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@ABCDEFAQAQ Maybe I should give you a little electric shock to crank up your battery?
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day8
Is Amiya popular? I tried sharing stuff about her on other platforms, but it looks like people generally like Blue Archive characters better. But I honestly think Amiya is absolutely adorable!
#Arknights #Amiya #アークナイツ

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quiet,strong,respected......完全就是“既不神圣,也非罗马,更不是帝国”的神圣罗马帝国
AleG7@AleG17Ric
Girl Arknights is THE Arknights. It's been such a respected game for the LONGEST. Their fandom is quiet but strong and big. don't underestimate it.
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Pretending only western devs lecture their players for hours tells me you’ve never played a JRPG where you’re still getting tutorial messages 6 hours into the game
Windpress@Windpress
You can ESCAPE prison days early if you use PRECISE parkour. I love when games reward your exploration instead of putting INVISIBLE walls everywhere and YELLING at you. Western Devs need to learn NOT TO LECTURE.
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It’s lowkey insane to me that one of the best soundtracks in gaming is in a completely made up language that somehow doesn’t sound like total gibberish
Musicas muito fodas dos videojogos@musicavideojogo
NieR Automata - City Ruins - Rays of Light
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These morons would change their minds about this if you told them this girl was actually Chinese and not Japanese which is obvious to anyone with half a brain, lmao.
Anchovy Pizza 🇺🇸@Anchovy_Pizza
They really are like real life anime girls
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@zapatas_mom lol then why does every wealthy Chinese family in the country try to flee to the US?
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You can smell rain better than a shark can smell blood. 200,000 times better. Your nose picks up the compound behind petrichor (that smell after rain) at levels so tiny it's like finding one teaspoon spilled across 200 Olympic swimming pools.
That compound is called geosmin. It comes from soil bacteria. And the word "petrichor" itself didn't exist until 1964, when two Australian scientists, Isabel Joy Bear and Richard Thomas, published a paper in Nature trying to figure out why rocks smell after rain. They took the Greek words for stone and "the blood of the gods" and stuck them together. Blood of the stone.
When soil stays dry for weeks, certain plants leak an oil that the clay soaks up like a sponge. At the same time, soil bacteria called Streptomyces start making spores (tiny survival pods that can sprout into new bacteria later) and give off geosmin while they do it. The smell just sits there in the dirt, waiting.
Then rain hits. A 2015 MIT paper figured out the physics of what happens next. Raindrops land on dry soil and trap tiny air bubbles in the soil's pores. The bubbles rise up through the raindrop and pop out the top, flinging thousands of tiny droplets into the air. Each one carries a piece of the oil, some bacterial spores, and some geosmin. Wind does the rest. Light rain releases the most of these droplets. Heavy rain releases very few, which is why a drizzle smells more than a downpour. MIT estimated that rain across the planet throws between 10,000 and 800,000 trillion bacterial cells into the air every single year.
In 2020, scientists in Sweden and the UK published a paper in Nature Microbiology that explained why this smell exists at all. Streptomyces bacteria only release geosmin when they're about to die and make spores. The smell is a bacterial ad. It attracts tiny 1.5mm bugs called springtails, which eat the bacteria. Springtails have evolved enzymes that let them survive the antibiotics Streptomyces produce to kill everything else. In exchange, the bacterial spores pass through the springtail's gut alive and stick to its body, hitching a ride to new soil. This deal has been running for about 400 million years.
Same molecule, different stories. Geosmin is why raw beets taste like dirt. It's why catfish and tilapia taste muddy when raised in bad water. Acid breaks it down, which is why every recipe for muddy fish starts with vinegar or lemon juice.
Your nose catches all of this at parts-per-trillion. You're smelling a 400-million-year-old conversation between soil bacteria and the bugs that eat them.
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