offtopic-discussion

[modest isle]

I think he hates Guppies …

[sullen merlin]

I dont really care for them no

Fish my least favorite vertabrates, and freshwater fish even more than marine fish

[modest isle]

I used to have Zebra finch too before the Guppies but all those of finches died of old age around 2021

Zebra finch era : 2011-2021
Cat Era : 2017-Present
Guppy Era : 2023-Present

https://tenor.com/view/zebra-finch-zeebie-birds-cute-finch-gif-23857578

[sullen merlin]

Zebra finches are the guppies of the bird world

I sense a pattern

[modest isle]

Lol

[sullen merlin]

U just need mourning geckos, african clawed frogs and mice to complete the pack

[modest isle]

I like tiny pet species with a diverse Individual variations
Between each individual

[sullen merlin]

i hate how quickly they die

[modest isle]

[sullen merlin]

I would love to get vampire crabs but they live like max 2 years i think so getting 1 just sucks

[modest isle]

Very short lifespan
Unless breeding them was easy then get them

[sullen merlin]

but letting them breed creates a cycle where at the point u decide to stop keeping them ur either gonna have to sell them alive with their enclosure or kill them by starvation/dehydration which isnt humane

Breeding them is TOO easy

thats the problem

[modest isle]

Uhh so same with guppies they breed easily and lived around 4 years

And guppies can control their population growth by eating the baby fry

[sullen merlin]

they cannibalize a bit tho so overcrowding isnt a problem but if at some point u dont want to keep them anymore its either a pain or inhumane

Cuz its impossible to find all juveniles

[modest isle]

Somtimes you cant do anything this is nature not all of kids are meant to live in the wild only like 6 every 1000 crab

And just let nature do its thing as bad as it sounds it will make only the strongest of the babies to make it to adulthood

[sullen merlin]

No but in nature they have all the possible chances to escape. In captivity they are limited to their enclosure and whatever u provide so they can live off of it

That isnt nature imo

So

[modest isle]

https://tenor.com/view/metal-gear-rising-crab-knife-mg-excelsus-gif-26926901

[modest isle]

Let instinct do its thing
since you cant support all of the crabs in a small tank + you cant release them into the wild they will become invasive

[sullen merlin]

I mean you could but that would mean they either die or become invasive or i would have to drag the tank all the way to their natural range lol

[modest isle]

Same of how goldfish breeders cull the deformed/ ugly looking babies

[modest isle]

https://youtube.com/shorts/O9uGR12T5DI?si=FZM41bqiQTSNe2jb

https://youtu.be/kxAh2molt0U?si=Rce0DCAfXmrZgOaA

He only culls the one that are going to die anyway
One of them has its mouth stuck open

[full patrol]

My guppies all naturally died of old age even though I was keeping males and females together

If you want the babies to stop coming you just separate the males and females it's not hard

[modest isle]

True 👍🏼

But keep the female alone for 6 months she cant still get pregnant from the last male

[full patrol]

Speaking of fancy goldfish though
I got a couple in November cause my giant goldfish passed away
They're already so fat I love them

[modest isle]

For me i have large community tank Guppies and Platies and i still want kids but since most get eaten in the “main tank a 100 Cm wide tank” even with all the hiding spots, so when i want to breed more i move some pregnant females in the “breeding tank a 50 Cm wide tank” they have a better chance surviving there

Also the fry have their own tank

3 tank in total

[full patrol]

Oh ya for sure, if you want the best survival rate for fry or selective breeding fry tanks and breeding tanks are the way to go

[modest isle]

Yep 👍🏼

[full patrol]

I only had 1 tank for my guppies and if the babies survived they survived. Most don't especially from lower quality guppies

[chilly plank]

It's been 725 days since I've been waiting for megalania in evrima.....

[sullen merlin]

First Animal species of the day (456) :
Sea lamprey / (Petromyzon marinus)

The sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus) is a parasitic lamprey native to the Northern Hemisphere. It is sometimes referred to as the "vampire fish". In its original habitats, the sea lamprey coevolved with its hosts, and those hosts evolved a measure of resistance to the sea lampreys.

It was likely introduced to the Great Lakes region through the Erie Canal in 1825 and the Welland Canal in 1919 where it has attacked native fish such as lake trout, lake whitefish, chub, and lake herring, Sea lampreys are considered a pest in the Great Lakes region as each individual has the potential of killing 40 pounds of fish through its 12–18 month feeding period.

Description
For broader coverage of general lamprey morphology, see Lamprey.
The sea lamprey has an eel-like body without paired fins. Its mouth is jawless, round and sucker-like, and as wide or wider than the head; sharp teeth are arranged in many concentric circular rows around a sharp, rasp-like tongue. There are seven branchial or gill-like openings behind the eye. Sea lampreys are olive or brown-yellow on the dorsal and lateral part of the body, with some black marblings, with lighter coloration on the belly. Within their seven-year lifespans, adults can reach a length of up to 120 cm (47 in) and a body weight up t 2.3 kg (5.1 lb).[4][5]

Distribution and habitat
The species is found in the northern and western Atlantic Ocean along the shores of Europe and North America, in the western Mediterranean Sea, the Black Sea, and as an invasive species in the Great Lakes.[1] They have been found at depths up to 4000 meters and can tolerate temperatures of 1–20 °C (34–68 °F).[4]

In North America, they are native to the Connecticut River basin in the United States, and invasive to the inland Great Lakes and Lake Champlain in New York and Vermont.[6] The largest European populations of sea lampreys are located throughout the southwestern areas of Europe (north-central Portugal, north-northwest of Spain, and west–southwest of France).[7] These countries also support the main fisheries of the species.[8]

Ecology
Sea lampreys are anadromous; from their lake or sea habitats, they migrate up rivers to spawn. Females deposit a large number of eggs in nests made by males in the substrate of streams with moderately strong current. Spawning is followed by the death of the adults. Larvae burrow in the sand and silt bottom in quiet water downstream from spawning areas and filter-feed on plankton and detritus.[1]

After several years in freshwater habitats, the larvae undergo a metamorphosis that allows young, post-metamorphic lampreys to migrate to the sea or lakes, and start the adult hematophagous method of feeding.[9] Some individuals start hematophagous feeding in the river before migrating to the sea,[10] where sea lampreys prey on a wide variety of fish.[11]

The lamprey uses its suction cup-like mouth to attach itself to the skin of a fish and rasps away tissue with its sharp, probing tongue and keratinized teeth. A fluid produced in the lamprey's mouth, called lamphredin,[12] prevents the victim's blood from clotting. Victims typically die from excessive blood loss or infection. After one year of hematophagous feeding, lampreys return to the river to spawn and die, a year and a half after the completion of metamorphosis.[13]

Lampreys are considered a delicacy in some parts of Europe, and are seasonally available in France, Spain, and Portugal. They are served pickled in Finland.[14] Mostly known for preparing cooked or grilled river lamprey, the sea lamprey occasionally is caught in the rivers of Latvia as well together with river lampreys.[15]

Physiology

Due to its lifecycle that switches between fresh and salt water, the sea lamprey is adapted to tolerate a wide range of salinities. Cell membranes on the surface of the gills are major contributors to ionoregulation. Changes in membrane composition influence the movement of different ions across the membrane, changing amounts of components to change the membranes' environment. In some instances, the sea lamprey has adapted to living exclusively in fresh water, as evidenced by the population in the Great Lakes.[5]

As the larvae (called ammocoetes) move towards the oceans, the ratio between saturated fatty acids (SFA) and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) in the gills shifts towards higher amounts of SFA, as they affect the fluidity of the membrane, and higher levels of SFA lead to a decrease in permeability compared to PUFA.[16] Lamprey ammocoetes have a relatively narrow range of salinity tolerance, but become better able to withstand wider ranges of salinity concentrations as they reach later stages of life. Tight regulation of Na/K-ATPase and an overall decrease in expression of H-ATPase assists in regulating the lamprey's internal fluid and ion balance as it moves to areas of higher salinity.[17]

Lampreys also maintain acid-base homeostasis. When introduced to higher levels of acids, they are able to excrete excess acids at higher rates than most other saltwater fishes, and in much shorter times, with the majority of the transfer of ions occurring at the gill surface.[18]

Sea lampreys parasitize other fishes for their diet, including elasmobranchs such as sharks and rays, which have naturally high levels of urea in their blood. Urea is toxic to most fishes in high concentrations, and is usually excreted immediately. Lampreys are able to tolerate much higher concentrations than most other fish and excrete it at extremely high rates, obtained from ingested blood. Trimethylamine oxides present in ingested elasmobranch blood aid in counteracting the detrimental effects of high urea concentration in the lamprey's bloodstream as it feeds.[19]

Invasive species
Sea lampreys are considered a pest in the Great Lakes region. Whether it is native to Lake Ontario, where it was first noticed in the 1830s, or whether it was introduced through the Erie Canal which opened in 1825 was not clear as of 2007.[23] The species was first contained to Lake Ontario due to the natural barrier formed by Niagara Falls. However, after the Welland Canal was built in the late 1800s - early 1900s, they were able to bypass Niagara Falls and invade the remaining Great Lakes: Lakes Erie (1921), Michigan (1936), Huron (1937), and Superior (1938), where it decimated indigenous fish populations in the 1930s and 1940s.[24][25]

In its original habitats, the sea lamprey coevolved with its hosts, and those hosts evolved a measure of resistance to the sea lampreys. However, in the Great Lakes, the sea lamprey attacks native fish such as lake trout, lake whitefish, chub, and lake herring, which historically did not face sea lampreys. Elimination of these predators allowed the alewife, another invasive species, to explode in population, with adverse effects on many native fish species.

The lake trout plays a vital role in the Lake Superior ecosystem. The lake trout has traditionally been considered an apex predator, which means that it has no predators. The sea lamprey is an aggressive predator by nature, which gives it a competitive advantage in a lake system where it has no predators and its prey lacks defenses against it. The sea lamprey played a large role in the destruction of the Lake Superior trout population. Lamprey introduction along with poor, unsustainable fishing practices caused the lake trout populations to decline drastically. The relationship between predators and prey in the Great Lakes ecosystem then became unbalanced.[26] Each individual sea lamprey has the potential of killing 40 pounds of fish through its 12–18 month feeding period.[25]

@rustic badger
@cedar crescent
@distant nymph
@spice gyro
@wintry marlin

@modest isle
@lone star
@hallow parrot
@limber grove

@full patrol
@lilac dagger
@drowsy egret
@azure oar

[wintry marlin]

Animal

[sullen merlin]

@silent cargo
@crimson marlin
@restive charm
@neat basalt
@pearl swan

[full patrol]

Lampray

He has the teeth

[modest isle]

https://tenor.com/view/zlaskewicz-iswimwithlamprey-zizbilitsiswl-gif-21566491

[sullen merlin]

Real life whispering death @spice gyro

[spice gyro]

Yooo

[modest isle]

They like the fish equivalent of Hagfish

[sullen merlin]

Ye they are one step furhter down the line of vertebrates given that they have a full cranium unlike hagfish iirc

[modest isle]

Yeah bit these guys are fish
While hagfish is not a fish at all

[sullen merlin]

Oh no wait thats not right

hagfish have skulls

[sullen merlin]

the difference is that hagfish still have cartigilous skeletons

Wth is this nitro inflation

[modest isle]

https://tenor.com/view/discord-nitro-discord-nitro-nitro-user-discord-nitro-user-gif-24621833

[sullen merlin]

They made the price so unsatisfying for gaining a full 14 cents

[modest isle]

Also you are no linger pink

[sullen merlin]

Thats been for a month or 2 now i think

For some reason i got 2 months extra for free

and that ran out

[modest isle]

I see

[sullen merlin]

but hey, 3 months for the price of 1 is very noice

[hallow parrot]

this is funny to me

[cedar crescent]

I didn't know these trait graphs were called spider graphs

The more you know

[hallow parrot]

Yuhp

[cedar crescent]

Fish game...

