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Halloween Jack posted:Jon Peterson's Playing at the World gets into the deep history and theory of the medium. Warning: you may learn more about Kriegsspiel than you ever wanted to know. ohhyeah posted:Woof this one must be out of print because it starts at $259 used on Amazon. I’ll start with his blog though thanks! For those of you who may be interested, MIT Press has announced a second edition of Playing at the World, with the first volume due out in August.
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They had to update the caption after a penguin complained.
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theironjef posted:I've actually been out in a big collection of them (used to work at Sea World) and they have the threat level of a sleepy toddler. Even the big ones can't do much more than gently prod you slightly. Most of them you can just pick up and move around like a lightly chirping football. "Threat level of a sleepy toddler" and "lightly chirping football" are two of the best phrases I've ever read on SA. Homeland security should update their charts.
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Penguins are adorable little formalwear bowling pins come to life and only a weirdo would think they're scary. Now to calmly sip this scalding hot coffee while I look up pictures of penguins yawning, which I assume is as heartmelting as it sounds
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Tendales posted:Penguins are adorable little formalwear bowling pins come to life and only a weirdo would think they're scary. Now to calmly sip this scalding hot coffee while I look up pictures of penguins yawning, which I assume is as heartmelting as it sounds Well now... just don't look directly down their throats. Their mouths are lined all over with needle sharp backward pointed spines so that fish can't just wriggle out of there. They can't bite with them though, they're for holding a fish in place while gulping, so this doesn't really change their general absolute lack of danger to people.
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i am never going to be able to pick up a penguin and hug him and my life is so much worse for it
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theironjef posted:Well now... just don't look directly down their throats. Their mouths are lined all over with needle sharp backward pointed spines so that fish can't just wriggle out of there. They can't bite with them though, they're for holding a fish in place while gulping, so this doesn't really change their general absolute lack of danger to people. Unless you get your hand down their throat for whatever reason?
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I feel like at that point it's really more on you, right? Though honestly I don't know how rigid those spine things are. I've spent maybe three hours of my life out on the fake ice with penguins in San Diego (I was a tour guide, I didn't actually work in the penguin area, I just specialized in private and celebrity tours so I got a lot of backstage access), and I never really felt the urge to cram my arm into one.
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I'm not here to judge penguin related incidents, but if you need to assist a penguin because it ate something it shouldn't and you need to reach down it's guller and yank out a foreign object, much like when a dog is about to cost you a lot in vet bills, I figure those toothy things aren't helping. But I'm guessing that's not a common occurrence. I'm no penguins scientist, I don't know how rambunctious they can get.
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Look I just want my fish back is that too much to ask?
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Tendales posted:Look I just want my fish back is that too much to ask? A little wordy, how about just "Excuse Me That Fish Is Mine"
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Tendales posted:Look I just want my fish back is that too much to ask? https://i.imgur.com/eJXr6Xf.mp4
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I still think there's something in how Shoggoths and G1 Cybertronians basically have the same backstory.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I still think there's something in how Shoggoths and G1 Cybertronians basically have the same backstory. I’m so Transformers UK-pilled this initially looked like nonsense to me, until I remembered the actual G1 cartoon lore.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I still think there's something in how Shoggoths and G1 Cybertronians basically have the same backstory.
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I'm just picturing Optimus Prime treating the Shoggoths like long-lost brothers from another abusive precursor, much to the bewilderment of the token human observers.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'm just picturing Optimus Prime treating the Shoggoths like long-lost brothers from another abusive precursor, much to the bewilderment of the token human observers. 
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Ravus Ursus posted:Mountains of Megatron ME GRIMLOCK, KING IN YELLOW!
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Tendales posted:Penguins are adorable little formalwear bowling pins come to life and only a weirdo would think they're scary. Now to calmly sip this scalding hot coffee while I look up pictures of penguins yawning, which I assume is as heartmelting as it sounds It’s all cozy and adorable, until they shoot their poop at you from a meter away.
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LatwPIAT posted:It’s all cozy and adorable, until they shoot their poop at you from a meter away.  You think I'm adorable?
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Tendales posted:Look I just want my fish back is that too much to ask? H.P. Lovecraft's Hey! That's My Fish!
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LatwPIAT posted:It’s all cozy and adorable, until they shoot their poop at you from a meter away. At the New England Aquarium I watched a feeding where the keeper got in the water (about waist deep) and was handing out small fish to the penguins that swam up to them. The speaker pointed out that the penguins need different types of fish to get the right nutrition mix, and that particular day the fish they were being fed was not their favorite. They were expressing displeasure at this by swimming directly at the feeder as fast as they could, swerving at the last minute to barely avoid hitting them in the crotch, hip, or butt. Little bastards were going on strafing runs to bully the keeper into handing out the tasty fish. Adorable and hilarious.
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theironjef posted:Well now... just don't look directly down their throats. Their mouths are lined all over with needle sharp backward pointed spines so that fish can't just wriggle out of there. They can't bite with them though, they're for holding a fish in place while gulping, so this doesn't really change their general absolute lack of danger to people. I feel like looking directly down the throat of basically anything is a bit unnerving. Unless you're one of those people who get turned on by it, of course.
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Asterite34 posted:I feel like looking directly down the throat of basically anything is a bit unnerving.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxXbcH_qMSc
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Cassius Belli posted:For those of you who may be interested, MIT Press has announced a second edition of Playing at the World, with the first volume due out in August. Was going to post this! Very exciting, though I guess there might be a further wait for the second volume...
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Froghammer posted:All birds are terrifying Pelicans are the goofiest murder birds and I love them so much.
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Rand Brittain posted:Well, that's pretty much par for the course as far as Kamigakari goes. I am so glad I didn't back it and don't have to make a decision about who's more credible here. I think a really good rule of thumb is that anyone who says "you should go on kiwifarms and punish this person like a dog" is someone with negative levels of credibility.
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Kai Tave posted:I think a really good rule of thumb is that anyone who says "you should go on kiwifarms and punish this person like a dog" is someone with negative levels of credibility. You know what? You're right. I was going to say something flippant about Veeres' level of credibility, but at the end of the day, one thing involves a serious risk of targeted harassment and the other thing is elfgames, so that was lovely of me.
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That kickstarter was weird. I remember at one point kickstarter emailed me saying they were responding to my request for a refund on it and I went "I never requested a refund..." and then a couple hours later they were like "Oh yeah, disregard that." and then I got my backer rewards. ????????
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