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Skies of Proteus

went to a new optometrist today wearing my squid facts ‘save our freaks dont mine the deep’ shirt from @sarahmackattack that has a strawberry squid on it. and i wasn’t even thinking about it but the optometrist walked in and he was like ‘oh what does your shirt say’ so i showed him and he was like ‘oh that’s neat!’ and then i thought he might like to know about strawberry squid eyes since they have weird eyes and he is an optometrist and all. so i was like ‘yeah it’s actually a real kind of squid called a strawberry squid, their eyes are really cool because they have one big yellow-green one and one small blue one’ and he kind of gasped and went ‘oh my god that’s so interesting i wonder why they have that. do you know what their retina composition is like?’ and i watched as he minimized my chart on the computer and started looking up images of strawberry squid and then he googled ‘strawberry squid retina composition’ and he was like ‘sorry we’ll get to your eye exam in a moment i just really want to find out’ LMAO 10/10 optometrist experience will be returning

irkedisaac

theres SO many threads on steam abt not being able to kill the predators or have a gun or whatever and its just the worst media illiteracy ever. you are a clone-self working for a space megacorporation who absolutely controls your access to materials and technology. you think they'd give you weapons? ballistic ones, with bullets in them? to their debt slaves?

more importantly, the game could not be clearer: you don't belong here. you are a monkey flapping around in an ocean filled to the brim with things who were born to hunt and kill there. accept your place in that world, and hide under a rock. like smart prey.

alexriesart

A creature I designed for Subnautica 2: the Hycean!

Inspired by pelagic snails like heteropods and siphonophores.

emberglowfox

fish world…. 2!!

jyviiegames

THIS IS THE BEST GAME EVER MADE THE CREATURES CHANGE THEIR BEHAVIOUR TOWARDS YOU BASED ON THE FACT YOURE IN A VEHICLE. THEY DONT JUST BLINDLY ATTACK YOU!>?!?!?/

so the nibbler mango's just kind of come up to you and stare at you, even call out to their pack mates are like "yep can't do anything about this". that is so awesome that they genuinely communicate to the pack. like i noticed it bc of being hunted but even in this circumstance. the bigger mango also recognises it can't attack you in the tadpole and just leaves you alone

the hammerhead is hilarious though. I wonder if each one has a different behaviour? because one of them had rammed my tadpole when i was out of it (maybe it depend on if youre inside of it or not?) but another one was OBSESSED with me it was following me like crazy. so i decided to finally stand still and stare at it. and it just stared back at me. and then it would swim up and rub against the tadpole. and then go back and stare at it again. and then rub up against it. rinse and repeat... i think it was trying to impress the tadpole thinking it was a potential mate ahhahaha that is hilarious and adorable im so in love with this game and constantly more and more impressed with the creature ai!!! wow!!!

paper-mario-wiki

one of my favorite things that's happened during my playthrough of Subnautica 2 so far:

this fish, the Marrowbreach, is labelled to be (and upon basic observation, appears to be) very dangerous and aggressive and scary, so a lot of the time spent interacting them is specifically spent avoiding, or trying to escape them. they have a very specific, telegraphed attack where they launch towards the player in a super scary way.

however. i noticed that despite their scary appearance and loud growling noise, they don't actually do much damage when they attack you. and so i thought to myself "am i categorizing this unfamiliar social activity as aggression? am i being reductive towards how this creature actually operates? am i sure it's not just playing with me?"

and i was right.

decrepit-shelf

I have become rather fond of the marrowbreach <3

coniphibian

i know it's really not that serious but it annoys me when i see people completely miss the whole coexisting and becoming a part of an ecosystem part of subnautica, and then get mad when unknown worlds doubles down on not being able to kill things (with the exception of food and removing diseases or parasites, of course)

like. how did you get the impression that you're supposed to kill anything that gets in your way. did we play the same game

i'm so so glad they're just completely removing the player's ability to damage and kill creatures in subnautica 2 in favor of more interesting nonviolent methods (outside of the previously mentioned things) but i fear people who completely miss the point and view the game as something it most definitely is not will be very annoying about it

to quote bart torgal: “and what’s the point in surviving here if we have to kill everything that makes it so wonderful?”

storm-of-feathers

LIKE if you love the water slug

REBLOG if you love the water slug

IGNORE if you hate good things like water slugs

psalidodont

i think i fucked up

mycroftrh

Far worse, in my opinion, than the famous “he wouldn’t fucking say that” is “he WOULD fucking say that, as part of his facade, but you seem to think he would mean it genuinely”