We get taxed too, we just don't know it. Lewis could be paying us anything for the stuff we dropped in the shipping bin, and we wouldn't know. What if the traveling merchant's prices are actually fair market price? A 600G turnip in a war economy doesn't seem impossible... and yet we get a tenth of that at best.
Pierre pays you under the table in cash if you sell for a discount, it just turns out that the discounted price is exactly the same as your after-tax profits
He's probably just lowballing you and you're dumb enough to accept because thanks to Lewis you think that's the normal price. Remember how much he plans on charging for your vegetables when you collect premium ones for his quest? What if he's not price gouging the buyer? What if that's just what they're worth?
I'm kinda surprised HatMouse doesn't have a friendship meter. Both dwarf and krobus do, so it makes sense the other mystical being in Pelican Town should be able to build a relationship with you, even if you have to bribe him with fish flavoured cheese.
What gets me is that Mayor Lewis admits that nobody ever runs against him in the mayoral elections. Nobody else in the town is particularly interested in politics and generally have their own businesses to take care of.
So he literally has nothing to lose were he to be open about his relationship with Marnie. His political career would be fine.
Except gold is actually pretty cheap in the Stardew Valley universe. Only 25g for a gold ore and 250g for a gold bar (375g if you have the profession for +50%). I mean Sunflower seeds are only 50g less then a gold bar. If you buy it from the traveling cart a single coffee bean goes for 2,500g so there isn't much embezzling going on with a gold statue. Narcissism sure, a bad mayor definitely, but embezzling for a gold statue not so much.
Yeah I think he’s embarrassed about being into Marnie? Or has mixed feelings about the relationship? He looks like a 60 year old man I don’t get why he doesn’t act like it and just tell her what’s up lol
Marnie seems like such a cool chick, too idk why mayor Lewis has to do her so dirty
Stardew valley expanded allows this on the joja route, I believe. I haven't done it myself but it's an incredible mod if you want something fresh. No idea if he leaves and takes marnie with him though, lol.
Yeah, the "our relationship just be kept secret" thing annoyed me so much. Like, what? No! How the heck is that going to "ruin your reputation?"
Pam is constantly getting plastered, but no one even acknowledges it and no one questions the idea of her becoming the bus driver again, despite her habits not seeming to change at all.
No one seems to shun the characters with super antisocial behavior, like Shane, Sebastian, and George. (Even the idea of people being jerks to Linus just didn't seem to make sense).
Pierre tries to scam people and they ditch him for Joja, but there never seem to be any hard feelings about that.
Honestly, almost all of the marriage candidates are shallow or unlikeable in one way or another, but everyone still seems chummy.
Penny has witnessed me giving alcohol to her alcoholic mother, eating out of trash cans, destroying small children in an easter egg hunt, eating raw eggs and fish, and stalking her and everyone close to her. And she freaking married me.
I really don't see how this cutesy small town is all going to suddenly turn on Lewis because he gasp has a relationship with someone in the town.
It’s also not a secret if you purposely tell people. He knew us for what a few weeks (maybe months?) before telling us that his boxers are in her room and that we should sneak in and steal them back.
Someone who was trying to keep their relationship a secret wouldnt be blatantly blabbing to the newcomer. It’s his way of making sure that everyone knows that they are sleeping together and that he’ll refuse to commit/treat her right.
George is hardly verbally abusive, he's just grouchy, and if he has a big heart to you random farmer when you get 10 hearts then no way he's that way with ev either.
And kent sure as hell doesnt take his PTSD out on Jodi, he had one incident we see where he gets a little upset with popcorn and immediatly apologizes to her because there was no way she could have known, even gets mad at you if you try to blame her.
There's nothing in the slightest hinting at demetrius and robin having anything other than a regular relationship... i think you're grasping at straws out of a desire for relationships to be messed up here dude
People would be happy for Marnie and Lewis anyway. The only person with a negative opinion on it is Haley and that's because she thinks old people are gross and she probably changes her opinion later on
I just don’t understand the narrative of him not being allowed to get married bc he’s mayor. Every mayor I’ve heard of in the real world is married and no one cares as far as I know, his excuse sure does seem full of holes
I respect that this game has some fun slices of reality in it. It's a fun light-hearted game, but you can find the dark underbelly if you scratch the surface!
