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I believe female mantids only eat the males when they're stressed, like when they're in captivity being studied. It's the same sort of narritive-shaping study error that leads to that extremely aggressive alpha wolf pack structure that gets co-opted by douchebags to justify their douchebaggery.
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I used to know a great intentionally confusing mnemonic that began something like "You may think stalagmites MIGHT hang from the ceiling, but you'd be wrong" but I can't remember the rest of it.
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One of the key parts of the John Henry story is that he dies from the effort. So a common everyman fights industrialization and buys people's livelihoods back, but pays his physical life to do so.
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:It's part of why they got appropriated by neckbeards, right? They screwed up and got trilby hats instead. They just call em fedoras. The difference is mainly brim width, and the brim in trilbies is folded up in the back.
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Highwang posted:That's always the tricky part of designing towards multiple endings; people will figure out which one is 'canon' and feel mandated to get it. Its almost akin to going through Hell in Cave Story. Shadow of War has the same issue. It ends where you expect it to and then has a "faffing about fighting orcs" mode because they know that's what most people wanted more of from Shadow of Mordor. It's basically an Endless Mode but because they put in a "holy carp you've been doing this a lot, have a cookie" cutscene, some people view it as the second half of the game and complain about the grindiness and lack of new story and such. It's a fine line to walk, made harder by people not having the line in the same place. Stupid people, always mucking things up, why can't they just conform?
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Tasteful Dickpic posted:So it's like The Phantom Pain? Phantom Pain it was clearly a patch to cover up falling short in game development, so I don't consider it in the same boat. This is the point where what was intended as "postgame/bonus content" shifts the viewer's opinion of where the actual end of the game is so it becomes "maingame content" in their eyes. Phantom Pain did it the other way round, where they had the story laid out for the whole game but not enough actual game to fill it so it was a slapdash paint job.
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I passed though the "mostly woo health supplements" aisle of Whole Foods yesterday and there were pills of cordyceps juice or something. Apparently it's used for coughs but it sure sounds ominous.
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The Metroid mimics were called mocktroids.
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