Welcome to heekin in Animal Crossing podcast your podcast dedicated to all things Animal Crossing episode. 111 is brought to you by Kristen Crabtree one of our newest patreon patrons today Sergio and I are answering the weekly questions for the 100-day countdown and we're taking a look back at the year as well as making some New Year's resolutions, so to begin Hello Sergio. How you doing? Hi Chuy. I'm doing pretty awesome. It's a little disappointing not to be with you directly this time around. I know we do what we can right. Yeah, it was so much easier doing the audits not gonna lie when we were both in the same room recording together. Yeah. Yeah, but yeah. No, this is the last day of the year the last day of the decade. It's going to be it's pretty crazy. Yeah, it's pretty crazy that it's come so fast. Because like right now we're going to be answering essentially questions from day 86 through 80 on this weight and it is insane to me that we're only 80 days away from this game. Yeah for us. It's 82 because we're recording to that days ahead of time but like 20 days already going by that is so fast. Yeah. Yeah and you know the holidays the end of the year end of the decade and Pokemon for me soon all of these. See things like they just make time go faster. And that's a good thing. We kind of it just goes so fast. I was going to say we forget but now we don't we're still counting every day, but he just goes really quickly and that's awesome. Yeah, it is going really quickly. And today I felt like it went really fast because you you got a new Xbox One X. Yes. Oh you gifted me your old Xbox and I've spent my morning like setting it up and playing Viva Piñata. All right, which it's so It's so good. I love it. But yeah, I am pretty excited. There's so much stuff coming up that is going to you know, take up a lot of time and really make this go really quickly and especially because like we're going to start getting news any day now like I've already called Nintendo out in my head. I'm just like rip January 1st. I better see some Animal Crossing news or else so so yeah, it's I'm hoping that it's coming. Really soon and I'm hoping that we can just get through this weight and start playing the game. Yes. Yep. Yep. So, yeah, let's actually get into this countdown a little bit and go over the week's question. So like I said, we're doing day 86 through 80 on this countdown. So if you all have been following along in the Discord and social media and everything, I've been looking through everybody's answers and it's really cool to see so many people still just like keeping up. In doing this countdown with us, so it's really awesome. Yeah, definitely, you know, I checked them out on Twitter and on disk or two and there's so many people really really engaging this countdown. It's making it a lot of fun. It's making the time go faster seeing all this awesome answers for sure. Yeah. I'm so happy to see so many people like, you know, just having some fun while we wait. It's like, you know, we've been waiting for this for a long time and we might as well just enjoy the last few days we have without this game before we enjoy A all the gate days we have with the game exactly. Yeah, like once this thing exists like it's going to exist forever. Yeah, she's really nice. Alright. So the first question for day 86 was have you already named your town and Sergio? I'm really wondering. What are you calling your town? You know what I discussed in a previous episode that I was thinking about naming it at Anna which is Spanish for sand which makes a lot of sense for an island. So I'm Very tempted but you know, if you type out a Dana some people might read it as Arena and I cannot don't want to be correcting people. I know it sounds a little picky but it's a Dana, you know, so I think because of that I think I'm still gonna stick with my data which is nice and easy classic. It's it reminds me of my great times in your life. So most likely I'm gonna keep my data. Yeah. Yeah, I think you know, it's hard to go away from that after like at least a town named once you've loved living there and yang but at the same time it's like oh if I could move anywhere, where would I move to yeah, and so you could just pick somewhere new and exciting. So it is, you know, it's really up to you what you want to name it. So, yeah, I don't really know what I'm gonna call my town quite yet. I'm just kidding. I totally know it's gonna be hey, can I guess I guess I'll go with haken. Yeah, I guess for those who don't know. Of the background on haken. I kind of I got hit with that question from Rover where he was like, so what town are you going to and for me? It just like clicked right away that I was like, oh I'm naming where I'm going to and he's probably going to say cool. That's a cool place or something. Yeah, so I knew what was coming like I could see it coming from a mile away. And I was like, oh man, this is big question. I didn't even think about it because you know, like naming giving him. My name was easy enough. I was like, oh, yeah. Mm chewy, yes, you know and so I think that was also a really good set up to be like, oh you're also going to be naming your town because you know at first like if he went with if you answered your name or whatever and they're like, oh no your name is this you could be like Oh, I'm not going to name anything. I guess it's yes renamed but no like I let's you name yourself and then you're like, oh, okay. I can name my town now. But yeah, I was sitting around where you threw around some names we threw our On there, but it was nine characters and we're like, oh, it doesn't fit. Well, we'll pick another one and So eventually hey can just popped in my head and we all liked the sound of it and we went with it. So yeah, it was a and it's been stuck with me ever since funny enough for this countdown as well. I originally posted a countdown for New Leaf back in the day and it was a 100-day countdown and I did it on my Tumblr blog which Was called hakken town and Nina when she brought up the countdown for this. She was like wait was this you and I was like, yeah, that was my countdown from ages ago. So yeah, lots of fun things attached to hey can now for me so it feels like I'm going home when I named my place that yeah, I I mean in a good way you're stuck with it, but you want to be stuck with it and I feel like yeah, I do. I it's just like, you know, it just becomes a part of The identity of your playthrough and the identity of your time in the game. So yeah, it made sense to stick with it. Yeah nice and you know, it's funny that we're sticking with short words because we still don't know if there's going to be more than 8 characters. We're hopeful but I feel like at this point. I mean, I'm hoping they can still talk about it. It's still fairly early on for Nintendo to announce they so that people can start planning their names. