Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work.
You know how Microsoft Flight Simulator uses real-world map data to let you fly anywhere you want in the entire world? Well, what if a farming game did that, but instead of flying over the map you could grow asparagus on it? Huh?doesn't pack the same thrill as a flight sim that simulates the entire planet, and as you're about to find out, it's nowhere near as pretty. But it's still kind of a cool concept.
Of course as a 'Murican I have no idea how much a kg is, so I consult Google again and discover I've grown 33 pounds of corn, which I figure is, what? 33 ears of corn, roughly? I sell them at market for 72 Euros, which I also have to convert to more patriotic currency: $79. Something goes a bit wrong at this point: though I'm generating kilogram upon kilogram of wool from the six sheep I have chowing down on Liberty Island's delicious grasses, the game doesn't seem to recognize I'm fulfilling my quota and won't let me proceed, so I call it quits there.
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