Wait peak dwarfism

[hallow parrot]

dwarfism is brilliant lmao

[young gale]

What we think chat

[spice gyro]

Dwarf

[young gale]

Dwarf

[unreal pier]

cool thing nah?

[hallow parrot]

thats a pelvis torture device

[modest isle]

Just sue this company until they go bankrupt no one is gonna sit in that chair for 8 hours

[unreal pier]

exactly

[unreal pier]

hmm i see

[spiral ruin]

funny

[modest isle]

https://tenor.com/view/the-isle-survive-it-survived-the-isle-gif-23580246

[sullen merlin]

Rex odinson

[sullen merlin]

Is this canon?

[modest isle]

Real

[paper prism]

That’s it?

[odd pier]

speaking of barred rattle. my boy got a new animatic (i say 'he got it' like i didn't spend 7 hours making it. lmao)

the unicorn gal isn't mine, she's owned by highway_2_hell on discord!
Song: The Ballad of Smokin' Joe by Tom Cardy

[sullen merlin]

First Animal species of the day (457) :
Tall sea pen / (Funiculina quadrangularis)

Funiculina quadrangularis, commonly known as tall sea pen, is an uncommon cold water coral within the Family Funiculinidae.[1] It is named tall sea pen because it looks like a quill sticking in the bottom of the sea. It forms habitat for several key crustacean species.[2]

Morphology
F. quadrangularis’s appearance is often described as feather-like. More specifically, they look like a quill sticking in the seabed. They are anchored by a peduncle as its base and they have a calcareous axial rod growing upward with polyps arising from it. Each polyps has eight tentacles.[3] They can grow up to 2 meters with up to a quarter of the axis embedded in the sediment.[1]

Distribution
The tall sea pen can be found globally. They are most commonly found in sea lochs and open waters of the northwest coast of Scotland, mainly found with a depth below 20m to 2000m.[1] They have a patchy distribution around the UK, on the northwest coast of Scotland and Ireland.[2] They are also distributed in coastal waters of the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, New Zealand, Japan and the Gulf of Mexico. However, the abundance of this specie is low due to the high trawling intensity.

[rustic badger]

well well well

[sullen merlin]

Reproduction
The tall sea pan is dioecious, which means that they have the male and females reproductive organs in separate individuals. The females will develop one oocyte each time throughout the year. With a sex ratio of 1:1 of males to females in a population, spawning occurs in the midwinter. They have a large pool of offspring with a survival rate of about 10%. It is still unclear why they have this distinct patter of oogenesis and winter spawning. Some are guessing that it is due to the influence of environmental cues and this tall sea pen’s deep-sea habitat.[4] Since the distribution and sensitivity to bottom fishing activities is very limited, tall sea pen reduce in population number which may lead to genetic isolation and reduced diversity.[2]

Ecological role
Sea pens are home to many secondary polyps that are either specialized in either feeding or water intake.[5] They are associated with the brittle star Asteronyx lovenii, and their colonis have been observed as a nurseries for fish larve.[6][7]

Threats
The greatest threat to the survival of F. quadrangularis colonies is demersal fishing activities. This species has very limited distribution that it is restricted to the deep basins, sensitivity to bottom fishing activities, and low resilience to physical disturbance which make them vulnerable to fishing activities. Trawling often happens at places where Norway lobsters and shrimps are present; F. quadrangularis is a typical species of essential habitat for these species. Since F. quadrangularis has a rigid axial rod that is unable to withdraw into the sediment unlike other UK sea pen species, bottom trawling would cause F. quadrangularis significant physical disturbance. As a result, F. quadrangularis is decreasing in population numbers which may lead them to genetic isolation and reduced diversity. However, F. quadrangularis can have resilience to human impacts if distant populations have a high connectivity since they could have a higher genetic diversity and a higher geneflow.[2][4]

@rustic badger
@cedar crescent
@distant nymph
@spice gyro
@wintry marlin

@modest isle
@lone star
@hallow parrot
@limber grove

@full patrol
@lilac dagger
@drowsy egret
@azure oar

@silent cargo
@crimson marlin
@restive charm
@neat basalt
@pearl swan

[spice gyro]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-writing-gif-24533171

[azure oar]

lifeform

[modest isle]

Blud literally just wanted to resemble a feather 🪶

[sullen merlin]

Wannabe ediacaran animal

[crimson marlin]

Woah

[distant nymph]

Pen o:

[silent cargo]

who keeps pinging me once every day or so in here

ohhhh i forgot about the wikipedia thing

[modest isle]

Blud forgot he is part of the gamg

[silent cargo]

too busy deeping and rocking

[spice gyro]

Elden ring fuzzy

[silent cargo]

i am literally john elden

[sullen merlin]

If u want ill stop pinging u ,you can always decide if u wanna be pinged again at some point

[limber grove]

not pictured is like 600 hours in guild wars 2

[young gale]

[smoky mauve]

i swear i dont play that much siege

[young gale]

Stream replay never lies

Steam review thingy

I played a little bit of siege earlier in the year after not playing it since 2020

[vast coral]

Love myself some ark. :']

Wait, middle is wrong pic. :']

[eager robin]

Any Pokemon TCG Nerds in here?

[quaint scaffold]

Hello

[fervent mango]

so....... yall be just putting mayo on bread?

lmao

[quaint scaffold]

What a way to start a discussion

[fervent mango]

but yeah i got a pitmix and a purebreed Staffy

[quaint scaffold]

My dad owns a puppy. He’s way smaller in this image and has grown fast over half a year. Tho he’s adorable

[crimson marlin]

Boxer right?

[quaint scaffold]

Yes

[fervent mango]

im tryin to log into discord os i can send it lol

[quaint scaffold]

Go ahead my guy

[crimson marlin]

Cool

[quaint scaffold]

I love that dog. Tho I also love my snake and my moms cat

Funny thing how she kinda used to be a model cat

[fervent mango]

Don’t mind his teeth his upper lip gets stuck on em 😭

[quaint scaffold]

Beautiful dogs

I can’t help myself but I love animals so much!

[fervent mango]

same here all they do is love unconditionally, people could learn a whole lot from animals if they just took a second and realized what they really are.... angels

[quaint scaffold]

That’s so true man. That’s why also why I hate animal abuse so much. They’re just innocent

[fervent mango]

right? like what is the point, really shows you how vile humans can be

thats why i like animals more than i like humans and i will die on that hill

[quaint scaffold]

I’m totally with you on that point

[fervent mango]

🙂 if i need protection we got 2nd admendment and i enforce that bih

[quaint scaffold]

Not sure if I understand what you’re saying

[fervent mango]

https://tenor.com/view/stimulus-family-guy-2nd-gif-19763504

that i'm my animals sole protector lol they dont need to do it themselves

[late thorn]

Have a water ting

[quaint scaffold]

Looks coooool

[fervent mango]

https://tenor.com/view/leonardo-tmnt2003-gif-26126620

careful it might just grow up and turn into ^

[late thorn]

but it a female

[fervent mango]

https://tenor.com/view/turtle-turtleday-gif-5480848

[unreal pier]

what?!

[lilac venture]

Saw the coolest thing this morning, first time seeing a woodpecker this close, he’s decided to make my tree his home 🥰 right out front of my living room window!

Hopefully he stays, would love to watch the babies 🥹

Took a short video

[neat basalt]

@crimson marlin

[modest isle]

@distant nymph

[rustic badger]

RabbitCorn

[crimson marlin]

Thats awesome!! I wish i had someone as skilled as you on my team lmao

[wintry marlin]

Creature

[fallen patrol]

Her favorite spot

[distant nymph]

Oh awesome 😊
I really like Woodpeckers, specifically Great Spotted ones.
We have them a lot around here

[distant nymph]

[lilac venture]

They’re such cool birds

[distant nymph]

Yeah 😊

We get Great Spotted ones at our Bird house often

One had an accident once >.<
But it did recover!

[lilac venture]

Oh no poor little guy! Beautiful!

[young gale]

Birb

[chilly plank]

It's been 727 days since I've been waiting for megalania in evrima.....

[neon quail]

ok so this is the very first time ive ever had FPS issues, im able to run other games at max settings and still hit 70-90ish frames, are there ANY suggestions bc i rlly wanna play cool dino game

[limber grove]

Try clearing the config folder, make sure lumen is disabled, set 3d resolution to 45-50, and try all medium settings

[neon quail]

how do u do that

like clearing the config folder

[limber grove]

1. If running The Isle, exit the game.
2. Press the Windows key
3. Type %localappdata% then press Enter.
4. Find "TheIsle" folder. Open it.
5. Open the "Saved" folder.
6. Delete the "Config" folder. Note: This will reset any of your custom settings to their defaults.
7. Restart the game. The issues should be fixed.

[neon quail]

welp sadly i overestimated what my pc can run so im gonna have to refund it, it rlly sucks but oh well ig im gonna have to get path of titans

[modest isle]

https://youtube.com/shorts/BGgAQbfXs9Y?si=xeg7_QTsjFm0BEt-

New Playable
Acro ????
@crimson marlin

[sullen merlin]

This tease is even worse than allo shadow clip

This could literally be any dino ever

[modest isle]

A big theropod i hope its Acrocanthosaurus

[digital sleet]

@lofty blade wake up immediately

https://www.teamfortress.com/tf07_thedayshavewornaway/

[sullen merlin]

I think he did not wake up immediatly

[bright bough]

This guacamole looks like a spino, thoughts?

[sullen merlin]

That does NOT look like quacamole wth. Its like a mutated lichen

[distant nymph]

Isn't quacamole green ? o:

[modest isle]

Its a type of Geode not sure what type of gem is inside it also it looks nothing like Spinosaurus it resembles an Ouranosaurus more
@bright bough
@sullen merlin
@distant nymph

Maybe a type of Jasper Quartz ?

[distant nymph]

Ohhh xD

I was thinking of guacamole

The food

[modest isle]

But the image above looks nothing like Quacamole

[distant nymph]

That's why I was confused o:

[modest isle]

Because in this image you can clearly see see a crack in the middle of of this hallow ball ?

[sullen merlin]

Me too lmaoo

Ive never heard of anything different from the food being called guacamole

[sullen merlin]

I even had a wourse 'geology' last year and never heard of guacamole in that context before

(i didnt really pay attention either)

[modest isle]

Yeah but the image clearly doesn’t show any food in it like an actual Guacamole

[sullen merlin]

Thats why i was incredibly confused

Tbf it doesnt look like a rock either

It looks like mould

[modest isle]

Describe what you see in it

[modest isle]

I saw this 👆🏼

[sullen merlin]

I see the crack

But it still looks more like a crazy lichen or something to me than a rock

[modest isle]

A ceramic ball ?

[sullen merlin]

the crack being there already seems weird cuz the 'rock' is like not even a centimeter thick

[sullen merlin]

Not the ball but the thing on top of it

[agile shell]

hello

[past fulcrum]

hallo deutsche da

germans here

[full patrol]

Orange juice or milk is better for that

[naive apex]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1165014186686951476/1320101190683328523/12211.mp4?ex=67685f8a&is=67670e0a&hm=eca8aa258a4a10637959d49347a4ca810943ddc7fa2bd96f9f910bef2a486c41&

[spice gyro]

^ me

[young gale]

https://youtu.be/_OpqePLudXk?si=rDceWlJYHt58ob9M

Another noob3 upload

[sullen merlin]

Aint no wayyy

Could it be... is the king actually back

[young gale]

Maybe

[vast coral]

Hey, im gonna buy a few games during this steam sale, anyone have any multiplayer survival game suggestions?
Already have: Ark, isle, beasts of bermuda, day of dragons, path of titans, and fish feed and grow.