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm sure Sure, if people are thinking about it. They're like, all right, here's my more characters than a game if I can do it. Yeah, here's my less characters. If I can't. Yeah, you kind of have to think of a back-up at this point to if that's what you're hoping for. Yeah. Yeah cool. So the next question for day 85 was draw us your go-to outfit and I am 1 4 3 now with these drawings because last week I didn't have one. leaving out of town and since I was still out of town, I didn't draw one but somebody actually has drawn my outfit for this one and it appears in the first official haken artwork that we got and this was a piece from Citrus Lucy and it was an Autumn themed piece and it was yeah the first I guess time we ever had art for the show, which it took us long enough, but but it was really nice to have it but I will say I guess the name of the clothing items that I do where are the folk shirt, which is kind of like a red sweater e looking shirt with some nice like festive designs kind of going on and then I also like to wear the patched knee pants. So these have the these are the pants would just like some red patches on the kneecap. So I love those pants. I love that sweater. It's just my go-to outfit. I am wearing it right now in Pocket Camp. So oh nice. Yeah. I am glad that both of those items were there because I was like, yeah, this is just what I like. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So what about you Sergio? Well, you know for me honestly, it's not exactly an outfit. I kind of I kind of call it a style and you know, it's always my thick glasses that thick frames that the game calls it and then just any t-shirt basically usually a dark color T-shirt and a pair of shorts and Barefoot, you know, that's my style in real life in In Animal Crossing sometimes I do wear a long sleeve shirt, if just to change things up but never pants. I actually I was remembering that I wore pants in Animal Crossing just that one time. I had a pretend date with someone so, you know, I got a little more formal than usual. But but yeah, that was that was pretty much it. I had to buy shoes for that too because as soon as I got the pair of shoes that you get in the beginning I sold them right away because I wasn't going to use them. Yeah, you don't need them. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I do like that you have your outfit here for me to look at and yeah, I mean that's how you go. Yeah. Yeah, and I guess I have a question for all of you. If you are listening anywhere tweet at us that your answer or something or leave a comment on YouTube whatever you're listening, but I guess do you tend to dress your character up as yourself or do you'd like to go and you know kind of or other styles and things while you're playing the game because I feel like I definitely go along the lines of dressing up more like how I would actually dress in real life, you know. Oh nice. Yeah, and I feel like you do to Sergio. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So yeah, let us know are you dressing up like yourself or do you like to explore a little bit and maybe that's a question later on that? I don't remember but for now, you know, let us know. Yeah, that's a really good point because I feel really connected. It to my character in the game even struggle seen my character because it's me, you know, it's me in Animal Crossing. So it's fun to just be yourself there and I can I guess that's why we don't really change our hair color or where things that we normally wouldn't and I think that's a very beautiful and amazing thing in Animal Crossing because we get so connected to ourselves in the game. Not a lot of games allow you to be customize your character, but I feel like Animal Crossing makes it very connected. Yeah. Yeah, and you know we talked about this a little bit with the Pokémon stuff last week to wear. You know, like I like seeing people going out and using the different hair colors and everything, but I don't seem to do that myself. Yeah. I just kind of keep doing my own thing where I just look like me nice. Yeah. So yeah. No, it's true. Like you become attached to your identity. Yeah, it's pretty it's special today. 84. The question was your all-time best friend favorite villager and I'm Gonna Let You Go first Sergio because I had trouble with this one for sure. I used to have trouble with this one actually know what I'm saying is that I used to be Alfonso all the time, but very recently I changed it because remembering how Alfonso left me again. We don't know all the details, but I know somebody that has not left me so So far in that is my girl Hazel Hazel in her unibrow. They are my best friends. Yeah. Yeah, I definitely I see that with you too. I remember when I posted a video using your kind of game file you're looking and you're like, yes Hazel's. Yeah. So yeah, you know something to worry about like whether your villagers going to move out or not. But yeah, I'm glad she hasn't left yet. She has been here and she has been with us for a while. Or yeah, go for it. Oh, yeah. No, I just saying that she has been there, you know through the good times the bad times and she stuck around. So for sure Hazel, you're my girl. Yeah, that's awesome. So yeah for me, I guess I had to think about it for a while because I wasn't quite sure but like I mostly thought about it in the sense of like, alright, let's go back to New Leaf and kind of see how my playthrough went with that and I think the character that was like really stuck it out. He wasn't an original in my town or thing you moved in a lot later in my gameplay, but he definitely like made an impression and stuck around and everything but Rudy the cat one of the few tests that you actually recognize but yeah, essentially like I talk to Rudy a lot and he'd always show up in my place and he'd always be hanging out and Yeah, he was just like a regular character that I ran into so Rudy and I we have, you know, a close friendship and I feel like he's just one of Of those Staples to my playthrough of newly, you know, guys, that's so cool. