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  • Yea, the evolution of vascularity in plants let them get off the ground in the first place (meaning being taller than a few inches). Vascularity is the first big jump plants made after leaving the water. From there, being taller means outcompeting your neighbors and spreading your babies further. When you have that double whammy of more food + more babies, you get a selective pressure for taller that never really goes away. This is why multiple families have species that have arborized and have continuously done so over their evolutionary history. If the niche is empty, something will jump into it, often sooner rather than later (on a deep time scale) which is basically the whole idea of convergent evolution as a whole.


  • Using ER specifically in refence, there are several buffs that you both spend health to apply, and ones that activate at certain health thresholds. If you look up ER non-magic boss 1shots. First one that comes to mind is the seppuku one where you stab yourself.

    Several weapons also play around with healing on hit, so you can keep yourself at low thresholds fairly easily.



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    I wasn’t being specific enough. Cell walls in plants are composed of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. Lignin IS one of the structural polymers that plants produce, and yea, every single vascular plant has and uses lignin to provide structure. Iirc its a polymer produced by every plant, including mosses and other nonvascular plants, it’s just not used to the same extent.



  • Animals are members of kingdom Animalia. One of the unify features of this kingdom is multicellularity. Slime molds are members of the mostly-single-celled protists and they themselves are some of the most complex single celled organisms. Sponges, being very basal animals, are one of the phyla that retains a high degree of regenerative ability that simplicity facilitates while being very much a multicellular organism with all the organization that comes with.






  • Yea, nah, I didn’t misunderstand. You are not describing the normal reaction. Outside the obvious of “too often” it’s pretty unreasonable to think that someone who shares a living space with you can’t invite people into what is also their home.

    If your home MUST be your space as much as you’re saying, you shouldn’t have roommates. The cat metaphor doesn’t work because these are temporary houseguests brought in by a co-equal member of the household who has equal rights to use of the space as you do.