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Maybe they’re just leaning into the Mastodon theming by talking like cavemen.

I’m no expert, but Wikipedia says half of one death cap can kill. For some reason, they don’t offer an upper range for what will kill.

That doesn’t mean you’ll have an OK time eating it in small amounts; it will still make you violently ill and cause damage to your liver.

Before I continue, I want to stress that this is not medical advice or even a personal recommendation. Do not do what I am about to say.

In the case above, the important part is spitting it out. The toxins enter the body via the intestinal walls (which is also why symptoms are fairly delayed), so a taste and spit–and probably some rinsing and even more spitting–will mean that relatively little poison makes it any further than your mouth.

Again, I’m not an expert on mushrooms, medicine, poisons or anything else. All of this is from casual reading from the Internet. Don’t eat poison.

I’m worried you haven’t brainstormed enough hypotheticals where this isn’t offensive. What if the teacher had their Bluetooth in and they were talking to a real terrorist? Or what if the kid’s name is Terrorists? You feel pretty foolish now, don’t you?

The ones in the comic don’t look like death caps, but those are responsible for 90% of mushroom-related poisonings, so we’ll assume artistic license.

Death caps probably would go well with pasta. Here is an article from The Atlantic with someone who has tasted one.

Britt Bunyard, the founder, publisher, and editor in chief of the mycology journal Fungi, has tasted a death cap. “Very pleasant and mushroomy,” he told me. “A nice flavor, and then you spit it out.”

“There’s nothing in the taste that tells you what you are eating is about to kill you.”

“Jeez dad, nobody cares about this George Washerman or whatever.”

Nope. Every individual community must have a sub to be pulled in remotely.

One time I was trying to remember this phrase and I said it as “Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo.” It’s still grammatical, but the sentence has been reworded and no longer matches the popular expression. Luckily, nobody heard me capitalize it incorrectly.

It’s going to be a maze.

Spare a thought for the animatronic Yoshi who remained stone cold sober for the entire shoot.

So it’s awkward to make the distinction (“I think not being racist is the new racism”), but based on that article, it does seem to be the first romantic kiss–I know it’s mind control in the episode, stop picking at me mid-sentence–on US television between black and white people specifically. The previous examples were arguably less taboo for their time, being between Hispanic and white and Asian and white partners. They each represent their own milestones.

I think part of the confusion probably comes from the fact that “interracial” is sometimes used specifically to refer to black and white pairings, so when people say it’s the “first interracial kiss”, that is what they mean. This is an incorrect usage and dismissive of other interracial pairings, but I don’t know if there’s a more specific word for different pairings and you sound like a creep drilling down into the subject this much, as you can see from this comment right now.

Bend is best-known for Days Gone and, back in the day, Syphon Filter

Are we just gonna pretend Bubsy 3D never existed?

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Just adding on to this, I do think the “up-specced OG hardware” approach something Nintendo has done before. Upgrades like GC to Wii and Game Boy to Game Boy Color are really just boosts to the clock speeds and RAM, they don’t have anything specifically included for BC reasons (unless you’re counting GameCube memory card slots). They really are just iterations on the same hardware. Similar to the New 3DS, on modded consoles you can run GameCube games at Wii clock speeds and they almost all work without issue.

On that subject, the fact that Nintendo says the compatibility won’t be 100% is potentially encouraging. If the Switch 2 was just going to downclock compatible parts to their Switch 1 performance and was otherwise identical, you’d expect all games to work. The reduction in compatibility could be because games are going to be running with Switch 2 clocks across the board, which most games should handle just fine and a small handful may not.

That is how every previous Nintendo back-compat implementation has worked.

• GC on Wii
• Wii on Wii U
• Game Boy on Game Boy Color
• Game Boy/Color on Game Boy Advance
• Game Boy Advance on (New) Nintendo (3)DS
• Nintendo DS on Nintendo DSi
• Nintendo DS/i on Nintendo 3DS
• Nintendo 3DS on New Nintendo 3DS

In every case, the system drops back to the earlier console’s hardware specifications. There are hybrid cross-gen games on some of the handhelds which offer improvements on the newer hardware, but up to this point, older games have never been updated to get the improvements of newer hardware. That doesn’t necessarily mean the same will hold, but I’d suggest you assume it will and be pleasantly surprised if they buck the trend.

I wonder if the magic rule understands double negatives. If you tell a vampire “You ain’t never coming in here,” can they enter? What about sarcasm? “Oh yeah, I’m definitely inviting you in.”

I was curious too. The US National Parks Service states that 85% of wildfires are caused by humans.

It’s the name of one of the main characters in the Comedy Central sitcom Workaholics.

This is pretty interesting. The claimant never pitched his movie to Disney itself, instead arguing that the exec he provided those materials to, Jenny Marchick, was “using legal loopholes to pass on his materials to Disney.” Not trying to dox anybody, but Marchick has a public LinkedIn profile and her official association with Disney is limited (she worked at the Disney Channel for four months in 2011). Otherwise, she has been employed by Mandeville Films, 20th Century Fox, Sony Pictures Animation and DreamWorks.

2003 and “over the next few years” is vague, but it roughly corresponds to when Marchick was Director of Development at Mandeville, a studio probably best known for 2008’s Beverly Hills Chihuahua–for certain definitions of “best”–although Marchick was already with Fox by that point. I’m not making any sort of judgment about the likelihood of Marchick aiding in theft of Woodall’s work based on this stuff, just putting together how it is alleged to have happened.