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Lovecraft’s Untold Stories - $4.99 -> $0.99
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Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is an action roguelike with RPG elements.

Lovecraft's Untold Stories - Apps on Google Play

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> Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is an action roguelike with RPG elements.

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What kind of stone is this mantle? [SOLVED]
  • A lot of heat and a lot of pressure would be a start, but then there’s a time factor as well. The heat and pressure mess around with the rocks mineral constituents, but the real “magic” begins as those minerals start recrystallizing. In time (geologic time) that recrystallization makes a much harder rock.

    I honestly don’t know if the process can be sped up. I’m thinking of something like firing bricks, but bricks are made with specific ingredients and certain impurities are specifically excluded because they hurt the manufacturing. When you start with shale, lord knows what mother nature threw into that specific specimen and how she arranged it.

    I guess the easiest way to get shale harder might be to crush it finely, mix it with water and bake it. If you’re lucky the clay minerals will find each other and form a strong matrix. It wouldn’t be slate, or even a rock anymore, but bricks are handy sometimes.

  • What kind of stone is this mantle? [SOLVED]
  • Shale is not a good building material, it’s too friable (crumbly). Slate starts off as the same rock ans shale except it undergoes a bunch of heat and pressure which makes it much less friable and an excellent material for things like roofing tiles and mantles.

  • What is this bug I saw in Texas?
  • iNaturalist is definitely a good suggestion, but it is NOT an assassin bug, wrong markings and body form. It looks to be in the genus Alysus. Here’s what iNaturalist gave me as a likely hit. Also, I’d recommend the Seek app (it’s associated with iNaturalist) over iNaturalist app for casual users as it gives quick likely identifications through real-time image matching and does not require engaging the broader iNaturalist community.

  • What are you playing this week? (2024.01.12)
  • Yes, it looks like a great game but I haven’t been able to spend much time with it. The graphics are top notch and the environment is rich and fun to explore. Lots of action and time to explore as well. There’s a lot going on in the gameplay that makes it fun but has slowed my learning curve. One small annoyance has been the auto save though. I have gotten sent back farther in my progression after dying than I would have liked. So it’s a good game so far. Hopefully I will make some time to play it more.

  • Calm before the storm at Bracken Cave

    Waiting for the gang to leave for their nightly feed. They didn’t leave until after sunset this evening.

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    Nice story about the bat-focused work being done at Bracken Cave Preserve.
    www.ksat.com KSAT goes inside Mexican Free-tailed ‘Batnado’ at Bracken Bat Cave

    The Bracken Cave Preserve north of San Antonio is home to an estimated 20 million Mexican Free-tailed bats that are vital to our ecosystem.

    KSAT goes inside Mexican Free-tailed ‘Batnado’ at Bracken Bat Cave

    The Mexican Free-tailed bats have already started heading south for the winter, but we had local press come by to say hi and help spread the word about bat conservation.

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    Bat Channel- get a peek at the largest grouping of mammals in the world
    www.ksat.com Watch swirling ‘batnado’ on nightly livestream from Bracken Bat Cave

    You no longer have to travel to the San Antonio area to see the world’s largest bat colony — you can catch the action on your phone or desktop thanks to the Bat Channel.

    Watch swirling ‘batnado’ on nightly livestream from Bracken Bat Cave

    We’ve finally gone live on the Bracken Cave cams. It took several years to finally get a reliable internet connection close enough to get the equipment connected. Hopefully they’ll stay functional for a while.

    Recently the bats have been starting their emergence anywhere from 7:30-8:30 pm CDT so 12:30-1:30 am UTC, but they do their own thing and sometimes it can vary by hours from one day to another. The emergence is usually pretty steady and last roughly 3 hours but much is in the dark. You can usually still hear the cool sounds of millions of bat wings in flight.

    The morning returns are hit and miss as the bats return in spurts anywhere from 5 am to 10am with outliers before and after.

    The link is to a local TV station covering the cams with useful background.

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    Mexican free-tailed bat chased by hawk (part 2 of 3)

    The little guy tries an evasive maneuver against the hawk.

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    Mexican free-tailed bat chased by hawk (part 1 of 3)

    Most every night, raptors line up for the bat buffet at Bracken Cave Preserve. The bats pour out of the cave for about 3 hours. he bats exiting is a swarming defense strategy to not getting eaten. When you see a young or sick bat stray from the main cloud of bats, the raptors take advantage of the opportunity. Here is one of several hawks that feeds daily before dusk. After dusk, the owls own the skies here in our little Texas wildlife preserve.

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    Bracken Cave Emergence

    Here’s a happy snap from a recent emergence at Bracken Cave Preserve. These are Mexican Free-tailed bats that are part of the maternal colony that summers here in the Texas hill country. We host the colony of approximately 20 million bats from spring to fall. It takes 3+ hours for colony to leave the cave and they’re pretty orderly about it.

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