#moles are also not rodents

[robbie-roo]

you wanna know something cool about moles?

no? damn... 😔

TOO BAD YOURE ON THIS BLOG FOR A REASON

OK so this is a photo of a deconstructed skeleton of an Eastern mole (the most common mole in North America) and I've circled something interesting just above that ribcage I want you to take a moment and give me a guess as to what that is

HEY!!! NO CHEATING!!! GO MAKE A GUESS

got it? OK so for those of you that said anything other than a forearm (or if you know bones a humerus or ulna) you're WRONG!!!!

that is actually a genetic variation that moles have gained specifically made for digging through tough dirt. their forearms and hands are super specialized and made so that a mole can "swim" through dirt by doing a breast stroke motion here's a full skeleton so you can see where that bone belongs

these guys spend pretty much their entire lives underground they will hunt just under the surface in foraging tunnels bur can live very deep underground with specialized chambers for sleeping, using the bathroom, or storing food

another scary little fact about moles- if you girlfriend ever turns into a worm keep her INSIDE!! moles know all the parts of a worm they need to attack to keep it paralyzed but alive so they can continue to eat the same worm over a few days

those foraging tunnels are what tears up your parents front yards but they are very rarely found inside them that's why it's so difficult to get rid of moles on your property their tunnels can be several feet underground and even longer wide

I may make another post about moles in the future I don't actually have any of my notes along with me as I'm just eating lunch but I saw my photo of the specimen we have at the museum and I had to share what I remembered about them >:)

stay curious!

[bog-frog]

Once again I'd like to interest you in the fucked up little animal that is the naked mole-rat

[weirdmarioenemies]

Happy Groundhog Day! I think it is so wonderful that there is an entire holiday dedicated to a specific burrowing rodent. Americans love this thing! And who wouldn't? Their burrows aerate soil, and provide homes for many other critters!

A lot of people wouldn't love the groundhog, actually. In 1883, the New Hampshire Legislative Woodchuck Committee put out a statement calling groundhogs "wayward sinners" whose grooming habits suggest good manners, but who in reality have "not made any material progress in social science". You think the Discourse is bad today? They used to form committees to complain about a squirrel's moral character!

However, this is not the extent of the disrespect toward groundhogs. It happens to this day, and we all take it for granted, and most don't even bother to realize it has to do with a marmot in the first place! Let's talk about...

Name: "Mole"

Debut: Whac-A-Mole

Sorry this picture is not very good. There are just not many pictures available that show that weird old "mole" figure that I have in mind specifically! Here's a green one.

Anyone familiar with the "Mole" series of animals will know that this is very much Not A Mole! The distinct head, the visible ears, the blunt nose, the buckteeth... this, my friend, is 100% Ground Squirrel! And this game is FAR from the only instance of moles and burrowing rodents being mixed up.

It actually makes sense that this mistake would happen, though! Moles are synonymous with burrowing, to the point unrelated burrowing animals are named after moles (including Mole Cricket, perhaps the ORIGINAL mole). But moles spend ALL their time burrowing, rarely if ever coming to the surface, so even though we all know moles, we are rarely blessed with SEEING moles. I have never seen a mole in person... yet! I would love to! Ground squirrels, such as groundhogs and prairie dogs, are also little burrowing critters, but these ones are commonly seen on the surface, ever alert. I think it's reasonable to mistake them for "moles"!

Alas, the popularity of Whac-A-Mole has cemented Ground Squirrel as essentially the "canon" Mole design for this context. And what a context that is! A classic, even GENRE-DEFINING game, all about whacking critters as they emerge from their burrows. So rude! They're not posing any danger, and the player isn't hunting them to eat, either. This is simply a game of spite. How DARE that rodent try to see the sun! This is just like Undertale.

Whac-A-Mole is one of the most straightforward types of game for any device with a touch screen or anything similar. Just gotta tap a thing! Very easy. This has led to such variations such as Whack-a-Monty from New Super Mario Bros., where the player bonks Monty Moles (more like Monty Gopher am I right) while sparing the many, many Luigis. Obviously, the Luigis must surface in order to initiate courtship, ensuring future generations of Luigis.

