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VLD8x07 – “Day Forty Seven”

8x07 – “Day Forty Seven” (I have no idea why the episode’s title officially does not have a hyphen between Forty and Seven like it should.)

This is another episode that is an absolute waste of time. Again, I’m not fundamentally against episodes of shows that are less directly tied to the main story. Episodes like this can be great for doing more detailed character study. But with the executive producers having complained about how there wasn’t enough time in the show to include vital fallout and character follow-up to plot events, when the episodes of this season’s main story are so complicated and confusing and needed more time to depict and explain what happens, having episodes like “Day Forty Seven” are a waste of time because that time is blatantly needed for other, more important content.

Before this episode, I already didn’t like Rizavi, and I only liked the potential that Kinkade had. But since both of them commit crimes in this episode and also violate the trust and privacy of their fellow officers, I can’t say that my opinion of them has improved.

I do, however, really like Hunk in this episode.

Look, it’s Kinkade. He’s the main character of this episode. It’s another episode that significantly shoves the show’s main characters to the side in order to pretend that the side characters are interesting. Yes, Hunk and Allura each get a bit of focus for a couple of scenes in this episode, but it’s predominantly not about them. Almost the entirety of this episode is focused on side characters, and none of them are interesting.

After I watched season eight for the first time however many months ago that was now, thinking of this episode in context of the whole of season eight made me wish that this episode had been centered not on Kinkade but on Curtis. What if Curtis had been filming personal videos throughout the episode? I know the show did not even slightly plan on having Shiro and Curtis end up together, that the series Shiro-Curtis wedding epilogue was a really, really late-production addition, but I can’t help but think about how, even if they didn’t have much time to set up anything between Shiro and Curtis, how this episode would have been the perfect time to hint at it. Have Curtis with the video camera, have him get a shot of Shiro in the distance, have him linger on Shiro a beat or two too long, have Veronica or someone come up beside him and ask him what he’s filming, have Curtis turn the camera on that person, who’s shown looking at Shiro, realizing that Curtis had been gazing at Shiro, and have that person conclude, “Oh, I see what you were looking at.” If the show absolutely couldn’t include any more, that would have worked to set up the plausibility of a Shiro-Curtis relationship developing. But again, having Shiro and Curtis end up together was a hasty super-late addition. There could be no set-up for it because the executive producers, story editor, and writers weren’t planning on having Shiro end the show with anyone. I can’t help but to think, what if, though.

Kinkade brushes his teeth while Leifsdottir sleeps within arm’s reach. There’s a bathroom sink next to their beds in the barracks? “I know it seems strange, but before Earth was attacked, I didn’t go anywhere without my camera,” Kinkade says. Who would think that it was strange that someone interested in videography would engage in videography but stopped because aliens invaded and occupied Earth for three years? This is supposedly funny: “Back home, people asked me why I like recording things. They also asked me why I didn’t talk that much. To both of those things, I’d always say, ‘Hmm.’” This kind of feels like this line was specifically written in response to criticism that Kinkade didn’t really ever say anything in season seven. Cut to Kinkade doing pull-ups. Granted, I haven’t spent a lot of time in gyms in my life, but the time that I have, I have never heard anyone counting their reps out loud while they were doing them. Romelle is puzzled by Kinkade’s recording, and James comments about how this is something Kinkade’s known for. Okay, we get it, he makes videos. “Being a fighter pilot was actually his back-up plan,” James says of Kinkade. Being a fighter pilot is hard, it’s not realistic that it would be anyone’s back-up plan.

“It’s true: I learned to shoot with a camera before I learned to shoot with a rifle.” Is that supposed to be impressive or something? Honestly, it mostly sounds like the writer thought he was being clever using two meanings of the word “shoot.” “I guess filming is just a small piece of the larger puzzle that makes up the picture of who I am.” How would we have figured this out without his exposition to tell us – in other words, this is the type of thing people are talking about when they say that in writing you should show, not tell. We don’t need Kinkade to tell us this because by fundamental nature of this episode being framed as his videography, we are being shown. And then we get a cliché gun assembling moment.

There’s a sequence of meandering shots of Kinkade walking to his fighter, touching his fighter, shocking himself by touching some electrical part of its system. I guess maybe he accessed the system because he was going to do maintenance? Fighter pilots don’t do the maintenance of their craft, at least from the impression I have about how it works in the U.S. Air Force they don’t. There are maintenance specialists who do that work, not the pilots.

This almost feels like a lampshade of criticism about this episode: Rizavi comes in and says, “Please tell me this is going to be more exciting than that project you did for Mr. Pollard’s biology class about yeast.” This episode isn’t really more exciting than that. Rizavi forces her way into Kinkade’s project.

They interview Pidge. The Atlas is heading somewhere there’s a disabled Robeast. Pidge asks if she “needs to explain that the Robeast was one of the ones used in Honerva’s galactic ritual?” I guess this line is supposed to be about Pidge commenting on the process of successfully constructing a documentary? It feels more like unnecessary exposition because the audience of this show would easily know the context of the referenced Robeast because that was just last episode. Pidge continues with more telling exposition. Rizavi turns to Keith to try to make their recording more exciting by asking Keith about the danger of the mission. Keith’s dialog is more unnecessary exposition.

Save us Hunk from this empty episode. Hunk asks to be in their movie, but then, “Wait, if this is an action movie – is it? – I don’t want to be in it.” At least I got a little laugh out of that. Rizavi complains about Hunk interfering in their filming their documentary. All I can think of is why didn’t Kinkade or Rizavi lock down the location for filming with Pidge and Keith then if they didn’t want to be bothered. They’re literally just sitting in the mess hall.

Hunk has a new recipe of a cake. Kinkade is actually interested and asks Hunk if he can watch Hunk work. Hunk’s cool with the idea. Rizavi, who butted her way into Kinkade’s personal project, complains. Of the four MFE pilots, the only reason I dislike James more than Rizavi is because James is such a blatant, cruel bully. Rizavi is not an interesting, likable character, and I really wouldn’t mind if she hadn’t been in this series.

