I've told all my friends irl about this

You write with the timing of a good YouTube video. Any unscrupulous Influencer would do well to wade into your posts.

There are six realms and each is united by highly conserved traits, i.e. genome sequences that are shared between them even through evolutionary weirdness and the like.

Like, come on, this is some Gauntlet: Dark Legacy shit. This is some "Super Mario Brothers" stuff. I think this happened in Trauma Center: Second Opinion. Viruses stand for "Video Gamesiruses" I think

This is a lovely post and I hope you are feeling better as of my reading this

I am once again coming to these late, and once again, it's full of bangers. It's hard to pick a favorite quote. This is such a fantastic hook:

The Taylor Glacier of the McMurdo Dry Valleys in Antarctic bleeds. There is just a waterfall of deep red, bloody water that spouts from the side down onto West Lake Bonney. I assume this was an absolutely horrific sight to the 1911 Terra Nova Expedition guys, particularly Thomas Griffith Taylor, who named it. It is regrettable it did not start doing cosmic horror to him, given that he was a shitty race scientist guy.

You may be wondering several things, most notably, why in God's name is the world bleeding? Why is there so much blood? Why is it there, at the frozen ends of the earth? Can God save us? No, silly, of course He can't. This is the domain of Microbes.

Thank you again for this effortpost, it should be under f/best_post because this is one of the best posts.

gnome-type shopping

more powerful forces than you have tried and suffered for it. abandon this quest while you still can...

Also I think bragging about this kind of thing is cool and I want you to do it more (genuine)

Tbh all Star Trek is very funny, Lol

A friend has a thing in a video game where she was trying to get items from a limited pool of 20 items that couldn't have any repeat and it took her 20 tries to get the item she wanted. People were saying there is a 1 in 20! chance of this happening, while I think there is just a 1 in 20 chance of this happening because while it is true that this exact permeation of events happening is 1 in 20! there are also 19! outcomes that have the same property so the chance of this happening.
My intuition was that if you had a deck of 19 black cards and 1 red card if the only information you care about is where the red card is then there is only 20 possible outcomes so the question we are asking is what is the chance that the red card is on the bottom of the deck and that is 1 in 20.

I have had this interaction several times. I would love to feel your pulsing brane (that is, I would love to see your simulations / know more about the context) (I love probability, and verifying with my good pal Monte Carlo)

Yeah! I think the comedy helps the Star Trek go down a lot easier

I have, I loved it, until the ending started to build up. I dislike supernatural horror, it takes anything to "Scooby Doo" levels of seriousness to me. Throw in something Satanic-Panic adjacent and I just lose all interest.

Congratulations on quitting smoking!! That's impressive and good for you, and by extension, for the cause of Posting.

Depends… are they cute, and are they consenting?

I want this. I want to get a group of people, say half a dozen or so, to all do this. Same time, but arrive separately and have different shopping lists etc., but lots of nursery rhyme type stuff. Preferably during an off time in a small store with only a few other shoppers.

Refuse to admit knowing each other or to acknowledging anything out of the ordinary. Once you’ve checked out, scamper/skip/interpretive dance your way out of the store and down the street.

I want to be the weird story someone tells their grandkids about 40 years from now. Let’s bring some whimsy to the world.

what do you do with the remaining shepherd's dick?

So disappointing that it's pronounced "kwibi". Imagine if it were queue bee. Imagine bees queuing. What a wonderful mental image that would be.

Great honour coming from you

Have you seen the a24 chamber drama/horror called Heretic? Randomly saw it in the movies and didn't exactly love it but it made me think about it a lot after, which I count as a success for the price of the ticket (same price as a carton of cigs were when I quit, I like to think I'm spending my money in better ways nowadays)

Oh

Oh nice!

Oh the Star Trek fans I know love Lower Decks, though it's funny that it started out as a parody and then just became more Star Trek

BONUS: "Green Room". A24 always produces films that, at minimum, don't feel like a waste of time to watch. "Green Room" is about a metal band who is in the wrong place (a neo nazi bar) at the wrong time (witnesses what might be a murder). I think horror is at its best when it feels like a real thing which could happen. Highly recommended

I love older game systems; I enjoyed more of the games and now that they are decades out date you can emulate them on just about anything.

And so many good games! My favorite lesser known ps1 game is probably Devil’s Dice, but there are near so many good ones to choose from…

Puzzle game NPC dialog

I actually played that one a ton :-D

just installed the "to don't" app to counter it with a list of things not to do