“Isn’t it weird that [thing humans commonly eat] is poisonous to literally every domesticated animal” I mean, there’s a pretty good chance that [thing humans commonly eat] is at least mildly poisonous to humans, too. One of our quirks as a species is that we think our food is bland if it doesn’t have enough poison in it.
Humans have a really weird mix of mundane superpowers.
We’re not fast and don’t have a lot of natural weaponry but we’re bizarrely tolerant to a broad range of toxins to the point that one toxin is considered a morning necessity for some to perform at work. Gotta love us.
My headcanon for why the card game in the yugioh anime is Like That is that paying money for individual cards is illegal.
We know packs exist since yugi buys some before battle city, and we know trading exists since kaiba offers to trade for Solomon’s blue eyes in episode 1, but we never actually see anyone exchange money for singles.
That’s why everyone is on 60 card 1-of piles that have almost no synergy: they’re just cobbling together what they can get out of the packs. It’s also why the only people with coherent strategies are black market criminals (the rare hunters), billionaires that could go through back door channels to get cards (Pegasus, the kaiba corp execs), or pro players that can get good trades (Rebecca, weevil, etc.). Even that only goes so far tho, so you don’t really see anyone building stuff like empty jar, or clown control, or even just the 40goodcards.deck brews we were on at the time. It’s just logistically impossible for even well connected people to get multiple playsets of good cards, so you need to backfill your deck with some jank
i was reading wikipedia about threats to gorilla conservation and i am deeply ashamed to admit that the mental image upon reading that a gorilla could step on a landmine made me laugh