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== Explanation ==
 
== Explanation ==
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''{{w|Stardew Valley}}'' is an indie {{w|farming}} {{w|simulation}} role-playing {{w|video game}} created and published by {{w|Eric Barone (developer)|Eric Barone}}. Just as in similar games like {{w|Farmville}} and {{w|Harvest Moon (series)|Harvest Moon}}, the player takes the role of a {{w|farmer}} who establishes their own farm and performs everyday tasks such as watering {{w|plants}}, growing food, and tending to animals.  ''Pelican Town'', referenced in the title text, is a fictional village in this game.
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''{{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
  
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In this comic, Cueball begins his morning routine in a ''Stardew Valley'' session by waking up and watering some of his farm's plants. However, he then walks up to a sleeping cat, pauses for a moment, then pours water on it, startling it awake. He says "Dammit." to this, likely indicating this isn't the first time he's made this mistake.
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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.  
  
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In the game, watering plants is an essential chore, which requires the player to "equip" a watering can.  The player moves their character up to a plant and simply presses an action button (or key) to perform the watering action. The same action button is used to interact in different ways with other things, animals and people (e.g. to talk to them), so accidentally leaving the watering can equipped while trying to talk to someone can cause the player to "water" them instead.  The comic illustrates how easy it is to do this in the game, as well as the comedic value of seeing this happen from the point of view of the player's character.
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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.  
  
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The title text reinforces this humor by indicating that [[Randall]] has used the watering can, probably unintentionally, on nearly every person and object in the game.  It's amusing to think that he may curse each time he realizes he's still holding the can when he tries to talk to someone.  (His use of the word "Dammit" in this comic also calls to mind a brief discussion on the word in [[559: No Pun Intended]].)
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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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The use of the word "virtually" in the title text plays with the word's double meaning. It is used here in the sense of "almost", however when swapping the words "virtually" and "waters", the word assumes its alternate meaning, but the title text still makes sense: Since the game is only a simulation, the player "virtually waters" his plants.
 
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''Stardew Valley'' was also mentioned only two weeks prior to this comic in [[1790: Sad]]; this comic explains why.
 
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Interestingly, this comic is drawn in a slightly unusual style for [[xkcd]].  Of note is the border around the caption ("Stardew Valley Morning Routine"), the thicker-than-normal penmanship, and the use of drawn borders around the watering sound effects, Cueball's yawn, and the cat's sleeping word balloon.  The cat's balloon in particular follows the visual style of the game (in which certain objects and animals may show their current emotional states with word balloons) - more generally, actions that normally occur in the game, such as the yawn and the watering action, appear to be shown in balloons while Cueball's "Dammit!" is written in the style of other xkcd comics.  This likely suggests that Cueball's epithet here represents the player (Randall) actually saying this in response to the incorrect action of his character in the game.
 
  
 
== Transcript ==
 
== Transcript ==
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:[Inside a slim frame at the top of the comic there is a caption:]
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:[Inside a slim frame at the top of the comic there is a caption (a rather unusual style for xkcd captions). Below this frame there is two rows of three small panels taking up the same width.]
 
:Stardew Valley morning routine
 
:Stardew Valley morning routine
  
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:[Below this frame there are two rows each consisting of three small panels taking up the same width as the caption panel above:]
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:[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:]
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:[Cueball wakes and rises up from his pillow sitting beneath his blanket in his four poster bed with round knobs. He yawns with a hand to his mouth. Above him 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.]
  
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:[Cueball pours water from the can over the three small plants. A line goes from the water to another bubble:]
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:[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
  
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:[Cueball proceeds to pour water on the cat which immediately jumps up away from him trying to escape as water cascades on it. Again there is a line from the water to a speech bubble, but both the cats angry sound and Cueball's comment is written without bubbles.]
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:[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 bag. 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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:Cueball: '''''–Dammit. '''''
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:Cueball: '''''-Dammit. '''''
  
 
{{comic discussion}}
 
{{comic discussion}}
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]
 
[[Category:Video games]]
 
[[Category:Video games]]
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[[Category:Cats]]
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[[Category:Animals]]

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