Nacarbac

Garth Marenghi never said a goddamn thing wrong in his entire life.

It was always really inconsistent. Some authors treated Alignment as "just kinda your vibe", some as "a combination of cultural factors and divine meddling", and some as "intrinsic cosmic morals", some both but for different things (humans vs Outsiders, etc). Negative Energy and undead as being an Eeeeevil Spookyforce or Basically Just Radiation.

That kind of unaddressed inconsistency fuelled, and still fuels, endless repeats of the "Is Necromancy evil? What if my skeletons are used as agricultural robots to allow for a higher standard of living?", where everyone talks past each other based on what part of the texts they read and settings they play in.

Check out the fan comic. I remember it being "rad as hell". The archive links seem to work okay - it's also on their deviantart, but that interface seemed appalling.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150211002826/http://www.snowflamecomic.com/?comic=snowflame-01-01

The STALKER film is absolutely worth a watch, but it has even less in common with the games!

It's a typo, they meant Zetan. The Zetan male busy flying their little UFO, stealing cows, because they're on such a high level their actions are incomprehensible to mere pyramid-males.

It happens, and it wasn't your fault. Microsoft software is like an evil pearl - a tiny kernel of functionality wrapped in protective layers of insulting bullshit.

I have a folder on OneDrive named FUCK ONEDRIVE. I created it after hours of panic as I couldn't find my writing folders, or their backups, and I now cannot delete it. Luckily I found the folders in a parallel backup structure made so it could roughly interface with a different program.

I don't know necessarily that a tree is actually sentient but if we seriously consider it, perhaps that might lead to better environmental conservation practices as a matter of ethics.

They most likely are not sentient, as we currently understand or can perceive, though the complexity of the networks formed within a forest might, might, allow for something like it in aggregate. Consciousness is deeply strange, for something that should be so familiar.

But as Angel says, here it's just a paralytic deflection. Like saying that eating plants is stealing from the animals that could eat them, therefore we're already sinners, therefore we might as well sin some more.

I guess they finally decided to go harder on the Earth Defence Force angle.

Define religion.

I remember Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't being a good channel. A person who got really into botany in jail, wandering around showcasing local flora and often discussing the social collapse and poor urban planning in evidence.

Instant-blindness lasers are really easy... but pretty much uncontrollable and unpredictable. They'd end up dazzling each other and knocking their own planes out of the sky.

Lasers that are actually lethal would be about ten thousand times worse, even handwaving the incredible technical challenges.

Corvids are smart and have some kind of active shared education, so they're always quite skittish around humans. I suspect (with no evidence or research) that they sense the cultural enmity humans have, and possibly remember the long history of "pest control" (which still happens on farms). They'll eventually learn that you're a cool human.

One way I feed them is to show them the food, then place it somewhere visible like on a post or stump, and back away to let them choose to take it. Throwing motions startle them pretty easily, even when they're very gentle.