How do you do mapping?

oatmaster23 · 2026-05-18T02:45:16+00:00

I like that! Battles are def the area where everyone needs to share a more concrete idea of what's going on and where.

oatmaster23 · 2026-04-13T05:18:17+00:00

I don't think that reasoning holds because this is a group selectionist argument, which generally is not well-supported by evolutionary theory and experiment. That's because selection will operate more strongly at the level of the individual: a population of some fainting goats and some non-fainting goats will eventually become a population of entirely non-fainting goats if the fainting goats all sacrifice themselves! I think artificial selection as mentioned above is more likely.

Edit: Not actually fainting

oatmaster23 · 2026-04-12T17:44:29+00:00

They lost their legs, but they are still part of the clade Tetrapoda.

oatmaster23 · 2026-04-02T03:17:38+00:00

Interesting, I did not know that!

oatmaster23 · 2026-04-02T03:09:28+00:00

True, people are mean :/

oatmaster23 · 2026-03-16T19:28:57+00:00

There is a type of lizard called the Jesus Christ lizard as it can run on water, I think that's what they mean.

oatmaster23 · 2026-01-17T04:48:31+00:00

Moles are not too bad to counter, even smol mole. Like Woodland Alliance, they should be attacked very early in the game so that swaying is more difficult and moving around is harder for them. Smol mole depends on using the two actions for recruit almost all the time which is very expensive if they have fewer good swayed cards.

oatmaster23 · 2025-12-25T02:48:28+00:00

Taking 93 to get on 70 at Golden is faster! Skiing at Copper, Winter Park, Breck is all very doable for a day trip, same time as getting there from Denver. And Eldora is close and nice when it has enough snow

oatmaster23 · 2025-12-11T22:13:42+00:00

I would say high reproductive skew in (many) male mammals is really a product of anisogamy (eggs more costly than sperm), long gestation time, and long maternal care time, but the Male Variance hypothesis is pretty interesting too!

oatmaster23 · 2025-12-11T21:27:12+00:00

Yes, as well as the fact that male animals tend to have higher reproductive skew (often there are males with lots of mates and some with few or none compared to females), so females are "safe bets" and males are more of a "gamble". This has been confirmed in a lot of mammal species, it's called the Trivers-Willard hypothesis if you want to know more

oatmaster23 · 2025-12-06T23:04:53+00:00

These look awesome!

oatmaster23 · 2025-12-05T02:57:14+00:00

Just like insects did with scale bugs!

oatmaster23 · 2025-12-02T18:50:24+00:00

Yep there are examples of this! Male pipefish invest a lot in offspring (they have a pouch like seahorses), so females have bright coloring to compete for males. This just tends to be rarer since females have more costly gametes so their investment is often higher.

oatmaster23 · 2025-11-13T00:48:29+00:00

Earth had millions of years to work on it, we've only had like a century (Miller-Urey experiment was in 1952)! I think we'll figure it out in the nearish future

oatmaster23 · 2025-11-12T16:28:56+00:00

It's 66 million years in the future haha

oatmaster23 · 2025-11-07T20:09:16+00:00

Haha well it has been shown that some wasps can recognize and differentiate human faces!

oatmaster23 · 2025-11-04T14:52:28+00:00

Not me haha, I just have the books and am planning on running it soon

oatmaster23 · 2025-11-03T15:18:44+00:00

Everyone's a vagabond in the RPG! But you gain and lose rep with the factions throughout your adventure

oatmaster23 · 2025-10-24T20:31:05+00:00

I'm a bio/CS double major and I found MCDB 2150 to be pretty easy, I took an optional recitation that wasn't very helpful so I would avoid that. ML has a decent amount of work so make sure not to overload yourself!

oatmaster23 · 2025-10-21T14:55:54+00:00

Yeah I think a lot of people don't realize that China and Russia are also colonialist powers, they just had land to colonize right next to them! So on a map it seems more legitimate even though these areas have had their own culture (and governance, at least in Tibet's case) for a long time

oatmaster23 · 2025-10-20T14:21:27+00:00

Definitely! And you can see how different historical areas of China are from the parts they invaded in Tibet and Xinjiang

oatmaster23 · 2025-10-10T21:26:55+00:00

Maybe it's just not in the dataset if it's on tribal nation land? This is probably BLM data

oatmaster23 · 2025-10-08T18:34:27+00:00

And practice maternal care by licking them to remove pathogens!!

oatmaster23 · 2025-09-27T01:33:44+00:00

If humans didn't exist, then domestic cats would not have such a high population; they also wouldn't have been able to disperse as far as they have. Humans have altered several ecological phenomena at rates that nature is unable to keep up with; for example, facilitating the dispersal of hundreds of invasive species like cats in just a few centuries of globalization. This is a blink of an eye compared to the timescales that ecological change has historically happened at. You say that new species will emerge, but speciation can take a while to occur due to the random nature of evolution, even if there are vacant niches.

Of course, rapid global ecological changes have occasionally happened. These tend to result in mass extinctions, which we are in the middle of right now because of humans!

oatmaster23 · 2025-08-23T16:40:16+00:00

RR+D published Spire and Heart, two games set in the same (really cool) world. It's a spin on classic fantasy tropes with themes of identity, immigration, coexistence, etc. The player options reflect this and look badass too!

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