How Villagers "Read" Your Letters in Animal Crossing

[@Hunter-R.]

Merry Christmas and happy holidays to everyone who watched my channel this year! This video is a bit short and sweet, but I've been running around preparing to go see my family these past few weeks! I'll see you all again soon with more videos. 🎄

[@Luigi_bros4321]

It’s been a crazy year ngl

[@J4y_boi]

merry Christmas hunter :D

[@momochitters]

merry christmas!!

[@thorgidogofthunder]

merry -chris- toy day

[@Elixterr]

To - Hunter R. I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I .I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I. I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I .I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I. I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I .I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I. - I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.

[@screamy_]

as a kid i always thought angus was reading my letters because i would ceaselessly insult him and he would without fail every time respond with something equally as aggressive, like we were mortal enemies

[@grimreefer9324]

This is so fuckin funny you were a born hater

[@girlfriend2287]

why did you even hate him like that

[@Lampent12]

In truth, he was just appalled by your punctuation.

[@planescaped]

@@girlfriend2287 Cause he belongs on a burger and in the grill! But seriously, I did something similar with Harry in New Leaf for the fun of it. He was my nemesis... I think it started because I found his house ugly, plus he kept calling me beach bum... Beach bum this!

[@ephemeralmoonn]

it was meant to be

[@willoux_]

oh my god are you telling me ive been sending hate mail to my villagers this entire time

[@redasavelvet5203]

average tumblr user discovers their caps-lock and punctuation phobia makes them a microaggressor

[@Lupen69]

Your comment just threw me back in time to 2016, ahh, simpler times

[@rolandoftheeld]

Your comment scores -104, by the way.

[@rkrkrk999]

What a rude comment! ​@@redasavelvet5203

[@SnowMexicann]

@@redasavelvet5203 This is the most twitter coded comment Ive ever seen holy fuck.

[@indie.101]

i like to think the imposing nature of a letter filled with "I." makes the villager think it's safer to respond positively, rather than reason with the madman next door

[@TheMistermastermario]

meanwhile the unintimidating aura of a letter filled with lowercase “i.i.i.” emboldens the receiver to respond negatively

[@ventriloquistmagician4735]

@@indie.101 Amen

[@Corallyy]

YES

[@RevCode]

@@TheMistermastermario I would be more scared of 'i', because it takes more effort to dot the 'i' than just write an 'I'

[@Maddin1313]

"All work and no play..." Villagers "Oh no, not again!"

[@williamdrum9899]

I love how every well-intentioned computer algorithm inevitably rewards absolute lunacy.

[@DeathnoteBB]

Computers cannot filter for what is human. They can only listen precisely to what you tell it to do.

[@gwennorthcutt421]

since computers cant think like humans, people can only program the most likely outcomes. how that is accomplished varies, and so my greatest joy is seeing how very unlikely but technically passing inputs can be valid.

[@4rumani]

not every

[@KosmonautKong]

Behold, a letter!

[@turingtestingmypatience]

@@DeathnoteBB Preach. Never matters how many cases you think you accommodate in your code. There will always be some level of either _blind stupidity_ or _absolute genius_ that you cannot account for, and it will always find you. Applies to real life too with things like locks. Reminds me of a joke about a software tester in a bar. (Though that one's more about finding bugs than unintended bypasses..)

Good Letter: "I. I. I. [...]' -> Villager: "Awww, you're sweet." Bad Letter: "i. i. i. [...]" -> Villager: "HELLO, HUMAN RESOURCES?!"

[@SnM-SharedAccount]

Well. Technically Animal Resources, but who is keeping track anyways?

[@Brixster]

@@SnM-SharedAccountHuman resources manages humans. Therefore, we need human resources to throw Hunter in the brig. He cannot get away with this horrific sin of a letter

[@jktech2117]

​@@SnM-SharedAccount exactly.. humans are also animals after all

[@magetsalive5162]

​@@SnM-SharedAccount No, no - OP's got a point. You just need to add a little bit on the end: "I think my Human is broken!"

[@sorae42]

knew someone gotta make this meme

[@stupidscoutmain]

So theoretically you could write the most heartfelt, loving and well mannered letter just for the villager to react angry, or write straight up death threats and receive a positive reaction

[@Kalvinjj]

"You're the most important thing in my entire life and I love you so so soooooo much!!!!" Villager proceeds to hate your guts

[@angelsartandgaming]

I mean something pretty similar happened to me when I was a kid. There was one villager I absolutely despised as a kid. So I would send her nasty letters (And by nasty I mean like "You smell like garbage!" Or something like that because I was a child.), And she would say something along the lines of "That was the sweetest letter I've ever read!" Meanwhile with one of my favorite villagers, I would be extremely kind and say all the compliments, and they would responde with "I don't get you at all!"