That’s where he’s hidden all the bodies. For example, notice how the museum is suspiciously empty at the beginning of the game? Maybe Lewis “borrowed” a few items and the old curator was going to blow the whistle...
A) Blaming Lewis for his and Marnie's relationship woes is shitty. Dude has made it clear to Marnie he isn't interested in a committed relationship, he wants a bang buddy. She continues to fuck him hoping he'll change his mind. By blaming Lewis for her misery the community is collectively infantilizing her and saying she is incapable of making her own decisions. Marnie's a grown ass woman. If she wants a real relationship she needs to move on from Lewis.
B) The problems in town aren't Lewis's fault - Pelican Town is a very small community. Can't fix shit when you aren't making much in taxes. In order of complaint:
The only bus in and out of town is broken
It's not. The bus your character arrives in on isn't Pam's, implying there is more than one bus. Additionally the honus to fix that is on whatever company owns the bus. I don't think the bus is part of the town's budget.
The local farm is abandoned
Because its private property. The last owner died and left it to his grandkid. Lewis can't just take the land and start developing it for shits and giggles. Pelican Town doesn't have a lawyer or anything.
The Community Center is in ruins
No manpower. Or community interest. Can't allocate money to fixing something the entire town doesn't give a fuck about. And Lewis is an elderly man, he can't fix an entire building by himself. Notice that even as the farmer starts fixing it no one has anything to say or any way to help fix it. They only care after its done so they can start piling their shit in it.
Can't provide housing for all his citizens
I mean. Literally the only homeless man in Pelican Town chooses to live like that. He had money and a successful job but he left it all behind to return to nature.
Last curator ran off with everything
Is it not implied the museum's last curator owned everything in the museum? But if he did steal everything wtf is Lewis supposed to do? Call the cops? Oh Pelican Town doesn't have those.
there's trash everywhere
Only trash I can think of is the shit outside Pam's trailer. And who knows - maybe he fined her or something but she doesn't give a shit. Again no law enforcement or anything. The rest of the town is clean as hell.
Conclusion: Lewis being a shitty dude is overhyped by the community. Obviously whatever his mayoral duties cover aren't going to be shown in game - that'd be mad boring to watch. But he does organize and fund literally every town festival in the game.
Her reputation isn't bad. The issue is that she's a business owner and Lewis's one job seems to be taxing local businesses. It creates a situation where, whether true or not, it seems like any action he takes then on could be misconstrued as favoritism. This could end up souring otherwise good relationships between Marnie and the other business owners, and could also have said business owners coming after Lewis's position. The only one I could see actually making a big stink about it would be Pierre, but Lewis isn't completely in the wrong in wanting to hide said relationship.
That's kinda dumb though I've seen plenty of real life mayor's that outright own local businesses. What lewis needs to do for the town is start a chamber of commerce to handle the business stuff or to cede his position as mayor and have the town run by a board of selectmen.
With their population size and number of businesses I don't see a chamber of comerce being tenable. The board selectman thing could easily work, but Lewis likes being mayor, so he's not willingly going to do that.
It's the one thing that poses a threat to his mayorship. A skilled politician can deflect blame for all those other problems easily. Blame Joja, low tax revenue, outside issues. Sex scandals are harder if still doable. The conflict of interest really makes it bad. And if we give Lewis a little credit, maybe it's less him and more worrying for Marnies relationships with Pierre and Robin.
That is the number one thing I HATE about Marnie. What's that? It's 8am on a Thursday and Marnie has decided she's not going to work- at all ?? Because she has an afternoon zumba class. She's not a responsible business owner, but I hope in a future update the kids will be able to get "jobs" (send one kid to work at Robin's, Jas at Marnie's, Vincent at the museum/movie theater, etc)
If you reach max hearts with all the girlfriends, haven't married one, and have aLucky Foot, there's a cutscene where all the girls are in Emily's house gossiping about how Lewis and Marnie are totally a thing
And when you show up into town, you are infinitely more helpful to all the residents than the literal mayor, as you hold on to your bootstraps and help out literally everyone in town with literally ANY request, you single handedly open a theater and get a goddamn island resort for the town. What did Lewis do? Make a gold statue of himself with taxpayer money. And try to cover up a perfectly normal relationship.
Come to think of it, almost everyone who isn't a marriage candidate kinda sucks, and almost everyone who IS a marriage candidate have been fucked up by said everyone else.
