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it occurs to me that with how they trap and digest the pollinating wasp, figs sound a lot like one of those weird random "notes" sections you get when you scan a plant in No Man's Sky

F. carica
Age: Fully Grown
Root Structure: Conventional
Nutrient Source: Sunlight
Notes: Carnivorous Fruit
Primary Element: Carbon

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@Felthry I love all the quirky, wonderful genders and notes of critters in NMS

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@Felthry Nature is really weird and wild!

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@Oneironott yes!! i really love its sense of humor

or maybe humor is the wrong word, but just the way it matter-of-factly states stuff like gender: asymmetric or formation process: localised black hole is just really good

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@Oneironott ...also ew, the no man's sky wiki is speculating on what the genders "mean". i should fix that because it seems really out of place anyway

maybe gross nature stuff 

@Felthry ...they what??

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@IceWolf did you not know about that? yeah some vegetarians don't consider figs to be vegetarian because the plant traps and eats the wasp that pollinates it

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@Felthry That's...

vaguely terrifying...

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@IceWolf nature's *weird*.

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