• @aesthelete
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    201 month ago

    I like to describe the aliens that attack you in factorio as environmentalists.

    • @Retrograde
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      61 month ago

      They hate that fresh, artisanal air

    • Dragon Rider (drag)
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      21 month ago

      Pollution actually makes the bugs stronger. Maybe they like pollution and want to go eat it all up.

      • @[email protected]
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        30 days ago

        They get stronger because they mutate to fight back

        I never meant evolution, or to spark a debate about it. They fucking get stronger the more poison there is, maybe something whacky happens to them

        • Dragon Rider (drag)
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          01 month ago

          That’s not how evolution works. A species evolves to get stronger in battle if the weak ones die in battle. A species evolves stronger lungs if the weak ones die of lung cancer. Dying of lung cancer doesn’t make a species better fighters.

          • Pollution makes their species stronger; this doesn’t imply an individual preference.

            Idiots walking off cliffs doesn’t make the survivors like cliffs; it teaches them to avoid them.

            That said, evolution can be a real crap shoot, and you never know what sort of perverse effects you’ll get: like us loving sugar so much we eat ourselves into diabetes.

          • lad
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            11 month ago

            Drag is correct, but it’s fantasy evolution we’re talking about

            • Dragon Rider (drag)
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              11 month ago

              Maybe. Or maybe they like the pollution. Maybe with better resource availability, they’re able to spend more energy on growing bigger and stronger without threatening survival.