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Since the foul fiend Insomnia continues to maul me in its batrachian* paws and slobber down my neck, many thanks and a tip of the hat to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kate_nepveu, who pointed out to me that there is a new Submachine installment: Submachine 6: the edge.
N.b., the game will make marginally more sense if you have a passing acquaintance with the previous Submachine games. But only marginally. Nevertheless, for your point-and-click pleasure:
There are also two side games:
And now, having once again interrupted your Very Serious Business, I'm going to see if I can find those secret areas I missed the first time around.
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*I did have to look up batrachian to be sure I was spelling it right. Which, by the happy serendipity of the alphabet, has led me to a question. Batophobia, it turns out, is the fear of being next to a very tall object, like a skyscraper or a mountain. Does anyone know, then, what's the word for fear of bats?**
**To make this less utterly irrelevant to everything ever, I shall inform you thatmirrorthaw and I had another bat in our attic last weekend. Once again, the lovely lovely people from Bat Conservation of Wisconsin came out--at 7 P.M. on a Friday no less--and identified, assessed, sexed, and conserved the bat. Healthy female Big Brown Bat (which, as I remarked later to matociquala, looks to the casual observer like any little brown bat, but in fact Little Brown Bats are a different species). The bat-lady also told us something which I think might possibly be of interest to other people: bats like to burrow into or under laid insulation (the stuff that looks like cotton candy) to hibernate. So if, like us, you have a house where the previous owners thought it was a good idea to lay the insulation on the attic floor like a carpet . . . well, be careful, is all I'm saying.
ObPSA: Do not touch any bats you may find. For your sake and theirs. Bat World has a very helpful page on what to do if you find a bat and also links to local rescue organizations. Our local rescue organization is awesome; I hope others are the same.
kate_nepveu, who pointed out to me that there is a new Submachine installment: Submachine 6: the edge.N.b., the game will make marginally more sense if you have a passing acquaintance with the previous Submachine games. But only marginally. Nevertheless, for your point-and-click pleasure:
- Submachine 1: the Basement
- Submachine 2: the Lighthouse
- Submachine 3: the Loop
- Submachine 4: the Lab
- Submachine 5: the root
There are also two side games:
And now, having once again interrupted your Very Serious Business, I'm going to see if I can find those secret areas I missed the first time around.
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*I did have to look up batrachian to be sure I was spelling it right. Which, by the happy serendipity of the alphabet, has led me to a question. Batophobia, it turns out, is the fear of being next to a very tall object, like a skyscraper or a mountain. Does anyone know, then, what's the word for fear of bats?**
**To make this less utterly irrelevant to everything ever, I shall inform you that
mirrorthaw and I had another bat in our attic last weekend. Once again, the lovely lovely people from Bat Conservation of Wisconsin came out--at 7 P.M. on a Friday no less--and identified, assessed, sexed, and conserved the bat. Healthy female Big Brown Bat (which, as I remarked later to matociquala, looks to the casual observer like any little brown bat, but in fact Little Brown Bats are a different species). The bat-lady also told us something which I think might possibly be of interest to other people: bats like to burrow into or under laid insulation (the stuff that looks like cotton candy) to hibernate. So if, like us, you have a house where the previous owners thought it was a good idea to lay the insulation on the attic floor like a carpet . . . well, be careful, is all I'm saying.ObPSA: Do not touch any bats you may find. For your sake and theirs. Bat World has a very helpful page on what to do if you find a bat and also links to local rescue organizations. Our local rescue organization is awesome; I hope others are the same.
