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I watched the trailer for Farming Simulator 25 where hikers are taking selfies in front of modern harvesting machines and then racing them across fields. Nerds! Haha. I'm okay with my cartoony jeep in Farm Together 2. I've tried the Farm Sims before and they are mondo complexido. I love farming but not that much. 

I'm 83 hours into Farm Together 2 now. I'm about half way on the achievements, which I'm not looking at because I want to focus on design and management. I have four farm hands now working 17x17 fields. It's been tricky finding the right way to manage them, what crops to give them to plant, arranging their space with a variety of plants and animals to harvest and machines to work. It's probably my favorite part, the farm hands. I design everything around them and see if they can take some of my work load off my back completing quests while I design boat houses, special crop enclosures and rail lines (I unlocked the trains!). 

(I have since moved that pond at the end)

This game could be more complex but there's a point at which a game becomes too much a simulation and just burries me in details, decisions to make and time to manage. My brain starts to fatigue and I want out. It could get too simple as well and I get bored. It's a rare game that hits the right ballance: Zoo Tycoon, Disneyland Adventures and the Keflings games did that. 

I briefly played a few rounds of Central Park, the pinball game within Farsight Studios' Pinball Arcade because it's the only one from the 60s and fits my theme this month. I restarted my blog at wordpress and it will be included in my Sunday post which includes all the other media I do, like books, film and music.

(I got youtube working!)

Central Park has those tiny flippers that seemed to be the norm before larger ones appeared later on. It makes precision flipping and tilting even more important than on larger flipper tables. It's good though and the simulation is pitch perfect. Farsight are the best at digital pinball simulations. 

Purchases:

(this is the 70s edition. I have the 80s one)

I found a copy of the board game Stratego at a Goodwill and hope to play it again before the month is out. It's part of my 60s theme this month since it was released that decade. I'll make some comments on it with pics on my wordpress blog tomesintime.