A Polish Hussar, @thespacehussar - Tumblr Blog

Games like elden ring can be very "dangerous" for English as a second language speakers.

I have to consciously remind myself, especially if I am interacting with an English speaking client or business partner at work, that this is not how normal people talk.

Thou must have some business in mind, to come all this way.

A pleasure to meet thee, I'd heard tell of a new client.

Heed my words. The meeting tomorrow will be rescheduled.

What is thy business with these files?

I was entrusted this, for thee, a summary of the last meeting.

Thou art of passing skill, this excel list is perfect!

I doubt we shall again meet. I am only helping out on this project.

mousidy

the author's barely disguised hobbies and interests

konigstigerr

arguably, we're still living in the fallout of the byzantine-sasanid war of the 6th century.

sacred-portal

ips-northstar-official

IPS-Northstar: voted least likely to violate the First Contact Accords for over 200 years in a row!

- Jinx becoming a symbol of the rebellion

- Sevika's new weapons being Jinx's designs (possible alliance???)

- Vi saying her sister is gone

- Vi and Jinx beating the shit out of each other

- Silco loyalists causing problems for Piltover

- Definitive conclusion to the story planned from the start

- Other League regions to be explored in their own separate shows instead of clogging up the Piltover/Zaun narrative

Arcane writers:

ex0skeletal-undead

The Moon Presence by Ryan T. Hancock

caffeinatedartificer

Waterfowl Dance-Off

g-g-freak

When @demilypyro gets to Malenia

cosmiccroak

i said i would digitize it, so here ya go <3

sandersstudies

My friend sometimes brings her six-year-old to our DnD sessions and my husband (the DM) lets her roll for all enemy attacks and sometimes he will show her a few figures and let her secretly pick what creature we meet next. Who needs encounter tables when you have a first-grader around

sandersstudies

She cheers when the monster is winning.

sandersstudies

DM: *places an ugly, slavering, repugnant, spine-tingling creature on the battle map*

Child who can barely see over the table: ᵗʰᵃᵗ’ˢ ᵐᵉ :)

bunjywunjy

how do manatees even survive as a species if they're way too peaceful. somehow nothing wants to eat them. not gators or sharks or whales

it's quite simple, they're their ecosystem's version of a megafauna grazing mammal! they're simply too large for most predators to bother. they are, in fact, fucking huge.

see, manatees don't actually live out in the open ocean. they live in rivers, estuaries, and shallow seagrass bays like this:

so the thing is, large macropredator sharks and superpredators like killer whales don't go here! they stay out in open deep water, so they never really cross paths with manatees in the first place.

there ARE sharks here, but they're small! adult manatees are completely out of their prey size range, and they're more interested in fish anyway.

alligators do live here also, but even a very large alligator can't really dream of preying on an adult manatee! again, they're simply too big.

so, yeah. this is just another case of "this mammal is able to get away with being a gentle giant by simply growing too large for any predator in its area to touch" and I think that's beautiful.

bunjywunjy

putting you were on blast here because I wanted to answer this- there's a couple of reasons that this doesn't happen!

first- grabbing a bite and fleeing might work for cookie cutter sharks and lampreys, but it just isn't how alligators or american crocodiles hunt. their method is to drown an entire animal and then tear chunks off to swallow, which obviously doesn't work with manatees.

second- even if an alligator DID take a snap at an adult manatee, good fucking luck to it to get through the Bone Torso to even get the bite off in the first place!

(it's not getting through the Bone Torso)

crazy-pages

Also, very large distressed animals are simply dangerous to be around even if they're not aggressive. And even the gentlest giant is likely to get a little bit aggressive if you're taking bites out of it.

And here's the thing. Many predators are cowards. Large carnivores do not typically have the injury resilience of large herbivores. If a large herbivore gets injured, it limps over to a patch of food and sits there until it heals. If a large carnivore gets injured, and that injury isn't healed in a few days, it's probably dead. Carnivores with large cooperative packs can take somewhat more risks because they can feed one another if one of them get injured, but for the most part if a carnivore gets injured it just can't hunt. And then it dies.

(This is obviously different for things which are carnivores in the way an anteater is, we're talking about sharks and crocodiles and wolves and stuff like that. And this is also part of why certain omnivores like bears and boars are so terrifying. They have all the capacity for violence of a carnivore, and all the ability to sleep off injury of an herbivore, and they behave accordingly.)

So carnivores really try not to hunt anything which could hurt them back. Which means unless a carnivore is specialized to hunt something bigger than itself, and probably as part of a cooperative pack, it's just not going to try if there's other options. Because anything that big can hurt you by definition. All it's got to do is thrash around and it can break your bones.