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10204307 wrote: ↑4 years ago I always knew I had two bee genomes.

You've actually got ~100-2000 mitochondrial genomes per cell.

Oh man, Bees! To answer a question in the video. Honey bees do not have King bees. Sex in Honey bees, and many other species of hymenoptera, is determined by Haplodiploidy. Male bees in Hives are called Drones and are born when a queen, or very rarely a worker, lays unfertilized eggs. Because Drones...

Awoo wrote: ↑4 years ago

I sent physical presents, though :3

:3 Well if he doesn't clean his monitor off, I know what to get him next year.

ano0maly wrote: Recording the monitor with a physical camera, a new low you stooped to

Too bad he will be recording with software from this point on. We'll never know if he ends up cleaning his monitor.

So for some reason, the Ride Armor in Chill Penguin's level didn't spawn. It's supposed to spawn right in your way, yet somehow some reason it didn't spawn. It's supposed to be impossible to miss... Spoiler shows where it is. https://i.imgur.com/DwgxXW2.png Don't worry about your rewards for beating...

Hope you like grungy rock because Vile only listens to one song. btw you can shoot Vile's shoulder cannon at different angles if you hold up or down while firing. The X side is almost a point for point recreation of the original game. where-as the Vile-side has remixed stages, which is why you saw t...

Get well soon raocow! For a robot who runs around with a sword while wearing metal jock strap Zero, surprisingly, is a pretty much the coolest. I don't know how much you like artbooks but the Megaman Zero Official Complete Works book is pretty good. You can learn fun facts like! https://i.imgur.com/...

well, when you have to choose between drawing enemies as a. some of the first 3d models nintendo ever created or b. billboarded sprites with maybe some modeled parts, using sprites of a shape that looks the same at all angles is a good way to cut down on graphics processing and to end up with somet...

Scuttlebugs aren't "True Bugs." True bugs have a piercing beak called a rostrum that is used for feeding off of the fluids of their prey whether it is plant sap or plant xylem, or animal tissue. Scuttlebugs very clearly have a pair of mandibles or the analogous chelicera (mandibles of spid...

In today's episode the peasant Goombas have no bread to eat and Marie "Peach" Antonoinette asks "Why don't they eat cake?" Thus the working class clashes against the bourgeois' italian military force. Inevitably they seize the cake. Additionally, raocow participates in the Canadi...

I'll have to keep an eye out for more episodes of this LP. Otane played through this game some time ago. This game is kinda amazing in just the breadth of games it steals assets from. If you want, I can try pointing out what I see. For example the background in stage 1 is this really awful looking v...

The earliest time I remember changing the control scheme is probably Super Metroid. That game's default has the Shoot button mapped to X and Jump to A and the run mapped to B. This set up makes running and shooting really awkward. Pressing the X button to shoot just feels weird. So I map it like Y- ...

Talos is more of a castlevania rondo of blood reference than a Megaman reference. https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/castlevania/images/b/bf/Wyvern.gif/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/350?cb=20170722230816 https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/rks/images/9/90/Talos.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20090526...

It's pretty strange that the author interpreted those cave skeeters as spiders, when they are arguably inspired by Water Skaters (Hemipteran: Gerridae.) Water Skaters use their middle and back legs to skate on top of the water. They use they short forelegs to grab and feed on prey that falls into th...

Man, that fight against War-Craft...welp, Health is a resource and having high effective HP gives you a lot of room to make mistakes. At first I was kinda miffed at raocow's Smorcing, but then I remembered in one of the cortex videos raocow stated that he plays most DnD characters like barbarians, B...

Farewell Megaman X, seven games ain't a bad run. This game series got heavily inebriated with the bad sci-fi later on into it. Especially with the whole DNA-data thing. Time for some random science reading! DNA is actually a more space efficient method of conserving information than silicon wafers. ...

Did someone bug raocow about how he tends to only use basic attacks in the patreon group? It's just striking that he started using his other attacks in the recent episode.

Just wondering.

So for those wondering how the melody works https://i.imgur.com/l0Vg9A5.png I decided to track the hits in his fight against Nailsage Sly. he was hit 26 times and the melody activated 6 times over the course of the fight preventing death twice. he also parried 4 times in this fight but only stopped ...

Grimm is clearly codified after Dracula and at the same time he is, like a moth, drawn toward a scarlet flame. There is a peculiar cross-over between these facts, The moth species Calyptra Ochsenheimer is notable for being a rare example of hematophagy (blood sucking) in Lepidoptera, sometimes refer...

raocow wrote: ↑4 years ago I know it's trendy to poop on this game and all but I just had legit fun against this boss :O

I think this is more a consequence of the endorphin rush after succeeding at something hard, than because the boss was good.

El pizza was a pretty big dork. But he did destroy Megaman, that sure is something to put on your villain resume. Well MMZ2 is done, This one introduces alot of the mechanics that make the Zero series pretty neat like the hit combo system and ex skills. Still it's marred by some pretty rough levels ...

Oh man, Megaman Zero 2. Fill out your forms cause there's a new commander in town.

The background in Hot Beach Tiser is from The Lion King game for SNES. From the level Simba's Exile. That game looked nice, but was a real kick in the pants.

VIP4 has a thing for brambles.

Wow the game just ends. That was very anti-climatic. To answer the question if Protoman is a big deal I remember him being a tough boss that you fight right after Elecman in Battlenetwork 1. Outside of that, he organizes a team in the Protoman version of Battle Network 5. His operator probably chaud...

Seeing this game. I kinda expected it to be worse, but my initial impressions are that it's kinda meh, we'll see how it pans out. The gameplay isn't terrible but it seems pretty chunky. I hope this game doesn't turn into a platforming and spiky nightmare. https://i.imgur.com/omeIz1n.png Okay this is...