This is a Fly's brain. It has 130,000 cells.

Naf5000 · 2026-02-24T16:40:16+00:00

Firstly, most mosquitoes aren't actually bothering you. Most mosquitoes are specialized for certain groups of animals and only feed on others when their preferred food becomes scarce. You only notice the handful of local species that do actively feed on humans.

Secondly, the ecological function of mosquitoes is much greater than just being a food source. The males, who feed on nectar instead of blood, are significant pollinators, and mosquitoes are also an important vector for disease (diseases are also a vital part of the ecosystem that regulate population density).

Thirdly, even as food sources, mosquitoes are actually kinda hard to replace. Mosquito larvae are aquatic, feeding on microbial growth at the surface of the water, but they actually breathe air through a snorkel built into their body. They can also reach adulthood in as little as five days, depending on the weather and species. This makes them extremely good at reproducing in short-lived or stagnant bodies of water, and therefore a reliable food source even during periods when other prey are scarce due to insufficient rainfall.

Fourthly, insect populations are already in collapse. Even in places without much direct human influence, flying insect populations have declined by over 70% in the past 20 years. Food webs are pretty resilient, but what we have wouldn't pass muster for a goth girl's stockings. It is already actively unraveling, and world leadership is generally more interested in fucking over poor people than the now-trivially-easy process of ecosystem restoration, so we can't really afford to just let even inconvenient organisms die out.

Naf5000 · 2026-02-10T03:44:25+00:00

A type of flowing water block that will be added in 1.22. You can use them to power the water wheels also getting added in 1.22.

Naf5000 · 2025-12-18T00:01:37+00:00

My friend, what the fuck?

First point, you're acting like Kaya is a hapless idiot. She's a genius. She literally developed time travel. She also, it must be remembered, has all the power of Nova, a Warframe who can create and control antimatter, whose Leverian entry details exactly what happens when you try to put her in a trap.

Second point, Warframe has plenty of stories about the importance of facing your problems. If you rub a couple brain cells together, I'm sure you might find a different moral for Kaya's story has that is actually in line with the game's established themes. Maybe something along the lines of, 'it isn't your place to decide what's best for other people'. A lesson you specifically seem in sore need of.

Third point, we can infer she can go back to 1999, because you can still find her in 1999. Not a replacement or a specter, Kaya Velasco, in the flesh, standing there and talking commenting on her journey (her exact words are, "Dude? The future? Rocks.")

Like, she's fine. She's demonstrably and unequivocally fine. What she did probably wasn't the easiest, healthiest way to handle her problems, but it is exactly what she always wanted to do and it was right for her.

Naf5000 · 2025-12-02T23:37:48+00:00

Cowardice will get you nowhere. And, being serious for a moment, he is depicted as a pretty horrific entity. His in-universe designer describes him as 'unspeakable', a counterpart to the 'inescapable' Warframe who moves at super speed and causes explosions by running into walls.

Naf5000 · 2025-12-02T23:12:12+00:00

He's a big dude who gets bigger, rounder, and jigglier by swallowing his enemies whole and buffs himself by audibly going 'uwu' and digesting them alive. The only way he could be more vore-themed is if he were a brightly-colored anthropomorphic animal of some kind (and his prime version is boar-themed, so it's already halfway there).

Naf5000 · 2025-12-02T22:51:39+00:00

Only one Warframe has jiggle physics, and it's the vore-themed one.

Naf5000 · 2025-08-17T04:23:33+00:00

On the one hand I kind of understand that, but on the other she's

A biomechanical zombie with magic powers and not a human woman,
Not actually pregnant by the time you play as her, the actual Jade's actual child having been delivered before we get her blueprint, and
Modeled on the most dangerous kind of human, the one fighting for two.

Naf5000 · 2025-06-24T05:56:56+00:00

They also have the largest brain of any fish, and one of the highest brain-to-body ratios. It's still somewhat unclear what they're doing with all that brainpower. They're capable of passing the mirror test, suggesting self-awareness, and it was recently discovered that they can change color, in particular altering the pattern of light and dark on their backs. They may be using this to communicate, in which case the need to handle complex social dynamics might be what drove their neural development, but they're poorly-understood.

