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The last sentence suggests y’all eventually just skipped the gaming part and went straight into actual sewing dates. Quality time that includes making something? Still a W in my book.
God I feel that whole not into relationships part on a spiritual level.
Why it is so hard for some people to understand they I'm happy on my own is beyond me. Just some cocoa, a blanket, and the remote and I'm good. And no I don't want to explain for the Eight bajillionth time why I haven't even tried dating in the last 6 years.
Years ago I played a MMO that required a lot of hot keys and didn't really support macros. This guy in my guild made some wooden contraption that contained a keyboard so he could press different keys by pressing down on various pedals with his feet.
I mean, if you know the backstory it makes sense that the developers made settings to make it as lifelike as possible by having stuff like racing pedals work.
TLDR of the backstory: Developers wife was really into sewing and was pretty good at it. Unfortunately she got a disease that made her joints really loose (i think, the exact details are probably different) and she could no longer sew and work machines. So the Developer made a sim game for her to be able to enjoy making and designing dresses again.
Well here's a fun fact for you: The reason we have medical gloves is because one doctor was in love with his nurse and didn't want her to quit. She was one of the followers of germ theory and took handwashing before operations serious but the chemicals they used back then were breaking down her hands so she would have to quit and the doctor didn't want to lose her and voila we have them everywhere now.
Source. Sadly, they didn't have a happy marriage and all that as was typical of that time period and women who liked to use their brains.
As someone with Ehlers Danlos, your joints getting loose and fragile that you’ll need supports or be careful of everything around you sucks. I’m currently wearing supports on my legs to keep balance and I’m hoping to have more time to still be able to do normal things while I’m still able to 😔
My mum has always said when I was growing up that she loved sewing, but she was awful. I was the opposite. She's always wanted to sew like me, well now she can easily outdo me. I've just gifted her my Switch, and I just saw the developer say it's going to be brought out there! Definitely will pre-order a copy.
Now if someone could just make a "Proud of my Son Simulator" so she can finally achieve that, it would be greatly appreciated🙏
Even cooler, the game was made by 3 people, one of which was the wife essentially acting as a design director for the sewing portion of the game and trying to find a balance (I think they did) of realism vs. things that would be annoying to do in a game.
I had no clue about this backstory, I got into this game because I have a degenerative joint disease and used to love sewing. Dev really out here loving their wife and supporting a whole invisible community of disabled artists.
Oh shit, I think I know that disease. There are a few similarities between others but that one in particular has no cure and can be misdiagnosed because of how similar the symptoms are to literally everything. You can’t even carry much weight or walk for long before getting tired our damaging your ligaments. It’s horrible. A worker at my company was diagnosed with it and I feel so bad for her cause she’s super cool and outgoing.
Yeah, its Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. No cure currently. It sucks balls to live with. Thats why its so nice that she still gets to live out her passions in a game.
My favourite type of content of the last few weeks is when someone buy Dressmaker for their wife initially but then they also try the game and they get absolutely hooked on it.
I’ve seen someone say the reason men will play the game and enjoy it is comparable to when you have a game like for example Dark Souls and you eventually have people calling it Fashion Souls or the amount of effort someone puts in to dress up their character in an MMO.
I didn't know dark souls had a fashion side, cute!! I genuinely never knew that.
I personally play a lot of cyberpunk2077 and while yes, I have beaten the game several times on different difficulties, sometimes I just wanna play dress up and take pics lmaoooo
It gets to the point in dark souls that people will forego equipment with better stats because it doesn't look good with the rest of their gear. There have also always been some people who name their characters "fashion police" and invade other people's worlds just to inspect their drip. If they pass the inspection they get a round of applause or a positive gesture. Maybe even some bits of rare items. If they fail the "police" will either drop gear that will make the set look better, or just outright attack them for their crimes against fashion. It's always a good time when you see " Invaded by fashion police" pop up lol.
There are some pretty funny videos on YouTube with them. Just search "fashion police elden ring" or "fashion police dark souls" and a bunch of them pop up.
I can definitely see it. It's the same in milsim games like ARMA too. People will spend ages selecting and customizing their uniform/guns then leave the outpost just to get sniped in 5 minutes by a guy hiding in a bush.
