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How about not pirating your game and just buying it? Is it really that hard?

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Welcome back, sorry to hear about your illness and loss of the mantis. I would never be able to count on my kids taking care of them; you seem to have a well-intentioned 11 year old.

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They do, but you'd really have to push to do damage to it. I dissected one of my mantids after it had died (the thread is somewhere around here) and the nervous system is tougher than it's made out to be when you look at a drawing of it. I had to look to find the abdominal ganglia.

I'm the same way. No way I'd go back to being 16 or even 20. I'm happy the age I am now.

Welcome, from the other side of the US.

Just expect most of them to die off. It's how Chinese are. I hatched three recently (ridiculous, but that's how many I had) and I'd estimate that I am down at least 75% after two weeks. It's normal.

This ended up working fairly decently with very few remaining--almost all of which are hanging out and looking uncannily fat. Even first instar eats its own when it's hungry. That's my fault for not having enough fly colonies. It's now down to a suitable number. The third ooth hasn't hatched.

I think some of you are forgetting that electronics heat up. I can promise you that many electronics, such as computers and TV sets (even digital ones) are going to be dry as a bone inside for that reason. There's a continuous flow of air due to fans, and a significant amount of heat coming off...

I bought some Chinese ooths from a biological supply company which had a 3 minimum order requirement. So I have three; two hatched, the other will "pop" soon. Generally my method has been to use most of them for garden pest control (I'm still dubious on whether that works or not), but it's...

I play lots of games, I won't deny it. But I can easily take long breaks, and it doesn't dominate my time. It's never adversely affected my personal life. How do you get "addicted" to something like WoW?

Welcome to the forum. Why can't you hold a Religiosa?

RE: Relationships The older you get, the more you will begin to face the stark realization that the mantid's method of courtship is merely a more efficient version of our own. Happy birthday!

EVE may not have the grinding that you go through for levels, but there's grinding. That, and to really "have fun" you need to be a part of a corp in 0.0 space (at least, this was back in 2006 when I was doing it) and that meant "raiding" at the same time as the corp does. Basically it's the...

I can't get into MMOs. I get nothing out of them. Tried EVE once and was unimpressed. I won't touch WoW. The type of games I play are ones that you can walk away from for a few weeks and not lose anything.

I was going to ask if you were joking but then I realized that you're from Texas. Around here being liable for whatever's on your land after you sell it is just that--a liability. Due to things like buried oil tanks and toxic stuff in the ground. But this is New Jersey.

I am a fan of your parents and I am hoping your fundraising goes well. Just out of curiosity how long did you know you were going to turn 17? Because you might have had the opportunity to plan ahead with a job etc.

I drive in NYC all the time and have gotten used to it but I can also see how you would be intimidated by it at first. It certainly was intimidating for me at first, since I'm not from this part of the country. My suggestion, if you really want to drive, would be to just bite the bullet and do...

I've never had a fertile Chinese ooth not hatch. They're so easy to hatch that a lot of the time they end up hatching in people's houses, because they stow away on Christmas trees. I never even knew, early in my mantis raising career, that you even had to mist them. I'd just put them in jars and...