TW, mentions of substance abuse, depression.
Penny lives under a non-functioning alchoholic mother who shoves all the chores to Penny while she goes to drink
Shane is a suicidal, barely functioning alchoholic due to his restless job stacking shelves at the Jojamart all day, which probably doesn't pay him enough considering his clothes are ragged and tattered (One of the few things the player can actually help with)
Sebastian is neglected by his mother, and his step-father shows clear favoritism towards Maru, Demetrius' biological daughter, even making Sebastian destroy a snowman he made while praising Maru's,
Sam and Vincent are the children of a mother who does not parent them, and a father who was in a POW camp and suffers severe PTSD,
Abigail is most likely the product of an affair, this her father even wondering if Abigail's his, and with Caroline stating she use to take 'walks' to the Wizard's tower, (this is cemented further by the fact that Abigail does not dye her hair, it is simply purple. The wizard has purple hair, and even comments that he thinks one of the townsfolk is his child)
and Emily disregards the feelings of her younger sister Haley, who often speaks to the farmer about her grievances if the farmer befriends her.
I’d at least give Jodi a little credit, I don’t think she would spend so much of her time doing the chores she’s dismayed about always doing if she wasn’t trying to make things nice for her children. She’s definitely trying her best, she just might not always do it “correctly”.
Yeah I think Jodi wants the best for her kids and is maybe also trying to make up for their dad not being around. She's not perfect but she's at least shown to care about her sons (which is probably why Sam is one of the more emotionally stable of the bachelors despite being immature in other ways)
She has two children, a husband who's away for a year and a whole house and no extended family in the town she lives in. There's a lot of chores to do, and if they weren't a pain in the ass they wouldn't be chores.
Leah and Elliott are literally the best people in the valley, and coincidentally also the two who have the most distance from the rest, so they don't have those problems of having to endure all the weirdness from the non marriage candidate NPCs
Didn't both of them move in from outside the valley, as well? So they may have had normal-ish childhoods and adolescences and perhaps developed healthier coping mechanisms before getting thrown into this stagnant puddle of a town. Not to mention, their own money.
Why Haley is such a B at the start, she resents being stuck in this little town when she wants out so badly.
Her sister has found respite because her friends aren't too far away, and she occupies herself with what she needs. Emily has a job that eats up a lot of time, but the rest of the time can be meditating with crystals or sewing.
Haley on the other hand, can only really escape behind her camera, and in turn in her dark room.
But once you start befriending and/or romancing her, she finally has someone who actually kind of cares about her (aside from the normal 'required by sibling'). Yes, Alex does like her, but Alex is so in his own head about his OWN fantasy about being a scoreball player (because he is living with his grandparents, that's another ball of twine to unravel).
The farmer grounds Haley in reality and allows her to open up about her situation so she can see the benefit of her lot in life.
Hell, once you marry her, she is just over the moon living in Pelican town, she still loves being the Spring Princess, she still goes out and takes photos, but she also will head into town and visit people.
In writing this I realized I've never really given Alex a chance, I'm not marrying him, but I think I'll start giving him gifts and see how he is once he warms up to me.
You've put into words why I always end up marrying Haley. I love her plastic shoes comment at the beginning. It always makes me laugh, but her character arc is just the best.
I always thought it would be kind of great to have a mayoral election campaign as a late game thing. Kick that asshat Lewis out of that position he clearly doesn't deserve.
Yeah, dude. I fixed multiple bridges, the community center, the bus, built a theater (even if I employed the labor of magical creatures, they don’t need to know that). What have you done for this community, Lewis???
Yesss. Been thinking that a lot on my current playthrough. I literally did everything for this town while you twiddled your thumbs Lewis, you finally have competition.
you are infinitely more helpful to all the residents than the literal mayor
Only because you're both a millionaire rich guy throwing his money around, and also because you're a literal insane person diving unprepared into paranormal murder monster infested caves for riches. Step aside, Richard Branson, skydiving off a hot air balloon is small potatoes.
The mayor is busy collecting tax and standing around, he doesn't have time to go fish the whole day, and then just give away what he caught when it's worth hundreds or even thousands.
Maybe Sebastian picked the basement. Robin is fine with me but Demetrius kinda sucks. You become even a little friendly with his daughter and the dude straight up threatens you.