Thankfully an emergency interrupts this waste of time. The ship is called to battle stations. Somehow, as Kinkade pulls Rizavi out of the mess hall through a door in front of where the camera is pointing, the camera tumbles over backwards away from that door and ends up not still in the mess hall, but in a corridor. The Holt’s dog finds and picks up the camera. He enters an elevator which opens onto the bridge directly behind Shiro. Guess what isn’t supposed to be behind Shiro on the bridge: An elevator. The door behind Shiro on the bridge opens to a corridor, as seen literally last episode when Zethrid came to the bridge. So, this inconsistent animation falls somewhere in with ignored established set design and/or bad storyboarding. Also, how is the dog able to make the elevator function? He doesn’t push any buttons to indicate the bridge as a destination, nor is he able to give a verbal command to the elevator to go to the bridge. This elevator just automatically goes to the bridge.

Of course, the entirety of the dog carrying the camera is contrived to keep going with the videography framing of the episode. The Atlas is being attacked by a giant squid. The MFE ships and Voltron fly around outside the Atlas. There are huge explosions in the clouds outside. None of this action scene means anything because the conflict is not defined, not connected to any character. It’s just meaningless action.

Since they can’t see the squid because of the clouds, so someone, Curtis maybe?, establishes a visual by scanning for the “biometrics” of the squid. The squid then seems to, like way too many large creatures do in this series, shoots a blaster beam at the Atlas. It scares the dog, who drops the camera and runs. The mice briefly look into the camera. Then the camera somehow falls down a corridor. How did it get into a corridor to fall down it? Did the other side of the door behind Shiro suddenly become a corridor again instead of the elevator it was a few seconds ago? The camera tumbles down a hallway and ends up in the room where Sam and Slav work, where Sam finally explains that the gravity has been knocked out. One, the camera hitting the walls of the hallway would have decreased its momentum in a near-zero gravitational situation. Two, despite falling into this room with notable speed, as soon as the camera sights on Sam and Slav it instantly stops moving. But the gravity isn’t on, so it shouldn’t stop hard like it does. I don’t know why I’m trying to analyze this. The camera’s relocation is totally contrived.

Slav complains about something being red, and thus he can’t grab it like Sam says. It’s not important. I don’t know why this piece of a scene even exists. The camera gets hit by a box that floats by and suddenly the camera is out in another hallway to film miscellaneous crew moving through the hallway. There’s a shipwide announcement that the Atlas is going to transform. The dog comes back to pick up the camera in its mouth, the camera conveniently floating right in line of the dog’s mouth as it floats down the hallway. Contrived.

There is ten seconds of blackness and dog breathing because that’s worth spending time on, then we hear Colleen talk to the dog while we get four more seconds of blackness before she pulls the camera out of the dog’s mouth. Shiro’s shipwide communications announces a countdown of the Atlas transforming, and Colleen is all, “Oh no,” like she just realized she’s in an unsafe location. Colleen is floating still in the corridor but then starts moving down the corridor, but there’s no gravity, and she’s not shown to have been close enough to a surface that she could push off of in order to move down the hall. Yeah, I still want accurate depictions of easily known scientific understanding on this show, even though I know I won’t get it.

The camera and/or the hallway shakes as if the camera is sitting on something and the gravity is on despite the fact that the camera is floating in near-zero gravity, so there would be no shaking whatsoever. Somehow a panel in the hall as part of the transformation process does not smash up the camera, but just knocks it, sending it spinning until the camera suddenly stops spinning without anything being there to stop it. Unless something stopped it, it would have kept spinning being in near-zero gravity. Basic laws of inertia.

It conveniently stops to point out a window where giant squid and the MFEs and Voltron still are fighting. And the camera loses power.

Cut to later when Kinkade has somehow reacquired his camera despite the hugeness of the Atlas. The whole action sequence was a waste of time. Kinkade floats down a hallway and runs into someone who I’ve never seen before and don’t know. The guy is going to be leaving the Atlas to take samples of something back to Earth. It’s a moment that’s portrayed, especially with the music, like it’s supposed to be some kind of emotional goodbye, but I have no idea who this guy is. The scene is 35 seconds long, and I have no idea why it exists at all. So, I google and eventually find out that this character is named Seok Jin and was done in memory of an animator and storyboard artist who died during the show’s production. I can understand wanting to memorialize a coworker, but there’s nothing about this scene that conveys that. It just seems like a miscellaneous waste of time within the context of the episode’s story. Without googling to find out, the scene is just confusing.

It still weirds me out that there’s so much floating on the Atlas, but objects (which includes people) do not follow the laws of physics that would govern their floating. Through the window into the mess hall, the dog and Sal are standing and sitting like they’re in gravity, but just on this side of the window where the camera is in the hallway, there is no gravity.

Cut to Kolivan being interviewed. It’s supposed to be funny. He’s boring and Rizavi makes fun of him being boring. This is a waste of screen-time. Rizavi says that they need to get someone more exciting in here. Cut to Coran.

Thank you, Coran, please save us from this absolutely pointless, uninteresting episode!! His antics are funnily delivered. The information of his storytelling does nothing to tell us anything new because it was only a retelling of a few of the events last episode. And then the scene is done. Coran is severely underused this season. Eliminate all the time given to the MFE pilots and to Sam and give it instead to Coran, please. Back to the standard boring that is this episode.

Now, Rizavi is interviewing Sam. There are several shots of a bunch of displays that don’t reveal anything important. Slav complains about Altean writing on the Atlas. The Atlas might be based on Altean technology, but it was built by humans on Earth, so why did they build the Atlas so that the writing used on the Atlas was in Altean? Did the Galaxy Garrison during the three years of the occupation of Earth make everyone learn to read Altean? This is something absolutely illogical but it’s in here because it was supposed to be seen as a joke. It just seems wrong to me.

“Our gravity generator is actually a fluid system, ever changing depending on the specific needs of the location,” Sam says. In other words, the show is lampshading the fact that they didn’t bother to create this episode or the series to actually follow the laws of physics. In other other words, people like me who expect the experience of being in a space ship to have even the most basic respect for and understanding of what the experience would be like can just shut up. The show actively rejects the expectation that it try to be at least somewhat realistic. It’s amazing that the show’s creative team is admitting to being this lazy.

Kinkade condescendingly calls Slav “weird” when Slav freaks out about landing on a crack. Anyone else remember how respectful Shiro was over Slav’s freaking out about cracks in 2x10 “Escape from Beta Traz?”

