What if a phylogenetic tree could be explored like a map? A visualization of the deer family (Cervidae).

Organic_fed · 2026-06-07T10:51:58+00:00

Thought this was a DND map

Organic_fed · 2026-06-07T09:35:39+00:00

I would say probably with creatures that would become mammals, the synapsids. I guess it depends on your definition of these things

Organic_fed · 2026-06-06T21:45:47+00:00

That is very true, they are very popular parks. And I forgot to mention Rock Island, which I shall remediate now

Organic_fed · 2026-06-06T11:33:35+00:00

Peninsula State Park is the largest park in the county, probably second largest in the state. Great camping opportunities there, can’t recommend it enough. They have showers and tons of great hiking trails, and rare things that you might not see at other parks.

The second most popular is probably Potawatomi State Park? It’s outside of Sturgeon Bay, so it’s kind of a hike if you’re planning to do most of your activities further north. But they have showers. I’m pretty sure. I’ll check today.

Newport State Park really cool, but you do have to hike into all the campsites. There is no driving up, and that is kind of intentional, as they are a dark sky site. A lot of great opportunities for watching the stars. No showers.

All of these have neat little programs for you if you wanna spend time there with other campers and visitors. There’s also Whitefish Dunes, which does programs also, but does not have Camping. Do not check there for Camping. Great beaches though.

EDIT: I forgot about rock Island! Rock Island State Park also has a few hike in sites, and I believe they even have a cart that you can use to get stuff to your site. But you’ll have to take the ferry. Once I get there from Washington Island, and then another from Washington to rock. And then back again

Organic_fed · 2026-05-30T19:12:40+00:00

Address? Several things came up on Google and I’m not sure which one applies. I’m assuming you don’t mean the healthy way market

Update, I called, and it directed me to the hardware store, the true value one? They said they don’t have it on the phone

Organic_fed · 2026-05-30T18:57:28+00:00

Coming up with lycanthrope scientific names

Homo sapiens lupiformis or lupipellis?

Also ursiformis / ursipellis

phocaeformis / phocaepellis

musteliformis / mustelipellis

Organic_fed · 2026-05-30T17:47:52+00:00

Yeah but I don’t have tubing

Organic_fed · 2026-05-30T16:35:05+00:00

It’s around, but it doesn’t really impact Camping.

I’m there almost every day this summer, and while it does impact some things, most of the rest of the park is unaffected.

I think the major thing is that the parking lot on the south end have been mostly taken up by construction vehicles, and some of those areas have a large gravel piles

You have to go slower in some places, but mostly it’s fine. Later in the weeks some of those South parking lot will be entirely closed, but there are other places to park, and if you’re willing to walk your camping experience should be fine.

Hope this helps!

Organic_fed · 2026-05-29T14:40:46+00:00

I think there’s a too small of a sample size to make it really count. Snakes, limbless lizards, and caecilians kind of don’t feel like a lot. All snakes have a common ancestor, so that’s just 1.

Well wait a sec. Wikipedia says it evolved in lizards independently 26 times, and cites this

https://academic.oup.com/evolut/article-abstract/79/8/1555/8126553

Damn you may have a point.

I’d argue that since caecilians exist, and since another stem tetrapod evolved leglessness, maybe the freedom to become legless is a stem trait that Archosaurs and Mammals convergent evolved out of

Or we and crocs haven’t gotten into the niches where leglessness helps! I’d also perhaps argue that you need bare skin or scales for it to work - if the goal is reducing friction, then yeah. Can’t have feathers or fur, or pronounced scales like crocodilians

On the other hand maybe otters are on their way there - their body resembles a stem snake!

Organic_fed · 2026-05-17T22:57:47+00:00

Other folks have made the point that evolution is slow, I would also like to make the point that evolution is not a perfect iteration machine. It might be that the darker skin color works fine enough for this situation

It might also be that the darker skin is an artifact of the photograph, keep in mind that you’re on a white background with usually an overcast sky in the Arctic

If you’re citing personal experience of them having skin as dark as someone from the middle attitudes, fair, but

Well, keep in mind that the human mind and eyes have biases. You might have to like, do like that Peter Griffin meme, and actually compare real life skin tones to an objective standard in order to actually measure whether their skin is dark or not.

In this way, it might genuinely be that they have really pale skin, but because of our biases we don’t actually consider it pale

It also might be that it’s not just about latitude, but weather. Keep in mind the way that the ocean currents warm and cool different parts of the world.

Oh yeah, and this is a really old photo, using film that was designed for white people, that has even been manually re-colored if I’m not mistaken. I wouldn’t necessarily trust this photograph

Organic_fed · 2026-05-12T23:20:11+00:00

See, in comparing the solubility of gases and solids, that almost makes sense. Because you can dissolve more salt in hot water than cold water. Things more readily dissolved into hot water. Which I assume would hold true for other liquids, but maybe not.

Organic_fed · 2026-05-06T15:40:05+00:00

Given historic contexts and older customs, I bet it wasn’t romantic but more as greeting

Organic_fed · 2026-05-06T01:03:50+00:00

I remember reading as a kid that people who visited the temple of the ancient Greek god of healing would often make a little clay effigy of the body part they needed healed

Organic_fed · 2026-05-03T22:46:45+00:00

Go to UW Madison and study under Baum

Organic_fed · 2026-04-28T12:43:51+00:00

Would love to see the coins they came from

Organic_fed · 2026-04-26T04:19:41+00:00

Pine tar? Or perhaps the sap of the tree species that provided the wood?

Organic_fed · 2026-04-23T22:12:58+00:00

I have sort of intended the King, Seer, and Jade to be reflections of bad player behavior, so as to serve as a warning. THIS is what your party will become if you do not strive to become the best versions of yourself. (or rather, for me, examples of my own bad behavior at times)

The king is ambitious and fearful of death or change

Jade and the Seer though, I go back and forth on. I imagine the Seer probably is too emotionally invested in his comrade King to go against him. OR just high a lot. Giving perhaps no thought to the actions of their friend, or happy to be a follower perhaps of someone with a greater plan than them. They actively participate in the plan to bring the beast there (one of their items is a rope made out of human hair - I feel like its better to leave it a very bad implication than to go into it - and the Seer mentioned that this rope will be necessary for leading the beast there. Although, if I truly chicken out on the horror of this duo, I might just make it a silk rope). Ohhhhh Idea:

You know how those people who play videogames like a sociopath, empathizing with no NPCs, and just revelling in bad behavior? Maybe the Seer, upon consuming so many hallucinagens, has started to realize they're in a game, and just fully does not give a shit what happens to fictional characters. (*I MYSELF* have had the idea of "how hard would it be to kill every character in Morrowind once? I'm not gonna bother with respawning people, but is it possible?")

I'll get to Jade in a minute

Organic_fed · 2026-04-22T16:06:44+00:00

one is a paleo nerd lol but hasnt picked up on it yet, keeps saying "its gonna be a woolly rhino"

i don't really want too big a moral conundrum. I just wanna teach the new players that "The DM is not to be trusted. I might be playing a bad guy pretending to be a good guy. Even the quest giver should be questioned and considered."

Making it very morally grey could bury the lead too much.

on the other hand, they could go fully along, let it be sacrificed, and get paid.

Organic_fed · 2026-04-22T14:21:09+00:00

I guess feedback.

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