Chapter 345: Life is troublesome, but mediocre people make trouble for themselves
The meaning of life is to catch some sardines at the dock.
As soon as these words came out, there was naturally a burst of laughter in the live broadcast room:
'Hahahaha my cousin has turned into a seagull...'
'Luckily there are no French fries on this pier, or my cousin would have ordered some.'
"See? This cousin is a real fisherman. The only thing that makes me feel emo is that I came up empty-handed today!"
"Cousin: If you really have nothing to do, go and make a nest nearby. I don't have time to discuss the true meaning of life with you."
"I'm dying of laughter. My cousin is really here to fish."
'The main point is to love what you do'
"……"
For a moment, the audience burst into laughter, and the slightly sad feeling that had just been brewing seemed to be diluted a lot.
Ah Yin was speechless, not knowing whether to laugh or cry:
"You bastard... I really admire you... Illiterate! I can't tell you any life philosophy!"
The audience was laughing and making noises, and Ayin and his cousin were also laughing.
For a moment, the live broadcast room was filled with cheerful laughter.
After laughing, A Yin also shook his head and said to himself with a self-deprecating tone, "There is nothing to worry about in the world, only mediocre people worry about it themselves."
Yes.
How can there be so many sorrows in life ?
Maybe that's the meaning of this game.
Although on the surface it seems to be a game that allows players to escape from the heavy burdens of life, it allows players to find the true meaning of life and understand the truth of life in this small world.
But in fact, what is the meaning of life and what is the reason for life?
Everyone comes into this world for the first time and takes a journey in this complicated world.
Whose life philosophy is the truth?
Maybe some people are born with a path full of flowers, while others are born with a path full of mud.
You can be angry about the unfairness of fate, but you must always remind yourself that this is my life.
Being born in the mud is indeed hard, but the beauty of the colorful rainbow after the rain is beyond description.
Even though the flowers along the way are beautiful, the bloody scratches caused by the thorns when passing through the thorny flowers are unknown to others.
Maybe that’s the idea behind Stardew Valley.
It is not teaching players how to escape from the responsibilities of life, but teaching players to reconcile with life, to try to discover the beautiful moments in life that have never been noticed, and to discover the other side of their lives under the rainbow bridge.
Every Friday night at 8 o'clock, the Stardrop Bar in Stardew Valley opens.
Open the door of the bar and you will meet neighbors with different personalities in the town.
The scattered yet sincere plot in the game will also unfold from this.
Life is like a chessboard, and these vivid NPCs will simulate every step on the chessboard.
They are so flexible and colorful, each with its own characteristics.
So bright that sometimes she doesn’t seem like an NPC, but rather a mirror, reflecting you in real life.
The owner of the bar is named Gus. Recently, Gus has been a little distressed because Aunt Pam, who often comes to drink, often buys on credit, which leads to the bar's financial situation not being particularly ideal.
But they were all neighbors, and Pam was the only resident in the town who had no house and lived in a trailer. Her life was very difficult, so Gus was embarrassed to ask Pam for money for the drinks directly.
So you volunteered to talk to Pam about the money for the wine in a roundabout way. Fortunately, Pam was not a person who would cheat, and she even felt very uneasy about the debt.
To find out why Pam is so poor, you decide to visit Pam at her home.
But when you arrived at Pam's house, you didn't see Aunt Pam. In the old and stuffy trailer, a young and neat girl was busy doing housework.
Although it was early spring, the girl's forehead was covered with a layer of fine beads of sweat, which looked particularly crystal clear under the warm spring sunshine.
The diligent girl is named Penny, the daughter of Aunt Pam. After a brief self-introduction, you help Penny with cleaning the house.
However, just when the cleaning was about to be completed, Aunt Pam came home and instead of thanking you, she blushed and scolded Penny and asked you to leave.
The help without any reason would make Aunt Pam feel uneasy and embarrassed, and even hurt her already fragile self-esteem.