Now that I think of it, Mario is one of the only times I've seen the ethics of Whac-A-Mole called out, through the endangered Whacka from Paper Mario! I'm surprised the genre is not deconstructed more often (I love that this sentence is about Whac-A-Mole).

I think this is where I will end the post, because this silly game has so permeated human culture that I could go on and on and on! So strange that an entire animal now has a reputation of "pops out and gets bonked on the head". Conceptually, I certainly prefer the "parasitic aliens emerging from an astronaut's body orifices" aesthetic for this kind of game, but obviously kids aren't going out and bludgeoning real rodents because of this game, so whatever.

But still, what if instead of moles, the whacked entities were something humans have no problem attacking with a second thought...?

Get ready for an action-packed new game set in the Bowling universe!

[neitherabaron]

Hey, I haven’t posted much about it on here yet (but that’s gonna change) but…

Small Saga, an indie RPG about angry rodents developed my friend Darya, is coming out real soon. Like, next month soon. We’re probably gonna stream it on Twitch but you should totally play it, too! https://steamcommunity.com/app/1320140

I did a few tracks for the soundtrack! I’m also (kind of) an NPC (or at least, there’s a dickhead rat called Kofi in the game who sings with my voice).

The ep with just my songs has already been out a while already over on my Bandcamp, but it’s now gonna be heading to Spotify/Apple on Nov 16 to coincide with the launch!

Plus, the rest of the soundtrack kicks ass. Darya’s written some of the coolest music I’ve ever heard in a game, seriously. So go check out the game and its soundtrack when it launches!

[blangkocharti]

BBH and dapper should go and find the Forlon hallows because its so them like mole cultist, summons, item aesthetic, black and red theme also name all mole rodent cultist as badboyhalo

[propertyofwhitney67]

lis as rodents?

I fucking love this

I learned that some animals I didn't think were rodents are, like so many

Whitney: Naked Mole Rat | aggressive

Kylar: Chinchilla | soft, sleeps a lot, likes to hide

Sydney: Flying Squirrels | mostly just vibes but also social and intelligent

Robin: Guinea Pig | gentle, social creatures, expressive

Avery: Black Rat/Ship Rat | can display destructive and aggressive behaviors, obsess over their grooming and cleanliness

Alex: Prairie Dog | active, playful, social

Eden: Porcupine | solitary

GH: Prairie Vole |  highly affiliative, forms enduring social bonds between mates (mate for life), and displays biparental behavior

BW: Beaver | live within a hierarchy, territorial, active at night

[bijoumikhawal]

Mesotherms in Trek

Mesotherms are an intermediary between ectothermy and endothermy, and I won't lie trying to research them is a pain in the ass because a lot of mesothermic species do not exist anymore (hi dinos) or are discussed primarily in terms of endothermy.

The characteristics of mesotherms are as such: they can raise their internal body temperature via metabolism, and they cannot exert particular metabolic control of a particular temperature. This means they have a greater range of internal temperatures they're subject to than most mammals (aka they're poikilothermic or heterothermic), and can keep their body temperature as much as 20 degrees higher than their environment in some species, but it and their metabolism will drop as ambient temperatures drop. They do not burn fat or shiver to warm up. They are more active than ectotherms, and require less food than endotherms.

Real life mesotherms include: hyraxes, naked mole rats, echidnas, leatherback sea turtles, tuna, certain sharks, and possibly the Argentine giant tegu (it's more accurately heterothermic).

Supposing ectothermy and endothermy are two poles on a spectrum, one could lay out these three species, from left to right, as such: Cardassians, Trill, then Bajorans.

Bajorans

Bajorans evolutionarily descend from heterothermic mesotherm underground rodents. Their temperature tolerance range varies slightly depending on where on Bajor their ancestry is from, but the primary factor is where they and their parents grew up. Even with this variance, knitting and crochet are popular in Bajoran textile production for warmth.

Ideal temperature: 65f-80f accommodates most Bajorans even with the varying tolerance.

