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Ultimate Evolution (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (3 children)

This makes no sense to me.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How do they keep doing this

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

They don't have their finger on the pulse of the nerd zeitgeist, they are the zeitgeist.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

That's the second time in ten minutes that I bumped into a relevant xkcd this morning!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (3 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

tl;dr: Crabs are the perfect life form and we all yearn to evolve into them.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

... a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan

Applies to crustaceans only. :(

So it'd be like talking about lifes "many attempts at making a cow" and showing a bunch of bull like animals with horns.

Similar lifeforms, once put in a similar environment for a long period of time, tend to develop similar features.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I love the joke, but technically carcinisation is only about non-crab crustaceans and their divergent evolution into crab-like forms, and it’s not referring to the evolution of other organisms at all

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What’s a charader? and what did it win?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Oh, Charmander is a Pokémon from the videogame Pokémon. In the video the titular animals evolve into different, stronger animals.

They fight battles and after winning enough of them it triggers their evolution.

The joke is that instead of evolving as they do in the videogame, they instead follow the meme concept of carcinisation and all evolved into a crab shaped Pokémon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Why are they all attacking the kid?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's a bit of a horror movie trope, where the protagonist is an 'other' and slowly swarmed by a group of identical or similar enough beings.

The implication being that their difference is not wanted and/or that they know too much about the situation which could be a threat, this further ties into the carcinisation joke because everything else has become a crab except for this one child.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Got it, thanks for the explanation!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You seriously never in any way came into contact with the pokemon series? It’s been huge with kids in the late 90s / 2000s and is still a massive franchise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I know what Pokémon is, but I’m not familiar with any of the animals at all.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I know what that is, I don’t know what a charander is and what it won.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh, it's a reference from the original generation of the Pokemon games. Charmander is one of three pokemon the player can choose between at the start of the gameto take on the adventure. Pokemon "evolve" after winning enough battles against other pokemon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Ahh! Got it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This feels like an other XKCD comic

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Awww. That’s kind of endearing!