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He's a good friend. I mean you became one who like I logged in on my birthday and he was the one who greeted me and threw the party and everything. So awesome. It was you know is a clear choice, I think yeah. Yeah. Yeah so number 83. What is your favorite flower? And I have a funny answer for this one because if anybody watched some of my Videos during kind of the goodbye New Leaf era of me playing Animal Crossing all there was there was a video where I was just like going through and destroying all the flowers that were yeah and people are wondering what I was doing. And so essentially my favorite flower is just all the red flowers any flower that's red. Those are the ones I want in my town. Let me guess. Let me guess. It's probably because of the contrast with the green Yeah, I mean it does look good. But I also just really like red too. So, oh nice it made sense to to you know, just have red flowers be my favorite cool. Cool. That's nice. Yeah. So what was yours? So for me, it's the purple roses. They really stay in IT stand out to me, you know the kind of ball looking they look nice and vibrant. They go well with the green they look nice in the winter also. So yeah, the the purple roses that kind of special. Yeah. Those are those are cool, too. And you know, that's one of the flowers that you just have to get them through Reading getting hybrids. And so it takes some work to get all those flowers the red flowers for me are just really easy to get yeah. Yeah, pretty base basic, you know. Yeah so number 82 or day t to the question was your favorite doctor shrunk and motion. What was yours Sergio - curiosity because it killed a cat no, no. It isn't getting it's because I really like the way that question mark comes up and your character looks like confused but also questioning like you can interpret it in many different ways. So curiosity stands out to me the most. Yeah, that's a good one. Yeah. I don't remember the name of mine. Maybe you do but it's the leaf blowing emotion and where those little leaf goes there. Is it like indifference or I don't remember? No, but I I know each one and then it has a little sound effect to yeah, the little wind blowing sound perfect. So yeah, that one's mine just because I love the leaf. It is the new Leaf in relief. That's what they named after just an emotion. So the new Leaf emotion, that's what it's called. Nice cool day 81 gyroid, 's creepy or cute. What do you think Sergio? I think the creepy when you think about about it. So if you don't think about it, they're just cute. So that's what we did. We don't think about Creepy. Yeah, I put I well I don't know if the two are exclusive. I think they're both I think they're creepy and cute because I like I like creepy things. So I think they're cute. So yeah, I think both for sure. Yeah cool and then the last day is day 80 Today for everybody listening but this question is invent a new holiday and Sergio. I'm really excited to hear what you've invented for this one. So I'm thinking of something called music day. So everyone on your Island would be playing music outside and also in their homes, he could either be the same song or a different version of the same song and then the stores would also have music that is exclusive to that day. You know how some stores have Like most of them do or all of them but this time around on this day only they would be playing different unique music. So it would be pretty cool to visit all the store so you can hear all the new music and at 8 p.m. KK Slider and maybe a couple of other special characters or just regular villagers from your Island. They would all get together and throw a huge concert Outdoors at 8 p.m. So music day, this would be on August 24, which is a day after KK's birthday. So whenever It is, you know, August 24 music day. I think that would be pretty awesome. No, that is awesome. I love that especially because I'm still kind of like I would love to see just like more musicians kind of pop up in Animal Crossing. Yeah. Be kick a slider starting a band kind of thing, but it's actually like if he opens up his own shop and never venue or something, that'd be awesome. I think it'd be really cool to see like all the music in the game celebrated and everything and maybe he that would make Nintendo finally have some sort of concert like real a concert that we could attend and go to so yeah. Yeah, I need that. So my holiday, I'm calling it spring cleaning day and it's kind of I guess based off an existing holiday that it maybe I would like to return but essentially it's like cleaning out your place setting up things outside. And having your villagers come and buy things from you that you're getting rid of and then they could also do the same thing where they're like cleaning out some of the extra junk that they have met because I really want them one of the sad parts of playing previous Animal Crossing games. Is that like you start buying stuff from your villagers and then their house is empty and doesn't have anything. Yeah, and then you're like, oh man, I really want you to have stuff and so I want them to like have too much stuff in this one where they're like, oh, I have a lot of things maybe I should get rid of some and so, you know, they'll kind of do like a spring cleaning day and start selling things. Yeah. Yeah, and then they could also buy new things from you and you know, just give them more variety in their house. So that's what I would want it to be. Yeah, I think variety is good. I remember for a really long time Hazel didn't have a bed and she had a lot of closets in a lot of fish in her house. I don't know why. Yeah. Yeah and you want Little animals have a bed. Yeah sleep and where are they sleeping if they don't have that so I think it's worth getting you know. Yeah, and I really like that your your holiday is during the spring time. I feel like at least in real life where we are. There's not enough holidays around the spring, you know, we get a bunch towards the end of the year and at the beginning and then it's a while before the next one. So any spring holiday, definitely welcome. Yeah. Yeah, and I guess somehow I also made a kind of act because we came back and Echo we kind of want to do some cleaning to oh, yeah. So yeah, there's some extra clutter around and stuff we came back with some extra stuff and we're like, oh we gotta reevaluate what we have and you know get rid of things. So yeah, you kind of stuck in real life too. Oh, yeah. Yeah cool. So that's all of the days so far. I can't believe already 20 days down that is insanity. I can't believe how quickly it's going. We're only 80 days to go everybody till we get this game. That's crazy. Usually the countdowns that I'm a part of I kind of don't want to because they just make the wait longer but this one is working. This one is making the days fly by I don't know I don't get it. But I love it. Yeah, I love it, too. I'm really excited for how quickly this is going. Yeah cool. So let's actually go into our next topic which is recapping the year, and I guess I didn't write too much about it because Because unfortunately, we didn't get too much. I'll bring that up a little bit later as we go through our New Year's resolutions, but I guess this year it did, you know did end up being pretty big in the sense of like we finally got some huge reveals and everything but essentially like we went into this year 2019 thinking it's time for Animal Crossing to come out and I got the longest possible amount that we could wait for this game. Until December 31st 2019. Here we are. Yeah, December 31st 2019 and lo and behold we still have to wait 80 more days for this game. So, of course one of the biggest