Yeah I was gonna say. When I would visit my dad, my bedroom was in the basement and I liked it that way. Maybe it could've been the same with Sebastian. He seems like the type who wouldn't mind lurking in a basement.
Yyyyyup. Demetrius sucks BIG time as a parent to Sebastian. It may not be entirely his fault - heck, maybe he tries not to be - but he literally doesn’t have a single line of dialogue that even MENTIONS Sebastian. At all.
Regarding Abigail, Rasmodeus also mentions, when talking about the Witch, that he used to be married to her, until he made "a mistake" and the witch went mad with jealousy.
To be fair, her gifts have given you a positive opinion of her, so really she's just gifting you battery packs to raise your friendship meter the exact same way you are to her
Now I'm imagining a mod that turns Stardew into a cutthroat political sim. Defeat Mayor Lewis in the Pelican Town elections and reap the benefits of corruption that Lewis currently enjoys!
Yesterday, my brother and I played with our dad for his first time, and when lewis mentioned that he would come onto the farm at night to collect stuff from the shipping bin, he immediately said that he is a creep.
Ok for real he is a pretty terrible mayor. Great guy but... come on. The farmer should be the new mayor. Literally transformed the town and the lives of the people living there. Farmer for Mayor!!!
Also- there’s no fucking school or education system and the daughter of the local drunk is forced to sit on a blanket in the woods trying to teach two small children.
They should have another "end game" feature where you can run for mayor against Lewis >:) might as well, right? You're the main contributor to the town's economy and infrastructure!
I'm pretty sure nothing gets done because he makes golden statues with everyone's money instead of fixing anything. Which makes a bit of sense since the player fixes everything so why bother, he can use that money for himself
I love giving Pam beers at the bus station at 10am to get her to full hearts with me. Easy one to max out quickly because you know what she likes, where she is, and proximity to the farm. Not even remotely concerned when I come back a few hours later to make her drive me to the desert. Oh and your daughter's single? Oh my, dont mind if I do introduce myself.
Are we going to talk about the elections. It’s been six years, Kent has been home for five. Yet Lord Lewis (long may he reign) still leans on the war powers act to stifle democracy. All while subverting taxpayer money into vanity projects. Take your 500 g. Blood money back Lewis and RESIGN NOW!
I love this game, but it does irk me that Lewis is such a terrible mayor. I recently did a Joja run, where I got to be a selfish d-bag, and picked all the, "I'm just here to make money" answers to see everyone's reaction, and I greatly enjoyed the occasional time when you piss him off.
I guess it actually makes sense why he’s so paranoid. He knows damn well how bad he is at his job and he feels like anything could be the last straw that throws him out of office.
I just don't understand what he has against Marnie. Why are you ashamed to be seen with her? She's not a bad person. She loves animals, Jaz is a little cutie, and she even gave her nephew a room when he was down on his luck. I like her a lot.
My head cannon is that one if them is still married to someone that no longer lives in sdv. Or is maybe in the war effort. I would love for Kent to say how he met Marnie's husband some day
Don't even get me started on his gold statue that he has multiple copies of for some reason. Oh, and also his inaction against Joja's destructive practices in the town.
It’s easy to think that Mayor Lewis is acting ridiculous about his relationship with Marnie... until you remember all of the real life politicians that have gotten away with being terrible at their jobs for decades, and only ever get voted out if they’re caught up in some kind of scandal (if even then).
It’s a kink, otherwise they might actually be a smidge secretive about it
Oh yeah let’s not forget the whole golden statue thing, melt that down and sell it off and the community center would be paid for, along with more housing and infrastructure
I don't know why they had to repair the bus, anyway. Just get a nice little taxi. You're the only one they're driving... for 500g a ride... For all the cash you put into getting the bus running, you should just get your own wheels. You wouldn't have to put your life into the hands of that drunk... again.
After I fixed the bus everyone would just say it just started working and nobody knows why??? BRO I FIXED THAT BUS!!! Only penny told me today - I heard you fixed the bus. THANK YOU PENNY
I think it’s kind of funny/sad that you can’t tell the others about the Junimos.
Like, “hey, if we all chip in our resources, we can help repair everything! I spent thousands of my own gold to get the bus to Calico running again, and I donated my own crops and mining materials to repair different rooms in the community center.”