[sullen merlin]

The forest could be fun

[vast coral]

Ye. :]
Amd it's cheap

[sullen merlin]

This is purely personal, but even tho the game is fun. It doesnt have as much content as ark or somwthing for example so u probably wont play it for a very long time but i thi k its like 3 bucks rn. So its worth it

Just wanted to tell u this fyi

[vast coral]

I appreciate. :]
Ty for the extra info.

Yeah i collectively have like 2k hours in ark so it defo wouldnt come remotely close

[young gale]

Raft

[sullen merlin]

I assume u probably will only buy 1 of them and not both. If so buy the second one

[vast coral]

I've seen gameplay of both! I'll probably go for whichever is a lil less cave based. :']

(In ark, i have big dinos to eat all tbe scary cave critters. In the forest, I'll be alone.)

[vast coral]

Ty ty.
I'm goimg more for a you-are-the-animql type feel.

Ig roblox is good for that.
I'll also be trying fish feed and grow. See if it works on my pc when i get it. (If it dont, I'll refund and go be sad.)

[sullen merlin]

If u dont like caves i dont recommend buying the forest. The second games has a lot of caves that lead towards subterranean modern structures so if its the cave vibe u dislike id ho for that one. But still

[vast coral]

Also gettinf wold quest.

[vast coral]

I love horror. Not alone tho. :]]

[sullen merlin]

Its up to 4 ppl so

U dont have to be alone

[vast coral]

Dont have friends to play with:']

[sullen merlin]

Theres online open lobbys

[vast coral]

O h

Ill buy the cheaper one. See if i like
:]

[sullen merlin]

Problem with that is that theres a lot of griefing think and u would lose all progress unless u could somehow jojn the same lobby each time

but i have no experience with open lobbys so im not quite sure

[vast coral]

Oh ok

That sounds awful. Guess i wil join a discord when i go to play.

[sand lantern]

Whats wrong?

[modest isle]

Lystrosaurus scariest animal of all time
A herbivores that digs for plants roots 🌿

[austere robin]

this is all that goes on in my head about half the time i see anything

[echo quail]

herrera supremacy

[silent cargo]

so heres this for anyone who would even know what the other map is

oh wait this is the wrong one

there (this one was after more research)

[full patrol]

Hm elden ring feels bigger than that

[silent cargo]

I know, but Elden Ring has some crazy perspective stuff

For a while I straight up thought it was impossible for it to be smaller

[surreal nacelle]

What is this meant to mean

Oh is this sq miles or something

[silent cargo]

They're scaled on a hidden square kilometer chart a few layers beneath what the final image shows

[surreal nacelle]

Oh gotcha

Yeah ER has a loooot of depth and vertical space

[full patrol]

Also in ER you're playing a puny human and isle the closest to human size perspective (aside from actual human) is dryo or sub omni

[shell rapids]

there is generally more stuff going on in the elden ring map aswell

[neat basalt]

the downfall of path is upon us

[fair mirage]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/735666549901230161/1320606991411970150/SJomgeXr.gif?width=345&height=671

[wise mantle]

Doubt it's going to collapse

Me when the modders just make tyrannotitan 2.0 for free as a mod

[neat basalt]

no but this is paths first major "oh what the hell" moment, right?

[wise mantle]

Nah

The first major what the hell moment with PoT was the weird boss battles idea they had in mind

[neat basalt]

i dont want to know

[wise mantle]

Lol

[neat basalt]

THEY ALREADY REVERTED IT

[wise mantle]

The pay wall, or literally the entire update lmfao

[neat basalt]

the pay wall

after people already bought it lol

[wise mantle]

Watch them not refund

[neat basalt]

so now the discord is up in flames either asking for refunds or trying to justify the 7$ paywall

[wise mantle]

But nah they would probably refund it

Did tyrannotitan even have any pay2win abilities

[dull hinge]

Supposedly could go toe to toe with an adult hatz as a fresh baby

[neat basalt]

https://tenor.com/view/kamala-kamalaharris-demdebate-wtf-laugh-gif-15612014

what are they doing over there

[wise mantle]

Erm...

[shell rapids]

they what now?

[weary igloo]

Damn they backpedaled fast

At least they made it free I guess but this definitely shouldn't have been a problem in the first place 💀

[supple temple]

Exaacctlllyy

[leaden void]

And they say the isle devs are bad 💀

Releasing a playable dinosaur for 7$ in not fully released game is Madge

[leaden void]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

I posted it in the general chat 😭😭😭

Mods need a raise, they are literally deleting everything which criticizes them lmao

[sullen merlin]

If they really deleted eveything like u phrase it, half of the islecord messages would have to be erased lol.

Oh wait ur talking bout POT

[leaden void]

ikr 💀💀💀

But still Ahahahaha

[leaden void]

I’m actually crying

The amount of people

Who are supporting that move is

Unexplainable

[sullen merlin]

wdym

It depends on what u said

Just that gif?

[leaden void]

Nah the devs released a new playable dinosaur and you had to buy it for 7$ apparently it was P2W Dino as well. And they deleted every post and reposted them again due to the backlash

And the discord server was getting bombarded by complains

[sullen merlin]

ah ye that crazy

[leaden void]

I just posted that gif because it was funny lmao

[sullen merlin]

Its like with Day of dragons

[leaden void]

And I got muted

The game is already filled with micro transactions

[sullen merlin]

That gme takes a year for 1 dragon to release and then they make it 10 bucks

[leaden void]

I don’t understand why you need to buy a Dino

You want a skin? Cool here is a skin pack only got 7€

But it was fun

[rigid forge]

I don't really know where to ask this. I just bought the isle on steam on my laptop but when I launch it I get a notification "DirectX 12 is not supported on your system..." But the thing is that I checked and I have DirectX 12 on my laptop. Now my question is. Can I not run the game on integrated graphics? And if I can, any ideas on how to fix this?

[leaden void]

#🔧-legacy-troubleshooting-🔧
#🔧-evrima-troubleshooting-🔧

[full patrol]

Laptops aren't as powerful as desktops due to the limited space. It's possible you won't be able to play the game. Just to double check, what is your GPU CPU and RAM?

Also MAC or Windows?

[odd pier]

who in here likes spongebob? no one? haha me too... haaaaahhh..a.hahaha/silly

anyway here are some Patrick concept doodles for my headworld (or whatever else it'd count as)!
Plus some bonus comics because i imagine he'd accidentally latch onto Squidward and pass out more often than anyone would like [featuring Squidward and Spongebob's AU designs]

[chilly plank]

It's been 730 days since I've been waiting for megalania in evrima.....

[full patrol]

Gonna be waiting a lot longer

[hidden raptor]

lil intro I made for a terraria video I might make, was just doodling around with text effects in davinci 🤷‍♂️

[hidden raptor]

(Quality while fullscreened is a bit off, exported it wrong I'm pretty sure)

[mortal echo]

https://tenor.com/view/dawn-majora-finalday-gif-9607331

[celest lintel]

(Relevant to another channel convo)
ASA:
Here's the game you played already, but much harder to run with worse performance and also... pay us for it again

[void zinc]

A moderator just moved this chat and they think they're sneaky about it.

[digital sleet]

I thought I saw something happen

[spice gyro]

Yeah same lol

[rigid forge]

@leaden void @full patrol
Went back to legacy and it works. Just didn't know that Evrima wouldn't work on integrated graphics. Thanks for responding tho

[signal nest]

https://youtu.be/WbCQxBTcyRk?si=_MIlRmWQ8NBy9oZb

This is absolute peak

It isn't just modled over or anything this is pure quality

They got new movements and eye/feather movments

[void zinc]

Oh those eyes are yucky.

[still reef]

i love forcing a patrol zone to spawn somewhere by refusing to move for a long period of time

[eager moat]

it works like that?

how long...

[still reef]

very

honestly though, as a herbivore you can kind of just move wherever and there will eventually be food that spawns

gotta memorize what the plants look like to see if it's a good diet though

[eager moat]

gotcha gotcha

[chilly plank]

It's been 732 days since I've been waiting for megalania in evrima.....

[sullen merlin]

First Animal species of the day (458) :
Reindeer / (Rangifer tarandus)

The reindeer or caribou[a] (Rangifer tarandus)[5] is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.[2] It is the only representative of the genus Rangifer. More recent studies suggest the splitting of reindeer and caribou into six distinct species over their range.

Reindeer occur in both migratory and sedentary populations, and their herd sizes vary greatly in different regions. The tundra subspecies are adapted for extreme cold, and some are adapted for long-distance migration.

Reindeer vary greatly in size and color from the smallest, the Svalbard reindeer (R. (t.) platyrhynchus), to the largest, Osborn's caribou (R. t. osborni). Although reindeer are quite numerous, some species and subspecies are in decline and considered vulnerable. They are unique among deer (Cervidae) in that females may have antlers, although the prevalence of antlered females varies by subspecies.

Reindeer are the only successfully semi-domesticated deer on a large scale in the world. Both wild and domestic reindeer have been an important source of food, clothing, and shelter for Arctic people from prehistorical times. They are still herded and hunted today.[6] In some traditional Christmas legends, Santa Claus's reindeer pull a sleigh through the night sky to help Santa Claus deliver gifts to good children on Christmas Eve.

Description
Names follow international convention[7][8] before the recent revision[9] (see Reindeer#Taxonomy below). Reindeer / caribou (Rangifer) vary in size from the smallest, the Svalbard reindeer (R. (t.) platyrhynchus), to the largest, Osborn's caribou (R. t. osborni). They also vary in coat color and antler architecture.

The North American range of caribou extends from Alaska through the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut throughout the tundra, taiga (boreal forest) and south through the Canadian Rocky Mountains.[10] Of the eight subspecies classified by Harding (2022) into the Arctic caribou (R. arcticus), the migratory mainland barren-ground caribou of Arctic Alaska and Northern Canada (R. t. arcticus), summer in tundra and winter in taiga, a transitional forest zone between boreal forest and tundra; the nomadic Peary caribou (R. t. pearyi) lives in the polar desert of the high Arctic Archipelago and Grant's caribou (R. t. granti also called the Porcupine caribou) lives in the western end of the Alaska Peninsula and the adjacent islands; the other four subspecies, Osborn's caribou (R. t. osborni), Stone's caribou (R. t. stonei), the Rocky Mountain caribou (R. t. fortidens) and the Selkirk Mountains caribou (R. t. montanus) are all montane. The extinct insular Queen Charlotte Islands caribou (R. t. dawsoni), lived on Graham Island in Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands).

The boreal woodland caribou (R. t. caribou), lives in the boreal forest of northeastern Canada: the Labrador or Ungava caribou of northern Quebec and northern Labrador (R. t. caboti), and the Newfoundland caribou of Newfoundland (R. t. terranovae) have been found to be genetically in the woodland caribou lineage.[11][12]

In Eurasia, both wild and domestic reindeer are distributed across the tundra and into the taiga. Eurasian mountain reindeer (R. t. tarandus) are close to North American caribou genetically and visually, but with sufficient differences to warrant division into two species. The unique, insular Svalbard reindeer inhabits the Svalbard Archipelago. The Finnish forest reindeer (R. t. fennicus) is spottily distributed in the coniferous forest zones from Finland to east of Lake Baikal: the Siberian forest reindeer (R. t. valentinae, formerly called the Busk Mountains reindeer (R. t. buskensis) by American taxonomists) occupies the Altai and Ural Mountains.

