The simulation keeps updating and spawning things in. Unfortunately, I suspect we are in the game with declining sales 😞

The deadleaf spider went unknown until 2015 but that's cause it was so good at being a dead leaf. No matter how vast the terrain or how inhospitable someone had to have come across that cow deer, perhaps we should say it was only unknown to registry until 1992. 

The locals knew about it, it just wasn't scientifically documented.

Oh yeah, I just reread your comment and musta missed that part about scientifically documented. 

The heat is brutal, not gonna lie, in the summer it gets to like 45 Celsius/113 F. You can literally fry an egg on the pavement, people have done it just to prove a point.

Wildlife's honestly not that scary really. For instance, we do have huge huntsman spiders, but those are timid and harmless, while it's not common to actually encounter the deadly ones.

We actually have no large land predators bigger than a dingo, so you can camp without having to worry about being eaten. As an Aussie, stuff like bears in America/Asia/Europe seems way scarier than just big bugs haha

The news over here (not in English) reported that it lives high up in trees, and really, really doesn't want to come down, if I recall correctly, so it's just really hard to run into it. I guess it doesn't help it lives in remote locations.

Wow. I'm sure North Americans would, at least somewhat, disagree, but as a Finn, bears aren't actually that scary. At least the ones in Finland generally tend to avoid humans, so the biggest risk is running into one without it noticing, or getting between one and its cub somehow. A common advise is making enough noise well in advance so bears know you're close, so they know to get away. No, I don't think we generally make noise all the time while in nature. Sometimes people do get hurt though, but it's rare.

If you ask me, the scariest animals in Finland are the moose (because crashing into one with a car can be fatal, and it's not terribly uncommon) and ticks (because of the diseases they carry). Our predators just aren't all that dangerous. I don't think the predator situation differs much elsewhere in Europe either, but I'm also not that familiar with it, so I could be wrong. Much of the rest of the world probably contains actually dangerous predators though, so I guess we're pretty lucky in this regard in Europe (or have killed them off a long time ago perhaps?).

I watched the movie adaption of this (a really fun campy B-movie), which to my suprise featured scenes from the game in the ending credits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vG-Ir5KTmbY

I have such a fond memories of playing the game (apart from being THE game that I had to buy memory expansion for Amiga for it to work at all), so when I heard there's a movie, expecting it to be done in manner of such movies from the 50s, which were direct influence on the game, I had high hopes...well, until I saw the trailer.

I just...couldn't...

Well, they put the movie in the modern time and definitely don't take themself seriously. You could argue this is in the canon of the game, because there is the comet that landed decades ago and the military extracted alien DNA to splice with ants. So the story of the game could happen and decades later the story of the movie. I am not sure if a movie in the way of old B-movies but taking itself seriously would work though, people and times are differently today than in the past, expectations have changed. So making it a fun and silly movie was a direction that they took instead.

Oh, I'd have no problem if it was a bit fun and silly, I just wanted original feel as if it was as if made in 50s - think something like Tim Burton's "Ed Wood"...maybe sprinkled with a bits of Anderson's "Asteroid City" for a bit more modern take...yeah, I know, I know, I'm being completely unrealistic here...;)