[@ehetenandayo-bg7ji]

literally what happened to me lol

[@matjb]

Yeah. I wrote the lyrics to Crank That by Soulja Boy to all my villagers as a kid and they all loved it and still have them to this day LOL

[@BruftgamerXB2A]

I made my friend play Ds animal crossing once, and every time he sent a letter to a villager it was either a death threat or a kindapping warning... Except for Bill. Bill is his favorite character

[@Star_sweeper]

Throwback to 6 year old me, who could read decently well but wasn’t great at writing, getting frustrated to the point of tears that my villagers hated all my letters.

[@officialvatican]

SAME

[@ross3695_basedhax]

On my first City Folk letter in 2009 I asked a council man who happened to in my room how to spell 'nice' 😂 And I never put spaces because I thought it said 'u'

[@asherbasherkid]

its funny how a letter like that can be hated so much but then I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I. can be so good

[@ventriloquistmagician4735]

KeK

[@toooes]

Honestly can you really blame them? 😅

[@lunondisposable5382]

I remember as a kid thinking "Ok it's a computer so it can't _really_ read, but it probably looks for certain words" and would just fill letters with friendly words. I never would have imagined it looked for _punctuation_ above all else!

[@MegaZeta]

Especially awarding friendliness points for a punctuation mark at the end of a letter, which almost certainly means the writer didn't sign their name

[@l.zevicreations]

ikr

[@iiovemiku]

My best theory is that it's a way to encourage kids to write with proper punctuation but I doubt a kid would connect the dots on it.

[@TheCatOfWarCSGO]

It's weird to think, we're the last generation who will have grown up thinking computers can't actually interpret text

[@TheIziPizi]

​@@TheCatOfWarCSGOis not it technically a text, just of a singular long word with alphabet of 0 and 1?

[@squawk-box]

3:48 that's hilarious actually. they really said "i can tolerate not using punctuation, but i draw the line at run-on sentences".

[@kehraus]

All the more galling given that Mr. Resetti exists in-game. 😂

[@sidewinder2716]

Same tbh

[@notatranslationschannel8896]

The japanese language doesn't even force you to use spaces, so the localizers must have made it up.

[@Kenionatus]

@@notatranslationschannel8896 That raises the interesting question of how the algorythm works in the original. There is the trigram list that probably was used, but what about the rest?

[@jellycore1316]

​@@KenionatusThat's a really good question, true! ^^ Hmmm

[@Timmzy27]

I can’t remember if it was Wild World or New Leaf, I once wrote a letter to a villager saying something like “Please send me some apples” as they were a fruit I didn’t have at the time, the reply included a gift of apples. I don’t know if this was a coincidence or they actually “read” my letter and was like “yeah, alright my guy, here’s some apples” but it absolutely made my day and I immediately went to work planting my apple tree grove

[@hollylucianta6711]

In Wild World I used to send my town fruit to villagers and they would always reply with a different type of fruit. Handy way to get some orchards up and running early game

[@Xyvir]

​@@hollylucianta6711Whoa neat gonna give this a try

[@shannonhoward4792]

Score: -74

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

At that point it is plausible that the code checked for "please", "send" and "apples" and decided that it's a polite ask for apples.

[@MarioMastar]

@@HappyBeezerStudios Well in Wild world and on, if you send villagers a fruit, they always send a fruit back, usually the non town fruit. they dont' check for the kind of fruit at all. So it could be a coincidence.

[@AugustQ-p1w]

When I was little and couldn't write very well I would get so upset that my villagers always hated my letters that my older sister convinced me that animals actually used "opposite day" speech and when they said they hated something, that meant they liked it.

[@sweetlime3588]

That’s actually so sweet of your sister tho

[@vexilanimous]

lucky, mine told me that a tornado had a tiny but constant chance to randomly come and destroy your house and that brewster would hate your guts forever if you said you'd let your coffee cool off Once

[@ross3695_basedhax]

​@@vexilanimous I thought your character died forever and deleted your save file if you got stung by 3 bees in one day Nobody told me that would happen. I just assumed you died and that's it For over 2 years I actually thought a game for toddlers had bees murdered you

[@juulian1306]

@ross3695_basedhax Not the bees! :O

[@Spas176]

My older brother did the second unplugged controller trick on me but saw how much fun i was having “playing” the game, allowed me to play co-op games with him as time gradually went. And i was so dumb that i thought the games were broken since i couldnt “control them very well anymore”

[@nuclearicebreaker]

"I find the punctuation requirements for letter writing in Animal Crossing to be unreasonable." That's 93 characters. -150 points

[@LDTV22OfficialChannel]

LOL

[@fernando47180]

You could rephrase it in order to include some commas, without altering the meaning of the sentence, but yeah it's a bit strict.