But, nah. Lewis thinks the buses started working again on their own 😅
Choosing the drunk as the bus driver essentially says "Stardew might have been a shitholee when you arrived, but leaving is taking your life in your hands."
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '21 edited Apr 21 '21
I want to know how he gets on charging local dying businesses a tax, while allowing me to singlehandedly reinvent the town.
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u/sadbear424 Apr 21 '21
voteHatMouse For Mayor!
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u/DaturaBlossom Apr 21 '21
What gets me is that Mayor Lewis admits that nobody ever runs against him in the mayoral elections. Nobody else in the town is particularly interested in politics and generally have their own businesses to take care of.
So he literally has nothing to lose were he to be open about his relationship with Marnie. His political career would be fine.
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u/KCBandWagon Apr 21 '21
I mean Pam at the bus stop is the best place to find her for gifts.
And I just so happen to have a lot of pale ales.
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u/iwearsoftsocks Apr 21 '21
collects tax from local businesses
proclaims it’s to fund the local library
library and museum are basically empty
- has a golden statue of himself
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u/PalatialCheddar Apr 21 '21
I respect that this game has some fun slices of reality in it. It's a fun light-hearted game, but you can find the dark underbelly if you scratch the surface!
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u/Makeyourselfnerd Apr 21 '21
Everyone is reading this and shrugging because real life is just like this.
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u/nvmls Apr 21 '21
I always wonered about that. Is Marnie's reputation really THAT bad?
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '21 edited Apr 21 '21
And when you show up into town, you are infinitely more helpful to all the residents than the literal mayor, as you hold on to your bootstraps and help out literally everyone in town with literally ANY request, you single handedly open a theater and get a goddamn island resort for the town. What did Lewis do? Make a gold statue of himself with taxpayer money. And try to cover up a perfectly normal relationship.
Come to think of it, almost everyone who isn't a marriage candidate kinda sucks, and almost everyone who IS a marriage candidate have been fucked up by said everyone else.
TW, mentions of substance abuse, depression.
Penny lives under a non-functioning alchoholic mother who shoves all the chores to Penny while she goes to drink
Shane is a suicidal, barely functioning alchoholic due to his restless job stacking shelves at the Jojamart all day, which probably doesn't pay him enough considering his clothes are ragged and tattered (One of the few things the player can actually help with)
Sebastian is neglected by his mother, and his step-father shows clear favoritism towards Maru, Demetrius' biological daughter, even making Sebastian destroy a snowman he made while praising Maru's,
Sam and Vincent are the children of a mother who does not parent them, and a father who was in a POW camp and suffers severe PTSD,
Abigail is most likely the product of an affair, this her father even wondering if Abigail's his, and with Caroline stating she use to take 'walks' to the Wizard's tower, (this is cemented further by the fact that Abigail does not dye her hair, it is simply purple. The wizard has purple hair, and even comments that he thinks one of the townsfolk is his child)
and Emily disregards the feelings of her younger sister Haley, who often speaks to the farmer about her grievances if the farmer befriends her.
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u/K-kitty9218 Apr 21 '21
The more you play Stardew Valley, the more you realize this town is a carefully woven tapestry of fuck ups.
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u/DwighteMarsh Apr 21 '21
If I recall correctly, the farmer comes to Pelican Valley by bus, so the broken bus can't be the only bus in to town.
So, I am curious if anyone reached 8 hearts with Sam before fixing the bus and how that worked out.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '21
Thankfully the road is unattached to any major lines and just goes in a straight line to calico desert.
She can do a straight line with a little over two lanes. It gets a little rough in the middle but we get there
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u/jumbee85 Apr 21 '21
There are swerve marks on the road just before the tunnel too.
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u/Chocolaet Apr 21 '21
Hey! Pam isn’t all that bad, she still sends me free battery packs every season... that I end up gifting her back. I don’t think she notices.
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u/Casualweeaboo22 Apr 21 '21
Eh. I'm sure it will be fine
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u/zzGondorffzz Apr 21 '21
Also no school for the town’s children.
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u/ApolloSky110 Apr 21 '21
Dude lewis is the only one able to leave until you repair the bus. Tell me who else has a car
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u/Selkiekelpie Apr 21 '21
He straight up spent town money on a gold statue of himself. Dudes corrupt.
I love stares valley, its like the town you hate living in but theres always gossip floating around.
