I'm glad that in the US you got to keep your land no matter what. It's a relief that real community still exists in other parts of the world.
This ideal rural place is so different from the rural that I see. But I know it's just a game, and Countries and areas can be very different.
In the game, the land you inherited from your grandpa can be left along for so many years, no one has already seized it. Even the Mayor has left it along, not put it into some other uses. Maybe it really is very remote, to the point no one thinks it's somehow profitable.
The residents in this game are not paranoia. They don't view you as some outsider who wants to take something from them or hurt them. (Edit: Well, some are indeed very cautious.) We had a relative who went to remote areas in their youth, they went back suicidal. There were several neighbours went back from different villages over the years. All of them seem to full of fear. Even us went out receiving parcels or stray cats went by can trigger them. One of the time we were downstairs recycling our things, The neighbour thought we were damaging their water pipes.
And young people didn't all went away. There are actually many young people staying in this rural town.
Pierre's store sell genuine goods.
The worst things they experience are having a boring futureless job, loneliness, and without a girlfriend.
But at lease it makes you want to live in it, the people in there are so much better.
If you gradually put in vegetable wasts, cardboard paper, and maybe some soil, keep them airy and moist, and turn them often, in the worst case they only have a little bit unpleasant smell in the beginning. One of my compost pot is mostly indoor, it has a smell, but it's a pleasant smell.
I live in a small flat too. Usually, I put my compost in a big plastic bucket with holes underneath, then hang it outside the window. Bring it indoor when it's freezing outside. I also use a relatively big pot, put it beside my other plants on a window shelf. But I only put in normal garden wastes and a small amount of fresh kitchen waste, as the spaces really weren't enough, they already take at least a year to decompose. Not sure if it's doable for you?
Edit: They don't smell if they decompose right.
I stick iron wires into every pot to form an umbrella, then coil threads around them to form a dense net, to stop my cats from destroying my plants. :|
I prefer translators too. Reading materials from different languages (including English) gave me a different insight.
Back to Grim Dawn after its 1.2 update. I'm glad they integrated most of Grim Internals' functions. I appreciate games like these that really listen to their players.
Still using a 6.5 years old iPhone 7. Can't fine a downside, still runs perfectly well. The only thing that needed a replacement is its battery. I hope it holds for another 4.5 years (with battery replacements).
Looking at last year's decorations on my front door... They don't look broken enough to have to be replaced.
Stardew Valley. I don't know why I didn't get it the first time. Maybe it was the art style? Now it becomes my daily routine…
I still remember when they raised money for Chuck...
My area also has high humidity, 12°C is indeed freezing. We add lots of layers...
To save energy, I set my AC at 28℃ in the summer, for a couple of hours in the afternoon. In the winter if my room temperature wasn't below 8℃ I don't use heating. Otherwise I set it to 12℃.
Apparently I don't understand the very energy consuming 20℃ summers/winters.
I'm on the same boat, humanity in general disappoints me. I sometimes admire certain characters of other animals, or simply physical laws. But someone once told me, if there's no one you view as a role model, you can be your own role model.
My hundreds of Mods works fine on GoG version, including so many that requires skse. It's hard to find a mod or function that I use since Oldrim without it's GoG compatible version nowadays.
From Maschine Zeit (2000)
I can't quite find where it is, but there is a Wikipedia article about percentage of female gamers around different parts of the world. I can remember FPS players was few, only about 10%, in Japan more Women play games, and in average it was indeed around 50%. And this number was from years ago.
