I wouldn’t know anything else so I wouldn’t care.
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Imagine you're the first person to actually get reincarnated, and you return as this with all knowledge of your previous life.
pure fucking bliss
Envy is a sin dude! Who wouldn't want to look this metal and NOT pay rent?
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.
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.
An Immense World by Ed Yong talks about this.
Interesting, thanks for the recommendation; I'd never heard of this before.
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
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.
How asshole bosses and landlords get reincarnated? (and have those crabs mentioned in the thread)
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.
More like I must consume everything thoughts
Until it gets torn apart and eaten alive by something else, literally dying by getting chewed to death - pretty much the way of nature.
In the end the world chews us all up and we die screaming and alone in our heads. Have a nice Sunday evening.
Noo😨
I'm unintentionally the social version of that 
I'll do you one better:
Imagine you're born and you're a crab who parasitizes the rectum of one of these.
Imagine you're a human who pays top dollar to consume its gonads.
ahem
I could go look this up, but frankly, it's your job now: elaborate, please.
The Japanese delicacy "uni" is urchin gonads
I'll be honest, I like it. It has a soft texture, nice mild buttery flavour, and can be incorporated into various dishes though is commonly eaten on its own as sashimi.
there are some scifi biological spaceships, they look cool and amazing.
but using then is akin to being those rectal parasites.
Gives a whole new meaning to the expression 'eat shit'
Isn't that just the original meaning?
Damn it, I mean.. I guess you're probably right lol, but I felt like I was being clever there for a few minutes :'-/
Could be worse. You could be born whatever that thing is, but without the protective spikes.
Oh, that's kiki
Definitely not bouba
I think I will be okay because I wouldn't have a nervous system that can think at that level, porbably
I don't appreciate having my photo posted without my permission, Isaac.
Not having to go to work.
I'd like some of that sweet, sweet, urchin purpose for existence.
I wonder how many tube feet I have? One... Two...three...
Hedgehogs Dilemma.
Chunsoft
You're gonna carry that weight