[Krylo]

I've been sick as shit the last week and a half (started with just a cough, then cellulitis on my shoulder--which, btw, is painful as fuck--then full on cold just as that was going down), so I decided to give this Stardew Valley game everyone on my steam list has been playing all the time a shot figuring it'd be a nice low stress way to pass time when I'm not feeling well enough for any games that require intense or fast reflexes.

Suffice to say I was correct in that assumption.

It's a surprisingly robust and enjoyable game with more to do every day than you really have time for (at least during 3/4th of the seasons), which means you're never bored, but, at the same time, there's no real stress involved. It's just a very calm game.

I started out doing some farming because obviously, and quickly decided that I liked Robin during the intro only to find out she's already married. But that was okay because Abigail spoke to that part of me that's had a huge thing for goths and punks since the earliest beginnings of my puberty, and then I found out that she sneaks away to practice swordplay at night so she can explore dangerous caves, and basically ended up married to her pretty quickly. Whiiiich I sort of regret? As that I've had a few festivals now and it seems like your wife/husband just say the same thing every time about hoping you're enjoying the time off instead of having lines specific to their character. Which is kinda shitty. Same thing on married life in general, really. A lot of the lines don't really seem to have her personality to them (some definitely do, though). Plus there's the fact she no longer leaves the farm ever to go play flute in the rain or whatever, and, basically, I kind of feel like you decide you like x character so that's the one you'll marry and then that character essentially stops existing.

As for the farm, it became a thing where I just built a bunch of sprinklers and ignored it outside of harvest and planting time. I spent most of the first year exploring the mines and getting all the way down to the bottom, while also taking breaks from that for fishing and finishing up the non-bulletin board quests (and some bulletin quests as well). It wasn't until winter when I finally cleared away all the trees and rocks and logs in my yard and built some proper fences and a proper farming area.

Currently I'm level 8/9 in everything and about half-way through the first winter with five apple saplings, five pomegranate saplings, and five maple saplings growing in an area I set off for trees. I'm looking to buy five of all the other tree types as well, which will probably happen about halfway through spring, followed shortly by finishing the vault, and then upgrading my house.