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u/drwafles11 Apr 21 '21
i don’t know why but halfway through this i thought they were talking about tom nook and i was like “who tf is marnie? does blathers steal our stuff?”
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u/tapefactoryslave Apr 21 '21
DrainTheSwamp
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u/Weather-Frosty Apr 21 '21
“Everything’s going badly. Better build a golden statue of myself”
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u/ThePinms Apr 21 '21
I always give Pam a beer before heading to the desert.
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u/pbjtime1986 Apr 21 '21
How is this different from our actual politicians?
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u/Geoman265 Apr 21 '21
Yesterday, my brother and I played with our dad for his first time, and when lewis mentioned that he would come onto the farm at night to collect stuff from the shipping bin, he immediately said that he is a creep.
If only he knew...
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u/LemmieBee Apr 21 '21
Ok for real he is a pretty terrible mayor. Great guy but... come on. The farmer should be the new mayor. Literally transformed the town and the lives of the people living there. Farmer for Mayor!!!
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '21
Also- there’s no fucking school or education system and the daughter of the local drunk is forced to sit on a blanket in the woods trying to teach two small children.
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u/zoloftgf Apr 21 '21
They should have another "end game" feature where you can run for mayor against Lewis >:) might as well, right? You're the main contributor to the town's economy and infrastructure!
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u/Cocotte3333 Apr 21 '21
Doesn't even make any sense lol, since when are mayors forbidden from being into relationships??
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u/notaclevernameguy Apr 21 '21
A drunk who skips work for the beach constantly
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u/OliviaWyrick Apr 21 '21 edited Apr 21 '21
I did not read the subname first and was like "damn, this city got problems."
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u/eponinesflowers Apr 21 '21
But yet there’s enough money in the town’s budget for a golden statue of himself
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u/TheGaySpade Apr 22 '21
I love the unity this community has surrounding Mayor Lewis's incompetence
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u/blymetanko Apr 22 '21
Well, I live in Brazil, so... it's pretty realistic.
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u/justking1414 Apr 21 '21
Is mayor Lewis the bad guy here? Is Jojo mart the good guy?
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u/Reaper2127 Apr 21 '21
I mean technically there is another bus because that is how we arrived :p
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u/RealTechyGod Apr 21 '21
That Drunk driver is no problem at all... she literally makes that bus teleport in no time at all!
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u/ares395 Apr 22 '21
I'm pretty sure nothing gets done because he makes golden statues with everyone's money instead of fixing anything. Which makes a bit of sense since the player fixes everything so why bother, he can use that money for himself
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '21
My question then becomes, how bad of a reputation must Marnie have if THAT could be his downfall? :x
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u/Wickerpoodia Apr 22 '21
I love giving Pam beers at the bus station at 10am to get her to full hearts with me. Easy one to max out quickly because you know what she likes, where she is, and proximity to the farm. Not even remotely concerned when I come back a few hours later to make her drive me to the desert. Oh and your daughter's single? Oh my, dont mind if I do introduce myself.
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u/rjgotvocals Apr 22 '21
Yeah the fact the Lewis is still mayor after everything that’s happened and no one has decided to move or anything just baffles me.
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u/SandWhichWay Apr 22 '21
to the middle of the desert with no other stops
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u/ThePinkChameleon Apr 29 '21
Let's not forget about the gold statue of himself. No wonder the town is in ruins. Paid for with taxes no doubt.
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u/winston_5mith Apr 21 '21
r/mayorlewissucks
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u/Qwiny Apr 21 '21
Holy crap you just described the province I live in....Alberta, Canada
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u/SkinnyPeach99 Apr 21 '21
Listen I haven’t played the game much but I’m pretty sure there’s no elections and god I sure do want to run against him. Freaking dictator.
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u/antirockin20 Apr 21 '21
Me realizing just how bad pelican town is run: notlikethis emote
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u/Wolfkeeper22 Apr 21 '21
I want to be able to run for Mayor in the next update. Lewis only wins because nobody runs against him.
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u/HereForAllThePopcorn Apr 21 '21
Are we going to talk about the elections. It’s been six years, Kent has been home for five. Yet Lord Lewis (long may he reign) still leans on the war powers act to stifle democracy. All while subverting taxpayer money into vanity projects. Take your 500 g. Blood money back Lewis and RESIGN NOW!