Once upon a time, Aunt Pam was the best bus driver in town, but as the bus broke down and the route was abandoned, Aunt Pam, who lost her job, became depressed. Without any source of income, she became inferior and emotionally unstable.
However, with your arrival, the bus was repaired, and Aunt Pam finally returned to being a bus driver and regained her confidence.
During this time, you earned enough money to hire carpenter Robin to anonymously build a house for Pam and her daughter.
after all.
During the visits and familiarity again and again, you find that you gradually fall in love with the sweaty but bright and hardworking girl who went to the old trailer for the first time, Aunt Pam's daughter Penny.
She is so lovely, simple, hardworking and brave. You went on picnics and played with children together, went to hot springs together, and spent year after year together.
Finally, with a grand wedding presided over by the mayor himself, you and Penny officially became husband and wife. Soon after, you also had the fruit of your love and lived a free and hardworking life happily ever after.
But maybe you're not cut out to be a mediator, so you notice Leah in the corner of the bar.
She is an artist who lives alone on the outskirts of a small town. She likes sculpture art and is a quiet girl full of romance and creativity.
You approached and started a conversation, and learned that Leah was from a big city like you. She said that this place could give her inspiration and at the same time help her get rid of her ex-boyfriend's entanglement with her.
'He wanted me to live a life of restraint and conformity and denied my artistic dreams'
This is so abominable.
You empathize with her, and so the two souls seeking freedom gradually come together. You suggest that Leah hold an art exhibition and sell her works on the website.
Good news soon came that Leah's art works were liked by more and more people. She would often hug you and tell you the good news about the sales of your works, and she gradually became a well-known sculpture artist.
However, bad news also followed. As Leia became famous, her ex-boyfriend who had been pestering her also came to Stardew Valley, wanting to reconcile with Leia.
As expected, Leah retreated behind you, and your fist made close contact with the face of your hated ex-boyfriend.
Sharing the joy of success is important, but I want to feel this hard-earned success even more with those who accompany me and support me.
You don't even have to focus your attention on this bar.
If you frequent the grocery store in town, it's hard not to notice Abigail, the grocery store owner's daughter.
This girl with long, soft, gorgeous purple hair is so special. She is eccentric and romantic, bold and passionate. She hates a routine life and is unwilling to obey the arrangements her father has made for her life.
She likes playing games, adventure, and musical instruments. She even formed a band with her friends and served as a explosive drummer.
Perhaps Pierce, the grocery store owner, really wants his daughter to become a successful person, but the generation gap has become a natural barrier between father and daughter.
In Abigail's words, she really doesn't like her parents' rigid arrangements, and she is eager to try more different things and explore a new lifestyle.
She is such a perfect match for you and you like all her hobbies.
So you played games together, went on adventures together, and used the Ouija board together, and you saw Abigail's inner thoughts on the Ouija board.
Finally, during a mine expedition, when you gave Abigail her favorite amethyst as usual, the response you got was no longer just verbal thanks and "I really like this."
It was a warm hug and a long, passionate kiss.
You kissed in a dark and dangerous mine, got married in a small town, and promised to spend the rest of your life together, which would be full of surprises.
There are many more warm and romantic stories like this.
You can be yourself in the game.
But at the same time, the shadows of those NPCs seem to reflect you more or less.
In the torrent of the times, we may not be able to choose our own birth or our own destination.
But the reason why the road of life is called a road is because the experiences along this road are so precious.
That is the meaning of our life, a journey of decades in which we reconcile with ourselves and the world, and feel with all our heart the meaning of this precious and only-once colorful experience.
Warmth, simplicity, kindness, enthusiasm...
Perhaps many years later, you will forget the details of your experience in this dreamland, Stardew Valley.
But you will still remember that your tired heart and soul were once healed and recuperated here.