[@AbeM.]

“I find the punctuation requirements for letter writing Animal Crossing. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. To be unreasonable.” Much better.

[@pinkushatejar]

Lmao should be top comment

[@erikamuir5768]

my guess is that it’s based on the code for the japanese game where hiragana was used. almost every hiragana letter is equivalent to a consonant and a vowel in english so the character limit would be half as strict on the low end

[@VampireofEmotion]

I remember in Wild World I hated Baarbara and wanted her to move, so I sent her loads of mean letters, but I guess because they were technically well written she always replied positively. Then I sent her one telling her I loved her and she got offended and moved not long after 😂

[@J.DanielsThe3rd]

Just like real women 😓

[@theghostcreator776]

​@@J.DanielsThe3rd I assure we don't react positively to rude letters We do generally dislike it when someone suddenly writes us a love letter after weeks of harassment 😊

[@Daehpo]

Villagers be dumb Good Letter: "I. H. A. T. E. Y. O. U." Bad Letter: "i love you"

[@mizukittyakinyama]

opposite day

[@unluckyfives]

​@@J.DanielsThe3rd That a good laugh out of me. Thanks!

[@Quiet_Void]

I can’t help but imagine a villager taking out a red pen and marking up a letter that they didn’t like.

[@gossamera4665]

All the villagers are exiled English teachers.

[@clementpruvost8670]

The letter: "l., l., l.," Random villager: "Ok, will do!"

[@apastelnerd]

The letter: "i.i.ii.i" Villager: HOW COULD YOU SAY SUCH A THING

[@LBoomsky]

The letter: "i.i.i.i.i.i.i" Random villager: "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

[@greenstarlover1]

Maybe it can be interpreted as Morse code?

[@Mephaistus]

Sleeper agent activation language

[@knucklepilled]

letter: "i..i.i.i.i.i.i" villager: "what the actual FUCK is wrong with you"

[@wj11jam78]

I'm really interested in how this works in the Japanese version, since most of the concepts used to grade the letter dont exist in Japanese.

[@Chubby_Bub]

For that matter I wonder if they changed the trigrams in the European localizations.

[@volvagia720]

I'd guess they looked for particles such as wa, and endings such as desu. These do act something like punctuation in Japanese.

[@l.zevicreations]

Honestly, it's probably why the grading is "odd", it wasnt thought as much with an English context in mind

[@LethargicScientist]

​@@volvagia720 I also wouldn't be surprised if the game checks for proper use of honorifics.

[@franz.francisco]

@@volvagia720… there's also punctuation in japanese, which can also function as punctuation. The commenter was talking about capitals and spaces, which are not used in japanese.

[@sombreset9792]

As a kid, ofc I REALLY thought that the villagers somehow understood your letters because they certainly ripped you a new one if it wasn’t written “well” enough. So I always tried super hard and got so frustrated when they still basically made fun of me for being illiterate lmao It’s cool to hear the actual logic behind it!

[@Nyerguds]

And you still didn't end that with a period. Looks like you still haven't learned your lesson.

[@sombreset9792]

@@Nyerguds oh noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo I didn’t put proper punctuation in part of my KZbin comment :( this is a true reflection of my general ability to write :( I will boot up my GameCube right now to go get my daily dose of verbal battery from a cat

[@jstarstudios7110]

@@sombreset9792Buddy, it is a JOKE.

[@sombreset9792]

@@jstarstudios7110 and my reply wasn’t??????

[@deathcraftftw2924]

​@@jstarstudios7110 Unfortunately, Nyerguds has been replying to several comments like this and arguing with people. If it is a joke, it's likely only meant for them to feel good about offending others.

[@roxygaming5968]

If I got a letter in the mail that just said "I. I. I. I. I." over and over I'd probably just reply with a generic "haha i really appreciated your letter" message because I would NOT want to get on the bad side of someone who embodies the typewriter scene from the Shining.

[@LazKoal]

Hunter: I.I.I.I. Bob: 😊 Hunter: i.i.i.i.i Bob: 🤬

[@Leo9ine]

Yes thank you that is the thumbnail

[@pixalatedball]

slide 6

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

@@pixalatedball What?

