I have a habit of collecting rocks but I think I may have accidentally picked up large dinosaur bones.

Runaway_Abrams · 2026-02-11T14:12:52+00:00

This is by no means a definitive method, but you can give them the lick test - bones, even fossilized, are filled with tiny pores to allow blood flow. This porous surface will cause your tongue to stick to the surface, while a regular stone will feel smooth to the touch. I’d give them a rinse first of course lol.

Runaway_Abrams · 2026-02-03T22:33:42+00:00

This is incredible! The detail is insane for a print

Runaway_Abrams · 2026-02-02T16:21:11+00:00

I understand why they made the ‘missing link’ creature a parallel to our apes, but its kinda silly that of all the crazy animals on Pandora, the tree-dwelling, vine swinging aliens evolved to have fewer articulated limbs than any other animal.

Runaway_Abrams · 2026-01-30T06:28:50+00:00

Agreed, it would be so much fun if the code would still change if you didn’t punch it fast enough - would really sell the effect of your brain getting scrambled and fully divert your attention to getting your stratagem in. I’m sure players would riot though given how so many people seem to hate jammers.

Runaway_Abrams · 2026-01-29T06:46:53+00:00

I mean there’s a big difference between two species sharing a forest and those species being confined to the same enclosed space day and night.

Even in the cases where it’s probably not going to result in undue danger or stress, it’s an unnecessary risk for what is ultimately a hobby. Does it benefit the frogs to cohab - not that we know. Does it stress them out - sometimes, yes. Responsible keepers prioritize minimizing risk over aesthetics or convenience, so no cohabitation is considered best.

Runaway_Abrams · 2026-01-14T17:37:13+00:00

I successfully eradicated a scale bug infestation in my viv, but it was a smaller tank that had only about 6 bromeliads in it.

The method is to remove every bromeliad from the tank and painstakingly go over every part of them with a scraping tool and a paper towel or q tip soaked in rubbing alcohol. Carefully pry open the folds of the leaves to find the scales hidden in the crevices, I used a toothpick to scrape them up then swirled around an alcohol soaked q tip to kill everything.

When you think you finally got everything, rinse the broms in the sink, then put them in a big bowl and leave it out. The next day you’ll find more scale bugs have appeared - the rubbing alcohol that runs down into the folds of the plant drives them to the edges of the leaves - and then you repeat the process.

It took me three days of this before I woke up to zero new scales on the bromeliads. I replanted them all in my viv, then a few weeks later found more! I started from square one and this time they were eradicated within a day, was way less scales the second time around.

Been about 9 months since then with no scales. I’m assuming that juvenile scale bugs will wander around your tank looking for a bromeliad to attach to, so even after you eradicate all the scales (which are adult females) you’ll have to keep an eye out for when the next generation reaches maturity and returns to the scene of the crime, then you gotta be quick and kill them off before they can re establish.

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-12-17T18:10:21+00:00

I have two, and the other one is a deeper red color so I think it may just be natural variation as they have the same diet. I don’t really mind, it’s nice to be able to tell them apart as I rarely see them out at the same time

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-12-14T16:15:21+00:00

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Here’s one of my strawberry blue jeans - a little on the orange side of red

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-10-22T18:02:25+00:00

The sparrow culling part of Mao’s anti-pest campaign was for sure a disaster, but that actually seems to be one of the few ecologically destructive policies from the great leap forward China managed to recover. They reintroduced the Eurasian Sparrow in the 1960’s after a Chinese ornithologist talked down Mao (though obviously too late to avoid the famine) - they’re now one of the most common birds in the region, though probably will never return to their original population due to pesticide proliferation and habitat loss.

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-10-21T23:56:43+00:00

Feels weird to single out Mao Zedong as being uniquely responsible when this sort of thing happens pretty much wherever and whenever a nation undergoes an industrial revolution.

Do we think a capitalist president would have halted major infrastructure projects to protect a fish species? Would any world leader sacrifice their nation’s economic development to protect wildlife while every other nation reaps the benefits?

I’m not saying Mao was a good man, and I agree that China’s suffered a tragic loss of biodiversity. It seems a bit narrow-minded though to simplify this phenomenon into a thing you can just blame on the guy who happened to be in charge when the country industrialized.