Treatments/concerns: their temperature range has overlap with the climate controls on many Federation vessels, so most Bajoran crew don't have to seek out accommodations when serving in Starfleet. If a Bajoran has temperature concerns, adjustments to quarters climate controls are usually sufficient. In emergencies, the first thing to do is move the patient to an area with a 10 degree temperature greater or lesser than the current one (depending on which issue it is). If not possible, employing temperature packs, dressing and undressing, and so on can usually alleviate the matter greatly.

Cardassians

Cardassians are the most visually obvious mesotherms. This owes not only to their reptilian appearance, but also to the fact that their skin lightens or darkens depending on temperature as a method of regulation: darker for cold temperatures, lighter for hotter. Different “base” colors cluster roughly to geographic heritage, however all Cardassians have more or less the same tolerance medically (some Cardassians train to function better in cold temperatures, but the health affects remain similar). Cardassians are poikilotherms.

Ideal temperature: 86f-95f, with a basking temperature of 110f minimum.

Treatments/concerns: as mesotherms are subject to environmental temperature, all three exhibit some degree of basking behavior, however Cardassians particularly have developed a culture around it (and often will partake in behavioural fever). Federation vessels are always about 10 degrees too cool and unless crewed by ectothermic species, have little or no basking opportunities. Cardassians are fine on Federation vessels for limited time frames without accommodation for this and other reasons, but long term residence requires accommodation to prevent serious health problems, such as malnutrition and gout. It is inadvisable for non-medical personnel to undress a Cardassian experiencing temperature issues as their clothing insulation helps keep temperature constant, not just warm.

Trill

There are two different major populations of Trill: those on the northern contenients who have protrusions on the face and those on the southern contenients who have spots. The North-South distinction can be seen in how Southern Trill like Jadzia wear thicker uniforms when avaliable, and that the dress of civilians is made of heavy fabrics like brocade. The Northern Trill’s face protrusions are sinus related. Trill are poikilotherms.

Ideal temperature: 60f-75f for Northern Trill, 70-85f for Southern Trill.

Treatments/concerns: joined Trill are even more sensitive to temperature shifts than unjoined Trill, as the internal temperature the symbiont can tolerate is a much narrower range (about 5~ degrees, much like humans). They also often run hotter than unjoined Trill, so Jadzia and Lenara need to try and keep their temperatures around 80-85f. Part of the concern of the joining process is making sure a symbiont and its host having matching internal temperature ranges; the populations of different pools have symbionts with different tolerances. This is a limiting factor to enabling symbionts a variety of experiences and is an area of research the symbiosis commission has flagged as of interest. Trill from one population with an abnormal temperature range are often more likely to be selected for joining, but aren't especially common.

Cardassians and Trill, in addition to temperature, generally need more humidity in their environment than is usual on Federation vessels not operated with such needs in mind, though for different reasons. Also like Cardassians, it is inadvisable to undress a Trill experiencing temperature regulation issues for the same reason previously stated.

[the-brucest-fan]

WachowsKids Headcanons 💙💛❤️💖

Here you have some headcanons I have about Sonic Wachowski and his siblings:

They call themselves the "The WachowsKids".

Sonic, Amy and Knuckles love bowling (they're the balls!). Together they make an unbeatable team.

Playing Monopoly is forbidden in the Wachowskis house since Tails used to get very intense when playing the game.

Amy and Knuckles are very competitive, especially with each other. They tend to arm-wrestle to solve almost anything. Once they both arm-wrestled for three days straight over the last cookie from the jar, being fed with only liquids through a straw, and they agreed to have a bathroom break at least twice.

After moving in with the Wachowskis, Tails turned their garage into his new lab (he even built a secret basement for it).

Amy loves exploring the forest of Green Hills. She likes climbing trees and looking for bugs in the dirt, and sometimes she comes back home bringing rodent bones or wild animals like mice, snakes and even a rabid raccoon.

Amy usually helps Maddie at her vet clinic. She wants to be like her someday to help other animals.

Knuckles favorite TV show is 2003 TMNT (and his favorite turtle is Raph. He has a soft spot for Rise of the TMNT Raph too).

Amy has a secret place in the forest that only her and Sonic know about. It's a really tall tree that she climbs up and stays on one of its branches to read while enjoying the view. Sonic sometimes does the same, but he usually takes a nap on one of the branches.

