If they won't, I will.

You cannot describe yourself that interestingly, then tell us not to look. That'd like me like saying "Woah I have a giant tail, don't look!". 🫣

The Path Of Hades is some of the worst design I've ever seen from a game this praised. It's like everyone got collective amnesia about how bad the first game was when the second one came out.
I beat the game out of pure spite because it's the first game I ever bought myself with my own money.

My main point is this. If an alien is nothing like anything we've seen on Earth? That's quite possible. If an alien looks strikingly similar but not identical to an earth organism? That's also fine.
I like a mix, it feels realistic to reflect both convergent and divergent evolution in sci-fi.

Fish, Crabs, Trees. These are forms that have convergently evolved in many species. Palm Trees are more closely related to Turf Grass then they are to an Aspen, and there used to be Fungus that grew like giant cactus in the Carboniferous so even organisms in different KINGDOMS do it.

"Oh but that's just us superimposing what we know onto-"
Aliens would likely find body plans that are a spectrum of dissimilar to similar to Earth organisms.
If a creature needs to survive in liquid water it's not going to intentionally avoid gills just to satisfy your need to feel humbled.

I momentarily misread that box as "Contact Cement" and was so confused.

Bread pudding?

That's it, I'm gettin me stap.

Big Lumberjack doesn't want you to know this, but Canada has government overreach and systemic racism too.

It's Canada, not Narnia. You don't go through a wardrobe and end up in a land of talking beavers, fawns, fairies, and happy lumberjacks, where there's no political bullshit, and everyone gets along. We're a constitutional monarchy on stolen land living above a meth lab. What are you talking about?