3: Work / Life Balance
We are a quiet couple, and when we aren’t working in our respective arms of the publishing industry, we spend our leisure time in much the same way other couples do.
We go out to eat occasionally, but more often we stay in and play games and read. Both of us are fairly solitary by nature, and so we are happy to do our own thing.
Not so in Stardew Valley. Everything is a joint affair, usually out of sheer necessity or because it is the optimal way of achieving goals. My ”reward” for backbreaking manual labor is usually, yep, more work. Our downtime is usually spent in the mines, where we forage for minerals and battle monsters with simplistic AI.
Playing with Dog is something we look forward to, but she is a pretty lazy pet, and that can only fill so much time. More often than not, our time on the farm is purely spent working.
We tell each other that we will rest once the farm is ”complete”… but there always seems to be one more job that needs doing.
