Monsieur Florbo

C’mon, we all end up at /dev/null eventually. Just don’t gaze long into it or it might gaze into you.

I’ve never not dreamed of having my own skeleton army.

Everything you can buy is also available for free.

Iffff you’re willing to spend many many hours grinding against artificial RNG and pretending your time has zero value.

But yeah enough patience and persistence can technically get you almost everything (I stopped after 50 warframes).

You too! And sorry, I just realized I actually posted the video in response to someone else. So big apologies if I came across as argumentative over something you might not have seen. My mistake 🫤

I didn’t consider it a debate in the first place, but yes, I’m aware of how the words have changed in their application. That seemed to be a central theme of the entire post 🤷

You didn’t watch the video 🤦 Wikipedia is not a superior source to an actual expert. And species are not categorized based on etymology (which wouldn’t work here anyway as some “penguins” have all-black heads).

The video is from a PhD Biologist & Zoologist who has made a ton of content on the joys and challenges of phylogeny, and he clearly has a love for these creatures. It’s worth a watch if you enjoy this stuff.

Yes, Great Auks were the original “penguins” and they lived in the northern hemisphere. He makes the point that those are more closely related to hummingbirds than they are to what we now call penguins. And the modern “false penguins” (to be a bit cheeky), which live almost exclusively in the southern hemisphere, are more closely related to flamingos and other colorful flighted birds than they are to any auks.

So in terms of avian ancestry they are not even very closely related. So yeah, (original) penguins are extinct. Long live (new) penguins!

Terrible News About Penguins

Also, those flightless aquatic birds most people call penguins are not actually that. Penguins are extinct.