[@MarioMastar]

In fairness, Bob IS like that. XD

[@MintyArisato]

I’m so happy you used Bob as an example because my seven year old self used to write him love letters with my whole heart. Sometimes he replied he was confused but other times he loved them and talked about stupid stuff, I loved it 😭 ❤

[@Zyugo]

Crossing Channel will be proud of you.

[@melaniescott4877]

So this is not an original experience of mine

[@Kawa-oneechan]

I just confirmed New Horizons still does a trigram check. But without the out-of-bounds termination, of course. The tables are quite similar, but expanded, and there are separate trigram lists for birthday wishes and winter events like "hap new yea".

[@foolofdaggers7555]

hap new yea!

[@Nyx_Fey_]

Hap new yea!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[@LuneClipsUnofficial]

@@Nyx_Fey_29s ago is crazy

[@LuneClipsUnofficial]

hap new yea guys

[@trotteri]

hap new yea!!!!

[@JimmyDPooper]

This is my first time learning that villagers actually "read" your letters. As a kid, I sent maybe 4-5 letters before giving up. I just assumed that their responses were completely random, because they seemed to be totally random. It probably didn't help that I had terrible spelling and grammar back then.

[@KirbyMario12345_939]

Imagine if Mario 64 started with: Dear Mario, i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i .i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i.i ~ Peach And then Mario thinks out loud; "Couldn't you at least use capitals?"

[@joemkdd]

mario gets so offended at the terrible letter he just leaves

[@SyphistPrime]

I want to see a ROM Hack with this now.

[@turingtestingmypatience]

​@@joemkdd to keep Syph's hypothetical romhack going, maybe the controls message at the start (usually starts with "ciao") says "Mammmmma mia, she couldn't even be bothered to use-a capital letters!"

[@miraculix743]

​@@joemkddLMAO

[@triple-067]

@@SyphistPrime I was an entrant in the last Simpleflips competition, and I was thinking of making something silly next. This is perfect! 😂

[@Falkuzrules]

Imagine if internet comments were scored this way and got deleted if they went into the negative. That'd be fun. Then you'd only get proper grammar and "L.L.L.L.L.L."

[@gossamera4665]

That's actually not really too far off from how it works. You have several filters your comment has to go through, the general filter, the channel owner's filter and finally other users reporting your comment. Oh but it doesn't check for grammar and punctuation obviously.

[@MutedAndReported3032]

@@gossamera4665 So… not even close, actually.

[@gossamera4665]

@@MutedAndReported3032 It is similar in that it compares and checks for certain strings, the difference being instead of a score, it just gets removed.

[@LonelySpaceDetective]

I think someone actually wrote a thing to score Twitter replies this way, though I don't think it did anything afterwards.

[@alexli6935]

KZbin ranks comments with a LLM of some sort and bans some

[@jackpijjin4088]

This reminds me of the time my cousin wrote a letter to a squirrel villager telling her he'd love to have her ass mounted on his wall over the fireplace. She wrote back absolutely elated. Though he was a pathological liar so I doubt I can believe him, but this at least means it was plausible! Lmao.

[@milkywaydotmoe]

freaky

[@jackpijjin4088]

@milkywaydotmoe Indeed

[@robonator2945]

Ah, a squirrel girl stan then.

[@grimreefer9324]

Your cousin was a lil freak wth

[@jackpijjin4088]

@@robonator2945 oddly enough, he was going through a strong Eminem phase at that time. So you might be onto something.

[@paulunga]

I remember my letters turning into mostly word salad of "positive" words after a lot of experimentation. It worked well enough for me. E.g. "Hi Love, friend happy fishing! Party fun together! Bye!"

[@kingbrettpro]

Never knew having a stroke when typing letters to your in-game villagers would increase friendship points.

[@Persun_McPersonson]

They pity your condition.

[@BigSimp]

scott cawthon pfp

[@TheOneWhoHasABadName]

you need the right symptoms to compel you, otherwise you might do something like “aaadddrrrggguuu” (with more than 32 characters) and get one negative friendship point instead

[@jcaesar19871]

L. O. L.

[@kingbrettpro]

@@BigSimp It's actually Animdude edited to look like Fredbear. it was made by a friend of mine.

[@JacobKinsley]

I love the idea of opening a letter in the mail and it's just your friend who lives a few doors down going "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" and you become really upset at them for it

[@gonderage]

I love how you pronounced Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis so flawlessly, which I think I saw in a legitimate context one time in college when I went to a talk on volcanoes a long while ago. It was pretty supercalifragilisticexpialidocious to see.

[@Hunter-R.]

I won't disclose how many takes it took...