Just like Sonic, Knuckles also thinks the Burger Princess Drive-Thru statue is some kind of oracle. Tails knows it's not, but he prefers not to tell his brothers.

When Amy just arrived, Sonic thought her Piko Piko Hammer was like Thor's Mjolnir, so he tried to lift it and succeeded, claiming happily that he was worthy of its power. Even though that's not how it worked, Amy said nothing because she likes seeing him so happy.

For their first Halloween (before Amy came), Knuckles was scared by Tails, who was dressed up as a ghost, and since he's afraid of ghosts, he punched him so hard that the poor little fox went through the wall.

For their first Halloween together (now with Amy), the whole family dressed up as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Sonic as Leonardo, Tails as Donatello, Amy as Mikey, and Knuckles as Raphael, while Tom and Maddie were dressed up as Casey Jones and April O'Neil. They got lots of candy that night.

Tails favorite superhero is Spider-Man. He admires Peter Parker's ability to build artifacts and other kind of gizmos that he uses in battle. Inspired by the comics, he's been working on a prototype that looks similar to the Iron Spider's legs. He also likes villians like Doc Ock and Green Goblin since they're scientists as well.

Knuckles's was banned from the arcade for life since the day he destroyed the Whac-a-Mole machine. Later, it was Amy who was banned as well.

Knuckles loves snowball wars.

During thunderstorms, the whole family gathers at the living room to play board games to keep Tails's mind distracted from lightning. If that doesn't work, they build a pillow fortress and sit inside to have hot chocolate together.

[gurogeisha]

I haven’t seen any yet so, can I interest you in some mole facts? Here’s 15 mole facts from around the internet:

1. Average Lifespan in the Wild: 3-6 years.

2. Their eyes are poorly developed, but what they lack in sight, they make up for in their sense of touch.

3. Moles play a beneficial role in the management of soil and the control of undesirable grubs and insects.

4. Some mole species are surprisingly good swimmers.

5. Moles are found on every continent except Antarctica and South America.

6. Consistent with a life spent underground, mole eyes are tiny and lack external ears, which could fill up with dirt.

7. Because of their cryptic nature and subterranean lifestyle, moles are some of the least-studied mammals. They are also frequently misunderstood.

8. Moles eat earthworms. In fact, they love earthworms so much that they can eat up to their own body weight in earthworms in one day. Handily, they also quite like insects and often eat the insects that damage the roots of plants.

9. Moles are about 15cm long and weigh about 130g, which is about the same as a bar of soap.

10. Moles are solitary creatures, except during the breeding season. After mating the female gives birth to a litter of up to five young during the summer.

11. The hairless mammal enjoys being in the grasslands, in gardens, burrowing in sand dunes or searching through the woodlands.

12. When moles eat earthworms, they keep them alive by biting off their heads (this keeps them immobile). FUN. It allows them to store them in chambers to feast on later. As many as 470 earthworms were once recorded in a chamber. (The Mammal Society).

13. The naked mole is not part of the mole family, it is part of the rodent family.

14. Moles can survive up to 18 minutes without oxygen.

15. Moles have twice as much blood as other mammals and they have more oxygen in their blood, which keeps them alive underground

This has been mole facts.

[downtofragglerock]

Okay I don't want to stay with mammals for much longer so I'm gonna go through the rest of them here

There are 22 distinct groups of mammals, I've already covered three of them (Carnivora and the even and odd-toed ungulates).

Going through the remaining 19:

There are four groups of marsupials, but that doesn't matter because Rahi-wise there is only one species, the Fusa, a kangaroo. The Kikanalo might also count, but see my ungulate post for that ramble.

There are two groups of Xenarthra (armadillos, sloths, and anteaters) but there are no rahi equivalents at all.

Monotremes (echidnas and platypuses) have no representation either.

Same with Sirenia (manatees and dugongs), Lagomorphs (rabbits), Scandentia (tree shrews), Macroscelidea (elephant shrews), Erinaceidae (hedgehogs), and Afrosoricida (tenrecs and some other miscellaneous small African mammals).

Soricomorpha (shrews and moles) has one representative, the Archives Mole.

