A brain covered in knives does kinda seem like a sleeper S tier build
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That guy with the mouth 30cm away from the face doesn't care.
Add a giant eye and you have the zerg overmind.
A brain covered in knives does kinda seem like a sleeper S tier build
Ok but now we have taxes and seasonal depression, so, like, who really won that game?
PRE-Cambrian my dude. The Cambrian explosion of life is associated with conventional body plans.
Everyone was doing weird shit in peaceful mode, just vibing and experimenting, and then that FUCKER on the bottom right turned on PvP. Being festooned with knives is how they said "I'm tryna get these nutrients, don't @ me."
wtf Cambrian
Bunch of blood type: blue-looking mfs.
Basically what my creations in Spore looked like.
tbf there are some pretty weird looking creatures in the ocean even now. Like, would the giant deep sea Isopods really look that out of place next to stuff like Anomalocaris? We still have plenty of spiky worm shaped things living on the bottom of the ocean. And for the softer side of animals, would things like siphonophores really look that out of place in a lineup of Cambrian fauna, if placed there and shown to someone who wouldnt have the knowledge to recognize what they actually were?
God was overwhelmed with the editor and just kept hitting "randomize".
"Why did I make the undo button a flood? They're underwater!"
Cambrian seems like heavens design team didnt have an established meta and were just having fun with it. Once the horse design got approved the engineering team got lazy and used it as the base for everything.
I think the technical term for animals with that horse design is Chordates
Chordata is the third-largest phylum of the animal kingdom (behind only the protostomal phyla Arthropoda and Mollusca) and is also one of the most ancient taxons.
Seems legit.
Fuck yeah anomalocaris
I didn't see anyone make puns about it sounding like Kamala Harris. 😤
These are all immensely powerful evolutions. We got the Knifey Tortoiseshell, Cheval De Frisetipede, Sucky Long Mouth Humpback Trilobite and Sabertooth Flatworm. All the greats!
Leave them be, everyone goes through an experimental phase. They're just working themselves out. Give them time.
To be fair bottom right ended up an apex predator for a while
Don't mean to make this all serious but sure you could talk about how god or a designer was just playing around or you could think about how the environment and the selective pressures were different during this period of the planet's history.
This befote the META became all about efficientely killing everything while wearing armor. This the ptelapsarian world before the spinal catastrophe.
After that point, you can't just "be yourself", you'll just get ganked. So everyone started putting all their point in attack and defense, variety massively got reduced and everyone became a servitor of Moloch while existing only so that the mindless universe could suffer the pain of its own entropy.
Guess what I'm saying is we're in the bad place!!
So what you're saying is that power creep and meta chasing ruined the build creativity in the Earth server?
Yes, if you're not some kind of toothy armored worm then you're food. This makes most self directed playstyles unviable on the only known server
Us much more sensible cephalopods came about at the end of that era and you can see why we kicked those weirdos out of the biosphere.
The first image are still around tho.
Sure, if you want to call that a crinoid. I call it a genetic mistake.
The "mistake" was successful...
Sure, if you want to call that success.
Who's the ocean creature here, you or me?
The Crinoid. For sure longer than you. 😛
Yeah whatever. You know what I have to say to the crinoids? "Okay, Cabrian Boomer."
All of us had ancestors hunted by one or more of those
I wouldn't as much as want to be in the same sea as one of these.
That kind of attitude is what got us into this mess in the first place!
A time where the ways werent as set as now, biologically speaking.
look like my last creatures from the spore
They look like organs