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Mushrooms (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 81 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Also, you cannot kill them in a way that matters

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

It's over, I have the low ground

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

The shaggy mane mushrooms like growing on a hillside in my yard and not at the bottom!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

They ARE the ground.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Break mycelium in half, now is just two mycelium. Mycelium win every time.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Mycelium > yourcelium

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Why not ourcelium, comrade

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

Throw it into the sun

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Then the sun develops a fungal infection, and don't scratch that itchy rash, it'll only make it worse.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

thank you for the gold reference. completely forgot about that post

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Burning them seems to kill them. As does fungicide.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Reminds me: In the roguelike game Cataclysm DDA, there's fungus monsters. Basically once they're on the map, the best strategy was to just run and keep running until they were out of the game's "simulation bubble."

They would spread fungal colonies uncontrollably, creating fungal towers, spawning more spores, and fungal versions of monsters, which would spread more spores...

You could hack away at them or burn them sure, but all of them? Unlikely. You could also get infected with spores! They'd rapidly take over the entire game basically lol ... Dunno if that's been nerfed now.

Spores are freaky. Really freaky...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

40k Orcs work like that. It leaves open the question if Orc burgers are vegan or not.