This song feels like the the sun on my face. Lajtha Lassu by A Hawk and a Hacksaw

I’ve always yearned for something like this too. I wonder if, from the dev’s perspective, balancing the years and years such a thing would take in real time conflicts with other aspects of gameplay? Or maybe soil chemistry is too difficult a thing to gamify for a casual player (including myself in this- unfortunately I don’t grasp chemistry or physics easily).

A colony sim/resource management game in early access I played recently tries to touch on this actually- Farthest Frontier. As you might imagine from what I typed above, I’m heinously bad at grasping the system, but the building blocks are in there! None of the procgen ideas you’re interested in though.

Argh tone on the internet- I’m not mad or anything, just wanted to state my opinion since ours are so wildly different, and it’s interesting that all of these ideas will have to coexist in gaming spheres.

Speaking strictly as a player, this is the opposite of what I would want in a game. The…intention, I guess, is what I want when I play anything story-driven. Chatting with ai on purpose feels upsetting to me and I think I would feel tricked if I encountered it as a par-the-course kind of thing (knowingly or especially unknowingly) in a game.

But- I haven’t encountered it yet, and perhaps it could really, really work!

Unsure if this is OP’s angle, but I have pretty chronically bad anemia/ferritin levels. In my layman’s research, I found that both dairy (calcium) and tea (oxalates) inhibit the body’s ability to absorb iron when consumed alongside one-another. My list also included peas, coffee, eggs, and just about every other damn thing I like to eat, so that was a fun discovery. 😅 Link to kickstart research for anyone curious.

For years now I’ve done what I can to encourage use of other sites, but the fact remains that my specific community of friends and peers (many of whom have known one-another for over two decades now) have used twitter as a stomping ground since 2008 or so. It’s extremely difficult to establish that sort of intersection elsewhere, and it gets particularly ugly when folks’ livelihood and income are tied into the matter.

Having the main hub for communities torn apart because of one fool’s antics really, really sucks, and then I’m/we’re called garbage on the sites we try to establish on, for clinging to that lifeline. It’s all a frustrating feedback loop.

I’ve never been able to budget in the literal sense due to how utterly unpredictable my income is (artist sole proprietor kind of thing- don’t do it, kids!), and how wildly the structure of my months vary…but getting wise to tracking all incoming and outgoing transactions on my own spreadsheet has brought such peace of mind.

It came naturally after dealing with self employment income records, so it’s frankly silly that I never applied the same ideas to my personal finances.

You may enjoy reading about this linguistic offshoot, Missouri French!

Ohh they look so healthy! I know they’re tiny snakes to begin with, but the ones I stumble across are very thin and lithe compared to this one. Great find. :)

I LOVE their coloration at this stage. What a good find. 😄

…Bearded pigs eat and disperse Pinanga subterranea’s fruits, but we’ve yet to find out how and by whom the flowers are pollinated.

I’m so charmed at the idea of subterranean pollinators

The palm was already known to local people but it had remained unnoticed by scientists, who believe the case highlights the need to collaborate more closely with Indigenous communities.

Say it again for those in the back! Indigenous knowledge is going to be even more important to learn and preserve as modernization presses ever on.

Animals camouflaged as moss, lichen, and leaves are so magical to me; hundreds of thousands of years alongside plants, eventually mimicking them to perfection. Just the most wonderful thing there is. 🥺

Yep, I’m just barely up a slope from a…I hesitate to call it a true marsh, as I think it’s more of a low-sitting municipal water drainage area (more man-made, I guess). A few small spots in the woods retain a lot of snowmelt, though I’m unsure if they’re big enough to be truly considered vernal pools.

I’ve only ever found these guys when it’s been particularly dry for a long time, so I bet they’re visiting the logs near my garden beds for hydration (or bugs). :D

This very specific genre of riffing is just the best.

“I love NFTs: Newts Frogs n Toads”