Male ("bull") and female ("cow") reindeer can grow antlers annually, although the proportion of females that grow antlers varies greatly between populations.[7] Antlers are typically larger on males. Antler architecture varies by species and subspecies and, together with pelage differences, can often be used to distinguish between species and subspecies (see illustrations in Geist, 1991[13] and Geist, 1998).[14]

Status
About 25,000 mountain reindeer (R. t. tarandus) still live in the mountains of Norway, notably in Hardangervidda.[15] In Sweden there are approximately 250,000 reindeer in herds managed by Sámi villages.[16] Russia manages 19 herds of Siberian tundra reindeer (R. t. sibiricus) that total about 940,000.[17] The Taimyr herd of Siberian tundra reindeer is the largest wild reindeer herd in the world,[18][19] varying between 400,000 and 1,000,000; it is a metapopulation consisting of several subpopulations — some of which are phenotypically different[20] — with different migration routes and calving areas.[21][22] The Kamchatkan reindeer (R. t. phylarchus), a forest subspecies, formerly included reindeer west of the Sea of Okhotsk which, however, are indistinguishable genetically from the Jano-Indigirka, East Siberian taiga and Chukotka populations of R. t. sibiricus.[23] Siberian tundra reindeer herds have been in decline but are stable or increasing since 2000.[17]

Insular (island) reindeer, classified as the Novaya Zemlya reindeer (R. t. pearsoni) occupy several island groups: the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago (about 5,000 animals at last count, but most of these are either domestic reindeer or domestic-wild hybrids), the New Siberia Archipelago (about 10,000 to 15,000), and Wrangel Island (200 to 300 feral domestic reindeer).[24]

What was once the second largest herd is the migratory Labrador caribou (R. t. caboti)[9] George River herd in Canada, with former variations between 28,000 and 385,000. As of January 2018, there are fewer than 9,000 animals estimated to be left in the George River herd, as reported by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.[25] The New York Times reported in April 2018 of the disappearance of the only herd of southern mountain woodland caribou in the contiguous United States, with an expert calling it "functionally extinct" after the herd's size dwindled to a mere three animals.[26] After the last individual, a female, was translocated to a wildlife rehabilitation center in Canada, caribou were considered extirpated from the contiguous United States.[27] The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) classified both the Southern Mountain population DU9 (R. t. montanus) and the Central Mountain population DU8 (R. t. fortidens) as Endangered and the Northern Mountain population DU7 (R. t. osborni) as Threatened.[28]

Some species and subspecies are rare and three subspecies have already become extinct: the Queen Charlotte Islands caribou (R. t. dawsoni) from western Canada, the Sakhalin reindeer (R. t. setoni) from Sakhalin and the East Greenland caribou from eastern Greenland,[29][30][31] although some authorities believe that the latter, R. t. eogroenlandicus Degerbøl, 1957, is a junior synonym of the Peary caribou.[32][33][9] Historically, the range of the sedentary boreal woodland caribou covered more than half of Canada[34] and into the northern states of the contiguous United States from Maine to Washington. Boreal woodland caribou have disappeared from most of their original southern range and were designated as Threatened in 2002 by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC).[35] Environment and Climate Change Canada reported in 2011 that there were approximately 34,000 boreal woodland caribou in 51 ranges remaining in Canada (Environment Canada, 2011b),[36] although those numbers included montane populations classified by Harding (2022) into subspecies of the Arctic caribou.[9] Siberian tundra reindeer herds are also in decline, and Rangifer as a whole is considered to be Vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).

Antlers

Losing the velvet layer under which a new antler is growing, an annual process
In most cervid species, only males grow antlers; the reindeer is the only cervid species in which females also grow them normally.[116] Androgens play an essential role in the antler formation of cervids. The antlerogenic genes in reindeer have more sensitivity to androgens in comparison with other cervids.[117][118]

There is considerable variation among species and subspecies in the size of the antlers (e.g., they are rather small and spindly in the northernmost species and subspecies),[119] but on average the bull's antlers are the second largest of any extant deer, after those of the male moose. In the largest subspecies, the antlers of large bulls can range up to 100 cm (39 in) in width and 135 cm (53 in) in beam length. They have the largest antlers relative to body size among living deer species.[116] Antler size measured in number of points reflects the nutritional status of the reindeer and climate variation of its environment.[120][121] The number of points on male reindeer increases from birth to 5 years of age and remains relatively constant from then on.[121]: 24  "In male caribou, antler mass (but not the number of tines) varies in concert with body mass."[122][123] While antlers of male woodland caribou are typically smaller than those of male barren-ground caribou, they can be over 1 m (3 ft 3 in) across. They are flattened in cross-section, compact and relatively dense.[36] Geist describes them as frontally emphasized, flat-beamed antlers.[79] Woodland caribou antlers are thicker and broader than those of the barren-ground caribou and their legs and heads are longer.[36] Quebec-Labrador male caribou antlers can be significantly larger and wider than other woodland caribou. Central barren-ground male caribou antlers are perhaps the most diverse in configuration and can grow to be very high and wide. Osborn's caribou antlers are typically the most massive, with the largest circumference measurements.[124]

The antlers' main beams begin at the brow "extending posterior over the shoulders and bowing so that the tips point forward. The prominent, palmate brow tines extend forward, over the face."[125] The antlers typically have two separate groups of points, lower and upper.

Antlers begin to grow on male reindeer in March or April and on female reindeer in May or June. This process is called antlerogenesis. Antlers grow very quickly every year on the bulls. As the antlers grow, they are covered in thick velvet, filled with blood vessels and spongy in texture. The antler velvet of the barren-ground caribou and the boreal woodland caribou is dark chocolate brown.[126] The velvet that covers growing antlers is a highly vascularised skin. This velvet is dark brown on woodland or barren-ground caribou and slate-grey on Peary caribou and the Dolphin-Union caribou herd.[125][127][128] Velvet lumps in March can develop into a rack measuring more than a 1 m (3 ft 3 in) in length by August.[129]: 88

Pelt
The color of the fur varies considerably, both between individuals and depending on season and species. Northern populations, which usually are relatively small, are whiter, while southern populations, which typically are relatively large, are darker. This can be seen well in North America, where the northernmost subspecies, the Peary caribou, is the whitest and smallest subspecies of the continent, while the Selkirk Mountains caribou (Southern Mountain population DU9)[124] is the darkest and nearly the largest,[119] only exceeded in size by Osborn's caribou (Northern Mountain population DU7).[124]

The coat has two layers of fur: a dense woolly undercoat and a longer-haired overcoat consisting of hollow, air-filled hairs.[138]{{efn|According to Inuit elder Marie Kilunik of the Aivilingmiut, Canadian Inuit preferred the caribou skins from caribou taken in the late summer or autumn, when their coats had thickened. They used it for winter clothing "because each hair is hollow and fills with air trapping heat."[139] Fur is the primary insulation factor that allows reindeer to regulate their core body temperature in relation to their environment, the thermogradient, even if the temperature rises to 38 °C (100 °F).[140] In 1913, Dugmore noted how the woodland caribou swim so high out of the water, unlike any other mammal, because their hollow, "air-filled, quill-like hair" acts as a supporting "life jacket".[141]

A darker belly color may be caused by two mutations of MC1R. They appear to be more common in domestic reindeer herds.[142]

Heat exchange
Blood moving into the legs is cooled by blood returning to the body in a countercurrent heat exchange (CCHE), a highly efficient means of minimizing heat loss through the skin's surface. In the CCHE mechanism, in cold weather, blood vessels are closely knotted and intertwined with arteries to the skin and appendages that carry warm blood with veins returning to the body that carry cold blood causing the warm arterial blood to exchange heat with the cold venous blood. In this way, their legs for example are kept cool, maintaining the core body temperature nearly 30 °C (54 °F) higher with less heat lost to the environment. Heat is thus recycled instead of being dissipated. The "heart does not have to pump blood as rapidly in order to maintain a constant body core temperature and thus, metabolic rate." CCHE is present in animals like reindeer, fox and moose living in extreme conditions of cold or hot weather as a mechanism for retaining the heat in (or out of) the body. These are countercurrent exchange systems with the same fluid, usually blood, in a circuit, used for both directions of flow.[143]

Reindeer have specialized counter-current vascular heat exchange in their nasal passages. Temperature gradient along the nasal mucosa is under physiological control. Incoming cold air is warmed by body heat before entering the lungs and water is condensed from the expired air and captured before the reindeer's breath is exhaled, then used to moisten dry incoming air and possibly be absorbed into the blood through the mucous membranes.[144] Like moose, caribou have specialized noses featuring nasal turbinate bones that dramatically increase the surface area within the nostrils.

Diet

Reindeer are ruminants, having a four-chambered stomach. They mainly eat lichens in winter, especially reindeer lichen (Cladonia rangiferina); they are the only large mammal able to metabolize lichen owing to specialised bacteria and protozoa in their gut.[184] They are also the only animals (except for some gastropods) in which the enzyme lichenase, which breaks down lichenin to glucose, has been found.[185] However, they also eat the leaves of willows and birches, as well as sedges and grasses.

Reindeer are osteophagous; they are known to gnaw and partly consume shed antlers as a dietary supplement and in some extreme cases will cannibalise each other's antlers before shedding.[186] There is also some evidence to suggest that on occasion, especially in the spring when they are nutritionally stressed,[187] they will feed on small rodents (such as lemmings),[188] fish (such as the Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus)), and bird eggs.[189] Reindeer herded by the Chukchis have been known to devour mushrooms enthusiastically in late summer.[190]

During the Arctic summer, when there is continuous daylight, reindeer change their sleeping pattern from one synchronised with the sun to an ultradian pattern, in which they sleep when they need to digest food.[191]

δ13CC values indicate reindeer living in the region around Biśnik Cave exhibited minimal ecological change during the transition from MIS 3 to MIS 2.[192] Dental mesowear indicates that during the Late Pleistocene, reindeer living in central Alaska had highly abrasive diets similar to wild horses.[193]

Predators

Standing on snow to avoid bloodsucking insects
A variety of predators prey heavily on reindeer, including overhunting by people in some areas, which contributes to the decline of populations.[132]

Golden eagles prey on calves and are the most prolific hunter on the calving grounds.[194] Wolverines will take newborn calves or birthing cows, as well as (less commonly) infirm adults.

Brown bears and polar bears prey on reindeer of all ages but, like wolverines, are most likely to attack weaker animals, such as calves and sick reindeer, since healthy adult reindeer can usually outpace a bear. The gray wolf is the most effective natural predator of adult reindeer and sometimes takes large numbers, especially during the winter. Some gray wolf packs, as well as individual grizzly bears in Canada, may follow and live off of a particular reindeer herd year-round.[109][195]

In 2020, scientists on Svalbard witnessed, and were able to film for the first time, a polar bear attack reindeer, driving one into the ocean, where the polar bear caught up with and killed it.[196] The same bear successfully repeated this hunting technique the next day. On Svalbard, reindeer remains account for 27.3% in polar bear scats, suggesting that they "may be a significant part of the polar bear's diet in that area".[197]

Additionally, as carrion, reindeer may be scavenged opportunistically by red and Arctic foxes, various species of eagles, hawks and falcons, and common ravens.

