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Rodenthar Drothman
May 14, 2013

I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Xelkelvos posted:

I didn't listen. Amputee porn is weird and seems kinda wrong.

If it's the same amputee porn I'm thinking of, it's the best thing ever. If not, then hey, it could be the worst thing ever.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

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boom boom boom
Jun 28, 2012

by Shine

Rodenthar Drothman posted:

If it's the same amputee porn I'm thinking of, it's the best thing ever.

:yikes:

boom boom boom
Jun 28, 2012

by Shine

Xelkelvos posted:

Amputee porn is weird and seems kinda wrong.

This is also a kinda hosed up thing to say.

Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!
So, uh... How about that last episode?

Excelzior
Jun 24, 2013

not enough amputee porn in it IMO

dullahan is god tier girl

Linnaeus
Jan 2, 2013



haruko is a lamia

The Colonel
Jun 8, 2013


I commute by bike!

Linnaeus posted:



haruko is a lamia

She better be.

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Rodenthar Drothman posted:

If it's the same amputee porn I'm thinking of, it's the best thing ever. If not, then hey, it could be the worst thing ever.

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

Oppa Gangnam Style

Plutonis
Mar 25, 2011

Leaving the Centaur's Worries scanlation team to do amputee porn translations #winning #hellyeah

Ranzear
Jul 25, 2013

Blueberry Pancakes
Aug 18, 2012

Jack in!! MegaMan, Execute!

Suu-n.

Xelkelvos
Dec 19, 2012

boom boom boom posted:

This is also a kinda hosed up thing to say.

It's the fetishization of nubbed appendages or otherwise limbless bodies that makes me uncomfortable.

Command Ant
Aug 9, 2010

I can make you
worth your weight
in gold!

Suu gave Papi the illusion of having arms and wearing a dress, which is basically the exact opposite of amputation porn.

They should hint at amputation porn happening in the next episode, and then just show 30 minutes of Rachnera pointing at her numerous limbs while laughing at the viewer.

Orange DeviI
Nov 9, 2011

by Hand Knit
lmao this page owns

Knorth
Aug 19, 2014

Buglord

killstealing posted:

lmao this page owns

No, I want it to go away.

This is bad and we should go back to talking about cute monsters!

Like these ones:

Darth Windu
Mar 17, 2009

by Smythe
Lets talk about amputee porn, forever

Fellis
Feb 14, 2012

Kid, don't threaten me. There are worse things than death, and uh, I can do all of them.
Is it tuesday yet

Brutal Garcon
Nov 2, 2014



Xelkelvos posted:

I didn't listen.

Now look what you've done

Fooley
Apr 25, 2006

Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shinin'...


I want all of it

Namtab
Feb 22, 2010



Brutal Garcon
Nov 2, 2014



Let's finish the (current) main cast before the next episode:

Comparative anatomy effortpost 6: friendly neighbourhood spider ma'am

Your cat is upside-down. Not if it's rolling on its back as an adorable bear-trap, in that case it has temporarily put itself back in the correct orientation for all reasonable creatures.

You see, animals in general (ignoring things like cnideria and choano-I-can't-spell-this) all develop from a fertilised egg is roughly the same way: with a gut on its dorsal side and a central nervous system nice and protected on its ventral side. These structures really are "the same" across different phyla, whatever their (and our) common ancestor looked like (a worm, give or take) it had these structures and it is from them that modern animals inherit this.

...only the chordates are upside-down. The just-so-story explanation for this is that some ancestral chordate (also a worm, give or take) started swimming upside-down for what I'm sure were perfectly good reasons at the time (some modern shrimp and catfish do this). Over time, the rest of the animal adapted to this odd habit and now we have a whole phylum of seemingly sensible animals built the wrong way up.

Long story sort: if you connect a human head and torso to a spider neck in the "obvious" way the human part ends up facing backwards. That this doesn't happen suggests that either Rachnee's spine and gut cross-over at some point, or (more likely) that she's nothing much like a spider internally at all.*

Now we'll deal with all the stuff you thought this post would be about : biology doesn't scale like that. There, I've said it, can we... oh, fine: from a purely mechanical perspective her legs are too thin for something as heavy as she looks, if they're built anything like an actual spider's. A spider's circulatory and respiratory systems wouldn't scale up that easily either, but it looks like she has a human heart and lungs (and presumably blood?), so whatevs.

Something that's not often pointed out when discussing giant arthropods is growth: having to shed a semi-rigid exoskeleton every so often is probably more of a limit on how big these sorts of things can get than any argument about scaling. You also can't scale up a mouse to get an elephant. That said, how hard are Rachnee's black bits? We haven't really been given a good idea about that. Presumably the legs are pretty strong to hold her up, but that could be due to some internal structure.

Rach's feet come to points, which seems singularly unhelpful for gecko-ing up walls as she seems to. Maybe there's something clever going on with adhesive webbing that we don't see...

The "extra" eyes seem different to the "main" pair. That makes some sense, they're probably mostly for improving her peripheral vision and don't have as much brain dedicated to them.

Uniform pointy teeth aren't very "spidery" (no teeth are...) and are mostly found in things like carnivorous fish and dolphins. What use they are to a creature that spins webs in unclear. Defence? She's probably mostly a carnivore, as she can't chew very well.

