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  • Human teeth also have sharp peaks and deeper valleys within them which is the case for the overwhelming majority of omnivorous creatures. Most obligate herbivores have flatter teeth or will regrow them unless they have teeth explicitly for a particular use case.

    Source: You can check out scads of scientific resources on herbivores versus omnivore versus carnivore teeth. I assume you know how a search engine works, but here's a solid article on differences.

    Also my sister has been one of the veterinary bigwigs at several zoos through her lifetime and we've had multiple discussions on it.

  • Well. My child is that age and I very much relate to the protagonist. Was not expecting a gut-punch this afternoon.

  • Definitely. When I did all of my forestry work, we were warned about brown bears extensively. Don't get on their territory. If you have to, don't take chances. Don't fuck with them.

    I don't know where the idea comes from that these things will just leave you alone. They will not.

  • You are correct. I was dumb. I've fixed it now! Thanks for letting me know.

  • Played the OG version with all the DLC and not the Spacer's Choice version, so take my comments with that in mind:

    PROS:

    • The music was completely appropriate and fit the world. It was nothing I'd listen to independently though.
    • It ran very well the entire time I played it. Very little in the way of hitching, and very quick load times.
    • Achievements!
    • From beginning to end I was having a darn good time. It's a "smooth" game experience that I stayed up way too late a few nights in a row to get through because I couldn't wait to see what came next.
    • Many ways to solve issues; you didn't feel forced to end nearly anything in a certain way. The only exception was one main DLC quest I couldn't finish the way I wanted due to the level cap being too low and not having enough points.
    • Zero bugs experienced.
    • Plenty to explore and loads of side stories to discover. Some stories weren't wonderfully told and were hard to track, but many more than that were awesome.

    NEUTRAL:

    • It felt like it ended too soon. A game like this with two expansions should have offered more. That's both a good thing and a bad thing in that it didn't overstay its welcome either.

    CONS:

    • Some of the achievements are deeply annoying to the point that I gave up on completing the set. You'd have to waste dozens of hours to grind all of them and play in some pretty odd ways that wouldn't match normal gameplay.
    • There are no romance options for the player, and only thing even remotely like it in game is a gay asexual romance quest for a side character. You get some G-rated come-ons thrown your way, but nothing can come of it. It's extremely puzzling in it's puritanicality in both how the colony operates, and how everything is treated. Not that this has to be a porn game or anything, mind you, but some options to do SOMETHING romance-related (or characters that operate like they have genitals) like Mass Effect or Fallout would be nice. Heck, there aren't even any kids in the world to show that someone had bred ever.
    • Some of the environments and buildings are not terribly visibly distinct and it hurt pathfinding. It would tell me to go somewhere specific and I wasn't sure what it was referring to, and this was after playing for hours. This has something to do with the "corporate jargon" style language they use as well. It fits stylistically, but can be confusing.
    • The sidekicks stories felt exceptionally rushed and some of the outcomes were a little nonsensical.
    • I beat the game and both DLCs close to 100% in under 37 hours.
    • The level cap even with the DLCs is set to 36 which I hit about halfway through the game, and I felt like it needed far more. It really made that feeling of progression you love in these games stop dead. There was nothing to find for new item upgrades or interesting loot past that point. This was my largest gripe with the game by far as it disincentivized exploration because there was nothing to gain by doing so at that stage. UPDATE: The new version of the game supposedly upgrades the level cap to something a little less horrible. I wish this were available during my playthrough as the game isn't worth going through a second time. If you're interested, I HIGHLY recommend waiting for the newer edition.

    DID YOU FINISH THE GAME?: Yup! And the DLC. Though if you're playing now, just get the new edition since it fixes the XP progression block that I mention above.

    CONCLUSION: While it won't stick with me for years, it was great while it lasted and I would 100% play more in the series. If you enjoy story and exploration, play this. The only things stopping it from being Fallout-level good was the awful level cap and the lack of content.

  • But there definitely are though. Why wouldn't you, say, protest the factories where these things are made? Not just hold up some signs outside, but blockade those businesses in.

    Maybe find out who their major shareholders are and publicly shame them. Dig up dirt on them. Do anything you can to stop them.

    Maybe find the neighbourhoods that those shareholders live in and blockade those.

    Protest at the schools that their children go to letting them know their parents are murdering people overseas.

    It took me like 3 minutes to think of those and those are far more effective than what is going on in this news story. Are protesters in America really that short-sighted but they can't think of anything better than annoying other normal people and making enemies?

    This is like protesting the food in a prison cafeteria by beating the shit out of your cellmate, and then calling him complicit because he ate food yesterday.

    They're not targeting the right people, they're simply turning normal people off of their message.

  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyria

    If the image is true at all, the year mentioned is about 200 years prior to Assyria even being formed. This closely coincides with one of the pre-Assyrian collapse (or massive shift) periods where the society changed a great deal.

    Hence "as we know it."

  • The writing on this tablet being from a time when his civilization was collapsing. The only change to make his words 100% correct would be "as we know it."

  • Nope. I'm in Canada and it happens here too.

  • Hey, wake up! The new Clippy skin just dropped!

  • Nick is a goddamn treasure and I will fight anyone who thinks different.

  • That's called being a centrist or an independent. Lemmy hates those.

  • I do. It's not enough.

    No-discussion downvoters are a massive problem here moreso than any other site I've ever used.

  • Oh man... you're basically speaking directly to why I made our small community (consider this a personal invite). As I said elsewhere, I find Lemmy actively hostile.

    The number of indignant replies and comment-free downvotes we get inundated with continually is… disheartening.

    People want content, but actively detract from any content that doesn’t explicitly cater to them. It’s hard to take.

  • Nope. Originally her party was elected when somebody else was at the helm, and then when Jason Kenney retired, she was just kind of put there.

    Literally no one in the public voted for her originally.

    I'm in Alberta but I vote NDP.

    Before he left, Kenney was actually warning that the crazies were trying to take over. Hell, we thought Kenney was crazy. Turns out he was right about this one thing.

  • Literally nobody in the public voted for her in the first term at least.

    Edit: WTF, Lemmy. I'm factually correct. Look at her Wikipedia page if you don't believe me.

    She was appointed when Jason Kenney resigned. She won in the second term, not the first term. In the first term, the public was not given a chance to vote for her or not.

  • Oh man... you're speaking directly to why I made Actual Discussion (consider this a personal invite).

    We frequently get one-time posters coming in and flaming (or downvoting without reading) on any thread that may not agree with them, then when challenged with sources, they vanish. It's brutal. I wish we could disable certain behaviours on our instance or in the Community itself.