Grasslamb

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🐑 She/Her 🍃 Your friendly and local JRPG enthusiast! 🐑 Sometimes pokes at weird old video games with some jank. Icon Art Made By: https://bsky.app/profile/nuclearhog.farm🍃

King bird-of-paradise 17cm New Guinea and Papuan islands Diet prefers small fruits and berries they pluck from trees, plant nectar, and occasional insects during breeding season at the end of the video this male is trying to mate with a female by showing off its dance moves.

Most Pompeiians lived in multi-story dwellings without kitchens and got their food at thermopolia, essentially taverns with ready-made food and wine. There is a fine fresco and colored plaster lararium - shrine - above the counter at the thermopolium of Lucius Vetutius Placidus.🏺 1/ 📸 me

This beautifully painted lararium - household shrine - is found in the thermopolium of Lucius Vetutius Placidus. Since most Pompeiians lived in multi-story dwellings without kitchens, these hot food and drink establishments were critical, where citizens could purchase sustenance and consume it there, or take it home. This lararium depicts two Lares - protective spirits of the home (and business, it seems) - pouring wine from rhytons; a veiled Genius (protector of the home) in the middle, sacrificing to the gods and holding a cornucopia, symbol of abundance; the god of trade, Mercury, on the left, holding his caduceus and a bag of coins, which would bring success and abundance to the business; and finally the god Dionysus on the right, also a symbol of abundance in this establishment which served wine. 

Notably, stucco is used to create the small shrine, which is in the shape of a temple, including two Corinthian columns and a pediment. Stucco acanthus vines and volutes appear above the temple, and two painted agatha daemons (which appear as crested snakes) are facing a large egg on an altar, below. 

A 3 kg (6.6 lb) hoard of coins was found in one of the terracotta jars set into the counter, probably the last daily profits of the establishment. 

House and thermopolium of Vetutius Placidus, Pompeii (I, 8.8)

I want y'all to exercise some caution when it comes to a lot of these "recomps" of games coming out lately, cause all of them are just... very lazy ai ports, if you can even call it that. One tip is to go to the github page (which pretty much all of them have), and see if Claude is a contributor.

A screenshot of the contributors section of the gen1recomp project, one in particular that is pretending they aren't. A red arrow is pointing at the claude logo.