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More dragons/assorted scenes because I Cannot help myself

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part 3

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I have no grander ambitions in life I simply want to live with people I love, play videod Game, and sink my teeth into all the kinds of eatery on this earth

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NEW FISH JUST DROPPED

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Some more quetzalcoatlus art

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"oh i really love xyz character-" really? outside the context of shipping?

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looks like boxtrot spies were before their time

next gen stealth just dropped

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Nautilus expedition live streams (+ their commentary) | 2024

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wheres my meme crew at i refuse to believe there are so few

(computer version of the poll)

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every time i go onto your tumblr on my computer instead of my phone im jumpscared by how awesome the layout is,,, i should make my tumblr page cool too

yesss make it coolllll

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why beware if friend shaped?

Beware the quetzalcoatlus, king of the sky

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Eastern Hognose (Heterodon platyrhinos), feigning death, family Colubridae, Eastern U.S.

Rear-fanged, mildly venomous.

This snake will ‘play dead’ as a defensive maneuver with predators, which includes, flipping onto its back, lolling out the tongue, and even emitting a nasty odor, reminiscent of dead animals.

photograph by Rowan Wolf

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Slime Molds and Intelligence

Okay, despite going into a biology related field, I only just learned about slime molds, and hang on, because it gets WILD.

This guy in the picture is called Physarum polycephalum, one of the more commonly studied types of slime mold. It was originally thought to be a fungus, though we now know it to actually be a type of protist (a sort of catch-all group for any eukaryotic organism that isn't a plant, animal, or a fungus). As protists go, it's pretty smart. It is very good at finding the most efficient way to get to a food source, or multiple food sources. In fact, placing a slime mold on a map with food sources at all of the major cities can give a pretty good idea of an efficient transportation system. Here is a slime mold growing over a map of Tokyo compared to the actual Tokyo railway system:

Pretty good, right? Though they don't have eyes, ears, or noses, the slime molds are able to sense objects at a distance kind of like a spider using tiny differences in tension and vibrations to sense a fly caught in its web. Instead of a spiderweb, though, this organism relies on proteins called TRP channels. The slime mold can then make decisions about where it wants to grow. In one experiment, a slime mold was put in a petri dish with one glass disk on one side and 3 glass disks on the other side. Even though the disks weren't a food source, the slime mold chose to grow towards and investigate the side with 3 disks over 70% of the time.

Even more impressive is that these organisms have some sense of time. If you blow cold air on them every hour on the hour, they'll start to shrink away in anticipation when before the air hits after only 3 hours.

Now, I hear you say, this is cool and all, but like, I can do all those things too. The slime mold isn't special...

To which I would like to point out that you have a significant advantage over the slime mold, seeing as you have a brain.

Yeah, these protists can accomplish all of the things I just talked about, and they just... don't have any sort of neural architecture whatsoever? They don't even have brain cells, let alone the structures that should allow them to process sensory information and make decisions because of it. Nothing that should give them a sense of time. Scientists literally have no idea how this thing is able to "think'. But however it does, it is sure to be a form of cognition that is completely and utterly different from anything that we're familiar with.

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When can we talk about how the death of Isaac's parents barely has anything to do with him it was more so to benefit Nicole? Yeah they were his parents and it affected him deeply but looking at it from a different point of view it was done to benefit Nicole as a character, we have to face facts here Nicole in the original game wasn't a character, she was JUST your girlfriend that showed up and kept on apologizing for something unexplained? No really, think about it why was she constantly apologizing in the original? We never got to learn about the real Nicole outside of the comics which she was barely in.

The remake makes Nicole this level-headed, determined, brilliant and beautiful medical officer who deeply cared about her patients, she's a great character.

None of us like to see her and Isaac fight but I think that's one of the reasons that scene worked because it gets that emotion out of you. A new found hurt between the two that both them are desperate to mend but with the communications on the ship being down neither of them can actually say their sorries. Two people who love each other very deeply stranded apart without hope is tragic.

A thing that people seem to ignore is; you're not supposed to see them as just boyfriend and girlfriend in that scene. Isaac is the son of her patient, Nicole is his mother's doctor and was responsible for her care. They met because of his mother.

There's a reason dating a family member of a patient is seen as unprofessional, it can be seen as a conflict of interest and it can lead to nasty fights like this. Was he right to blame her for the death of his parents? No. That's an obvious mistake he immediately regrets but he was hurt and confused and she was the one who made the call to send his mother home after his deadbeat dad returned after what? 4 decades? He left when Isaac was still in single digits. The further we explore space and colonize the smaller the world gets and the feeling of loneliness amplifies that ultimately led his mother to Unitology, Unitology and Jacob Arthur Danik (i'll get back to him in a min) are to blame for their deaths, all they do is take advantage of unfortunate people like Octavia.

The death of Isaac's parents serves as motivation for Nicole, Octavia was her responsibility, was her patient, and was her failure it doesn't matter if she isn't to blame for it she still holds herself accountable and that can be seen in logs you can pick up in her office:

This ultimately leads her fighting harder for Brant Harris, it made fighting Mercer and the Captain worth it because that's a mistake she's not going to let happen again, the whole ship is filled with Unitologists it's her vs almost the entire crew. She's badass af. This also fills her with more determination to figure out what's causing the breakout on the ship and with Mercer's research that she steals from his lab will he's fawning over the autopsy report she was able to speak to the marker directly:

People don't talk about enough how she hallucinated Octavia, that's the thing that ties this whole thing together. The marker can only mimic people that are dead, his mother had to die writing wise because who else could she have hallucinated in this moment that had meaning? Making it someone that they both knew and someone that connected them was a smart idea.

For those who don't know you can find the will and testimony under side quests in new game plus mode, it comes free and guess who's fucking listed under witnesses that son of a bitch: J. A. D. - Jacob Arthur Danik it comes back to a dead space 3 call forward(?) call back(??) and that's also fun.

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"Hiccup found himself staring into an enormous, bloodshot, green dragon eye, as long as the sleigh itself. ... It was as if all the green in the world, of peas, of grass, of spinach, of leaves, of beans and frogs, had been concentrated in that one eye and given it the intensity of pure green acid."