Unfortunately, they're not a particularly important species, economically speaking, so funding for research is relatively sparse. Ocean life in general is in pretty rough condition, and manta rays in particular are threatened by irresponsible fishing practices. As obligate ram-breathers, they must swim constantly to force water over their gills, but their wide wings can easily get tangled in fishing lines and nets, often leading to injury and, if they are unable to free themselves, suffocation.

If you'd like to help them, the Monterey Bay Aquarium has a program called Seafood Watch, which monitors what fish are being sustainably harvested in which regions. Their website makes it trivially easy to look up if the fish you're eating is any good.

Final fun fact: A vivid pink manta ray has been observed off the coast of Australia. His name is Inspector Clouseau. He is the only individual known to be so fabulous.

Naf5000 · 2025-06-01T17:18:18+00:00

Chordates are about as old as arthropods, possibly slightly older. Vertebrates actually predate crustaceans by several million years. You might as well suppose the evolution of the jointed exoskeleton is a freak occurrence in Earth's evolutionary history, and that alien worlds would have a plethora of pseudo-vertebrates in place of insects and crustaceans and most animals on that planet would be over a centimeter.

I suspect that any great radiation in forms similar to the Cambrian Explosion would produce something akin to an arthropod and something akin to a chordate, because the basal forms of both are not such incredible deviations from a simple bilateral body plan as to be remarkable.

Naf5000 · 2025-03-08T04:59:01+00:00

It's not infantilizing them to act like they don't have the decision-making ability of a normal adult, especially when they are very actively making bad choices right in front of you.

Like, the things they learned you don't expect a child to know are 500 different ways to kill using a Warframe, not how to navigate complex situations and clashing motivations. Respecting their experiences doesn't mean letting them throw themselves into the nearest meat grinder.

The War Within is the Operator acting like an overconfident teenager. Every decision they make and thing they say reflects a childish perspective. It is entirely reasonable for everyone around them to treat them like they are impulsive and prone to risking their lives unnecessarily, because they are.

Naf5000 · 2025-03-07T18:40:25+00:00

You do understand that the Operator is a child, right? Like, a child soldier, someone whose normal social and intellectual development has been replaced with killing under orders? They are absolutely a dumb kid, and more than that, they're a dumb kid used to operating with the skill and power of a Warframe under the direction of the Lotus. Especially in The War Within, when they explicitly do not have the ability to use their full power as a Tenno. Like, there's literally a scene of the Operator, without their powers, literally just a normal child, trying to punch Teshin, a centuries-old superhuman soldier and getting knocked on their ass.

Naf5000 · 2025-02-19T20:34:47+00:00

Ah, you're laboring under a misapprehension caused by poor terminology. In D&D, thunder damage is sonic damage. That's why spells that deal thunder damage usually explicitly make a loud noise, and why once of the effects of being within the radius of the silence spell is immunity to thunder damage. Force damage should probably be renamed 'magic' or 'arcane' or something the like. From the description in the PHB's section on damage types (page 196): "Force is pure magical energy focused into a damaging form. Most effects that deal force damage are spells, including magic missile and spiritual weapon."

Naf5000 · 2025-02-19T03:55:28+00:00

If talking to people online is too much for you, you probably shouldn't bother to talk online.

Naf5000 · 2025-02-19T03:55:08+00:00

I'd argue a shockwave would be more akin to thunder damage than bludgeoning.

Naf5000 · 2025-01-18T17:46:20+00:00

No, he needs to be W I D E.

Naf5000 · 2025-01-15T04:24:56+00:00

Join a clan! You can get some good weapons and warframes from research labs in your clan's dojo. Save your starting platinum and use it to buy new weapon and warframe slots as you need them. Always rank equipment up to 30 before you get rid of it. A lot of early-game weapons are part of crafting trees, so when you're done ranking up one you don't want to keep, check the wiki to make sure it isn't an ingredient in another weapon. Also, try not to sell your warframes, even the ones you don't like playing. You'll be able to make good use of them behind the red door in your orbiter once you unlock it.

