A strange little side quest
A little context makes Lily Slacking Farm more fun to place on the gaming map. M.U.L.E. arrived in 1983 with multiplayer competition built around gathering resources and keeping a colony alive, an early example of resource-driven strategy play. Another piece of context lands nicely beside it: In 18th-century America, upper-class men as well as women wore make-up, a reminder that beauty customs have never been as fixed as they can seem. It is a good reminder that simple game mechanics can carry a surprising amount of history.