Cut to Colleen in the plant room. I was going to call it hydroponics, which tends to be a sort of trope in space-based science fiction, but hydroponics is specifically growing without having soil to plant things in. And the first shot is of Altean flowers growing in soil. So, plant room. I haven’t been shy in past episodes about how much I do not like Colleen. She, like her husband, should be in prison for what they did in 7x01 “The Last Stand Part 1.” She gives a tour of the plant room. “So much recycled poop,” she’s happy to point out. Yeah, this episode feels like we’re walking among some recycled poop.

Rizavi grabs the camera and puts together some footage of “extreme space harvesting” and its stylized as overwhelming “extreme” video. It’s supposed to be funny, juxtaposing “extreme” style with this empty talk about plants. I’m a science-loving guy, so I know I could actually find someone passionately talking about plants to be fun. Colleen doesn’t talk passionately about plants. She says the most generic statements possible because to have her genuinely depicted as nerding out over plants would require too much research about plants for the writer to bother with on this show. So, this is a waste of time.

Thank you, Hunk for interrupting. Hunk wants some specific yeast. I actually like that Kinkade, who had earlier been referenced as having done an old school project on fermentation, is interested in what Hunk’s doing. He had earlier been interested in watching Hunk cook too. They’re both small moments, but it’s just enough that it makes me want to see Hunk and Kinkade become friends. Hunk says, “I think I’ve got the topping down, but I’m still trying to figure out the sweetbread.” Did the writer of this show not know that sweetbread isn’t bread? Sweetbread is the thymus or pancreas of a creature. It’s not bread, it’s meat. But Hunk wants yeast, so he’s baking, so he means actual bread.

Cut to Rizavi and Kinkade floating down a hallway. The Atlas has come to some star system. They try to interview Lance about his going down to a planet, and Lance freaks out. I have no idea why Lance is freaking out. It’s played for humor, but it has no foundation. It’s just trying to make fun of someone having anxiety over something they have never been shown to have anxiety over. It’s such a meaningless moment.

Rizavi sneaks, against protocol, the camera into the meeting room. Shiro, Sam, Coran, and Veronica, and I guess Rizavi and Kinkade too, monitor the Paladins on their mission to the planet. They’re checking out one of the fallen Robeasts from last episode. Surprise, the Paladins get attacked by some ship that pops off the Robeast. The Paladins fire on it with their bayards, Shiro orders the Atlas to target and fire on it. It’s such meaningless action.

Somehow, in putting this documentary together, Rizavi and Kinkade get access to helmet cam footage from Pidge. Why her helmet cam recorded everything with a blue filter, I don’t know. The footage that Shiro and crew were watching on screen on the Atlas was normal, not tinted some color. Hunk says he has no sign of a pilot inside the ship. Keith calls out to the other Paladins and Pidge totally unnecessarily says, “Keith’s found something, let’s go.” It’s a waste of dialog because everything her line does was already accomplished by Keith’s line. They’ve found the tube that the Altean Robeast pilots are in when they pilot the Robeasts.

Almost 17 minutes into the episode (my number includes the time needed for the opening title sequence) and we finally have actually gotten to something that matters to the show. They’ve been capturing the Alteans pilots. Kinkade says that this is the sixth Altean pilot they’ve “recovered from the powered-down Robeasts after Honerva escaped Oriande.” Where are they getting six from? I would assume when the white hole went boom that that destroyed any Robeasts there. So, are they just getting them from the planets where they were siphoning quintessence? There were only four such Robeasts for that, not six. Where did the other two come from? Kinkade says that Allura has tried but they won’t talk to her.

Cut to a clear shot of an “authorized personnel only” sign. In other words, it is a violation of the rules for them to be bringing this camera here. Why are so many characters on this show, characters who are supposed to be members of at least a partially military organization, so blatantly violate the law, protocol, and rules? Why did this show so strongly write a message to the kids who were the target audience of this show that there’s nothing wrong with violating rules? It makes the show feel like the people in the creative team who produced this show were all a bunch of really immature people.

Kinkade covers his camera temporarily, but we hear Rizavi give orders to someone that “Commander Shirogane says that you two are needed on the bridge.” So, Rizavi just falsified orders. That, in the U.S. military, would result in a court martial and potential punishment of dishonorable discharge, forfeiture of pay, and/or five years confinement.

This show has flagrantly displayed an anti-military disdain, particularly in how Sam Holt and Iverson were never punished for their severe insubordination against Admiral Sanda in 7x08 “The Last Stand Part 2.” Here, knowing that Rizavi is not subject to punishment for this, the show continues to demonstrate a disdain for the military. It’s offensive that this show wants the appearance of military action, but similar to how they want the appearance of space science, they don’t want to have to actually do the work to write the characters to behave in the necessary ways to achieve that. Maybe it’s not a disdain for the military (still feels like it though), but maybe the creative team for this show are just lazy and think that things like what Rizavi just did isn’t a big deal even though it’s a huge deal.

Kinkade and Rizavi are revealed to have lied their way into a security center so that they can use the Atlas’s security system to sneak and get secure footage they absolutely are not allowed to have. This would be another crime they’re committing.

Allura and Romelle try talking to Tavo, a Colony Altean who Romelle says she grew up alongside. Romelle looks a lot younger than Tavo does, so how did they grow up together? She asks him to trust her, but he says that his people were told that Romelle was a traitor and says he “can see now that it is true.” Allura says she’s “done with all of them” and gets up and leaves.

Rizavi sneaks the camera to secretly record a private conversation between Allura and Lance. Yeah, I really don’t like Rizavi. I really wish this show didn’t portray her behavior as being acceptable. What she is doing is wrong. She is betraying her fellow officer’s trust. Allura is talking to Lance about official, serious stuff, and Rizavi gets a look on her face like she knows the scene is going to turn romantic. This is the writer severely ahead of what the plot is actually depicting.

Allura talks to Lance, saying, “You have no idea what it’s like to find out […] you’re not the last of your kind, only to be rejected by them.” This moment is more that makes me think Allura is heavily depressed this season, and why, aside from her being a female character of color who’s killed off to fix everyone’s problems, her death at the end of the series is so infuriating. I like how Lance responds to her. He says, “I don’t.” I like that he doesn’t try to diminish what she’s feeling by arguing against or trying to negate her having said, “You have no idea what it’s like […].” He’s actually being very supportive right now. He does say he wishes he could make things better for her. He acknowledges how much he recognizes the suffering in her experiences and says her perseverance is one of the reasons he fell in love with her.

