've explicitly not included any kind of player rankings when doing co-op, and they're very generous with free resources (I've paid literally zero cents and I feel pretty well off). They actually improved the gacha system itself four months back (which prompted me to give it a try): you used to be able to pull adventurers, dragons (that they transform into), and passive-skill equippables ('wyrmprints'), but the latter was definitely the most bloated yet least useful category of things you can pull... and so they straight-up removed them from the pool and moved them to a separate shop!

The actual gameplay itself is surprisingly good too? Like, I'm not really aware of any other games that are action RPGs where battles are basically MMORPG-raid-style bosses, with clearly-marked hitzones and timers and stuff. I recently learned that I'm actually able to record gameplay thanks to lightweight screen-recording app MNML, so if you want a vague idea of the gameplay, here's one of me soloing a midgame boss, and here's one of an endgame four-player raid boss on highest difficulty.

Honestly I'm shocked to see the game isn't talked about more...

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I'm not one to come up with hack ideas, but I stumbled upon this and I believe it fits the thread perfectly.

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I'm still playing around three hours a day!

It's slowed down to mostly doing daily things (three villager + amiibo camper + message-in-a-bottle DIY recipes, emptying shops, gifts to all villagers, interacting with the daily visitor) plus extra stuff like slowly trying to get enough copies of all the spare bugs/fish (one for museum, three more for the models) and cleaning up my grossly-overflowing flower-breeding set-ups after all this June rain.

We're a few months in and I still haven't finally decided on what I want to do with my indoor decoration, since I'm still very far from a complete catalog (though admittedly that's a many-years-away long-term goal) and so I can't just place stuff and see what I'm happy with. Even the room pictured above – an attempt to replicate my real-life room – needs bookshelves before I'd be satisfied (one to replace the top-right trophy shelf and two more along the bottom), and yet somehow I still haven't gotten the wooden bookshelf DIY recipe from Lazy villagers...!

To anyone still playing, I'm interested in trading spare DIY recipes...! My list of spares and still-missing recipes is on the first page of my catalog, though you'd be better off pinging me on Discord to get an up-to-date version.

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If you go to edit your profile, second from the very bottom you should see "Signature separator", the fourth option of which is "None".
Do you have that selected?

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EO4's superboss is probably the most fair when done in the intended way (reaching it after the entire floor's puzzle), I remember doing it with just my main team (rested at 99 then relevelled to 99 to be as well-prepared as possible). At that point it's really just a hard postgame boss instead of a superboss...?

I never did fight its harder version which presumably puts it at the same level as other games' superbosses though...

EOU and EO2U superbosses were definitely rough enough to make me look up their AI pattern though, but

although the first EON postgame boss was fun to beat normally, for the second one

I straight up cheesed the EON superboss since it seemed infinitely more feasible than doing a straight fight, even with my full guild of fully-trained-and-retrained one-unit-per-class...

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