Bloodsucking insects, such as mosquitoes, black flies, and especially the reindeer warble fly or reindeer botfly (Hypoderma tarandi) and the reindeer nose botfly (Cephenemyia trompe),[180][198] are a plague to reindeer during the summer and can cause enough stress to inhibit feeding and calving behaviors.[199] An adult reindeer will lose perhaps about 1 L (0.22 imp gal; 0.26 US gal) of blood to biting insects for every week it spends in the tundra.[170] The population numbers of some of these predators is influenced by the migration of reindeer.[citation needed] Tormenting insects keep caribou on the move, searching for windy areas like hilltops and mountain ridges, rock reefs, lakeshore and forest openings, or snow patches that offer respite from the buzzing horde. Gathering in large herds is another strategy that caribou use to block insects.[200]

Reindeer are good swimmers and, in one case, the entire body of a reindeer was found in the stomach of a Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus), a species found in the far North Atlantic.[201]

Honorable mention

@rustic badger
@cedar crescent
@distant nymph
@spice gyro
@wintry marlin

@modest isle
@lone star
@hallow parrot
@limber grove

@full patrol
@lilac dagger
@drowsy egret
@azure oar

@silent cargo
@crimson marlin
@restive charm
@neat basalt
@pearl swan

The wiki is incredibly long so i picked random topics

[azure oar]

Did you copy the entirety of wikipedia?

[sullen merlin]

No this is like 10% of it i think

[crimson marlin]

Deer of rein

[azure oar]

What?!? why is the wikipedia article for Reindeer so long?

it‘s just a funny ice deer

[sullen merlin]

U have this in your country, did u see them in the wild?

[azure oar]

a pretty cool ice deer but still

[sullen merlin]

Humanity has a really close relationship with these animals, they are semi-domesticated in some cases so it makes sense. Also chopper is based off of it so they deserve a lot of attention

[azure oar]

I guess that makes sense. now where I think about it, dont some people in Scandinavia and Siberia use them for carying stuff?

[sullen merlin]

Yes

Its pretty much the dromedary camel of the arctic

[rustic badger]

[crimson marlin]

We have them all the way up north..so i sadly havent seen one in the wild

[wintry marlin]

Reindeer

[sullen merlin]

Sadge

[limber star]

I got a lava lamp for Xmas:3

[rustic badger]

Pink Lava...

[limber star]

yes :3

[modest isle]

https://tenor.com/view/herd-of-reindeer-gordon-ramsay-uncharted-reindeers-communal-reindeer-group-of-reindeer-gif-19048277

[modest isle]

https://tenor.com/view/camel-movement-desert-walking-pacing-gif-20640559

[modest isle]

Since we haven’t done any fish that is closely to Guppies or any other live bearer fish in long time @sullen merlin

Here is a suggestion for the next species :
Western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)

They are way duller and not as colorful compared to their fabulous cousins the Guppies

[cedar crescent]

https://tenor.com/view/jiggy-jolly-get-jiggy-get-jolly-get-jolly-with-it-gif-13651478034157223092

[lone star]

https://tenor.com/view/get-jolly-with-it-christmas-cat-silly-cat-jolly-cat-gif-18108606258072045197

[silent cargo]

3 gift copies of DRG, some friends I tried convincing really do not want it, putting absolutely anyone on a list as potential recipients now until other friends come online in case they're interested and want to claim a copy

[cedar crescent]

Can I get put on the maybe list I might have someone who's interested but idk

[silent cargo]

oh i refunded the extra copies already

[cedar crescent]

Misery

[austere robin]

front-facing dino pictures are my favorite

[spice gyro]

Mhm

Here’s the full thing

[modest isle]

[limber star]

I got this necklace (peep the dinosaur scrubs)

[limber star]

hell yea I like the pattern

[rigid forge]

@leaden void @full patrol Tagged you since you both responded to my earlier messages about this subject. Since I play on a laptop and want to play evrima (no hate towards legacy ofcourse). I was looking at buying an external graphics card since evrima doesn't work on integrated graphics. I wanted to make sure that if I do get one it'll work and that I would be able to play evrima on my laptop. Also I'm not a guy that's great with computers and stuff like that so I also wanted to ask what I would need and/or where I can simply find what I need (mostly because all the computer abbreviations are like another language to me and I wouldn't even know what serves what purpose). Oh and excuse me if there are some weird sentences in this message because I'm not a native English speaker.

[void zinc]

This is a subject best suited for the community forums of the brand of laptop you have. They can be very particular and it's a lot, LOT of details.

[full patrol]

Sorry I wouldn't know, I know some basic troubleshooting but that is also too complicated for me. You'll want to follow saoulzod's advice of finding a tech forum or something

[hidden hamlet]

should i spend 30€ on Warthunder?

[cedar crescent]

Do you play it a lot

[hidden hamlet]

yes got 3k hours

[cedar crescent]

Do you feel like it'll be a long term game that you'll be playing

And is the content you're getting with the money easily obtainable or is it gonna be a LONG time until you get it

[rough hollow]

this is t.rex 😉

[willow venture]

Seasons greasons from terror and erebus

[cedar crescent]

Howd you come up with Erebus?

Very cool names tho

[hidden hamlet]

i will get the thing i pay for instantly and u cant get it on any other way than buying it

[willow venture]

HMS Erebus and HMS Terror were warships that were changed into arctic exploration ships. They were the ships of the doomed Franklin Expedition that sailed to the Arctic in 1845 and disappeared. The ships were only found recently - one i think in 2014, maybe, and the other in 2020(?) I might be getting my dates wrong.

HMS Erebus was named after the Greek personification of Darkness, Erebus

[cedar crescent]

I would then if you plan on using it a lot and playing the game a lot

[cedar crescent]

That's pretty cool

[hidden hamlet]

yeah its a helicopter with really nice missiles called the ka 50

[spice gyro]

finally remembered to look at this

light red is isle

[cedar crescent]

Wh

Actually committed to playing the isle

Court ordered surely

[spice gyro]

I may enjoy dinosaurs

[full patrol]

My dad plays baldurs gate on my PC so my year in review is WAY off

[leaden void]

What are the laptop specs?

[unreal pier]

when will santa come to gibe me my christmas gift now today?

[barren bear]

#isle-discussion message
for that money
you should be looking at getting a 3060 or so

@haughty mortar

i presume what you're getting is a prebuilt?

because that seems overpriced

[haughty mortar]

Im paying 800 for it

The original cost is 1600

[barren bear]

is that discounted or you're splitting a bill?

[haughty mortar]

Discount

[barren bear]

i mean, that isn't bad
but that original price seems way too much imo

[haughty mortar]

Do you think it could run the isle

Evrima

AQVIN AQB70 Gaming Desktop Computer Tower PC, GeForce GTX 1660 Super 6GB, Intel Core i7 CPU, 32GB DDR4 RAM, New 1TB SSD, WIN 10 Pro, WIFI Ready + Bluetooth, RGB Keyboard and Mouse

Those r the specs

[barren bear]

RAM looks good
CPU looks fine
GPU might be a bit of a bottleneck

if you're running on 1080p resolution
you might get good with medium settings

only problem is that i would recommend DLSS, but only the 20series and above can run it
which does bring a nice performance boost

[haughty mortar]

My friend has a 1800 dollar pc so not much of a difference but he can run evrima 60 fps max graphics

[barren bear]

what GPU though? Because your specs seem just a bit too overpriced for that original price

[haughty mortar]

I just asked him and he said he doesn’t remember

[barren bear]

hmm

[haughty mortar]

I was hoping to hear that I could atleast get high graphcis

But idk

[barren bear]

i'm 50/50 on it
it is a bit hard to tell with Evrima atm

but if you're planning to play on 1080p resolution
you'll get a better chance to run on high graphics

[haughty mortar]

Okay thanks for the info

[barren bear]

no worries, good luck

[crimson marlin]

My family have gotten a tortoise today. And a youtube channel dedicated to just shellbor which is his name was created today too. There isnt much now because its just getting started. But if you wanna support his journey in life go into this link < 588126306743353521>
https://youtube.com/@shellborthetortoise?si=fRwGFHAEwgqeiskq

[cedar crescent]

If you wish hard enough

[echo quail]

What did you sigmas get for rizzmas

[echo quail]

😱

[flint wren]

I am not ashamed to say I giggled with joy when I saw it

[echo quail]

bro is living the high life

[sullen merlin]

Is that freddy fazbear??

[flint wren]

https://tenor.com/view/freddy-dance-freddy-dance-gif-20078036

[silk wolf]

my dad thought this was jerry from tom & jerry

[neat basalt]

@barren bear YEO HE HATCHED WITH THE IMMORTAL TRAIT

[barren bear]

lol

[chilly plank]

It's been 734 days since I've been waiting for megalania in evrima.....

[digital sleet]

@shell ocean i recommend this for an idea at what exactly can happen in space station 13
https://youtu.be/1BJSsf2-nT8?si=Y8UlN93hsbHkQAz9

you too @kindred laurel

[shell ocean]

first time ive ever been in offtopic discussion 🙏🏼

[digital sleet]

bassed

[limber grove]

tomato gaming spotted

[digital sleet]

https://tenor.com/view/life-on-our-planet-komodo-dragon-lizard-tongue-drooling-gif-12247613492982384645

[limber grove]

you are an enigma to me

[haughty mortar]

Does anyone know if these specs can run evrima on high graphics Intel Core i7-12700/1TB HDD/512GB SSD/16GB RAM/RTX 3060

[full patrol]

@cedar marsh get u ur free t10

Of course, there's the Pegasus and water walking unicorn too

Choices choices

[cedar marsh]

ya im deciding on the pegasus or the fire one ;-;

i heard they plan on adding a new one thats a mix of all 3

[cedar marsh]

so shouldnt i get the one thats hardest to grind for first? since its free?

[full patrol]

Krodalgo

[full patrol]

All 3 are hardest to grind for, you need 2 t9's of opposite gender same species to make a t10

So to make t10 unicorn you need 2 t9 unicorns 1 male 1 female

[cedar marsh]

but dont u need a specific material for each one? on top of the breeding

[full patrol]

I think so

All the materials are hard to get though, the free t10 Pegasus is the ice Pegasus. The free Pegasus feathers you get are for the red pegasus

[cedar marsh]

the red one looks nice

[full patrol]

I don't need any of the t10 for their specific skills so I chose the one I liked the most based on looks

• Pegasus has a crazy high double jump for like climbing mountains
• Unicorn can walk on water
• Doom has 2 seater skill

[cedar marsh]

doom also has a attack and can summon 2 t9 dooms for party members, pegasus can glide (kinda) and unicorn can run on water and i think it keep the no stam used in the desert passive from the t9

[full patrol]

Ya I didn't look into it too hard cause I'm not interested in Pegasus unless it literally flies and walking on water for a minute isn't a skill I need either

Plus Doom looks the coolest by far

[cedar marsh]

yaa the doom looks the coolest imo but the pegasus is the more popular one of what i see

[full patrol]

For sure I'm seeing a ton of pegasus and 2nd place is definitely Doom
Not seeing alot of unicorns

[cedar marsh]

ya cause unicorn is basically useless lmao if they made it run on water long enough to island hop it might be more popular but idk

[full patrol]

Ya it's like 10seconds of water running
Good for crossing a quick river but not much else

It was only popular when it was the only option

[haughty mortar]

?

[full patrol]

I responded to you in isle discussion over an hour ago
Yes, especially if you use dlss

[cedar marsh]

ya ive always wanted to get into bdo but havent stayed for long enough cause i get side tracked ;-;

[full patrol]

Ya they streamlined the quest system though so you can filter what types of quests you see so you can be more focused

[cedar marsh]

my highest level was a archer and i got it to like 57 or 58 on xbox

[full patrol]

Nice!