Pachyderms likewise also only have one rep, the Hapaka.

Cetaceans only have two reps, the Razor Whale and the Stinger Whale. There is a unique whale rahi in the 2003 console game, but much like with the unique fox rahi, I don't know if I can consider it canon given the nature of the game and how drastically different many canon rahi appear in it.

Chiroptera has three reps, the Cliff Screecher, the Ice Bat, and the unnamed bat rahi from the cancelled pc game and various other 01 promo renders.

There are three primates, the Brakas, a monkey, and two apes, the Lava ape and the Spiny Stone Ape. Much like with the Kavinika, I have some questions regarding if the Spiny Stone Ape is actually an ape, given that it has a tail and frankly, kind of looks like a dinosaur, but that's a discussion for another day.

Lastly, the rodents, of which there are quite a lot. There's the Gafna, the Ice Vermin, the Kinloka, the Kuma-Nui, the Lava Rat, the Stone Rat, and the Wolf Rat from the cancelled pc game. The Kuma-Nui and Wolf Rat are especially interesting considering that the former is really fucking huge, and the later engages in some interesting specevo, being a species of one group filling in the role of a species belonging to a different group.

There, that's every mammalian analogue rahi charted

[booniesoil]

Psychonauts fans, I PRESENT TO YOU

the psychic 6 as animals. I finished these a few months back and never got to posting it, but here they are NOW!! I have reasonings for all the animals LET ME GET INTO THEM.

I tried to make all the animal representations less literal, like no animals that are already used to represent different aspects of them.

BOB: I wanted to make Bob a pollinator, and not a butterfly like it's a variant of the moth. I wanted to make him wingless, since he's stuck on an island it's as if he can't fly away. I also think Truman would be a peacock and I think keeping it in the bird family would be awesome.

HELMUT: CHINCHILLA! I, first of all, just think him as a fluffy rodent suits him. Chinchillas are known for having the softest fur around, which I think could be representative of his theatre! Additionally.. Chinchillas can't get wet or they'll get terribly sick. AND. UM.

OTTO: Ok I think my association of this comes from the movie Gforce, which I've watched countless times as a child but I associate moles with science. THERE HE IS. I also just totally imagine Otto with a cartoonish tunnel boar drill. I have nothing more to say (dusts off hands)

COMPTON: Giggle. Compton. This is the most surface level association but. YOU ALL HAVE SEEN IT. RIGHT? COMPTON LITERALLY HAS A SQUIRREL SCRATCH ANIMATION. HE IS A SQUIRREL. this kind of goes against my code because I'd consider an association between dogen and squirrels as a bit more literal, but he can be a different rodent. COMPTOONNNNNN. I wonder if squirrels hiss (I hope someone knows what I'm referencing)

Cassie: STICK BUG! To blend in with her forestey environment. I also think the multiple legs could represent her talent with multitasking. I think maybe a better idea with this concept would this could be maybe an arachnid or centi/millipede, I gotta explore that a bit actually. But she also looks really good as a stick bug! I also associate Hollis with tarantulas, giving her more legs than Cassie, but it doesn't have to be mega it's just for fun :-).

I'm hoping to do more designs for other characters but otherwise I have sketches of these designs under #critternauts

[scolop98]

VOTE MEXICAN WORM LIZARD FOR THE @weirdanimal-tournament

In what will likely be a trend of me shunning comparatively well-known species for my obscure favorites (and my anti-fish bias), the Mexican mole lizard is so much weirder than it looks. It may be winning its poll, but that margin is too close for comfort so I felt the need to infodump.

The Mexican Mole Lizard is a species of of amphisbaena, named after the two-headed serpent of legend (which is awesome) and long thought to be not-lizards, a separate order of reptile on par with lizards and snakes (some evidence suggests that they are technically a type of lizard, but in the same way that snakes are lizards. I argue that like snakes, they don’t have lizard vibes and that this is irrelevant for the purposes of this tournament)

All amphisbaenas are limbless EXCEPT for this guy and the two other members of this genus. Are they the most basal/primitive amphisbaenas, who split off from the rest and never hopped onto the no-leg fad? Nope, they’re nested smack in the middle of the amphisbaena family tree. I don’t know if they actually re-evolved limbs from nothing, but that’s certainly what it seems like. If so, that would be insane - how do you just re-evolve your goddamn limbs?!?

