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It’s crazy and fucked up that being yourself is actually the solution.

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you should be able to plug cables and shit into a basketball for no reason

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yeah

uh huh

thats right

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every farming sim NPC: the new farmer? Yeah just give him absolutely dog shit tools. Yeah just the absolute worst most rusty awful tools you can find

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Now that I have a Lightbox I can take updated photos of Archibald Asparagus Saint Sebastian

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do you think shadow was aware of his super strength when he stopped marinating in his tube ? since he can just flip buses i think it'd be funny if there had to be a learning curb

also the image of small crechure shadow being able to lift maria over his head is funny to me.

maybe gerald trips on some osha violation and when shadow goes to help him up he accidentally launches him into the ark's ceiling

i'm absolutely obsessed with this concept of overpowered tiny dude shadow pre-inhibitor rings. chaos and destruction everywhere

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ik its just a silly design choice you decided to implement but i like to think your shadow has his ear plopped bc gerald dropped smth into his tube while he was still brewing inside.

mans was creating the ultimate lifeform which was probably a delicate and precise process and dropped his vitamin gummies into the creature potion.

yeah that's pretty close to the truth

inspired by that one time my dad dropped me on my head as a kid

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I think this person on reddit summed up the youtube adblocker situation perfectly. my reaction to this is not "oh man guess I'll watch ads." its, "well, I guess I'll just do something more productive with my time." I highly doubt any adblock user is going to willingly go back to watching ads. so what actually happens is youtube loses a functionally tiny amount of its userbase--because adblockers weren't even losing them a significant amount of money in the first place(!)--and a bunch of adblock users move on to something else. what a fantastic waste of time and effort

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computer. reptile. nine inch nails. max volume. kill anything that moves

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It’s so fascinating to me that we’ve only been breeding Komodo dragons in captivity for thirty years. In that time, our understanding of them has actually really revolutionized the way we understand the social lives and behaviors of lizards in general, and it’s mostly thanks to this lady right here, who was born 30 years ago on September 13, 1992.

Kraken was the first Komodo to be bred in captivity. She hatched out at GMU, but was raised at the National Zoo. Her parents were wild-caught dragons- there’s still WC dragons in the AZA today- and this one specific individual probably did more to revolutionize lizard care in professional settings than any other individual lizard throughout zoo history.

Until Kraken, social enrichment wasn’t a thing people thought about. It wasn’t something anybody felt was necessary for lizards, because they were just… lizards. Sure, some keepers would play with their favorites, but it wasn’t until the National Zoo started documenting what she was doing that anybody realized how much Komodo dragons like to play with us too.

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Kraken’s not in that video, but she’s the one who inspired all of the social studies that have been done on captive Komodo dragons. When she was at the National Zoo, her keepers  started getting curious when, for no apparent reason, she kept gingerly stealing things from peoples’ pockets and tugging on their shoelaces. So they started giving her stuff- Frisbees, blankets, soda cans, anything she showed an interest in.

She played with them, just like a mammal might. The way play behavior is described in psychology is a given activity that’s voluntary, repeated, and conducted under “relatively benign” circumstances. Keeper staff found that her conduct during the study met all of these criteria. “Kraken,” they wrote, had clearly demonstrated “play-like behavior with objects and even with humans (tug-of-war).” Moreover, she “could discriminate between prey and nonprey” while showing “varying responses” with different items (rubber rings, shoes, etc.). (There’s an excellent book on Komodo dragons that has an entire chapter devoted to her.)

Kraken died several years ago, but her legacy continues today. There’s several of her descendants still in the AZA, and the intelligence and social needs she demonstrated led to the improvement of life for these guys- and other lizards. The Komodo dragon program has been an eye opener, not just for reptile conservation, but for understanding reptile intelligence and how this incredible clade of animals functions.

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My brain: What if I don't really like goofy meta RPGs and I've just convinced myself that I do because I'm afraid that if I wrote anything straightforward or genuine I'd be revealed as having nothing interesting to say?

The exact same brain five minutes later: What if there was a tabletop RPG where you play as pants.

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if we are mutuals we will be reborn into the same cicada horde

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Pukicho I'd love if you'd interpretively doodle whatever unusually sincere and meaningful emotion is lingering your gut today

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