2d ago

Poor Dev

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I’ve played through Terraria. I like Stardew Valley way more as well. Both games scratch certain itches for me but SDV scratches way more of them and way more variety.
Emotional, musical, technical, optimization, engineering, planning, combat. I would say neither game has great combat. Terraria is a bit better for the technical platforming and character control. But SDV overall is just a lot better in terms of music, story, immersiveness, attachment, and the feeling of accomplishment.
SDV is still the only game I’ve ever played that changed what I want to do with my life. That’s pretty special!
- It changed what you wanted to do in what way?
  
  It gave me a deep longing to move out of the city to live in the country! That’s now one of my main long term goals.
  
  Go spend a month out there before you make any big changes. Rural life is super romanticized in the media, but in reality it's pretty boring and there's a bunch of meth and bigots.
  
  There's also a constant stream of work. As my grandma always says: "there's always something that needs doing". Also, if you have animals, you can't take a day off, let alone taking a week-long holiday because who's gonna take care of them?
  Unless you move there just to live somewhere calm and not do any of the countryside stuff, in which case, yeah.. uber boredom, nothing to do other than what you normally do at home in an apartment.
  
  Yeah, I moved to the country in 9th grade. I went from a school where my class was about 1k kids, to one that was about 150 kids, to a graduating class of 28.
  I lived on a farm and goat dairy, and there's a good reason I got a degree in information technology. Although I still have to go help my mom with stuff a few times a month.
  It's definitely not fun when doing literally anything is a 30+ mile round trip, and that trip is to a town with a Walmart and a few restaurants.
  The ideal town size is around 100k people. There's not a ton of people so traffic isn't awful, but there's still plenty of stuff to do.
  The only plus is that I have 21 acres to grow food on when society collapses.
  
  I get it. Don't listen to the haters, more nature is good for the soul.
  
  It’s the same when call of duty makes kids yearn to go to Ukraine combat zone. Pure insanity right here. Imagine some innocent farmer hearing some city dweller be like ‚I played this game stardew valley you know’

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