disappointments is the delay that we got but eventually, you know, we did at least get the reveal. So we got to see Animal Crossing New Horizons at E3 and again at the September direct and then just some random info drops here and there. There this past month. So yeah, I guess Sergio I guess how did you feel about this year about the news? We got about everything. I feel like it took a little longer than I wish it had it would have been nice to have a little bit more information maybe around March or April of this year of 2019. But I feel like once they hit they hit us with III and then we saw it again at the September direct and we've had you know the renders and some information from Nintendo of Go in Spain and a lot of different places except regular Nintendo, but I feel like we're getting information at a steady Pace. It could be more of course, but I feel like considering the we had nothing before this. I feel like Nintendo's doing a good job of getting the info out there whether it's officially or not, but the info is out there. So we're thankful for it. Yeah, and I will say like this is a lot more kind of already than we've gotten from Nintendo in the past like New Leaf news was very rare to come by it took a long time for them to talk about that game. And even when they did they just had like a Japanese only direct for the game and it took months before we even saw. Yeah in English, you know, like people were already playing the game and putting videos on YouTube and you could see stuff there, but you couldn't see stuff from Nintendo. It was really weird. It was lame. But now like, you know, we've gotten quite a bit a few videos is a lot better than at least the three years of news. We got four new Leaf, which is surprisingly slim. I think we saw the game about four times before, you know, it actually came out which now we've seen the game about four times if we break down all of those like random news updates along with the three videos. So yeah, we've gotten some stuff and it's pretty cool. Yeah in a pretty lengthy overview in the treehouse. Yeah, the Treehouse was definitely big like they gave us a lot of stuff that we didn't expect to get like that's where we got confirmation that there were going to be I guess different hemispheres for the times that you could pick. So yeah, there's plenty of good info there. But yeah, I guess outside of that because I ask you like what were your disappointments? Right? Well, I guess I kind of asked you what you thought about the year. Mmm, but I guess we're there any other things that disappointed you this year? Hmm, I guess I mean the delay for sure and it was unfortunate that when you saw everything Nintendo had plan for 2019. It was too much. I feel like a lot of us expected a delay. We didn't want it to be Animal Crossing of course, but I mean, that one was the one they chose and we can have to go with it. So other than that, not really a very big highlight for me. Me was Pokemon. I I forgot I didn't realize how much of a Pokemon fan. I was until I started playing sword and shield. It's been crazy. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's awesome. Yeah, and I guess yeah, I didn't kind of want to move into what your favorite things for this year were because mine is definitely the whole reveal for New Horizons. I think overall like we haven't seen too much over the past, you know six months since we've seen it but from the things we've seen I'm just like this game is doing exactly what I wanted it to do because you know, like we've played every animal crossing game at this point at least both of us and you know, we've had four main line games that had kind of the same setup and experience with some differences here and there and I really like that this one feels fresh and a way that's like they're changing it and making it really different from before and I like that just because like I've had the Animal Crossing experience already like I want to do something different and something new. So this is It's Going the direction that I wanted it to go for a new Animal Crossing game. Yes. Yes. I definitely agree. It's very exciting in for newcomers as well. It's something different like, oh I see this is kind of different than maybe I'll give it a try this time. And that's that's awesome. You know, the more people that are playing this amazing game and experience. I think the better. Yeah. Yeah, and I think It'll be really cool to see like what both new players and old players think of this. So I'm really excited to see people's reactions to it and how the game actually plays out in the end. You know, Mmm Yeah. So yeah just like it's been a big year and unfortunately, it wasn't quite the year of Animal Crossing yet. But we have gotten confirmation from Nintendo. They did tweet out that March 20th 2020 is still the day. But the games coming out so it seems like there's no delay in sight at this point. Right looks it looks good. Hopefully fingers crossed. So I guess yeah, I wanted to know what your hopes were for the next year and kind of I guess 20 20 is going to be the year of Animal Crossing. Do you have any hopes that are bigger than a release or just you know, just to hopes in general. So yeah hopes in general. It's all revolving the release of New Horizons first. Foremost I really want intended to be very active about post-release support for the game. I want them to announce in to keep up with like a special events kind of like they do in Pocket camp, but make it for New Horizons, you know, keep new interesting events going on connectivity, maybe with pocket Camp either free items or plans for pay DLC or whatever they're planning. But I hope they're planning a lot of things in that it's very constant because animals Austin is one of those games or series that is very easy to keep feeding it and I feel like Nintendo could do a better job of that than they have in the past. I did I think they did a good job with new Leaf what I think they can do more. So I really want them to embrace it in New Horizons. Yeah. Yeah, I agree completely. I just want to see them take advantage of like the real-time aspect to it like updates as the years go that like match what the season is. Reading that's a such a cool thing to do for a game that works like Animal Crossing. So yeah, I would love to see that. Yeah for me. I just want I'm hoping that we get lots of news from here on out January first tomorrow. We need we need something and every single day up until the game comes out just drop just give us a bunch of things or if you don't, you know, at least hold a direct soon enough start pumping the game and making people aware that it's coming like it's a big game for Nintendo. Yeah, and it's one and I've made videos about this before but like Animal Crossing's one of those games that like really hits a different demographic different style of play that I just feel is unfortunately lacking