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ACNH take: i don't really want to build up my island, i'd rather it stayed feeling wild & somewhat provisional. i was sad to upgrade out of a tent so soon. i don't really want to fence bits off, or have beautiful gardens, or pick my weeds.Permalink Look on archive.org
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i am quite enjoying the feeling of friction between the logic of development the game is pushing for & my own desires. the game has this real contradictory feeling at the center of it - it can't decide if it's critiquing or celebrating capitalism.Permalink Look on archive.org
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but also i recognise the unnaturalness of many of the real landscapes that we live in. and i'm replicating that! replacing hardwood trees with fruit trees, planting in "natural" patterns, cultivating flowers but keeping the borders ragged...Permalink Look on archive.org
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recommendation for this: the BBC series Unnatural Histories. here's an ep all about how the ways that the Amazon rainforest was shaped by human forces: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxI5v3q4K2isIT49CQjsgHfNArGGb3gwb but of course, also: all British landscapes. it was once continuous forest!!Permalink Look on archive.org
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and i'm enjoying adding little bits of character to the island. not paving it over, but acknowledging our presence. a bothy on the mountainside, a campbed tucked away on the north beach. making it cozy, if not manicured. @v21/1244246004200849408Permalink Look on archive.org
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also all of this is tied into the basically surface level read that the random islands are just colonialism. (i mean, as is your main island, too, just less nakedly extractive). chop every tree down, mine every rock, pick every flower. we'll never come here again, so why worry?Permalink Look on archive.org
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on planting trees in straight lines @kvnrogan/1244402080212811778Look on archive.org