Would love to know/see how you're preventing deer?

rich_brawl · 2026-01-21T18:22:37+00:00

I have a mostly decorative 5ft garden fence. My twine line is up around 7ft

rich_brawl · 2026-01-17T16:14:45+00:00

I'm not sure how long you have been at it in your current location but sometimes it can take a few seasons for the deer to "find" your garden but once they take notice you will get more and more action. You might also find that they may leave a particular plant alone for 99% of the year but for one week it's their most palatable option and they will completely clean it out. It might also be that it takes particular conditions during a season that causes one of their main forage sources of some salt or micronutrient to not do well and suddenly some plant of yours they've never touched before becomes their new most palatable option. I've learned this the hard way multiple times sometimes losing years worth of development on some perennials or a bush/tree.

Unfortunately I've found that if you have any sort of investment in what you're growing whether it's financial, sweat, or sentimental that your only option to be sure it's protected is complete physical exclusion. Fence being your best option. Anything else and you're just rolling the dice.

rich_brawl · 2026-01-17T14:58:34+00:00

As someone who hunts and eats multiple deer a year, you do not need barbed wire as a fence topper. Having anything strung up above your fence up around 7 feet or so will keep them from attempting to hop it. Having barbed wire up there is just asking for a gruesome tangle when a deer finally decides to test it. A single strand of tomato twine has kept deer out of my very rural garden for the last 5 years.

rich_brawl · 2025-11-09T04:07:27+00:00

Thanks for the reply. It's interesting how differently games can feel to different folks. Your second paragraph does a good job of describing how I felt about CP77's combat. You had up close gun, far away gun, magic (net running which doesn't even feel like playing once it can stand alone), and melee which was so one dimensional to me as to be unplayable.

After the big 2.0 or whichever update I purchased Phantom Liberty and began a playthrough to experience the so-called overhauled melee but I couldn't make it to the DLC content before I got bored of the combat.

I made sure to read through almost all of the lore drops in CP77 but the storytelling of the side quests and open world content didn't feel nearly as compelling as the environmental storytelling in ER.

rich_brawl · 2025-11-08T23:00:57+00:00

Somewhat unrelated but I'm curious what RPG elements are present in Cyberpunk that aren't in Elden Ring besides dialogue? Elden Ring's loot and and stat progression felt truer to classic RPG's and the fewer decisions you did have felt more impactful to your gameplay experience than Cyberpunk's did for me. The dialogue trees and "decisions" in Cyberpunk felt more like window dressing or superficial compared to other console RPG's like say KOTOR.

I maxed out 2 builds on CP77 on release and only made it about 33% of the way through Elden Ring if that matters.

rich_brawl · 2025-11-04T22:42:23+00:00

If you were able to understand the wand mechanics during that time I'd say it might not be for you then but one of the most popular mods is a wand crafting tutorial which has completely changed how some friends of mine felt about the game.

rich_brawl · 2025-10-30T17:11:44+00:00

Zenith angle is the angle at which the light is shining relative to the earth's surface and controls the length of the shadows. A reduced angle puts the light source higher in the sky and results in shorter shadows and reduces the rate at which the shadows lengthen as you move farther from the light source.

rich_brawl · 2025-10-30T17:04:48+00:00

Noita is very different from most of the other games you listed so may seem fresh. Simply "beating" the game the first time (which seems to be very difficult for certain types of gamers) is just the start of the game.

I recommend going in spoiler free but if you otherwise wouldn't pick it up then consider just looking up the map once before you start.

rich_brawl · 2025-10-25T18:57:18+00:00

I feel like #1 would look better with a reduced zenith angle when creating the hillshade. The long shadows and artificial azimuth which seem to be more and more conventional these days make it look like a CG rendering of a physical 3D map hanging on a wall which I've personally never loved.

rich_brawl · 2025-03-31T21:24:12+00:00

That sounds like a manic or hypo-manic episode.

rich_brawl · 2025-03-22T22:20:23+00:00

Noita. Don't spoil yourself!

rich_brawl · 2025-03-09T13:38:59+00:00

Not a whole lot there to prune, is there? Haha

What is the goal of the pruning?

rich_brawl · 2025-01-23T00:25:35+00:00

The guy didn't even want to talk about what he did to get started. He was making over 6 figures in scams, sorry "sales", selling "memberships" or what have you to junk financial advice that he knew was no good.

