animal crossing politics...

...so wow, things actually happen in this game.

My neighbor Baabara had a fight with Cyrano who lives next to her and now he's so upset that he's moving.
Chief and Bunnie have become ridiculously close as they both wear the same shirt and Bunnie has adopted Chief's nickname for me, "Snappy J." They're the only two in the whole town who call me that. And apparently, town gossip thinks they should be a couple, but Chief seems to think he may have chemistry with me which scares him (wait, he's scared? What about me?!).
I'm now friends with Sable who works in the clothing store, and usually doesn't talk to anyone.
Oh and I just paid 3,000 bells for life insurance to a shady looking mole named Lyle who spent most of today hanging around my house in a suspicious manner.
...
what the hell.

I'm not complaining, but I certainly didn't expect characters to really interact with each other like this. I always assumed that beyond the tiny conversations you may witness them having that they weren't all too aware of each other. In fact, I assumed those convos with the characters that went along the lines of "You know how animalA and animalB seem to get along so well?" just had characters randomly inserting names from people who lived in the town.

I gotta say, I'm actually kinda impressed at the AI programming here. I would have loved to see them push it farther, so that say, if you wrote to Rod and mentioned Baabara, then Rod would reply with a letter about Baabara. They could defs script that.

But anyways, I should probably do something more productive with my time, like, I dunno, do Level Design II homework... Maybe.