Botany and body parts

[Roomba]

On other servers I play (TG and Bay for instance), botany could help other departments out and in some cases, even serve as a makeshift substitute for them. For instance, they could grow material plants to provide ore, grow medicinal plants to heal the crew and grow edible plants to feed the crew when the chef was unavailable.

They could even grow weaponized plants, such as explosive plants which would spray a cloud of chemicals into the air upon impact or barbed plants which could severely injure people if used as a weapon. I used these to feed people by combining explosive plants with nutritious ones, and security appreciated the explosive/barbed combination for crowd control. Traitors would alter their plans simply to avoid botany, and botany was often the most heavily guarded area on the station as a result.

You could splice genes into plants for additional effect. Splicing kudzu genes into plants would allow them to grow anywhere, even on floors and walls, while splicing thorny plant genes would cause the plants to inject people with their chemicals when they walked past them. A thorny medical plant would heal (and drug) people who walked past, while a thorny nutritional plant would feed them - a gesture the crew appreciated, as the lazy chef was neglecting his duties to play videogames in the arcade.

Even cleaned up and with the less essential bits trimmed off, it's still a long rambling anecdote with no real point. I presume the unspoken conclusion was 'it would be nice if these features were introduced into Goonstation botany' which, as I mentioned earlier, is the broader point I agree with.

Form and presentation is important because people aren't obligated to read your arguments, especially people on this site. Regardless of how you feel about the legibility of your arguments, it's clear that the general public disagrees. If you don't make the minimum effort to make your posts readable, no one will bother to invest the time and effort to read them, and you might as well be shouting into the void for all the good it does.