• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    I’ve seen that guy! Kayaking down a lazy river and there’s a dude catching and cataloging turtles. Stopped to chat a bit. No idea how the hell he got to where he was. No boat, no roads near.

    Same trip I saw a couple of teens in the water around a bend. Waved at them, wait… WTF is that in the water? Whole ass horse comes busting out the river.

    SAME trip, we got to where the rednecks hang out on the weekends. It’s a little village of shacks wrapped around a long, slow bend in the river, super cool. Dozens of adults and kids playing around, and a 5’ gator standing on the shore, stiff as a statue, just staring straight ahead.

    I need to go kayaking this weekend.

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    7 months ago

    i once saw a biologist standing over a dying seal with a clipboard taking notes…
    it was just slowly gasping for breath, covered in some decay, baking in the sun…

    when i walked by again hours later, she was still there, looking amused…

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        7 months ago

        It’s certainly worth playing if you enjoy whimsical philosophical narratives.

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          7 months ago

          Excuse me? Whimsical? I did enjoy being a disco infused communism cop with a brain the size of earth that may have been addicted to every substance.

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        7 months ago

        It is a goddamn masterpiece and absolutely worth playing. I just finished playing it again after so many years.

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    7 months ago

    No love for the mad theorists huh? The mad philosophers, linguists, mathematicians, …

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    8 months ago

    Indiana Jones, anyone? Lara Croft? They were scientists and unhinged and ran around in a lot of fields.

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      7 months ago

      Movie archeologist as a biologist:

      Goes in the middle of a jungle to find the rarest, critically endangered frog

      Sells it illegally for Chinese boner pills

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    7 months ago

    The paleontologists in the Jurasic Park. When I saw the movie for the first time, I thought they were unrealistic and very mad. Who would go straight to a giant herbivore like Brachiosaurus or Triceratops? Surely they would be aware of the huge danger, right? Then I got to know a few zoologists and yes, this is exactly what a field zoologist would do. They would also survive, magically.

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      7 months ago

      are you putting a license on your comments? first off i don’t think a one sentence comment is covered by copyright, second my brother in christ no one’s gonna cite their sources when copying comments