justlookingfordragon

Not the OP, but I was looking for this exact question ;) thank you so much, it worked like a charm ♥

You must be referencing some stuff the developer added after release

Likely, yes. I got that game relatively late on the Nintendo Switch, and IIRC by that time it it was first released for that console, it had been availiable for 5+ years on PC already. Lots of time to listen to feedback and implement QOL improvements ;)

There is only 1 kind of bait.

There's regular bait, deluxe bait, targetd bait, wild bait, magic bait and challenge bait.

Leveling up requires that you catch fish

You also get fishing XP by taking stuff out of crab pots, completing "fish pond" quests, harvesting fish pond produce, fishing up garbage items, reading the books "Bait and Bobber" or "Book of Stars". Not a single one of these requires playing the minigame with the green bar, and only the "fish up garbage" thing requires owning a rod in the first place.

Food bonuses are true but they all require ingredients caught by fishing.

Gus can randomly sell dishes that boost your fishing skill, like Fish Taco or Trout Soup. The same goes for the travelling cart. You do not need to have any fishing experience to buy those. As for cooking those yourself, you can also buy fish from Krobus or the travelling cart, or find fish in garbage cans. And Linus can send you fish per mail (and sometimes maki rolls for whatever reason). You don't need to actually use the fishing minigame for any of those.

because it requires you to still be checking the queen of sauce in mid-Summer of Year 2

The Queen of Sauce Book teaches you literally all recipes in the game. If you rush the Ginger Island questline you can get that reatively early.

Most people will have gotten too many reruns to keep checking at that stage of the game.

If you check the weather forecast each day (which I always do) you can see whether or not it's a rerun before clicking on it. No idea why anyone would not check those then.

It took me 3.5 years to catch everything even with a guide

See other fish sources above. I regularily check all of these and usually manage to complete the community center in Winter Y1 or Spring Y2 unless I get the short end of the stick when using the remixed option and/or fail to get red cabbage seeds or enough Gold Star veggies in Spring Y1. Haven't touched any guides until my third playthrough.

also don’t forget that placebo work even when you know it’s placebo

This right here. I've had problems with pain relief medicine simply not working since I was a child. A couple years back I started drinking caraway seed tea whenever a headache was JUST going away, and even tho I know dang well that caraway seeds do jack sh*t against pain, my body now somehow associates the taste with "ok, headache time is over" and I can drink that stuff to MAKE headaches go away.

100% placebo, 100% aware about it - still works.

PS: why caraway seeds? Because it is the least likely "tea" you can be offered in everyday context. If I had used something as common as charmomile or green tea, I think the effect wouldn't have had a lasting effect.

Ohhh nice! Thank you for the link ^^

Just to add another factor to the ongoing discussion: artistic talent isn't uniform and never was. Just because only/mostly "immature" art survived from a certain century of human history, doesn't mean that there literally was no realistic art present at the time. Since you mentioned the statues already...

These are from the same era (around 200 BC), but as you may have guessed, made by different artists =P The statue is called The Dying Gaul by the way.

As for painting examples, I guess the Rothschild Canticles^1 book illustrations represent best what most people nowadays would call medieval art. Not exactly realistic, a little goofy ... perspective? Never heard of it. Proportions? Who cares. And who needs shading anyway?! As long as you can still distinguish a human from a cupcake, it's "eh good enough".

I guess that was also what you meant by "immature" art, because it is the same art style as those goofy weird pictures of knights fighting giant snails and rabbits riding cattle into battle and the like.[^2]

That book is dated to be around 1500–1520 so it would be easy to assume that people at the start of the 15th century didn't have a realistic art style yet. But you know what else was made in that same era?

The Mona Lisa (1503–1506).

One dorky meme-esque style, and one realistic, modest and easy-on-the-eyes style in the same century, probably even the same decade. But they were used by different artists.

Now you might be thinking that those art styles might have been intended for their respective purpose or something along the lines: that the goofy, simple art style was used for nothing but amusing little pictures, and the more realistic style was for "proper" art, because noone in their right mind would spend 100+ hours painting highly detailed nonsense just for sh*ts and giggles, right?

May I introduce you to Joseph Ducreux?[^3]

I guess most of you will have seen that meme by now, but this is a real painting made by a real artist - and it is far from the only one. Ducreux created an entire series of similar self-portraits in ... unusual poses and situations.

