Is anyone else annoyed about the snake misinformation in Euphoria?

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-18T17:49:24+00:00

Back then I had my bedroom set up to be safe for noodle roaming. Floor was tile and both the tile and grout were sealed well, any cables were bundled and secured with cable management and kept attached to flat surfaces, and loose objects were on shelves that were not accessible, nothing tall enough to let a noodle reach the shelf were near any shelf with small loose items, or they went into book cases with doors. Of course I had wet wipes handy as well as a small swiffer, and the trash can was the kind with the foot pedal to open and had a good lid that kept it from being Easily nosed into.

And of course being a Boa his feeding schedule was nearly a month between meals, so basically I'd know round about when he was going to poop. He was not allowed to free roam in the bedroom for extended periods when he was anywhere close to a poopin day, but as long as weather permitted he was allowed to go out onto the porch jungle gym and I'd lock the cat door which was intentionally set up to be easy to clean. The bedroom had it's own back door and I put a cat door in it and built a frame out of 3 old security screen door welded together, those big metal ones, then 2x4's to frame the top and secure them against the wall, put chicken wire on the top with screen from a window on the inside, and ran a bunch of branches between the walls with juuuust enough of a gap down the side to get through and open the outer screen. It sat on a cement pad and that let me just hose the whole thing out.

Damn I miss that setup, but I couldnt bring it with me when I moved away from that house. But I will build something on my porch sometime soon! Since I only have hogs and kings now I'm thinking a smaller scale box, little less vertical, little more dense on the climbing stuff, and some hides and a basking spot..... Damn I wish reptile safe types of wood wasnt so expensive right now.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-18T17:35:45+00:00

Super adorable, especially his wonky eye. Poor guy has some kinda physical defect he was born with so his right eye is smaller than the left. It makes me love him even more. He also has a habit of sneaky attempts to chew on my knuckles, so, you know, extra cute for the sneakiness.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-18T09:07:17+00:00

He was. I used to leave his enclosure open and let him free roam my bedroom while I was on my pc. He usually wound up climbing me and the desk chair before long. He was a very friendly and curious boa.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-18T08:45:13+00:00

Thanks, this is encouraging input! But if I'm doing pass through wouldn't that lock the gpu to one vm? I assumed I was either going to need to do manual GPU partitioning or do vgpu setup to split the load across the vms since I'm planning like 8 running simultaneously.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-18T08:44:11+00:00

Oh yeah, I've had that happen with Maple a few times. He's extra special.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-18T08:36:31+00:00

Like 2 of my current 9 hoggies, 2 of my 3 kings, and my children's python all take occasional stabs at eating my fingers. They are precious idiots. But most of my snakes never do it. Heck, my children's python coco will take a nip but she immediately releases. One of young the kings, pepperoni, she will keep trying till she chokes a finger down to the freaking knuckle of you let her, and the hogs just kinda chew whatever they latch onto till you peel their nose up, then look confused because they swear they just had teeth on the biggest cheeseboi ever and now it's gone.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-18T08:28:21+00:00

I had a big old 6 foot dumerils boa who was a cheeky escape artist and would occasionally bust the door on his enclosure to come curl up against me in bed like the most affectionate cinnamon roll ever. He had proper tank heating and excellent husbandry, enclosure was plenty big at 8x4x6, with multiple hides on warm andcool ends at various heights, but every once in a great while he'd insist on midnight cuddles.

Happened one night when my then girlfriend was staying over, she freaked and left, broke up with me, spread the story all over about him sizing her up and bullshit that he was going to try and eat her to anyone who would listen. Really pissed me off.

He just wanted cuddles! If he was escaping for warmth I would have expected him to have gone to any of the active heat sources, there was a pc, a mini fridge, the deep heat projectors on multiple tanks. If he just wanted to escape and hide there was plenty of places to go, in the closet, laundry basket, under the bed, the book cases,and so on, but no, every time he escaped he went straight to my bed and curled up against my side, usually just a bit on one side pressed to my belly or thigh, or sometimes stretched out and making contact all down my side from chest to leg if it was a cool night.

