This wasn’t true in the past and we might simply be experiencing a historical anomaly right now

While our exact pacing might be slightly different from the pure extrapolation, human history has been a long, steady increase in the rate of invention. Access to education has meant that more people are making things, and then the next generations build on top of their work to make even bigger things.

Same -- I changed jobs since lockdown started, I work for a company now that was 100% remote before all this started. I've actually moved halfway across the country and... yeah, other than now I pay state income tax, nothing has changed for me. I have an office, that's technically a change, I guess.

Another fun comparison is to watch Seven Samurai, then watch The Magnificent Seven.

New York has a similar thing about to take effect, as well.

Someone just made this up so that they could get it away from their kid, didn't they?

I jest, but that would be funny.

Yeah, I've tried those out before. It tends to make the game feel weird, if that makes sense? Like, everything is still expecting time to progress.

Really, I want a game like Stardew, but without the hard timeline baked in from the start.

Yep. I love planting things, harvesting them... I want Stardew Valley without the time management stuff.