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  • Biologist here, the body itself isn't what grows the "greener grass". It's just the start of a long biological process that will lead to ecological growth.

    A tree isn't going to feed directly off of the body. But the decay process will provide nutrients to the tree. We're talking about insects and fungus at various levels of the process here. You can look up things like the Trophic Levels and Nutrient Cycles for more details on this whole process.

    TLDR would be that the corpse floods the area with nutrients and maybe even kills off the plants with over abundance of nitrogen, but then fungus and bugs move in, then bigger bugs and small animals, and so on and then better plant systems. It's kind of neat.

  • hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey?
  • Witcher 3 took me a few attempts before I finally got into it. And those types of games were always my favorite.

    I don't think Witcher 3 stuck until the DLCs. Now I'm sad I'm done with the game...

  • hooooly shit! has anyone else played journey?
  • I'm with you here.

    I played it just recently so I didn't get to play with as many people as I'm sure there were at the start. I did encounter others frequently enough though. Even played with 1 person for a big chunk.

    It was fine. It's pretty and it has soul for sure but it's not a transcendent experience like so many seem to describe. Maybe I'm broken in my own way, maybe I missed something, maybe I don't understand art. Who knows.

    I had fun though and it was worth the price.

  • Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate 3 was originally "more sassy" and had to be "heavily dialed down" after one of the devs said "I really don't like" the character
  • Was that dev me?

    When it was first made available to the public I played about an hour or 2 and then stopped so I didn't spill the game. My one big take away was that I really hated all the companions, especially sheart.

    I'm glad how well written they all ended up.

  • It's time to stop thinking plastic phones can't be premium
  • I've been saying this for years. Use nice textured recycled plastic. The amount of cool textured and nice feeling materials out there is insane.

    Gimme a plastic screen too. If someone is concerned about scratches they can add a glass protector. Those people already do anyway. There are even plastics that could be used that would resist scratches incredibly well.

    Then my whole phone is flexible and nearly unbreakable.

  • Know the difference!!!
  • Usually what happens is whoever needs to know has their own specific way of determining the thing.

    As a wildlife biologist, the meme description is pretty good and would suffice for just about anything I need. The present or recent past circumstances are the most important to my work.

    If I were interested in the geology, or say ground water, earth studiesor, or even the more distant past then this definition you share becomes more useful.

    There are going to be even more criteria that apply for different groups, and even sometimes none of these definitions we've seen would matter because you only care if it sustains a specific species or something even less obvious.

  • Know the difference!!!
  • I don't specialize in that particular area so I couldn't say honestly.

    My primary focus when I did was just dealing with the Everglades and surroundings for the most part.

    Worldwide I'm not sure I could even guess what should be more common.

    Canada has those prairie potholes which are usually marshes and Canada is huge, so maybe sheer numbers it could be something like that, but by size you get things like the Everglades. I'm sure someone knows though, just not me.

  • Know the difference!!!
  • Wildlife biologist here, Absolutely.

    Oddly enough I usually see/write it fen/bog marsh. There are tons of other qualifiers too, like salt marsh, tidal marsh and such.

    The same applies for all 4 examples if it's needed. Salt swamps and fresh water swamps and such.

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