T w e n t y S i d e d
Since yesterday, I’ve seen links appear from The Rodent’s Burrow, Rodent Household, The Magic Rat, and Larry the Lab Rat. Strange.
Now I forget: Are badgers and ferrets considered rodents?
At any rate, I’m glad this blog is so popular among our rodent friends. Next up, I’m planning an ad campaign to increase readership among waterfowl, which has been lacking.
Also, the above-linked Rodent’s Burrow has “My dice are trying to kill me!” t-shirts. Nifty.
The Best of 2018
I called 2018 "The Year of Good News". Here is a list of the games I thought were interesting or worth talking about that year.
Bowlercoaster
Two minutes of fun at the expense of a badly-run theme park.
Spec Ops: The Line
A videogame that judges its audience, criticizes its genre, and hates its premise. How did this thing get made?
id Software Coding Style
When the source code for Doom 3 was released, we got a look at some of the style conventions used by the developers. Here I analyze this style and explain what it all means.
The Biggest Game Ever
Just how big IS No Man's Sky? What if you made a map of all of its landmass? How big would it be?
Well, I’m here to represent the genus Apteryx, of the order Struthioniformes,(that is, kiwi birds)!
Waterfowl, you say? Why, I can help with that!
(I should’ve added you to my “blogroll” long before now, but I’ve been utterly damned lazy on the website maintenance front. That oversight is now remedied.)
Badgers and ferrets are mustelids, not rodents.
What, GreyDuck and I aren’t good enough for you, Shamus? Have to import other anatidae?
(please note, I have no blogroll, though I probably should…)
Ferrets are mice-eating carnivores and working ferrets were used to clean out grain silos of mice. Nearsighted (older) ferrets may bite bare toes because they look and move like baby mice.
Like Don and Michael said, we’re carnivores. If God didn’t mean for us to eat animals, why are they made of meat?
Long live rodents! Keep up the daily fodder and rats will gather…
Hey, I’m a water … oh, *fowl*
Now here’s an odd bit of trivia. Rodents and equids are more closely related to primates than they are to artiodactyls (even toed hooved mammals). But carnivores are more closely related to artiodactyls than they are primates. That is, carnivora evolved from the common ancestor of cattle sometime after the common ancestor of the primate/rodent/equine lines evolved from a common ancestor of the carnivore/artiodactyl lines.