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can we talk about the sheer accuracy of some of the in-game dialogue in Disco Elysium?

i’m talking specifically about the Giant Seraise Hornet, where Encyclopedia says this:

i work with honeybees in an apiary on my college campus, and i’ve taken so many yellow jackets, wasps, and hornets out of the hives. i’ve seen hives completely destroyed by wax beetles and hornets. but the thing that gets me about Disco Elysium’s off-handed analogy about the assassins is that this is literally true. 

the Giant Seraise Hornet is a direct reference to the Asian Giant Hornet (which you might know better as the “murder hornet”). 

from Penn State University:

and according to Wikipedia, the Asian giant hornet can kill 40 honeybees a minute because of their mandible size.

but it isn’t only the hornet-murdering-honeybee relationship that they got correct! they also got it right that sometimes the honeybees win:

I know that the developers must have put an incredible amount of research into this game, but as someone with a huge interest in the environment and beekeeping, it’s so cool to me that they got a real-life parallel so specifically correct. 

it’s such a direct parallel between the mercenaries and the dockworkers and the hornets and the bees. sure, the dockworkers could win, but only if they’ve coevolved. Apis mellifera, the European honeybee, didn’t coevolve with the Asian giant hornet… and those hives tend to be completely decimated.

just like the Hardie boys if Harry makes the wrong move. the mass slaughter in Martinaise depends on whether or not you as the player can learn to adapt quickly enough in seven days to save your colony. and i think it’s genius.

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

“ten things everyone should know,” a zine I made. (march 2017)

(click & flip through like a book)

over winter break i started making these silly (stupid) arcane comics and ive decided im going to finish them

I think if folks want to form a new and healthier intellectualism as a tide against a lot of the culture industries worst sins, we also have to freely share information. If you have access to an ebook, share it, if your professors have class readings spread them around, put your notes up online. Be free and willing to talk to people about questions they have, point to your sources, leave no barrier against learning intact. If we actually want to get people to think and look and listen we cant just "advocate" for change; we have to make it, too.

Your mother will have justice, I swear it.

IM BACKKK WITH SOME DOODLES OF AN OLD HYPERFIXATION AWAKENED

I forgot tumblr existed lowkey

yes i am expert veterinarian and that is in fact just 1 guy

Kinda surprised how many different animals can be black and tan