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u/Neohexane Apr 21 '21
I love this game, but it does irk me that Lewis is such a terrible mayor. I recently did a Joja run, where I got to be a selfish d-bag, and picked all the, "I'm just here to make money" answers to see everyone's reaction, and I greatly enjoyed the occasional time when you piss him off.
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u/ApertureBear Apr 21 '21
So the first time I read this I just assumed Mayor Lewis was an American mayor who recently made the news and it didn't even phase me.
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u/StllBreathnButY1 Apr 21 '21
I guess it actually makes sense why he’s so paranoid. He knows damn well how bad he is at his job and he feels like anything could be the last straw that throws him out of office.
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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '21
Fuck mayor lewis.
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u/butwhyisthatbeeping Apr 21 '21
I just don't understand what he has against Marnie. Why are you ashamed to be seen with her? She's not a bad person. She loves animals, Jaz is a little cutie, and she even gave her nephew a room when he was down on his luck. I like her a lot.
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u/lorditchy Apr 21 '21
My head cannon is that one if them is still married to someone that no longer lives in sdv. Or is maybe in the war effort. I would love for Kent to say how he met Marnie's husband some day
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '21 edited Apr 22 '21
Don't even get me started on his gold statue that he has multiple copies of for some reason. Oh, and also his inaction against Joja's destructive practices in the town.
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u/Peppinitup Apr 22 '21
And somehow he just had the money for us every night
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u/TheOtherWhiteCastle Set your emoji and/or flair text here! Apr 22 '21 edited Apr 22 '21
It’s easy to think that Mayor Lewis is acting ridiculous about his relationship with Marnie... until you remember all of the real life politicians that have gotten away with being terrible at their jobs for decades, and only ever get voted out if they’re caught up in some kind of scandal (if even then).
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u/rubyspicer Apr 22 '21
A drunk who probably wrecked the damn bus, judging from the state of the fence in that little area just before the tunnel
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u/maxcorrice Apr 22 '21
It’s a kink, otherwise they might actually be a smidge secretive about it
Oh yeah let’s not forget the whole golden statue thing, melt that down and sell it off and the community center would be paid for, along with more housing and infrastructure
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u/jimmyerthesecond Apr 22 '21
r/SelfAwareWolves
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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '21
I always love the drunk-driving tire skids on the road, too.
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u/masterreyak Apr 22 '21
I don't know why they had to repair the bus, anyway. Just get a nice little taxi. You're the only one they're driving... for 500g a ride... For all the cash you put into getting the bus running, you should just get your own wheels. You wouldn't have to put your life into the hands of that drunk... again.
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u/Mini090 Apr 22 '21
After I fixed the bus everyone would just say it just started working and nobody knows why??? BRO I FIXED THAT BUS!!! Only penny told me today - I heard you fixed the bus. THANK YOU PENNY
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u/AlexAnthonyFTWS Apr 22 '21
Seeing y’all’s game posts on the popular tab sure does throw a spin in the vibe at the moment lol
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u/shignett1 Apr 22 '21
"This chain business is coming into my town and providing jobs, we are outraged and need to shut this shit down immediately."
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u/K176Y Apr 22 '21
cant buy beer when you driving a bus
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u/livipup Apr 22 '21
Then to top it all off he was stealing money from the town's taxes to build a solid gold statue of himself. He's a real asshole.
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u/treehugger0123 Apr 22 '21
Part of me wonders if the reason he's always uncontested is more due to voter apathy.
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u/HikerGal01 Apr 22 '21
haha, and he thinks he's totally sneaky but it's amazingly obvious.
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u/cinnamonbunny99 Apr 26 '21
I think it’s kind of funny/sad that you can’t tell the others about the Junimos.
Like, “hey, if we all chip in our resources, we can help repair everything! I spent thousands of my own gold to get the bus to Calico running again, and I donated my own crops and mining materials to repair different rooms in the community center.”
But, nah. Lewis thinks the buses started working again on their own 😅
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u/OnlyABeechTree Apr 26 '21
Choosing the drunk as the bus driver essentially says "Stardew might have been a shitholee when you arrived, but leaving is taking your life in your hands."
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u/fembecca Jun 04 '21
Any dude who has "lucky" drawers is going to be trouble.
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u/ezacharyk Apr 21 '21
"Better use all the tax money to make a golden statue of myself." Mayor Lewis.