#my bugwatching

[jaybug-jabbers]

I keep seeing these guys running around at night that look like mealworms, I finally took a photo to look it up because I am so curious what they are...

And apparently they ARE mealworms???

I've also seen a lot of little black beetles all over the neighborhood and oh my god they are darkling beetles (the mealworm adults), aren't they. We just have a crapton of them living around here. It's so weird to see them in the great outdoors, I used to raise them to feed to my reptiles or whatnot when I was a kid.

[swordsmithofgondolin]

Baby Lan Wangji and his friends

[creature-wizard]

So again, who decides what "Engaging and participating" means? Who decides what degree of engagement and participation is enough? If someone tells me that to really engage, to really participate, I need to cut certain people out of my life, or give them most of my money - well, *I* can't judge if that's bullshit, because I can't trust my feelings, because "connection" is what's important and connection is not a feeling. So what should I do?

The point I've been making isn't that your personal feelings don't matter at all ever, but that feeling connected and being connected are two different things, and people need to stop confusing the two. Your emotions matter in general, but they also have nothing to do with whether you're connecting with nature or anything at all. You can have all kinds of fascination with nature and still not be connecting with it whatsoever; you could feel absolutely nothing and still be very connected because you are actually engaging.

Try some form of gardening/keeping plants. Get into birdwatching, bugwatching, plantwatching, and/or weatherwatching. Volunteer to clean up garbage. Literally just actually do something and see how it goes.

The one who decides how much engagement is enough, is you. If you don't want to engage at all, then don't. This isn't Christianity, you aren't going to eternal damnation if you aren't totally one with nature or something.

And also, because this isn't Christianity, your connection isn't measured by what you're feeling. Nature isn't just Leafy Jesus or something, you don't develop a personal relationship with it by letting it into your heart; you start by recognizing your role within it as a vastly complicated system and go from there.

[pushing500]

I did end up installing the Toddlers mod, and now we see the result! Baby Ro has become Toddler Ro!

The first thing he did with his newfound mobility was "bugwatch". I thought it was amusing that his bugwatching happened to be right where Frisbee the giant scorpion was walking, and I mean... Yeah, sure. A lot of people would consider her a bug. Entomophobic Zonovo does, at the very least.

Debby has decided to cause more drama with her polyamory trait, and Laurie has to pay for it. I wonder what will happen if Eva really does turn out to be a mime? That would definitely add drama to this story. Poor Brennan and Laurie, though.

We had an eventful raid with Eurros Pusmeberrus, a distant relative of Andrei and Andy's, coming to visit. We managed to capture her, but I don't know if we'll recruit her. She kind of sucks.

We also captured her friend, who was "unwaveringly loyal", but that was of little consequence as we had just finished building a subcore ripscanner. Doere was not a prisoner for very long.

Before Doere was ripscanned, Albina patched her up to avoid her bleeding out, and Henry tagged along to watch. I think the 'work watching' learning desire is my favourite one. Usually, it's cute to imagine a little kid trailing someone and bombarding them with questions about the jobs they're doing, but I'm not sure if it's quite as cute when it's watching someone operate on a prisoner.

Pacifist Vu started a social fight with Irwin, which resulted in her whole arm getting destroyed. Luckily Albina has the 'regrow limb' psycast, and hopefully, Vu will learn not to pick fights with people she has no hope of beating, no matter how empowered she feels wearing stolen liberated armour.

Then we got raided again by more people related to a colonist (and to prisoner Pusmeberrus, who in turn is related to Andrei and Andy). Fortunately, Hazrov is a crack shot and downed enough of them that the others turned tail and fled before they reached us. It made Wendy a bit sad, but I'm sure she'll get over it.

Finally, here's Andy being better at drawing dinosaurs than I could ever hope to be.

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[sejianismodding]

☢️ Update 2/25/2025 - MOAR body distortions are being reported. I sure hope this isn't due to EAxis' half-arsing our "Male sims with Feminine Frames" spine fix.

THIS IS A RANT. YOU'RE WELCOME TO IGNORE IT. I DO THIS FOR PERPETUITY.

⋆⋅ AIN'T LIFE GRAND?!

This was meant to be a "BUGWATCH", but then I noticed that we're now getting reports that !@#$'s deforming all over the place - where it wasn't before.