In those warm pixel-like colors, you feel the breath from the sea, stroke the soft and warm sheep, set up the grape vines with your own hands, and swing the pickaxe in your hand to create a pleasant music that belongs to the miners.
This seems to be another life of ours, or perhaps another extension of our life.
Of course!
There are so many warm and romantic experiences that you can only appreciate them after you have an in-depth tour.
after all!
Now for Ayin and his cousin, two players who have just started.
“How come every day is so short ahh ...
After fainting in the wild again in the early morning, A Yin finally asked the soul-searching question of a working person!
627 is not enough! Absolutely not enough!
Yes, I knew nothing when I entered the game from the beginning, and I didn't even have any goals at all.
Until now, I still know nothing and have no goals.
It seems that there is no sense of progress, but in fact it reflects the incredible playability of the game!
I used to know nothing, was confused, ignorant, and at a loss when I first arrived in Stardew Valley.
But now, knowing nothing is expectation and curiosity.
Seeds mature and are harvested at different times. The more expensive the crop, the longer it takes to grow and the more frequent care it requires. Naturally, the joy of the harvest is more worth looking forward to.
As for curiosity, it stems from the main task that Yin and his cousin have just received - repairing the community center.
"Oh, hi, Yin, you're here."
When we arrived in town, the old mayor Lewis was standing in front of a large house that looked a little shabby and covered with vines, staring blankly:
"It's a bit shabby..."
"This is the community center of Pelican Town, or rather the remains of the community center,"
"It used to be the pride of the town, often hosting a variety of interesting activities, but now...ah..."
"But this is a good place. Komeiwangdi Supermarket has been trying to persuade me to sell this center to them as a warehouse."
"Although the compensation is a not-insignificant amount of income for the townspeople, I always feel that I shouldn't just sell it like this. It may also be that I am too nostalgic. When people get old, they always feel nostalgic..."
"But if someone else joins Komei Wangdi, I might not want to continue."
That’s it!
Mayor Lewis took Yin and his cousin into the dilapidated community center.
The main storyline of the game is also triggered by this.
Yes, the community is now facing acquisition. Ke Mei Wangdi to the east wants to acquire the community center and transform it into a cold warehouse.
This is a contest between urban capital and the simple Stardew Valley.
If players choose to become supermarket members, Mayor Lewis will sell the community center, and then Komei Wangdi will move into the town center, clearly mark the prices of all goods, and purchase and sell them strictly according to the time operation rules and prices.
As a result, players will begin to pay special attention to prices, engage in petty intrigues, and rack their brains to figure out how to make money, and then to some extent, they will once again become pitiful playthings controlled by capital and go back to the old ways.
But if you choose to fight against Komei Wangdi at this time, then the player needs to repair the community center
By completing the offerings of crops for the four seasons and receiving the blessing of Junimo, the community center will be well repaired and more vitality will be brought to the town.
Ayin and his cousin naturally chose to repair the community center, and most players would choose to help Mayor Lewis, or the entire Stardew Valley town, to fight against the evil Komei Wangdi Supermarket when playing the first round.
And that's it!
Ayin and his cousin are even busier!
I am busy from morning to night almost every day. I go to bed at two o'clock and get up at six o'clock. The King of Hell praises me for my good health.
Farming, watering, chopping trees, fishing, mining, picking up girls...
In short, in Stardew Valley, you can not live, but you will never be without life.
Although this 627 life of getting up at six in the morning, going to bed at two in the morning, and working seven days a week may seem busy, it makes the two feel extremely fulfilled.
Even, it is so fulfilling that I forget the time.
Until a commentator in the barrage suddenly woke up——
"What the hell! It's almost twelve o'clock?"
'ah???'
"Damn, this game kills time like this! I'm shocked! It started at 8 o'clock and it felt like they didn't do anything... more than three hours have passed? "
'For the first time, I realized the meaning of time is money. I didn't do anything, but it was gone...'
"Hahahahahaha, this hurts..."
