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== Explanation == | == Explanation == | ||
− | + | {{incomplete|The style of this comic is not quite as xkcd usually is. See comment at the top of the discussion about it, or read the transcript. Can anyone familiar with Stardew comment on whether it has some similarities to the game? If not, reply in the discussion. If more say it is not so, then delete this incomplete section. The differences are mentioned in the transcript.}} | |
− | + | ''{{w|Stardew Valley}}'' is an indie farming simulation role-playing video game published by Chucklefish Games. In a similar fashion to games such as {{w|Farmville}} or {{w|Harvest Moon (series)|Harvest Moon}}, the game is a farming simulator where you take the role of a farmer and perform everyday tasks such as watering plants, growing food, and running a farm. | |
− | + | One common task in Stardew Valley is to water your plants. Due to how the controls work, it is quite common to accidentally use the watering can on other objects - such as a cat. This comic explains the "morning routine" of an average citizen in Pelican Town, where it's as simple as walking to plants and pressing the "water" button. However, the farmer [[Cueball]] (here representing [[Randall|Randall's]] vision of himself in the game) accidentally uses the watering can on the cat instead of interacting with it, causing the cat to wake up and freak out. Cueball responds with a typical "Dammit", possibly referring to the fact that this has happened before. (See title text of [[559: No Pun Intended]] regarding Dammit). | |
− | The title text | + | The title text makes it clear that this has not just happened a few times before, as Cueball has virtually by accident watered every person and object in [http://stardewvalleywiki.com/Pelican_Town Pelican Town], thus probably also all other animals and not just the cat. Pelican Town is where the player moves to at the start of the game, located in Stardew Valley. Pelican Town is where most of the villagers live, work, and socialize. |
− | + | There is another pun in the title text, since it states that Randall ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/virtually virtually]'' watered everyone. This means that he as watered almost everyone in the city. But if he had used ''[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/virtual virtual]'' then it would have referred to the fact that he was watering everyone in the virtual reality of the city. | |
− | + | Stardew Valley was also mentioned only two weeks prior in [[1790: Sad]], so it seems like Randall has avoided his other tasks for a few weeks now while waking up every morning to water the people in Stardew Valley, | |
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== Transcript == | == Transcript == | ||
− | :[Inside a slim frame at the top of the comic there is a caption:] | + | :[Inside a slim frame at the top of the comic there is a caption (a rather unusual style for xkcd captions):] |
:Stardew Valley morning routine | :Stardew Valley morning routine | ||
− | :[Below this frame there are two rows each consisting of three small panels taking up the same width as the caption panel above | + | :[Below this frame there are two rows each consisting of three small panels taking up the same width as the caption panel above. In most of the panels noises are shown inside either sound bubbles or speech bubbles, which is also a rather unusual style for xkcd, especially as this ends in the last panel when the sounds are intentionally, but only then.] |
− | :[Cueball wakes | + | :[Cueball wakes up in a four poster bed, with round knobs at the top of each post. He sits up in bed with the pillow at his back up against the bedpost and holds a hand to his mouth, while the other hand is lying on the tight blanket covering his body. He clearly yawns as indicated with four small lines above his head above which floats a large sound bubble:] |
:Cueball: '''''Yawn''''' | :Cueball: '''''Yawn''''' | ||
:[Cueball walks to the right with a small watering can held in front of him.] | :[Cueball walks to the right with a small watering can held in front of him.] | ||
− | :[Cueball pours water from the can over the three small plants. A line goes from the water to another bubble:] | + | :[Cueball pours water from the can over the central of three small plants growing in the grass. A line goes from the water to another bubble:] |
:Water: ''Splish'' | :Water: ''Splish'' | ||
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:Cat: Z | :Cat: Z | ||
− | :[Cueball proceeds to pour water on the cat which immediately | + | :[Cueball proceeds to pour water on the cat which immediately gets up and lifts it front legs up away from Cueball as it tries to escape, with water cascading down on its back. Again there is a line from the water to a speech bubble at the top of the panel, but both the cats angry sound and Cueball's comment is in the more normal xkcd style without any bubbles around and just two lines to indicate who speaks.] |
:Water: ''Splish'' | :Water: ''Splish'' | ||
:Cat: ''Mrowl!!'' | :Cat: ''Mrowl!!'' | ||
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | [[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]] | ||
[[Category:Video games]] | [[Category:Video games]] | ||
− | [[Category: | + | [[Category:Animals]] |