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  • The Roost Time

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    I wrote about this on my work’s weekly update a couple of weeks ago, and I’m thinking I can blog about it here too.

    In Animal Crossing game, there is a character named Brewster, a green pigeon, who’s running a café titled “The Roost”. This character and the café were finally introduced to Animal Crossing: New Horizons (we have a lot of Animal Crossing games out there) on its major update back in early November 2021.

    There is this… reward-system in Animal Crossing called “Nook Miles”. When you finished a task, you will be rewarded some amount of Nook Miles — and you can use Nook Miles to buy decorations or visit treasure/resources islands on the game. One of the tasks is: “Break time at The Roost” — meaning that you go to The Roost and order a cup of coffee from Brewster.

    One day, I played this game before bedtime, and since I got pressed with time (I have to finish digging dinosaur fossils and get them assessed so I can sell it for a nice sum of money at the store, and the store closed at 10 PM) I ran around the island to collect everything and cleaning out every fallen tree branch or pulled some wild weeds on the island.

    “It’s just a game…”

    Yes, and I found myself exhausted when I finished selling the dinosaur fossils. I decided to go to The Roost and to get my digital cup of coffee.

    This is not making any sense, yes, I know, and nothing makes any sense, so please bear with me ?

    (I once refused to have my character swimming in the ocean during last year’s winter because “IT’S SNOWING OUT THERE! IT’S COLD!” regardless of the fact that it’s a game.)

    When I visited The Roost, I just realized how calm and chill the environment is. It’s really quiet, with only Brewster around (sometimes you can find other villagers on the café too, but not always,) and some instrumental piano song plays softly.

    I sat down, ordered a cup of coffee (200 bells per cup), and enjoyed it.

    Then it hits me.

    I can have my own The Roost time. I can take a break between shifts, between my daily activities, to… I don’t know, a cup of tea, a cup of coffee, a cup of hot chocolate, even a tall glass of cold water. Just for a minute or two; not thinking about stuff.

    This is a marathon, not a sprint.

    And I hope, you have your The Roost time too. To sit down, take a minute to breathe, and know that you are doing really really well.

  • State of the Word 2021

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    WordPress has State of the Word 2021 event a couple of days ago on December 14 (my birthday too!) and you can watch the recording here:

    For WordPress veterans, you all might have been hearing the buzz about Full Site Editing. For those of you who just noticed the news about Full Site Editing right now, I promise I will blog about it later (?) I actually have been wanting to write about it with hope that I can help a bit on sharing more information about templates and how you can max up templates using FSE. I personally hyped about FSE and I have been spending quite some time tinkering and doing some testing on my test sites.

    Anyway! I actually thought Matt will have a live streaming from the Antarctica. We heard about him taking a trip to the Antarctica and I feel it would look super cool to see him delivering SOTW speech with penguins around, you know. And I really like penguins.

    “Hello, hello! Welcome–”

    (PENGUIN INTERRUPTING NOISES)

    “I’m Matt–”

    (MORE PENGWEN NOISES. “HUMAN HAS CAMERA. WADDLE TO WAVE AND SAY HI. HELLO HUMAN.“)

    Anyway.

    I got quite surprised I see him appearing in SOTW podium in New York.

    “NO PENGUINS?”

    Yeah. So.

    Lowkey expecting to see some emperor penguins shuffling closer to him and as he delivers his speech we see the penguins starting to center on the camera.

    You know what they say about penguins:

    WE PENGUINS WILL TAKE OVER THE WORLD WIDE WEB.

    (Definitely historically incorrect but we never know because The Antarctica is filled with scientists and I won’t be surprised to see some penguins waddling away with some papers on their beak.)

  • “Hazy dusk” by Jay Faiz

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    Story by my good friend: Jay Faiz

    It started with a light tap tap tap on your window on a particularly hazy dusk.

    Tap tap tap.

    Tap tap tap.

    Just enough to annoy you and tickle your curiosity, even though you are fully aware that you’re on the thirtieth floor and it is impossible for anyone to do it since you are sure that there are no ledges outside and there’s no way that a window cleaner would work at this hour.

    Tap tap tap.

    You drew the curtains and saw it.

    It smiled slightly, waved its scrawny hand, and said hi.

    And disappeared.

    From then on, whenever the day ended hazy and everything is all orange and gray, you hear that light tap tap tap on your windows.

    Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap.

    Bonus:

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  • A month too late, but I just stumbled upon IKEA France’s Tiktok video, hinting a possible collab with Animal Crossing. Unfortunately, no further information about this other than IGN picked up this news when the video was posted.

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