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swollennugs

despazito

Dendrogaster (a crustacean that parasitizes starfish)

loving-n0t-heyting

this is how they look

headspace-hotel

WHAT DO YOU MEAN, CRUSTACEAN.

headspace-hotel

my tags need to go in the main part of the post actually

valentineblacker

There's a different species of barnacle, Sacculina, that parasitizes crabs in a similar way to this. It has a very cursed lifecycle and I assume the crab is also having a weird time.

headspace-hotel

I think i've heard of this one.

I just looked it up—it injects itself into the crab's body and replaces the crab's genitals with itself, grows roots into the crab's organs (including its brain), and controls the crab's behaviors so the crab will take care of the Sacculina larvae as a female crab would its own babies—if the crab is male, the Sacculina parasite will make the crab's body produce female hormones to basically change it to female.

This is so cool...how did this even develop? How did the parasite evolve to do that? How ancient would this relationship have to be for something so complex to form?

probablyasocialecologist

Games from older consoles are being made less and less available to the point so much of the industry's history could easily vanish without

gay-jesus-probably

Preserving classic videogames from consoles past.

I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm's Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.

anachronic-cobra

I've been using Vimm's Lair for years, I have yet to see a single bad link or virus on the entire site. It's arguably the safest and most comprehensive archive of video games in existence. Preserved history

okunewww

oh hi marina

alexmey-does-an-arts

MY STUPID FUCKING CAT WONT STOP TRYING TO TOUCH THE BEEHIVE

ovur

Anyone else notice the tumblr app being really glitchy

relelvance

ovur

You'll have to go somewhere else, little boy. This is no place for you.

hozierswift

clicking 'stay signed in'-buttons used to mean that u would stay signed in

porcelain-rob0t

they should turn that charlie kirk statue and turn it into a water fountain that shoots water out of his neck hole

importantcatpics

keepyourmouthshutandyourmindopen

Need one more to unlock the door

depsidase

what-even-is-thiss

The knowledge gap between people who have been playing Minecraft on and off casually since 2011 and children who watch Minecraft videos 24/7

what-even-is-thiss

Sometimes I’m still mildly surprised that all beds aren’t red

what-even-is-thiss

I remember the first time I came across the wandering trader. I was like what the fuck there’s a guy out here there’s not supposed to be a guy out here since when do llamas exist

#legit the most ive ever felt like a boomer ngl #i remember modding minecraft and having to manually put the mod files in with the game files.#and if the mod didnt work then you wither comb thru and look for the files or hope it didnt break your game #and then 1.7.10 i think made it to where you can have a designated mod folder and it was sooooo nice

what-even-is-thiss

The knowledge gap between people who have been playing Minecraft on and off casually since 2011 and children who watch Minecraft videos 24/7

what-even-is-thiss

Sometimes I’m still mildly surprised that all beds aren’t red

what-even-is-thiss

I remember the first time I came across the wandering trader. I was like what the fuck there’s a guy out here there’s not supposed to be a guy out here since when do llamas exist

stuckinapril

So crazy how you have the worst day of your life but then the next day the sun keeps shining and the air’s just a little cooler w the onset of fall and you realize that there’s nothing you can’t come back from because the only time it will ever be too late is when we’re dead and not ever before

stuckinapril

I vividly remember talking to one of my favorite professors about how I’m scared things will fall apart after graduation and how I’m so unused to change and her just going “if things fall apart then they do and u just pick up the pieces and start over again and it’s fine. Things falling apart is not this mammoth fear u should be worried about” and I remember these words every time I want to pursue or seize something bc literally the worst thing that can happen is it doesn’t work out ….. and then I just pick up the pieces and start all over again

hylianengineer

It is truly shocking how much turning down the lights helps when I'm overstimulated at work. I always think "surely it won't make that much of a difference, is it even worth doing?" And then I turn the lights down and the evil static dies down by like 75%

enba-and-luka

lowhitpointspuppyplagueharpylady

The fact that half of them are in their stock concept art poses always gets me, it looks like they're holding a funeral in Roblox and finally got the lobby to calm down and pay attention.