I would like to know if that blob on the horizon is something worth investigating. Must I huff and puff all the way there to find that it's just an oddly shaped rock and not an Osseus? I humbly accept the in-game restrictions of in-game technology (my dear geriatric labrador can [p***] farther than the genetic sampler's secondary fire-mode) but why can't I have a pair of binoculars? It shouldn't be a problem for the rendering engine?
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