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Judging by all those babies on her back, that's probably a wolf spider just trying to make it as a single mom. They are harmless in case you didn't know.

ANTS

ALL LEFTIES SHOULD LEARN THE WAYS OF THE ANT

Unironically, they make for an incredible model of societies and their moving parts, even down to how they recruit one another for group tasks and how labor is divided up (most of them don't do shit most of the time and it's a good thing)

AntWiki has the full text of EO Wilson's famous book, good place to dip your toes in https://antwiki.org/wiki/The_Ants

It's true, overall it's more functional than Pathfinder's stealth which barely exists beyond "flat footed" attacks. But the stealth was very similar in Divinity Original Sin and tbh I thought the overall combat of those games fit that stealth system better. In BG3 I often feel like barrelmancy kind of trivializes the rest of the combat systems and is just a test of whether or not you did a bunch of preparation/collection beforehand. It's fun but I didn't feel much compulsion to mess with it again after the novelty wore off.

Yeah but it isn't as satisfying to me tbh, the sneaking itself is more fleshed out in bg3 of course but it doesn't have the staggering number of interaction with skills and effects that the introduction of sneak attacks in Pathfinder offers

Wrath is so fucking crunchy I love it, it took a long time to get used to its many systems but there is so much build variety and the voiced characters, while still limited imo by the flat tropes of fantasy, had some surprisingly good moments.

Bg3 does not allow me to make a Sensei Monk front liner who does not attack but stacks dodge ac while buffing the party with bard songs, bg3 does not allow a sneak attacking ray caster who snipes people with ice beams, bg3 does not allow for anything as interesting as the constitution-based Kineticist caster.

Also at the end of the day Wotr is FUCKING LONG, while that is intimidating it means that if it clicks with you, you have a seriously HUGE epic of a campaign to enjoy

Damn is this typical of Chinese posting? They all go pretty hard

EDF 6 does not disappoint if you happen to like the very specific type of game that EDF is. Obviously limited assets and an old engine still get used very inventively, and that's not even mentioning the writing. 5 really surprised me with its surprisingly clever and self-aware script, delivered entirely by voice actors who sound like they normally do translations of textbooks rather than fiction, which somehow adds to the vibe.

Warning you now that Golden Dragon is very limp, you can really only do it in act 5 and it doesn't get a lot of meat. Angel is fleshed out but I don't like Angel and I think the devs agree tbh, Owlcat does not present lawful alignment very flatteringly in the long run. Azata get all the proper good guy moments imo

That second one fucking owns, does anyone have a translation for the text in the first and/or third?

Right wingers buy these books but don't read them, they buy them to have bought the merch.

My dad may be lib as hell but I treasure the fact that his New Jersey ass and mine have been doing this bit for my whole life

I think tf2 usually gets ignored when it comes to this topic because it is sorta kinda satire, the characters aren't really intended to be self inserts or idealized empowered people, they are looney tunes caricatures with the gender expectations of the era being satirized baked right in

Not trying to say it's actually woke and diverse, just that people seem to care less about a lack of diversity when the characters are all characters instead of them being templates for expression

do they really manage to eat an entire cat? That's pretty impressive

Sure owls COULD limit themselves to preying on mice (which spread DISEASE and SMELL and DESTROY HOMES) but there are many reports of owls not being content to eat mice alone, and extending their violent tendencies towards many other small terrestrial animals, specifically squamates and this must be taken into consideration

Look at that, I marched right into this thread to say exactly this down to the letter, excellent work comrade

most likely it's a picture from a mating season, horny male frogs will do amplexus (basically a mating grip) to anything they can, even if no mating is going to follow it

When I think of cowardice I usually picture someone who ran from danger or someone curled up under a table with a hand over their mouth, which is the kind of terror that invites sympathy.

Here's a good quote from Grapes of Wrath

Yeah if we are gonna be mythologizing the Yakuza anyway this version is much better

That's fair to bring up, I do agree and would probably be in a similar boat as her if I didn't write often, that kind of thinking is supposed to be good for memory. But of course whenever I lose a pet, for instance, I always find myself wishing I'd taken more pictures of them.

While I feel pretty much exactly the same I have softened on it a little. A family member admitted to me that she does this when I brought it up once, and when I mentioned the point you make about making memories she just said to me "your memory is way better than mine."

She probably isn't gonna look at those photos and nobody else is gonna look but I kinda decided that people are allowed to cling to their experiences in the face of entropy however they like. (Tbh I will still probably be rolling my eyes at this behavior but, like, compassionately somehow.)