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@garbodude

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If I had to read this then so do you all <3

In case anyone doesn't know, to decant a wine is to take it out of the container it fermented in and pour it into a bottle while sifting out the sediment and detritus that has settled to the bottom over the years that it's been closed.

If this story is true, which is so horribly in character that I have to imagine that it is, then they probably had some needlessly extravagant Rich People wine at this party. I'd ballpark at least a couple hundred per bottle, maybe a couple thousand knowing the kinds of brown-nosing marks that tend to spawn near Elon.

What this means is that he was likely drinking yucky dirty shitty Wine Dregs that were potentially rotting for decades, typically consisting of dead yeast, insoluble rotting grape skins/seeds, and honestly probably a bunch of other shit that you HAVE to filter out before drinking "real" wine.

Fucking idiot.

He's the guy with the most money, by the way.

Equally possible.

how do you think kojima felt when people guessed the twist in MGSV from the first trailer two years before the game came out, based solely on the fact that Venom Snake was vaping 

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this piece of metal gear history always amazes me

Analog Horror Kaiju Concept: Cambrian A Quiet Kaiju who's roar sounds of Deep Sea vents. Its shell extends infinitely upward, always looking right at you. No building damage, simply grabs people off the streets and in their homes with its thousands pf appendages.

imagine getting this review

I guarantee that Monica at the front desk has not been able to live this review down and her coworkers absolutely bring it up regularly.

If I were Monica I'd print this review out and frame it

thinking about what is and what isn't allowed in frame with reference ecosystems in prairie restoration

Explanation from OP in the replies

restoration ecology tends to want to restore to a past state of an ecosystem, but magically that past state never involved people! Harvest, reciprocity, etc are all ignored because we pretend there's such a thing as prairie without people. Turns out, that imagined prairie never existed, there were always people here and there should people involved in restored prairie too!

sad news today. Beeftongue, slug beloved, is no more. it lived just over a year, a good long time for a Florida leatherleaf, and tasted dozens of lettuces and other delicious vegetation beyond any slug’s dreams. found under a fallen stop sign in Miami, I was honored to share some time with this awesome beast.

farewell, Beef.

Beeftongue is survived by Bupkis, who continues to stubbornly exist despite being over 2, and all of its brood

RIP Beef you were beloved by many 🖤

The eastern emerald elysia (Elysia chlorotica) is a sea slug that steals and absorbs chloroplasts from the algae it eats, a behavior called kleptoplasty.

photograph by Patrick J. Krug

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We have also learned that their head can escape

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So, concept: Super Smash Bros. RPG in the style of Super Mario RPG. It's got the same ring-shaped-world-map-with-conspicuously-themed-regions deal, except each region is based on a different Nintendo property: there's the Mushroom Kingdom (of course), Kong Island, a miniature Hyrule, an orbital colony where Samus Aran hangs out (probably a late-game region, that one!), and so forth.

Now, here's the question: owing to space limitations and the need to stay on brand, the game is naturally going to have a major focus on first-party Nintendo characters and properties, but you get to include exactly one world map region based on a third-party property, the only requirement being that at least one of that property's characters must have appeared as a full-featured fighter (i.e., mirror characters are okay, but Mii Fighter costumes don't qualify – sorry, Sans!) in a Super Smash Bros. title.

For reasons what would obviously take far too long to explain here, you get to make this decision. Who do you pick, and what does their region of the world map look like?

(Note: no chaining multiple third-party franchise crossovers together. i.e., you can pick Sora, but that doesn't also get you Mickey Mouse.)