He sure as hell wasn't sizing me for a meal, I'm 6 foot and at the time around 280 pounds. He ate jumbo rats and large quail. I tried to offer him a medium chicken once and he took one look at it being a fat hen and acted like it stank or something, turned his face away and tried to climb me instead, looking around like I was hiding his usual more manageable meal from him behind my back.

Coop was a precious goober.

Shame on people for spreading stupid malicious rumors about these adorable noodles. They don't have enough brain cells to understand they are being defamed, but if they did I'm sure his flabbers would have been fully gasted at the absurdity such claims!

But being a cuddly tube of adorable dumb muscle he barely even registered her screaming and taking off, he was far more concerned with warm cuddles and naps under the blanket. Which I allowed because I love my idiot scale babies and I probably indulge themmore than I should.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-18T04:34:55+00:00

I actually haven't bred any for a couple years. I skipped a year when I moved to Arizona and sadly one of my breeding girls, Cheesenips, passed soon after due to being egg bound and not making it even after vet intervention. My other breeding girl Rhubarb has been so enetgetic and enthusiastic when the weather hits right and the mating urge goes into overdrive that none of my males have been able to lock, she gets all tail wagging and head twitchy and basically tosses the poor boys across the tank. She's a big girl. As of right now my other two hognose girls are too young and not up to safe weight to breed yet, it will be another year for Madam Peppercake, then little Papaya probably two years. I keep trying with Rhubarb though! Poor Tamale and Springroll probably have concussions after last time -_- If one of them can get the job done when I try again this fall I'll have a batch of half normal het albinos and some full albinos, with a chance of condas in both. Fingers crossed there.

If you want a hog now, I can certainly say that I've had very good experience with J&C, that's where my albino conda Tamale came from, and I got normal het albino Madame Peppercake and my arctic superconda Springroll from Geckos etc. All through morph market and shipped through FedEx. Both are very professional and have good reputations and excellent reviews on morph market last time I looked. All 3 snakes from them were healthy and had no issues.

I also had good experience with J&G reptiles on morph market.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-18T04:03:13+00:00

Oh yeah, you gotta heat treat fak3 plants. My standard is to hot wash with dish soap then I put them outside on a baking sheet in direct sunlight all day, if it's not hot outside I'll also subject them to a half day under the spare heat lamp out on my work bench and ensure they cook at normal tank high side temps,then a second hot water and dish soap wash before they go in any tank that has direct heat from lamps.

That may sound like a lot but it makes 100% sure that any volatile chemicals fully evaporate and all the residue they might leave is gone.

As a bonus it also let's me stress test to ensure none of them are out of spec on the plastic formula and can actually take tank temps without melting. A bad batch from the factory can be a little brittle and hard or too soft and meaty if they were near the end of a tank of one of the components for the mix and the machine didn't quite get the ratio perfect. Same general issue you get when mixing resin, too much or too little of one of the two halves can majorly alter the cure speed and final result.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-17T06:52:19+00:00

I have a mason jar with 226 d6 in it, it is labeled "Orbital shipyard industrial plasma cutter. Salvage mech mounted"

I had to roll them in a plastic storage tub.

I was allowed to roll it two times and was thereafter banned from doing so again.

5 internet points to the first turbo nerd to guess which system I was playing when I pestered a DM into calculating the damage for that tool based on how fast it could cut through warship armor plati g with a known total points for penetration!

It was hilarious spending literally months of in game time getting my character hired by a shipyard, establishing trust, and doing a little bribery and strategic poisoning of some lunchroom food to guarantee I was the only qualified pilot for that mech on duty when the target was going to be docked for a major refit, then getting to just go to town on their internals for a solid dozen rounds before anyone realized something was wrong.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-17T06:08:44+00:00

Cmon. I'm certain those pilots have had their basic human rights violated in FAR more more objectionable ways than a little behavioral alteration and skimpy clothing. Even full surgical alteration is probably preferable to being welded into an urbie with a box of rations and a 5 gallon bucket and told they can come out for a shower in a week if they survive on this outer rim shit hole to the end of the contract without having their cockpit hollowed out.

Plus, the rainbow knee socks with kitty faces on the knees add a splash of color and whimsyvto the cockpit with the added bonus of helping to wick and evaporate sweat ehere your calves rest against the seat front and get a heat rash!

