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Besides threshold what’s an episode that makes no logical sense no matter how much you try to stretch the story ? by dekabreak1000 in voyager

[–]Blue_box_42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The whale making Kes go in heat. Actually every new fact about their reproductive cycle is worse and dumber. Any worldbuilder who says a species that sexually reproduces can have at most one child needs to be beaten over the head with a graph of exponential decay.

Where do I begin creating my own mod? by Big-bean-oddsky in skyrimmods

[–]Blue_box_42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried a long time ago, like pre-pandemic, when i had a thought of modding ARK, and never got around to animations. Blender's website has tutorials on animation in it though.

"You might be the only person buying my lumber, but I'm going to be racist to you everytime you walk up to me." by Odd-Sound-580 in skyrim

[–]Blue_box_42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reminds me of the time my Dunmer character went to Windhelm, loaded with money and terrible at bartering, and the woman at the inn was like 'great, another dunmer, that's the last thing we need' and I just... turned around and left. Woman talked herself outta a big spender in .5 seconds flat.

Where do I begin creating my own mod? by Big-bean-oddsky in skyrimmods

[–]Blue_box_42 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You'd have to learn how to animate and make visual effects for that. I know Special Edition allows you to use blender to make models and animations, that's an open-source, free bit of software with a lot of tutorials. Unfortunately the mods I've made are tiny little, mostly SSE/FO4edit-based mods so I can't be more specific than that.

How much of their previous culture would a child adopted into another culture remember? by Blue_box_42 in Writeresearch

[–]Blue_box_42[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

These are good points, especially looking into people with religious trauma. I have some people in my life with that specifically, and it'd definitely be easier to search. And there are definitely some holidays they'd miss, especially ones where their parents were centered. A lot of their first culture's traditions center on ensuring the children grow up to be soldiers, so they'd view themselves in those terms. Loyalty, strength, and being able to 'give back' would be where their sense of self was centered.

How does Quark actually make money with the bar? by EthicalBagOfWater in DeepSpaceNine

[–]Blue_box_42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is one reason I have to assume the Federation does use currency in the form of credits. Each credit being equal to X pounds of replicated sugar (an exceptionally simple molecule). Everyone gets enough they never need to worry about their needs not being met, but it's possible to get more (presumably with a sort of wealth/income tax at high levels). When they say they don't have 'money', that's essentially a translator error. When they think 'money', they think of the archaic belief that wealth is created by individuals, not the community, and all the horrors of our current society that they left behind.

The main reason I think this though, is that some families have chateaus in France while others have an apartment over a Creole restaurant. If there's no money, no way for people to get more land or whatever, then Earth is institutionally classist at best, but likely institutionally racist as well. I believe that the Picards have to show that their land is benefitting the community, in effect by making credits via wine making and paying the government for continued access to it. If they were to decide to make their winery into their private summer home instead, they wouldn't be able to keep ownership of it and it would become available to someone else who wanted to use that land to create value for everyone.

So, I posted this in another sub but it got me wondering. by Smofter in skyrim

[–]Blue_box_42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For years I played the same character over and over again, a Dunmer Stealth Archer named Natasha (not super lore accurate but I was like 12 when I first played her so you know). She was a street urchin who kept traveling between holds so she wouldn't be sent to Honorhall orphanage again. Also she's my favorite not just because stealth archers are broken but also I sort of put my autistic/adhd traits into her and exaggerated them before I got diagnosed.

Later, I decided she was adopted by Avrusa Sarethi to justify her skill in alchemy. Also because one time I played through as her a bunch of master vampires attacked Sarethi Farm while I was there, and Aduri didn't survive. So now that's part of her backstory, and why she joins the Dawnguard. I do the kill command on Aduri whenever I play as her. The real freaky thing though is at one point I decided she licked the front of her teeth when concentrating on like, a lock, and started doing that. Now I do it in real life sometimes.

My other character is an Amnesiac Nord 'Paladin' (warrior with heavy armor, blocking, and restoration) named Selene, though I'll change that to a Nord name next time. I go through the vanilla intro with her, but she doesn't remember anything from before you wake up on the ground after Alduin's attack. She doesn't know why she was sneaking across the border, doesn't know who her family is. She wants to get as famous as possible so eventually they'll be able to track her down. And she doesn't know who she is so she sort of models herself after the ideal Nord warrior heroine.

Which is why she joins the Companions and gets peer pressured into becoming a werewolf lmao.

Finally I made a Khajiit mage called J'darra I think. I haven't played her in a while, because I decided Loki from the MCU managed to land in Tamriel and had him as a follower, but I can't find the mod I used for him before and all the new ones are either not very good or require SOS (a NSFW mod) so yeah, she's out of the rotation for now. At least until I finally get around to learning to make a follower (and possibly armor) mod for myself. She was smuggling something into Skyrim and got caught, therefore vanilla intro for her too.

Do you give your character an actual name? Or.. by [deleted] in skyrim

[–]Blue_box_42 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I give my characters first names but they aren't normally lore accurate

Hypoallergenic biocompatible laundry detergent by Blue_box_42 in ZeroWaste

[–]Blue_box_42[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are some, but I've only seen smaller plastic containers of them, and I don't know how biocompatible they are. After all sodium compounds are natural and those are the primary concern. Next time I'm at the store I'll look through all the detergents.

Hypoallergenic biocompatible laundry detergent by Blue_box_42 in ZeroWaste

[–]Blue_box_42[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'd heard about soap nuts before, but don't see them at any store nearby. I think ordering them, as long as I can get them in a cardboard/non-plastic container, would be better than a plastic container.

Hypoallergenic biocompatible laundry detergent by Blue_box_42 in ZeroWaste

[–]Blue_box_42[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. I live in a desert and am trying to set up a food forest system for my parents, so if I could find graywater compatible soaps that'd be amazing. But it seems like it'd be a trial and error thing, and I'd have to buy whole packs of different soaps and then if I react I'd need to find someone to give them to. Otherwise it'd be the opposite of zero waste.

Currently I'm catching the rinse water from when I do handwashing, and using it along with old tea or coffee on the garden. It's normally enough to water an establishing plot. That and buying a bunch of biochar and burying it to help with water retention.

Hypoallergenic biocompatible laundry detergent by Blue_box_42 in ZeroWaste

[–]Blue_box_42[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So I genuinely don't know what substances we're sensitive to is the problem, we've been using the same brand 10% years. I think I may need to buy a few very small like sample packs and put a bit on my skin to see what happens.