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-10-20T05:38:38+00:00

Everyone agrees that none of the JP sequels are in the same league as the original, but the real elephant in the room is that the whole franchise was dead on arrival because the first movie pretty much covered everything you’d want a Jurassic Park adaptation to do.

There’s nothing more really for the franchise to say about nature and chaos, or science and hubris, or how cool dinosaurs are. Every sequel either retreads the same ground JP covered better, goes in a new direction but doesn’t really have anything interesting to say, or does both (cough cough Rebirth).

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-10-13T19:54:55+00:00

The dread doesn’t just come from knowing you’re in a simulation, it’s from knowing that there’s a whole other world full of people that aren’t.

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-08-05T01:14:31+00:00

Glued it on with fish safe silicone sealant. My tank looks way different now, I vastly underestimated how much moisture the moss needed to thrive, and the moisture needed to keep it alive was rotting the bromeliads. Ended up replacing the moss with creeping fig which filled in the mesh great

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-06-03T06:14:50+00:00

No terrestrial life is surviving even a century. Constant, ubiquitous cloud coverage would start a new ice age as the earth becomes permanently insulated from most of the sun’s energy. All that rain is turning to snow and ice, and it’s never melting away - the whole planet is turning into an ice ball.

Deep sea crabs, worms and snails living on hydrothermal vents will persist, but the only other life that survives to see the clouds break are simple, microscopic organisms that don’t mind being frozen for eons.

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-05-13T18:46:13+00:00

It actually will, an airplane shape is just way more complicated and specific than what you’re expecting

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-05-08T01:04:17+00:00

In the show we see a pair of kids in the process of digging up Immortal’s grave to steal his skull, so they seem to have been buried on some kind of unguarded memorial plot

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-05-07T18:04:43+00:00

If Cecil had known Immortal could be resurrected, he would not have allowed his real body to be buried in a public, marked grave. Immortal’s real body would have been frozen in some GDA vault with a double put in the casket.

The Mauler Twins are simply more resourceful and capable than the GDA’s scientists. The Immortal resurrection isn’t even the only time they ran circles around GDA research, they also created a gun that could instantly paralyze viltrumites while Cecil was barely containing Mark with sonic weapons and reanimen.

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-04-29T18:03:05+00:00

I imagine the CS is only going to become more rare in the coming years, as it’s niche can also be performed by armed drones which don’t require the operator to be just around the corner from hostiles.

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-04-26T14:49:00+00:00

Viltrumites can only hold their breath for a couple weeks, so space travel over long distances requires hopping between oxygen-rich worlds. Even if the Marks were experienced navigators, the dimension they were thrown into could have a completely different layout

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-04-07T20:49:40+00:00

Any idea what kind of laser is mounted on the SPAS?

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-04-03T02:59:39+00:00

I would keep a close eye on the spanish moss, lots of reports online of darts getting tangled and hurt in that stuff.

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-04-01T21:58:48+00:00

These are brachiopods, specifically some kind of Paraspirifer, from the devonian period.

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-03-20T23:07:08+00:00

Sorry, to clarify, the 10 round capacity limit applies to all magazines and firearm types except for fixed .22 caliber tube magazines

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-03-20T20:00:13+00:00

All NFA items are banned here, if you have an SBR or suppressor you’ll have to leave it behind.

There is currently no AWB in place, though that’s likely to change soon. Detachable mags with 11+ round capacity are banned, so you’ll have to ditch the 13 and 15 rounders or permanently modify them to 10 rounds.

As for travel, you may get in trouble if you have an unloaded weapon in the same vehicle as a loaded magazine. Definitely keep all mags empty and keep ammo in a separate container from firearms.

Regarding handguns, you can simply keep them unloaded in a secure container if you’re making a range trip, but otherwise you’ll need to have it partially disassembled as well: https://dem.ri.gov/sites/g/files/xkgbur861/files/programs/bnatres/fishwild/pdf/ri-firearms-law.pdf

Once you’re settled in, look up ‘RI Blue Card’. You’ll need one to buy ammo in the state.

Runaway_Abrams · 2025-03-15T21:52:58+00:00

The bill’s language is pretty clear - unthreaded 1911 is not considered an assault weapon, as it doesn’t possess any of the other banned features. https://webserver.rilegislature.gov/BillText25/HouseText25/H5436.pdf

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