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Their name is Spike.
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*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.
Imagine you're born and you're this
Imagine looking like a demonstration of magnets with iron shavings
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.
I'd name them Fluffles
Latchkum!
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
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?
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.
That nature thing sounds bad. Can we get rid of it?
In the end the world chews us all up and we die screaming and alone in our heads. Have a nice Sunday evening.
Oh I won't be alone. My farts got the police called on me when I was alive how bad do you think they will be when I die
Noo😨
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.
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)
I'll do you one better:
Imagine you're born and you're a crab who parasitizes the rectum of one of these.
Wait this is important I am not a carb biologism but I would like to successfully imitate one someday. Which of the five crab families is this one from
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.
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.
Yep, I love it too.
(I really miss living near Little Tokyo)
That's a good idea, thanks dude. I am going shopping at ours next week
Excellent!
The Japanese delicacy "uni" is urchin gonads
there are some scifi biological spaceships, they look cool and amazing.
but using then is akin to being those rectal parasites.
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Envy is a sin dude! Who wouldn't want to look this metal and NOT pay rent?
You can do both today
Oh, that's kiki
Definitely not bouba
Based
I'm unintentionally the social version of that 
....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
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 don't appreciate having my photo posted without my permission, Isaac.
I think I will be okay because I wouldn't have a nervous system that can think at that level, porbably
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?
Both the urchin and chef literally. We don't need no cosmic horror stories, all our actions are nullified, and rendered the same. There is no way to escape eternal pain and tragedy.
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