Wow! The spider thing sounds scary, I guess I should be thankful we don't have any spiders here at all... which is weird, considering it's a tropical island. We used to have some daddy long legs in Florida, and once I found something that seriously looked like a black widow (with a red mark on it's back and everything), but I doubted it even then-- I haven't really checked, but I don't think black widows live in Florida, heh, it was probably just an imitator. I ran away promptly after seeing it, anyhow.
You guys are both nuts and lucky that you mess with bees. I am dead-stread terrified of those things, (I 'dig' Elum less because of it) and infront of kids at school who mess with them, I look like a coward.
There's this kid that looks like Link at my school, but he definitely doesn't have the Young Link chival attitude. I once asked why there were so many bees around, and he, a 12-year-old, patted his chest and said, "Because I'm the honey!"
I wouldn't be able to live anywhere were dangerous bugs are frequently sighted. I should stop complaining about household pests in the presence of those things. I'm not one of those 'I wish bugs never existed, people don't deserve them' people, I actually believe that we are animals just as any other. That's why we can't kick them out of the circle... there's nothing can be done, I guess.
Besides, without bees or insects with queens to influence, Oddworld would be boring or strange! What, with female sligs and muds running around... I guess in some strange way we owe it to bees and ants, they're the most obvious example of insects with queens!
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