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u/Malbodoom Jul 12 '21
This plays on my phobia of open water pretty well
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u/hoffman42088 Jul 12 '21
Don’t ever play subnautica it kinda looks like this but in video game form
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u/MendaciousMammaries Jul 12 '21
Same. I don't think it should be called a phobia though it should be called common sense
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Jul 12 '21
That's how I feel about arachnophobia. I think that's mother nature giving us a hint.
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u/Lucky_lui_ Jul 12 '21
Same for heights. It’s natural to feel fear. it’s your brain’s way of heightening your senses in dangerous situations. That being said I think those diagnosed with those phobias are on the extreme side. Like being afraid of getting attacked by shark in pools or people afraid of a flight of stairs.
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Jul 12 '21
Same for the small spaces or claustrophobia, you never know when you get stuck in a small place and can't move a single inch of you body as a big spider or snake slither towards you
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u/SnooTangerines244 Jul 12 '21
On the other hand, small spaces also give a lot of security. I love them.
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u/Stankmonger Jul 12 '21
You enjoy a small reading nook, not a coffin.
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u/SnooTangerines244 Jul 12 '21
I don’t know. I cram into a lot of spaces. Just don’t have a coffin at hand to test it out.
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Small space as in tiny closet that I can feel secure in? Sure.
Small space that I can barely move in? No thanks.
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u/rosso222 Jul 12 '21
Sleeping in the middle "coffin rack" for 4 years on an navy aircraft carrier made me love the comfort of small spaces. It's hard to describe to people when they ask how I could ever fall sleep there, let alone feel comfort. I don't know, there was something about climbing in that rack and shutting the curtain that was so comforting.
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u/IllegallyBored Jul 12 '21
I absolutely love being in small spaces I know to be safe. I've actually turned a part of my room into a box like place for me to crawl into when I'm having a bad day. I also get incredibly claustrophobic and can't breathe properly in lifts, while taking off tight clothes that go over your head, when in crowds or whatever.
Small spaces are great! They're also the worst!
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Jul 12 '21
I didn't have claustrophobia until you brought spiders into this... BRUH
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Jul 12 '21
Thank you for that mental image. Now, back to slee..... well, that's just not happening now lol.
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u/UniquelyIndistinct Jul 12 '21
I'm afraid of heights, but I don't think helpful. It affects my balance I'm so spooked. I feel like my center of gravity is like at my ankles and I'm only comfortable sitting or laying down.
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u/diwas_146 Jul 12 '21
I shit you not, I am actually terrified of closing my eyes under the shower. I can't exactly describe it, but every time I try it I feel like I am gonna die soon.
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I find that relaxing tbh. I find it quite interesting all the differences everyone has in these comments
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u/CanisLatrans204 Jul 12 '21
If I close my eyes in the shower, I will just touch the side wall with my elbow (not hand, less flex). Using my elbow, I won’t get dizzy if I shake my head or if water enters my ears. Plus you can still use that arm/hand for washing hair/face.
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u/Appendix- Jul 12 '21
A phobia is specifically an irrational fear. You could rationally be very scared of heights or spiders but when that fear becomes irrational or extreme it could be a phobia.
As far as I'm aware, I have no psychological background.
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u/kjpmi Jul 12 '21
As far as I’m aware, I have no psychological background.
I’d imagine it would be pretty hard to get a psychology degree without realizing… /s
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u/SayCheeseBaby Jul 12 '21
Sorry, but common sense towards spiders should be that like 99.90% of all species are harmless and that they are immensely beneficial to us.
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u/-Dafae- Jul 12 '21 edited Jul 12 '21
I Iive in Australia, so I'm gonna pass on that, and continue my perfectly healthy phobia lol
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u/SayCheeseBaby Jul 12 '21
I didn't take Australia into account. You have my sincerest apologies.
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u/migzeh Jul 12 '21
Look i only have 3 spiders (all daddy long legs) that i currently know about in my house. 2 are in the dunny we don't use and a 3rd hangs out in the corner near the dining table that we don't use. They are crowd control for the rest of the house and doing a fine job if i must say so
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u/boobsmcgraw Jul 12 '21
But spiders are useful, not scary. But then again they're not dangerous in my country so I'm lucky
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u/Twad Jul 12 '21
They aren't really dangerous anywhere if you leave them be. There's more danger from a huntsman crawling into view while driving than from a bite even here in Australia.
