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  • Not certain about fish, but I think that’s a similar case?

    Did you know humans are more closely related to catfish than catfish are to dogfish?

    QI | No such thing as a fish

    ¦“yeah, it makes sense why that shape would be favored in water,”

    Yeah, I can see that. But also it’s swimming in water. Then again if tou want to crawl around the bottom? Hexapod is probably the way to go. But then you also need to be able ro manipulate shit, so frontlimbs become bigger.

    Like a lot of space vehicles meant for surface exploring, both imagined and real, are usually six-wheeled, probably for added stability in a rocky terrain where there’s a bit less gravity and sometimes storms and whanot. And what is it like on the ocean floor? Rocky, basically “less gravity” and odd flows like storms.

    Idk there’s a bit more to it I guess, I’m just looking for what that bit is, or if there indeed is one.


  • I genuinely fail to see why it’s a thing. Like reading up it, it’s basically just convergent evolution of crustaceans to a crab-like shape.

    Couldn’t the same be said for a ton of fish-like animals? The many attempts of nature to develop a fish? Hell, even some mammals went back to the fish, plan, although with the tail-fin the wrong way and having to visit the surface to breathe.

    Or large-ish mammals all having pretty much a similar bodyplan, four limbs, head and neck.

    Like surely there’s something so specific in carcinisation that I just haven’t picked up on yet. If someone know what it is pls inform me.





  • Sure, yeah.

    Some are more…“beginner friendly”, as it were. But if you get some proper salty licorice from the pharmacy (and our pharmacies aren’t like US pharmacies where they sell everything like a grocery store), that’s definitely an acquired sensation.

    I say sensation, because it’s honestly more about sensation than taste. Kinda like chili in food. (Although ofc chilis have taste as well. Habaneros are very different from Scotch Bonnets etc.)

    Sensation, because it’s ammonium chloride that’s in there.












  • But the skill system caught a lot of guff, which I recall being an issue some people had. I definitely remember the skill system being a thing that made a lot of people angry.

    You’re a decade or so older than me, and I think that affects our experiences of how it was received.

    Personally I wasn’t on any online forums (at least ones which discussed TES) back then. I only had friends of my own age, people who had been tweeners/teeners when Morrowind came out and older teenagers when Oblivion came out.

    I genuinely don’t remember any gripes about the game in comparison to older TES. Well, except that I really loved how open-ended the crafting was in Morrowind. You could do seriously OP items if you had the skill and gold.

    Popularity of mods was instant

    This is also a difference between us, as I played it on PS3 back then, so didn’t have mods. Neither did my friends.

    I was much more critical of the games I played when I was 30 compared to when I was 20. So perhaps that’s a bit of the explanation? I’m not saying none of your complaints are true, they’re probably all true from a certain pov. I just didn’t experience any of them myself, and seemingly neither did my TES playing friends, and we weren’t into reading online reviews or anything.