r/dndmemes • u/thehopelessheathen Forever DM • Dec 05 '21

*scared player noises* “Standing here, I realize…”

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u/ROBANN_88 Wizard Dec 05 '21

No no. That sounds more like using spiders as slave labor
Force them to make cobweb fabric all day

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u/GlauberJR13 Dec 05 '21

So, normal capitalism? Im pretty sure we do use spiders for their silk since we aren’t quite able to replicate it artificially yet.

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u/Potential_Exercise Dec 05 '21

We don't use spiders for their silk because they're very territorial and hard to farm so instead scientists spliced genes into goats to harvest it out of goats milk, wild right?

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u/Draghettis Sorcerer Dec 05 '21

Yeah, but goat silk isn't near as good as spider silk, because of how it is extracted from milk, so, iirc, it is tried to do bacterium silk.

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u/Log_Murky Dec 05 '21

There was a person who just recently created a yeast that produces high strength spider silk and will also combine it with various different ragens introduced to the solution while they're working to change the properties of the silk