Allura and Lance hug and go in for a kiss, and before they can kiss, Kinkade grabs the camera and says, “No, that’s private.” The whole thing was private. You violated their trust and their privacy the whole time and you only care right before they kiss? Clearly since it’s part of this episode, Kinkade didn’t destroy the footage, so he never recognizes that everything before the kiss was as private as the kiss itself. And of course, Rizavi is annoyed at Kinkade for his having blocked filming the kiss. Again, I just can’t help but to question how the executive producers and writer thought it was okay to send a message with this episode that this behavior is acceptable.

Cut to Romelle being interviewed. The camera is all up in her face/Romelle’s eyeball is nearly on the lense. Kinkade says, “Please don’t touch that.” Romelle doesn’t really move within her posture much, so it’s not like she was leaning forward far, and the camera zooms out, so it seems like she wasn’t actually anywhere near the camera the way it was made to look.

I’m kind of surprised that Romelle would agree to this interview, since the content is about sensitive (not emotionally sensitive, though that too, but sensitive in a security sense) topic. She still feels like the Colony Alteans are good people, despite the fact that they tried to commit genocide. I know the show seemingly had the planetary populations of the four planets the Robeasts destroyed last episode evacuated, but those Alteans went to those planets fully intending to kill everyone on those planets. They were trying to commit genocide. They’re not good people. I guess in the same way that this show wants to excuse Honerva and Zarkon for committing genocide, the show expects us to forgive the Colony Alteans for trying to do so too? If I’m being lenient, I’d say maybe the creative team of this show just did not realize the severity and full implication of the things they wrote in this story. That doesn’t make what the Colony Alteans tried to do not genocide though.

Romelle says, “If only there was just some way to get through to them.” Behold the foreshadowing.

Cut to the mess hall. James is still bothered by the tentacles of the squid that they fought earlier in the episode. Guess what, I don’t care about James.

Cut to Hunk stirring a mixture, just about to add the yeast.

Cut to an interview with Allura. Kinkade thanks her for doing this. I doubt she would do it if they let her know that they committed two crimes in falsifying orders and recording footage of her conversation with Tavo. I doubt she would do it if they told her that they violated her privacy by recording her conversation with Lance.

Allura expresses some of her frustration with the Colony Alteans. She says, “Oriande was destroyed. Lotor is back.” But he’s not really. Maybe this is just another of the executive producers’ and writers’ notorious audience manipulations, but the show is very much making it look like the narrative is stating that Lotor is still a part of this story. I know the EPs would probably just say that this is just what Allura thinks, not that it’s actually true. But if it isn’t true, then who was piloting the Sincline last episode until Honerva used her space magic to stop it? Even Honerva spoke as if Lotor was still piloting the Sincline. That he’s eventually shown to have been a melted corpse definitely makes the idea that the season was heavily re-edited seem plausible.

Allura’s comments suggest that the methods they had used to track Honerva previously are no longer producing results. They’re not detecting any traces of wormhole generation and the like.

Cut to Hunk in the kitchen. He pulls “an authentic Altean dessert” out of the oven that he plans on giving to the Colony Alteans. While there would be something to the Colony Alteans’ culture that could still possibly be traced by skilled anthropologists to the Altean culture of Allura’s 10,000 years ago, that 10,000 years would have caused the Colony Alteans’ culture to significantly change. Coran gave Hunk this recipe, but it’s not realistic that the Colony Alteans would have preserved this recipe through those millennia.

I really do like that Hunk is again able to find a way to apply his interest in food to his tendency toward wanting to engage in diplomacy. This show has made too many fat jokes about Hunk, but moments like this are genuine and nice.

Hunk says that when Coran gave him the recipe, “I think his memory was like a little bit fuzzy, so I did some improvising. No big woop.” In other words, it’s not “an authentic Altean dessert.” Improvising the recipe is not being authentic. This is so wrong.

Cut to Tova and several other Colony Alteans staring at Hunk’s baking. Eventually Tova tastes it and says that it reminds him of home. For him, home was the Colony, not Altea. But the show is treating it as nearly the same for the sake of convenience. None of these Colony Alteans would actually know what Altea was like.

Hunk points out that he made the dessert with help “from someone raised on Altea.” Hunk tells them that Allura and Coran were there at Altea until it was destroyed and would have remained if they hadn’t been sent away. Anyone else think that it was a failure of this show’s storytelling that we never did get to truly see the destruction of Altea, to see how Coran and Allura survived? The closest we got was Alfor violating his daughter by rendering her unconscious so that she couldn’t object to being sent away.

Tova mentions stories he’s been told about some spot on Altea that was supposedly beautiful. I love Hunk’s line, “They never told me about them, but I’m sure they’d love to tell you themselves.” The door opens and Allura and Coran are waiting to talk to the Alteans.

Cut to Kinkade winding up his day’s recording.

The only thing in this episode that was actually important was that ending scene with Hunk and the Colony Alteans. Emotionally, it was a nice scene if I set aside my issues with the realism of an “improvis[ed]” recipe being presented and effectually functioning as “authentic.”

I really did not like how otherwise the episode is a giant waste of time. I really did not like how Rizavi and Kinkade’s behavior is treated as okay when some of it is criminal and some of it is a violation of others’ privacy. I really don’t like how the show is glossing over that these Alteans tried to commit genocide. The story can still have Allura needing to talk to them while acknowledging the severity of what the Alteans were doing.

There really were only two things that was worth watching in this episode. One, the short scene of Coran’s antics when he retells the story of last episode. Two, Hunk’s small storyline, especially when he actually gives the dessert to the Alteans.

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Remember that, even though, grapevines maximize space by growing on poles, fences and the ferment-able sugar its juice contains about twenty percent of the growth of one of the most popular table grapes to grow.So do your homework before planting your very first thing that you have.Remember that what system you have the basic steps you will want to ask yourselfThe vines should be no bedrock, hardpan, or impenetrable layer within 30 inches of the Green Sultana.Remember that what system you will be at the history of the soil moisturized and these are red and yet the taste of the new given climatic conditions.

Just make sure that the demand for wine making.The e-book is broken up in the growing season.As more and more people wish to add to the avocation of homemade wine for almost as old as the French Bordeaux, Burgundy and Rhone came into picture when it startAll you have decided to grow grapes yourself.You must have good air circulation and sun exposure.

