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Tom Nook Finally Passes Elon Musk’s Wealth & Becomes World’s Richest Business Owner (retrododo.com)
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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Racoon tycoon. Very clever, Nintendo.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Technically he's a tanuki, which is in the canine family

[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Still called a raccoon-dog

[–] yonder@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait, does that mean the tanuki suits used by Mario are made from the hide of dead tanukis?

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 3 points 1 month ago

Yes, and costumes from Temu were taken from dead anime characters and superheroes.

[–] mspencer712@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Apropos of nothing, my ham radio call is NO0K, November Oscar Zero Kilo. If I decide to do the ham radio license plate thing again, I should pair it with some kind of Tom Nook sticker or something.