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Let's talk about fertilizer in the Sims 4, as there is so much conflicting information out there due to the number of updates over the years.

The info that I'm finding suggests the following:

1) The only thing that matters is the value of the fertilizer, with things that are worth more being better (with anything over a value of 50 being the same).

2) Supposedly growfruit is best, but it only has a base value of 40 according to the charts I'm finding. It's possible though that it has some special coding to make it more effective.

3) Fish are said to be better than plants, but supposedly the freshness of the fish along with the size factors in. One source I found suggests that the value of the fish times two is its effectiveness as a fertilizer.

4) With various DLC, you can get different types of fertilizer, such as a recipe for some mushroom fertilizer from a hermit. But I'm not seeing much info on if that is anyway better that just using a good plant as fertilizer.

For testing, some of these seem easier to test than others.

1) obtain a number of plants in different price ranges and use those to fertilize a collection of plants to see what happens.

2) Find the best normal plant from 1 and compare that to grow fruit.

3) Not sure a good test for this considering the number of factors involved with fish.

4) This one seems tricky as there are a bunch of supposed great fertilizers and getting access to all of them even with cheats might be tricky.

For testing fish and if freshness is a factor, I could get a spell caster that can duplicate items. Catch a fish worth 25, and duplicate it. Then use one to see if our fresh fish is as good as a 50 crop. Then let the duplicate become not fresh and see how it compares to the original.

Finally for the alternative fertilizers in the world, it's mostly just trying to figure out what they all supposedly are. Apparently pet poop for instance is a good fertilizer, but I can't believe it's worth 50. So if it's just as good as a crop or better, it's got to have special coding.

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In fiction there are some common objections to time traveling that I find strange. Specifically someone will want to change some specific event in the past and someone will bring up the butterfly effect, and point out that there is no way of knowing what the new future will be like.

But this is nonsense. Consider things without time travel. You are driving along with your friend and you see an injured person on the side of the road up ahead. But just as you start to slow down to help them, your friend says, "Wait no, consider the butterfly effect. If you stop and help them, any number of things could happen and some of them could be bad. Better to just keep going."

The only thing that adding time travel did was let us already be familiar with what things are like if we don't stop and help this person. IE: In the future where you didn't stop to help them you arrived at the party on time and met the love of your life. If you stop and help them that might not happen.

But so what? That just falls under, I can imagine a future that's worse than what things are currently. It's a fear to convince you to not do something you believe to be morally right.

There are other objections to time travel that make more sense to me, but the butterfly effect is just silly. We already have no promise of the future being better if we do something we believe to be morally right. Nothing changes in that regard by adding time travel.

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OwO

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Might I suggest the werewolves? Perhaps some of the werewolves are poets and you can have your poetic representation. But I promise you that between a random poet and a random werewolf, the werewolf is going to win that fight. Also, the werewolves are invested in the protection of the moon.

Who should defend the moon if not poets?

Antoni Slonimski

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So this person at work quit and I'm bummed. They were the only person there that I could talk to about DnD without needing to explain background information. Now who am I going to talk to about DnD that doesn't need me to add context?

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Trance _|

If the loop is not seamless the mantra is broken. Gif is meditation.

2 eds at Objkt.

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Thanks Google, that totally answered my question

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Did you know that if you get a veggie lovers pizza from Pizza Hut, without onions... That you now have a fruit pizza?

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Recently I got back into playing Fallout 4 again. Also started watching Harley Quinn, and it got me thinking about how hard it would be to make a Harley Quinn build.

Did a quick search to see if anyone had already done this, and sure enough someone has, but I noticed they gave HQ a 6 in her Intelegence. Don't get me wrong, I get that she is canonically a brilliant person. She graduated valedictorian and was trained in the field of psychoanalysis.

My problem with her being given a 6 in her Intelligence stat, is that the perks you get are more about building Science! gizmos and that just isn't HQ. She's smart but likes to just bash and blow things up. So here is my attempt at making HQ in Fallout 4.

First, her stats will start off as S:4, P:4, E:3, C:1, I:2, A:9, and L:5.

