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Work of pure human soul (and pure human sweat, and pure human tears) in c/[email protected]

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Trying to come up with a list of vague words for different "kinds of animals". Help? in c/[email protected]

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My justification for calling octopi fish is that I asked a pre-schooler what kind of animal an octopus was, and he told me it was a fish because it breathes water and swims in the ocean. That said, maybe cephalopods could be their own type because they tend to be solitary, which would be thematically relevant to why they wouldn't combo off each other.

What do hexbears think about pumped hydropower storage? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

It's a big battery. Useful in all cases.

Terry's VA in response to the hatred involving Erika Ishii in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago

Not people, just conservatives

Trying to come up with a list of vague words for different "kinds of animals". Help? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Honestly, my main motivation here is to pick all of your brains to see how many different category-words there are, then change my game plan to react to the natural language words. For example, if we didn't have words more specific than Animal, Plant, Fungus, and Bacteria, I could slap a four-color mana system on that and call it a day. Obviously that's not the case, but in the unlikely system that I can describe all of creation using only 20ish names i could imitate Cardfight Vanguard and make them into a sort of clan system and do lots of clan-exclusive comboing off each other. Any more than that, I imitate Magic instead: certain cards care a whole lot about types (e.g.: Kavu you control are red in addition to their other colors, Red creatures you control have haste) while others pay more attention to subtypes (e.g.: Tap 12 Allies you control: draw a card) and other just don't discriminate, affecting everything or nothing.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

God damn it how did I forgot rodents exist‽ I have three rodent pets in my living room right now and I talk about rodents all the time!

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Trying to come up with a list of vague words for different "kinds of animals". Help? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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I'm fiddling with a card game concept, and a very important part of it is creatures interacting with other specific kinds of creatures. This necessarily means I need to come up with lots of type names that are descriptive but vague enough to shove literally anything in them. Here's some good examples: "bug" containing ants, shrimps, pillbugs, bees, and literally anything that could be called a creepy crawly; "fish" containing everything from salmon to sharks to eels to octopi; "trees" containing all the stuff you are thinking of as well as those precambrian 6-foot fungi pillars; and "cats" including housecats, big cats, cheetah, and carcals.

And that's everything I can think of that would be useful. You see my problem? I know there are other casual-usage words for big categories of critters, but my grasp of the Enlgish language is fickle and leaves me whenever it is most inconvenient. If there is a list I could work from, that would be very helpful. Otherwise, volunteer as many words as you think would be useful.

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Trying to come up with a list of vague words for different "kinds of animals" (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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I'm fiddling with a card game concept, and a very important part of it is creatures interacting with other specific kinds of creatures. This necessarily means I need to come up with lots of type names that are descriptive but vague enough to shove literally anything in them. Here's some good examples: "bug" containing ants, shrimps, pillbugs, bees, and literally anything that could be called a creepy crawly; "fish" containing everything from salmon to sharks to eels to octopi; "trees" containing all the stuff you are thinking of as well as those precambrian 6-foot fungi pillars; and "cats" including housecats, big cats, cheetah, and carcals.

And that's everything I can think of that would be useful. You see my problem? I know there are other casual-usage words for big categories of critters, but my grasp of the Enlgish language is fickle and leaves me whenever it is most inconvenient. If there is a list I could work from, that would be very helpful. Otherwise, volunteer as many words as you think would be useful.

Let me at 'em!! in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

When I was a kid, I was legitimately afraid of this

Which is your favorite app icon for Voyager? in c/[email protected]

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I use the pride flag

Here we go again in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

They are also cool on LA by Night.

Rose is not feeling well in c/[email protected]

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Poor girls. I remember when we had to separate our boys and found out that Coffeecake could hop over the walls of our C&C cage

If you know you know. in c/[email protected]

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Whats the "if you know you know"?

The mark in c/[email protected]

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What the fuck why is this correct

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Just a friendly reminder that June is Procrastination Awareness Month (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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Most Hinged Mastodon.Social user (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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one day i'll have a house with a lawn and there's gonna be so much damn native grass... (beehaw.org)

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11787771

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