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I love dogs. I don't want a dog (yet, I guess). It's a huge commitment. If I get a chance to periodically interact with a dog - just the good parts, especially,

by junon 4y ago

I love dogs. I don't want a dog (yet, I guess). It's a huge commitment. If I get a chance to periodically interact with a dog - just the good parts, especially, such as petting, playing, running around, etc. - then I'm going to take it. It still doesn't mean I want to adopt a dog. Apply this to being a farmer, which is a lot of work, and weigh this against the barrier to entry of being a farmer for just a few hours every so often, vs. doing it digitally.

ksec 4y ago
Not only that. The economics side of it. Not everyone could afford a dog. It is quite a bit of money, from the space required for living to the food and medical care. Also in farming. I do think there are people who like the hard work and simple life. But as a business it is terrible.
- zdragnar 4y ago
  $400 a month in food (two large dogs, both turned out to need specialty diets) gets old fast. That said, I dearly love my dogs and am trying rather hard to not think about the tens of thousands of dollars I will end up spending just on food alone.
  - Doxin 4y ago
    As a new dog owner, I'm pretty sure the dog mob could show up to beat me up and steal a kidney and I'd probably still think getting a dog was a great decision. Love is an odd thing.
dylan604 4y ago
You just described having grandkids vs having your own kid! A niece/nephew is similar as well. Be the cool aunt/uncle, be the grandparent that feeds the kids sugar just before the parents come to collect them, or any of the other ways of enjoying the time with the kiddos but being able to get back for all the times the kid/sibling was an ass to you!
josefresco 4y ago
>If I get a chance to periodically interact with a dog - just the good parts, especially, such as petting, playing, running around, etc. - then I'm going to take it. I had a couple of dogs who died of old age. I couldn't bring myself to get another dog so instead we dog sit! We use the Rover app and it's been pretty awesome. You get to be a "doggy grandparent" for a couple days, spoil the crap out of them and then poof! They go back to their owners and you don't have to deal with all their BS (because let's be honest: almost every dog his it's own BS)
yamtaddle 4y ago
These games almost never include the really shitty parts, even the "realistic" ones. Running to the farm & feed store (perhaps an hour round trip, or even more, depending on where you are, and it's getting in the way of getting actual work done) for something or another, mending fences, grading drive-ways and other roads, cleaning yourself and your clothes and boots up after you get covered in mud, cleaning equipment, getting tractors un-stuck, repairing tractors, and so on. And what they do include is a button press, not a process. Hook up a discer? Back up to it and press the button. No getting out, screwing with chocks and some kind of device or another for raising the tongue into place. No pinching the shit out of your hand because you were careless. No weed-eating around equipment that's parked outside. No re-painting the barn. No re-sealing some screw holes in the sheet metal roof that've been leaking. No diagnosing and fixing a slipped belt on the combine. No tossing square bales onto a trailer. No cuts on your arms from corn leaves. No itchiness from handling straw. No hay (ha, ha) fever. No spending an entire morning getting one damn cow or another in the chute for the veterinarian. These "realistic" simulators still almost always cut out all the worst crap that's the reason people don't have tons and tons of fun doing it in real life. The stuff you do in the game is maybe 5-10% of what you really do.
- htrp 4y ago
  Man I can already feel the anger at having to repaint that fence.....

by junon 4y ago

ksec 4y ago

Not only that. The economics side of it. Not everyone could afford a dog. It is quite a bit of money, from the space required for living to the food and medical care. Also in farming. I do think there are people who like the hard work and simple life. But as a business it is terrible.

zdragnar 4y ago
$400 a month in food (two large dogs, both turned out to need specialty diets) gets old fast. That said, I dearly love my dogs and am trying rather hard to not think about the tens of thousands of dollars I will end up spending just on food alone.
- Doxin 4y ago
  As a new dog owner, I'm pretty sure the dog mob could show up to beat me up and steal a kidney and I'd probably still think getting a dog was a great decision. Love is an odd thing.

dylan604 4y ago

You just described having grandkids vs having your own kid! A niece/nephew is similar as well. Be the cool aunt/uncle, be the grandparent that feeds the kids sugar just before the parents come to collect them, or any of the other ways of enjoying the time with the kiddos but being able to get back for all the times the kid/sibling was an ass to you!

josefresco 4y ago

>If I get a chance to periodically interact with a dog - just the good parts, especially, such as petting, playing, running around, etc. - then I'm going to take it. I had a couple of dogs who died of old age. I couldn't bring myself to get another dog so instead we dog sit! We use the Rover app and it's been pretty awesome. You get to be a "doggy grandparent" for a couple days, spoil the crap out of them and then poof! They go back to their owners and you don't have to deal with all their BS (because let's be honest: almost every dog his it's own BS)

yamtaddle 4y ago

These games almost never include the really shitty parts, even the "realistic" ones. Running to the farm & feed store (perhaps an hour round trip, or even more, depending on where you are, and it's getting in the way of getting actual work done) for something or another, mending fences, grading drive-ways and other roads, cleaning yourself and your clothes and boots up after you get covered in mud, cleaning equipment, getting tractors un-stuck, repairing tractors, and so on. And what they do include is a button press, not a process. Hook up a discer? Back up to it and press the button. No getting out, screwing with chocks and some kind of device or another for raising the tongue into place. No pinching the shit out of your hand because you were careless. No weed-eating around equipment that's parked outside. No re-painting the barn. No re-sealing some screw holes in the sheet metal roof that've been leaking. No diagnosing and fixing a slipped belt on the combine. No tossing square bales onto a trailer. No cuts on your arms from corn leaves. No itchiness from handling straw. No hay (ha, ha) fever. No spending an entire morning getting one damn cow or another in the chute for the veterinarian. These "realistic" simulators still almost always cut out all the worst crap that's the reason people don't have tons and tons of fun doing it in real life. The stuff you do in the game is maybe 5-10% of what you really do.

htrp 4y ago
Man I can already feel the anger at having to repaint that fence.....