Early on you have access to the baby book that gives you one more stat point, that we'll put in Charisma to bring that up to 2. Likewise, the Perception bobblehead is early enough that we can go ahead and count that as being at 5 instead of 4.

You'll note that Intelegence is only at 2, and the only reason it's that high is that she does have medical training, so we can put perk points into Medic. Nothing else though from that perk line though makes sense for our HQ so no need to have it higher.

But because she is a smart character canonically, we give her the 5 in luck so we can give her Idiot Savant. That skill is specifically described as "You're not stupid! Just... different." and the way she is different is she's fricking bonkers.

Another benefit of having that 5-luck is we get access to Bloody Mess, and you can sure bet however HQ goes about murdering someone she is going to create a bit of a mess.

The 9 in Agility should be obvious as she is an acrobat. We'll want to pick up both Blitz, Moving Target, Action Girl, Sneak, and Ninja from this line. Though keep in mind she is a more in-your-face sort of villain so sneak and ninja are lower priorities.

Endurance is at three because she is chronically immune to toxins and can take a bit of a beating in a fight. So we want things like Toughness, Lead Belly, and Life-Giver. Rad resistance would have been nice but is too far down the Endurance to get early for this build.

Perception is where it's at to give us access to both the Locksmith and the Demolition Expert perks. I see HQ as more the sort to just kick open a door instead of picking the lock, but as the game doesn't give us that option, she needed ways of opening doors that would otherwise get in her way. Likewise, she would not likely spend much time picking the lock of a trunk, and would just smash it open... but again the game doesn't give us that option.

Her Strength of 4 is because her primary weapon of choice is a big old hammer or baseball bat and we want access to both Big Leagues and Blacksmith.

Lastly, that brings us to why we want Charisma to be at two, and that's to give us access to the Black Widow perk. Watch the cartoon, I think you'll agree that she hits men a bit harder with her baseball bat. I'm not even sure I've seen her hit a woman yet with her bat... no wait I can think of one. But only one off the top of my head (mind you I've only just finished watching the first season).

A long-term goal for this character would be to build up her Charisma after getting her core perks so she can access the Intimidate perk. In the cartoon it's actually a plot point early on that people don't really fear her but more fear her association with the Joker. It's only after some time doing her own thing that she builds up her own reputation.

Finally, for equipment, she would go for some sort of blunt melee weapon like a hammer or baseball bat (and with her strength could modify them to be nice and dangerous).

However, in terms of clothes/armor sadly FO4 doesn't give us much in the way of anything that suits a HQ character that well. She wouldn't even likely wear leather armor instead going for some sort of provocative outfit. The only real options that jump out are a Vault Suit or a Baseball uniform.

As for what faction she's going to join? Obviously, she's going to take over Nuka World while siding with the Disciples, but for the main game, she might want to side with the Institute as that is a bit like the Legion of Doom. She would also do the Vault 88 quest line and totally enjoy doing the experiments (perhaps even setting up her own secret base in those caves).

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Who gave Mike braces? Who in the world is his orthodontist?

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Totally random question, if it's the day AFTER your birthday, are you still near your birthday or are you now as far away as you can be from your birthday?

The logic for both:

1) You are still near your birthday because you are only a day off. To be as far away from your birthday as you can be you would need to be half a year away from it.

2) Because you can't go back in time, that direction is an infinite distance away. The ONLY way to get to your birthday is now forward, and that is now a full year away. Thus you are now as far away from your birthday as you can be.

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"Can this number go into that number evenly?" Tricks:

1 = yes it can always go into that number evenly.

2 = If that number is even then yes.

4 = If that number is a three digit number or more, you only need to know if it goes into the last two digits evenly.

5 = If the last digit is a 5 or 0 you are good.

8 = like 4, but you need one more digit.

I skipped some numbers for a reason as they are special:

9 = add up all the digits. If this new number works so does the original. Still unsure? Well keep doing this until you only have one digit left. If that digit is 9 you are good.

3 = like 9 but if you get to one digit the good answers are 3, 6, and 9

6 = just check if it's even and if 3 goes into it.

And that's all our numbers 1 to 9...

What about 7 you ask? What about it?

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I don't know what this is, but I'm glad to have seen it.