I mean, disagree. The DNA pretty conclusively proves the other homonids were not us, just a distant part of us. Same genus, different species.
If they were alive today they'd be extremely distinct, but we'd still be able to interbreed, think like wolves vs dogs.
All races of homo sapien came from a species out of Africa at the same time. Some stayed, others wandered and intermingled with other homonids mixing our DNAs.
Annoyed or excited. Call it "stimulated". Also often happens when they see a toy or a pounce target.
Usually with domestic cats the ears being in a relaxed 'up' state show this cat is annoyed but not truly unhappy. Maybe even trying to wriggle away.
Generally if you see highly dilated eyes and ears back, the cat is about to attack or pounce.
However I'll caveat that second part with the fact that it depends on the cat. I've seen cats maul from a submissive/passive position with ears up and eyes nearly closed. Like humans, every cat is different and every situation is going to be unique. They're intelligent animals with unique personalities and nature/nurture, which is why they're such excellent companions.
Grew up a stones throw away. Bluntly, not much. It's a fairly dense suburban area. The closest densely wooded area is just the two county parks, one about 3 miles East and the other about 2.5 miles south. Neither is very big though. For a larger area there's a nature preserve about 15 miles west, but that's still pretty limited.
True wilderness is about 60 miles north.
Now Sibley county, where he was found, is quite rural but not wild at all, similar distance to wilderness.
I mean, effectively superdeterminism's natural conclusion is that time is an illusion. Everything that will be was already fixed at the start of the universe.
But turning this back on itself, what's the proposed mechanism for quantum wave collapse at superluminal speeds?
Our understanding is fundamentally flawed, but thankfully the math works!
So, first epoch time. It's a pretty robust standard, covers many use cases, has few edge cases... but it's specifically for machine usage, since it's not human readable and it's not reversible into the past (pre-1970).
ISO 8601 (depending on the annum), by the text of the documentation, these are all valid dates:
2007-04-05T14:30
2007-04-05T12:30−02:00
2007-04-05T14:30Z
200704051430
07-04-05T14:30
2007-95T14:30
Etc.
RFC 3339 (& RFC 9557, it's newest modification) is actually a subset of ISO 8601 and is far more prescriptive. For example you must have a timezone designator. You must have a separator between the date and time. You must use a dash between date elements and a colon between time elements. You can easily add standardized subseconds.
2007-04-05T12:30−02:00
2007-04-05 14:30Z
This means that RFC 3339 is much easier to parse and use by both machines and humans.
Let's not forget that technically you have to pay for ISO8601, despite it being nearly useless as a standard because it allows several incompatible formats to coexist.
Literally every domestic violence study shows a pet being one of the biggest reasons an abused woman stays in a relationship right behind children. And the animal and children are often abuse targets too!
This will put the US even further behind in one of it's most shameful measurements, but, hey it might shave a couple thousand dollars off a multi-trillion dollar deficit entirely created by the military industrial complex, so fuck 'em.
Can I guarantee? There are no guarantees in self hosting. By this logic you can never move away from Plex. There's always unknowns. There's always new issues to trip over. Plex is hardly without it's own warts, but because they're 'known' to you and your users nothing else will ever be able to measure up.
It's a logical fallacy and a trap.
I set up Jellyfin basically overnight when the Plex pass changes occurred. Reverse proxies are trivial, as are docker containers, don't let the anecdotes about things being hard or VPN being needed intimidate you.
There were absolutely bumps in the road. I had to make users for each person and email them customized sign-up links. Yes, that kinda sucked, but that's the price for running and controlling the authentication yourself instead of though a 3rd party service that can and absolutely will eventually use that data to snoop.
Most of the time, once sent the link the users were fine, 9/10 of my users had no further issues and quickly adapted. For the last 1/10, I had to trouble shoot a few things and eventually ended up recommending a different device to connect with (it was an old TV with a really old version of Plex for TVs, they ended up buying a $40 Google TV device from Walmart and got set up that way).
The whole time I was running both Plex and Jellyfin so the migration process could happen at my speed.
My point is this: no, it wasn't painless to switch. Yes, some tech support was required. Yes, the user who was getting hundreds of dollars (annually) of streaming services effectively for free had to shell out a paltry sum to upgrade and actually enjoys their experience much more now. No, that didn't make it impossible or not worth doing.
I'm not saying what's best for you and your users, and I'm absolutely not guaranteeing you'll have no issues beyond these, but I hope you understand your hands aren't actually tied, you're just boxing yourself in.
This is why I like Andor and Rogue One best these days. A rebellion is a messy human affair with lots of wanton death and suffering. Trying to ground that and show the moral dilemma and the characters struggling with it instead of plastering over it with cheering teenagers makes a better show.
I'm sure you don't need to be told, but for those who are reading and need to hear it: the most powerful and healthy thing a GM can do is say no. The GM gets to arbitrate the tone of the game and setting, and healthy boundaries are conducive to both fun and creativity.
False. Have you even tried looking this up? https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelmarshalleurope/2018/08/28/a-long-busted-myth-its-not-true-that-animals-belonging-to-different-species-can-never-interbreed/
False. Wildly false. Where are you getting this from? Cite your sources.
Based on what? Cite your sources. Otherwise you're just spitting vibes and making up meanings for words. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_African_origin_of_modern_humans