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Even tho we live only a city and roughly 30 minutes apart, me and my girlfriend were having very hard times since the pandemic started because while everyone around her continued to live like nothing was happening, both my mom and my aunt are in all C19 risk groups, my aunt even not having antibodies anymore, so if the virus got in our home, they would both not survive, so everyone here is being EXTREMELY restrict about it.
30 minutes apart, and I've only seen my girlfriend 4 times since March. That, together with the fact that she doesn't have any real friends that are actually care about her and are not just talking to her because THEY'RE feeling sad, made her change so much in the past months. She wasn't managing to deal with everything while being away from me while everyone else around here were seeing their significant others like they always did.
After nearly breaking up, we ended up buying a bunch of games that we could play together online.
Then around the end of October she started lurking on various twitch streams from a community I'm part of. She ended up buying a webcam and some things to start streaming herself. Even tho she's shy, everyone was so supportive that she even got affiliate in just a week and made a small community through November / December.
While she managed to play some games with some viewers, many of them either had a weak PC or no PC at all, which limited her options with those viewers.
Enter Stardew Valley. Everyone could run it, even on their phones. The only problem we had was the player limit (which I got around because PRAISE MODS JESUS CHRIST I LOVE THIS COMMUNITY).
Yesterday we had 5 people
After a while I noticed she was oddly quiet. I thought it was because of how many people were there and that she was a little nervous. After she ended her stream and everyone in voice chat left, I asked if she was ok. Her answer:
"It's just... 2 months ago I was in a bad place with so many wrong thoughts in my head, with no one but you to talk and play things. Today we had people coming here and asking to play. New people and people that were supporting me since I started streaming, people that cared about me. I... I'm just so glad you convinced me to play and stream this game. I never had anyone asking to play anything with me, it's super weird so I didn't know how to react and got too quiet. I feel super happy like I didn't feel in a while :)"
The first thing that came in my mind - Thank god you made that game Eric. She was going deeper and deeper in bad thoughts and now she's miles above those thoughts because of our farm and friends.
I'm so happy writing this that I'm actually a little emotional. I'm so glad that Stardew Valley exists. I'm almost sure that she's out of a bad place because of it.
Again, thanks Eric. Thank you so much. I'm so glad that she's doing so much better now and I feel obliged to thank you for making Stardew Valley. Thank you!
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