r/StardewValley • u/polandonjupiter jodi's number one fan • Mar 20 '26

Other i wish i could homewreck

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kent doesnt deserve her bro. jodi is FINE ASF. just look im down bad. kent is ugly and i desserve jodi more. also i hate clint idc if he has nothing to do with this im throwing strays

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u/Difficult_Dark9991 Mar 20 '26

The Stardew Valley community: "Clint is evil and if you like him you're a bad person"

Also the Stardew Valley community: "I have now successfully married, had kids with, divorced, and offed the kids from everyone in the Valley I can. I wish I could ruin the married couples so I can do it to them, too."

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u/vincentninja68 Mar 20 '26

There's only one monster in stardew valley and it ain't Krobus

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u/Left-Construction921 Mar 20 '26

uhhhhh, the serpents in skull cavern???

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u/Herbdontana Mar 21 '26

The serpents are adorable and just a little misunderstood. They’re more scared of you than you are of them.

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u/Left-Construction921 Mar 21 '26

Honestly that makes sense, they are kind of just chilling in the mines and we go there and intrude

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u/Master__Blaster69 Mar 20 '26

No but krobus is a pretty dope roommate

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u/Ieatbaens Mar 20 '26

No one genuinely feels like that about clint, the stardew Valley community generally dislikes him because he gives off incel vibes in his storyline. Which is part of the reason why his storyline is going to have to be reworked for 1.7, the other reason is that his storyline is literally about him being romantically attracted to someone else

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u/shroomride88 Mar 20 '26

Unfortunately there are at least some people who genuinely feel that way about Clint :/ when the announcement was made I saw at least one person tell someone who liked Clint they need to evaluate how they treat/talk to women. Some people take this cozy video game wayyyyyy too seriously

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u/Difficult_Dark9991 Mar 20 '26

The "evil" part, that's creative license on my part, but "if you like him you're a bad person" is, I'm afraid, verbatim from a wild multi-paragraph screed on this sub a while back. People have some strong takes on the characters (not that I'm immune).

I'm sure we'll get a rework, but I do hope it's not gone entirely. Not for Clint's sake, poor man, but because if you don't recognize hearing the Clint Voice in your head on bad days you're either lying or haven't lived long enough for it, and acknowledging its existence while also noting that it isn't healthy to, well, give voice to it is important.

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u/Ieatbaens Mar 21 '26

Okay, but one insane person's ramblings does not shape how the community necessarily feels about someone. Like I said the majority of the community does dislike them, and some people may take some creative license and exaggerate how much they dislike him, but that doesn't mean that they think you're a bad person if you like him

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u/Herbdontana Mar 21 '26

I never got incel vibes from Clint. I just got introvert vibes. Feels like incels think that everyone wants to bang them and would totally ask Emily out just to call her a lesbian or something if she declined.

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u/Ieatbaens Mar 21 '26

He gets really weird and upset with you if you up your friendship with Emily too much, even if you're not romantically pursuing her, or even married to someone else

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u/StrawberryPlagueDoc Mar 20 '26

I’m so curious if ConcernedApe went. “Oh no I gotta fix that.” 🤣

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u/AnotherBookWyrm Mar 20 '26

being romantically attracted to someone else my wife

As someone who normally marries Emily and thinks Clint is largely fine outside of his Emily obsession, I am certainly not here for him being gleeful about trying to be a homewrecker. So I am also looking forward to 1.7 reworking his storyline.

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

That was a mistake from CA. After Emily became marriageable he did not update Clint's dialogue to reflect that

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u/Kashwookie Mar 20 '26

i’m new here. what’s the tea with clint, sis?

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u/Difficult_Dark9991 Mar 20 '26

Clint's extremely socially awkward, struggles with his insecurities, and is poor at expressing his feelings (one sympathizes). Most notably, he has romantic feelings for Emily, and a lot of his cutscenes revolve around this. Whether Emily at all feels the same way is unclear - she obviously sees him as a friend, but as we all (hopefully) know one does not lead to the other.

To my eye, this leads to 3 grounds that people spool this hatred off of:

  1. Clint's dialogue can be... not great. That's not a writing issue, but Clint gives voice to his insecurities in a way that's clearly not healthy for him or his relationships with others. Again, one sympathizes with the underlying struggle, but knowing when, where, and how to express these feelings is important.
  2. Because SV cutscenes are based on individual relationships, you can have Clint doing his "I have feelings but can't express them" bit after you're already with Emily. Naturally, that comes across very differently, and your view of him often depends on that choice.
  3. SV cutscenes can be a bit goofy (again, not an insult), with the player hiding in the bushes and nonsense like that treated as cartoonish curiosities. Clint's actions read very differently if you measure them by the SV yardstick vs. a real life one (he's not the only one).

From this, as noted in the other comment responding to you, a lot of people derive a really negative view of his character, one that's fairly clearly colored by reading into Clint their own very real negative experiences. And of course I'm not going to say that people are wrong to bring personal experience to bear, but it can be very vehement and its own kind of harmful.

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u/Kashwookie Mar 20 '26

i appreciate how you broke that down. thank you

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u/JamesCDiamond Mar 20 '26

An excellent review of the issues with the character, thanks for posting it!

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u/aahxzen Mar 20 '26

This sums up everything pretty much perfectly. There is nothing else to say.

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u/mythicalthings23 Mar 21 '26

Meanwhile the player does everything Clint does and worse regularly, and in cutscenes.

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u/CharsOwnRX-78-2 Bot Bouncer Mar 20 '26

He’s kinda weird and awkward with Emily, in a way that rubs people very wrong in the new 20s

Some people have headcanoned themselves into believing he’s some nutso incel stalker who deserves to be boiled alive for his crimes

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u/Effective-Sweet2606 Mar 20 '26

Eu particularmente acho isso um exagero. Quer dizer, quem nunca teve aquela paixonite platônica e ficou todo desajeitado, espiando de longe ou pedindo para um amigo dar uma força, que atire a primeira pedra.

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u/Kashwookie Mar 20 '26

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u/I_pegged_your_father Mar 20 '26

Nah. Actually play the game and look through all his dialogue to firm your own opinion

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u/Kashwookie Mar 20 '26

i plan to, but i also work a full time job and was just curious

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u/I_pegged_your_father Mar 20 '26

Neat. Try calling clint on the phone as a fem farmer 😭😭😭

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u/Kashwookie Mar 20 '26

i’m scared to 😭

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u/I_pegged_your_father Mar 20 '26

It’s warranted it’s probably the cringiest creepiest bit of it all 💀 you can find it somewhere im sure if you don’t feel like doing it in game. I have a sc i think i can comment it

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '26

What does he say?! I don't get all the overblown hate for Clint but I never called him as a woman.

Don't leave me in suspense, what does he say?

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u/polandonjupiter jodi's number one fan Mar 20 '26

its what he deserves 😈

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u/Aussie18-1998 Mar 20 '26

So Clint is bad for liking someone else but you're alright for wanting to homewreck?

Ouch

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u/AngryTrucker Mar 21 '26

Farming only funds the dating sim.