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.
Mass Effect Retrospective
A novel-sized analysis of the Mass Effect series that explains where it all went wrong. Spoiler: It was long before the ending.
Who Broke the In-Game Economy?
Why are RPG economies so bad? Why are shopkeepers so mercenary, why are the prices so crazy, and why do you always end up a gazillionaire by the end of the game? Can't we just have a sensible balanced economy?
In Defense of Crunch
Crunch-mode game development isn't good, but sometimes it happens for good reasons.
Video Compression Gone Wrong
How does image compression work, and why does it create those ugly spots all over some videos and not others?
The Dumbest Cutscene
This is it. This is the dumbest cutscene ever created for a AAA game. It's so bad it's simultaneously hilarious and painful. This is "The Room" of video game cutscenes.
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.