The same guy would have very likely have died before he was even 10. And if he wasn’t dead very likely to work in a meaningless job to even survive unable to spend time on things on bugs.
It takes resources to do “useless” things.
Yeah, the people who did that in the past were born into rich families and could study beetles instead of till the farms. Now the person that would have tilled the farms works a full time job and uploads the rings videos because they couldn’t afford to go to collage for beetles.
Someone already listed all the beetles in 1820 what are we supposed to do??
Check they’re all still there and note any changes, which ones are no longer around, which new ones have joined them etc.
Loads to be getting on with there :)
Someone just found a new species of legless skink in Australia. Could have been us but you playing.
…I read that as skank.
I need to be caffeinated.
🎵 I’ve been through the desert on a skank with no legs 🎵
Legless skank… this better not awaken anything in me
i hope Legless Skank (the punk band) awakens within you a strong passion for self expression
Skankin’ it slow.
You me and a legless skank in the Australian desert but you playin
We remake the list with modern enhancements such as lens glare.
And ray tracing
Overthrow oligarchy
Right? Let’s get more of these people interested in left wing politics instead of insects or trains or whatever
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no thank you. being a decent person isnt transactional. not bartering over which groups someone can still treat like shit for fun. and being the kind of obsessive who tracks every local beatle or makes a youtube series about obscure shit. isnt the same thing as being someone who need to knock others down to feel strong.
Get into genetics, make new beetles.
We’ve been through this, there’s a scale problem. Also I’m not sure the parts are compatible.
Thr last thing we need is more beetles. There are so many of them as is!
Half of them have died off since 1960.
Personally, I find the insinuation that I can’t make a 26 part YouTube series about how collect all the rings in every sonic game, AND document every kind of beetle in my local province, belittling and insulting.
Beetling, if you will.
Alright, I’m waiting on the youtube playlist
Shoutout to the oldschool runescape wiki people. One of the best and most thorough video game wikis I’ve ever used. If they never got hooked on medieval cookie clicker a decade or two ago who knows what else they would’ve achieved.
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This did not in fact make me jealous and vie for His love in unhealthy ways.
Well i hope there are also over 10 species of you.
Any Austin embodies this AND he’s a talented musician, that guy is awesome
So what’s the issue about that again?
Controversial take: advancing science is better than spending weeks optimising how to play video games for children.
NOOOOO MY HOBBY OF STARING AT A SCREEN FOR 4 HOURS IN A ROW IS GOOD
Science has already done as much beetle documentation as one can do without a bunch of resources, though. You wouldn’t be advancing it, just redoing it for fun. There’s nothing wrong with that, but there’s also nothing wrong with playing video games for fun.
Replicating science is actually pretty important, and there’s no way a “civilized” area has the same beetles in 2025 as in 1820.
Spend time becoming a scientist instead of optimising how to play Sonic, get the resources for further beetle documentation, bam!
Why?
Because my utilitarian calculator says so.
I also don’t think it follows. A person who does nothing but play video games isn’t going to magically go and advance science.
