Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG8XKamuP4Y

No, this is Patrick

As a little note, the eye tracking would be a huge selling point for social games like VRChat. Very few headsets support it so far.

I would have to go with landmines. If that isn’t enough of a deterrent, and claymores or even some bouncing betties.

Here’s the article: https://www.science.org/content/article/ants-stilts

And here’s what I think is the official scientific paper (says free with login): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16809544/

From an article I found online:

A team led by Matthias Wittlinger, a biologist at the University of Ulm, Germany, made modifications to desert ants […]. After setting up an ant home outside the lab, the researchers let 25 ants take a 10-meter trip from their nest, then collected them. For one group, the team glued tiny stilts to the insects’ legs. For another, they clipped the legs down to stumps. And for a control group they left the legs alone. Then the researchers gave each ant a piece of food and set it free. With morsels of food in their jaws, the ants immediately headed home. If desert ants do indeed use an internal pedometer, then the modifications should mess up their calculations.

Not only did the stilted and stumpy ants not make it home, but they also misjudged their distances exactly as the researchers predicted. The ants on stilts went about 5 meters too far before stopping to search for the nest, whereas the stumpy ants stopped about 5 meters too short […] (Control ants got back home just fine.) After the modified ants were returned to the nest, they were able to go out and get back home just as accurately as normal ants, which should be the case if they’re keeping track of the number of steps.

It’s the Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank of course!

Bogos binted?

“Welcome to Applebee’s! Would you like apples or bees?”

“Bees?”

“HE PICKED THE BEES!” chefs angrily shake jars of bees

He says what everyone’s thinking!

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From the thumbnail, I thought this was some cursed gravy and shrimp pizza. I was getting ready to throw fists for committing such a crime against humanity.

Thankfully, it’s actually some good looking food.

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Here’s the map of the April eclipse across the US. It will go from Dallas Texas and curve off through Buffalo New York and maine:

My guess is a 3D movie mixed with a 6DoF motion setup. 9D still sounds stupid though.

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Neat fact to know. I always love learning new things.