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Currently hanging out in the mod making channels of the Stardew Valley discord waiting for version 1.6 to launch. It's a major update, affecting both the story and the underlying code.

I haven't felt this sort of group vibe of "Ooh what will the new content be" enthusiasm mixed with "oh god what will this break" trepidation and "But WHEN WILL IT UPDATE" uncertainty since waiting for Homestuck updates back in the day.

Players have nothing to worry about (except for mods maybe breaking), and mod makers had access to a coding alpha, but until we see the new story content a lot of us don't know exactly how much editing we're going to have to do to make our existing mods compatible with the new content.

But also, new content! Exciting!

It's like 5am in much of the US, many people have stayed up waiting for ConcernedApe (the creator and primary dev) to wake up in California and press the button. It's approaching 11pm here but I don't feel like going to sleep just yet.

The discord mods have been making increasingly unhinged posts in the bulletin board channel that THEY WILL PING US WHEN IT UPDATES. Apparently so many people joined the server at once that discord flagged it as suspicious lol. Meanwhile the 1.6 alpha channel is everyone waving goodbye before it gets archived.

And then of course once it DOES come out... hoo boy.

*bounces quietly*

Because I kept having to link them, and because some people might be interested! There's some great ones out there.


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HMM. I mean. None of the ones where monsters attack civilians at random? Also something with like...internet and good health care, and no Evil Corporations/Empires owning/threatening everyone. And not just the real world because that's boring.

I think...Glitch, maybe? MMOs give the best sense of really living in a world indefinitely, and I think that's the MMO world I've found most warm and comforting. Also, it had technology, as I recall. And energy resets, an ungendered society, and hell is just a cool place to jump.

The original game doesn't exist any more but there's a reboot which gives some idea. The fact that the world STOPPED EXISTING is kind of a downside I guess...

Maybe something like Stardew Valley then, but one of the less angsty variants like World's Dawn. Energy resets, magic, internet, and nobody trying to kill you. Sounds good.

My day in either case would be like...being a science communicator, probably? What with having lots of energy, and all the fun weird 'science' to learn and explain :D That plus I'd be doing the daily tasks required to build up RIDICULOUS PILES OF WEALTH, can't forget that.

Felt randomly inspired to play another character through Stardew Valley, and it was more fun than I expected! Knowing how everything worked made it much more relaxing, instead of feeling like I had to hoard and do ALL THE THINGS I knew what to focus on to have fun and achieve my goals.
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I am slowly winding down on Stardew Valley, checking in every now and then to play for a few days (15 minutes long, but you can end them early) to try and finish up the few things I want to finish but mostly done. I'm at like 150 hours played and will probably play a whole new character through at some point.

Cam installed Paralells on my Mac so i can play Windows games, and then was like "Uh...should I not have done that..." when he saw how much I was playing. He also pointed out that, for example, chopping trees sounds like popping bubble wrap and is such a satisfying sound it made him want to play and chop trees himself. There's a nice mix of things to do, with enough structure that you're not aimless but enough flexibility that if you feel like spending the whole day doing something you can.

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