*makes the noise of a catcalling porcupine
You could never be born a sea urchin. They dont even breed, they just squirt gametes in to the water and hope for the best.
Could be worse. You could be born whatever that thing is, but without the protective spikes.
An Immense World by Ed Yong talks about this.
Based

…I’m literally about to travel there for the first time…wish me luck
I don’t get it.
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.
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
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.
How asshole bosses and landlords get reincarnated? (and have those crabs mentioned in the thread)
And their genitals are yummy: “uni”
Just about to say this. Luckily they’re 90% genital! More nut per ball if you will.
If I am correct about my cosmological theory.
We will all have a turn.
Both eating and being eaten, or being both the urchin genital and the sushi chef?
If I come back I wanna be spike
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 an exquisite level of peace in your tiny mind, a fisherman plucks you out of the water so some rich dude can eat your gonads.
Wait is that all I needed to do to get some rich dude to eat part of my gonad collection?
Wait… Part?
Imagine looking like a demonstration of magnets with iron shavings
I wouldn’t know anything else so I wouldn’t care.
Imagine you’re the first person to actually get reincarnated, and you return as this with all knowledge of your previous life.
Meaning that I just need to chill and feed from particles from the water instead of having to slave myself off for wage so a billionaire could dream of going Mars while trying to destroy the very planet we currently live. Don’t know what to think, but in Spike’s place I’d think that we actually need to do is a revolution!
pure fucking bliss
don’t threaten me with a good time
Envy is a sin dude! Who wouldn’t want to look this metal and NOT pay rent?
You can do both today










