the fact that Stardew Valley is a $15 indie game that came out almost a decade ago with zero microtransactions and is still receiving free DLC updates to this day is absolutely bonkers. There are $50-60 AAA games with paid DLC that have come out more recently and aren’t nearly as actively supported or updated.
2024-04-17, session #50 of Garbage Farm! Spanning Winter 16 through Winter 26 of Year 4!
cast:
me (@mothmute)
E.B. (@blueherin)
Kimi (@2kimi2furious)
Highlights include, but are not limited to the following:
Winter 16:
I'm gonna be tending the animals for a while, so everybody else can focus on getting their skills up to mastery
Ostrichard hatched!
doin' cheese chores!
I accept a BIG GAME FISHING quest from Mr. Qi!
—first, though, I need to do some submarine fishing! aaand accidentally miss E.B. who wanted to join, oh well.
Folks getting to bed late. "We do like to flirt with danger on the Garbage compound" "that's not all we flirt with 😉"
Winter 17:
Alex made Kimi pancakes! Alex keeps giving Kimi food to make her strong, because he wants her to carry him bridal-style. We all want Kimi to carry us, bridal-style. (She says she will get strong enough to carry all of us at once.)
(I remember Wizard's birthday!)
y'know, cindersap forest has regrown a lot since last time we deforested it......
Caught the Glacierfish Jr.!
Winter 18:
Starmas gift-givers announced! I got Pam, E.B. got Alex, and Kimi got Evelyn
having misplaced my own horse, Frucko, I borrow E.B.'s horse
I catch Mrs. Anglerfish and Son of Crimsonfish!
(Kimi deforests Cindersap forest)
Winter 19:
E.B. wants to open some of the mystery lootboxes, but Clint is nowhere to be found
Pam is also on vacation, allowing us to drive to the desert if we want
We failed fishquest. Kimi blames the ducks.
(Kimi is Possum's favorite)
E.B. tells me I'm tempting fate a lot these days. “that's not all I'm tempting 😉”
Winter 20:
Kimi wonders if we're on Pam's insurance. What insurance?? We had to get the Junimos to fix up the bus!!
Harvey says it's nice to live somewhere as relaxing as Garbage Farm
I deliver eggs to Gus — if I'm being honest, we probably would've gotten more for those eggs if we'd kept 'em.
E.B. finishes shipping the taro root that Caroline asked for!
Winter 21:
Caroline shares the secrets of solar power with all of us
it's a jelly day AND a keg day, I am busy all day
Harvey has nightmares about dragging E.B.'s limp body to the hospital
Elliott has nightmares about me giving him a buzz cut
(Alex never has nightmares, because that requires too many brain cells)
E.B. has been putting bombs in my fridge. “... thanks?” “you're welcome”
Winter 22:
I don't remember the context for this, but: how dare I suggest Kimi could read?
Pizza is missing... (maybe Shane found him, have you checked the mail?)
E.B. walks 10,000 steps, and would walk 10,000 more
Possum gives Kimi a snail!!
meanwhile, I'm mismanaging the cheese production for my own sick purposes, hope you don't mind. (E.B. accuses me of being a cheese deviant.)
Kimi finally finds Pizza: in bed for once in his gd life.
I set up a second water bowl, and get a turtle! Grandpa Jr.!
(I go on a late night stroll through the volcano, but return empty-handed)
Winter 23:
Kimi gets salmonella kissing Grandpa Jr. — “he's beautiful, so much better than the ducks”
E.B. makes rock crab rangoon, Marlon is very pleased.
—oh right at some point I activated the Danger Mines!
We all party up to conquer the mines!
E.B. dies due to disconnection, I die halfway into my bed. RIP I guess
Winter 24:
Finish the chores, and get back to the mines!
(those putrid ghosts inflicting nausea are awful!)
Kimi hits level 10 mining! One step closer to mastery!
Winter 25:
Elliott says something to Kimi about smelling the sea?? Honey, you're on a farm, and it's not even the beach farm.
It's Starmas!!
I give Pam a beer; Maru gives me a pumpkin pie.
Kimi gives Evelyn a flower; George gives her a pink cake. (I'm glad she's getting along with her in-laws!)
E.B. gives Alex an egg.
On learning that E.B.'s secret gift-giver was Kent, Kimi and I both immediately ask if he gave her a bomb. Turns out he gave her wine. ...then we realize it's a DIY molotov cocktail, because of course it'd be a bomb.
Shane wants to give out more pizzas.
Vincent got a “stegosonaurus”
Sam got a "joja basket" — I don't know what that is, but it doesn't sound great.
Winter 26?:
non-canon day
We decide to just have a fancy brunch this time. Drink some of our fancy ancient fruit wine, and eat our artisanal cheeses.
TO-DO
god we've still got so much left to do
need to find more of the jellies, so we can make a smoker
I'm still trying to set up crystalariums and preserves jars and kegs!
2024-04-01, session #49 of Garbage Farm! Spanning Winter 9 through Winter 16 of Year 4!
cast:
me (@mothmute)
E.B. (@blueherin)
Kimi (@2kimi2furious)
Highlights include, but are not limited to the following:
Winter 9
(oh god, I forgot my literal clownshoes)
jack be nimble, jack be thicc
trash baguette, hon hon hon!
raccoon doing tippy taps wants smoked fish!!
demetrius wants us to catch a bunch of squid
Winter 10
Pam sent me drawer beer, thanks Pam
Kimi sold a cow—Matchu—to make room for an Ostrich
Mr. Qi is offering bad quests—get to floor 100 of the skull cavern without eating, OR grow his stupid Qi beans—and I don't wanna deal with 'em!
Do wanna build the farm obelisk, though
Late-night squid hunting with the whole crew :)
Winter 11
Kimi wants to know where we keep the explosives...
I defeat the Glacierfish!
We defeat the squid for Demetrius!!
Poor time management defeats me, and I eat shit on the lawn!!!
Winter 12
Shane sends Kimi a mail-pizza, classic
Now that we've defeated the squid, we can go celebrate Squidfest by defeating more squid!
(I am the only one who'd figured out to make Squid-bait, nobody else gets much of anything today)
Winter 13
Shane sends me a mail-pizza, classic
Day two of Squidfest!
(I deliver a ruby to Jodi)
Winter 14
I take my first Mastery, Combat!
E.B. delivers some Taro Root. Bartholomew runs up to her and stares.
Where the hell is E.B.'s husband (Harvey), anyway?
She eventually catches up to him at 11PM, and gifts him a cup of coffee. Apparently he didn't expect anybody—including his wife—to remember his birthday.
The cherry wine is mediocre.
Winter 15
With the new renovationss, my house might be too damn big.
Shane asks Kimi to fence his stolen pepper poppers, and she wants no part of this.
Bad news: We're out of hay. Good news: I bought a book from Marney that lets me buy things from her even when she isn't there!
I buy a ton of hay, and a couple of those books so everybody else can buy things from Marney while she's not there
Kimi reads both of them like an asshole.
"that's not how books work at all"
We also get a cat tree for Wild Possum!
The Night Market starts up while I'm fishing in the cave
I want to go on the submarine, but it's currently occupied.
Guess I'll satisfy myself with an upright piano and today's original Lupini painting.
E.B. makes it home in time, narrowly averting tragedy
Winter 16
(non-canon day)
We bomb the miserable ducks, for old times' sake
E.B. gets moidered, whoops!! (roblox OOF sound)
TO-DO:
god I've still got so much stuff to do, I didn't get down to the skulls even once in these past couple sessions