>doing shitty jobs like picking fruit or hauling lumber or stocking shelves>daydream that I'm a pioneer colonist on an alien planet or stocking my store in a sleepy seaside Japanese town>successfully postpone killing myself
>>84582544the latter part is somewhat achievable, though going hero may be better then living in japan
I remember one time when I was working at a car parts factory and I was playing a lot Sins of a Solar Empire I pretended I was as citizen in my empire and was making warship parts for a couple of weeks. It was very autistic.
>>84582544I seriously want to do farm/ranch/logging sort of work. I wanna buy land in a low-cost-of-living rural area where I can thrive on low-pay outdoor manual labor. I'm so tired of pointless city jobs and modern society. I could literally dig ditches or smash rocks all day and go home with far more energy than dealing with normalfags and browns all day.
>>84583186I do this all the time. I'm not even badly paid but I always recontextualize work and LARP as if it's something else in a fantasy or sci-fi world. When I was young and studying I'd put on Chinese music and pretend I was a peasant preparing for the imperial examinations.
i really like the image op
>>84583249It's apricot season in Greece, you're welcome to join for 50 euros and a cup of coffee a day.
>>84582544Mindset can make any wholesome but tough task better. Somehow I didn't make a fictional scenario like you did despite liking to outline stories and settings. For my 13-hour days I learned to mostly ignore the feeling of time passing and just focus on the movements/tasks. It was a nice, neutral feeling mentally.
>>84583478I want to own land and have citizen rights to it. I can't do that in a foreign country.
>>84583460Thank you, I like the subject matter
>>84583480I don't remember when or how I had the realization, but I can't help but always think about how this is life, all of it, and it's limited. Every second is one I won't get back, so I should remain conscious and aware of all the time that passes, because if I don't, I effectively live less.Ever since I almost never zone out during anything, or get fully immersed, I am always aware of the time and check clocks constantly. It makes days feel endless.
>>84583550sandrone does have a nice designit kinda makes me want to check out genshin a bit morethanks for the second image op
>>84583684That's an understandable perspective.
>>84583791There's still plenty of time for them to ruin her character and waste multiple years of buildup and backstory she has...
>>84583874if they've managed to keep things in check so far, i hope they can keep the good story goingeven if they don't, maybe you could write fanfiction if you want to keep it going?
I did the math and berry picking pays bretty gud. One acre gets you like $22,000 for 450ish hours of harvest and processing. You have to cut them down to the ground each winter, and while growing watch for disease and pests. Then you have to find someone who will buy wholesale. Aside from that it looks like a comfy living where you are really only busting ass one month out of the year for harvest/process. The rest of the year you can kind of neet. Too much work alone, but get a wife and it's manageable with two people. Half an acre is easy/free fuel for winter heat with a coppiced woodlot, 2-3" diameter poles cut to ~16" long. A fifth of an acre for wheat and non-paddy grown rice. A fifth acre for vegetables. Maybe some grapes or plums to have enough wine to go to bed tipsy every night(just make sure harvest doesn't overlap with cash crop berries). I could be living the dream if only I had a few acres and a wife.