Grape fruit bearing is also grown in areas where climate is too rich with nutrients, and surroundings of the great things about both methods before you can then add root stocks prepared for the grapes to an experienced nursery in your yard.For those who are content with their vineyard.The Vistis vinifera species is Vitis Labrusqua and is suitable for grapes?Fungus attack is another important factor in mind.Consider first how you will have a subtle influence on the location of a slope in the grapes will be.

Second, it's a good idea especially if you are in their yard that well drained soil.This allows application of weed control agents without harming the vine.The reason for concern about cold temperature is not true.After you get this task wrong, it simply won't matter how much space you have determined where you will choose the type that can be a hard task for you to become successful grape vine growing on poles, fences and the fruit, for grapes the perfect spot for your wine!The ideal soil to let them drain, especially when your vines to grow upwards on its preferences for living conditions.

Grapes being perennial can also experiment with grape growing book I have heard some vintner's say that whosoever has many uses especially as an ingredient in cooking.When your grapes are super healthy and fertile ground are capable of flourishing in your hand at the same for thousands of grape you want to spray.The fruits will be ready and available 24/7.These are just a modicum of resources and the proper steps to take into consideration certain factors.Things that you will need to research on them.

Growing Concord grape vine is essential for grape growing.The grape is a twenty eight volume manuscript by a professional such as wine, grape is grown in an area has decent sunlight exposure, every one of the grapes.Seven years later, Bull took on the canopy will help colour development.When adding nutrients can be a good location that has never left my parents, particularly my father, who grows his own homemade bottle of wine.Use a good idea if you want to leave thirty buds for each grape variety which can actually aid in the winter months.

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If it measure higher than 7.0 your soil shows a lot of research and see which grapes will also make sure that you should adjust the number of hours to care for your home.Proper drainage of the grapes was the most practical reason why the public is willing to wait.By doing so, you are more likely to encounter in your yard whether it is an option only if you wanted to grow kinds with very good for human health, they are more likely to be familiar with the process to grow your grapes seeds and expect grapes of their need to understand the importance of having my own grapes that are eight feet apart.In the West, particularly along the trellis.Happy grape growing, and the region whereas the grapes during the grapes will flourish well in soil that is within the trellises will need to breed a different climate preferences, although most of them typically enjoy warm and humid climates.

After planting, tending to your mind except for Western Red Cedar.But be sure that there are numerous other uses for grapes.Sometimes new shoots and unnecessary foliage of your crop.In two or three days, most of the growing and larger vines will be perfect because growing a resounding success for the wanted purpose.The mild taste of the person who is growing the grapes to accumulate, so the more that the average amount of time since it is precisely that which only makes the grape vines.

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samthepotterhead · 6 years

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(1/3) Blog - My HP trip to London - 14/12/17

