Pelican Town Ethics

[Twelvefield]

Since there are no lawyers in Stardew Valley, I have to seek the court of public opinion:

I am a new player to Stardew, so I don't know much about the game. I play with my wife, who had hundreds of hours. She is bored with the regular game, so she plays with house rules but no mods. In answering my question, mods won't help and won't be used.

So my wife is doing a complete pacifist run. NO KILLING. It's not easy, but so far she's persevered. She's made it to the Volcano, and she is running through it at top speed to get to Level 5, avoiding danger and creatures.

Now there's robots and sentient mushrooms. If she fights a robot and wins, is it killing? How about the mushrooms? She thinks she could avoid them, but reasons that killing a robot would be like unplugging a toaster. The central programming remains somewhere else, and the robot could simply be resurrected and have its program restored. Unless it can pass the Turing Test, in which case consciousness should be assumed. Tricky!

I have no idea what to think here. I would appreciate your insights. Please explain your thinking as if to someone who has no idea what is going on, because I have no idea what is going on. I'm still trying to wrap my head around how come I'm the only one in the game without a birthday. Am I a replicant?

Thank you in advance for your kind replies. This game sure makes my wife and I have some - unusual- conversations.

[ChrillBill]

Messaggio originale di Snowy Sprout:

Messaggio originale di ChrillBill:

Before time there was only the endless golden light. The light called out to itself...'Yoba'. Yoba wanted more. Yoba swirled the golden light into a vortex. Yoba swirled and swirled until a hole formed in the eye of the vortex. From this hold sprung a seed. Yoba smoothed the golden light. Yoba smoothed and smoothed, and the light became soil. Into this soil, Yoba planted the seed. The seed sprouted, and behold! A vine sprung skyward, twisting and probing, casting a writhing shadow onto the golden void. After 11 days, the vine bore fruit. Yoba, with knowing wisdom, peeled the tough skin off the fruit and saw that the world was inside. And so that is how the world came to be.

So the whole world is inside a bean pod?

Does this mean we're all just Human Beans?

Or maybe "was" inside a bean pod? So that it could later be picked and placed into the universe. Or maybe the bean pod is the actual universe. A hundred bean pods = a hundred universes and so on. We need an interview with Yoba asap.

[NBOX21]

Messaggio originale di ChrillBill:

Messaggio originale di Snowy Sprout:

So the whole world is inside a bean pod?

Does this mean we're all just Human Beans?

Or maybe "was" inside a bean pod? So that it could later be picked and placed into the universe. Or maybe the bean pod is the actual universe. A hundred bean pods = a hundred universes and so on. We need an interview with Yoba asap.

Honestly, I was thinking something more along the lines of grapes or something since the book mentioned above mentions fruit and beans are veggies, so...

After 11 days, the vine bore fruit.

Plus, grapes grow on vines which might actually mean that the whole world of Stardew Valley is just the inside of one grape among possibly many other grapes. Who knows what other worlds there might be on that vine?

peeled the tough skin off the fruit

Then again, maybe not seeing as it also mentions tough skin, so maybe it could be some other vine fruit.

I've just given you people even more food for thought on this one.

[ChrillBill]

It's a very edible theory o.o Made me think of the Junimos as well. Spiritual beings who look like cute apples (which is also a fruit).

[Snowy Sprout]

Messaggio originale di NBOX21:

After 11 days, the vine bore fruit.

grapes grow on vines which might actually mean that the whole world of Stardew Valley is just the inside of one grape among possibly many other grapes. Who knows what other worlds there might be on that vine?

Then again, maybe not seeing as it also mentions tough skin, so maybe it could be some other vine fruit.

A bean is a vine fruit, even though (like tomatoes) we don't think of them as fruits. But the part of the plant that bears seeds is its fruit, and biologically it is a fruit if we eat the flesh the seeds grew in (as we do with green beans). However, beans are not ripe when they are green. The outer pod toughens and becomes inedible as the seeds ripen, and even the seeds become inedible until they are slow-cooked in water. So Yoba waited for the bean vine to bear ripened fruit.

Beans make sense because they are a spring crop, and surely the beginning of existence was the springtime of the universe.

It makes me wonder if this bean pod had more than one seed in it, besides the other pods which surely would ripen every three days. Most bean plants come with several seeds. Maybe that is why our solar system has many planets?