Ya the soft cap is lv60 now so it's pretty easy to get there compared to previous years

[cedar marsh]

thatll be a life saver, and theyve added so much to help newer players to catch up a bit

[cedar marsh]

i thought the soft cap was like 64 or 65?

[full patrol]

Ya the new/returning player servers have a 200% exp boost too

Idk it's been taking me over a week to get from 60-61

Imo the soft cap is when it goes from grinding for a couple hours to grinding for days

Like I've had to resort to daily/weekly quests with exp rewards because it levels me faster than mob grinding

[cedar marsh]

ya it take a very long time to get from 63-64 i can only imagine what its like past that lmao

[full patrol]

Get 1% in an hour instead of 0.4%

[cedar marsh]

i saw a vid there was a way to get from 1-61 in like less then a day from questing

[full patrol]

Oh ya before getting from 59-60 was insane. Literally had to no life the game with max exp buffs to get maybe 1% exp per hour

[cedar marsh]

for season characters tho

jesus

[full patrol]

Ya it's really easy to get to 56 now and then do chenga tome to 61

I'm just slow and refusing to do the desert quests until I get a unicorn

[cedar marsh]

LMAO i hated the desert diseases omg

[full patrol]

That and the infamous digging in the desert quest

[cedar marsh]

they did more damage to me then the mobs did ;-;

[full patrol]

Ain't no way I'm running all around the desert digging for stuff without a unicorn

Gotta get the water and tea to kill the desert debuff

[cedar marsh]

i dont think i got that far in the story, the story bugged on me so i couldnt progress on console ;-;

[full patrol]

Did you accidentally delete a quest item? I did that once had to send in a ticket

[cedar marsh]

i was living from safe zone to safe zone it was a struggle ;-;

[cedar marsh]

no the guy just didnt have the quest option

i had to run to talk to a guy but i couldnt talk to him

i restarting the quest and everything but it didnt work

[full patrol]

Oof I think I know exactly what you're talking about. They were talking about a quest you used to not be able to finish in mediah because they moved the npc and forgot to give him his quests back

[cedar marsh]

it was in valinca that desert city

[full patrol]

Rip

Bug or knowledge related

[cedar marsh]

maybe idk

[full patrol]

Had a similar issue in dreghian but it was because I hadn't done the prerequisite quest to get knowledge to talk to the npc
Of course it didn't tell me that when I talked to them just said I don't have enough knowledge to talk to them

[cedar marsh]

i both like and dont like how the game is so complex like that ;-;

[full patrol]

Ya it can be confusing

[cedar marsh]

have u tried the pvp at all? like the area of solair or open world pvp?

[full patrol]

I suck at the pvp. I'll do a little friendly match with friends but actual pvp I don't have the gear or levels to do well

The pvpers in BDO are all sweaty gamers who have maxed out gear and everything
Some even use macros it's awful

[cedar marsh]

iirc arena of solair is equalized gear score so everyone is on the same playing field

[full patrol]

Oh nice!

Ya I've never messed with it I tried way back when but equal gear settings wasn't a thing yet

[cedar marsh]

interesting ill have to look into it more, im usually a pvp player in games so i was wondering ;-;

[full patrol]

I want to play on the arsha servers because they have better mob drops but they're also the pvp servers 💀

It doesn't really have a ton of good pvp right now but they're working on it
They have a new temporary pvp dragon mount that flies and everything but you have to earn it in pvp

[cedar marsh]

i heard about that!! it looks cool

i heard that its gonna be a unlockable thing for gild leaders or something that win a node war or something

[full patrol]

War elephants will be a thing of the past

[cedar marsh]

ive never seen one tbh

oh!! did u hear about he new area coming??

[full patrol]

Another new area? They just released loml

[cedar marsh]

its a grind area i think

but a player can become a "lord" and gains a income tax on every drop thats farmed there and they can be challenged by people who want the spot of lord

[full patrol]

Interesting, sounds like some kind of node war content

[finite canopy]

Whats a good server to join?

[cedar marsh]

it sounds like its more of a solo thing

[full patrol]

In black desert online? The Olivia or season servers ideally

I think some people were talking about that in game chat. A king of the hill type of mechanic for certain nodes/grind areas

[cedar marsh]

ya it sounded very interesting

[full patrol]

I wonder how you would challenge people or if it's a thing where you have to be online to own it and when you go offline the ownership is dropped

Cause how people supposed to challenge you if you're not there

[cedar marsh]

the current lord cant decline a challenge and if ur offline for a certain amount of days u loose the title automatically

[full patrol]

Sounds like more stuff I'm not going to bother with

[cedar marsh]

right lmao

[full patrol]

Will have to avoid those spots I'm not gonna grind just so some random can make free money off my hard work. I already do that at my irl job

[cedar marsh]

they also mentioned another new grind spot that has a unique mechanic thats based on how much u grind there

[full patrol]

That's cool I hope it's a worthwhile mechanic and not something lame

[cedar marsh]

it had something to do with a statue that drop items but only people with the most clear can claim the items

i dont remember the mechanic fully

[full patrol]

Oh so basically trying to make grind spots competitive again
They were competitive until they added the private 1hr grind session thing to all the popular spots. So guess they had to add a new mechanic to encourage people to pk again in grinding spots 💀

[cedar marsh]

oh and theyre adding more life skill gear

[cedar marsh]

lmao i can see arguments for both tbh but consistently fighting would be annoying if ur just wanting to grind ;-;

[full patrol]

Ya I heard about the lifeskill stuff. Basically standardizing the different types of gear instead of it being locked to specific skills

[cedar marsh]

i still need to learn "how to grind effectively"

[full patrol]

To avoid getting pk'd in a grinding spot just make it look like you know what you're doing and grinding as fast as possible using all your biggest attacks. People will see you moving fast as heck and using massive attacks and assume you're insane powerful when really you're just bluffing

Works every time

[cedar marsh]

noted i play archer so speed inst a issue 😄

[full patrol]

Not efficient for actual grinding but if another player shows up and looks like they wanna take your spot it's a good strat

[cedar marsh]

i hope they add a "spartan" style class a male with a spear and shield

[full patrol]

Minus the spartan outfit I think one of the newer classes is

[cedar marsh]

jots down notes

[cedar marsh]

not with a spear and shield, awk sage has a spear but thats it

and hes a "god" of lighting

[full patrol]

Ohhh

[cedar marsh]

ya i had high hopes for the gunner class but now im sad ;-;

[full patrol]

Stuck with Valk then

The deadeye is ok
Feels a bit like reskin of mage but with crazy slide/sprint attacks

[cedar marsh]

ya awk valk is the closet thing to a spear and shield

[cedar marsh]

and a "western" astatic

[full patrol]

I started one today and got all the way to delphine fortress in the main questline

[cedar marsh]

how do u like it so far?

[full patrol]

She has taglines when she uses certain combos
Stereotypical stuff like "eat lead" and a couple others I don't remember

She's alright, feels clunky compared to lahn which I've been maining

[cedar marsh]

"say hello to my little friend"

[full patrol]

Pretty much lol

[cedar marsh]

lol

ive been maining archer since it came out on console even if that doesnt say alot cause i take BIG breaks

[full patrol]

Deadeye is in a weird place she wants to be ranged but most of her attacks require her to jump into the middle of everything, do a combo, then jump out. And with minimal defense it's rough

[cedar marsh]

no super armor or i frames?

[full patrol]

You might like deadeye honestly if you've been maining archer similar playstyle to archer awakening

She has a take cover skill where you press Q and a directional key and you get a magic brick wall to hide behind

[cedar marsh]

ill prob give it a try and if i like it ill try to link my archer to it so i dont have to level 2 characters ;-;

i also want to try musa awk but i dont really like the style of the main hand

i really want them to bring over the wukong class from bdo mobile

[unreal pier]

cool thing will do now today

[echo quail]

Yippee yahoo wahoo

How does santa do it bro

[rigid forge]

I'll let you guys know later. Got to focus on my exams first

[real harness]

Cooked or cracked

[young gale]

New fishtank I got for Christmas that I will be setting up soon

[cedar crescent]

Chat is this true?

[young gale]

Maybe

[young gale]

I think I know you from somewhere

Pot discord maybe

[cedar crescent]

Perhaps maybe I visited your home once or twice and gave a very nice talk to your mother

[young gale]

Wanna out last the trials maybe

[cedar crescent]

Sorry

[cedar crescent]

Yeah!!!

[young gale]

[cedar crescent]

I said sorry :(

[young gale]

[cedar crescent]

Don't tempt me bro

I'll send a pipe bomb shaped present to you

[barren bear]

https://tenor.com/view/transformers-greeting-universal-greeting-hot-rod-kup-gif-16128354

[eager moat]

@half cairn

[clever thunder]

So me and my mom tried watching Everything Everywhere All at Once.... We got like halfway through.... How did this movie get so highly rated?

[full patrol]

The scenes with the rocks are pretty funny

Otherwise, just don't think too hard while watching. Imo it wasn't really that great either, was very long and a little boring

The story was interesting though

[clever thunder]

I didn't get to that part I don't think

[wild carbon]

anyone care to show me good graphics for this game im new i got 16gb ram and a 3060

[eager moat]

you can probably crank everything up but avoid Lumen

[real harness]

https://youtu.be/FowBLB4g6pk?feature=shared

Am i crazy or did they use in game recordings of the isle scenery to advertise their card game?

Its probably fine but its just weird that they wouldn't get their own considering its a card game and most likely has art hands to spare

[eager moat]

Probably just unreal engine. They have lots of scenery like the isle.

[real harness]

Probably yeah

[spice gyro]

Yeah none of that is from the isle, the plant assets are different

[spice gyro]

Hey @rough hollow fyi I think you posted those screenshots in the wrong channel lol #spiro-screenshots message

[rough hollow]

Oops

[cedar crescent]

Vorped

[neon kraken]

Could you eat them?

[young gale]

Maybe

[neon kraken]

Wanna try one?

[young gale]

Perhaps

[full patrol]

Woo! Same thermometer!

[young gale]

Have you seen my new fish tank

It's a 6 gallon tank

That I have on the lower platform of my fishstand

[full patrol]

Nice! Figured out what you're gonna stock it with yet?

[young gale]

I'm gonna turn it into a shrimp tank

I just have the filter and Java moss that I took from my main tank set up for now

Need to go get more substrate

Plants and driftwood

Then I can let that cycle for a while then I can get the shrimp

I'm probably gonna get blue dream shrimp

30$ for 12

I've seen people do cherry shrimp colonies and I thought it looked cool so I wanna do one myself but with blue dream

[full patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/shrimp-as-that-clash-royale-hee-hee-hee-haw-gif-25054781

[young gale]

Real

Blue dream shrimp are probably my favorite

I do have an extra platform to make another tank but I'll probably do that later in 2025

Might make another shrimp tank with a different type of shrimp

Maybe green jade

Or some yellow/orange variety

I'm so hyped to get this tank completed and filled with blue dream

[digital sleet]

@pulsar crown im about to surrender to my impulses

that path of titans purchase is looking awfully tempting

$22 in USD, $35 in AUD

[pulsar crown]

dont do it

[digital sleet]

they have a refund policy its fine

surely i will not pass 2 hours without realising it

[digital sleet]

i bought it, im gonna install it, im going to see how it plays, and if i dont like it im going to refund it

thank god its only 9 gigabytes

[hallow parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/berd-flamingo-berd-gif-18719821

[modest isle]

First Animal species of the day (459) :
Western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis)

The western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis) is a North American freshwater poeciliid fish, also known commonly, if ambiguously, as simply mosquitofish or by its generic name, Gambusia, or by the common name gambezi. Its sister species, the eastern mosquitofish (Gambusia holbrooki) is also referred to by these names.

