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There are two very different games called The Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds, not one game that I keep remembering wrong every single time.
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Organza Quiz posted:There are two very different games called The Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds, not one game that I keep remembering wrong every single time. I've played or beaten both and I still don't reliably remember which is which.
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Dec 20, 2020 18:06
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Where do caribou fit into this.
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Dec 20, 2020 19:41
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Len posted:Wait, then what is the animal being talked about at the beginning of Holy Grail? Your sister.
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Dec 20, 2020 19:45
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Scarodactyl posted:Where do caribou fit into this. You mean the Christmas Elk?
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Dec 20, 2020 19:45
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Scarodactyl posted:Where do caribou fit into this. Mister Mind posted:Your sister. sorry in advance
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Dec 20, 2020 19:47
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Organza Quiz posted:There are two very different games called The Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds, not one game that I keep remembering wrong every single time. Wilds is so good. It was my goty last year and is one of a handful of games I wish I could erase from my memory in order to play again.
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Dec 20, 2020 19:52
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Ok, apparently reindeer and caribou are the same species, but they behave very differently with reindeer being semi-domesticated.
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Dec 20, 2020 21:01
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Beachcomber posted:Ok, apparently reindeer and caribou are the same species, but they behave very differently with reindeer being semi-domesticated. Irritates the poo poo out of me that reindeer is depicted in Christmas memorabilia as a light brown deer with some sort of mutant dog nose when they are actually gray (or white) and look markedly different from deer: 
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Dec 21, 2020 11:21
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Beachcomber posted:Ok, apparently reindeer and caribou are the same species, but they behave very differently with reindeer being semi-domesticated. Reindeer can also be used as mounts but have never been used as cavalry. Something that I am slightly sad about.
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Dec 21, 2020 11:23
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Josef bugman posted:Reindeer can also be used as mounts but have never been used as cavalry. Something that I am slightly sad about. There might have been an attempt by the Swedish king Karl XI (in the 17th century) to implement moose cavalry, but it wasn't successful (since moose are difficult to feed and bolt when they hear gunfire). It might also be apocryphal.
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Dec 21, 2020 11:44
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bony tony posted:There might have been an attempt by the Swedish king Karl XI (in the 17th century) to implement moose cavalry, but it wasn't successful (since moose are difficult to feed and bolt when they hear gunfire). It might also be apocryphal. That would have been loving terrifying. Can you imagine getting charged by a moose? The dude on top with a rifle is basically not even a tenth as scary.
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Dec 21, 2020 11:48
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Josef bugman posted:That would have been loving terrifying. Can you imagine getting charged by a moose? The dude on top with a rifle is basically not even a tenth as scary. From Minnesota, and can confirm. They are impossibly large, and so quiet when they want to be. I had one sneak up on me camping once; it was like an old god of the forest.
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Dec 21, 2020 11:53
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Pendevil posted:From Minnesota, and can confirm. They are impossibly large, and so quiet when they want to be. I had one sneak up on me camping once; it was like an old god of the forest. Canoe trip in float-plane rural Maine. I can concur with this poster.
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Dec 21, 2020 11:59
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I have no idea why Australia gets the reputation as most dangerous place after reading about Moose/Elk etc.
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Dec 21, 2020 12:05
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Helith posted:I have no idea why Australia gets the reputation as most dangerous place after reading about Moose/Elk etc. Things here can sneak up on you, would be my guess. But yeah, I would absolutely prefer snakes and spiders to things like the North American fauna where it can decide you look tasty and just eat you.
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Dec 21, 2020 12:29
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Memento posted:Things here can sneak up on you, would be my guess. But yeah, I would absolutely prefer snakes and spiders to things like the North American fauna where it can decide you look tasty and just eat you. We can also step on or whip the nastys here.
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Dec 21, 2020 12:44
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Humphreys posted:We can also step on or whip the nastys here. Exactly. I can check for spiders in the toilet and stay away from the long grass. If a mountain lion decides I look tasty I probably can't fight it and I'm certainly not outrunning it.
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Dec 21, 2020 12:57
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In Portuguese, elk is “alce”, and moose is “alce americano”, or American elk. Problem solved. I was in main a couple of decades ago with my friend and his family who were birthed from those northern woods, going up a side tributary of the many rivers that fed into Lake Ambajejus in a small aluminum fishing boat, when all of a sudden from the brush on the riverbank, there materialized a moose calf. My friend’s stepdad immediately silently freaked out because he knew there had to be a cow around and if we got anywhere near her baby we’d all be trampled in quick fashion. They’re beautiful but scary when you come across them suddenly.
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Dec 21, 2020 13:05
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Just call them "high elks" and "wood elks."