on the switch. Thus far there have been more and more games as story of seasons has come out as more life Sims like stardew Valley and my time at Portia started to become more prevalent, you know, but overall, it's just like That Animal Crossing game to be part of that experience on the switch where I think the switch has done a really good job of like doing Platformers and just a bunch of games that appeal more to like core Gamers, you know, but it needs that like kind of relaxing fun. No stress game, you know, like the stakes are low and everything. So yeah, I think that's what animal crossing will bring to this for. Sure. Yes, definitely and you know, this is going to be the first major game for the switches fourth year. It's gonna get it. It's going to start its fourth year in March 3. So a couple like 15 days after that or a little more it's going to be the first major release and I think Nintendo should Capital capitalize on that. You know, this is our this is how we're kicking off. The switch is 40 year with a bang a big release. We going to Market this for everybody. It's not for casuals. It's for the The hardcore as well, this game is for everybody. And I think the marketing for the game should be very it should be big Nintendo should go all out with a marketing. Yeah, you're totally right and like I can't believe it took them until their fourth year to have an animal crossing game. Yeah. I mean, I guess we went the whole time without one which is, you know, like you're already this late into the switch. You completely skipped the last console like it took a long time to get this game out. Out and yeah, I don't know. I want to see you a game like that. Especially one from Nintendo. And yeah, it's insane to me that it took this long to get there. Yeah. Yeah. So yeah. I also want like a dedicated direct. I want Animal Crossing Joy con. Just give us new Joy. Konchol seems like more and more Nintendo's going away from amiibo. Like we didn't really get any new amiibo for Luigi's Mansion Fire Emblem even Super Mario Maker, too. Like they're just wasn't I mean, I guess like Super Mario maker to didn't even Implement all of those amiibo costumes that were available. So like this past year felt more and more like they're getting away from that. They're not going toward amiibo anymore. But I'm like at least reprint the old ones make them available for people if they're going to be, you know usable within the game because now it's going to be it's so much harder to find the packs and everything. So yeah the the figures you can I'm find most of them still but really the packs of cards and everything. Those just don't pop up anymore. Yeah, I'm definitely hopefully they were nice enough to confirm that the amoeboid gonna work. So just keep the niceness going and you know, we print them and have them available, you know, at least in retail or maybe like in an online ordering service, but for all the countries that will be playing the game just some way for people to have access to them because if you're going to support Feature. You should people should be able to buy the cars that they would need. Yeah. Yeah, they should and unfortunately right now they can't so I'm hoping they will soon. Yeah, you know, I had another hope for Animal Crossing. This is going to be more towards the end of 2020, but I'm really I have a good feeling about this when I think Nintendo is gonna announce at least early details on the next Animal Crossing a spin-off and I really want them to To have it be very connected to New Horizons. What I'm thinking is it's going to be technically a spin-off you could play without playing your horizons, but I feel like if you play board games they're going to be connected like you could play the spin-off and you would get rewards for your Island in New Horizons. You could get items you could get Bales if you link basically your two games together, if that's the case. I'm thinking it's probably going to be a download game so that it's easier to connect to your to your Island, but I just want intended to start, you know, Like a roadmap for New Horizons and I think a good part of that would be spin-offs that are connected to it. Yeah, that's really cool. Yeah, I really wonder what they're going to do with spin-offs come this never come after New Horizons, you know, like we're going to be waiting for something new at some point. But yeah, I don't know. I really wonder what they're going to do. I would love to see a spin-off for the game of course. And yeah, I guess I don't know how they're going to handle that just with like it seems like they're not going to connect. Act pocket Camp really which is already kind of like a free-to-play game. It's not difficult to get that game. You know, I but yeah, I mean if you already have a switch and there's like a free to download game that also does stuff but I mean I kind of doubt Nintendo will do too much of that but I don't know I would like it. I would like it a lot. Yeah. Yeah cool. So I guess let's move into our New Year's resolutions for the show. We well I guess they're not specifically for the show, maybe some of them will but we all we've been doing this a few years. Now we've seen many years doing this show. So like always we have some old resolutions that we have to go through and see how we did this past year and I feel for a bit. I was checking in with you and seeing how your resolutions were going and then I dropped off and for completely forgot about it the rest of the year at some point, but You know how that goes. Yeah, but yeah, I guess let's go ahead and go through some of our old resolutions and Sergio. Do you want to start sure thing Hade? I honestly I only had two from last year because I know myself, you know, if I have to I can most likely achieve them if I have any more than that, it's probably one or or all three are gonna drop a so I try to keep it simple in last year I did. So I had two resolutions for the most part in the first one was that I wanted. Redo my living room. I wanted to make things very organized just redo the layout have everything tidy up a little bit and it still have plenty of room for merchandise posters KK figures and plushies and what have you and I actually did in this was pretty early on in the year. I redid my room. I remember it took a really long time. It was one of those I think one of those holidays when you know, I took the weekend pretty much to redo my room and it was so worth it. But I really like my third layer of my room. There's not a lot of room. I did end up adding a turntable pretty much in the middle of it and I had to put a table there which kind of takes a little too much space but I really like the turntable so it's kind of worth it. So for the rest of it, yeah, I feel like redoing. My room was pretty awesome. It was one of the highlights of my year because it was early on and it's you know, I spend most of my time here