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[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago

This is cute. XD

[–] texture@lemmy.world 4 points 21 hours ago

since i joined lemmy again a month ago, i have to say that these light hearted comics are the best content that i wasnt at all expecting.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago

I had a morning like this. Everybody around me was being hostile toward me and each other for seemingly no reason at all. The first two people I woke up to were hostile to me. And it continued throughout the day. It was ridiculous. I'm glad I could make the decision about noon to retreat into my own world and shut everybody else out for the rest of the day.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

When you see plants fighting over light, you understand that even harmless beings like plants can be utterly vicious towards each other.

[–] GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Unless they're connected to the wood-wide-web. I didn't make this up, look it up.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 24 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I feel the last panel is missing something it stops me understanding

[–] Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 55 points 1 day ago (2 children)

At the right side of the panel there is a little leaf poking out implying that sun hogging bastard is moving out of his damned side

[–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Oh, my brain was reading the middle panel as door, so it wasn't making sense.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 4 points 1 day ago

Ah thank you, I missed that

[–] texture@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

i thought the middle bottom panel was a door and all three bottom panels were in a hallway or something, then i just looked at it longer and figured it out.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 20 hours ago

Yeah I've just got little nicks etc on my screen protector especially on the right hand side so tiny details are just deleted by my brain haha

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

Why is someone downvoting this comment? It's an honest comment.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Reminds me of the idea that intelligence might express itself in ways that we cannot perceive, because it's so slow. Like Rock trolls taking a year to speak a sentence and a century to have this little conversation. Ents are a little faster I guess.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You should read "Vaster than Empires, and More Slow" by Ursula K Leguin, which is basically this. Also "Shroud", and "Alien Clay" by Adrian Tchaikovsky have somewhat related ideas, but are full-blown examinations of the concepts of utterly alien intelligence. Honestly, you'd probably like most of Tchaikovsky's work. He does a lot with "alternative manifestations of sapience".

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I love Le Guin! I just started re-reading her opus; but since this is a (short) story I might have skipped it the first time. I also aded some Tschaikowski to my e-reader, if I like that I will try to remember this.

full-blown examinations of the concepts of utterly alien intelligence.

In this context I will always recommend Stanislaw Lem's "Eden", although it has little to do with differences in speed.

[–] wolframhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, if you're looking to get into Tchaikovsky, I'd recommend either Children of Time (if you like sci-fi) or The City of Last Chances (if you like fantasy). His work is always based in his experience as a zoologist, so his environments and animals are second-to-none (even the series of which City of Last Chances is a part contains well-considered biology whenever "monsters" from "the grove" are described)

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 21 hours ago

Children of Time is the trilogy that awaits my attention.

[–] nerfherder@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I laughed way to hard at this

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Just the tip