They already have things for that, though. A lot of the smaller family farms here do a farm-share, where you work at the farm during scheduled hours during the months (or if you're lazy, you can pay an upfront fee), and receive some harvest as a reward. Why pretend, when you can always go help out with something like that, and keep small farms running?
They only ever consider one type of gay person to be the right kind of gay person anyway. The people that are moving out to the sticks, doing hard work alongside everyone else, and hitting the bar afterwards to unwind aren't part of the equation. You're only a true queer farmer/country person if you're out there trying to spread the correct agenda. All that really matters is that you're in a specific geographic location talking the talk, not that you're walking the walk.
Wait... are you telling me that in real life you can’t buy a packet of turnip seeds for $100, sow 9 turnips with it, water them for a week, and then sell each turnip for $50?
Until you've had to chase a chicken you've just freshly decapitated, you don't know what farming really is.
Blame the french, they started this shit back in medieval times where the nobles would have novelty farms and pretend to be peasants.
Or had to mercy-kill the hens/chicks that got maimed by a raccoon that got into your hen house.
Had a coon get in a few weeks ago. That they are so intelligent and wily almost makes me not want to kill them. Almost.
The point is 'game where your wife can be a dude' isn't something specific to farm games. At least one of those Japanese games actually had the 'husband/wife' be called just your partner in Japan because that shit ain't common to them.
As someone who has actually lived the farm life I can say that it fucking sucks. It's incredibly hard work for little yield and though you might think you like horses in reality if you had to deal with them every day you probably would hate them like I do.
You're correct, actually. The ironic thing is that these types do make it their lifestyle and defining trait. My wording was poor.
These fucks just don't understand that an agrarian society doesn't leave much time for ANYTHING. Its really why human progress was bottle-necked for a very long time and only really saw an explosion after industrialization. When your society is agrarian, you don't have TIME to develop science, medicine and things like that. The amount of people who can do the grunt work is significantly reduced. You also don't have the money for it. You need most of your manpower working the fields. Shit, you don't even have time to do agricultural science and even if you do, you couldn't get word around fast enough for people to make use of your techniques. Things moved at the speed of shit.
