My plug on Satisfactory is you come for playing around with and making sculptures with conveyor belts, and then stay to play with jump-pads, pneumatic hypertubes and later, trains (that actually carry freight and have a purpose). Also the planet is pretty (and you’re going to ruin it all by turning it into factories).

As with other automation games, it’s coding in disguise, and if you get a buzz from configuring logistics to distribute parts and fluids from sources to processing machines, then this game can take over your life. The two principle schools of players are make it efficient and make it pretty. In the end, you have a giant playground to zoom around in and watch all the parts zip this way and that down conveyors, each with actual purpose behind them.

There’s a Pacific Drive + Techtonica bundle I’m looking at and might grab.

Part of the problem is I’m obsessed with Satisfactory which scratches a lot of the itches Terraria did but in 3D.

This YSK offering does feel like a way to provoke a fight among boomers and Gen-Xers.

What part of 'Eeepy Princess was hard to follow?

Our new pupper was ~twenty weeks around Easter and our uncle gave him a bunny which he promptly grabbed and gave the neckbreaker shake. So far its the only toy (out of dozens, mostly teething bones) that he shakes like that.

Now do plain-bellied sneeches in a star-bellied concentration camp!

I hqve noticed that judicial buildings a seem to be built to be imposing, as if to imply we rule you petty serfs

Awoo?

History confirms Henry VIII had huge scathing fragile ego problems. So this all tracks.

As the bodies on Mount Everest shows us, it’s easy to not be prepared for the levels of cold it can get in some places on earth such as the poles.

Fun trivia: In To Build A Fire which takes place in the Yukon, Jack London notes that it’s -70°

This is to say, the secret ending is that the dog didn’t make it (or did only by a miracle of probability).

My evidence is anecdotal, such as videos of people lounging with a tiger in their living room. There’s also the weird thing in the…90s? Where driving around in a large car with a tiger was a dare-sport thing (which is why it appears as an activity in Saints Row: The Third )

I believe it’s not exactly legal to keep tigers or large cats as pets in industrialized parts of the world (at least not without proper holding cells) but there are huge parts of the world that are less industrialized and are not sufficiently policed to stop symbiotic social relationships between humans and wild animals.

On a similar thread, cheetahs are notoriously easy to domesticate, to the point that they’re a problem. If you go out to cheetah territory, say in Kenya, and feed one, it may decide you’re their buddy for life and follow you home. Unlike black bears in Montana or Wyoming that assault tourists for food when they learn that’s a source, it’s for the protection of the currently endangered cheetah population.

As for other large cats, I don’t know how often they companion up. Here in the states, we have mountain lions, but we also have ranger services to police both the lions and the tourists. I suspect in places like Nepal where there are human settlements removed enough from industry there also may be negotiations between leopards and humans with positive outcomes. But that is speculation. I haven’t seen videos of that.

ETA: Scanning news, apparently in 2024 there are a lot of tigers-as-pets in Texas of all places, which is a lot more contrived since it’s not adopting and befriending the beastie from the nearby jungle, but importing them in to be domesticated.

Oh, if you’re particular to the white ones, it’s the -40° that’ll kill you. Not the bear.

Says you. Actually other animals think we naked apes are totally cute.

Tigers are fairly common household pets in places like India, since they very much are like cats and are glad to be a cuddle-bug for free food. However this is at the risk that the tiger will forget herself and maul you in a moment of playfulness or annoyed aggression. And once you’re dead, well, there’s one last meal you can offer before it’s back to life in the jungle.

This is not to say all tigers are amenable. Some are just assholes.

Same with bears, and people have lived alongside bears for eons, knowing full well that alliance only lasts until famine comes a’knocking once again. (Grim fact, – relevant considering famine in Palestine – enough famine will drive us social apes to turn on each other and go full cannibal, which is why it’s regarded as a major humanitarian crisis, and cruel to induce. It’s also why Bron killed all the known thieves in anticipation of the imminent siege.)

In the meantime, Grizzly Man lived with bears for ten years before getting killed by an unfamiliar one that was just a jerk.

It was a fraternity thing in the mid 20th century for members to rotate taking classes for their mascot pet, to accumulate the units necessart order to secure them a degree (not honorary, but potentially fraudulent).

Dr. Fluffywiddlewumperkins

Fluff for short.

It is my favorite RTS hands down.

It’s a reminder of how the mail anthrax attacks were so soon after the 9/11 attacks, we thought they were related.

I assume why? is part of the prompt.

My proctologist would not approve. But then he doesn’t like bathroom tissue.

And this illustrates a problem of using facial recognition databases as a security measure. False positives lead to false convictions.