egrets

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[–] egrets 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

[Funko Fusion] game feels like an off-brand LEGO game in all the worst ways

I have a bias here because I've never understood the appeal of model collecting in general, and of dead-eyed, amorphous Funko Pops in particular, but I am shocked that a cash grab on the back of emotionless, artistically-bereft figurines wasn't a smash hit.

Well, not that shocked.

[–] egrets 22 points 2 months ago (1 children)

More context than you could ever need, and yet the context is still really "comics are batshit insane".

[–] egrets 7 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately, it's difficult to reuse or recycle pasta boxes when their composition includes 50% or higher of fictional materials.

[–] egrets 11 points 2 months ago
[–] egrets 74 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

I used to do this, too, until local charities started complaining about all the lamps being posted into their donation boxes.

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[–] egrets 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I did a little research. The ink sac is indeed attached near to the anus. It's thought to be an evolution of the hypobranchial gland still present in many mollusks, and the mucus-producing funnel gland that it works alongside may have originally been used to trap and excrete dirt particles when breathing through the gills - I guess very similarly to mammalian mucus in the respiratory system. It's used in conjunction with jet propulsion for distribution of the ink.

We're not sure what the use of the melanin that makes ink black was (it's kept it's current form in cephalopods for at least 300 million years) but it may have been a waste product from use in the body for camouflage or adjusting photosensitivity.

[–] egrets 4 points 2 months ago

You're such pests. In your depths of your ignorance, what is it you want? Well, whatever it is you want, I can't deliver because I just don't see it.

[–] egrets 13 points 3 months ago

One fascinating cultural practice of the Sarmatians is that they would gather together and stand in a line to block off closed roads.

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