Finally, silk. The stuff seems pretty strong, and she produces it much more quickly than I would expect of any natural creature. She must eat a lot of meat (or lentils) to get the back amino acids from which it's likely synthesised.

Waifu plausibility rating: 3/10: secret DARPA waifu project.

*I was also going to mention something about the Proto-/Deuterostome distinction, but I'm not enough of a real zoologist to know whether than means the human bit should also be at the other end.

CommissarMega
Nov 18, 2008

THUNDERDOME LOSER
I would watch My Waifu Is A Bioweapon/My DARPA Black Book Project Can't Be This Cute.

Kwyndig
Sep 23, 2006

Heeeeeey


CommissarMega posted:

I would watch My Waifu Is A Bioweapon/My DARPA Black Book Project Can't Be This Cute.

That would just be a less depressing Saikano though.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Kwyndig posted:

That would just be a less depressing Saikano though.

Given how crappy and hamfisted Saikano's tragedy is, though, an upbeat version still sounds like fertile ground.

Paracelsus
Apr 6, 2009

bless this post ~kya

Dzhay posted:

A spider's circulatory and respiratory systems wouldn't scale up that easily either, but it looks like she has a human heart and lungs (and presumably blood?), so whatevs.
Book lungs contained in the spider bits actually come up in the (inevitable) hot springs chapter.

boom boom boom
Jun 28, 2012

by Shine
Yeah, Rachne has both spider and human respiratory systems, and it's implied that she can sort of switch one off and rely entirely on the other, at least for a little while.

Brutal Garcon
Nov 2, 2014



No new OP, no title change. We are Bee-trayed.

Sakurazuka
Jan 24, 2004

NANI?

Bees is busy working on his eroge

Command Ant
Aug 9, 2010

I can make you
worth your weight
in gold!
Dullahan talks like Ranko from Cinderella Girls. :hb:



Also, I just noticed this episode that Manako has two eyebrows, instead of a monobrow.

Rodenthar Drothman
May 14, 2013

I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Poor Mandragora-chan. She looks so uncomfortable being out of the ground.

Now every time I hear a mandragora scream as it's ripped out of the ground in an anime, all I'll hear is: "Kyaaaaaaaaaa! <3"

Countblanc
Apr 20, 2005

Help a hero out!

Command Ant posted:

Dullahan talks like Ranko from Cinderella Girls. :hb:



Also, I just noticed this episode that Manako has two eyebrows, instead of a monobrow.

Dullahan win

Fellis
Feb 14, 2012

Kid, don't threaten me. There are worse things than death, and uh, I can do all of them.
good episode

everythingWasBees
Jan 9, 2013




Sakurazuka posted:

Bees is busy working on his eroge

Close enough.

Gyra_Solune
Apr 24, 2014

Kyun kyun
Kyun kyun
Watashi no kare wa louse
zombie lady makes me all squeamish

i could not, in fact, sew somebody's boob back on that'd just wig me out for entirely non-undead related purposes. like, even normal-rear end human fingernails make me squirm when things go wrong with them, i couldn't handle someone a few sewing needles away from completely falling apart, so sorry zombina-san you seem like a cool person to hang out with but in general you should try to keep your stuff better attached, would suck for some random dog to run off with your foot

Fooley
Apr 25, 2006

Blue moon of Kentucky keep on shinin'...
I was wondering why they didnt have that scene from another angle, and all I can come up with is its all but saying "there'll be nips in the bluray!!!".

Captain Invictus
Apr 5, 2005

Try reading some manga!


Clever Betty

Gyra_Solune posted:

zombie lady makes me all squeamish

i could not, in fact, sew somebody's boob back on that'd just wig me out for entirely non-undead related purposes. like, even normal-rear end human fingernails make me squirm when things go wrong with them, i couldn't handle someone a few sewing needles away from completely falling apart, so sorry zombina-san you seem like a cool person to hang out with but in general you should try to keep your stuff better attached, would suck for some random dog to run off with your foot
I thought "I thought my stopped heart would start throbbing" was a pretty good zombie gag.

And look up alopecia nails if you want to see what, as far as I know, is an unexplained problem with a hereditary disease mutation. It's weird. I hope mine don't get like some of the worst examples, they look like tree bark.

edit: hahahaha, I love that they have the Kobold girl appearing in the background or in quick scenes. I don't know if they'll actually get to her at all before the show's over(next episode's the last, right?) but if they make another season she'll definitely show up. The very definition of "genki girl"

Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Sep 16, 2015

Rodenthar Drothman
May 14, 2013

I think I will continue
watching this twilight world
as long as time flows.

Captain Invictus posted:

edit: hahahaha, I love that they have the Kobold girl appearing in the background or in quick scenes. I don't know if they'll actually get to her at all before the show's over(next episode's the last, right?) but if they make another season she'll definitely show up. The very definition of "genki girl"

Polt is such a bro.

Smoking Crow
Feb 14, 2012

*laughs at u*

Zombina is best girl

HellCopter
Feb 9, 2012
College Slice
Zombina is weird. Aren't zombies reanimated humans? She's pretty chipper considering she's no longer legally a person.

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Twiddy
May 17, 2008

To the man who loves art for its own sake, it is frequently in its least important and lowliest manifestations that the keenest pleasure is to be derived.

HellCopter posted:

Zombina is weird. Aren't zombies reanimated humans? She's pretty chipper considering she's no longer legally a person.
Woah dude. No reason to get political in this thread.

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