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Ugly Animals Hack: How to Turn Your Unusual Animal Hobby into a Profitable Business



Humans, being as prejudiced as we are, tend to only like certain animals. Oh, how our dog smiles and plays! Oh, how our cat rolls on the rug asking for a tummy rub! Oh, how the hamster stuffs his chubby little cheeks! Oh, how pretty the Mute Swan is as he glides across the pond! Oh, how the Coelacanth... is a boring old fish.




Ugly Animals Hack




You may have noticed that only cute, cuddly, and cool animals are good guys while unpopular or unattractive animals are brought in to be the Designated Villains. This usually plays into the "Carnivores are Mean" subtrope of Carnivore Confusion. Wolves were cast as baddies for centuries. Owls and hawks and corvids basically exist to drop down on our cuter protagonists from above. Wasps and termites are mini villains. Rats and Weasels are the go-to pocket-sized villains. Octopuses and squid are more or less discount Krakens. Friendly sharks pretty much exist only as a subversion. Don't even ask about snakesnote Well, maybe you can about the non-venomous kinds, like garter snakes or pythons, but these are rare.


The heroes, on the other hand, will be cute or cool animals like doggies and kitties and bunnies and duckies and turtles and froggies and ladybugs and bees and ants and monkeys and friendly playful dolphins and Reticulated Chipmunks and you see where we're going with this right?


Wolves and Foxes, and Lions and other big cats can be heroes as well because their babies are cute and thus remind people of puppies and kittens, and the adults look badass. All butterflies are marked "Cute", even those you won't like to see in your garden. Spiders and bats are marked "Mean" even though they usually don't bother humans at all and even devour lots of annoying and dangerous insects. And if you'll encounter an Antlion in the role of horrible predator, its adult form is not likely to appear in next scenes (it looks like a cute, pretty dragonfly). For any animals not in this short list, it's usually divided into one of these.


It should be noted that which animals get to be considered cute/cool or the opposite tends to vary by culture. For example, foxes are generally cute or roguish in America, mean in some parts of Europe and Magnificent Bastard types in others, magical tricksters in Japan, and Ax-Crazy evil in Korea. Cats are generally seen as bad and mean in the West (kittens being the obvious exception), but in other parts of the world such as Japan and the Middle East, cats are generally playful and cute animals, even if they are strays. Rats are portrayed as vermin in the western world, but are revered in India and are the first of twelve animals that represent the years on the Chinese Zodiac. Pigs are often outrightly dirty and greedy in western culture as well as in Middle East, but tend to get more consideration in China, where they are part of the aforementioned Zodiac as well. Dogs, while seen as cute, heroic and lovable in the West (certain breeds notwithstanding), are reviled in the Middle East as filthy scavengers.


This trope is Truth in Television and a major problem in wildlife preservation, with animals that appeal to humans termed charismatic megafauna, like the panda for example. It doesn't matter if, like the aforementioned Coelacanth, you've survived damn near everything else the world can throw at you; if you aren't generally thought of as cute by most people, you're in serious trouble. Few people really care about ugly or unpopular animals, regardless of their ecological importance.


The Uncanny Valley is somewhat related, as it was born from the scientific study of this trope. It is a supertrope of No Cartoon Fish. It often cross-pollinates with Beauty Equals Goodness, Animal Stereotypes, Carnivore Confusion, and What Measure Is a Non-Human?. See also Ugly Cute, Bat Out of Hell, Bug War, Ominous Owl, Reptiles Are Abhorrent, You Dirty Rat!, and Always Chaotic Evil. Contrast Dark Is Not Evil, Light Is Not Good, and Grotesque Cute. Also contrast Fluffy Tamer and Friend to Bugs for people with unconventional opinions on what animals qualify as cute or lovable. This trope also applies to humans and is often the deciding factor of who gets to be the Face of the Band. This trope is pervasive enough that the Killer Rabbit and some of the Bad Kitties exist to subvert it. Time period and location seem to affect public opinion of mustelids, as shown by the contrasting tropes Weasel Mascot and Wicked Weasel.


