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Cute story about a pelican knocking on some fish scientists' door for help:

"A recent quiet morning at a Florida marine research facility was interrupted by tapping at the back door.

A biologist walked over to investigate and found a brown pelican standing on the stoop and pecking at the glass with its long beak. It stood there patiently, as if waiting for help. A quick inspection revealed the pelican was injured.

Fishing line was wrapped around the pelican's right wing, and a double-barbed treble hook was stuck in the wing, restricting the bird's ability to fly. About a dozen cactus spines were lodged in its left foot.

When Annsli Hilton, a University of Miami research associate who works at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) research facility, heard the commotion, she figured someone had brought in the injured bird. She was shocked to hear the pelican came on its own to the lab in Panama City.

"I always kind of thought in my head – and liked to think that – animals would know to either come to me for help or to come to the lab for help," Hilton said. "... But I never thought it would happen."

Link: https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/scientists-heard-a-knock-at-the-door-it-was-a-pelican-in-need-of-help/

I have added some notes on the combat system as someone on the Steam Forums was asking for them.

Ooh, that sounds interesting - look forward to seeing it

Is it as kinda mock-horror as the FNAF-like title implies?

Kissing

Hello and welcome - looking forward to seeing some of your projects!

I also combine game making and music making, and my last main game project was quite procedural generation focused, so that's very interesting to me too

revolution

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Lordle of the Rings #1724

Yeah this was another "I absolutely would not have remembered this very in-world word"

Basset

She breathes, quietly. She ponders for a moment – but only for a moment. She has to know. She has known for a long time that she would have to know.

Reading the page again, she checks. It seems so simple, such a little thing. It feels strange to suddenly be so close. Her hands shake a little as she puts the paper down.

Nervously, she walks down to the kitchen, and then, a few minutes later, up to the old room with the fireplace.

Ninette pushes open the door. It creaks with age, and she slips in when it is only a little open. She has not had long, but she has already prepared even her thoughts carefully. The voice speaks from somewhere near the fireplace, unprompted, almost startling despite its familiarity.

"You look worried."

The voice. Voice. Her friend. What would become of the voice now? Would this do anything?

Was she right?


She closes her eyes, slowly, and raises her hand. She lets the flour fall.

"Show yourself."

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Lordle of the Rings #1723

Just did today's one, which was a real obscure one even by LOTR standards

heckle

Huh, yeah, now adding apropos to the list of words you can mispronounce like a Greek hero along with bicycles/barnacles/cubicles etc.

In fairness, even in an ideal world something that isn't findable is hard to advertise

Re insecurity: I think you're right that people often have insecurity problems, but I don't think herd mentality requires insecurity, that's just one of a number of ways of producing herd instinct in humans. Like, the LLM bro community in Silicon Valley: financially and socially some of the most secure and privileged people in the world, with huge egos, and yet very obviously acting in certain herd mentality focused ways.

Also some forms of herd mentality aren't always bad: there are lots of things on which relying on consensus is necessary to exist in a complex world, and so we kinda have to offload some items to specialists and who is a specialist is a societal consensus decision. A human brain has a finite capacity for information, after all, and we've seen some really bad examples of "I am confident, I do my own research and ask the Real Questions" in recent years which worked out badly because the people absolutely did not have the skills to assess the evidence properly (obvious one being the people literally dying in parts of the USA now because a subset of people abandoned the collective mentality of protecting themselves against basic diseases using established science).

So I think it's important to make the distinction in this between "information that we need to share collectively to function as an advanced society" and "information that is being pressured onto or hacked into people to get them to consume/act in a certain way for someone else's benefit" which I think is more what you're talking about.

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