Writing Illogical expectations by parents about Stardew Valley

[Glasia]

Anna was a 13 year old 8th grader of African descent living in a 10-appartment house nearby a train station. She enjoyed playing Stardew Valley on her laptop. Its PC specs are these: Running Windows 10 on an Intel i3 8145U, an integrated GPU and 8 GB of RAM. She was more than happy with Stardew Valley, until on a specific Sunday. It was heavily raining and she was peacefully playing Stardew Valley. Suddendly she heard a hard knock on the door. "FBI, OPEN UP!". She thought "What the ??? What did I do???". Suddendly the door fell off its hinges. "Mom, Dad, what are you doing? Why are you impersonating the FBI?". Anna's dad took a quick look on the screen of Anna's laptop. "Anna, what the are you playing??? Stardew Valley is too violent!". Anna's mum added: "Your laptop is too slow for that bull" game. Also that game is not for kids like you.". "But mama, I am already 13 years old and thanks to Mr. Rogers I improved in Technology and Geography.". Anna's dad: "You should play some real video games, that are more suitable for people like you. Like for example CS:GO, GTA or Valorant. Those are more friendly and can also run on your laptop.". "I am satisfied with Stardew Valley! What do you want?". Anna's mom: "No wonder, why they call you the P, R, N and D word in school. You should not have started playing Stardew Valley at the first place. The 15€ were a waste of money.". Anna: "How does Stardew Valley relate to that? They were jealous that Mr. Rogers praised me for my efforts in Geography. Stardew Valley is my hobby to relax if it rains like now". Anna's dad: "Listen, Stardew Valley will make you more toxic than League of Legends. You are addicted to that game!". Anna while being puzzled, opened Steam and showed her parents the "Played in the last 2 weeks" stats. She played only 11 hours within the last 14 days. Anna’s mom was adding, "If you’d played actual games, like as dad mentioned, GTA or Wolfenstein, you would score better in school.". Anna: "Why do you encourage me to play NSFW games over Stardew Valley?". "Just grow the up!".

In the next week on Saturday, Anna and her parents went on a quick train trip. Knowing that her parents regularly fare evade almost getting into trouble with the police, she bought from her minijob money a train ticket in advance. With the ticket, of which the destination field was labeled with "オスナブリュック" hidden, she boarded with the family the train. After they seated, Anna's mom asked: "Where is your iPad?". "I left it at home, as I wanted to enjoy the landscape.". "Man! But we could install Fortnite on your tablet! So you play on the train! Do you have your phone with you?". "Ehm yes, for emergencies to call police under 110 or fire brigade and ambulance under 112. But you told me 2 years ago that you will ABSOLUTELY NOT install games on my phone.". Anna's dad: "Give me your phone. Now!". Anna sighed and gave reluctantly the phone to her dad. Suddendly a ticket inspector appeared and Anna prepared secretly her ticket to "オスナブリュック". "Your ticket please.". Anna showed the ticket inspector her ticket. The ticket inspector thoroughly read Anna's ticket that was from "ミュンスター" to "オスナブリュック" and said: "OK". Now the inspector went to Anna's parents. "Your ticket please.". Anna's mom, shocked, reacted: "Ehm, let me search for it...". Anna's dad: "Ehm, we have no tickets.". The inspector reacted with: "So, please explain me, why you have no tickets.". "Ehm, we didn't have money for the train. So we just boarded it.". Anna immediately facepalmed after hearing the dumb excuse by her parents. The ticket inspector immediately wrote a 60€ fine to Anna's parents. Because they were her parents, the ticket inspector let them ride the whole trip to the end. Some minutes before arrival, Anna's dad gave her her phone back. In the first minutes of arrival, Anna wanted to take a photo with her phone but she was met with the loud startup sound of Supercell's theme. Anna became angry. "What did you do with my phone?????". On Anna's phone the start menu of Clash Royale was visible. Suddendly she got a warning saying "No storage left". Worriyingly she thought: "A virus? Lemme check that.". She initiated a scan but no viruses were found. On the first bench she immediately uninstalled all the games off her phone, namely Clash Royale, Candy Crush, Subway Surfers and several more.

The next day when Anna wanted to finish a homework on her laptop, her laptop's processor fans went insane. On the laptop screen suddendly Steam was starting. Then she saw that the newest versions of the games "Assassin Creed", "Cyberpunk 2077" and "GTA 5" tried to start at the same time by seeing the green text of the corresponding game's names. She tried to press Ctrl Shift Escape to open Task Manager but it was too late. Her whole laptop monitor was showing the frames at 10 seconds per frame. The laptop fans turned louder and louder and the laptop became hotter and hotter. It was so hot, that Anna dashed to the kitchen to get the oven gloves to touch the laptop. The games have crashed, freeing up some RAM: She opened CoreTemp to check the CPU temperature. It was 155°C, so she immediately power cycled the PC. Then she went to the living room and asked furiously: "WHAT THE DID YOU DO WITH MY PC???". Anna's mother: "We installed some pedagogically better games for you.". "BUT WHY DID YOU MAKE ALL THOSE GAME AUTOSTART AT ONCE???". "We wanted you to drop Stardew Valley. It is too bad for your health.". "BUT YOU KNEW MY LAPTOP WAS NOT ABLE TO HANDLE THE LOAD!!! NOW MY LAPTOP IS UNUSABLE!!! BRING IT TO REPAIR SHOP A.S.A.P TOMORROW!!!". Anna was so aggressive that she ripped parts of her afro off her head.