[@aaabe_T]

@@Hunter-R.uhh is it at least 3

[@WoahCuber]

@@Hunter-R. I'm guessing you wanna stay humble and dont wanna flex how it took you 1 try

[@gentjan_197]

Blue comment

[@cruncyart]

Honestly? Considering how it's phonetically consistent and essentially just a long string of words... it's not too hard to pronounce! Definitely easier than trying to figure out Worcestershire.

[@JayTheOtt]

Oh boy, a 10 minutes video explaining the intricacies of a mechanic in a game that I don't play nor intend to play? Finally, some quality entertainment to eat my lunch to.

[@kat_thelorekid]

Absolutely same

[@MsWatismyname]

Yeah its 3 am I should probably go to bed..

[@Lupaland11]

Lol 😂

[@Pikazilla245]

When I was like 7 years old playing Wild World, I had Rocco in my town who I hated and I desperately wanted him to move out. So I had the bright idea of writing letters pretending to be his mom begging for him to come back. But I got super frustrated because he somehow saw through my facade and would always write nice letters back to me but I also didn’t know that writing letters increased the friendship with said villager. Rocco ended up staying for another year until he finally moved out

[@VIofCaffeine]

That is such an extreme plot to get someone to move out. Classic scheming 7 year olds

[@robonator2945]

plot twist : he actually did believe the letters were coming from his mom, but he also knew they were coming from you. You convinced your neighbor you were their mother and then got annoyed at them for not immediately leaving you.

[@kai_maceration]

i had limburg in wild world and i would send him letters screaming about how much i hated him and i think he actually liked them, either that or i couldn't read well enough to tell he was being passive aggressive lmao

[@hollylucianta6711]

I disliked Octavian because his face creeped me out so I sent him a letter telling him he had won the lottery back at his old town but he had to move back there to get it. He thanked me for my letter and kept showing it to me for weeks. Didn't move out. No respect for the hustle

[@miraculix743]

​@@hollylucianta6711LMAOO

[@epikoof]

i love the balatro jumpscare at 5:40, it made me think that it was gonna go faster and higher pitched

[@Ostr0]

5:43 We truly live in a simulation ahh letter 💀

[@kamstt]

banger signature on that letter

[@CoolKnight4722]

You forgot to end with punctuation. Also, don’t forget your capitalization at the start of sentences!

[@j100j]

​@@CoolKnight4722 I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I. I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I. I.I.I.I.I.I.I.

[@tammid8423]

​​​@@CoolKnight4722 I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. .I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. .I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. .I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I.

[@smolbrendan5978]

@@CoolKnight4722 iii.idontcare

[@Kamirasu]

​@@CoolKnight4722 I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I . I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I . I. I.

[@Spubbily01]

Villager: "Wow! That letter was amazing!" The letter in question: "Oh, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a..."

[@yurimezurashi]

gummy bear

[@Rakkiankh]

I have a memory from back during the Wild World days where I wrote a letter to Rasher. I hated him because he was pretty rude to me, so I decided to send him a letter where I basically cussed him out. I didn't know a lot of swears back then though, so I used a lot of punctuation as substitutes, like they used to do with symbols in old comic strips. I also made sure everything was punctuated correctly outside of that because I wanted it to be as clear as possible with his robot brain. Cue my confusion when Rasher tells me about how he recieved it and apparently liked it. It somehow acted as the tipping point for him to start liking me in general too.

[@ArtzZeeZee]

I know the context of this video says otherwise, but I like to think Rasher received that letter and thought "Oh damn, didn't know you had that in you." and started respecting you for the audacity.

[@llynxfyre]

Task failed successfully...?

[@MatthewHyder-hr8ux]

That kind of sounds like some bullies might just be messing with you to toughen you up. ^^; Which is... interesting. :?

[@Most-sane-deltarune-fan]

Robot brain?

[@Rakkiankh]

@Most-sane-deltarune-fan Coding

[@TheStorne]

6:36 wait so does that mean it’s impossible to get the “ending with a period” bonus without incurring a penalty?

[@AdrianHereToHelp]

Maybe that's why it's 20 - 10 to offset the penalty, and then the other 10 is your actual reward?

[@blazingleoking1190]

The super neat signature on this weirdo letter is killing me lol

[@SnackCakes]

8:33 I wish you used lower case L on the letter on the right so the letters would look even more identical.

[@Hunter-R.]

That would’ve been clever. 🙃

[@SnackCakes]

@@Hunter-R. Fantastic video regardless, thanks for making these. I loved this game as a kid.