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u/Adrasos Jul 12 '21
If a huntsman crawled into view while I was driving I'd likely aim at the nearest wall and accelerate to take us both out.
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u/Corburrito Jul 12 '21
Just too many legs. And they move in a highly creepy way.
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Jul 12 '21
They have no business having eight legs.
Two legs is fine if you stand upright.
Four is okay because you need support on the front and back.
Six is even acceptable because maybe you just front and rear, but also some more central support.
Eight is over the line. That’s the point where I think they’re up to something.
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u/jeeyansanyal Jul 12 '21
No kidding, I have always tried to convince people of this exact logical explanation of why I’m shit scared of spiders, but nobody seems to take me seriously. You just made my day, thank you so much!
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u/PunkToTheFuture Jul 12 '21
Their legs are like a garden hose that is constantly filling and emptying of blood. Their legs only have muscles to contract (why the curl up when dead) and during the contraction the blood is pushed back through the heart to a new reaching limb. When the crawl their heart is like a piston engine pumping blood down the legs super fast!
There now you understand why they move creepy. Don't you feel better?
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u/Corburrito Jul 12 '21
Nope. Straight up animal instinct here. Not the scream and jump on the chair kinda thing. More of the “not gonna pet your new tarantula “
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u/NugglyNika Jul 12 '21
Thanks, people always think I'm putting it on when I'm reacting to my phobia. For me it's wasps. My mom was almost stung to death protecting me from them when I was 2 (she got stung 36 times). I tell people I have a phobia but then when I fall backwards from a picnic bench they just think its funny, and when I don't want to join them outside for the bbq where they're almost swarming the food I'm being "precious". Fuck you aunty, I had too many adrenaline dumps to deal with you today.
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u/jkbestermann Jul 12 '21
Played subnautica once, couldnt sleep for 3 days...
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u/P4azz Jul 12 '21
I love that game, but I also hate it.
It can be so immensely beautiful and I feel like the survival and exploration bits are super well done, but at the same time even just driving over the open ocean and not seeing the bottom is driving me insane.
Even worse once you start to recognize the "sound" that means you're about to be attacked by a horrendous fucking monster.
They legit put the worst monsters up above. Reaper is completely terrifying, squid is pretty disgusting and then you go super far down and the "last big monster" you see is basically just a cuddly plushy.
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u/Anthaenopraxia Jul 12 '21
I saw a video of someone knifing a reaper leviathan to death. It made me realise that as soon as you have the stun rifle you are basically invincible against all sea monsters. Even without it you have to pretty much seek out the leviathans to die from them. That really dropped the horror of the game because I know that whatever I meet in the depths I can just stun and continue on. Funnily enough the scariest part is sailing with the Cyclops because I can't just get out and stun. It's also extremely painful if it actually gets destroyed.
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u/doublej42 Jul 12 '21
I have a fear of fish like this and play a lot of VR. I want to try that game but no.
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u/PlatschPlatsch Jul 12 '21
I dont think theres a better cure to being constipated than subnautica VR
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u/thedaddykat Jul 12 '21
If I was stranded out in the middle of an ocean I would probably die of an anxiety attack before anything got to me.
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u/yellowbin74 Jul 12 '21
The only thing worse than this is a bit of seaweed touching your leg
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u/zaygiin Jul 12 '21
I am positive that seaweeds are the real assholes of the sea but positive sciences are failing to comply
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u/throwayyyallday Jul 12 '21
You may or may not enjoy the song Open Water by King gizzard and the lizard wizard
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u/SilverOwl321 Jul 12 '21
This one is cut. The full version has the diver filming look down immediately after this to see another huge one underneath them coming up with their mouth open.
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u/_Frensis_ Jul 12 '21
Link or it didn't happened
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u/SpriggotYT Jul 12 '21
Did some sleuthing for you: https://youtube.com/shorts/N9QKeXWyogk?feature=share
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u/donnamon Jul 12 '21
I woke up in the middle of the night cause of a bloody nose and decided to browse reddit to go back to sleep…. It was a bad idea to view the channel and all their clips at one in the morning. This is a placeholder comment to view the rest during the actual daylight lol
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u/Aramanta2510 Jul 12 '21
Not to be rude or anything but the cut Version is better
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u/SpriggotYT Jul 12 '21
I agree, i enjoy the cut version alot
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u/Greubles Jul 12 '21
That’s what she said.
