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  • Someone has a grudge against emus.
    Emu description: A large flightless bird with beady eyes on its ugly face. With its bad attitude, it is the jerk of the natural world.
  • In the mid-game, it is quite possible for raiders to invade a sleeping colony, get shot to pieces by turrets or traps, and flee- without even waking anybody.
  • Rim insults are lame.
    [Alice] compared [Bob] to an anteater.
    • Said insults can also be used as pick-up lines, and succeed.
  • If you really go overboard with batteries, and the dreaded "Zzzt..." event appears, an extra line appears in the text:
    That really is a huge explosion. Wow.
  • In the Royalty DLC, the quest to join the Empire involves saving a fleeing noble from a manhunting animal. Said animal is small and otherwise non-threatening, like a chinchilla or a squirrel. Even better, if the game is set to Peaceful difficulty, the "manhunter" is a normal, non-hostile variety. The letter announcing its arrival even acknowledges this.
  • The descriptions for art pieces can be very bizarre, given their randomly generated nature. Who wouldn't want to have a sculpture of two anteaters fighting surrounded by twelve dentists?
  • With Biotech installed, one way for children to improve their skills is through lessons given by older pawns. These lessons cover a random skill the teacher is good at, which regularly results in 3-year-olds being lectured on topics like astronavigation, social engineering and seduction, unarmed melee techniques, or how to properly aim and maintain a minigun or rocket launcher. Even better, it actually works, with the kid usually gaining at least one level in the corresponding skill per lesson.
  • Sometimes, doctors doing surgery can get things catastrophically wrong, especially if you're not watching them and they pop some recreational drugs before opening up the patient. There's something equally horrifying and hilarious about seeing a colonist dying on the table and their prosthetic leg installed where their heart or head is supposed to be.

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