Playdate: Stardew Valley (01/04/2017)

Man, that offbeat plate in the background is poking my OCD!

"A bunch of puppies run over by a lawnmower...!"

QUACK

As opposed to writing 3 :) Vinny is a father of young inquisitive minds, he is the perfect foil for the knowledge sieve that is our Dan.

"...and a train that smashed a Husky *extended silence*"

cant wait to catch more of this on monday, the first day of the week!

I can tell from this that Dan Ryckert is going to make a memorable impression as a long-term part of GBEAST.

The story was even worse than we feared: According to Dan below Paul Ryckert is the bunny murderer!

Monday is the first day of the week.

@mvhvtmv: Yeah, reminds me of visiting with Dad and his hunting buds after they finished hunting and seeing a half-dozen beheaded geese on the table with half their feathers plucked out. Rural living is just much closer to the messy cycle of life & death on a daily basis.

Lived for 30years and I have never heard about this Sunday first day of the week thing, never. Sunday is during the WeekEND. Im swedish

@danryckert: OH NO D:

On a dark stormy night at the corner of Oak and.... Poison Oak.

I married Leah because, like my real wife, she loves Wine and Cheese. I just gave her Wine or cheese every day until she was drunk enough to marry me.

So excited to see these two guys get to know each other more. I really think they can be the best combo on the site.

Yup, that would fuck me right up even as an adult!

daft punk fisherman

I don't have strong feelings about when the week starts. I just know it's Monday, and you people are WRONG.

Between this video and the Rocket League rubber match video, all I want to play now are those 2 games.

Nevermind the fact that I just dropped a bunch on the Steam Winter Sale.

It's gonna be a good year at GBEAST.

As far as child labor laws go, if you need your kid to help with your family business, you can have them help and pay them nothing. The whole reason we have summer vacation was because as an agrarian society, farmers needed their kids to help around the farm during planting/harvest time. Regardless, you can have your child work for the family business regardless of their age. The law assumed you love your kids enough not to kill them with work, or unduly take advantage of them. Most of the time, it's very healthy for kids to work in a family business. It teaches them responsibility, and how to run a business. A skill lacking in most kids and young adults these days.

"According to international standard ISO 8601, Monday is the first day of the week."

Sorry Dan, you're wrong. Again.

In the grand scheme of things, though, who cares? The real war crime is the way you yanks write out dates.

The same standard will help with that though, so worth a read.

Yeah this is what i meant. If you ask a co-worker on Friday if he's going to do something fun on Saturday and Sunday, technically those two days belong to two different weeks if your week starts with a Sunday. Saturday is the last bookend of the current week, and Sunday is the starting bookend of the next week. Asking them what they do during the weekend (instead of 'what will you do during the weekends') would only include one of those days if you go by that logic.

I know this is a nonsensical discussion, but it's an interesting thought-exercise.

So, first of, the vigor with which Dan asserts that Sunday is the first day is way off, I think it doesn't matter nearly as much.

But, that said, Dan is North American, and a lot of people here are clearly European. So, here's how the calendar looks in North America.

Dan's argument is that Sunday is in the left-most column. Which, as any person can see it is. Therefore, his definition of week is the red brackets.

He then goes on to say that anyone who says that Monday is the first day, the orange brackets, is crazy. Which, strictly going by the calendar, is true.

That said, I've never thought about it for more than a cumulative 4 minutes over my life. It literally has never come up in any meaningful way in all my business or personal life, so I think everyone needs to chill (including @danryckert, but also including @shep9toes, @eloj and everyone else I'm too lazy to scroll back through the last four pages to call out by name).

I saw that at age 10 when I stepped out to wait for the school bus. I didn't go to school until noon, for obvious reasons.

APPENDEUM: I also learned about sex at age 11 when I saw 2 of our cats doing it outside the kitchen window. I don't know what's funnier, that mom freaked out when I asked her what they were doing, or that they fell over while doing it and still kept going, rotating around in the grass.

That was great. Lookin forward to more GBE stuff.

I typically don't agree with Dan, but cheese is definitely The Best Thing.

Nathan For You definitely has many elements that are scripted Dan...

Once again, Dan demonstrates his profound knowledge of biology.

Great video and game!

ISO8601 was great bit. I love it

I finally agree with @danryckert on something food related. Cheese is fucking delicious and give me the sharpest cheddar there is.

I'm so glad Dan pushed for this game to be in the top ten for 2016. It's sooo hard to stop playing it and it was nice to see some of the new content that's been added in the patch. It was my second favorite game of the year (after Hitman). :)

Please make a video where you just cycle through every single color combination your lighting setup is capable of while Dan quickly names the location each one reminds him of.

Steve quit Blue's Clues because he started going bald and he didn't want it broadcast to the world.

A week starting on the weekend makes no sense.

I played 5 hours of Stardew Valley yesterday after watching this. Dammit Dan you brought the bug back!

I'm an hour in and Dan is currently listing things he doesn't know or understand that are mostly common knowledge to everyone. The saga continues.

Love how enthusiastic the people are over the question wather or not Monday is the first day of the week.

Shows how even small cultural aspects can make up for lively discussions.

@nickux: can guarantee you the majority of people wouldn't know the same things. difference is they don't speak up on fear of looking stupid (ironically being more ignorant in the process)

@elthain: True but even according to the Jewish calendar Saturday is the Sabbath, not Sunday. So the "current" first day of week is set by the Gregorian Calendar

The Vinny/Dan bonding is amazing. 2017 with Dan in the East is going to be good!

I love Dan in GBEast, I am stoked on this coming year. I feel like he is a better fit with Vinny and Alex then where he was before.

This was a delight

Monday is clearly the start of the week. How can Sunday, which is a weekEND day, be the week start? Who the fuck goes to bed Saturday thinking that when they wake up it's a new week?

I look forward to the day Dan retires from Giantbomb, and makes his video game about farming where dead animals are the collectibles.

I want to say I was told in church that Sunday was the start of the week, and that made no sense back then (probably over 12 years ago).

Maybe they're like bookends - one starts the week, the other finishes it :p

FWIW, the same Windows 10 calendar on a UK setup has Monday as the first column (though TBH, I don't especially care what day the week starts. I spent three years treating Thursday as the first day of a week, so Sunday or Monday is normal by comparison).

I feel like this year should just be Vinny playing Hitman, Alex playing Mega Man, and Dan playing Stardew.

I have wanted this for a long time, thank you