Grounded 2's big Toxic Tangle update just about knocked me out of my chair. It wasn't the new maps that surprised me, though they're larger and crammed with more stuff to discover than you'd expect from the small area they occupy. And it wasn't from seeing how well Obsidian and Eidos Montreal fulfilled their promise of making these new regions fun and rewarding to explore.

It's because I ran into this.

I forgot Obsidian planned to add a snake at some point, and snakes terrify me. Maybe that fear is a primal thing. Or it might stem from early childhood in Florida, where elementary school lessons included life skills like identifying which of the state's many snakes could kill you and where they lived. (The answers are "a lot of them" and "basically everywhere.")

The garter snake doesn't number among the list of deadly reptiles. But I'd only ever seen........

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