MelanieScribbles
Greenhorn
Hi, newbie to the forums here; a few years late to the Stardew Valley party here, but better late than never, right? 
I'm 30 years old (I'm probably around Shane's age, lol). autistic, and if I'm not playing videogames, then I'm drawing (I actually drew my icon myself, it's a self-portrait). I'm loving Stardew Valley so far, it's a new favorite cozy game of mine. I play on PC via Steam, and I'm only on my first save so far. So in that context, I thought it was funny to name my first farm First Bloom, that name admittedly does look kind of nice whenever I see it mentioned the in-game dialog, though, so no regrets on that one. I'm only in year 3's Summer and I'm still 2 rooms off from completing the Community Center. And no spoilers: I've made it to the bottom of the mines, but haven't tried the new dungeon that you'd unlock there yet. So I clearly still have leagues of content ahead of me, and definitely think of an absolute noob when I say that I'm a newbie to both the game and the forums. 
I did run into some issues when chasing some of my in-game goals, though, so I pretty much made this forum account to both talk about the game and maybe ask some questions that tons of noobs probably asked before. Due to my autism diagnose, some stuff in the game is just not as obvious to me as it would be to a neurotypical player. And sometimes, neither the wiki, Google or Youtube can give me a straight answer either. However, I know what both the game and wiki mention and don't mention is far from perfect; I mean, even some of the pro players on Youtube had to find out some pretty basic stuff later in their playthroughs, so I can't really feel THAT stupid about not knowing some stuff. I sometimes also can't tell whether I'm running into a bug that I need to work around or it's just me forgetting some stuff from the tutorial. So I figured that this forum would definitely be the place to either ask that stuff or lurk around for an answer. By the way, is there any forum-specific etiquette and/or commonly used shorthand that I should be aware of?
I'm 30 years old (I'm probably around Shane's age, lol). autistic, and if I'm not playing videogames, then I'm drawing (I actually drew my icon myself, it's a self-portrait). I'm loving Stardew Valley so far, it's a new favorite cozy game of mine. I play on PC via Steam, and I'm only on my first save so far. So in that context, I thought it was funny to name my first farm First Bloom, that name admittedly does look kind of nice whenever I see it mentioned the in-game dialog, though, so no regrets on that one. I'm only in year 3's Summer and I'm still 2 rooms off from completing the Community Center. And no spoilers: I've made it to the bottom of the mines, but haven't tried the new dungeon that you'd unlock there yet. So I clearly still have leagues of content ahead of me, and definitely think of an absolute noob when I say that I'm a newbie to both the game and the forums. I did run into some issues when chasing some of my in-game goals, though, so I pretty much made this forum account to both talk about the game and maybe ask some questions that tons of noobs probably asked before. Due to my autism diagnose, some stuff in the game is just not as obvious to me as it would be to a neurotypical player. And sometimes, neither the wiki, Google or Youtube can give me a straight answer either. However, I know what both the game and wiki mention and don't mention is far from perfect; I mean, even some of the pro players on Youtube had to find out some pretty basic stuff later in their playthroughs, so I can't really feel THAT stupid about not knowing some stuff. I sometimes also can't tell whether I'm running into a bug that I need to work around or it's just me forgetting some stuff from the tutorial. So I figured that this forum would definitely be the place to either ask that stuff or lurk around for an answer. By the way, is there any forum-specific etiquette and/or commonly used shorthand that I should be aware of?
You also don't need a fancy Wacom drawing tablet like mine to do digital art; my first tablet was a really cheap one from the brand Trust (I only upgraded later, when I figured out that I wanted to get serious about digital art), Wacom has some cheaper options, and plenty of affordable brands out there. Drawing on good 'ol paper has its merits too, though; I'm always so impressed when someone can work with watercolour or acrylic paint really well. I'm so bad at any medium that involves a paintbrush, though. 
