Honestly, looking at posts like this what annoys me most about Stardew Valley is the number of people who like the game who tell you how you are playing it wrong if you don’t enjoy the core gameplay loop. The only other type of game that is comparable in that respect are games like Souls-likes but most of those have more awareness that they only appeal to a specific type of player.

Even just 1971->2024 inflation would make $3 into $23.36 and I doubt the small one would be $100+ today.

That quest certainly contributed to the stress level for me but it was especially annoying since everyone I did track down was incredibly generic and I was lead to believe the NPCs in that game were half of what people liked about it.

Pretty sure in the real world young farmers don’t pass out on the 200m path to town at 3 in the afternoon because they moved 5 stones and 3 branches in the morning.

You always seem to have to micromanage your time and energy though in Stardew Valley which makes it incredibly stressful for me, no matter how much or how little I do.

And then complaining that those customers are to blame that their business is tanking when in reality they just made them too poor to buy the product and/or killed them off but they will get a bailout anyway because they are “too big to fail”.

Pretty sure it wouldn’t be hard to do with something like InvokeAI where you have some basic image editing tools to use before inpainting.

InvokeAI 5.3.1 with the Environment Art setting and an SDXL derived model and 9:16 aspect ratio (otherwise defaults)

That is over 10 years at 4h a day every single day.

Well, could just have started the game, then went to get the doorbell, got hit by a car on his porch and was in a coma for a year before he could get back to close the game.

The worst thing is it is not even just greed to the level where it actually improves the lives of the greedy people in any measurable way. At this point it might as well be a high score table for all the difference being even more wealthy has on their own lives.

My point is that Gaza should have no impact on your voting decision at all because not voting, voting Democrats and voting Republicans will get you the same outcome there, which would also be the outcome you got from literally any other US administration or potential administration (as in candidate that lost) in the entire history of Israel’s existence.

Which leaves all the other potential considerations. Trust in the Democratic party can certainly be one of those but don’t pretend not voting makes you morally better on the Gaza issue itself. That whole “inaction makes me better” mindset when action and inaction have literally the same outcome needs to die because it is literally not true.

I mean judging by the comments people get when they say it is too stressful it could also be considered too relaxing. They always claim everything is optional and that somehow makes the game relaxing but even if I try to do just one of the things I could do the energy and slow walking and passing out mechanics still make it about as relaxing as getting something done in another game while some PvP griefers keep sniping my character randomly in the middle of tasks. At that rate not playing the game is infinitely more relaxing than playing it and just not doing anything at all.

It really isn’t for everyone. I tried it and hated every minute of it, super-stressful and tedious and returned it (one of only a handful of games in my Steam collection of a few hundred) because it was advertised as relaxing when it is anything but.

Not voting to absolve yourself from moral responsibility for the outcome is a fallacy though. Many people do believe that inaction somehow makes them less responsible but that just isn’t the case. Inaction isn’t the magical option, you still have to live with the outcome and you still have all the same opportunity costs as with any choice on the ballot.

If you think you aren’t responsible for the events in Israel and Palestine because you didn’t vote for either candidate you are just deluding yourself.

That is more along the lines of high government official protection at special events they attend in other countries though, not a standard practice at normal sports games.

But plenty of people cannot stomach voting for poisoning the townspeople in the first place.

But they are not doing anything against that by abstaining from voting. They are still giving their consent to the poisoning, just by doing nothing instead of doing something, that is literally the only difference.

My whole point is that the “inaction is better than action” bias when evaluating options is bizarre to me.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omission_bias seems to be the term used for the phenomenon.

I was specifically talking about changing the election system, not just getting elected.

The enemy in fascism is always all powerful and inferior at the same time.

I don’t think it is quite that simple. It is more like part of each party is controlled by that interest but there are also people who genuinely try to achieve something matching their own world view, some of those good, some bad.