... so yes, at least that one guy DID indeed spend dozens if not hundreds of hours (plus material costs) painting amusing nonsense for his own entertainement. He was, in a way, the victorian era equivalent of a shitposter (and I mean that in a good sense!)

Long story short: one can't just claim that "they didn't have X art style in Y century" because the truth is much more facetted than that. It is way more likely that each and every era of human history has had people with insane talent who were able to create art as realistic as possible with whatever tools their lifetime had to offer, and also a bunch of "eh good enough" art or stuff that was deliberately stylized for fun. How we percieve said art today depends mainly on what artworks have survived up until now, and/or how popular the surviving art is. (Everyone and their grandma knows about the Mona Lisa, but how many of y'all knew about the Rothschild Canticles?)

If we don't know about any realistic art from a certain period of time, it doesn't automatically mean that there was no realistic art. It may have been lost, forgotten or it exists but it's just not popular enough to be well-known.

[^{2]: https://imgur.com/gallery/medieval-marginalia-dump-bKY5h just some delightfully awkward examples
[}3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ducreux

Wikipedia claims they're quite popular.

Do they at least keep the monstie element / color change this time? TBH I was severely disappointed in MonHun Stories when I learned that they removed the only gameplay feature that kept gameplay interesting after the main story.

Hyrule, preferably the version from Breath of the Wild. I mean, yes there is the whole Ganon thing and one shouldn't go too close to the castle, but the rest of the kingdom is pretty chill, and apparently you can make an easy living by just lazy foraging in the countryside, or by selling a handful of acorns and bugs at random stables, or by growing a grand total of eight pumpkins.

I'll take a life as a homeless but well-fed drifter on horseback anytime over ... this. gestures vaguely at the current state of the world

I just absolutely hate being a man in a “what role men have in society”-way.

I know exactly what you mean. A lot of random nonsense is seen as "unmanly" for no particular reason. I've seen grown ass men throw temper tantrums about doughnuts with pink glaze, because it is apparently uNmAnLy to even touch one, as if you would get a visit from the man police and they revoke your man card for even contemplating touching something in a "girly" color. It's just complete and utter nonsense.

It is a lot healthier to not give a flying fuck about gender roles - but also harder, depending on the society you live in. I have the luxury of being a big, bearded dude so not many people dare to openly mock me when I do "unmanly" stuff - I let my niece paint my nails whenever she wants. I cry when movies get emotional. The last dog I owned was a mini pinscher, and I still miss her. I don't like beer, cars, football/soccer/whatever. I bake and cook and I can get real passionate about it. I still own my first ever plushie.

...but I also have a bunch of friends who have been relentlessly bullied for similar stuff, gaslighted into believing that they deserved it for not being manly enough. And it breaks my heart every time I hear yet another story of someone killing their own passion, numbing themselves down to the point that they become unable to enjoy what they formerly loved, just to "fit in" a society that doesn't accept deviation from the perceived norm.

Fuck gender roles in general. All they do is make people miserable for not fitting in.

EDIT: The above statement is not meant to bash trans folk by the way. What I dislike are the expectations tied to certain societal "roles" and the almost automatic ostracisation by "the society" if someone isn't fulfilling enough of those expectations. Let people be who they want to be.

Now imagine if that was a Lego factory ... you'd NEED safety shoes with steel soles for that.

Abso-friggen-lutely. But don't forget that blahajs need a special diet so if you want to share a cup with them, you need something like this: (100% vegan and alcohol-free as well. AND zero calories!)

It's okay to use any other beverage as a substitute ... and any other pet for company. It's the spirit of the holiday that counts ♪

Easy solution: don't own any pots =P

Or raise some chickens. No green-clothed, sword-swinging little weirdo would dare mess with chickens. (at least not more than once)

Do videogames count as well? If so, then Hyrule - specifically the one from Breath of the Wild. There is something incredibly tranquil and peaceful about that world ... I could get lost in there for days.

Otherwise, I am Team Discworld. GNU Terry Pratchett.

Nice ^^ I'm looking forward to it.

Just break up already. Creating a tiny extra human is not going to magically fix all of your issues.

... of course that would create a paradox in which I was never born, hence not able to give her that advice ... but seriously, the only reason I exist is because my mother didn't want my dad to leave her, which is simply a shitty reason to become pregnant.

Star Wreck: Deep Space Nein.