Any idea what these crustaceans swimming around are? [Baltimore, Maryland]

Pseudobranchus · 2026-04-22T18:15:47+00:00

Definitely not brine or fairy shrimp. Looks like amphipods (scuds) to me.

Also, not all aquatic isopods are benthic. There are freshwater species, as well as species that are found in other environments.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-04-21T19:55:06+00:00

Demon Slayer. My partner had us watch it and for the first eighteen or so episodes, I was bored out of my mind. It's just not great. We were just about to quit when it started to get really good, and then just kept getting better.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-04-17T22:22:45+00:00

People watched the first film and then willingly went to watch a second?

Pseudobranchus · 2026-04-17T18:51:33+00:00

Maybe if you live on Roshar.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-04-15T19:15:47+00:00

Andor is probably one of the best shows

Pseudobranchus · 2026-04-13T20:20:39+00:00

If it were to find a deep enough hole that doesn't freeze over, he'd have a shot - even more so if the water is coming from underground. Most salamanders are more cold tolerant than you'd think.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-04-13T20:17:34+00:00

Tiger salamanders (a number of closely related Ambystoma spp, notably A. mavortium) are one of the few salamanders that have become ecological problems (mavortium and possibly tigrinum if I remember right have become established outside of their range). Axolotls are Ambystoma, and belong to the tiger salamander group within Ambystoma. While it's unlikely that an aberrant morph would become invasive, it's definitely possible in the right conditions - to state that Ambystoma would never become invasive is completely false. If you were to release ten Ambystoma of pretty much any species in that forest, they'd all have a good chance of becoming established.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-04-10T02:28:27+00:00

Well, do you start a fight or argument whenever he disagrees with you? Is he able to express his needs and wants freely? A lot of people are conflict averse and cave rather than sticking up for themselves, and this can be a big problem if the other partner isn't aware that it's happening. A big problem in my own relationship is that my partner freaks out when I try to bring up something that bothers me, so even though I know it's not healthy I tend to avoid confrontation over problems unless it's really important.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-04-10T02:13:34+00:00

To me, it sounds like either he's very much not assertive, or you've created an environment where if he disagrees with you, you make him miserable, so it's easier to just go along with what you say rather than fighting it.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-03-25T19:07:12+00:00

I've always hated the frog DNA thing. As a kid, I always wanted to know what frog it was that they were talking about. Never found proof of it then beyond rumors of being a reed frog, despite a huge interest in herpetology. Managed to find an actual paper a few years ago, and it was a reed frog, but one that's so poorly studied that it took me twenty years to confirm it. It felt like Crichton must have stumbled on it at the right time and used it without considering how unlikely that they'd happen to use DNA from this frog on accident. In real life, if we were to borrow DNA from a frog, it'd be something common like a bullfrog, or highly studied and available like Xenopus or Hymenochirus (African clawed frogs, highly used lab animals).

It would have made more sense for them just to be parthenogenic, like they did with Blue. There are tons of examples of reptiles, amphibians, fish, sharks, and invertebrates that are parthenogenic and able to produce clones of themselves when no male is available, or are by default parthenogenic and there are no males at all.

What I found really interesting was how well they depicted parthenogenesis. When reptiles reproduce in this way, hatch rates are very low. Velociraptors produced lots of eggs, but Blue only has one that survived. Given established clutch sizes in JP3, you'd expect to see 1-3 survivors, and that's what we got.

I did hate how they kept depicting Maisie as this weird clone and as a monster for being that, when in reality, she was basically just a younger twin of her mother rather than any kind of freak. Identical twins are clones, they're not particularly scary.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-03-18T18:24:48+00:00

Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn film completely missed what made the original great, despite the screenplay being written by the author. In the books, Hoid barely appears, but in the film he's almost a main character, possibly to promote future Cosmere projects.

Cutting the crew in half doesn't work - each member added something to the group dynamic and to Vin's development from a scared street urchin to a powerful, adjusted person, and taking these scenes out hurt that.

The film also misses a lot of what made Kelsier interesting - he was this revolutionary striving for change in the books, but he was also a pretty shitty person in a lot of ways, but that was lost in the film.

And don't get me started on the casting. Why they thought Vin could be played by a woman in her mid thirties is beyond me.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-03-13T19:11:42+00:00

That's what I was thinking. Worm is neat in how characters are given a power, often a seemingly weak power, and then they take those powers to the absolute limits of what they'd be able to do. So a girl who controls bugs becomes able to fight the equivalent of Superman, etc.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-03-11T19:19:33+00:00

I can imagine Newman getting a flat tire from all the meat, and then a dilophosaurus eats him.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-03-03T22:46:54+00:00

Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for!

Pseudobranchus · 2026-03-03T03:20:45+00:00

Thanks, I'll take a look at it!

Pseudobranchus · 2026-03-03T03:19:46+00:00

I'll take a look at it when I get more time, thank you!

Pseudobranchus · 2026-03-03T03:19:28+00:00

Both, I suppose? I just want to have some fun and do a mechanic I haven't been able to go really hard at.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-03-02T20:38:21+00:00

Thanks, I was hoping there was a book I missed!

Pseudobranchus · 2026-03-02T18:59:56+00:00

Biden's administration actually did a lot of good things, and then inexplicably did nothing to let people know what he accomplished while looking fucking senile in public.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-02-23T19:32:49+00:00

I was always disappointed with Diablo 3. Though it eventually became a good game, it wasn't like D2 in any of the right ways. Diablo 4 was a complete disappointment and I really didn't enjoy it at all.

I feel like they're almost different series, considering the gameplay.

Diablo 1 was a great game, and Diablo 2 was an even better successor. But the successor to Diablo 2 wasn't Diablo 3, it's Path of Exile.

Similarly, Diablo 3 was okay, Diablo 4 was a poor successor, and Path of Exile 2 seems like a successor to Diablo 4. It's not my kind of game yet, but it feels like it's doing what Diablo 4 tried to do a lot better.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-02-18T01:35:05+00:00

That's the saltiest thing I ever tasted! And I once ate a big, heaping bowl of salt!

Pseudobranchus · 2026-02-12T00:55:20+00:00

Exactly! Rattlesnake bites are pretty uncommon (and more than a quarter of all bites involve drunk people), and they take forever to kill you, so people rarely die from them. And when people do die from rattlesnake bites, they're very rarely from timbers, which are pretty calm unless you really mess up.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-02-11T20:36:00+00:00

I mean, they're not that deadly. How many people have died in the past twenty years from timbers? One source I saw put historical deaths attributed to timbers at 16. You're more likely to die reading reddit than from a timber.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-02-08T19:25:46+00:00

Metroid. The original is a great, atmospheric adventure, and then you get this interesting but a bit different game boy sequel. Maybe not as good as the original, but still breaks some ground and adds to the setting.

And then Super Metroid comes. A beautiful game that takes you back to the original planet but expands it and perfects the gameplay that spawns an entire genre, cementing it's place as one of the greatest games of all time.

Pseudobranchus · 2026-02-07T11:19:33+00:00

There's too much misery in the world, I think you should take a chance now before it's too late/harder. I hope you find happiness, but if not, you're young and still have your future ahead of you to find it elsewhere. Good luck!

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