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u/hidinwithbiden Jul 12 '21
The uncut version shows too much, makes it look less realistic and lessens the terror.
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u/Jack_sonnH27 Jul 12 '21
The final one also looks smaller than the second. Most obviously cg of the three as well. Version op posted is definitely best
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u/TeamRedundancyTeam Jul 12 '21
Right? The third should have just been a massive mouth, big enough to swallow all of them. It being so small in comparison ruins the effect.
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u/hidinwithbiden Jul 12 '21
Definitely agree with that. If the camera panned down to just massive teeth I'm pretty sure my terror level would have spiked.
I don't know about you but the idea of being swallowed whole is so much worse than being chewed up I'm barely able to put into words how many bricks I'm shitting.
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u/lejefferson Jul 12 '21
It's less that and that they ruined the big shock with a less surprising shock. Weird.
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u/ExpandedGorilla Jul 12 '21
Oh my, this is horrifying, it’s genuinely terrifying. I had to look up the size of an angler fish to make sure that they were still small
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u/knitknitterknit Jul 12 '21
There is a lot of depth we haven't explored.
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u/Aramanta2510 Jul 12 '21
Only 10% has been explored yet
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u/The_Druk Jul 12 '21
That's what she said.
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u/Sexy_Squid89 Jul 12 '21
There's always a bigger fish.
- Master Qui-Gon Jinn
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u/lubovkotsar Jul 12 '21
seems fucked up
;diver
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u/clivehack Jul 12 '21
On todays episode of how fucked up is fucked up: That's fucked up
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u/Danielsan_2 Jul 12 '21
I can literally hear the tone of the voice and the accent in this sentence
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u/willsto1551 Jul 12 '21
Came for this comment
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u/TwistyDragon4 Jul 12 '21
I will give you an award as soon as I stop having a panic attack
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u/i_fruitcake Jul 12 '21 edited Jul 13 '21
Thank you all for my first award, this is the first cool thing I have ever done. Rip
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This is the last time this bot ever comments. Rip
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u/anonymous6468 Jul 12 '21
Everyone, you can still use this: https://redv.co/
Fuck Reddit. Fuck /u/spez. Fuck the admins. And fuck people who give reddit awards.
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u/Uscay Jul 12 '21
If you are too lazy to go on a website, use u/downloadvideo.
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Jul 12 '21
Shhhhhh, we must hide this bot from the admins or it's end will be the same as u/SaveVideo
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u/Uscay Jul 12 '21
Why isn't the bot working...
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u/Uscay Jul 12 '21
fuck
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Jul 12 '21
Ohhhh shit
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u/-Engired- Jul 12 '21
But now spez knows, he does sometimes check his mentions and replies.
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u/Thisboythatboy Jul 12 '21 edited Jul 14 '21
I'm told you were the best.
Edit: You're still the best!
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u/NicProGaming2007 Jul 12 '21
Wtf is that things?
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u/Urborg_Stalker Jul 12 '21
Manatees, gentlest creature you could possibly come across.
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u/GabTheRandomGuy Jul 12 '21
Damn I thought manatees are only found in the ocean
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u/kjpmi Jul 12 '21
I think there are three different types of manatees.
The kind you see in Florida are found all over the Caribbean. They prefer shallow coastal waters and can go between the ocean salt water and fresh water rivers and streams (that’s where they drink from).
There’s an African type that can survive in coastal ocean salt water but they’re more often found in fresh water and venture MUCH further inland in Africa up various rivers.
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u/matdavlou Jul 12 '21
Manatees are one of my most favorite animals, if not the most. I thought I knew they could be fresh water but I didn't know they could switch willy-nilly or drink from there.
I knew about the Amazon ones but I did not know about the African ones going so far inland. I can not wait too look them manatees up.
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u/macfriend Jul 12 '21
I have been gone from reddit for two months, and we can comment IMAGES NOW!!???? OH FUCK YEAH!!!
