I posted this in the Westworld thread in Movies & TV but I figured it could go here, too. Check out what I made in Animal Crossing last night:
So, let me break it down. This season in Westworld there is an artificial intelligence system named Rehoboam that two characters developed. In a flashback, they show how they started developing the AI and how it could predict and manipulate markets and futures in the blink of an eye to make anyone in control of it wealthy beyond their wildest dreams. Rehoboam is represented with a large circle similar to a solar eclipse, with a thin corona. When events in the world happen that don't fit in with Rehoboam's predictions or plans for the future, big shadows stretch across the circle to indicate these 'divergences.'
In Animal Crossing, there is a thing called the stalk market where you buy turnips for a low price and then try to sell them for obscenely high prices. With the Internet, everybody is gaming the system to make
millions in cash every week while only investing thousands. This is theoretically wreaking economic turmoil on the peaceful world of Animal Crossing and not how I believe Nintendo intended for people to play the game, min-maxing it. I have over 10 million in the bank right now from abusing the system. Hence the extreme corona on the circle in the pattern. I don't think Nintendo expected everyone to line up in massive queues online to break the game's economy
So I threw a turnip design in the center, and I'm going to lay a full black floor around the design in my basement and use it as a perpetual turnip storage to honor the manipulation of the markets. I'm such a nerd!