ants – PiraticOctopus

underthehedge:

speciesofleastconcern:

franzanthony:

Guys.

This is a game. About ants.
In which you basically manage resources to maintain the population.
There will be disasters, migrations, predators, I don’t know what else.

And combats. With acids. Exploding ants. It will be messy.

Check out the steam page now.

Okay I think I have to start paying attention to video games again

I used to have a very similar game years ago, Les Fourmis

https://www.mobygames.com/game/empire-of-the-ants

My copy was all in French but I knew enough to play and it was great fun.

Not typically what I reblog but I love games like this and have always wanted to see a good ant-based RTS.

Source: franzanthony

bogleech:

Science wasn’t actually certain how fungi like cordyceps “hijacked” their host’s behavior, and we always kind of assumed it was causing some relatively simplistic damage to the brain, but now it seems the truth is much more like all the dramatized versions of it in sci-fi horror.

These fungi integrate themselves on the cellular level with the host’s tissues all throughout their body, actually seem to send signals to the host’s muscles and even alter the host’s genes with their own.

And all the while, it turns out THE BRAIN ISN’T TAKEN OVER AT ALL.

These fungi, all along, have been converting their hosts into animal-fungal hybrids they control while the host’s brain and consciousness remain helplessly alive and largely unaltered.

The Fungus That Turns Ants Into Zombies Is More Diabolical Than We Realized