#plants vs zombies
Zombie plants
Scientists have discovered how a bacterial parasite turns plants into the living dead.
The bacteria is able to manipulate the way plants grow, causing infected plants to transform their flowers into leaf tissue.
In doing so, the plants are sacrificing their reproductive success and becoming sterile – dead to the future and destined to only benefit the survival of the bacteria parasite (healthy plant seen in the top image and an infected plant can be seen in the middle image).
The parasitic bacterium produces a protein that tricks the plant into transforming its flowers into leaf-like material. This transformation makes the plant more attractive to leafhoppers for settlement - the bacterium’s next victim and host to be (see leafhopper in bottom image).
Once an enticed leafhopper eats the infected zombie plant, the bacteria then catches a ride in their saliva on to the next plant they hop on to – starting the cycle all over again.
This research comes from the labs of Professor Hogenhout at John Innes Centre, and Professors Angenent and Immink at Wageningen University.
Images: John Innes Centre
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//OOC: Hang in there, once I finish all my commissions, I’ll work on a PLOT COMIC! How’s that sound? A good ol’ little plot comic after all the commissions are done.
Also here’s Toad as Nightcap.
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ASK 51: Conspiracy
//OOC: Anyone play the new South Park game yet? It’s pretty fun, but I should probably talk about this ask. Uh… yeah. This is lore-ish.
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.12:05
“Oh my god! Wha-wha-why in the world would anybody want that? Who asked for that? Come on, dude- It’s necrophilia! Okay? Necrophilia isn’t good. It’s a fetish for dead people! I don’t really like the fetish for dead people, or people that like the fetish, okay? God! I mean come on, who-who-uh in the right mind would make this? I mean it’s a friccin’… undead ZEEEYMBIE, ZAMBOZO. I mean, first of all, pretty much 90 percent of the zombies in the games don’t have hair like that! Unless it’s a wig. *burp* Then why. Second of all, that face! I dunno, there’s something that bothers me with it, it doesn’t look settling. It looks like they’d rape me in the alleyway or something. Keepin’ my butt clenched. Why? I mean, was it really necessary for you to add- add a THICC photo? I mean jeez, out of all the fandoms. Out of all the fandoms, out of all the fandoms! It has to be Plants vs. Zombies. Okay? Friggin’ Plants vs. Zombies out of all of them. Okay? First of all, Plants vs. Zombies, okay? There are plants, and there are zombies, okay?.”
ASK 49: Blooming Heart
//OOC: Hey, it’s the return of… someone’s… “favorite”… uhh…
Blooming Heart is back, everyone.
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//OOC: Peasley’s pretty much wrong. Sunny’s racist, but she’s racist against zombies. Technically, everyone is. Plants are racist against zombies and vice versa.
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//OOC: HEY WOULDYA LOOKAT THAT It’s just a little non-plot-related comic meant to segue into the next ask segment. It’s Peasley’s turn for asks now, since like almost every main character already had a turn doing asks. Except for Femmy, who gave her asktime to a buncha minor characters who may or may not want to kill Sunny now…
So yeah, ask Peasley stuff. Sunny’ll do a few plot comics here and there. There won’t be one next week because of exams, but just you wait…
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//OOC: Hey, look. She’s working on stuff. Her army’s expanded and everyone’s offa their asses and actually working.
Also, like, this is the first time the entire cast’s been in a picture in a while, even if most of them are just background silhouettes!
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OOC: Hey everybody, may I have your attention please?
The wiki’s debating Pumpking’s gender so here’s a gender”swapped” Pumpking.
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But who? WHO? Brainstorm? Impfinity? Rustbolt?
Do I make fuckin’ humanized GB Spudow like I did with Nightcap? Grass Knuckles just so I can make a HERE I COME joke?
Do I do something completely different and give the GW zombies genderswaps? PvZ2s? PvZ1? PvZH cards? JUST SO MUCH TO DO!
It’s either these, or asks, and I don’t see anything new in my inbox.
Tell me in the replies what you want. Hell, maybe I’ll make this a fuckin’ sideblog.
Wanna see how many there are…
The Walt Disney Company Becomes One Of The Major Bidders For EA Acquisition.
According to 9to5Mac, EA Games, the publisher of major hits such as The Sims franchise and Apex Legends, began seeking a potential buyout or merger following Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision Blizzard in January of this year and Sony’s subsequent purchase of Bungie later that same month. Apparently, EA seeks a merger rather than a full buyout, as it hopes to retain its current CEO, Andrew Wilson, in the same position.
The major bidders at the moment are Apple, Amazon and The Walt Disney Company
So far, EA has yet to comment on the reports, with EA spokesperson John Reseburg stating the company would not comment on “rumors and speculation relating to M&A.” He added, “We are proud to be operating from a position of strength and growth, with a portfolio of amazing games, built around powerful IP, made by incredibly talented teams, and a network of more than half a billion players. We see a very bright future ahead.”
I find it hard to think of what a deal between EA and Apple would look like. Puck mentions that EA’s ideal candidate for a merger was Disney, as it reached out in March seeking a “more meaningful relationship.” However, the entertainment company did not pursue those conversations, likely because it’s focused on its building up its Disney+ subscriber base. Additionally, a potential ESPN merger could happen as Disney owns the sports network. ——- 9to5Mac’s Take
If Disney wins the bid franchises like Plants Vs Zombies,The Sims,Dead Space,Dragon Ace,Command & Conquer, Battlefield etc.. will join the Disney family and Disney will have full control of the Star Wars Videogames and of course The Simpsons Videogames.
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