On Monday, Anna had school as usual. In IT class her teacher asked her: "Why did you not submit your homework?". Anna: "My parents broke my laptop by installing software on my laptop that can't be run due to CPU limit. Now my laptop gets hot up to 155°C and autostarts like 7 games at once. I will bring it to the repair shop today evening." "Oh no... What had happened at home?". "My parents think that Stardew Valley is too violent and too hard for my laptop and too NSFW and then they suggest me more serious games like GTA. I am not 18 yet.". "I will talk with your parents about that.". "Please don't! My parents are criminals! They constantly fare evade when we take the train. Last time it was on Saturday when we went to "オスナブリュック". I better get my laptop repaired.". Anna's IT teacher suggested: "Bring it first to me tomorrow. I will look what I can do.". "Thank you Mr. Stark.". The IT lesson ended soon afterwards.

[Continuing soon......]

 

[i love valley]

good story

 

[Glasia]

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On the next day after the 7th lesson Anna went to the computer room of the school. Upon knocking on the door she was immediately greeted by her IT teacher Mr. Stark. "Hey, Anna, let's work on your laptop.". Anna greeted her teacher and laid her laptop on the teacher's desk. "Can you explain what had happened?". "So, my parents are for some reason sick of me playing some rounds of Stardew Valley. They reason that with violence, demands on my laptop and with that Stardew Valley would not be pedagogically good for me. But yet they suggest me playing GTA and CS GO. So since this weekend when I start my laptop, immediately Steam and 7 games I did not want and knew that they are absolutely too heavy for my laptop.". "Did you talk with your parents about that yet?". "No, but I informed all of my teacher that it is possible that homework comes a bit late due to my situation with my laptop."

Anna's IT teacher noted that and suggested: "That sounds like an error in the autostart. Let's boot your laptop to Safe Mode. Do you know how to do that?". "I don't know. What keys do I have to press?". "Turn on your laptop and immediately spam F8.". Anna understood that and turned on her laptop. She mashed on the F8 key until the "Safe Mode" screen appeared on the screen. Mr. Stark said: "Now let's open the autostart." and clicked on Anna's computer. He showed Anna the autostart folder. "Are these entries familiar?". "Hmmm. gta.exe, assassincreed.exe, csgo.exe... Ah, those are the games that open and crash my laptop. Let's remove them from the autostart.". Mr. Stark demonstrated to Anna how he removed Steam and all the games off of the autostart folder. After having finished the deletion of the autostart, Mr. Stark left Safe Mode and restarted the laptop. Anna smiled: "Wow, my laptop boots up so so fast! Thank you!".

Now to Anna came an urgent thought. She muttered: "Hmm, let me check what other unwanted software my parents installed.". Mr. Stark: "Check how full your hard drive is.". Anna immediately opened "This PC" on the desktop. The explorer loaded slowly. After 3 minutes she saw why the explorer was so slow. She gasped: "Oh my gosh! My hard drive is full!" as she saw that 92% of her hard drive were occupied. Her first thought was to clear the recycling bin. The clearing freed up 10 GB of space. Then she went on deleting the games off her laptop. "Wow, that were like 400 GB of my hard drive!". Later she checked the "All programs" list for other unwanted software and detected another 5 entries which she promptly deleted. As the last check Anna ran a virus scan which fortunately returned that no viruses were detected.

After her laptop being fixed, Anna took her laptop with her and returned home. She worked till 11:50 PM to submit the missed homework from the past week. On the next day she had the thoughts to bring the oven gloves to her IT class. Her gut feeling was right as during programming her laptop became super hot. When she wanted to fix a programming error as soon as she touched her laptop, she jumped up. "Hot! Hot! Hot!". Mr. Stark looked on her. "Is everything OK?". Quickly she took her oven gloves out of her bag. She quickly opened CoreTemp. The CPU had a temperature of 131°C. Anna shouted: "Help! My laptop is hot!". "Turn it off!". Anna immediately power cycled her laptop. "It was 131°C hot!". Mr. Stark said: "131°C is dangerous. Turn your laptop upside down and wait for some minutes to let it cool down.". Some minutes later Mr. Stark approached Anna and asked her: "Can you turn on your laptop and enter the BIOS?". Anna: "I suppose.". She turned her laptop back and turned it on. She immediately spammed F2 to enter the BIOS. When the BIOS was shown, Mr. Stark remarked: "Who sets their BIOS to strange values? Try loading the default settings.". Anna navigated to the "Exit" tab of the BIOS and selected "Load default settings.". After re-enabling VT-X for virtual machines, she exited the BIOS and continued to Windows. Anna's laptop seemed to behave normally the rest of the lesson.

