You know when you've played too much Stardew Valley when ...

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

1) You know more birthdays of villagers than you do of your own family and friends
2) You feel actual guilt at not getting someone a birthday gift
3) You begin to worry about whether purple level milk would sell for more than gold level cheese
4) You answer the cut scene questions the same way every time because you don't want to offend anyone
5) You need to stop the game and check the Wiki every time you get a relatively unusual artefact because you gave the only rainbow shard you ever got to Gunther.
6) Your time in game is at least three figures in hours.
7) You have seen at least double figures in Dangerously Funny You Tube videos
8) You are obsessional about petting every animal on the farm every day
9) You are major league annoyed that Sebastian hates wine. The guy smokes dope for frik sake.
10) You have achievements only 5% of people who own the game have
11) If people ask you want you want you answer "a dinosaur egg". If they ask you why you say to grow dinosaurs on your farm obviously. You work in an office.
12) You play Stardew Valley.


Over to you guys ...

S.x.

[RobbEJay]

Originally posted by gallifrey:

15) You can have a significant conversation about the back stories of animated pixels with under 30 dialogue lines.

I know, right? Don't know about you, but I consider that a good thing.:)

[argenex]

42) You go fishing in real life and happily discover it's significantly easier than in stardew valley, I mean all you gotta do is real them in, instead of madly clicking a mouse button against some ruthless interface that is determined to make you fail.

[RobbEJay]

Originally posted by The Dark Tyger:

Could be that she takes on the sensible parenting philosophy of "It's my gorram house, he doesn't have to LET me in the room".... And parents doing a clean sweep on their kids' rooms is not an unusual thing when the kid refuses to do it themself.

Yeah, but that particular 'sensible parenting' philosophy kinda goes out the window when your "child" is a grown adult, or at least it should. Sure she could be one of those parents that still does that stuff, but Robin doesn't strike me that way, more like the type to read your journal/diary.

Sebastian says he's trying to quite, and if he relapsed he probably hid it, so she could have been snooping to see if he was smoking again.

[RobbEJay]

Originally posted by The Dark Tyger:

Originally posted by RobbEJay:

Yeah, but that particular 'sensible parenting' philosophy kinda goes out the window when your "child" is a grown adult, or at least it should.

How does that change the fact that it's still the parents' house? And he's likely living there free of charge? I can understand a problem with rifling through drawers and stuff, but as for just going in the room, there's no "letting".

I never said it did, its a matter of respect. Most people wouldn't accept that sort of treatment from anyone, not even their landlord, so how does being a parent make that ok? Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should.

Also, why assume he's living there scot free? He supposedly has a job, and many people living with their parents do pay rent, or at least contribute in some other way.

[dynastystar]

When you accidentally call your wife or girlfriend by the name of your Stardew Valley wife.

[darkdisciple1313]

Originally posted by dynastystar:

When you accidentally call your wife or girlfriend by the name of your Stardew Valley wife.

Yeah, pretty good chance one's real life girlfriend is not going to be called Maru. Haley or Emily, better chance of coincidental sameness. Maru, not so much.

Then again, if I said Maru during certain *ahem* nocturnal activities, I'd just lie and chalk it up to sounds of passion...that sound vaguely like a sick timber wolf howling at the moon. Yeah, that'd work, one hundred percent. *thumbs up*

[dynastystar]

Originally posted by darkdisciple1313:

Originally posted by dynastystar:

When you accidentally call your wife or girlfriend by the name of your Stardew Valley wife.

Yeah, pretty good chance one's real life girlfriend is not going to be called Maru. Haley or Emily, better chance of coincidental sameness. Maru, not so much.

Then again, if I said Maru during certain *ahem* nocturnal activities, I'd just lie and chalk it up to sounds of passion...that sound vaguely like a sick timber wolf howling at the moon. Yeah, that'd work, one hundred percent. *thumbs up*

well Maru is worst girl after all :P
Edit: Well, tied for it, I'd probably put her on the same level as Haley.

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

It's a theoretical problem only I believe. Does the Venn diagram of 1) Men who have played over 100 hours of Stardew Valley 2) Men who have real life relationships with adult females that are sexual even intersect ?

BTW if you have to ask does x count then the answer is no. So no waifus, no Japanese sex robots, nothing synthetic, no puppets, nothing conducted solely over the phone or by internet.

S.x.

[sunscreemer]

- You start talking to your pet/ horse/ animals in your head when you play
- Use spreadsheet for greenhouse planning and full chest-by-chest/building-by-building inventory
- use said spreadsheet also to plan how much gold/wood/stone/ other resource you need for your farm plans
- you start putting in easter eggs and in-jokes for people who might play your farm in future to find
- you target some of these at vloggers such as Dangerously Funny, just in the unlikely event they ever play said farm
-you know everybody in the valley's shady- not just Joja- like the travelling cart revealing the merch is a bit 'non legale' :)
-realise just how true of real life SV bedtimes are (especially because of SV)
-look for shortcuts eg buying sprinklers off Krobus- then discover how much of a not-shortcut they are as you ain't gonna get to Krobus for a while as there's still much to find for the Museum
- realise you'll be doing all the milestones many times over for the different farms you've set up

[darkdisciple1313]

^^^

Speaking of that cart that shows up:

I went to a farmer's market over the weekend, and as I was perusing the merchandise I actually did wonder if any of it came via "illegal means from a distant land". Fortunately, nobody asked me why I was grinning like a loon. The advantage of living/working near Chicago...people tend to not ask questions, so long as you don't make eye contact or get overly friendly with a relative.

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

They had kangaroo burgers at a farmer's market I went to once. It was near Hull.

S.x.

[darkdisciple1313]

Originally posted by gallifrey:

They had kangaroo burgers at a farmer's market I went to once. It was near Hull.

S.x.

I had kangaroo jerky once, along with ostrich and alligator. Got 'em at a state fair in Illinois some time ago. As for the taste...next time, I'll just eat my own toenails and save the money.

But hey, at least they weren't deep-fried, like everything else seems to be anymore at state fairs. I think they've since outlawed deep-fried butter sticks, but you can still get some pretty odd things enrobed in sweet-crispy batter. Like sausage wrapped in a pancake, battered, deep-fried and served with a side of local maple syrup. Bleah...

[sunscreemer]

The idea of getting Farming Simulator's getting ever more appealing- the crop circle's gotcha, need. to. farm.

[Gallifrey - CSSC Gaming Founder]

Originally posted by sunscreemer:

The idea of getting Farming Simulator's getting ever more appealing- the crop circle's gotcha, need. to. farm.

Interesting. For me after SDV's varied game play and character interaction - basic as it can be - a pure farming simulator would just be hideously grindy.

S.x.

[darkdisciple1313]

Originally posted by gallifrey:

Originally posted by sunscreemer:

The idea of getting Farming Simulator's getting ever more appealing- the crop circle's gotcha, need. to. farm.

Interesting. For me after SDV's varied game play and character interaction - basic as it can be - a pure farming simulator would just be hideously grindy.

S.x.

I played a demo of one of the farming simulator games from a few year back. It was, to be blunt, a chore. A lot of those simulator games are like that, at least until you get further into it, so I've read.

I'd love to try the truck driver simulator game, but given my atrocious driving of larger vehicles, I will probably be dead multiple times before I complete the tutorial. :P