Mosquitofish are small in comparison to many other freshwater fish, with females reaching a maximum length of 7 cm (2.8 in) and males a maximum length of 4 cm (1.6 in). The female can be distinguished from the male by her larger size and a gravid spot at the posterior of her abdomen. The name "mosquitofish" was given because the fish eats mosquito larvae, and has been used more than any other fishes for the biological control of mosquitoes.[3] Gambusia typically eat zooplankton, beetles, mayflies, caddisflies, mites, and other invertebrates; mosquito larvae make up only a small portion of their diet.

Mosquitofish were introduced directly into ecosystems in many parts of the world as a biocontrol[5] to lower mosquito populations which in turn negatively affected many other species in each distinct bioregion.[6] Mosquitofish in Australia are classified as a noxious pest and may have exacerbated the mosquito problem in many areas by outcompeting native invertebrate predators of mosquito larvae. Several counties in California distribute mosquitofish at no charge to residents with human-made fish ponds and pools as part of their mosquito abatement programs.

Mosquitofish are small and of a dull grey coloring, with a large abdomen, and have rounded dorsal and caudal fins and an upturned mouth.[3] Sexual dimorphism is seen; mature females reach a maximum overall length of 7 cm (2.8 in), while males reach only 4 cm (1.6 in). Sexual dimorphism is also seen in the physiological structures of the body. The anal fins on adult females resemble the dorsal fins, while the anal fins of adult males are pointed. This pointed fin, referred to as a gonopodium

Mosquitofish are diet generalists, but they are considered "larvivorous" because they consume the larvae of mosquitoes and other aquatic insects.[18] Their diet consists of zooplankton, small insects and insect larvae, and detritus material. Mosquitofish feed on mosquito larvae at all stages of life, if mosquito larvae are available in the environment. Adult females can consume up to hundreds of mosquito larvae in one day

The native range of the mosquitofish is from southern parts of Illinois and Indiana, throughout the Mississippi River and its tributary waters, to as far south as the Gulf Coast in the northeastern parts of Mexico.[22] They are found most abundantly in shallow water protected from larger fish.[11] Mosquitofish can survive relatively inhospitable environments, and are resilient to low oxygen concentrations, high salt concentrations (up to twice that of sea water), and temperatures up to 42 °C (108 °F) for short periods.

After birth, newborn mosquitofish are about 8 to 9 mm (0.31 to 0.35 in) in length. As juveniles, they grow at a rate of about 0.2 mm (0.0079 in) per day, but growth is highly temperature-dependent. Growth rates of juvenile mosquitofish reach their peak when the water temperature is within a range of 24 to 30 °C (75 to 86 °F), depending on resource availability.[36] As temperatures rise above or dip below this range, growth rates decrease. Consistent temperatures at or above 35 °C (95 °F) are typically lethal, while growth stops when temperatures are at or below 10 °C (50 °F).[13] For male mosquitofish, sexual maturity is reached in about 43 to 62 days, but maturation age is also dependent on temperature and resources.[37] Female mosquitofish reach sexual maturity in about 21 to 28 days if born early within the reproductive season. The lifespan of a mosquitofish averages less than a year and the maximum is about 1.5 years

Western Mosquitofish are way duller and not as colorful compared to their fabulous cousins the Guppies

@rustic badger
@cedar crescent
@distant nymph
@spice gyro
@wintry marlin

@modest isle
@lone star
@hallow parrot
@limber grove

@full patrol
@lilac dagger
@drowsy egret
@azure oar
@sullen merlin

@silent cargo
@crimson marlin
@restive charm
@neat basalt
@pearl swan

@raven ember

Haven’t done AOTD in a long time
Cave Goblino is busy

[spice gyro]

Fish

[modest isle]

Live bearers

[spice gyro]

Love these guys cause they eat mosquitoes

[rustic badger]

[crimson marlin]

Fibish.. fish..

[modest isle]

Next i will do the “Golden ringed dragonfly” (460)
Suggested by @raven ember

[distant nymph]

Fish! o:

Ohh, so they eat Mosquitos xD
That's neat

[sullen merlin]

Fibsch

[modest isle]

Yep very useful fish to be used in lakes that were invaded by invasive mosquitoes 🦟

[distant nymph]

I can imagine, yeah o:

[raven ember]

Yay!

[raven ember]

I have mosquito fish in my backyard

In our lake

[zenith mason]

That's alot of info

[modest isle]

Second Animal species of the day (460) :
golden-ringed dragonfly (Cordulegaster boltonii)

The golden-ringed dragonfly is a very large dragonfly that is on the wing from May to September. It is a dragonfly of small, acidic streams in moorland and heathland, and may be found away from its breeding sites. The female of this species is the UK's longest dragonfly because of her long ovipositor.

The golden-ringed dragonfly (Cordulegaster boltonii) is a large, striking species of dragonfly found widely in Europe and locally in northwestern Africa, especially near flowing waters like streams.[1] It is the longest British species of dragonfly,[2] and the only member of its genus to be found in the United Kingdom

[rustic badger]

well well well

[modest isle]

In the United Kingdom, they are easily identified by their distinctive black and yellow stripes, which is not found in any other dragonfly in the country.[4] A very large species, males average 74 mm (2.9 in) and the longer females average 84 mm (3.3 in). Wingspan is up to 101 mm (4.0 in).[5] The female is the longest British dragonfly, in part due to the unusually long ovipositor,[2] and in other measurements it is exceeded by the emperor (Anax imperator)

The female lays the eggs in shallow water. The hairy larvae live at the bottom of the water and are well camouflaged amongst the silt.[7] They emerge after about 2–5 years, and usually under the cover of darkness.

The life-expectancy of adults is short, typically no more than a week or two, but sometimes they can last 6–8 weeks. Adult dragonflies have voracious appetites, and can be observed hunting other flying insects, particularly small flies, on sunny days

Do Dragonflies Bite or Sting? No, although large dragonflies, if held in the hand, will sometimes try to bite they fail to break the skin. They have a lot of “folk names” which imply that they do, such as “Horse-stinger”, but they don't use their egg-laying tube (ovipositor) for stinging.

Golden-ringed dragonfly are fast, agile and powerful flyers, which aids them well as a voracious predator, feeding on large insects, such as damselflies, wasps, beetles, bumblebees and other dragonflies.

Adult dragonflies typically live for up to six months. When they are young, the naiads are busy hunting in the water to find food to eat. They typically consume insects, fish, tadpoles, and aquatic worms

They are often seen flying leisurely over mountain streams or a river; they also occasionally show up at a pond. They are also typically seen flying over heath land. Their bright yellow and black stripes make them easy to identify, even from a fair distance away. They feed mainly on insects ranging from small prey such as midges to flies, butterflies and even bumblebees. This strikingly-coloured insect is incredibly aerobatic and they sometimes fly very high up into the sky

[rustic badger]

You've been reading for a while now, Take a break

[modest isle]

A female can lay several thousand eggs in her lifetime, usually in several different batches over a few days or weeks. After the incubation period, tiny creatures with six legs, wing-sheaths, hinged jaws, and the ability to breathe while underwater will emerge from the eggs

Some bee farmers use a figure shaped like this species to scare off the GIANT ASAIN HORNETS since the golden ringed dragonfly preys on hornets

@rustic badger
@cedar crescent
@distant nymph
@spice gyro
@wintry marlin

@modest isle
@lone star
@hallow parrot
@limber grove

[rustic badger]

[modest isle]

@full patrol
@lilac dagger
@drowsy egret
@azure oar
@sullen merlin

[wintry marlin]

Bug

[full patrol]

Again 👀

[modest isle]

@silent cargo
@crimson marlin
@restive charm
@neat basalt
@pearl swan

@raven ember

[hallow parrot]

i've accidentally knocked a dragon fly unconscious

i threw the newspaper at the direction of the sound of its wings

and it just fell out the air

[wintry marlin]

Damn

[modest isle]

Decided to do 2 since we cant do in these few days both me and Cave goblino are busy
Studying

[hallow parrot]

i let it free afterwards, but yikes

[chilly plank]

It's been 736 days since I've been waiting for megalania in evrima.....

[distant nymph]

Dragonfly

[distant nymph]

And good luck with your studies 😊

[wintry marlin]

Yea GL

[raven ember]

https://youtu.be/3RoRHAXaAGk?si=xz1IbEBkbjqXadQw

Also here is one eating a Asian giant hornet

Yummers

[rustic badger]

Good Luck

[raven ember]

Good luck bud

[raven ember]

Awww hey!

[modest isle]

Thanks guys 👍🏼

[raven ember]

https://tenor.com/view/yourarchivist-orange-bunny-bunny-bunny-rub-bunny-pet-gif-8698959216037485971

[distant nymph]

Hey 😊

[raven ember]

How are you?

[distant nymph]

https://tenor.com/view/bunny-flop-cute-funny-awesome-gif-16911427480845277920

Sleeepy ):

[raven ember]

XD

Same

[rustic badger]

I've been sleeping an absurd amount ever since exams ended

Winter also makes me wanna stay in blanket

[wintry marlin]

Same… I may or may not have woken up at 5 pm today…

[raven ember]

Lmfao

[azure oar]

Two (maybe three) of these Dragonflies actually lived in my garden for a season.
Not exactly sure but was of similar size

I wish I had a picture but I was like 7 at the time so didnt have a phone

[brisk lance]

I've got a question. Does a host usually have a long time load in?

[raven ember]

I'm sure during that time, any horsefly that was considerably large and hefty lived in constant fear everyday

[austere idol]

Would dinosaurs actually hunt humans as depicted in movies? Just curious as the diets of some dinosaurs may stop them from eating humans and idk if they would be adapted to eat them.

[sharp pilot]

Hi

[sharp pilot]

Defense i would just say much like how animals today attack us mainly out of defense

[grizzled crescent]

I just want to leave this slop here

[spice gyro]

After going back in time I can confirm that the ancient Egyptians saw that thing

[zinc cape]

CALLING ALL ANIMAL NERDS CHEACK THIS TIER LIST https://tiermaker.com/create/animal-tier-list-101hay-you-dont-be-shy-click-on-this-list-15985502

[ancient torrent]

The fact that the adult has four legs on one side and two on the other.

[sullen merlin]

@modest isle @distant nymph the baby rabbits that survived are roaming free around the area now.

[modest isle]

The semi-hybrids ones ?

[sullen merlin]

They are extremely skittish so im sure they ll be fine

[sullen merlin]

Ye, i mean im not sure if they are hybrids or not

Cuz they were already pretty big when we found them so

[modest isle]

Most likely not hybrids , since the domestic rabbit and the European wild rabbit belong to the same species

Its great that they survived theses few weeks without getting eaten 👍🏼

[sullen merlin]

They didnt all survive sadly

We think there were 5 initially, 2 died of disease i think or killed by their siblings or something. 1 other got caught by my cat . But theres still 2 roaming around

Theyll soon reach the size where my cat wont mess with them anymore tho so ill try to keep him inside during that time

[modest isle]

Thats a good idea hopefully they grow up and reach sexual maturity so they can breed with wild specimens/members of their species

[sullen merlin]

I hate how the image gets tilted when i take a picture through the binoculars

[digital sleet]

@pulsar crown i dont think ill be able to refund PoT

just joining one server means i have to download 2.45 gb of mods

im crying

[distant nymph]

Oh cute 😊

[fossil laurel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJc0AyFcO4Y

I've never eaten asian food before but this video kind of got me interested in what the orient has to offer

[zinc cape]

I have a passion for nature Downsized and I read a lot. Also spread the word of my tier list please. Share the links so everyone so my hard work will be the best ANIMAL TIERLIST . https://tiermaker.com/create/animal-tier-list-101hay-you-dont-be-shy-click-on-this-list-15985502

[digital sleet]

this guys posted nothing but the same messages repeatedly

and the last messages he ever made were a year ago

[zinc cape]

I just want to spread the message of my tier list that took 2 mouths. Sooooo wanna try biting Golden Retriever

[slow hazel]

????????????

