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I mean... there may be, 'cause they're not actually that uncommon, but I can't find any specific mention of an attack intended for the 13th. Where you hearing about that?

(Did you mean to the right? /s)
It's a Calamari, because George Lucas is a super-genius at names /s.  They're an aquatic (amphibian?) race who the Rebel Alliance rely on for capital ships.  Something about their ocean nature led them to master the creation of large space vessels, which I actually appreciate as a bit of world universe building.  Naming them after a Japanese dish is just silly though

Amphibian, yeah. They were shore dwellers, apparently, and could breath water well enough.

... also it's Mon Calamari, specifically.

Not to mention that calamari is squid, not vertebrates, also, how does ocean travel equate to space? Building vehicles for high pressure is very different than building ones for lower pressures. I could be missing something, haven’t seen Star Wars in a while, O remember the time the rebels almost got eaten by a giant space worm, what is its natural prey anyways? The planet seemed barren

There were at least two giant space worms in the original trilogy (maybe three, if you count the garbage thing?), one which was an extra-planetary astroid dweller (also sentient and silicon based!) and the other a desert dweller that apparently propagated by spores, with a thirty millennium maturity period. The latter was actually one member of a family of similar species, know for being highly adaptable to their local environments! They ate meat, without being particularly choosy in terms of what kind.

e: the garbage squid was a Dianoga, which apparently were sentient and potentially force sensitive. The garbage one could have been a jedi in hiding!

e2: The garbage squid even straight up had a name. Her name was Omi!

There aren't any that we know of, right now, so far as I'm aware, yeah.

It's thought to be possible under certain circumstances (some of the moons further out in the solar system might have them, ferex), though, we just don't have access to said circumstances to, y'know. Check. Yet, anyway.

It's fairly likely to fall under a similar category of (un)controversy as "there are no egg laying mammals" used to, basically.

Quickedit: The MyPillow guy is having some sort of rambling podcast or something, he's going to prove that he was in the right all along. In 10m, 8PM EST.

Well, if you're going to inflict on us the knowledge of that happening, hopefully you can follow up on it and give a summary after wading through whatever mess it turns out to be. Damn sure ain't suffering through it myself, though.

Quote from: Rolan7 on August 07, 2021, 11:39:35 pm

I feel pretty secure in saying that giving people functioning genitalia that they can actually tolerate would be a universally good thing.

This... Brings up an interesting point. The concept of growing organs for transplantation is one of those holy grail goals for Meat in a Cup™, but that's generally reserved for internal organs like kidneys, livers, hearts etc... What about sex organs? Get your very own designer dick! Building a prostate would be an extra level of complexity, but FtM trans peeps could finally have their very own flesh flop.

I mean... prostate effects more than just the reproductive side of things, on top of being a major cancer vector. Being able to build and replace those things would be a pretty big deal regardless. The benefit in relation to trans concerns would probably just be a nice bonus, y'know?

There's similar stuff for ladies, too, for that matter. Sex organs have pretty serious effects on the rest of the body, at the end of the day. Vat (or whatever) grown replacements actually being an option would be pretty big even without the designer dong aspect of things.

Oh, it's just a trendy name for open relationship. For a moment I thought it was some kind of condition or something.

Nnnooo. Not a trendy name for an open relationship, plenty of poly setups are closed. It's a catchall term for multipartner romantic and/or sexual relationships. Some are open, some aren't. Just depends on the specific arrangements between the folks in question.

Poly is almost certainly polyamorous, someone interested in having multiple romantic and/or sexual partners. Don't really have any advice outside of the generic, which is just communication communication communication -- be open and honest (as possible, given other considerations) with each other and don't get embroiled in drama horseshit.

It's definitely possible to have a stable and happy poly relationship if that's in question (old friend of mine has been part of a poly triad for over a decade, now, just as a single example out of plenty), but like all relationships you gotta' put in the work for it and the multiple partners getting involved can definitely make things more complicated. Play it by ear, work out if you're comfortable with things and with what, so on and so forth. If you like 'em, it'll probably be worth the effort!