One way to subvert audience expectations with this trope is to turn the moralities of the characters on their head, but not the characteristics of the animals themselves. For example, use animals normally seen as unpopular (such as horseshoe crabs), and retain their "undesirable" qualities while showing that they're good at heart. Conversely, use popular animals (like dogs) to display pleasurable features, while hiding their malevolent nature.


This is not a guide for beginners, though. No, these are the tips, tricks, and hacks that even the most veteran and experienced Animal Crossing players might not know about New Horizons. From how to kick a villager out, island planners, and 100 percent accurate hybrid flower breeding guides, we've got you covered.


This one might be more of an awesome detail rather than a life-changing hack. It has limited utility, mostly useful for those looking to breed hybrid flowers or find certain fish and bugs that only come out in the rain.


The phenomenon of evicting ugly villagers(Opens in a new tab) from your island or even villager hunting for the most coveted ones is pretty unique to Animal Crossing: New Horizons. But Nintendo has a bigger heart than most of its players, so there's no streamlined way to guarantee your most-hated villagers will take the hint and GTFO.


So here's the hack: Start by talking to all the villagers you like and want to keep on your island. Do not talk to the ones you want to leave. Now, time travel (meaning save, close the game application, go to system settings on your Switch, and turn off syncing with your time zone) by setting the clock exactly one month into the future. Reboot the game and check to see if any of your villagers have a thought bubble above their heads, an indicator that they're considering moving out. If it's a villager you want to stay, make sure to dissuade them.


Secondly, on this trail, there is a caution alert for wild animals such as bears. A region that spreads for over 400 miles is known territory of grizzly bears and chances of encounters with black bears ranges in a frequent percentile.


What you make is funneled back into programs, staff, and projects. So, you're safe from hacking, right? Who would want to hack an organization that doesn't have much money or large databases of unknown personal and private information?


Hacking is a serious problem for nonprofits. When a hacker attacks, it's not just your organization's information they want; it's your donors' information. And if a hacker is successful and obtains donor information (along with anything or everything else), the consequences can be ugly.


Server. You'll know your server has been hacked if staff start receiving ransom messages, fake antivirus messages, unwanted browser toolbars, random pop-ups, or have their Internet searches redirected. Other telltale signs include passwords that no longer work, automatic software installations, disabled anti-malware software, webcam light flickering, and automatic mouse movements.


Facebook. You can check your Facebook page to determine if you've been hacked. Under Settings, choose Security and Login and then Where You're Logged In. A list of devices that you've logged in to and their locations will appear. If there is a login you do not recognize, you may have been hacked.


Obviously, your organization's other social media profiles can be hacked, but, depending on how you interact with your followers, Facebook is likely to have gathered and stored the most information on your organization and its followers.


Employees and volunteers should also be prevented from connecting their own devices to your network. USB sticks are an especially popular way for hackers to transfer malware from one computer or network to another.


That is, unless you decide to hack the game, of course. As spotted by Animal Crossing World, a new trend has started to appear among Animal Crossing's trading communities online, in which special trees holding items like Star Fragments, Hearts, Cupcakes, and more are being swapped for other rare goodies.


Animal Crossing World says that 'save editor hacking' is the method being used to make this a reality, and while we'd advise that you don't try this yourself - we've all heard the horror stories of Nintendo banning systems being used to do things that they shouldn't - we must admit that it does make for some lovely looking scenery.


Nintendo has been actively working against hackers in Animal Crossing, actually putting out a patch to combat them before the game had even officially released. At the time, it was warned that players going online with cheats active should expect bans.


I absolutely loved seeing those trees and found them to fit the fairy theme so well, it was a bummer to find out they were hacked. I do hope Nintendo makes this a reality. With how much it's spread among AC fans and people PAYING to get these trees, I don't think Nintendo would (or should) ban them. Just fix it if it's game-breaking in an update.


@T7Hokage017 I understand your frustration in people seeming to cheat because they don't care about the devolopers. In some cases though, hacks happen because people actually enjoy a game and want it to be even better, like when you get people doing translation patches or making pretty trees in Animal crossing.


Y'all need to chill, if people are going to hack in a way that literally does not hurt other players, then let them, especially since they'll probably get banned anyways. I hate hackers too but I only hate hackers who go out of their way to ruin the fun for everyone else, this stuff is perfectly harmless because you can choose not to visit their islands. 2ff7e9595c


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