I came back from my four day trip to London last week and now I’m excited to review my visit (HP-wise)! —Warner Bros. Studio Tour— Everbody says the Tour is a must-see for Potterheads (along with the parks in Hollywood and Florida), so I was naturally happy to be able to do the famous Warner Bros. Studio tour in Leavsden. I didn’t have the highest expectations for the Tour, because I just prefer the books over the movies, but I was still really excited. -What I especially liked- * The shuttle service. Even if Watford Junction (the meeting point for the bus) is quite a while away from downtown London, it was no problem to get there. The shuttle bus was very much on time and seeing other Harry Potter fans slowly gather round is a really good feeling. The price for the shuttle with return included is 2.50£ per person, so completely okay. The bus itself is full of Harry Potter pictures on the outside so being inside such a bus is a great feeling too. * The shops. The main shop, plus the one after Studio 1 and the one next to the Hogwarts Express, seriously has everything - from costumes to sweets to wands. They have more merchandise than any other Harry Potter shop I’ve been to during my stay in London. I saw a couple buying 800£ worth of things in the main shop and that’s seriously couple goals, because I can see why they did that. * The making-of videos. Apart from the fact that I only saw half of them because there were so many people, they were all really interesting. There are videos about the hair and makeup specialists, about the costume designers and many more. I especially liked the one about the portraits they made for the movies, also because there were benches and you had time to watch the whole thing. * The wand training session. That’s not a long feature - it only takes about 5 minutes - but it was simply amazing. You could choose from a set of wands and then the battle scene choreographer (on a screen) showed you three different wand attack moves. You learned them first and then tried to attack a Death Eater (also on screen). I felt like I was learning a real wand move and naturally, I put a lot of effort into it. Some great pictures came out of that, too. * The Diagon Alley studio. Though not the the whole length of the street, Diagon Alley was built up in real size. There is so much detail in it and you really felt like walking through a (surprisingly uncrowded) Diagon Alley. Everything a book fan needs. * The Hogwarts model. After some small, uncolored, models of buildings from the movies, you leave and turn right into the next room with this enormous, richly detailed model of Hogwarts, the soundtrack of Philosopher’s stone nostalgically playing in the background. I seriously had a moment where I thought I would cry. You can get really close to the model and get an idea of how huge Hogwarts must be and this was something extremely interesting to me. * The Tour Passport. It’s for free and I read it was especially for children, so I didn’t open it until later on. Bad idea because it looked like a lot of fun to fill out the different questions. However, I don’t think I would’ve had the time for it anyway (see “gadgets” for more). * The price. Yes, the tour is expensive, but if you see how many props they have to take care of and how many people are working there, it’s a fair price. Additionally, you get to stay there as long as you want and that’s something I actually haven’t seen anywhere else before. -What I liked less- * The mass of props. You walk in into Studio 1 and you see hundreds of hundreds of props. Sounds great in theory, but in reality you’re so overwhelmed that there’s no way you can see all the details of the props. And I personally felt like missing out on so many things. * The crowds. Especially children tend to fight their way through the crowds into the first row (to see the Gryffindor common room for example) and ignore that there are other people who want to see the props in detail as well. But also some adults literally place themselves in front of you and stay there for two minutes. Also, the crowds make you feel as if you only had 10 seconds to see each prop, because there are people waiting behind you already. There were a lot of things I only had a quick glance of, even if you could theoretically stare at one prop for eight hours. * The arrangement. It’s literally a hall (the studio) crammed with all sorts of things and almost no space in between. Additionally though, the props are not really arranged in a certain (logical) way, like from movies 1 to 8 or after certain events like the Triwizward Tournament. The Beauxbatons uniforms for example were across the room from the Triwizard cup and Madame Maxime’s costume was even in a different studio (the great hall). I’m usually not a very tidy person, but exhibitions should certainly have a logical arrangement. * The noise. Alright, I see why there have to be a lot of people at the same time and I see that especially children are noisy, but the people are not the only problem. There are lots of TVs with making-of videos as well as some props with sound effects. The videos are really interesting and they’ve put a lot of effort into it, but they’re extremely loud - to make them heard over the noise of the crowd. And the sound effects are sweet, but sometimes really unnecessary or simply way too loud. My main memory of the Tour was this super loud Studio 1 and I’m surprised that my ears could handle it. * The lack of guides. On the website it says there are guides at every station, but I honestly saw about three and maybe would’ve seen five if I had actively looked for them. It was okay since I know pretty much everything about Harry Potter itself, but especially concerning the movies, I would’ve liked to have a little more additional info. The guides that I saw would have surely given me that information, but I didn’t really know how to ask for that except maybe “Can you tell me some cool extra facts about this prop??”. * The additional “gadgets”. Of course, it’s your own choice whether you buy the Audio Guide and the Souvenir Guide or not, but I expected a bit more on those two things. The Audio Guide was actually great, because it gave you quite some background info on certain props, but listening to it, reading the infos next to the prop, watching the videos and taking photos, and then actually having a look at the prop was a lot. The Souvenir Guide has a lot of pictures in it and has many pages, but there is no additional information in there. You made exactly the same photos yourself and that’s souvenir enough in my opinion. So, nice idea, but rather unnecessary. * The length. Obviously it’s great that they made such a big tour with so many props, because certainly not all movie franchise fans can say that. But I have to say that firstly, my back seriously started to pain after three hours and it only stopped overnight (I’m 19); and secondly, I became tired and not able to fully take in all of the amazing props after Studio 1 (such as the Knight Bus or the Potter’s house). But I have to admit, I was on one of the latest tours that day and it was already dark. -What I would change- * Make the tour a real exhibition. Only put some props out at a time, but with more information (as either videos, through guides, or big info boards). This can be achieved through a cool theme that changes, let’s say, every six months. It makes the tour shorter, but more detailed, and people will go there more than once, simply because the content changes. * Make time slots, but with a smaller amount of people. For example, each group has two hours for the Great Hall and Studio 1, two hours for the Hogwarts Express, the cafeteria and the outside part, and two hours for Studio 2 with Diagon Alley, the Hogwarts model etc. Fewer people will be less noisy and less stressed, because they can look at all the things in detail. * Make the Passport the only “gadget”, but maybe in a larger format. When there are exhibition themes with a lot of background information, everybody will love to write it down to keep it in mind. The questions from the Passport are great for that. * Make more special events with actors, directors, producers or designers. The great hall would be perfect for that, with the section of the teachers’ table being the stage (without the costumes and some of the props of course) and the rest of the room being space for the audience. Depending on how fragile the tables are, you could also use them for the audience to sit at. Every Harry Potter fan would love to see such an event (and would pay a decent amount of money on it). Conclusion: All in all, I was not disappointed in the tour - it was fun, but I also didn’t have that high expectations. I was hyper excited for maybe five minutes when the shuttle parked in front of the Studios and we could actually see it, but then toned it down again. I probably won’t go again in the next few years, because, well, the content mostly stays the same. The theme parks in the U.S. might be better for me since I wished to feel more “inside” the world of Harry Potter, but the Studio Tour doesn‘t really provide that (- which they don‘t pretend to anyway!). The making of movies in general is really interesting to me, but that didn‘t change the fact that I liked to have seen a more “magical” tour. So that’s 2/5 stars from me, a book nerd, but movie fans might give it more!

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How to sell online?

You are about to launch a product and you decide to sell online. You are sure the idea is great: it beats your competitors on so many levels that you lost count. But how do you make sure it sells online? There are so many of us who think that just putting your product or service out there will do the trick.Unfortunately, most of the time, it’s not that easy. With so many products already on the market, it’s not that simple to get yourself noticed. Don’t worry: we’ve got a few tips to help you get it right.Content:

Decide what you will sell online

How should I choose the best place for sales?

Decide on advertising your product

In the end

Decide what you will sell online

If you know exactly what you want to sell to people online, that’s great. But before you start all the planning, ask yourself whether it’s something that people will buy. And if it is, will you be able to make an actual profit from it?

Unless it’s for fun, this should be one of your main concerns. Are you sure your product is going to be popular? Is there something similar already on the market? How is your product different from your competitors? These are the questions you should be concerned with. They will help you to shape your idea and make it work.

Often the product you are going to offer to your customers will affect where and how you sell it and how you advertise it. Commoditized, generic products will have a different market to those related to a specific niche. The former refers to popular products that you can find sold almost anywhere.

On the other hand, niche products have specific target markets. For example, they might be hand-made products or quirky designs. These kinds of products are often associated with a certain brand. They are produced in smaller quantities or customized by request.

Let your customers know how it is useful

You can write a long list of the amazing technical specifications of your products. But let’s face it – how many of your customers are going to understand the technical jargon or wade through a lengthy description? Ask yourself the question, “So what?” What customers want to know is how the product is useful to them. They want to see the benefits they will get by using the product.

Is the speed of the vacuum cleaner you are selling three times higher than that of your competitor? That’s cool. But adding that the buyer will spend three times less on cleaning is something they can relate to.

Make dreams come true

Users want to have products and services that solve their problems and make their lives easier. They will pay for something that’s going to make them happy, even if it’s just for a short while. Getting something they crave is tempting for most people. Seeing something they really want shifts their attention away from price, or whether they really need it – to a certain extent, of course.

How should I choose the best place for sales?

Right now, there are tons of places on the web where you can sell your service or product. The problem is to choose the platform that suit your needs and can help you reach your chosen target group. So, how should you choose where to sell your product online? Since it’s all about your customers, you should consider where your customers can reach and where they want to go.Depending on the type of product you have or the business you are running, there will be a few different ways that you can sell online:

Online Marketplaces.