[@Bupboy]

8:41 i wish you had told me this sooner : I wrote to santa this year "iii. i. i. i. i. i. i. i. i. i. i. i. i. i. i. i. i. i. i. i. i." Now i know for sure im not getting anything this year :(

[@kaldogorath]

Oh no, you're getting something. But you're not gonna like it!

[@Makaibros]

@@kaldogorath NO! NOT COAL

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

@@MakaibrosNo, worse.

[@RaibaruDev-]

You don’t understand how much I look forward to these videos man, I always watch them immediately.

[@Hunter-R.]

Means a lot, thank you so much! Some of my biggest projects and videos ever are yet to come, so I hope you continue to look forward to future uploads!

[@TheScribbler47]

i'm convinced this bit at 8:44 was just to flex your signature onto us. great video!

[@inkseaa]

Agreed. It's so good! I wish I had a better signature.

[@vcka]

is that not a normal signature???????

[@psychotophatcat]

​​@@vcka Most people don't really have a signature that's actually legible these days. The vast majority just scribble some lines that vaguely resembles like two letters out of their name.

[@psychotophatcat]

​@@inkseaa You can always practice! I did for a long time before I found a signature I really like. You don't have to have wonderful handwriting in general, just the signature itself.

[@ethanpschwartz]

I knew my anal retentive approach to proper spelling and punctuation was gonna be worth it in the end. Plus, this explains why I always got gifts with my letters while my friends didn't.

[@LycanKai14]

I can't remember if it was gamecube or DS, but one of them it was really easy to get gifts, even with gibberish letters. I think it was either using the catchphrase they use, or putting a gift in the letter? I'd just send all letters spamming 'a' and always get a gift back.

[@sinistrecigogne]

​@@LycanKai14Probably New Leaf

[@mizukittyakinyama]

4:09 pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is simply a forbidden topic. they don't want you to discuss pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis.

[@renakunisaki]

This is the worst comment ever, apparently.

[@1un4cy]

Try not to say pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis around people with hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

[@NotAdachiPeople]

@@1un4cyWhoever named that phobia is a damn menace to society.

[@esmerat]

@NotAdachiPeopleaibohphobia too

[@nicopn]

Bonus points if the person who you say it to lives in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerichwyrndrobullllantisiliogogogoch, or however you spell that thing (I didn't copypaste)

[@MadTawnyOwlet]

I remember when I was little, I asked my mum to help me compose a letter to a villager asking to borrow their axe that I had seen them wandering around with that day. 😅 I was disappointed when they replied saying my letter was lovely but didn't include any mention of my request... At the time i didnt understand that they couldnt actually comprehend what I had written.😂

[@drgabi18]

This explains why a horrible letter I wrote when I was 11, about running the animals over with a car, got Bob to tell me that he loves my letter, I just knew how to write well lol.

[@Orangekid65]

that is such an 11 year old thing to threaten someone with, oh my gosh, I love that xD

[@butterbun7033]

**hears plus and minus points** Ah this is great, I'm going to get a good grade in Animal Crossing, something that is both normal to want and possible to achieve 😂😂

[@UserX-02]

My villagers are illiterate so I exile them from my island

[@Dangerzone334ArchiveOfficial]

Me, I throw out my letters that insult my writing

[@Leadbraw]

MY VILLAGERS ARE ALL MORONS!

[@crushbeast29]

Your villagers must all be gen z 🤣

[@TheForgottenWolf]

Knowing the villagers. They're just like "By the gods. Some type of coded letter. How did he know I love coded letters?"

[@jhynjhiruurekrap5725]

...wow, I sure hope there weren't any disappointed kids in Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogoch getting hit with a penalty for talking about their town - unless that code was changed for the European release to deal with German?

[@JamSparing]

I doubt kids at the age this was for would write words THAT long. Even in German.

[@chosenuwu]

just when i wanted to write a letter about Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz :(

[@Ellisepha]

Wouldn't say that are that many long German compound words at child level that kids would want to talk about.

[@JamSparing]

@chosenuwu As six-to-12-year-olds often do, of course.

[@eightcoins4401]

The longest german word is shorter

[@shadowflamegxkryptic]

2:53 Imagine trying to make a sssnake pun and getting obliterated by the scoring system.

[@uncetic7059]

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't normally write comments and I've never even sent a thanks to a creator, but I REALLY want to say how much I appreciate your videos. I don't have much special to say but please don't stop doing what you do.

[@Hunter-R.]

Aw, I appreciate it -- thank you so much! Plenty of big plans for 2025! 😄

[@WreckItRolfe]

Grizzly was always very proud of my brother's letter telling him to take a long walk on a short pier.

[@thoopsy]

I used to get bad scores because i wanted words to be all on the same line, so i was inserting extra spaces everywhere. Oh well.

