Cecilia Lieberia’s First Farming Simulator 25 Outing Ends Early as Her Internet Falters

REMEMORIES — Cecilia Lieberia’s first attempt at Farming Simulator 25 on Saturday was cut short when her internet connection broke down, and she carried on the rest of the broadcast as a talk stream. She had billed the session as “Cecil Farming,” a play on “CF,” an event some of her viewers were heading to that weekend.

She said she had never played the game. She chose the Indonesian-style coastal-forest map, started a new farm on easy difficulty with 100,000 rupiah, and spent a long stretch dressing her character, browsing tractor-brand outfits before settling on a look. Her first progress came about 45 minutes in, when she worked out how to borrow equipment for a fertilizing job, then ran roughly two kilometers on foot toward field 19. After stumbling onto a tractor she did not know she had, she found she had hired an AI worker and watched it drive off on its own.

“Sorry, guys, today’s CF went bust before CF even opened.” — Cecilia Lieberia, as she ended the farming game

Her stream had been stuttering since the early going. She measured her connection at 4 Mbps, lowered the game’s graphics settings and said her audio was fine while the picture was not. By about 1:11 she called her farming career over. “Sorry, guys, today’s CF went bust before CF even opened,” she said, adding that she liked the game and wanted to return to it. She then moved to a second stream, “CF: Cecil Freetalk,” where she answered viewers’ questions about crops and fertilizer, and said her usual speeds ran between 10 and 20 Mbps.

When viewers asked for karaoke, she sang “Menanam Jagung” (Planting Corn), “Potong Bebek Angsa” and “Gundul-Gundul Pacul,” which she counted as three songs about farming, and she turned down requests for more. Once her connection improved around 2:05, she showed a censored silhouette of a Halloween costume, which she said was a way to avoid spoilers. Viewers guessed at the drawing, and she also showed a screenshot of the in-game tractor for use as a wallpaper.

She said she would stream again that night with a Halloween karaoke theme. Before signing off she made the waiting room and a thumbnail for it.