In addition, Mexican Mole Lizards, like other large amphisbaenas, are predators that usually eat worms and insects but will also go after lizards and rodents, attacking above-ground prey from below like a sci-fi monster. Other species of amphisbaena which regularly feed on small vertebrates have been known to rip chunks of flesh out of their prey. Look at the terrifying, huge-ass teeth hiding inside these adorable little faces

Vote Mexican Mole Lizard for the Weird Animal Tournament! It is truly A Creature™️ and deserves to be celebrate as such on this platform. How could you say no to this face?

[weirdmarioenemies]

Name: Mine Cart

Debut: Donkey Kong Country

What an important and influential box on wheels this is! It feels like everyone and their symbiotic Demodex mites have been putting mine cart levels in their games forever! We take them for granted like the air we breathe and also like the other stuff. It’s good we get to experience mine carts so much through games, since today’s youth and even today’s old people would rather use a SHOPPING CART and that is what is wrong with the modern world

Sorry. I fed the beginning of this post to the goats. I do not actually want to talk about the whole history of Mine Cart. Please just pretend I have just finished discussing all the appearances of Mine Cart between 1994 and 2010. Thank you.

Name: THIS Mine Cart

Debut: Donkey Kong Country Returns

Finally, in 2010, the Mine Cart was perfected! You can tell because it has a face now. The headlights are its eyes, and the grill is its toothy smile! It’s so happy! Happy to have a face. Now that the mine carts are little guys, I bet they have so much fun zooming along the tracks!

Mine Carts appear quite commonly in Cave levels, where they are seen often being ridden by mischievous mining moles! What rascally rodents! (moles are not rodents)

Upon being hypnotized by the Tikis, the Mole Miners fill the mine carts with copious amounts of bananas and- hey! HEY! These are different mine carts! What happened to my beloved gray grinner? The easy answer is “this is a different kind of cart made to be interlocked with others to form a train and we see this happen in the game”. But there is a better answer! In this game especially, bananas are shown to have magical properties, transforming empty wooden husks into real living Bad Guys. These bananas are, I assume, being transported to the factory for this very reason. But maybe these are the original mine carts! Maybe some of them, upon being full of bananas just right, spontaneously transformed into the happy, joyful vessel I am so convinced has feelings. Are you going to argue against that, in the world of this Magic Bananas Game? Punk?

Looks like THIS Mine Cart has struck it rich! It found and mined these crystals itself, fair and square. Good job! What’s it going to buy? None of our business! What is our business is that Donkey Kong cannot ride IN this one, but rather, surfs on top of it!

Honestly, what really made me so attached to Mine Cart like this was Tropical Freeze, where it has its own collectible figure! This was the first time I got to actually see its darling face, and to top it all off, it’s in the Kong Family section of the figure list! Mine Cart is part of the family! Back with 64 they seemed like they were stretching it by considering an orangutan part of the family, and here we are, with a Vehicle as part of the gang. It’s really quite nice, how it seems to imply that to the Kongs, as long as you help each other, you’re basically family!

Rocket Barrel is also part of the family. Rocket Barrel was in the Super Mario Bros. Movie! Mine Cart was not. But that is ok!

Mine Cart, this very Mine Cart with the darling face, is, as far as we know, planned to be the star of the mine cart roller coaster coming to Super Nintendo World! The one that’s supposed to feel like you are really jumping off of the track! I have been seeing a lot of excitement over the potential thrills, and I agree that it sounds really cool and fun! And best of all? All that fun and excitement, courtesy of my friend, DKCR Mine Cart. Everyone hyped for this roller coaster is, knowingly or not, hyped about Mine Cart (”character”)!

This is a Weird Mario Entity that is becoming real, and has quite a lot of hype about its introduction to reality. Just think about that. Isn’t the world beautiful?