[@doodlebug7]

Everyone talking about how they thought the letter reading system worked, meanwhile, I, even as a kid, thought they didn't read the letters at all and were just programed to automatically send you a nice reply.

[@niicespiice]

if this applies to city folk: my 5-year-old self somehow predicted this feature - i was wondering if i put enough keywords in it like "come to my house" then the villagers would actually come to my house, etc etc. unfortunately, the "reading" was not actually that advanced.

[@Chronocrossfangirl2002]

Do you think if it applies to city folk it'll apply to wild world as well since they share alot of the same similarities?

[@Way_J_YT]

Straight to point. Not clickbait thumbnail. Good pacing. Good timing. Good overall lenght of the video. You scored a like

[@planescaped]

"If any letter of the alphabet occurs 3 or more times in a row, they instantly deduct 50 points." Animal Crossing villagers hate AAA and especially AAAA games. As well as onomatopoeia. Ooooh!

[@Spooky-n6l]

so that explains amiibo festival

[@refrigerator20plays13]

You also have to be careful with roman numerals because any strings like "III" or "XXX" would upset villagers.

[@renakunisaki]

Good thing the Wavebird doesn't take AAA batteries.

[@thatoneguy9582]

do NOT extend your “hiiii”s any more than two letters

[@LendriMujina]

_'Hopefully you don't respond with random nonsense, since you'll be stuck with your answers. Who wants to live in a town called "AAAAAAA," anyway?'_ - Smash 3DS, Rover trophy

[@MonsterTaming420]

I remember as a teen knowing they couldn't read but knew it must know something. I remember my letters were like "How are you? I am doing good! I like catching bugs/fishing. Do you like [Villager name]?" it was so repetitive but it worked well enough for me.

[@officialvatican]

i remember playing wild world as a kid and my villager getting mad at me for sending him a gibberish letter and being so upset about it i literally thought i made it up for years because i didn’t think that could actually happen in the game 😭

[@Anolaana]

9:13 yoo, Japan Eat is there!!

[@jansenart0]

I never once would have imagined that our villagers secretly judge ever aspect of every letter you send.

[@hcblue]

8:47 That flourish of a signature is +150 in my book

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

Go go gadget Signature Spam

[@1337treeckolol]

I've watched every single one of your videos in 2 days while I had no chair. I'm so grateful to your content keeping me company. Merry christmas, thanks for making my vacation less miserable!

[@eightcoins4401]

Were you watching standing?

[@FunkyZaldos]

That sucks about your chair, hope you got it back!. Merry Christmas

[@sey_81]

why did you have no chair

[@dado__]

​@@eightcoins4401I presume they mean wheelchair, so they were stuck to their bed or wherever they could be moved with help.

[@scottydog6713]

i used to send my favorite villagers summaries on my day, and slowly accomodated my writing in a way they could "understand" after weeks of sending letters each day! i distinctly remember thinking it was bogus that the "smart" villagers only understood short sentences LOL

[@nathankellogg2640]

Hunter, a reminder that we all chose to spend Christmas Eve on your channel. Every upload is truly a delight! It's like an early Christmas present the whole year around. Thanks for all you do.

[@IAmTheRiverKing]

8:44 - He just casually drops the most beautiful signature I've ever seen 😮

[@poodlepuppy]

I loved this video

[@squivvo]

I’ve been binging these videos recently and they’ve really given me a unique appreciation for the first game. The care that went into the first four animal crossing games really makes them a treasure. Happy holidays and thank you for the work you put in!

[@Diwasho]

In New Leaf I used to write long elaborate love letters to Whitney all the time, perfect grammar and all, and she still wasn't impressed lol.

[@shrilleth]

and you didn't take the hint?

[@Diwasho]

@@shrilleth Well, she is a Snooty villager, I figured she was playing hard to get.

[@vindi167]

3:53 anti-yapping protocol

[@NanaIsA_weirdo]

Bruh the yapping is the fun part

[@SWISS-1337]

"Dear Santa, I. I. I. I.... " WOW, this guy has a lot of self confidence, I will get him a great gift - Santa.

[@healthyminds9279]

THIS IS THE BEST PART OF KZbin. Videos that investigate a long-held interesting question we forgot we had. I LOVE how devs back then had to come up with this stuff. I'm guessing that modern games with a letter reply system use some standardized formula and don't have to be creative? Or they don't have time to code a system like this, so they make all responses generic.

[@froggggg643]

Today I learned a 45-letter word that I immediately forgot.

[@robotortoise]

I really appreciate how you actually wrote that letter out to Santa and did this super-pretty signature. It's really endearing and funny. Merry Christmas!