with my living room and I wanted to be as close to perfect as I can. Yeah. N-no, that's really awesome. I'm I remember, you know the weekend where you spent a lot of time working on your room and really getting it fixed up, you know, yeah. So yeah, it's really cool to know that you did that and it was a good idea to not make too many because that's an easy trap to fall into and it's one that I have always fallen into I guess like this whole just like YouTube thing and the podcast and everything it all started out with me saying, all right. Right. I have to pick just one thing to do because I have too many things that I want to do that I don't get around to doing any of them. And so the podcast was that like this podcast was just like all right, I'm going to do a podcast is going to be on about Animal Crossing and eventually it'll be something that I do all the time and it is now so yeah, I really like that you went that strategy with your resolutions for the so I went with too many last year speaking of Having to trim it down, but one of them was I wanted to do a lot more music especially for the show and everything. And I did do one song right I recorded the New Horizons theme which you heard if you listen to the podcast you hear it at the beginning. It's a guitar kind of version an acoustic guitar version of the theme song. I recorded that and it was really fun. It was really cool to do but I'd want to Chord more still unfortunately, it's not going to be in my resolution. So Sierra because I have some new ones but I am happy that I at least did one and it doesn't feel like I went through and this was a whole failure, you know know for sure in this one was very very very special because it's the new theme and I remember, you know, you wanted it to get to get it. Absolutely perfect. And I feel like you did. It's an awesome fit for the podcast and it just makes sense that it was that theme it's perfect. Yeah, it was really fun to do and I always really enjoy doing I guess new music and everything. So yeah, I'm hoping I can do it more but I'm not going to be focused on that this next year. The other thing I did was I made it like kind of a Content calendar for the channel and I also kind of predicted that this would change over time. Mostly the prediction was like oh if Animal Crossing's coming out then of course my schedule is going to change. Because I want to do like daily content for that. Unfortunately, I never did. So yeah, we're still waiting on that change to happen. But as far as like this calendar I was doing like Sunday the weekly updates which you know, eventually I stopped doing those for one reason or another. I wanted to focus on other things the podcast on Tuesdays which is still good. I wanted to do stardew Valley videos that never happened and I'm actually still talking. Talking to a friend about making those so hmm that might actually still happen but it just hasn't yet the Friday series of videos. I keep doing Friday videos. So yeah, I feel like I've done well on that and then Saturday's was screaming and I did a lot of streaming on Saturdays. Yeah. It wasn't every Saturday like I would hope but it was pretty good. I felt like I did pretty good on at least content creation. Oh, yeah, definitely. I agree. Yeah, so, you know, I'm not too bummed that a lot of these things didn't work out. You know, it's hard to plan like a whole year of what you're going to do. Yeah, and you know your interests change over time, but you know, I'm glad the Staples are still there for me and you know, I'm still going to be working on doing different videos and that'll be my New Year's resolution. So we'll get to that a little bit later. But yeah, like I said Animal Crossing switch didn't come out so I couldn't really Anything with that but outside of that I had an overall goal to just improve the administrative work that I did with running the channel. One of those was posting every episode of the podcast on my website. That was a complete failure. I never did that and I don't know when I will but still to this day I haven't right. Yeah, and then the other thing I had was I wanted to improve my use of social media, which I feel like I've done that. I feel like I did a lot. More on Twitter on Instagram even on Facebook now too. So the countdown helps a lot. I've been posting the countdown everywhere. So it goes up on Twitter Facebook Instagram YouTube patreon all five of those places get regular updates daily updates. So yeah. Yeah, I feel like that. I did great. Yeah, definitely and then the last one was it keeping up with patreon a lot better and I feel like that went really well, too. Can really good about reaching out to people once they become patrons and you know, just I want to make sure that they know I really appreciate them going and supporting us this way, you know, because this has led to some really cool things like making artwork for the show and eventually the calendar. So yeah, there's some really awesome things that happened there and I feel like I did a lot better reaching out to everybody on patreon. So yeah, I think overall that went really well. Well, there's one thing that you know didn't but two for three very good. Nice. Yeah, definitely agree. Very nice. Yeah. So let's go ahead and move into our New Year's resolution. So this next year. What are we going to be focusing on and Sergio? Yeah. I'm really interested to see how focused you are in your resolutions again. Are you going with only two again? Yes going with to again. Awesome. Well, I'm excited. Let me know what they are. So yeah going with two and they're both related to A democracy in in the first one is I'm going to be making be highlight videos of my life in Madeira or Arena most likely mother. They're going to be edited videos with voiceovers. Basically the best items in the gold honestly is to have them weekly. So it's going to be the weekly highlights with some voiceovers from me and like special effects just for fun like the funny moments of the week and I guess the biggest goal or challenge is going to be to stick with a weekly format. I feel like it's doable. Why I have a good feeling about this. I've been preparing this year, you know thanks to Logan from the Disco and I found a very good video editor. I already learned it. I it does what I needed to do and I'm ready to start going with weekly videos once New Horizons. It's also definitely ready. I got a big hard drive for all the videos that I'm going to be recording. So I am definitely ready that like I said, the challenge is going to be keeping up with having these videos weekly, but I'm all for it. Yeah. No, that's really awesome. I'm really excited to see especially because like, you know, I've been really impressed with your goal of like recording every single minute of your gameplay. So I want to see that put to use I want to see you go through and like put out a good weekly update for what