lol, if you haven’t tried this game it’s definitely worth a shot because it’s more a finished product than a lot of AAA titles and it’s so faceted that there’s a bit of something for everyone to get hooked on. My three favorite games are Fallout 3, Diablo 2, and this, to give you an idea. I’m an avid fan of no-crop playthroughs (don’t even need to play it like a farming simulator at all to reach 100%).

I’m the guy who made the first catfish comment and I can assure you I’m not a bot. It’s my go-to strat early game and thought it was funny. Catfish, protein, muscles, that kind of thing. But then I checked my comment history and noticed it got downvoted all to hell in the past hour and came here to see what that was all about lol

Edit: for the actual strat, one of the first days is guaranteed rain, so down by Marlene’s, if you line up all the other stuff in the days prior (meeting townsfolk and all that), grind fishing levels beforehand, you can go down there and try to round up as many catfish as possible to bankroll

We evolved to have that response in a world in which hospitals didn’t exist and in which we faced predation by other animals, and ‘curl into a ball feeling like shit for a couple days’ was the most viable way for the body to handle even the most mundane of infections (all the other ideas didn’t make the cut and here we are). But now, 21st century, we’re like ‘oh it’s just the cold’ and actively attempt to mitigate it.

A slew of other things are still stuck in 20,000BC as well, like our bodies not being able to deal with copious amounts of sugar, or thinking we might have difficulties securing our next meal. Cut too many calories trying to lose some fat and your body legit thinks you’re dying and starts breaking down all sorts of soft tissue that isn’t fat. Or vasoconstriction when we’re out shoveling snow with a warm house 15ft away, all sorts of shit

My secret: catfish is high in protein

For me it’s the difference between a preponderance of evidence suggesting such, and something being applied and proven until any doubt is removed.

For example, I was trying to find studs in drywall recently (last house was plaster and lathe), and looking at things Socratically, I could use a stud finder but I might be drilling into conduit or a pipe. So I was like “I can use magnets to hit drywall screws to try to confirm the presence of a stud”, and it seems reasonable, but I’ve never attempted it in practice, and there could be all sorts of things a magnet could hit, since I’ve no experience with drywall, how close a steel pipe could be, any of that. So it’s a belief. It’d be rather arrogant of me to accept this as a reliable method without testing this method, drill through a pipe and wind up with egg on my face.

So, I tested this by getting two magnets to stick vertically, then measured 16" out, got 2 more magnets to stick vertically, kept doing that until I hit half a dozen spots, all 16" apart. Drilled a pilot hole, felt resistance and the smell of wood, drilled a couple more.

I think somewhere between mounting a flat screen to fixing 3 closet shelves it became knowledge, not sure exactly when, but all the doubts were removed and it never blew up in my face. I can just waltz in a room and sink a bunch of holes in the right spot now without being skeptical of some electronic stud finder.

I guess what I mean to say is that testing something and having it consistently work and be reproducible is what leads to knowledge imo