2018-01-29 at 5:18 AM UTC
Maybe Ted was right: perhaps we are happier as farmers with simple loved and daily toil, rather than living in our industrial society. Maybe that's why people gravitate to shit like Farmville.
2018-01-29 at 5:19 AM UTC
I'm pretty sure the lifestyle depicted in these types of games is sufficiently idealized that it bares no meaningful semblance to the sort of farming my ancestors did. In fact I know that, I lived on a farm the one of my ancestors worked. It sucked.
2018-01-29 at 5:29 AM UTC
Did they make you do any farm work? God the thought of you being forced to do that, perpetually miserable, is ever do sweet. I’m going to fantasize about this later so I can go to bed with a smile.
Nah, I was like 5 or 6 or something so I wouldn't exactly have been productive. I did get to drive a tractor once, thought that was the coolest thing ever. My grandfather who worked it had semi-retired by that point so he was only farming a part of his land but apparently back when he was running all of it with his brother every one of their sons, like 8 kids or something, was expected to work the farm with their dads, although the profits from the farm did put each of them through school so I guess it kinda evens out.
Actually for me it wasn't so bad. The weather was unbearable in the summer but we had AC at that point. Being in "nature" was cool (I mean the majority of the county was farm land, but there were natural areas and a field is still more natural than a building). I used to go and play down by a creek, I liked to build little dams and divert the flow of the water here and there. Fireflies were cool in the summer as well. Really just a ton of stuff that seems kind quaint and quintessentially rural American.
The downside was I was related to half the town. I actually thought "cousin" and "friend" were synonyms for a while, remember meeting some kid who like stole my toy or something to make me mad at them and telling them "you'll never my MY cousin". I mean it's fine when you're a kid by dating was kinda notoriously tough. Also it was kind of an intellectual wasteland, but that might be a part of the charm of it.
2018-01-29 at 6:09 AM UTC
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2018-01-29 at 6:36 AM UTC
So do you really think it's inconceivable that I could have visited my hometown or just generally figured these things out about it after becoming an adult?
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2018-01-29 at 2:12 PM UTC
It's not even that. It's just that your entire post drips with faggotry. "Quintessential American"? Kill yourself.
2018-01-29 at 2:12 PM UTC
IM FEELING REAL POST MODERN TODAY GUYS
2018-01-30 at 4:36 AM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny
not a lot of people to discuss the finer points of french literature with
I really hope you typed those words out as a figure of speech.
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2018-01-30 at 4:39 AM UTC
yes. What, did you think I was trying to say I'm only interested discussing literal french literature? Me, who hosts this place?
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