[rata2ouillegame]

RATA2OUILLE: THE PERFECT DISH (Info Post + Download)

You’re probably wondering, “what the hell?” Honestly so am I, as not even I can fully process what I’ve done. Rata2ouille: The Perfect Dish (AKA Funny Ratgame) is a satirical, freeware indie platformer, social simulation, full length role-playing hybrid game. Following the events of Ratatouille for Wii and its sequel Ratatouille PSP, a new adventure unfolds after a series of events leads to the protagonist discovering a mysterious world known as the Food Network. Partnering up with an odd naked mole rat named Twinkles, the protagonist forms the Rodent Risers, braving the Food Network to find the mythical Perfect Ingredients and defeat the brutally evil rat Knox. Along the way, the player will have to develop Companion Syncs with both coworkers and customers, craft and obtain Persona to wield in combat, manage their restaurant, cook food that will assist them on their journey, and more.

itch.io page: Click Here

Google Drive: Download Link

Archive.org: Download Link

Please feel free to upload and share with your friends wherever you feel like if they have trouble with either of these links!!!

Unravel a grandiose conspiracy involving the amnesiac Twinkles, the evil rat Knox, the mysterious Food Network, the labyrinthine Hyperstream, fast food delivery apps, and an impending visit from the food critic Guy Fieri that could make-or-break your restaurant!

Fight intense battles with Shadows that you can also wield as Persona. Use them to best your enemies and rivals, like Ratatoing!

Form various Companion Syncs to deepen your bond with important figures in your life to unlock skills and gameplay perks!

Date various cute boyfriends! Only one girlfriend included.

Over 100 characters from various different media properties appear as customers in your restaurant, including... Sans Undertale, Peter Griffin, Yu Narukami, Kazuma Kiryu, Joseph Joestar, Bayonetta, and many, many, many more!

Customize your hero! Set pronouns and unlock over thirty unique costumes that appear both in cutscenes and gameplay!

Obtain all seven of the legendary Chaos Emeralds by succeeding in target breaking minigames hidden throughout the Food Network!

Difficulty adjustments and options, such as the “Skip Battles” pog item that can be equipped to skip all battles and focus purely on the story! Perfect for players that do not care for combat.

Create your own “My Food Network” where you can set your own favorite song to play, choose your color palette, create a food exhibit, and set posters that can be unlocked using points earned from in-game achievements!

Super cool players that 100% the game can view a Secret Ending that plays upon clearing the epilogue or talking to a certain friend in My Food Network...

This game is in no way, shape, or form an actual Disney, Pixar, or Atlus product. It is an independently developed satirical game. It is parody and no profit is being made from it.

Check out more down below for a little Q&A

Q: Is this really a full length Persona style RPG? A: Yes. I’m sorry, I don’t know why. It’s about 60 Hours long.

Q: How long did this take to make? A: About two and a half years, though I took many breaks from working on it due to being a full time college student (after some gap years) and having other projects I’ve been working on.

Q: Who made this? What kind of person makes this? Can you tell us about yourself because I need to know what’s wrong with you??? A: I’m very sorry to tell you that a very hot goth artsy nonbinary femboy made this game. I hope that makes the game more intimidatingly powerful.

Q: If this is a heavily Persona inspired game will it be re-released with a single new dungeon in a few years with a new marketable character tacked on? A: Buddy if enough people find this funny and enjoy playing it, you know it! That and if enough people would like to help me add full blown voice acting in a re-release, which would be one of my major focuses for an enhanced version.

Q: Why did you make this? A: I was really bored during the pandemic. Originally this was a small crude gag game I was making years and years and years ago that I scrapped, but I completely revamped it into something much more elaborate and surreal as a little distraction to keep me busy while quarantining. It sort-of functioned as a low stakes testing ground for less facetious games I plan on releasing in the near future. There’s also an underlying commentary on how obnoxious and outlandish unnecessary sequels to self-contained and subdued stories are, which can be seen in how ridiculously unhinged the game is with constantly recontextualizing various minute-details of the original movie and retconning things as if it was all deep foreshadowing.