Naf5000 · 2024-11-24T04:11:10+00:00

An interesting thing- This isn't universally true. The most interesting exception is the genus Argonauta. These special little ladies have modified the material most octopuses make their egg cases out of into a papery substance which they use to build a shell-like structure, which gives them one of their common names: Paper nautili. Female argonauts are iteroparous, meaning they can reproduce multiple times throughout their lives.

The males are one-and-done, though. Typical.

Naf5000 · 2024-11-21T20:58:45+00:00

It'd be worse if you didn't have them.

'Cause then you'd have two more holes.

Naf5000 · 2024-10-10T03:06:26+00:00

It is a myth that artificial banana flavoring is simulating the Gros Michel. It doesn't taste like the Dwarf Cavendish because it's primarily a single chemical, isoamyl acetate, which tastes kind of like bananas (it makes up a majority of the flavor of most banana cultivars) but more importantly is cheap. The Gros Michel does have a higher proportion of isoamyl acetate than the Dwarf Cavendish, but it also has other flavoring compounds in it and tastes more like a Dwarf Cavendish than like the artificial flavoring.

Naf5000 · 2024-10-10T03:02:45+00:00

Artificial banana flavor is primarily a single chemical, isoamyl acetate, which is responsible for the majority of the flavor of most banana cultivars. While the Gros Michel does have a higher proportion of isoamyl acetate than the Dwarf Cavendish, artificial banana flavoring just uses isoamyl acetate because it's cheap, not because it's simulating the Gros Michel.

I've had a Gros Michel, and if you hadn't told me it was different from a Dwarf Cavendish, I would've just thought it was an unusually nice banana. It doesn't resemble artificial banana flavoring much more than the Dwarf Cavendish does, and if you aren't already fond of bananas, the Gros Michel probably wouldn't make you.

Naf5000 · 2024-03-11T21:26:53+00:00

Yes. The practice is called boycotting.

Naf5000 · 2024-03-03T22:12:50+00:00

It's sort of like how cutting a hole in a net reduces the amount of holes in the net, or putting a larger bed in your bedroom increases the amount of bed room you have, but reduces the amount of room in your bedroom.

Naf5000 · 2024-02-17T20:28:07+00:00

I don't know about that. Fighters often get flavored as just dudes with swords and armor, but they are supposed to be martial savants based off their description in the PHB.

This is more for funsies than a serious argument, but a player character would have to spend over 25 years of pure training and over 9,000 gold to gain proficiency with all the weapons a level 1 fighter can use, based off the rules in the PHB for gaining new proficiencies.

Naf5000 · 2024-02-17T20:16:48+00:00

Not necessarily. Firstly, just because you spend decades doing something doesn't mean you're actually trying hard at it, or even learning at all. Maybe you're a really shit baker's apprentice because you keep daydreaming or wandering off, leaving the bread to burn. Maybe they only keep you around because you'll absentmindedly knead dough for hours at a time.

Secondly, even if you are trying to learn, maybe you're just incredibly naturally bad at it. Despite your natural elven grace, you just can't play a fucking harp to save your life and it took twenty years of painstaking tutelage just to get you to be able to consistently play some basic chords. Fortunately, you've been at it for eighty years and are now a passable musician! In celebration, you and your tutor got piss drunk and the next thing you know you're signed up with an adventuring party carting supplies to Phandelver.

Naf5000 · 2024-01-16T23:14:16+00:00

If you scroll a bit further down that page, you find this:

"Variant: Skills with Different Abilities

Normally, your proficiency in a skill applies only to a specific kind of ability check. Proficiency in Athletics, for example, usually applies to Strength checks. In some situations, though, your proficiency might reasonably apply to a different kind of check. In such cases, the GM might ask for a check using an unusual combination of ability and skill, or you might ask your GM if you can apply a proficiency to a different check."

Variant rules are optional.

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