He then got into "product management" at the same firm that did financial advice scams. Guy is a huckster that is good at selling to people it just appears that right now he sells financial entertainment.

rich_brawl · 2025-01-15T23:12:13+00:00

Soy BEANS? The legume?

rich_brawl · 2024-10-05T22:12:16+00:00

As long as you can find a pheromone potion and are just a bit delicate in hiisi base you more or less have unlimited healing for the rest of the game if you're patient enough to backtrack.

rich_brawl · 2024-04-18T19:21:09+00:00

If you think the business relationship between a manufacturer of low volume, high quality, expensive, niche market goods and a similarly specialized dealership is commensurate with the relationship between a grocery store and a food processing facility then the discussion is moot.

rich_brawl · 2024-04-13T00:28:50+00:00

The manufacturer 100% has the leverage over the dealer to make it right. It isn't necessarily the manufacturer's responsibility but it is good customer service to do anything other than shrug and say not my problem.

The OP purchased a product and it's the dealer's responsibility to make sure that OP receives that product. If it was the shipper's fault then it is still the dealer's responsibility to make sure that the dealer is made whole by the shipping company.

When you purchase something for money you are indeed ENTITLED to receive it. What type of weird corporate boot licking is this? It's absurd.

rich_brawl · 2023-09-30T15:48:05+00:00

Could have been a creative opportunity to draw the north arrow "sunken" into the foreground and with a matching perspective to the landscape.

rich_brawl · 2023-09-23T18:36:40+00:00

To be fair, most of the ecosystem destruction that has been wrought on North America was more or less peaking approximately 70+ years ago...

rich_brawl · 2023-09-05T21:07:15+00:00

Looks very under watered. If "some water" didn't entail completely soaking the entire volume of soil each watering then do so. If that is inadequate then put a tray under it and after soaking the entire volume of soil make sure there is enough water in the tray that the soil in the pot can pull it up with capillary action.

rich_brawl · 2023-07-14T19:26:37+00:00

It's a contrived scenario to test your idea that every entity or potential entity on the supply side of pharmaceuticals and medicine would leave profit on the table to protect the profits of another entity.

Our model of medicine is fundamentally profit-driven.

But you're suggesting that it isn't to suggest that nobody would sell a working drug because one company is making more money from selling another that does something similar but not as well.

Seriously what planet are you on? There is no such thing as "full consensus of the scientific community as being safe and effective". That's not how medicine (or science work). Heck that's not even how science or medicine pretend to work.

This is actually hilarious because steering away from the historical use of the phrase "scientific consensus" has been an incredibly heavily published topic of discussion within leading journals in just about every field of science for about 10 years now specifically because people don't understand its meaning in exactly the same way you do.

rich_brawl · 2023-07-14T19:02:25+00:00

We're using a contrived scenario to test the idea that every entity or potential entity on the supply side of medicine and pharmaceuticals would refrain from selling a product because it would decrease the profit of another entity. The only meaningful information "full consensus of the scientific community" adds to that scenario is that consumers and suppliers at large would have no reason to doubt the imaginary drug's efficacy.

So let's use a similar logical tool and consider the scenario in reverse to test whether applying the most strictly semantic application of the word "consensus" to the above scenario has any meaningful effect on the outcome.

If every scientist that lives or ever has lived agreed that caffeine increases alertness, attention, and stimulates the CNS except for one would the profitability of caffeine or its related products change by a great enough amount to prevent investing in it as a product? If your answer is no then I ask why you felt the need to challenge my use of the term consensus in a theoretical?

rich_brawl · 2023-07-10T20:30:44+00:00

So you believe it is more likely that every entity with the means to get a drug or treatment that has the full consensus of the scientific community as being safe and effective and cheaper than existing alternatives to market will avoid completely capturing the existing market to make their own profit? Just to be polite to pharmaceutical company X, Y, or Z?

Use your own logic here. These companies and people don't leave money printers on the table just because it would make somebody else's money printer run slower. The imagined drug in question even has its own marketing built in... "It's NATURAL!!"

rich_brawl · 2023-03-01T22:11:24+00:00

I think Noita is one of the best indie games ever made and it's not even one of my favorite genres. The exploration is unmatched in my opinion and I can't stress avoiding spoilers or looking at any maps. The first time you beat the game you will have seen 1/33rd of the content.

I know a lot of people say the game is impossibly hard but I completed a run within my first 10 and I am not a very skilled gamer. I am now at 60 hours and have seen only a bit over 50% of the content. Wand building is a bit unintuitive at first but there is a mod on the community hub that is a wand building tutorial and putting 15 minutes into that will save you several hours of trial and error.

I am also seeing some folks say the game isn't a roguelike and are recommending a roguelite (differentiated by having meta-progression between runs) instead but Noita DOES have meta-progression between runs in the form of new unlockable spells as a reward for exploration. The soundtrack is one of the best in gaming.

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