Omg I have been rabidly following Blades of Furry, that comic rules.
Ahh, I knew that proc must have some neat potential! That's incredible lol, definitely have to mess with it more.
There are two other 3 mana blue enchantments that just do the "copy another enchantment" part, there's Mirrormade and one just called (I think) Copy Enchantment? I use a full stack of all three in a template deck I like to call "Oops, All [fill-in-the-blank]!" Basically, it's just fun to see what would happen if you had wayyyyyy too many of something that's fairly lackluster on its own. It's really really amusing with oddball cards like Haphazard Bombardment or Ominous Seas, or like you said, Smothering Tithe.
One of my boyfriends is really into (and good at) fighting games. I haven't even played one in decades, and when I did it was just to button mash lol. I wanted to play with him so I've been deep diving into those. Now we play Battle Craze together.
I migrated to the flagship PieFed instance a while ago and haven't regretted it at all. This place rocks! I would love it if there was an app though, not a big fan of PWAs lol. If I was smarter, I'd try to make one myself. Very exciting to see more instances popping up!
For some reason I'm picturing them all with little Studio Ghibli style faces?
I enjoy the deranged erotica, partially because it's good but also because it makes the toxic alpha male/sigma male dudebro types go "no, not like that!"
I don't run any instances, but that does seem potentially like a pretty neat idea.
I am really curious about the unexpected behaviors of your instance members though! What are they doing, just treating it as a general instance and not really engaging with the local theme?
Mirlo.space is working on federation too. I think they're not as far along in that regard, but further along in terms of being a bandcamp replacement? Last I heard, anyway. I buy stuff from there, payment works.
A lot of public libraries offer access to ReferenceUSA through your library card. I vaguely remember that queries are pretty customizable on there, and exportable to various formats. Despite the generic name, it's specifically for businesses. Would that work?
I can't say that the ability to follow individual people is really something I care about, but coming from Piefed, it does seem to work just fine. So does Peertube and any of the other ones I've bothered to try.
My prior Lemmy instance (lemmy.one) is abandoned and slowly losing functionality, and I had to find somewhere new to move, so I figured... why not PieFed? I like if so far! Seems to be playing well with the other thread platforms, hopefully I'm doing it right.
Feel free to post your work if you get back into textiles again!
Ok, take this with a grain of salt because I read about it ages ago in a dubious pop-sci book and my memory is shaky. One time, they tried to gene edit yeast to be able to survive much higher alcohol concentrations. There's lots of good reasons to want to do this... Beer/wine is just about the strongest beverage you can make without distillation of some kind because the yeast dies. Making way higher ethanol yields just from fermentation makes biofuel way more viable. Stuff like that.
EXCEPT... It nearly escaped, and was able to survive on it's own. Yeast is very ubiquitous in nature, so a wild yeast that can tolerate massive ethanol concentrations could conceivably have altered life on earth as we know it.
A cursory internet search isn't turning up anything about this, but I'm pretty sure I read it in the book Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody, if anyone wants to look harder than I did.