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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Sometimes I wonder if this is a deathworld by planetary standards. Like we go to other planets and its super chill.

Something like the first part this: https://youtu.be/x1aZEz8BQiU?ol0IyB2BmDW4VBov

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Perhaps we have not yet found the animals that they have had to kill in the past to survive....

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The emus didnt only start a war with humans u know.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Fucking warmongering dinosaur cunts...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I love Australia but I've always wondered what exactly it is about Australia that made evolution go "yes, let's make this place like Master Mode in BOTW where everything is OP, wants to kill you, and can one-shot you"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I mean yeah it's one-shot land but I'd feel more comfortable in the Australian bush than in other territories, a lot of these creatures can be avoided with a little bit of knowledge and caution, but there's no large predators

Most large creatures here can beat the shit out of you but they wouldn't unless you threatened them.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago

It's really more of an easy mode with a couple of super unlucky bullshit gameovers scattered around than a master mode. Look at how many builds have overtaken the Australian meta since their introduction: dogs, cats (okay, they're an apex predator everywhere), foxes, rabbits, cane toads, mice, rats, deer, camels, scottish thistles, horses… I could go on.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Castle doctrine but it's mother nature and also sometimes your house

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Kill? Why not paralyze or severely wound? Slow enough that you can kill with I don't know a pointed stick, rock or gravity? Why make the venom do all the dirty work?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Waste of points, could spent it into INT or HP. Fucking glass cannon species.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Cone snails represent

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Maybe it softens up their meat all nice and tender

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They understood perfectly well, too bad that they have no idea what an elephant is so they got venom that could kill anything, just in case

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

They understood perfectly well, too bad that they have no idea what an elephant is so they got venom that could kill anything, just in case

Their ancestors knew. And they solved that problem.

[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Death held out a hand. I WANT, he said, A BOOK ABOUT THE DANGEROUS CREATURES OF FOURECKS-

Albert looked up and dived for cover, receiving only mild bruising because he had the foresight to curl into a ball.

After a while Death, his voice a little muffled, said: ALBERT, I WOULD BE SO GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD GIVE ME A HAND HERE.

Albert scrambled up and pulled at some of the huge volumes, finally dislodging enough of them for his master to clamber free.

HMM... Death picked up a book at random and read the cover. "DANGEROUS MAMMALS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, BIRDS, FISH, JELLYFISH, INSECTS, SPIDERS, CRUSTACEANS, GRASSES, TREES, MOSSES, AND LICHENS OF TERROR INCOGNITA," he read. His gaze moved down the spine. VOLUME 29C, he added. OH. PART THREE, I SEE.

He glanced up at the listening shelves. POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT?

They waited.

IT WOULD APPEAR THAT-

"No, wait master. Here it comes."

Albert pointed to something white zigzagging lazily through the air. Finally Death reached up an caught the single sheet of paper.

He read it carefully and then turned it over briefly just in case anything was written on the other side.

"May I?" said Albert. Death handed him the paper.

"'Some of the sheep,'" Albert read aloud. "Oh, well. Maybe a week at the seaside'd be better, then."

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Never enough Discworld

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I mean if the venom you stumble into is too strong, would you bother weakening it?

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