Q: Why are you acting like Ratatouille is some kind of game series? A: In the past, in the really early beginnings of making this game, I had this whole elaborate ARG thing I would often joke about with friends where I would insist the movie was just a really bad faithless adaption of a video game series developed by Platinum Games and published by Atlus. There were jokes about the name “Remy” being a “dumb movie adaption thing” and that Ratatouille is in fact the proper name. The implication was that the “Disney movie adaption” was so bad it killed off the game series until this sequel came out well over a decade later due to “vocal fan support.” This eventually died down a bit, but some of the ironic ARG stuff has lingered. One part of the ARG was originally going to be that there were two people working on this game instead of one and that they’d have a messy public falling out on the game’s tumblr blog, but this was scrapped because it felt too explosive lol.

Q: What do you mean by this being a sequel to Ratatouille for Wii and Ratatouille PSP? Aren’t those the same game? A:  While the Ratatouille tie-in game on most consoles was just a movie adaption, the PSP version was one of those weird tie-in games that takes place after the movie. I never beat the game but the plot entails Chef Skinner stealing all the recipe cards from the new restaurant around the time of their grand opening, and Rem- Ratatouille having to retrieve them. This is recited as some sort of major, melodramatic event in Rata2ouille. Ratatouille PSP has a lot of scrapped side-characters from the movie appear (such as rats named Celine, Dodo, Twitchy all of whom were meant to appear in the movie and were in the official art book) in addition to very odd new characters such as Teen Rat, who is seemingly a Sonic the Hedgehog pastiche that challenges Remy to races. These game-exclusive characters are all treated as if they’re established characters from the movie that we should know and recognize so when I discovered they exist halfway through development, I retroactively added a bunch of them into this game and treated them exactly the same here. I did a lot of deep diving into the production of the movie and its tie-in material while making this game and referenced a lot of niche stuff -- in order to be as bizarre as possible, I also needed to be as “authentic” as possible.

[floral-alchemist]

Top ten vertebrates that are bugs:

10: Hummingbirds

Tiny, pollinators, a million wingbeats a second, some of them are actually just moths, some of them get eaten by mantids. Bones aside, these are bugs

9: Bumblebee bats

Look at it. It is just Too Small

8: Naked mole rats

These are the only mammals to be eusocial, like bees and ants! They live collectively in colonies underground, they are immune to cancer, and as the name implies, much like real bugs, they do not wear clothes

7: Pumpkin toadlets

Native to isolated mountain ranges in Brazil, these frogs are extremely clumsy all the time because they are simply Too Small

6: Bugs

Everyone’s favorite nonbinary African- and Nordic-American lagomorph, Bugs is Bugs

5: Lumpfish

As beautiful as they are powerful, these little fish have fins that have evolved to form a suction cup on the bottom of their bellies

4: Lampreys

One of two surviving sorts of jawless fish, lampreys are just worms with bones

3: Pink fairy armadillos

Look at that carapace! Much like many members of the orders hymenoptera and dipthera, these armadillos are actually a type of fairy

2: Elf owls

Millions and millions of years ago, a worm in Wormworld was born with its head on sideways. Despite this it managed to reproduce. Some time later one of its descendants compensated for this by being born with its body also on sideways, but in the other direction. This worm was the ancestor of every chordate, including you, me, and everyone on this list. Owls however, including the minuscule elf owl, can turn their heads entirely backwards, so for a few moments, these birds can arrange their bodies like a protostome’s

1: This guy

The name “African p*gmy mouse” contains a slur because biology is still racist sometimes. Nonetheless, the number one spot had to go to a rodent of course, so why not the smallest one? I mean look at this thing. It’s so bug

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Ok ok there's just too many critters for me to decide but if I'd have to choose one it'd be raccoons

THEY'RE SO CUTE AND THEY USE THEIR LITTLE HANDS TO HOLD THINGS AND THEY'RE SO CUTE AND AND THEY LOOK SO FLUFFY AND THEY'RE SO SILLY

One of my childhood toys was a little raccoon stuffed animal (I still have her because like Hell am I getting rid of her) so they're also sentimental to me

OH MY GODD!!! I LOVE RACCOONS TOO!!! i say my favorite rodent would probably be rats or moles! i love how round moles are and their paws are so holdable!! oh and i have a favorite beetle too! the tortoiseshell beetle

look at him!!!! he has a little shell !!!! what more could you want from him !!!!!!