you've been doing because I it needs to be seen I want to see everything. Yeah, definitely. It's gonna be like, you know, like for New Leaf I had the the phone. Album that I got printed. So this is going to be like a video album in the word to the way to share. It is going to be through the weekly video. So I definitely don't want to keep these videos just to me. I want to share the best parts of my game play with everybody. So I'm looking. I'm really looking forward to that challenge and the second resolution is also related to New Horizons in very specifically to hey can I want to be very Resort resourceful to our players in our community on this score on Twitter wherever we are I want to be there for people that are either starting out their Islands or that want to speed up a goal that they're having, you know, maybe people want to save a lot or they're looking for this very specific item that is very hard to get. So honestly, I kind of set a goal earlier today and I said, you know what it's going to be a win-win I'm gonna help people with the items they get and I'm gonna make I'm gonna add more play time basically to my to my enjoyment of New Horizon. So I'm gonna dedicate 50% of my research. Is whatever they are bills items anything. It's going to be for me in my town in the other 50 are but I'm going to be for other people, you know, I just want to help everyone especially on this court, especially new people new to the series that want to start out and maybe they're they think their their progress is going to be a little bit slow. So I want to have a lot of items for them to kind of get them going, you know, so I feel like I really like this girl. I'm definitely going to be resourceful to everyone listening. Yeah. No, that is really cool. And yeah, I remember you mentioning like you just wanted your gameplay to not be ruined by having too much money and stuff like that like making progress too quickly. So I think that's really cool way to just like stifle the progress that you are able to exactly yeah and keep yourself playing a lot which is you know, that's what your aim is. It's just a play as much as possible, which is cool. I want to tell you No, that's really awesome. I'm sure people really enjoy having like this little Resource Center that you'll have running and you know, it'll also give you an opportunity to play with a lot more people to so yeah, definitely. Yeah, I think that's cool. Yeah, I guess I went with too many again, but some of them definitely go together, at least I guess this first one has about four different parts to it. But I guess the first one is I want to finish my I'm studio. So I guess I don't mention it too much at least the background of like, you know the space I actually use to make all of this stuff but I it's spread out right now right now. I do streaming from the living room and I record a lot of videos in another room kind of an extra bedroom that we have in our duplex that we live in but I really want the it all to be in one place. You know, it's Don't hassle to have to move back and forth and move all of these things and there's just like a lot of work that goes into me just like getting setup around wherever I want to record or wherever I need to record, you know. Yeah, I can imagine. Hmm. So yeah in order to do that, I am just finishing up a room. So I've already gotten like a web a new webcam. So there's going to be some more my face in some of these things but outside of that like I want to get a couple monitors some lights and And some more ethernet cables to run into this room, right because I'll need that to have things properly set up here. Yeah, but yeah, I also want to just like set up a desk that can do allow for like more streaming and just making better content and everything. So, yeah, I guess kind of attached to that New Year's resolution. I want to do more streaming. I want to stream regularly when you Horizons is out and just kind of have plenty of probably play daily, you know once again, His out so it'll be cool and outside of that. Like I guess this one's kind of different but attached to just recording stuff, but I want to make more Nintendo content. I have a couple videos planned out that I haven't made quite yet. I've recorded actually some of them but it's just like General Nintendo videos. So I want to be better about making just like General Nintendo content. And yeah, I feel like this has been a goal for a long time, but I haven't gotten around to it. Always tend to focus on Animal Crossing a lots and I will focus on Animal Crossing pretty easily this year. Oh, yeah, since it it's gonna get a lot easier to do Animal Crossing content. Once we actually have content to talk about I feel like I'll be able to you know spread out a little bit more and do talk about more Nintendo stuff. So that's a that's a goal of mine. Yeah outside of that. I guess the main goals are to make animal crossing content. Daily, once it New Horizons is out and then also get that he can calendar out getting really close to getting all of the artwork done and in front of me so I can you know, just start putting it together and everything and putting up a pre-order page. But yeah, it's always in the works and it's always on my mind. So it's closed now. I think I need about three more pieces. So it's just about there. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and then the last one is just to be more interactive with people. I kind of slipped on responding to comments and stuff on YouTube and I want to be better about that and in general be good about like talking to people on the Discord and everything. I feel like the end of the year was too busy and kept me away. But yeah, I want to do better. Once this game is out and play with everybody so own I think it'll be a lot easier to so yeah. Oh, yeah, definitely. Yeah. Yeah, just with so much stuff going on and it having to go on I think it'll naturally happen. So I guess in some ways the resolutions don't really push it. But at the same time I'm like I want to make sure I do well at these things, you know, yes. Yeah cool. So I guess that does it for New Year's I hope you all have a really great Year. I hope it's like I hope this is truly the year of an Animal Crossing that's why it looks like it will be and it looks like it's going to be fun. So I'm hoping we all have a lot of fun this next year for with it. Yes, definitely cool. So let's actually close out the show with our Hagen's Islander corner. For those of you who don't know every week. We ask our patrons on patreon a question and read the replies here. So this week's question was have you named your town yet and Sergio and I have already answered this we're going with our you know, our town names. But yeah Sergio, let's go back and forth and read everybody's answers. Do you want to start with this? First one? Sure thing in our first answers this week is by Elizabeth WP and they