• Miller@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Does it have to get up after four hours sleep to work all day and go to IKEA at the weekend or does it just mess around it’s whole life in a warm ocean eating seafood and thinking gentle echinoid thoughts.

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    Whenever I start feeling sorry for myself about hardships in life I remind myself that I’m lucky that life exists, that I got to be born at all, that I was born as part of the most intelligent species on Earth and I was born in a country where I have every opportunity to have a good life.

    I could’ve been an ant or I could’ve been nothing at all.

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    4 days ago

    You have no fear. There’d be no point to it. All your defenses are passive. Fear is meant to inspire sudden action. You’re incapable of that, so your kind discarded that emotion millennia ago.

    While holding that exquisite level of peace in your tiny mind, a fisherman plucks you out of the water so some rich dude can eat your gonads.

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    4 days ago

    Ever see the underside of these on a fishtank side?

    I did once at a fish pet store.

    I remember it looking like a hundred tiny suction cups.

    But I can’t seem to find a good photo. This was the best I could find. Check out a real one if you get a chance.

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    5 days ago

    I think I will be okay because I wouldn’t have a nervous system that can think at that level, porbably

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    Apparantly these are a local delicatesse in some regions…

    So we caught one with the mindset to see if we could barbecue it and when we placed it on the table it started to move and wiggle its needles.

    We originally thought it was similar to fungi, technically not plant but pretty much a plant… we quickly brought it back to the ocean.

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      Yeah I am told urchin (that’s what we’re looking at, right?) is delicious. Still haven’t eaten one, so I can’t die yet (got a life goal to eat one of everything and climb to the literal top of the food chain. When I go, I plan to be composted so they can grow beans out of me or something and then whoever eats my beans becomes the top of the food chain by transitive property of having technically eaten me, who ate one of everything and you are what you eat so by eating beans made out of me look I’ve given this a fair amount of thought and usually people just smile and nod to get me to shut up about cannibalbeanism trust me it works)

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      4 days ago

      …I’m literally about to travel there for the first time…wish me luck

      Edit: Made it! What an ending man! Buying me a soundtrack FORESURE

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          It’s the symbol representing a pivotal place called “The eye of the universe” in the game “The Outer Wilds”

          If you enjoy story and/or exploration games, it is probably the greatest of its kind because it does some really unique things.

          It is an incredible experience that explores using the player’s knowledge and understanding of the game world as a core mechanic and as such it is utterly impossible to re-experience by playing again unless you manage to get amnesia I suppose.

          Ironically, the core mechanic makes the community of its players including content creators VERY careful about discussing it too much to avoid spoilers which can really destroy the experience so you just sorta have to go in blind or risk ruining it by investigating.

          Screen shots and short clips will make it look like a walking simulator but this is incorrect. It is much more advanced than most things that look similar from the outside including things like a physics based flight model and a physically simulated solar system with incredibly unique micro-planets.

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            I know. I tried it.

            I got stuck on the

            water spout planet and couldn’t figure out where to go or what to do to get the ship out of the trees and just got frustrated and gave up because it was already sort of a slog to get even there in the first place, too.

            I’m not the only one; a friend of mine is big into story and mechanics games but it just didn’t click for him, either. Some of us are just inevitably in the minority.

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              Ah that’s a bummer. That planet was definitely a combination of the more obtuse puzzles in the game with very scattered hints. I know I visited it a ton of times before giving up and working to complete other planets first

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            I started playing 4 days ago, thanks to the community I have successfully avoided spoilers for years. I’m a few hours off. Very excited to finally sit down and take my final flight