Friday came and Anna finally caught up on all her homework and opened up Stardew Valley. Somehow her parents had some kind of aura feeling and like on autopilot stood up. They slowly crept to Anna's room. While Anna finished fishing a difficult fish, her parents mumbled "Mrrmmph". Anna's mother: "What are you playing?". "But mom, I did all my homework already and it's Friday afternoon.". "Stop playing Stardew Valley, it does more harm than good". Anna: "OK, I finished anyways, so I am reading a book.". Right when Anna went to her bookshelf, her father said: "No books. Do some real pedagogically good activity like watching a movie.". Anna confusingly asked: "Wasn't I banned from watching TV because I then after only one movie believed so hardcore in elves and wizards that I dozed off in class and my grades got worse?". "You should watch movies like the Matrix or so... Now follow us to the living room.".

While Anna went with her parents to the living room, she sighed. "OK... What channel is the movie on?". Anna's father: "We don't need the TV. Turn the PC on.". Anna searched for the "On" button and pressed it. A couple of moments later, Anna's father opened the Web browser and pressed a shortcut to some strange site. A few seconds later a big colorful text was seen. Anna: "Dude, I hope you are joking... What the are you doing on that sketchy website?". "I am downloading the movie. Hold on...". "You are not seriously...", asked Anna. "You are not seriously pirating the movie, aren't you?". Anna's father: "Now shut up and enjoy soon the movie.". Anna's mother: "We can even get the newest part also.". Anna: "But aren't you literally commit...". "SHUT UP!". "We could have bought all the movies for like 15€"

An hour later all the movies were downloaded and Anna's parents sat her infront of the TV. Anna's father pressed something on the remote and then the movie started. Anna was stuck staring at the screen while the movies went. After the 2nd movie it was already 10 PM and Anna was about to go to the shower. A few centimeters before the shower her mother shouted: "What are you doing here? I told you to watch the movies to the end!". "But it's already 7 PM. I gotta prepare to sleep or we will miss tomorrow the train that comes at 8 AM.". "You gotta watch the other 2 movies too.". "OK", sighed Anna. "After showering.". "Do quick!". Anna rushed her shower and 4 minutes later was back on the couch. She watched the other 2 Matrix movies again staring furiously at the actions on the screen and then went to bed.

The next day Anna waked up at 5 AM, earlier before her parents did and the first thing she did was putting some of her minijob money for the train in her secret pocket of her handbag. Then she did her beauty routine: combing her large afro and using some simple skin lotion to get her acne under control. At 6:30 AM the alarm clock of Anna's parents rang. After eating for breakfast they exited their house and went to the train station. Anna felt since waking up that her parents tried to fare evade again, so when arriving at the train station, she said: "I need to go to the toilet.". Anna's parents nodded and let her go. But Anna was not heading to the toilet but to the ticket machine. There she secretly bought a two way train ticket to ビーレフェルト and put it in the secret pocket.

Albeit with a delay of several minutes, the train departed off the station. Anna and her parents were standing near the door. Some stations later, the ticket inspector went through the train. "Mom, dad, did you buy this time train tickets?". "Why should we? Are we some kind of llamas?". While the ticket inspector approached Anna and her parents, Anna smiled, as she had her train ticket and rummaged through her bag to find it. "Your ticket, please.". Right at this moment Anna put out her ticket and showed it to the inspector. "Alright.".

The inspector turned to Anna's parents. "Your tickets...". It was at this moment that Anna knew, her parents ed up by deciding to again not to purchase a train ticket. Anna felt suddendly a power surge in her muscles. She gripped the upper holding pole, swung at her parents and exactly in the moment, Anna's father pulled out his fist to punch the ticket inspector, she kicked her father away. Anna's mother: "Dude, Anna, what is happening with you?". Right after Anna saw that her mother was about to say the F word, she rapidly did a backflip to punch her mother away. After Anna stood back up from the flip her parents still refused to admit that they were fare evading. "Your tickets please", said the ticket inspector again. Anna's mother asked her: "Where the hell did you learn these moves?". Anna: "Remember forcing me to watch all 4 Matrix movies? You know I mimic all movies I watch very seriously? That was why I was banned from the TV when I was younger.".

Because Anna's parents still refused to admit their fare evasion, the ticket inspector instructed the train driver to call the police. While the train was approaching the station, Anna held her parents back, using a firm grip, to prevent them hitting other passengers. On the text station, in "ハム (ヴェストファーレン)", the train was stopped by police. Only one door opened and there the police came. Immediately a police officer arrested Anna's parents. Another police officer asked Anna for a statement on the situation and offered to help her out.