I play medium as if iron Man is enabled–it isn’t, but I generally only reload if something terrible happens due to a stupid mistake or I want to try/test something. Basically, I want to win, but I want there to be risk. I always play the whole way through the final mission. Sometimes I intend to continue on past that, but I never do. I don’t enjoy the infestation event and played a couple of times with it forcibly disabled, but now I simply don’t leave under-mountain areas cleared.

I have about a dozen mods installed, but nothing extravagant. Just a few for QoL and several inconsequential extras like additional hair styles and music.

The cabinetry in the kitchen too. But only a bit green…most of the color having been vampirically siphoned off by soul-less void that is the rest of the house.

What is the blue puff attached to several of the ceilings? In Image 25, for example? When everything is so drained of color, it really sticks out.

I have a Cidoo V87 (that one is TKL, but they have all kinds) which I’ve enjoyed a couple of years now. I don’t know if of their models are compatible with Via/QMK, but mine is. The biggest downsides (which aren’t that big to me, but might be to others) are that the LEDs are south-facing and “Via compatibility” for the V87 refers to Via v2–not v3, as far as I can tell.

Btw, I’m not sure if Cidoo is the brand or a product line. The brand might be Epomaker–both names seem to come up together.

Olive Oyl? My high school chemistry/life science teacher did me wrong!

I’m deducting 5 sanity points from myself for I now recognize that R’lyeh and North America are within each other, and the greatest of the great old ones will be reborn from below my homeland.

ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn

Me neither. I read a couple of descriptions of striped cuckoos. None mentioned this tidbit and that made me suspicious.

On the other hand, I did find this: https://www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/science-news/cuckoo-chicks-earn-their-keep

It includes a picture of a nest with a cuckoo chick and, although it doesn’t look like a pine cone, you can easily make out the speckled feathers. Also, the article is interesting in asserting that the cuckoos’ parasitism isn’t all bad.

Weirdest reptiles I’ve ever seen

Thank you, but I still don’t get the quote. I see it on the Wikipedia page as the title of the work (which makes sense since he wrote it right on there) and it turns out I remembered quite a bit about him from when Stuff You Missed in History Class did an episode about his life.

I recognize the coincidence of “open your mind” given the psychedelic nature of some his later work, but this isn’t in that style and I question whether anyone was using those words in that way that far back. For one thing, even “psychedelic/psychodelic” wasn’t coined until the mid 50s and then referred only to mind-altering drugs. It was wasn’t used in a general sense (such as to describe an art style) until the 60s which is also when phrases like “blow your mind” and “mind bender” started appearing. I’m just not sure people were thinking in these terms during his life. I did a simple search for “open your mind” with Google Ngram and all I saw in the late 1800s and early 1900s was conventional usage equivalent to “consider other possibilities.”

I like it, but I don’t get it

From a friend of an “anthropologist” friend: looks to be DNA from one of the prehistoric giants that populated North America (bigger person equals bigger DNA).

So many problems with this!

Um, actually, I’ve done my own research on this and this was technically a self-portrait.

How long before before the instructor is able to put a trick question on the test (i.e., “Both”) because The Pokemon Company has started licensing names to pharmaceutical companies?

It took me a while to get through the pictures (the bottle says to only take 8 Tylenol per day), but I particularly appreciated this shot:

I’d heard of drinking a nightcap, of course, but keeping a decanter of curacao in the bathroom?

I initially thought it looked like a conceited villain’s lair, but there’s so much stuff crammed in that people would have trouble simply moving around, let alone duking it out in the final showdown.

Although, I like the number of busts–there’s always something available to hurl no matter which room you’re in.

“when the party would get extra rowdy.”

😕 /Extra/ rowdy? For Romans? Uh oh.

I really don’t understand these traders. It doesn’t matter what their cultural values are; you can offer them a hundred kilos of freshly butchered people meat and racks of tailored human-skin clothing, and every one of them responds, “sure, I know a guy I can sell that to.” Even if it were legal here, I’m confident that it would be a rare shopkeeper that who would count me a bestie if I regularly stopped by to donate meals and clothing made from people.

I keep my corpse pile in shallow water so that they degrade faster, but wouldn’t you know it, that’s exactly where my depressed pawn decided to go for a relaxing swim. Now that I’ve gotten my colony well-established, I should probably shift it onto land, put down a fire break, and burn the lot whenever the bodies start rotting. It could be a bad scene if the rot pond was full when a death pall occurred…

I can’t help with the Roman version, but it sounds familiar to the take I heard on the Myths and Legends Podcast (if I’m remembering it right): Medusa becomes beautiful, Poseidon rapes her, Athena blames Medusa for getting raped and makes her hideous. I don’t remember if Athena tops it off by compelling Perseus to murder Medusa, but she at least gives him the shield and the instructions on how to do it.

https://www.mythpodcast.com/12752/80a-medusa-golden-child/

Edit: I think I was actually meaning to respond to Xeroxcool.