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Dec 21, 2020 14:44
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Dec 21, 2020 16:16
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Imperador do Brasil posted:In Portuguese, elk is “alce”, and moose is “alce americano”, or American elk. Problem solved. There are already american elk that are a different thing from moose, hence the confusion
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Dec 21, 2020 16:36
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Imperador do Brasil posted:In Portuguese, elk is “alce”, and moose is “alce americano”, or American elk. Problem solved. On my honeymoon, my wife and I went and stayed in a remote cabin in Colorado by a lake. The cabin had a lower 'dock' area where you could launch a canoe, then the house was built up above it with a balcony on the higher floor overlooking the lake. One day we were hanging out down on the dock area and a moose cow with two baby moose just sort of appeared in the lake beside us. We promptly, and calmly, went up to the balcony and hung out, watching them for the next couple of hours. It was amazing, but that initial couple of minutes when we were on the same level as them was absolutely terrifying.
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Dec 21, 2020 16:47
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Imperador do Brasil posted:In Portuguese, elk is “alce”, and moose is “alce americano”, or American elk. Problem solved. That seems backwards.
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Dec 21, 2020 17:29
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For anyone not getting how terrifying a moose is: https://youtu.be/ylCfXvKmdvU
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Dec 21, 2020 18:08
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rydiafan posted:For anyone not getting how terrifying a moose is: https://youtu.be/ylCfXvKmdvU Even that doesn't do that good a job showing a sense of scale because of the snow. 
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Dec 21, 2020 18:41
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megafauna are cool as hell and I wish we hadn't killed most of them
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Dec 21, 2020 19:30
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Having had a few semi-close moose encounters I can confirm that they are pretty impossibly huge, them being called "the king of the forest" here in Sweden is pretty accurate. My favourite moose story is one time where my ex and me were riding in her dad's car through a forested rural area, and he says "If you're wondering why I'm driving so slowly, it's because on the way here I saw a moose running across the road in the distance so I'm being careful." No more then a second after he says it, this fucken 3 meter tall beast just BOUNDS over the road ahead of us, being gone in the woods on the other side of the road before he was able to stop the car. Implacable sense of timing on that moose.
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Dec 21, 2020 19:32
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Carthag Tuek posted:megafauna are cool as hell and I wish we hadn't killed most of them Turn your monitor off for a nice surprise
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Dec 21, 2020 19:35
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Yeah, moose are terrifying. I got way too close to a cow moose once (she got fussed because she had a yearling calf with her who had wandered off some distance and I accidentally got between them because I didn't know the calf was there, DO NOT loving DO THIS, I was young and dumb). She got very up in my business. I'm about 5'6". Her hooves were larger than my hand with fingers outstretched. Her back was higher than the top of my head by several inches. It remains the absolute most terrifying experience I've had in the woods. I honestly thought I was going to die for a moment. Bulls are bigger. I've never got that close to a bull. She charged me. My youngest sister was with me, she was maybe eight or nine at the time? She started screaming, and running on pure adrenaline I grabbed her, clapped my hand over her mouth, and pulled her under me, trying to shield her with my body while I turned my back to the angry moose. The cow shuffled to a stop right behind me and then turned and took off. I always thought she felt her point was made, that she was more just trying to hurry us off than anything, so I guess it was the right thing to do. Probably had the right air of "I am non threatening and also trying to protect this smaller member of my species just as you are." I kind of low-key hate this story because I put it in the Top Five Of Stupidest Things I've Ever Done. My sister, now twenty three, loves this story, tells it frequently, and every now and then a mutual acquaintance will surprise me by knowing about it, so I'm kind of resigned to it I guess.
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Dec 21, 2020 19:36
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Me and my partner Boris can tell you the only thing more dangerous than moose is moose and squirrel.
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Dec 21, 2020 19:44
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If megafauna were so badass why did they die to the gross apes? checkmate megafailures 
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Dec 21, 2020 19:46
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I will never be scared of a moose. I will never be scared of something that is delicious. What? Am I gonna be afraid of chocolate next? Potatoes? I think not. All I see when I see a moose is a two story tall hamburger.
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Dec 21, 2020 19:49
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Potatoes don't remove the top half of your car and everything in it when you take out their knees at 100
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Dec 21, 2020 20:21
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I knew about caribou but just now learned that reindeer aren't just regular regular deer with reins on them.
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Dec 21, 2020 20:24
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RoboRodent posted:Yeah, moose are terrifying. I got way too close to a cow moose once (she got fussed because she had a yearling calf with her who had wandered off some distance and I accidentally got between them because I didn't know the calf was there, DO NOT loving DO THIS, I was young and dumb). She got very up in my business. Sounds like your sisters presence probably saved your life tho.
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Dec 21, 2020 20:29
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Dip Viscous posted:I knew about caribou but just now learned that reindeer aren't just regular regular deer with reins on them. It's a mistranslation. More accurately they would be called "reigndeer" because they are aristocracy and rulers of the deer kingdom
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Dec 21, 2020 20:32
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Wasabi the J posted:Sounds like your sisters presence probably saved your life tho. Honestly, I'd believe it.
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Dec 21, 2020 20:41
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christmas boots posted:It's a mistranslation. More accurately they would be called "reigndeer" because they are aristocracy and rulers of the deer kingdom That’s a common myth but in actuality they were named and classified by the famed swedish naturalist Johannes Reinnus
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Dec 21, 2020 20:42
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I really tried to find a proper etymology, but the best I could do is that "rein" in reindeer comes from Old Norse "hreinn-", which just means reindeer.
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