Poogona [he/him]

Wow never expected to see floex in here

(Precious Creature is my favorite from that album)

ELON MUSK YOUR ELDEN RING BUILD WAS THE WORK OF AN INCOMPETENT

ACKSHUALLY most members of eusocial insect communities don’t toil and they just hang around chatting and cleaning each other, not even joking

When I found out that leech saliva was antimicrobial I decided leeches are good and that disliking them is lookism

Even without a centralized brain, jellyfish can both learn from past events and change their behavior to preempt expected events.

No need to look for aliens in space when we’ve got plenty of them to make contact with underwater

(I am stealing that rfk line)

I have very few resources to offer anyone in need, as it’s really only by my basic unfair privileges as a cis white man that I even have a place to sleep, but I’m just trying to make it clear to the people I know that I have the space to house them/feed them if they are in crisis. Without much else to support them with it feels like the best I can do.

Yeah the reveal of the linguistic imperialism theme was pretty cool and it just makes me sad that the game was so undercooked, it’s right in line with the rest of kojima’s style of “I just read some good shit and I’m gonna use it”

anyone who tries to claim there was any absolute standard of behavior for pre-industrial tribes like that is just doing fantasy worldbuilding

Every social organization you can think of was probably the way of life for someone out there, from patriarchy to matriarchy, communal to hierarchical

I get apprehensive around wasps too but it’s very funny to me how much hatred and distrust these animals are met with because they are able to force you to treat them with a little respect

Yakuza is peak

I could vibe so fucking hard with Trant Heidelstam, two trivia enjoyers just emitting at each other until someone runs out of fuel

I agree with you that the little tales in the leaks do actually fit the style of real mythology, which is full of stories about freaky sex from incest to bestiality to tree-sired pregnancies and self-cest.

Imo this is just an example of why these attempts at story-driven immortal franchises will inevitably collapse under their own weight. Pokemon initially worked fine as a sort of amusement park reality where there isn’t really any focus on the wider world or its history, but as these weird amalgamated corporate franchises get bigger than their original scope, they run out of material to grow up with, and they start to just grow in every other direction instead. It’s why your favorite Netflix series starts to fill its runtime with episodes devoted to giving every side character, no matter how irrelevant, a full developmental arc–the “universification” of settings

Rotting my FUCKING BRAIN listening to Hasan prodding Asmongold into circling around the giant tumor labeled RACISM in his brain. I am so sick of the word “culture” being a convenient way to just be racist without saying “people”

I don’t even think Asmongold in the long run is a particularly ideologically firm racist like a Nazi or something, it’s just such a bitter thing to witness, like how are you supposed to extricate this fucking mental cyst when it’s been in there since he was a child after 9/11, growing veins into the rest of his mind?

The Pale is a vibe, the creeping understanding of everything that isn’t, the realization that being capable of imagination beyond the here and now means, terrifyingly, that we can imagine absence.

We can project our thoughts into the past and the future, into what might be or could have been, into what we want and what we hate. And even once you’ve built the structures and systems to make ever more distant things “real,” even once you can confidently say that the tree does make a sound in the forest even if nobody hears it, there is still a point that is too far, where there’s nothing to work with. You can think about what led to how things are now, or where we are headed, but your narrative for it gets simpler the further out you go.

The fact that the pale is encroaching on the real does prompt a lot of things, since in that magical realism style it’s like metaphor made material. Maybe it’s climate change, maybe it’s the mental deterioration of age, maybe it’s depression. Those holes in reality, maybe they are traumas that made cracks in your Normal, maybe they are where the nukes first struck, maybe they are leaks sprung in our dimension by sci-fi tinkering, maybe they just represent the moment(s) when you first came to understand death.

The church quest is perfect, everything’s so drenched in pathos in DE but it reminds you of that great hope of relief from this constant awareness of decay and collapse and deterioration. At da club, or at church, where ever you are carried away by music and dancing and the presence of dazzling lights and most importantly, lots of people with you, somehow it doesn’t seem to matter so much. It’s like the hole wasn’t there at all.

(Also it’s worth mentioning the phasmid’s line about how it pities humans who don’t live at the back of a funnel of reality like it does.)

It’s usually justified to make fun of STEMlords but scientists with highly specific skills are still a vital part of our societal whole (I choose to believe this for my own sake)

Oh yeah the Marine iguanas, incredible footage, some of the best ever imo.

Really feels like I picked a bad time to be interested in amphibians sometimes

Definitely jealous of getting to work with condors, sounds awesome.

I haven’t played d4 since release but I’ll be honest the story actually wasn’t their worst and did not fall into that trap, you just fight Lilith at the end. Iirc she was just Mister Diablo’s daughter.

Baseline warcraft stories were almost good, like if I squinted I could pretend they were doing a big and at times subtle plotline about stuff like imperialism and indigenous displacement/resistance but those days are long gone even if I was giving too much credit