Change and Determine

Change

Change verb - To make different in some way.

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Determine and change are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Determine" instead a verb "Change".

Determine verb - To give an opinion about (something at issue or in dispute).

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Change and determine are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Change" instead a verb "Determine".

Nearby Words: determination, determining, determinative, determiner, determinating

character	change character	determine character
life	change life	determine life
position	change position	determine position
direction	change direction	determine direction
Other words: sex, name, nature, course, appearance, fate, type, form, future, outcome, time, way, personality, size, past, ending, gender, ways, events.

In one episode, they're shown playing a game called "Move Sylvester's Stuff" where they slightly change things on his desk while he's blindfolded and he has to determine what's been changed.

Source: Photographic Memory
That said, you can't just reload a game to change the outcome: The 'seed'* The core number the RNG uses to determine what happens doesn't change when reloading a saved game.

Source: Video Game / XCOM: Enemy Unknown
In SimEarth, the game itself is a fully functional integrated climate, life, and civilization model, not terribly unlike those used by the IPCC to determine the effects of climate change.

Source: Shown Their Work / Video Games

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