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[Obadiah]

National Geographic has a very interesting, disturbing, really just downright gross, article this month about parasitic organisms. Halloween special? Dunno. The one that creeped me out the most was the parasitic fungi that can cause an ant to "explode" above it's colony, raining fungus spores down on its ant buddies to get infected.
 
Ugh.

Mindsuckers: http://ngm.nationalg...ers/zimmer-text


 

Ophiocordyceps Fungus Ophiocordyceps sp.
Amazonian Ant Dinoponera longipes
Pity the ant afflicted by the mindsucker Ophiocordyceps. When spores of the fungus land on an ant, they penetrate its exoskeleton and enter its brain, compelling the host to leave its normal habitat on the forest floor and scale a nearby tree. Filled to bursting with fungus, the dying ant fastens itself to a leaf or another surface. Fungal stalks burst from the ant’s husk and rain spores onto ants below to begin the process again.

 
Album: http://ngm.nationalg...rma-photography

[Eternal Phoenix]

Yep, heard of it, creepy. It's also the inspiration of the disease in The Last of Us. 

[Fast Jimmy]

Yep, heard of it, creepy. It's also the inspiration of the disease in The Last of Us.

Yep. The creators said they ripped it off verbatim from Discovery's Planet Earth special, which featured the same fungus among us.

[Fast Jimmy]

Jimmy you really live in off-topic now adays eh, i mind you was a feature in DA forums much like scuttlebutt

Not much to talk about in DA right now, honestly. The only thing people can talk about this close to release is vague pre-reviews and vague pre-release spoilers, neither of which I'm all that interested in. I stick my head in there, but nothing father my eye too often this last week or so.

[Fast Jimmy]

You getting the game though? or waiting for the masses thoughts?

Well, I had planned on waiting for response of the masses. But I built my first computer in years this spring and, like an inexperienced chollo, loaded it with Windows 8 32 bit. So I can't play DA:I even if I wanted to until I partition and reformat my hard drive. Which I just haven't gotten around to. When I do, I might pick it up if it has really good fan reviews.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Some kind of evil mushroom, eh?

 

Viruses are still the worst.

[mybudgee]

75% of us have some type of parasite. (Not counting the bacteria in our intestine)

 

Have a nice day!!

 

(I was gonna post a Botfly pic but I don't have the nerve today...)

[ObserverStatus]

Huh, I think I heard of this from a document I found in Resident Evil 4.

[Sir DeLoria]

I got the mag this morning, pretty interesting, but I read similar article half a year ago on Reuters.

[Obadiah]

Huh, I think I heard of this from a document I found in Resident Evil 4.

Bio-weaponized parasitic fungi.

 

Greeeeeeeat.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

I got the mag this morning, pretty interesting, but I read similar article half a year ago on Reuters.

 

I had seen its cousins before.

 

[mybudgee]

Most common in humans:

 

(Nightmarish)

[Obadiah]

I had seen its cousins before.

....

Hahaha * cackles desperately *

 

I like David Attenborough's positive spin on the fungus - population control! The insects won't get out of hand.

 

I bet he was infected when he said that.

[bmwcrazy]

Learned these in college.

If you watch it, you'll be scared to touch anything.

[President of Boom]

Nature is revolting. Fascinating but revolting.

[Inquisitor Recon]

Kill them all, damn things are horrifying.

[ME_Fan]

thanks for this.

 

thanks a lot

[Greenface21]

I need sleep. I read the thread title as Parasitic Orgasm. Real topic still interesting though...

[Fast Jimmy]

Combat will be sh*t!!!

We ARE discussing one non-vague thing

Hmmmm. I don't think the combat system will be a problem. Not as engaging as Origins and the stats removal and lack of tactics AI are worrisome, but it's not the thing I think will draw the most criticism.