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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

To get your final spontaneity ability score, you have to multiply base spontaneity by a factor of

     1  
––––––––––––  
1 + 1000 * k  

where k is the number of kids you have.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think you have to also account for the kids' ages. An infant is different than a toddler, teen, or adult child.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

I have left this aspect as an exercise to the reader.

[–] satans_methpipe 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm having a really hard time refuting this equation. It appears to work out even for negative and non-integer values of k

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] satans_methpipe 2 points 1 month ago

Chop off the end of some kids finger.

[–] Wizard_Pope 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Okay but how would one have negative amount of kids??

[–] CookieOfFortune 2 points 1 month ago

Murder. It’s how many kids you’ve murdered. Therefore you will be in prison and have negative spontaneity.

[–] satans_methpipe 1 points 1 month ago

Kill someone else's kid.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck 4 points 1 month ago

Ah yeah, as a DINK, this is a great formula