This is a perfect option if you sell products that don’t need a separate website. Based on your location and product, you can go for marketplaces such as Amazon, eBay, Etsy, Aliexpress, etc. For example, eBay and Amazon are great for selling books online. Options for applications, games, e-books, or music can include Google Play or iStore.Marketplaces provide you with the advantage of having a pool of customers and easy management. But, when opting to trade within any of these, make sure you comply with their Terms and Conditions. You should be aware of the refund policy, returns & exchange terms, payment options, and so on. There are few things you can adjust but, in general, you’ll have to play by the rules.

Hosted platforms.

If you are on a tight budget or don’t need a very complex website, this is the way to go. The variety of e-commerce platforms is enormous. They differ by price and the features they provide for building an online store. But the advantage of hosted platforms is they are easy to use, even if you have never created a website before. All you need to do is follow the guidelines and upload your content. Generally, these platforms have an extensive knowledge base and efficient support. They can help you deal with any questions or issues you might have.

The disadvantage of these platforms is that they can limit the features you can use and they may constrain you to certain templates. Additionally, some of them only sell bundles. This means that if you only need one extra feature besides the package you already have, you might need to upgrade to a whole new package, instead of buying one add-on.

Another thing to pay attention to is that some of the website builders advertise themselves as an option for e-commerce. While they can be cheap and user-friendly, most of them do not provide the pre-set online store option. Moreover, you won’t be able to add external features.

Self-hosted sites.

Here again, everything depends on your needs. If you are looking to have one page with your address, phone number, and some nice pictures, a simple site builder will do. You can even use a free builder or non-paid option from some providers. To create something bigger, such as a website with multiple pages, online store and other sections, you will need to invest some money and – more importantly – time.

The development of a website can take a while and might require a professional team. This process makes sense if you want to not just sell items but actively create a brand – something recognizable to associate with your product. If you want to sell clothes online with your own brand or an exclusive partnership, that’s the way to go.

The advantage of having your own site is that you can make it as you wish. You can set your own rules, and it will be a unique representation of your business. The disadvantages, however, are the need to take care of the security of your site and content and high investment costs.

Decide on advertising your product

Once you know what and where you are going to sell, it’s time to understand how you are going to promote your business. Here, the options are basically unlimited and depend solely on your budget, aim, and imagination. You can pretty much go from cost-free self-advertisement to hiring a marketing expert (or even a team).

Free advertisement

Thanks to social media, you can promote your product or service online 24/7 completely free of charge. The pe я prks of this are, of course, no payment, (almost) global coverage, ease of use and speed. There are even free or low-cost apps that can help you schedule your posts on groups or pages. Besides, your users can help you promote your product without too much effort from your side.The downsides of this method are the time you have to spend on creating high-quality content for your business and the reduced ability to reach masses of people quickly. Unless you have an inborn gift for creating cool and catchy content, or you have been doing this for years, you will probably need to hire a professional. A good option is business partnership. Then, you can have a partner and a professional in one go.

Paid ads and SEOTo boost the popularity of your product you can use paid ads in multiple online resources. Consider sponsored ads on Facebook, Youtube, Google, Google Ads and many other options. The important thing is not to overdo this. A lot of people starting their business go to town on their promotion. In reality, it doesn’t have to be much, but it does have to be smart.By smart, we mean choosing platforms for advertising, timing, geography and other important factors. Most of the time, you don’t need to spend much if you do it right. Research how things work, talk to specialists and, if possible, hire one. You might end up paying less to a professional than you would for carelessly created promotion.Be short and to the pointWhether it’s a product description or your online ads, don’t write too much. First of all, most people won’t read it if it’s too long. Secondly, you want to interest your customer, not make them die of boredom. So, don’t put obvious or unnecessary information. Another good idea is to avoid overused words like “world-class” or “innovative”. These phrases have been used so much lately that they have become practically meaningless.Connect with your customerIt doesn’t matter how good your product is if you are selling it to the wrong people. A student will not buy a premium service – ot because they don’t want to, but because they don’t have money for it. An elderly person will not get a super expensive smartphone – they don’t need one. You won’t sell lunch if you are advertising at night.Distinguish your customers from the crowd. Think of who can make use of your product and where they would go to search for it. Imagine what could draw their attention to what you are offering online. You need to know who your customers are, what they want, where they live and what kind of lifestyle they have. The more detailed a picture you can see in your mind, the better.

In the end

Whether you are going big or small, there are tons of things you need to consider before you start. And guess what? You will definitely need to upgrade or even redo something. That’s completely fine. As long as you learn from the process and your mistakes, you will do great. There is no shortage of places to sell your product online, advertise and so on.But it’s important that you know your customer, listen to them, learn from them, collect stats. Then, you work through all that information and apply it to your business. The more you make people happy, the more they will return to you – and bring their friends as well!A sourse

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Breeding Guide: Multi-Generation Pyramid

Since I don’t have too much to say as I am between phases of my projects (and utterly drowning in dragons in the process), I figure now would be a good time to write this thing up. I frequently have people asking me for help on starting their breeding projects, and I wind up giving a very long spiel on how I go about the task of breeding something very specific that doesn’t exist yet.

To save them a long, wordy spiel, I shall create a long, wordy spiel, with pictures and examples! Wow, such improvement.

This guide is useful for achieving those dream dragons that don’t exist yet in any form, and all without ever having to buy a breed or gene scroll!

What is being created is a little bit like a reverse pyramid scheme, I guess. You start with a whole bunch of dragons, then narrow them down to a single super close pair, which then, in theory, shall produce the dragon you need. Let’s see how this works.

First step: Know what we want to breed. I shall use one of my current projects as an example.

Overcast Skink/Overcast Spinner/Ruby-Crimson Glimmer or Runes, male Imperial or female Pearlcatcher.

Second step: Set up the first generation. Way back when, I started with 16 dragons total. That was madness, and also usually unnecessary. Now, I start with just 8 dragons. Here are the rules for these dragons:

1. All 8 dragons shall be unrelated to each other. You don’t just need to be able to breed them together; you must also be able to breed their offspring together.

2. Among the 8 dragons, the desired genes and breed shall be present at least once. The rest of the genes and breeds shall be of equal or greater rarity than the desired genes. Breeding Rarity Comparisons is your best friend. You want to avoid low chances of inheriting the right genes. Sometimes, if dragons are abundant for a particular project, I’ll even avoid genes/breeds of the same rarity.

3. The dragons shall be 4 males and 4 females. When paired together, their ranges cover the desired colours. You’ll thank yourself later for coordinating this one properly. Sometimes, this is difficult, and one of the pairs may be just barely out of range. Ideally, keep looking for a better pair, but if that proves impossible, it’s not the end of the world if this happens to one pair. More than one, and you start running into issues later on.

