Makes me think of the golden calf from the old testament as well.

he's pondering a koan

Likely inspired pretty heavily by Enigma (in particular, "Sadeness")

Which is gamelan, tabla drum, sitar (and I think the other instrument is supposed to be vocals)

Going to need to repot this one in a few weeks for sure, it's growth is certain to explode soon

I wonder if ants are smart enough to figure out if after a certain point enough ants don't make it back that they should stop sending ants out on a particular scent trail

Also, "ginkgo" is a funny name; it's like "China" where the name is current use in it's native region is not anything like the current English one.

The preferred reading of 銀杏 is Ichou or Ginnan, though apparently both are odd readings which don't use standard onyomi sounds

Like animators generally do an awful job at animating butterflies to begin with, and like nobody gives a shit; did a google search of "why are butterflies animated so poorly" and it's all a bunch of fucking Gamers bitching about a animation in CSGO

It looks so bad right