Vegan Optimus Prime??
“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: […] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.” —Jonathan Swift
Vegan Optimus Prime??


How is it burying the lede when anyone with basic reading comprehension knows that’s what the headline’s obviously suggesting? Like sorry your reading comprehension is apparently trash, but that doesn’t mean GamesRadar did something wrong.


May it someday join the Moskva.
Like come on, guys; we already do this to beings that have been proven sentient for decades. It isn’t a leap.
Blood from the blood god.
Thank you!! And the fact there’s music to accompany it makes it even better.
All good; I just really liked it and hoped to see more from the artist. A reverse-image search on Tineye turned up no obvious winners. Incidentally, you might like this gallery that I found while looking.
Any idea who the artist is, OP?


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I will say that tons of taxonomic discoveries I’ve seen boil down to “Yeah, this specimen has been tucked away in a museum for 30 years. An expert decided to examine/reexamine it with a modern understanding and discovered that it’s a new species.”


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I won’t dog on them since the context implies this is ESL, but seeing “etc.” punctuated as though it’s an acronym is unholy.


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Here’s the original press release from the Schmidt Ocean Institute.
The list consists of an amphipod, a type of crustacean related to crabs and lobsters [AN: most closely related to isopods]; a gossamer worm that moves faster than scientists expect it to based on its body shape; nine jellyfish; seven siphonophores, colonial organisms related to jellyfish and corals; seven comb jellies or ctenophores, famous for the glittering cilia they use to swim; four larvaceans, tadpole-like creatures that live in mucus houses and are more closely related to humans than invertebrates [AN: larvaceans are inverts; I have no idea what the fuck this is talking about, albeit it’s alluding to it being in the phylum Chordata]; and two giant rhizarians, single-celled organisms visible to the naked eye.
Shit, now we know why they had to kill him off in the movie.