If fungi were mobile, they would be predatory

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Paras, paras….

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Never noticed Parasect is blind and has no pupils, makes sense because it's now fully evolved for life in a pitch-black cave.

 

[Cats]

posting this every time a Mushroom Opportunity presents itself

 

[Abbadon's Gate]

It sounded like the mold from RE7 and 8 too

True but I'm pretty sure what he described is literally what happens to cause TLOU in the first game.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Acknowledge the fungi enemy, destroy the fungi enemy (hat tip to @DJ Grelle)

 

[Cats]

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Only if you try to eat them.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

Then they would be called Fungoes.

Fundingoes

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

Acknowledge the fungi enemy, destroy the fungi enemy (hat tip to @DJ Grelle)

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@DJ Grelle You mean like this?
(My donut OC steal AI art.)

 

[Ho-oh]

Any reasonable person should be terrified of mushroom for the possible potential it brings. I read that mushroom article too (OP brings it up) and all I can think about is them parasiting us, though I think I got my stuff mixed up.

 

[UnsufficentBoobage]

Not reading this thread, but fuckton of plants are predatory while mostly immobile, what's stopping supposedly clever mushrooms, the French?

 

[Barry Williams]

One of the funniest things I can remember, long before The Last of Us was released and popularized the "cordyceps spreading to humans" bit, was that I was in a group chat with some friends and I brought up how I don't like fungi because of how it absolutely does not conform to our general understanding of life on this planet so much that it's just in its own kingdom taxonomically. And how we apparently just like, eat it? As if it were something that was meant to be consumed, knowing how fucked up that life form is. I've always had this irrational fear of some kind of fungal parasite and as soon as I brought that up to the group chat one by one everyone else was like "holy shit me too".

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Would they have reality-warping powers, like something painted red goes faster because they believe it does? Wwould they talk in some British accent and be rather warlike?

 

[DJ Grelle]

@DJ Grelle You mean like this?
(My donut OC steal AI art.)
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I had a more nurglite idea of it all but that looks like the intermediate stages.
The beginning stages are just skin and foot and hair fungi in their nasty dreadlocks and unkempt clothes.

 

[Joy Depression]

There's a fuckton of small creatures who would gladly eat us if they were bigger than us, your pet cat probably fantasies about it.

 

[Positron]

They already are

Fungi are already ensnaring nematodes with constricting rings.