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Originally posted by BioMotor_Unitron:
<strong>Going to try Animal Crossing tonight and get things moving.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Aww yeah! Good thing too, Explorer's Day is Monday and Halloween is just around the corner.

Let me know when you get settled in, I'll send you a house-warming present.

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Originally posted by BioMotor_Unitron:
<strong>Since Permanent Fund Dividend cheques came in on Wednesday </strong><hr></blockquote>

1) What is this, and how do I get them?
2) Happy new system day! I may suck it up and buy an XBOX next week too.

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Aww yeah! Good thing too, Explorer's Day is Monday and Halloween is just around the corner.

Let me know when you get settled in, I'll send you a house-warming present.
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Can you do that without actually physically meeting up and trading memory cards?

I actually just got a cube a week ago and its all good. I got resident evil and mario sunshine. Sunshine is a little dissapointing compared to mario world and 64 but resident evil is just awesome.

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Originally posted by naitram:
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1) What is this, and how do I get them?
2) Happy new system day! I may suck it up and buy an XBOX next week too.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend cheques. Basically, some years ago they decided to invest the oil profits, and every eligible Alaska resident gets a cheque for an equal amount of the profits every year. It is more profitable for the stores in Alaska than the Christmas season. Stores get in pallet loads of big screen televisions, computers, etc. because when a family with two parents and two kids each get a cheque, a $5,000.00 television suddenly becomes an impulse buy.

Here is a list of how much the cheques have been for each year since the program started.

You can read more about the PFD <a href="http://www.pfd.state.ak.us/OVERVIEW.HTM" target="_blank">HERE</a>.

<a href="http://www.pfd.state.ak.us/YEARAMOU.HTM" target="_blank">Yearly Amounts</a>

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Originally posted by naitram:
<strong>Damn WTF? We should get those here in Minnesota for, uh something... Looks like your hayday was in 2000 though. Hope it goes up for you again next year.</strong><hr></blockquote>

Yeah, CNN was reporting how we might not get one next year due to the declining markets, but they did not take into account that it is based on a five year average. Also, there is occasional talk about dissolving the Permanent Fund, in which case everyone would get a cheque for $50,000.00 to $80,000.00.

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Originally posted by ThePunisher:
<strong>Can you do that without actually physically meeting up and trading memory cards?
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Yeah. You didn't think I was gonna jump on the first plane to Alaska to give BMU a NES game, did ya .

There are at least 3 ways to trade items with another human being in another town:

1) The most common way, is to go to Nook's store and give him an item, tell him who it is going to and where they are (I'm Blaine in Contra). He'll give you a passcode and you give that to that person. No one else, except possibly another person named Blaine who lives in a town called Contra, can use that code to get that item.

2) If you live near the person you can use a second memory card, get on the train and 'travel' to thier town. It'll make a small save file on the other card and you take it to that person's house or whatever and you'll climb off the train with all your items in your inventory in tact. You can then leave them in that person's town or whatever.

Also note that once you do that some of your neighbors will visit his town, and might even move there...and vice versa.

Jigen does this to rob his sister's town of all thier fruit.

3) The Hard Way. Using a GBA and the link cable, you have an island. You have a house on that island. You can put whatever you want in that house or just on the ground around the island.

If I do this and you do this we can use a GBA link cable to trade islands then when I go to the docks Kapp'n will take me to your island instead of mine, I can then take whatever I want from your island and you can do the same from mine, I'll keep using that island until I turn off my GBA and clear it from it's memory, thent it's back to my normal island.

So basically in the 3rd scenario I don't lose the item I give you, because my game doesn't know it's gone.

Long answer to an easy question. Yes you can trade with someone across the world with the passcodes.

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Originally posted by Rurouni:
<strong>blaine when will i get a NES.. i been playing for a week now and yet i havent receive a NES. did i miss something here?</strong><hr></blockquote>

I thought the NES was the gift that came on the memory card for the game.

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Originally posted by Rurouni:
<strong>blaine when will i get a NES.. i been playing for a week now and yet i havent receive a NES. did i miss something here?</strong><hr></blockquote>

If you're renting it or using a memory card other than the one that came with the game then, no you're not missing anything. You get two NES games on the special memory card the game comes with.

It should be in the mail, from Nintendo of America. There's a present, it's a grab bag. Open the grab bag and there are two games for you.

You don't need the NES to play the games, you just drop them on the floor and press "A" when you're standing in front of them.

That's it.

Also, for enrichment, there are 8 common games:

Balloon Fight, Clu Clu Land, Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr MATH, Excitebike, Golf, Pinball and Tennis.

Right now you can get an uncommon game, Soccer, at animal-crossing.com by clicking on the "Dear Pecan" graphic and signing up for a little newsletter. Right now it's the only way to get Soccer, to the best of my knowledge.

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