say, yeah, I'm probably going to go with Elise meta which is the name of my new Leaf town. It's a stylized version of Alice Mara, which is the elf town in Oregon, but edited to fit the character limit all men that carried a glimmer just getting in the way all the time. Hopefully that stops in 2020. Yeah, we all want that to be gone. Hopefully it is so Andrew artaud said I haven't yet, but my cousin and I will probably coordinate Town names would love to name it after my childhood home Long Island though. So yeah, I mean you'll need the I guess the character limit to go away for that one, but hopefully it is unless they add Island to whatever we name which I kind of hope they don't but we'll see ya ya think he can just go with long. Yeah, I hope they find a way to tell you that's going to happen to because some people want to put Island at the end of it, you know, yeah, it would be a bummer if they called it Long Island and then they tagged another Island up. Yeah, so it's long island island. So yeah, I hope they you know, make it clear what's going to happen. Yeah, definitely. So Benedict says yes, I'm torn between two choices. However, both from Um games the first is sangam from the game settings, you know, and it really fits the island-themed. The second one is how only from the illallah region for the same reason. Oh, I like those very nice. Yeah. Those are really good ones to go with definitely going with the theme there. Yeah. So contralto Vall said, yes, I have two names in mind. It depends on the character limit as to which I use if all else fails I can always use haken, right? Yeah, I mean, you're welcome to use it. It's not exclusive but ya know that it's good that people are thinking of like a backup just in case their name does not fit. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, so Les electron says I want to call it Nibelheim if I can size depending it's clouds home from Final Fantasy 7 a nice. Hmm. Yeah, that's a good go-to to yeah, so in These Sarah said I was settled on my usual Town name but an island through that off. So now I'm thinking of calling it if a guy like Homer's Odyssey. Oh, yeah, and that's something that I'm seeing two like Nina when she was on just a couple weeks ago. Was it a couple weeks ago? Yeah. It was when she was on like it was really cool to know that she just changed directions with how she was naming her town. So yeah, the island setting really Is things for some people? Yeah. Yeah, definitely. So Kylie says not yet and she has the crying Emoji. So I think it's true, you know because we don't know yet if the character limit and I feel like a lot of people are waiting, you know, they can either have two options right now or some people are just going to wait until we know exactly how many letters are spaces we have and then it's a very important choice. Definitely. Yeah. Yeah, and you know some people Just put some thought into it because we've asked this question before and so I think people are getting a little bit closer to having more answers now. Yeah, so tab said, yes, my town has always been named Emerald it is mine and my husband's birthstone for a while. I thought I might go with a new name, but now that we know it's an island. I think Emerald will be perfect can't wait and yeah, I feel like Emerald Island. That's a really nice name. I think that's cute. Yeah. Yeah. That's very nice. So It says I'm debating between a few different names. I mainly consider going with a name. I already used for one of my few Animal Crossing new Leaf towns. But the more I think about it in the more lists. I make the more I'm wanting to go with something brand new kind of celebrating a new era in decade in starting completely fresh, but I'm also very nostalgic help. It's tough It's a tough choice. I completely agree with you. You're very tied to your previous Town name at least but it's like you said it's a different location. So you're thinking well, it's a different place. It's not a town anymore Stan Island. Maybe it's time to change it and it's a tough choice. I'm definitely turn as well. Yeah. Yeah, it could be, you know, it's something that's going to stick around your town for a long time. So it's worth putting some thought into it and figuring out what you want to call it because this is a long-term game that has a long term play through so You better hope your name is long-term. Yeah, cool. So I think this is the last answer and it's from juice defend reisch and they said hmm. I see I'm still in doubt. However, I think I will go for the same name as my new Leaf town which is how c on it. Sounds beautiful and reflects peace coziness happiness and just being at ease. Yeah. I think that's capturing animal crossing right there. Especially this whole yeah island-themed and everything and seems like New Horizons. That's the way to go for that. You know? Yeah. So yeah, these are all really awesome names. I'm really excited for those of you who have already picked and I hope those of you who haven't quite yet find the right name for your Island because you know, if you can't think of one, it's gonna stop you from being able to play so it makes it cuts into the minutes that you'll have for this. Yeah. So yeah anyways Thank you all so much for tuning in to this episode of hakken and Animal Crossing podcast don't want the episode to end. 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As has become regular practice on the show, we start by answering all the questions for the Countdown to New Horizons. I cannot believe 20 days have already gone by since this countdown has started. We're only 80 days away from Animal Crossing New Horizons and it's starting to feel real! From there, we take a quick look back at the year for Animal Crossing and discuss our disappointments and happy moments for the year. We also do our yearly tradition of making new years resolutions! Finally, we close out with a nice Haken's Islander Corner. Time Stamps: 0:05 - Introduction 2:37 - Countdown to New Horizons Questions 21:55 - 2019 Recap 35:28 - New Year's Resolutions 51:41 - Haken's Islander Corner 58:01 - Outro Announcements  Support my channel on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/chuyplaysnintendo  Join the Haken Discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/wJTCMRK  Find Haken: An Animal Crossing Podcast on Podcast Platforms here: https://anchor.fm/haken-an-animal-crossing-podcast  Get More Nintendo and Video Game Content Here: http://chuyplays.com/  Follow me on... Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChuyPlaysNTDO Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChuyPlaysNintendo Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chuyplaysnintendo Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/chuyplaysnintendo Tumblr: http://chuyplaysnintendo.tumblr.com/  ---   Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/haken-an-animal-crossing-podcast/support 