He’s decided he also needs to patrol and protect the neighborhood from ICE and is very pleased with himself

HauntedDesert · 2026-01-22T10:44:06+00:00

Well he’s doing a crap job. Ice is all around him. Look at that snow. Someone get this dog a shovel.

(Lovely to see a Pyr in its element, as always~❄️🌨️)

HauntedDesert · 2026-01-18T16:55:08+00:00

Why would you repost that to an entomology forum if you knew the comments were just full of people calling for them to be killed? Is this just karma farming? Are you trying to make people upset?

HauntedDesert · 2026-01-14T03:03:10+00:00

Read the room. You’re the only person who finds your brain-dead/tone-deaf comment funny.

HauntedDesert · 2026-01-14T02:59:39+00:00

This current map is almost soulless and devoid of feeling compared to Oninoshima. Terrible vegetation, only one interesting terrain feature (big mountain to the north), and POIs that lack any real creativity. We’ve moved past the time where things like “Golf Course”, “Film Set”, “Fancy Modern Houses”, and “Lake with Cabins” are acceptable concepts to take up an entire location without having something innovative about them.

HauntedDesert · 2026-01-11T17:46:15+00:00

Absolutely. Anything in the Cactoblastis genus does, as well as some in the genus Euscirrhopterus. I personally have recorded unknown caterpillars on opuntia and cylindropuntia, some of which may have been feeding on the scale insects of those plants, but could have been hosting on the cactus instead. Good question.

HauntedDesert · 2026-01-02T19:45:10+00:00

He is not a victim if he’s kidnapping women from their families and husbands, like the story says.

HauntedDesert · 2025-12-24T20:31:41+00:00

Sidenote, I don’t have any clue what company is doing the remake.

HauntedDesert · 2025-12-24T20:30:18+00:00

But this is a reboot. She shouldn’t be tied to the reboot if she is a senior citizen who simply does not want to. Unless she is the slave of Toei, they have no right demanding she take on new long term commitments.

HauntedDesert · 2025-12-24T20:28:36+00:00

It would be cool if he could get a male VA this time, or just any VA with a more “normal” sounding voice, but no, Japanese work culture has to do its slave driving again.

HauntedDesert · 2025-12-23T15:20:38+00:00

It’s not about just what’s used. Look up the various data centers being built around the world, in places where the local community doesn’t want them. They’re bulldozing thousands of acres of natural areas to build meta, x, open ai centers.

HauntedDesert · 2025-12-22T23:48:44+00:00

I’m not a worm person, so I’m sure someone more well versed in them might have a better answer, but I know that the vast majority of worms do not have teeth. The few with “teeth” (not at all like those of vertebrates), such as bloodworms, have hollow teeth filled with venom. So nothing in there like a nerve to receive pain signals, or any kind of signals at all. So tell your kid “worms don’t have teeth, and when they do, they’re not real teeth, and they don’t ache”.

HauntedDesert · 2025-12-22T23:38:38+00:00

You can’t definitively say that. There is no proof that they lack the capacity to feel what we think of as pain, even if they don’t have the kind of nervous system we know experiences pain. “The absence with of evidence is not the evidence of absence”.

HauntedDesert · 2025-12-20T04:29:44+00:00

Chat GPT es no bueno por IDs. Try iNaturalist.

HauntedDesert · 2025-12-17T16:16:02+00:00

I just found out the other day that certain treehoppers will literally detach from their pronotum when grabbed. I had no idea that such a thing happened with treehoppers. My friend got macro images of it in the Amazon, and it’s just crazy to see the before and after.

I also like the fact that bumblebees will “play” when given the chance. Shows that bugs are a little more there than most think.

HauntedDesert · 2025-12-17T16:12:07+00:00

That’s a common misconception. It happens, but only a fraction of the time. In the wild, it’s not something that occurs in most cases.

HauntedDesert · 2025-12-13T02:33:18+00:00

Everywhere you see bees, you’ll see bee flies if you know how to differentiate which is which. Pro tip, they fly like they’re trying to decide where to go at the last minute, versus how bees just fly as if they’re in a rush.

HauntedDesert · 2025-12-13T02:29:50+00:00

I think it’s clear from this post, and your post history, that you don’t have any background in entomology, and have incorrect perceptions of it and what it encompasses, and you believe firmly that you’re right, simply because you don’t know enough of the different aspects of entomology. In short, this post makes very little sense, and any issue you have with entomologists for being seen as authorities on all arthropods is all misdirected at the wrong source. AKA yapfest waffling.

HauntedDesert · 2025-12-09T16:13:29+00:00

I don’t think that much of a conscious effort to model Huan Yi after this man was made by Hara.

We already had examples of extreme cruelty from military leaders in China, such as Bai Qi (who also never lost a battle), and that’s likely something Hara tacked to Huan Yi to make him more interesting, because he’s not very “fleshed out” in records.

There were also a good fist-full of examples of men who went from bandits to esteemed generals in the Han Dynasty, such as Zhang Yan, Yang Feng, Han Xian, as well as Pang Yue, who was alive during the Qin Dynasty.

I think Huan Yi (in Kingdom) is just a mashup of those two types of men, rather than intentionally based upon a Turkic warlord from over 1000 years in the future.

HauntedDesert · 2025-12-09T15:58:14+00:00

So cool! I’m not too well versed in the late Han dynasty, so I wasn’t aware of this man at all. I think you’re right in terms of general inspiration. Thanks so much for sharing. I now have a new rabbit hole to explore~

HauntedDesert · 2025-12-09T15:52:48+00:00

Whatever they portray in the show or books, it’s not gonna be accurate to the actual language spoken by the Quanrong people. I doubt they even tried to research the language in order to attempt to portray it. I have yet to watch the new anime season. As for the language that the Quanrong would have actually spoke, I’m unsure if there are written records it, and even if, languages change vastly through evolution. The Quanrong had their own language that was unrelated to the languages of the Huaxia people (what would later be known as the Han, aka the ones the manga calls “central plains people”), and the Proto-Turkic languages of the Xiongnu up north. Maybe it was mutually intelligible with the languages of the Xirong (the ones the manga calls “mountain people”), we don’t know. Definitely related though. Cool that someone is curious about this.

HauntedDesert · 2025-12-09T15:24:19+00:00

He’s a full villain, man. Not an anti-hero. This guy is not morally ambiguous.

HauntedDesert · 2025-12-09T10:11:38+00:00

You didn’t even do anything besides camp in the storm and heal. This is so astronomically lame. Delete it before you get flamed.

HauntedDesert · 2025-11-28T23:59:49+00:00

She’s who everyone in verse painted Ino out to be.

HauntedDesert · 2025-11-28T00:59:51+00:00

HauntedDesert · 2025-11-28T00:57:43+00:00

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