Swarmy

Did ya get some hot dogs?

No I'm making some mean meatballs right now

Oh yum! We had some liver and meat baked with mushrooms and onions and mashed taters for dinner

All the iron!

Like fuck you and stuff

Charming as always.

You know me

Better than last month, that's for sure! People are starting to calm down.

When you propose to me

We gonna be a power couple? : o

We gonna glow like the sun man!

Why you're pm is not activated?

What? It works man! Just PM me...

I can't find the PM button

How's the pandemic there bro?

For me personally it is ok, I work remotely and there is no one that I know that has COV19!

Awesome!

So what's your name dude?

They attack each other on sight! Especially 2 males... I tried breeding them too but it's hard as hell.

i guess for breeding both parties need to be well fed before?

I've seen some videos of the YT channel DarkDen (maybe you even know it?) and he definitely lost some males to females when tryint to breed them lol.

Jumpers are just weird bugs... They are closer to mammals when it comes to behavior!

Sting sting sting

Bite, Bite, Bite

Nah I can't afford a VR set as well... I still have to finish the walkthrough but honestly I'm not that big of a fan of this particular entry. Somehow it doesn't really feel like HL.

I'm lucky enough to have a Rift, just not a powerful enough PC for Alyx in particular. I am a big fan, but I feel like it's more because I'm attached to the Half-Life 2 pieces of it. Like, seeing Civil Protection in higher res and such.

The production value is insane I can see that but the game feels a bit off and I don't know why... A bit too much humor and slow pace I guess.
I've always been a bigger fan of HL1 than 2 but yeah it almost surreal to see all of this in hi res... Especially the antlion which have been my favs since I was 14!

Prolly... My PSP broke some years ago. Which is sad cause I really liked that console... Monster Hunter was awesome on it!

Can't you repair it?
How did it break?

When this quarantine will finish?

Well it cracked after I dropped it hard
Also the battery is now swollen...

Who knows... The economy is going to hell...

The book was a whole lot more clear on that point (which makes sense since it was a Robert Heinlein book), the movie took alot of creative liberties with the source material to make it into an action movie so the original point is harder to grasp for casual viewers.

I read the book after seeing the movie but I was left with the impression that it was a lot more serious and genuine about how a military society can be a good and prosperous thing?
Then again so was the movie, I mean fascist tendencies aside life in the SST movie universe seems a lot more liberal than today. Voting was limited to those that serve but it seemed like most people had freedom and peace to enjoy.

Well you had to serve to get citizenship (along with a few other ways explained in the sequels) but for the most part yeah. Citizenship was earned.

It was the opposite for me. I didn’t like memorizing stuff but biology can be much more interesting than I thought back then.

Oh, it was my own decision. I currently work in medical-imaging and am basically fulfilling the last bits of my contract.

He apparently wrote an encyclopaedic work on ants, I never got round to reading it, I mostly read his general science books.

I have a huge problem with memorization. Being an entomologist is essentially a game of memory, there are nearly 1,5 million species discovered!

Got any plans for the future?

I prefer popular science books! If I want to know the pure facts I turn to books that cover that. I'm a huge fan of Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer, it's an amazing book for those interested in parasitology and entomology!

Have you tried Anki? Look up the concept of spaced-repetition if you haven’t man – it’s basically a complete game-changer in terms of memorizing

Well I’m actually really interested in combining my two main interests atm, CS and genetics so research in applying AI to genomics

Yeah Carl Zimmer is another favourite author. I like beginning with pop-sci but have a compulsive need to understand details ;p

Yeah I've been away from FB...

Oh yeah been following that show for so many years now! There are 2 movies I think? I haven't seen all episodes or the movies but they sometimes air on TV here!

i never knew it goes beying experimental short animations

It's an actual kids show in France, I have no idea how and why they also used to air it here but I loved it! Was going to watch the movie but it never hit the cinemas here so yeah...

I just want milk milk

Chocolate milk

Milk chocolate!

He was interesting in the beginning but his creator kind of milked the hell out of the concept... I know Lucas became way too popular way too fast but sometimes less is more.

You mean wasps

Wasps are not your bros!

They keep nature safe

entomologytoday.org/2018/11/14/how-insects-inspire-the-look-of-sci-fi-and-fantasy-films/

Ooook I don't actually remember anything

@Swarmy, in that case, I believe that we should forget about the entire issue, since I do not wish to relive it.

Sure man!

The mites are harmless to mantises anyway so I wouldn't worry!

Oh how come they are harmless to them?

Too small to prey on mantises!

Well a lot of stuff really

How are you?

Oh man... Really really tough question... I'm torn between parasitoid wasps and beetles so it's either the Dryinidae wasps (especially Gonatopus sp.) or ground beetles like Scarites sp.!

@Shark, @Swarmy, are either of you familiar with the Asian giant hornet? It is the world's largest wasp, the size of an adult's thumb, and is a fierce predator; it obviously has a nasty sting, but it can also bit smaller insects clean in half with its massive jaws.

Futuristic social realism is just top notch art.
To add to all that I had several books as a kid from back when Soviet Russia was aiming for space, they all had gorgeous retro drawings.

which books do you have? i might be interested in reading them, the closest things i've read about utopia is 'Republic by Plato' and Utopia by Thomas Moro

No I mean bulgarian ones but with soviet drawings and theme!
I also have a soviet era book on invertebrates which is pretty cool but is also in bulgarian...

Oh how romantic

Our kids are going to be glorious

They'll take over the world for sure

Man I would eat my skin if it was bacon...

This sounds just too disturbing tbh

Idk... I am tasty...

Milady

Oh? Do you miss our late night skype chats? lol

Nope

I'm not that chatty these days... I rather relax when I have free time!

Oh shame, I'm quite talkative lately.

Rip

Cata you silly

I am, true, but it also makes me reliable in this stability of idiocy

Seems you're all doing just fine!