Spent a couple hours with one of my best dude friends making dresses together last night. We were both like, “I can’t believe we are still playing this, why is it so fun?!”
I love getting my male friends hooked on 'feminine' games because they're genuinely so fun. There's such a stigma about 'feminine' games, especially fashion ones, and for what? Some of the top fashion designers are men.
Watching my buddy lock tf in to make a gorgeous dress, then use loads of buttons to put a cool s on the bodice, was a thing of beauty.
It's so classy. And with the lace, it'd also be super breezy, so she wouldn't get too warm while running across the misty moors (I'm assuming Alice, though I could be wrong). Nice work, man.
Historically it is, nearly everyone had to know how to sow since not being able to meant you wore clothes with holes everywhere, unlike today where most people throw clothes out with a few millimeter holes
Cloth weaving was the 2nd largest industry for most of human history, just after farming. Everyone did it. Ship sails took an absurd number of hours to create. From farming the raw material, to spinning it into thread, to weaving that thread into sails, it could take tens of thousands of total hours of effort for a single sail.
Sometimes I think about that old spanish naval flag, that bitch is absolutely humongous. I wonder how many hours of work that one took, including the pigment making.
It's great. You can spend as much or little time on any dress as you'd like. And you can hop in/out of the game without it mattering much in terms of story or game play.
Have a friend in the coach industry who not only loves the coach and bus simulators, actively sought out mods that let him drive areas in the UK that he drives on a daily basis
We politely refer to him as a bus wanker, and he politely agrees!
No one driving buses is on time, the traffic is just god awful
Some other fun points, he bought a Dart bus and converted it into his own RV, and has a Smart two seater car spray painted like one of those kids garden toys
There was an autistic man who used to impersonate bus drivers, and other public transportation drivers. He was remarkable, because he ran the routes with precision and on time. He even sometimes did minor repairs on the vehicles.
I think you're talking about Darius McCollum. It's actually kind of a fucked up story. The transit authority wound up pressing charges for theft because he kept "stealing" buses and he wound up in prison. He's apparently been moved to a psychiatric facility, so he doesn't have to be around violent criminals anymore, but he's still being deprived of his freedom because we (society) couldn't figure out a productive way to channel his talents.
Yep, same. From what I understand, the fantasy is "owning" and playing with tractors and equipment you'd never need or wouldn't be able to afford (shit's expensive), since a lot of the models are officially licensed from the brands.
It's so nice being able to simply place a shed down without needing a three year consent battle with the neighbours, or to press a button and your implement just pops onto your linkage as opposed to the ten minutes of inching back and forth trying to find just the right spot to hook it -_-
I've been following the sub for about a decade now, and I can tell you that's definitely not the case, they love those games lol. The sheer amount of photos I've seen of a trucker playing a truck game while pulled into a truck stop in their truck was staggering.
Men, too. Not myself, but I've been seeing YouTubers playing it a lot. Not my cup of tea, but it does look interesting. It could help me when I inevitably want to make my own cosplay outfits.
I work in IT, we end up with loads of mediocre laptops destined for the recycling center. Sometimes we just take them if we need them.. the business doesn't care.
When this game released a couple weeks ago my boss had me build a laptop for his wife just to play it lol.
Username is Seamstress and device name is SewingMachine
As soon as I saw the comfy slipper and the pedal action I knew it was gonna be Dressmaker. I'm so done with my girl spamming thr Space Bar with all the strength in the world multiple times per second while i try to play next to her. I'm seriously considering adopting your solution lol
Dressmaker. The dev made it for his wife who wanted to become a fashion designer/seamstress but developed arthritis and obviously couldn’t anymore. Very wholesome, and although I have no interest whatsoever in playing the game I do want to buy it just to support the dev
It's probably using the scroll wheel input to adapt sewing speed. If it's the mod I've been seeing circulate, the OG user said it adjusted based on pressure, like you would expect an IRL sewing machine to do
dressmaker is so good everyone i know who's got it including me is having the time of their lives and now i want to start hand sewing clothes because i don't have space for an embroidery machine. what a world
Showed it to my wife. Her response was something like: wow now you can spend your time sewing a dress without getting anything out of it.
She was not impressed.
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