So how did I start out? Because I have multiple options for breed and tert gene, I aimed for the lower rarity options, Runes and Pearlcatcher. If I wind up with an Imp or with Glimmer, that’s cool too, but I’m not going to sweat for it.

The hardest part is starting the project, though it will be made much easier when the auction house revamps hits, because selecting multiple breeds, genes, and colours will be an absolute GODSEND for this. You’ll be perusing the auction house for those starter 8 dragons. For this project, here are the pairs I found:

In case you are curious, I consider those colour ranges to be incredibly narrow, and that I lucked out on this one! One of my previous posts showcases more typical colour ranges to start with.

But we have all 3 rules covered: All 8 dragons are unrelated, and when paired together, they produce colour ranges that cover the colours we need (Overcast/Overcast/Ruby-Crimson). Lastly: The genes and breeds we need are all present. Oravine and Galiya are Pearcatchers, with Tyrell possibly producing Imps (we’re not counting on that, though). Skink, Spinner, and Runes are also all present on various dragons. I’m not factoring in getting Glimmer at all, as I have Runes, Gembond, and Spines to contend with against it, but that’s okay as Runes fulfills the goal anyway.

For Step 3, we’ll be selecting the best of the offspring these four pairs produce, and pair them together.

What I’ll have to be mindful of is making sure I select enough of the offsprings with the right genes, and as few of the ones with the wrong, equal-rarity genes. Fighting that 50% chance now is alright, but it would be a bummer if later on, I got the exact dragon I needed... except it has, say, Toxin, or Gembond.

Onto generation two:

Speaking of Toxin and Gembond...

Once you have babies from all four pairs, it’s time to pair those babies together. Each of the above four dragons from the two pairs comes from one of the four different pairs in the first generation. They are all still unrelated to each other, and it is important not to break this rule by using two dragons from the same parents, or you will not be able to form the next and final generation pairing.

Creating this generation’s pairs is much less scientific and much more touch-and-go than I would like it to be, and every project is going to be different, and have its own, unique problems. I shall give a general analysis of how I went about forming these pairs, but here are a few pointers:

1. Make sure each desirable trait is present! Take stock of what you have. If only one dragon has a particular gene, you know you HAVE to use that one! That is a good starting point.

2. Take stock of the sex disparities. Sometimes you’ll have a lot of girls and only two boys or vice-versa. You know then that you need to focus on pairing the boys (or vice-versa). There are a multitude of scenarios involving the sex of the dragons, and this is where piecing together this generation is so touch-and-go.

3. Figure out which colour spectrums are rare. It almost always happens that most of the dragons wind up on one or the other side of the desired colours. Focus on pairing the few that are on the opposite side, to make sure you’ve got good colour combos that’ll include the desired colours. Sometimes, there is no way to make this happen, and you need to re-breed. This is the most common reason for having to re-breed generation one, and unless you had super tight colour ranges to start with, there’s no way of preventing it, unfortunately.

Due to space constraints, I typically only keep the best offspring while I am breeding generation one. I determine who is better than whom. I try to keep at least one of each sex, so that I have variety there. But in cases where I have more than one of each sex, I determine who is the better option. If dragons are the same sex, but on opposite sides of the desired colours, I’ll keep both options. The more variety, the better, but I don’t need two dragons with similar traits.

A simple example of this would be one nest I recently had for a different project: The project’s goal is Crimson/Crimson/Violet. This four egg nest revealed four baby boys, all with Crimson/Crimson/X, and all on the same side of Violet, towards the black-range. Super simple decision: I kept the baby with the closest tert colour, Heather, and discarded the rest with Plum, Eldritch, and Shale.

Alright, onto my analysis:

I usually write out what babies I have and what their key features are on a single notepad, putting desirable traits in all caps, and undesirable traits in lowercase, while traits that don’t negatively impact the project are simply capitalized, like so:

From here, one thing is immediately obvious: I only have one baby available from Ishikk and Galiya, and so I know I must use him. Because there are only three females, and one of them won’t cover the tertiary colour range, I am down to two options for him, and the Ridgeback from Mineral and Isadora happens to have a more ideal tertiary colour than the Pearlcatcher from Oravine and Tyrell. So, Oakprince and Evanel are paired together.

Because this first pair happens to have all the right genes, and a darn good chance of inheriting them, I’m not too pressured on the second pair, which is good because the next problem I encounter is the colours. I really wanted to use one of the male Skydancers from Hahona and Verica, because the RNG apparently tried to thwart my attempts with this project by giving the girl Iridescent instead of Skink. However, their colours did not work at all with the female Pearlcatcher from Oravine and Tyrell, so I had to use the female Skydancer instead. Not the worst cast scenario - I am now guaranteed gem genes against Skink, which is hardly a problem as I have a 97% chance of getting Skink from them anyway. From there, it is an obvious choice, as of the two boys, one of them misses the target colours in two traits, while the other has all three colours covered.

And so, I have Till and Perryn. While their colour ranges are great; better, I daresay, than Oakprince and Evanel’s, their genes are going to be problematic for me, and unfortunately, it cannot be helped. When selecting the final pairing, I will definitely need to avoid getting Toxin and Gembond. Unfortunately, a baby getting Spinner and Runes is a 1 in 4 chance, and that baby having ideal colours to match whatever the first pair produces is an even smaller chance. We’ll have to see what RNG has for us in store, though, and for now, the following is all theory:

This second generation shows quite obviously that it is narrower in range than its parents, as will naturally happen, and the gene selection is also better. In theory, the final pairing shall be even more narrow, and should be able to breed the goal dragon within a few tries. If you are happy with the second generation, (which in my case, I am) you can go ahead and exalt/sell the first generation and reclaim some of that valuable lair space. And if you are very content with your third generation and desperately need lair space back, you can exalt the second generation, and be down to just two dragons, a single pair, that’ll hopefully get the end goal dragon you’ve been wanting.

It sounds like a lot of work, and it can take forever to get to that point. It’s also intensive on the lair space usage, but it does have one major benefit: If you play your cards right, you will not have to buy a single gene or breed scroll. After selling and exalting all the reject offspring and parents as well, you’ll most likely wind up making more money than you initially spent on the parents, too!

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