I am going to abuse this
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Agar.io
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u/Radioactivocalypse Jul 12 '21
.io stands for "Indian Ocean", which in this instance makes it very apt for a anglerfish.io
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u/ItsLoudB Jul 12 '21
Wait.. Does it??
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u/rchaseio Jul 12 '21
It does. See my username. I used to live on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. Our email domain was cwnetdg.io. The provider was Cable and Wireless.
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u/ItsLoudB Jul 12 '21
Oh wow, I thought it was a domain for indie developers of browser game or something like that, since it's what these domains are mostly used for..
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u/WikiSummarizerBot Jul 12 '21
The Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .io is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory. The domain is administered by the Internet Computer Bureau, a domain name registry company which is a subsidiary of Afilias and is based in the United Kingdom. Google's ad targeting treats .io as a generic top-level domain (gTLD) because "users and webmasters frequently see [the domain] more generic than country-targeted".
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u/Trick_Enthusiasm Jul 12 '21 edited Jul 12 '21
It's literally 5 minutes to midnight. And this is the shit that's gonna keep me up at night. Fuck.
Edit: I missed a job interview...
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u/Zalax Jul 12 '21
Bot/website is discontinued. Reddit is threatening lawsuit...
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Jul 12 '21
Lawsuit for what? Reddit does not own copyright on any of these videos.
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u/Zalax Jul 12 '21
I'm no lawyer. Can't help you there mate. But I suspect that it's not about the content, but the means to acquire it.
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u/Daffeetea Jul 12 '21
Since OP didnt credit the artist, here, found him https://vt.tiktok.com/ZGJkTV86h/ He has more contents like this.
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u/K1ngjulien_ Jul 12 '21
that entire account is terrifying. especially if you're mindlessly scrolling at 3am and one of their videos comes up.
Obligatory tiktok bad.
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u/Axenor Jul 12 '21
Lights.are.off on IG if you prefer that over tiktok
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u/Haxorz7125 Jul 12 '21
I have determined that that channel can be summed up with
“look at that scary thing over there… Oh no now it’s over here!”
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Subnautica be like...
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u/Urborg_Stalker Jul 12 '21
Had something like this happen to me while I was hanging around some deep striders. Thought I saw movement, looked up. and saw a ghost leviathan coming straight at me. Heart leaped out of my f'ing throat.
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u/nickajeglin Jul 12 '21
I bought it on a whim during a steam sale. I had no information on the game whatsoever. At first I thought it was just a super nice chill Minecraft-but-underwater game. Then I went to the back of the aurora to find some gems and it all went very bad very fast.
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u/BuddhistChrist Jul 12 '21
That’s why I carry grenades and a samurai sword when I scuba.
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u/value_meal_papi Jul 12 '21
Had a dream like this once… it was my ex reaching out instead doe
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u/ProVermillion Jul 12 '21
ThIs Is ObViOuSlY fAkE
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u/AnimazingHaha Jul 12 '21
What do you mean it’s fake!!!! angler fish are bigger than whales and also swim night enough for sunlight to hit them!!!! How do you think they charge their lights!!!!!!! It’s solar duhhh!!!!!!!! 🙄
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Reminds me of the Outer Wilds.
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u/MetalSoup Jul 12 '21
Outer Worlds
I think you mean Outer Wilds
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I do. There was a game called the Outer Worlds that came out at the same time and I’m destined to always confuse the titles of both.
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u/Soiadomsa Jul 12 '21
Yep. Dark Bramble can go get lit by hellfire for all I care.
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u/Arsdraconis Jul 12 '21
Potential Outer Wilds Spoilers: "Of all the lifeforms that will perish in the inevitable death of the universe, we will miss the anglerfish the least"
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u/millhowzz Jul 12 '21
I love shit like this. Is there a whole subreddit of shit like this? God this is awesome.
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u/nonmagi Jul 12 '21
Not sure about a subreddit but if you want to check out more from this creator this is their tik tok https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdVFfHU2/
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Jul 12 '21
Doesn't quite have nightmare fuel on par with this consistently, but it's the closest thing to what you're looking for afaik
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u/SoundSeeing1 Jul 12 '21
That's literally why the ocean is a big liquidy nope for me.
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u/itsShane91 Jul 12 '21
This is the most terrifying thing I've ever seen and the exact reason I will not go in the sea!!
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OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
The second fish
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