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"Coughing up clams" is a horrifying mental image.

Dude, he knows it.

No question here - just wanted to thank you for your continuing involvement with and support of the nice folks over at Cloudboat Armada who do the Indie Games for Good Marathon. You're a cool addition to the group there! ^_^

Dude, I dated one of a pair of identical twins in high school for three years. They were pretty identical, even for identical twins, so a lot of people could only keep which one was which straight by knowing which was my girlfriend.

We used to fuck with people all the time. My shtick was when I'd see the two of them talking to a group of my friends, and I'd walk over, put my arm around the wrong one, and kiss her on the cheek. They'd play it cool for a couple minutes while we watched everyone in the group think "Wait, shit, I thought I finally had this figured out." Good times, good times.

My cursory internet searching on the little guys indicates that it probably was chasing his shadow, not him. The sciencey name for 'em is "Solifugid" - "Soli" like Sol, the sun, and "fugid" like "fugitive." They flee the sun. Apparently giving the impression of "chasing" humans by trying to stay in their shadows is a pretty common thing.