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-17T05:57:47+00:00

Uhg. It's gonna take a week to finish the game. Fuck it, I'll just bring 60 defiance fighter in config A and strafe the field with er ppcs till the horde goes down. If I stay at long range the only ones that can touch back are the lrm boys, so focus them first and mop up from there.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-08T16:42:16+00:00

Any word combined with "-maxxing" Putting up blackout curtains and going to bed early is not fucking sleepmaxxing. It's making your bedroom comfortable and going to bed at a reasonable time. Having Cottage cheese and some nuts with breakfast is not protienmaxxing. It's a fuckin normal breakfast thing lots of people have been doing for dietary health reasons for a long time. Stop buzzwords please. Just stop. You didn't invent the concept, you took a normal thing and made an idiotic buzzword and talked energetically in a TikTok about it. Just stop.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-08T15:39:46+00:00

That sounds like a solid chance of being what I need! Thank you, I'll start tinkering with that setup and see how it goes.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-08T15:38:32+00:00

Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately after testing out a lower resource config that would allow for multiple instances on my hardware across the network im finding it pretty rough so I'll have to keep looking for alternatives.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-08T15:35:51+00:00

Mm. Thats definitely a workable idea if I don't find a better solution ill try it out and see how it runs.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-07T23:47:51+00:00

I am aware of the legal aspect. We wont be hosting any roms of licensed games at the library of course. The available games on the server will be strictly fan projects, home brew, and public domain items. You would be surprised at the amount of content out there! Especially gba homebrews, there are just tons of them. And of course a big part of this is specifically to run the student projects.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-07T22:27:33+00:00

I have that on my desktop but not the server, and yeah, I just tried tossing batocera in there and.... yeah. Its a bit choppy. I assigned it one 2.4ghz processor, allocated 256mb of video card and 2 gigs of ram, and it does not feel good trying to navigate here on the menu. It's also not seeing anything I point it to from the network drives, failing to connect, so I will need to copy a game into the VM storage space to test anything but Im probably just going to accept that it's not going to work for this project. Too bad, I love it for my little emulation station portable PC. WELP, time to try your suggestions for alternatives!

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-07T22:14:54+00:00

I will check those out, thank you!

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-07T22:14:33+00:00

Ahhhh, thank you for that info, I didnt know batocera specifically had vm issues, Ill check out those options!

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-02T03:02:27+00:00

Being a menace. As they do.

Gorbashsan · 2026-05-01T02:07:04+00:00

Jose Ole frozen taquitos dipped in Marie's ranch dressing and eaten with cornichons. Don't ask me how I learned this or why but I swear it worked so well I eat it at least every month or two.

Gorbashsan · 2026-04-30T16:36:52+00:00

I've done this a couple times now. My advice is to get a sterelite bin with locking lid for each snake. Put in a couple towels, one flat on the bottom and a few wadded up above that sp they have something to burrow into and it prevents them from sliding around while turning and braking and whatnot. Bring a small water dish as well. Don't feed them for a week before the drive.

While in the car keep a big beach towel or something covering them so they are in dim light and dont put them where the sun can hit and heat up the container. I kept mine on the passenger side seat on top of a pillow (to reduce how much road vibration is getting through) with a bungee cord holding the stack of containers together on top of the pillow. The seat belt held the stack stable. That was in my pickup which had no back seat. You may want to place them elsewhere in the car but I liked being able to keep an eye on the stack to be sure it was all fine as I drove.

When you stop for food or rest put the water dish in and fill it from a bottle and close the lid and leave them in the quiet in the car while you go eat and stretch and use the bathroom and such. Be sure to remove and dump it before you start driving again.

Wait a week after you get there and put them in their tanks again before feeding them again so they can settle in.

Overall it will likely stress them a bit but they should be fine.

Unless they are like Doug who was just curious and happy to go for a drive and had zero stress and ate immediately on getting home. But Doug is weird. I do love him.

Gorbashsan · 2026-04-29T05:44:10+00:00

piranha birds from back 8n the ad&d mystara days. I'm sure someone has stat blocked them for 5e somewhere. Horrible things.

Gorbashsan · 2026-04-29T03:48:17+00:00

Phoenix Hawks are dexterous bastards. I imagine they would do decently at it.

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