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Care and feeding of a pet spider:

Leave the spider alone.

That's it. Just leave it alone, know where it is, and let it be. Check on it from time to time, See how it's doing. Say hi to the spider, but dont mess with the spider.  The spider will be quite content to feed and care for itself. It doesnt mind your looking at it, and admiring it or its webs.

Would it be alright to keep it in any sort of container and feed it dead bugs from a pet store? I've seen spiders around in my apartment, but no webs, which means they're coming in from outside or live inside the walls/pipes somehow. Even if I did get over myself and obtain a spider to keep as a pet, I wouldn't really be alright with having an unknown number of spiders in my house.

Once in a while I think that I might want a pet spider, and I think about how I'd care for it and where I'd put it. But then I remember that I can't even tolerate having flies land on me, and think about what it'd feel like to have a spider on my skin. Brrr

Dear Urist McStartingSeven,

Keas are small, small birds. You could probably wring one's neck just by looking at it funny. Why does our only pick now belong to the bastards?

- Urist McOverseer, vowing never to pick "play now" ever again.

Mabinogi. We have a huge thread full of people willing to help and answer questions, and a guild with plenty of crafters making piles of nice gear just for it to go to waste.

There's also Combat Arms, but I really don't recommend it unless you can stand a community that makes the official Minecraft forums seem like a nice place to be. It also gets very competitive around Sergeant rank, so you need to play often and be pretty good at it.

EDIT: To clarify, Mabinogi is an anime-style MMORPG with surprisingly intense combat, and Combat Arms is the most generic military shooter in existence. It's also worth mentioning that CA has run at nice speeds on every computer I've tried to play on (i.e. $200 piece of crap towers), so there's that angle.

My adventurers always end up losing their legs to spinal damage. One was actually a vampire that had their upper spine destroyed, so I escaped only to find that my adventurer was consigned to an embarrassing death or perpetual retirement. I didn't even take the quest to hunt them down, it would have been too sad. He had been my best adventurer to that point, as well.

Telnet is always an option with ASCII games, even DF.

To elaborate on this, Dwarf Fortress allows output through ncurses, like Cataclysm. You have to change PRINT_MODE in init.txt to TEXT, but the surrounding comments say that this is only for Linux and Mac users. From that point there's apparently a way to log into the console remotely from another terminal and then play the game as if it were running locally, but that's where my knowledge on the matter ends.

Saw this a loooong time ago. The song's actually quite good IMO, I like to do a silly dance while I'm waiting for the coffee machine in the morning.

It would be cool, but I doubt it would ever happen as a mod project, unless you somehow managed to finagle something with a memory editor like DFHack. And even then I'm 90% talking out of my ass, since I know nothing about networking and next-to-nothing about how DFHack does what it does.