On kids - https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/toddlerinfantschild-body-and-face-distortions/11928891

On necks - https://forums.ea.com/idea/the-sims-4-bug-reports-en/sims-neck-set-to-wide/11912011

I've been harping on about those EIGHTEEN (18) broken Deformer Maps for SEVEN (7) !@#$ing MONTHS, and INSTEAD OF FIXING THEM, EAxis removed the dependency, making it appear as though our bodies are indeed fixed.

It feels like a slap in the face to not fix those Deformer Maps, but I'll let it slide 'cause MY sim don't look like a freak no more and that's what matters... at least they didn't during my very brief play-test before my nap. [*]

Maybe removing that dependency is what they meant to do SEVEN (7) MONTHS ago but "forgot", and continued to "forgot" for SEVEN (7) MONTHS.

Certainly EAxis' special bug fixin' team knows what the !@#$ they're doing, but I can't help but wonder if what's being reported now is related to those Deformer Maps. I have no idea if any of them affected kids. Only THREE (3) or FOUR (4) of those EIGHTEEN (18) Deformer Maps !@#$ed with our spines. I have no idea what the rest did. If the dependency was removed, would my BUGFIX for Our Broken Bodies even affect those kids or those necks?

I will not be investigating this until I see it for myself, which might take a while because I'm hardly in Live Mode and the reports I read claim that the more extreme deformities aren't appearing in CAS.

Yes, I am being a bit of a !@#$. I had a nap and have oodles of "be a !@#$" energy now.

They should have fixed the !@#$ing Deformer Maps.

⋆⋅ <INHALES SHARPLY>

Now that I've gotten that out of my system, I'm going to see if I can update the SGFX overrides.

I'm only encountering errors with Sims4Studio when trying to export Tuning resources, but it's been reported that modifying CAS items is also bugging out.

I'll do what I can.

[*] I swear, if I load my new saved game and see my sim's body spazzing out, I'm going to !@#$ing lose it.

⋆⋅ ⚡ NOW THAT I'VE CALMED DOWN...

I want to point out that EAxis went mucking around body sliders.

[EA Forums] Body sliders in Create a Sim are back on track! Adjusting the belly, butt, and thighs of male Sims will no longer transform certain full-body outfits into avant-garde fashion.

It's possible that they just broke everything while half-arsing our bodies.

[olympic-exclusion-zone]

Oh my god, brain's having ideas.

Bugwatch comic based on that fax messages that's Nicole saying she found a new beetle species near Sierram and it biting her. I wanna draw it but I've already got WIPs ahhh. Into the ideas vault it goes

[audible-smiles]

having a container garden on my back porch is gonna turn me into a bugwatcher, because they’re everywhere. butterflies in my hanging basket. bees on my chives. isopods under my flower pots. small flies on my lobelia. tiny spiderwebs in every nook or cranny. big ol’ wasps hunting around my hydrangea. they’re even worse at holding still for pictures than birds are, if that’s possible.

[forestanomaly]

Question game!

How do you de-stress?

What is something you're really good at?

How are you feeling right now?

Free Pass! What's your favorite thing to do outside?

I come outside and scream! It's only half-joke. One of my coping mechanisms is singing, I live in a village so I can go outside pretty much whenever I want, so when I feel bad (or happy, or just want to wiggle, or have to walk my dog...) I go out and sing along my playlist loudly, or just sing songs I remember or wrote without music. I also love walking, I find that it often helps to go on a twenty-minute walk around the streets when I feel overwhelmed.

I'd like to think drawing, but not like in a way that I'm better than other artists, but in a way that this is the thing I do and exercise the most. I also like to think that I'm good at reading animals? I try at least, it not always works but I really like them and I keep trying to talk the neigbourhood dogs into letting me pet them. Some of my friends said that I'm good at comforting people, but that's a complicated topic!

I have my school finals tomorrow so I'm lowkey stressed as hell but I'm also too tired to be actually panicking. That may change though. But I hope it won't.

As I already said, I love singing and walking outside .) I also love bugwatching (birds are cool, but they live in the sky! And sky is soo bright for my sorry little peepers that it hurts to look at it!), talking to animals in hopes that they will let me pet them and climbing into obscure places like dence woods or high hills, though I kinda stopped doing it that often because I'm afraid of landmines ._)

Thank you for asking, have a nice day!

