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The Signal (mander.xyz)

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[-] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 195 points 2 years ago

[-] applebusch@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago

Human is endoskeleton optimized crab. Arthropod crab is exoskeleton optimized crab.

[-] bulwark@lemmy.world 124 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Speak for your self.

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 100 points 2 years ago

anyone with extensive use of kitchen tongs has a primordial understanding of our clicky-clack fates

[-] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 33 points 2 years ago

It's true. It's so satisfying to click those tongs, how can we NOT turn into crab?

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

reincarnation + carcinisation = clickyclackclack

[-] turnipjs@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

reincarcinisation (clickity clack, crusty comrade)

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

[-] osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org 81 points 2 years ago

You say we're not crabs, but what do you call car culture and the main battle tank.

We're Hermit crabs!

[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

We’re cosplaying as crabs. We are no crabs.

[-] cybervseas@lemmy.world 73 points 2 years ago

For reference, just in case you're actually a crab and have been living under a rock: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 63 points 2 years ago

Meanwhile the crabs on earth: "yo wtf??"

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

Hey when they can build radio antennas then they can talk to the aliens. Until then they can go play at the beach.

[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Throw radios in the ocean?

[-] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

There's no shortage of batteries to power them.

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Which crabs do we choose to represent us?

Snow crabs? King crabs? The voice actor for Mr Krabs?

[-] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Who is "us"? You got a crab in your pocket?

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[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 35 points 2 years ago

Suddenly another voice breaks through the silence:

man fighting off crabs

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Ded-a-chek?

[-] Mannimarco@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Dad-a-chum?

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Nice try, you two, but us crabs ain't falling for your lobstroganda

edit: spelling of lobstroganda

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 3 points 2 years ago

lobstroganda

Wouldn't it be lobstraganda?

Or lasagna, I dunno. Just hurry up and become a crab already!?

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

I had lobstraganda at first but amended to lobstroganda due to the quoted sources being lobstrosities.

Well, I wasn't 100% sure of how King had spelled it so I searched duck duck go for "ded-a-chek" and the Dark Tower Wiki entry for Lobstrosities topped the list. Sound out of deference to the source material: lobstroganda.

Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh "lobstrosities" for sure ~(become~ ~a~ ~crab)~

But I'm firm on the "lobstraganda" ~(I~ ~don't~ ~care~ ~just~ ~hurry~ ~up~ ~and~ ~become~ ~a~ ~crab~ ~already!~ - it just makes too much sense, for us ~~crabs~~ uh... gotta go, bye!

~life~ ~as~ ~a~ ~crab~ ~is~ ~awesome~ ~-~ ~are~ ~you~ ~really~ ~really~ ~sure~ ~that~ ~you~ ~don't~ ~want~ ~to~ ~join~ ~us~ ~today~ ~already?~

Edit: it took far too much effort to make every single word small like that, so I totally lost track of what I was doing. So replace "crab" with... whatever you want:-).

[-] GeorgimusPrime@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

Are you sure it wasn't "Are you horses yet"?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorry_to_Bother_You

[-] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 16 points 2 years ago

I just read the synopsis. Wtf did in just read?

[-] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

It's an excellent movie, I would recommend watching it, even if the synopsis is insane.

[-] dditty@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

It is an excellent movie, especially if you go into watching it knowing it's a satire. I went in blind and was totally blindsided

[-] SlippiHUD@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Same, still loved it. The big reveal completely derailed my brain for a solid minute before I started cackling like a madman.

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago

So I saw your comment, went to read the synopsis, and was nodding along like "Yeah, this good, what seemed weird?"...and then hit the line "Looking for the bathroom, Cash discovers a shackled half-horse, half-human hybrid who begs him for help."

...wtf?

Of course now I have to watch it

[-] expr@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

A synopsis for a great fucking movie.

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[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 2 years ago

Now that's how a short story is written!

[-] immortal_crab@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 2 years ago

[-] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 23 points 2 years ago

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[-] davidgro@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

Could happen any time.

[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Crabs do evolve fairly often.

[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago

Oh god oh fuck someone out in the black taught them to read

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Learning an alien language is what computers and experts are for. It's not easy, but it should be doable. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OpoWJbo7oM