12-26-2015, 07:53 PM | #41 | |
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White tailed deer will eat eggs and nestlings whenever found. Some herds of sheep will eat rodents after intentional stomping. One cow loved to eat live chickens. Of course, the more closely related food is to the eater the more likely it is to harbor dangerous diseases. I'm really unlikely to catch "late blight" from my mashed potatoes no matter how undercooked.
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12-26-2015, 08:11 PM | #42 |
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There's always undigested materials in feces. Poop odor always tells what you ate, unless something's very wrong. Urine too, to a usually lesser degree. Sweat too, but to an even lesser degree.
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12-26-2015, 08:35 PM | #43 |
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Dude, your sense of smell is a curse and a blessing.
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12-26-2015, 09:12 PM | #44 |
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Went out to where my niece kept her horse to see it one time. Had run through a drive thru on the way and sat the unwrapped burger on top of a fence post. The horse ate it while I was talking to my niece.
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12-26-2015, 09:58 PM | #45 |
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Diabetes took it out and lacking it is also a curse and blessing. Not always being inside the biochemistry of others when merely within a few feet has helped quite a bit with my social anxiety.
But studies show that most people have far more acute senses of smell than they think. It's often a case of lack of training and automatically giving FAR more attention and focus on vision and hearing. I just read about an interesting experiement involving blindfolded college students tracking a chocolate oil trail across the ground.
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12-26-2015, 10:02 PM | #46 | |
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And more evidence that herbivores would eat you if you just stood still long enough and weren't so chewy.
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12-26-2015, 11:43 PM | #47 |
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Trips to magical lands of fire.
Magical fire isn't common destructive "evil" fire. Convince the spirits of materials to let go and flow as if under extreme heat.
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12-27-2015, 03:13 AM | #48 | |
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This could be TL 0 (TL8 in biology). It could just as easily be TL0 (TL0+8 in biology). |
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12-27-2015, 04:06 AM | #49 | |
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But even primitives understand breeding for unique beneficial traits. Sure, it's not transgenic modification. but that's merely boosting effectiveness more than a completely different subject. Lots of things proven over a century ago, or even longer are marveled at or disbelieved by large chunks of people today. We can't limit ourselves to what realistic setting biased NPCs think.
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