[jaybug-jabbers]

Got to visit Monteray. Finally, finally touched the deep sea isopod (Bathynomus giganteus) for myself. Very smooth just as you'd expect. The lady there was nice and chatted with me and I told her about how I recently acquired their tiny terrestrial cousins. She told me how the giant isopods seemed to molt one half at a time, and she was surprised when I told her the land versions do that too. She also mentioned the aquarium is not allowed to feed them rotting fish even though they would prefer rotting fish. Safety thing for the humans I suppose. She also said they roll up into balls just like rolly pollies. Just wild to think they are so incredibly similar.

[drew-g-smith]

New Frontiers in Procrastination

https://vimeo.com/344889963 [Can’t figure why the embed is down]

Comedy/ Experimental/ “Documentary”

Conceived, Shot, and Edited June 22, 2019, Based on the prompts: Theme: "My own worst enemy" Prop: Ball

[thorninyourpaw]

hi hello I’m glad you enjoy this I’ve been sitting on my brother’s porch bugwatching for like over an hour bugs get up to some weird shit man

today I watched some other kind of flying bug mount a wasp and ride it like a horse for a good 15 minutes

this is exactly the type of things i want to be told. i love this hello. hi

[talking-about-bug-snacks]

SPRINKLEPEDE

There are a few myriapod Bugsnax on Snaktooth Island, but only one MILLIPEDE Bugsnak, and that is Sprinklepede! How novel to have a creature based on an animal known for its long body, and have it a round loop. It brings to mind a millipede just resting while curled up for safety!

...and that sort of does describe Sprinklepede! It just wants to hang out. To find it, you must look not down in the leaf litter, but up, where it can be found on the side of Snorpy’s Bugwatch Tower!

I have to tell you something right now. I took so long to find Sprinklepede. I thought there had to be a catch. I thought that maybe I had to summon it, and that to summon it, I would have to play basketball in Chandlo’s dunk zone. It’s a loop like a basketball hoop. Maybe it likes basketball and wants to see you prove your skills! But it really was just up there on the tower all along.

If you want to catch Sprinklepede, you’re first going to have to bother it. If it is hit with the Snakgrappler, it will descend, but this has only just begun! Sprinklepede can roll on its side extremely quickly, too quickly to catch! It is such a sight for a donut to roll around the forest. It does always follow a set path, so the Trip Shot can be placed to stun it once you are In The Know. My favorite part is that Sprinklepede makes use of a stationary Lunchpad to bounce up a cliff! It can actually be caught in the air, unable to dodge like it is on the ground!

Sprinklepede is the fourth and final Bugsnak that was featured un-bugged on April Fool’s Day. Look! It’s Donut! It just rolls and falls down, and clearly someone just off screen had pushed it to get it rolling, and I think that is just wonderful.

[spearxwind]

Some bug friends i found today while being outside for abt 30min Bonus: dead scolopendra (aka a very big centipede)

[xx-evil-wizard-xx]

I was bugwatching from my porch window which is a thing I do now I guess (it’s like exposure therapy but some bugs are cool looking also) and I just saw a gentleman make a beautiful white little coom deposit on my window

[rubygypsygirl]

Cute Cat Photos 💜💜💜 So I’m sitting here and all of a sudden I hear my cat almost like whimpering but not in distress. She wasn’t hurt in any way, so I look over and there is a moth up near the light. It reminded me of when my son was a little boy and he started screaming “Mom! Mom! Bug! Bug! Get it away from me!” There was a bug in the bathroom and he was freaking out. Now she is standing vigil looking for the moth. 😂😂😂. #catlovers #bugwatching #gratefulheart https://www.instagram.com/p/B9_i9fEle-a/?igshid=tkzjewmhjj17

[estuarine-space-communism]

on Halloween I found an unusual spider at work that I didn't think much of, but knew I didn't recognize. so I shared it with my facebook bugwatch community, and no one - even experts - knew what it was. after a day of everyone being stumped, it was identified as a rare species of sheetweb weaver that is found in the North Atlantic region, but is so obscure and little-known that it doesn't have a bugguide page and there are only a handful of records of it anywhere in North America. there are also no pictures of this species on google. it is being submitted to bugguide as the first record for the genus in North America. wow. needless to say this is the rarest find I have ever made.