Adult - Plants-liking queer menace - Front-desk worker of a plural system - Unapologetic low-effort poster
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(fallen london stamps by @vagorsol)
my issue is that I have no interest in playing farmsims these days in part because I think Don't Starve Together's whole soil nutrient balancing and complicated plant stress system complete with hateful weeds and bugs that outright try to murder you (while the rest of the world is also trying to murder you) is genius and fun and the most accurate representation I have encountered of being a gardener
perhaps my issue is that I am less interested in farmsims, and more interested in survival sims
17 hours later I sat up in my coffin and from within me erupted: "yeah that's because gardening and farming are fundamentally different experiences, like, gardeners simply work at a scale with a lack of external societal support that makes it be about getting individual plants to do their best. Farmers have the opposite deal since they work at a huge scale with whole industries backing them. A farmsim that makes you tend to 15 variables by hand is not a farmsim at that point, in much the same way that war is not conducted as a series of 1-on-1 duels."
...that said preferring the DST-type finnickey micro type of gameplay is, like, super normal and IME even kind of common. Lots of people like having a lot of variables to balance & minigames to run on their crops. I totally get it and support this craving.