[@TheAileZX2]

Good letter: "I, I, I, I, I.... I! :D I. I. I. I. I..... I :D" Bad letter: "Uh, eeeeeeeeeeeee~ Eee ee ee ee ee. ee ee ee. eee. eee. uh, eee."

[@MudakTheMultiplier]

Yooo! I've always wondered about this. Now I can correctly send my friends the most effecient Discord messages!

[@NekoShogun]

I love that your reading of was just an appropriate amount of silence.

[@squishybrick]

Those balatro noises triggered my neuron. .. . Those... Those "were" balatro noises, right? I'm not crazy?

[@Professor_Utonium_]

Trigram Joker

[@Finity_twenty_ten]

You .I .I .I. I . . . Villager: yes, how informative. Thank you for sharing this with me.

[@Sonchikas1]

me: I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I. I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I. I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I. Bob: what a beautiful latter, I think I might tear up...

[@Labriction]

6:06 balatro brainrotted me

[@epickid4268]

I never played Balato, can you please explain to my dumb ass?

[@Labriction]

@ it’s just a sound effect lmao

[@opensky0]

@@epickid4268tick sound of a scored card also has a number pop up with +

[@A3onFaux]

Ty, I thought I lost it hearing that 💀🙏

[@potatogamerrrrr]

i thought it sounded like the stasis timer ticking down in botw

[@Tethrarxitet]

i know for sure i will spend half of next year watching more of your animal crossing videos

[@JorgetePanete]

The illusion of choice: end the letter with punctuation or don't, you get a penalty.

[@gregoryhouldsworth2189]

Thanks for your dedication to documenting all of this game's internal workings! I always thought I'd be the only person who cared enough about this stuff, so it does not go unappreciated. Do you think you'll ever make a video about how each game randomly generates their towns? That's always fascinated me a lot!

[@HoneyBadgerLikesYou]

Honestly the trigram check is such a clever way of verifying valid words without storing a dictionary. Wouldn’t have thought of that.

[@monopolyrubix1875]

Only on KZbin would a man shoutout his patron "goosefart"

[@gossamera4665]

I would just like to say to anyone like me wondering: no, geese cannot fart, nor can any other bird.

[@jademonas]

love that the "best" letter and "worst" letter are pretty much the same

[@erroroliver]

Have a nice Christmas, Hunter R!

[@Gottaculat]

I love that people still play this wonderful, incredibly chill game.

[@Jacobturtle]

9:24 This is just so hilarious to me The way you can tell didn’t just cut the audio though lol

[@graveyardrose3413]

You have great penmanship. I’ve never been impressed by a signature before

[@Strang3ness]

Interesting, I was always sad when I was younger because the villagers never liked the letters I wrote to them. I had no idea what I was doing wrong.

[@mizukittyakinyama]

for starters, you didn't say "I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I .I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I .I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I .I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I.I."

[@Strang3ness]

@mizukittyakinyama Indeed, I know that now.

[@Luukskywalker]

​@@Strang3nessAww, that would have disappointed me greatly if I wrote a letter to a villager and they would not like it. :( XD

[@ahorsewithnogames]

great video, can't tell you how refreshing it is for a video to have an actually interesting topic from a nostalgic game, get straight into the topic, explaining the technical side clearly, and be funny too. subbed

[@ImThylacine]

Yesssss! I’ve always wanted to know about this system- it’s seems so mysterious how the game responds appropriately to any possible letter

[@eightcoins4401]

Cute pfp

[@retelefe]

The letter: .I. .I. .I. Villager: What a lovely letter

[@Luxdoesnt]

holy moly. all those years growing up, wondering why my villagers were always upset getting letters from me lol

[@cookie_cuter6050]

1:14 Animal crossing being an English teacher

[@CLSSM]

1:14 That piano🔥

[@kijetesantakalu042]

You are probably my favorite youtuber now.

[@TopOfAllWorlds]

7:58 doesn't this mean you could use this for Arbitrary Code Execution?

[@pasator]

No. It just checks if those addresses match. You can't really abuse it in any way

[@lauravturner]

Probably not in this specific context since it's just letters for villagers, but in other parts of the game you can mess with the code, yes. Usually the codes for Tom Nook get abused, but there are other ways to mess with the code if I remember correctly.

[@lugnut1206]

Sounds like an out of bounds read primitive, which, in a general sense, is something you usually need for ACE, but because the value simply alters the outcome of this trigram check it probably isn't extremely useful. These kinds of errors are the kind you need to look out for when looking into ACE, so your instincts are on the right track.