[wide saffron]

[full patrol]

You're missing out I literally went to a Japanese restaurant yesterday so good!!

[fossil laurel]

I will try it sometime. There are a few Japanese restaurants nearby but they're all quite expensive for me

Will need to save up >:)

[echo quail]

🥳

[tired hinge]

ah yes the six legged camelcat

[hallow parrot]

I just ate my largest dinner yet, as if my giant whole turkey from christmas wasn't enough

that feeling when you literally can't lean forward while sitting, let alone attempt to stand

https://tenor.com/view/bbq-tummy-gif-26247887

[grizzled crescent]

https://youtu.be/SNvDUO42Hys?si=NCZTP8h8y4DO8ZSH

@tight plover @limber grove

ADMIN HE’S DOING IT SIDEWAYS

[limber grove]

now THIS is gaming

[grizzled crescent]

Original gamer.

[grizzled crescent]

Phoon inspired Deino

[tight plover]

da heck

[tight plover]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-annoyed-eyeing-cat-meme-cat-funny-gif-14867130448325066479

[digital sleet]

god damn cheaters

[digital sleet]

@pulsar crown this goober bellyflops into water when you jump

one sec uploading image

[digital sleet]

it can also "burrow" underground and move which is cool

[pulsar crown]

goblin

[digital sleet]

its so small i can hide in grass and just bite ankles lmao

[wary glade]

@rough hollow

[digital sleet]

@raven ember this things a war criminal

[raven ember]

That looks like a good boi

[digital sleet]

still growing

[raven ember]

Why is he a war criminal

[raven ember]

Is it OP once fully grown

[digital sleet]

idk i just like it

[raven ember]

Also is this officially added

Or a mod

[digital sleet]

mod

anything that attacks me gets a mouth full of poison

and i can "burrow underground" (turn invisible) to escape

[raven ember]

Yeah. Lots of the new dinos I see in POT are mods. It's cool but the devs really don't make new playables anymore?

[digital sleet]

they tried to release a new dinosaur for $7.99 and then got torn apart by the community

[raven ember]

LMFAO

[raven ember]

What dino

[digital sleet]

also this thing sounds exactly like the GTA SA planes that fly overhead

[digital sleet]

tyrannotitan

[raven ember]

Bruh ☠️

$7.99 for this guy

That's wild

[digital sleet]

oh god now im watching an iguanodon fight an allo

[raven ember]

Record it

[digital sleet]

didnt have shadowplay on god im crying

thanks though, giant iguanodon, this food shall feed my tiny, tiny creature for years

[tepid jay]

if the corpse bug on that mod is still a thing then yea, it will feed you for literal years

[eternal wolf]

hi every one im new which servers should i play on?

[hallow parrot]

I heard about this, PoT charging players to play their own creatures
Though, I thought they took it back, didn't realise they're still going through with it

I'd much rather buy a nice bacon butty at my local cafe than that

[limber grove]

I think they did walk back on it

[hallow parrot]

oh

[limber grove]

But the fact that they tried is very.....

[raven ember]

Still the fact they tried

Lmao

[limber grove]

Offputting

yea

[hallow parrot]

big yikes

[marble turret]

all of this years accomplishments!

this was such a fun year in terms of drawing

[warped plover]

Happy new year from Germany 🎉🎊🥳

[marble turret]

to you too!

[warped plover]

thank you ☺️

[open sandal]

Quick question: I'm trying to find a host service and I'm seeing if there's a recommended one from the community for Evrima? I found one that was recommended to me but it lists "The Isle" and "The Isle [Gateway]"

[zinc cape]

https://tiermaker.com/create/animal-tier-list-101hay-you-dont-be-shy-click-on-this-list-15985502

[wide saffron]

Sushi coded

[barren bear]

https://tenor.com/view/vaas-gif-22751248

[hidden hamlet]

happy new year

[scenic gazelle]

Happy new year everyone!

[proven panther]

happy new yearsss!!

[tidal stag]

yaaay

[maiden wave]

恐龙岛 - did anyone see this game in steam?

[whole raptor]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3139890/_/

Steam

恐龙岛

本游戏的核心玩法是击杀恐龙获得积分，积分越高，可以获得越高的排名。 玩家扮演恐龙在一座岛屿上与其他恐龙战斗，击杀恐龙可以获得积分，并且获得经验成长，在恐龙成长过程中可能会升级恐龙或者获得超级进化，提升自身的战斗力。 在游戏中击杀恐龙有概率获得龙币、龙晶，使用龙币、龙晶可购买不同的恐龙皮肤。 移动： 游戏中可以按WASD进行移动，同时可以按住SHIFT+WASD进行奔跑。 攻击： 游戏中可以使用鼠标进行攻击，一般使用鼠标左键攻击，某些恐龙有两种攻击方式，第二种攻击方式是右键攻击。在与其他恐龙战斗时，中可以根据不同的恐龙采用不同的战术，可以选择不同的攻击方式、走位方式、地形等。 体力： 奔跑、跳跃、以及某些特殊攻击会消耗体力，当体力不足时，则不能进行以上操作。 进化： 击杀恐龙、吃肉、喝水...

Release Date

Coming soon

▶ Play video

[languid bridge]

is that Isle music in the video?

[whole raptor]

it is yeah lmao

[languid bridge]

lol

[red leaf]

Happy new year The first gen betas are being born

[earnest solar]

Ngl I thought it was 10 pm

[strong marten]

They better be better than the alphas

[barren bear]

ah yes, box cage

[barren bear]

and typing sounds...

also the animations look like isles as well

[winged sphinx]

So I just realized that there is a new JW movie in the making, a bit late but it is what it is

And apparently both the director and screenwriter have actual experience and achievements in their history, and have stories that have effort and thought put into them

[rustic badger]

Yeah its from Godzilla 2014's director, so we can expect the big dinos to feel big/heavy atleast

[winged sphinx]

I just hope they actually try to do a proper follow up to the first JP and that it isn’t money printer slop like the other three. Heard some rumors too about things being more accurate and also being more mature (R rated?)

[winged sphinx]

2014 Godzilla, Rogue One and the Creator. All films that, despite not being generational masterpieces, still had effort put into them and made you feel something at all (would argue Rogue One is narratively the best SW movie out there but the bar ain’t that high tbf)

And the screenwriter made the scripts for JP and Lost World so that’s something

The only two movies of the franchise that aren’t considered bad by almost everyone

I would be happy with a 7/10 at least

Please

Trevorrow already missed a golden opportunity in 2015 and made a brutal fumble 😭

[brazen brook]

Btw whatever happened to jack horners chickenosaurus project

[winged sphinx]

[cedar crescent]

Is that the one where they were gonna try and modify the genetics of a chicken embryo to turn on/off the physical genetics of the chicken to make it more like a dinosaur

[winged sphinx]

yes

we know nothing ab it

lmao

[cedar crescent]

Man

[young gale]

Feeding time

[winged sphinx]

I mean at least there’s some knowledge about the matter by now

[full patrol]

https://tenor.com/view/shrimp-activity-shrimp-activity-fish-activity-clam-activity-gif-25683373

[jade glade]

[earnest solar]

Isletuber reference?

[digital sleet]

@leaden sable just got a miragaia to 100%

i am what they might call.........a professional..........

[spice gyro]

@vapid charm yo that’s a really nice screenshot! Fiy it’s in the wrong channel tho, you should put it in #gateway-screenshots so it doesn’t get deleted entirely

[tired hinge]

Have yall heard? Saurian is still not dead

[spice gyro]

Yeah I saw that, hope they can get the chance to expand at some point tho

[pearl bramble]

@indigo stratus lol

[slow hazel]

Damn new cpu cooler is going strong. Whole cpu is on 100% load and doesnt go above 55 celsius

[full patrol]

Trex a good pet??? 👀
https://youtu.be/Gq2T-mre9jI?si=svRML1qSjrrlSuf7

Actually a really cool video about recent paleo events

[rough hollow]

I love this guy, watched so may of his vids to determine the pet for me. Glad he made one of T-Rex. Found a T-rex hatchling on Facebook Marketplace for a cheap 200 bucks. Oh man he eats a lot and hes been eyeing my cat.

[lone star]

oh that’s common juvenile t-Rex behaviour

just takes some training, yknow? exposure to your cat and they’ll be a-okay

[barren bear]

yay saurian devblog

[slow hazel]

???

[barren bear]

saurian got a new devblog lol

[slow hazel]

i thought that game is dead cuz one of the devs left with the money?

or am i mistaken

[limber grove]

from the devblog it looks like they're working with a small, volunteer team

[slow hazel]

nice, lets see if they get somewhere

[barren bear]

to be fair
it always has been like that

but the team seems to be even even more smaller

[past jay]

Was in offical server and got killed by a Flying Ceratosaurus, I am lost for words

[digital sleet]

@leaden sable im in the process of getting to birchwoods rivers as a dolphin

[leaden sable]

🔥

[digital sleet]

im already at the waterfall in the swamp

i tried to jump it but fell and broke my "leg"

turns out you cant climb the incline

so ive gotta try other tactics

god how do i get up there

[digital sleet]

I DID IT

[leaden sable]

based ankylorhiza gameplay

[digital sleet]

i can climb these waterfalls too

that lead into titanfall pass or whatever its called

im so close
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1194686206747873300/1324628861685731358/image.png?ex=6778d843&is=677786c3&hm=152fb4ffc0f3ebbe501ac1a7f0587ad86e794b78379287772334f8ee7f5982f3&

[leaden sable]

so true bestie, stun eurhinos and kais with your echolocation

[digital sleet]

i dont have enough marks to obtain that ability

[leaden sable]

oh yea... and all your quests are in the ocean...

[digital sleet]

lmao

im trying to climb the second waterfall now but its too shallow to get a good angle

[digital sleet]

@pulsar crown just to flex, i got my dolphin from the ocean, to the swamp, up an unclimbable hill, into a river in the birch tree forest, did tricks infront of two giganotosaurs, and proceeded to jump over a waterfall, and now im stuck trying to climb the next one

i also jumpscared a pachycephalosaurus because it was coming for water only to see me pop out

[digital sleet]

i ended up going to grand plains river

[slow hazel]

orca gameplay

[zinc cape]

https://tiermaker.com/create/animal-tier-list-101hay-you-dont-be-shy-click-on-this-list-15985502

[austere robin]

@slow hazel
its 12

[slow hazel]

thank u

[austere robin]

i saw you put it in the feedback channel

[slow hazel]

ye accidently

[autumn lagoon]

anyone had issues related to screen?

[digital sleet]

@leaden sable check out what i achieved this morning
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1194686206747873300/1324936771728969728/image.png?ex=6779f706&is=6778a586&hm=61fe33033c1d97da0889e3e223f599119c4918c0806dafa868ae99bc2753eeac&

i gave a fish to a sauropod and he walked off with it

[leaden sable]

👍

You should give Livyatan a whirl next