I've had a producer type tell me he always uses that as the mark of an amateur writer- if they're afraid someone will steal their idea then they have no idea how easy it is to make the best idea into utter shit.

Yeah, but elephants blaze trails through the jungle, they clear out waterholes that get filled, they dig down to find salt layers that other animals then depend on. That's a keystone species, one that indirectly influences the shape of the ecosystem.

Ah, dammit, beat me to it.

They are usually called "Keystone species", though that isn't herbivore-specific. They're just big enough to not really have any dedicated predators (just occasional opportunists) and they have an outsized effect on the ecosystem around them by virtue of the amount of food they consume and their sheer physical size.

So making them for your use wasn't illegal, and even giving them away for free was technically a grey area (if I remember right, a lot of the law at the time only came down on commercial uses)

How the hell did I forget that? That was like one of my favorite albums.

I think I'd legit have more respect for a guy who put flame decals on his computer than that tacky alienware garbage.

I dunno, i've watched my friend spend an absurd amount of time and energy trying to fix his bong's broken downstem with scotch tape and caulk he found in the kitchen because he was too lazy to bother driving like the five minutes and spending the like $4 to get a new one.

Ironically, if they're the kind of thing that nobody in their right mind would bother saving, that can make them more valuable than otherwise.

Yeah, that the animation left pinholes behind (so you could tell he was even doing it in order!) was hands down my favorite part for reasons I cannot adequately explain.

It does.

Not one!

I call butane a bastard gas inappropriately often.

Connie- *disgusted* "Steak AGAIN? How many cows a year do you people eat?!"

I love how much you can hear Butthead when he delivers that line.

Fuck reading that I'd assume you were joking if I hadn't actually seen that specific episode.

I have met them.

Uh, that's the next line of the routine.

One doesn't, one just acts like one is morally superior to all these ignorant people trying to foolishly make the world a better place.

Generally rapists will go to great lengths to convince themselves they're not rapists. Things like, "She just regretted it in the morning!", or "She's just an attention seeker!", or, "She shouldn't have been unconscious!"