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hamaonoverdrive
@hamaonoverdrive

Recently I read a pop-sci piece about uncovering the mechanisms behind how ant queens live several times longer than workers even though the two are the same species of ant. I found myself getting stuck on the term for a worker ant that converts to a queen in a time of duress, the half-shaded bar in the below figure:

After spending some time computing the various combinations of people involved in the publication process who must have had either malicious intent or ignorance of the harassment campaign by the same name, I did a little digging-- Turns out the term has an entirely different etymology and long predates 'ethics in game journalism'. Just an unfortunate coincidence.


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in reply to @hamaonoverdrive's post:

I remember there was an episode of Adventure Time where they went to a big ant colony and one of he characters was called Lieutenant Gamergate. this was right in the middle of the Other Gamergate and some people thought it was some kind of signal of something, but no the episode was written before that stuff happened and it's just a thing an ant can be. awkward.