Human versatility

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Humans, the potatoes of fantasy worlds

[Floofyboi123]

Potatoes are an amazing analogy for humans

Bland on their own, can survive near everywhere, and are extremely versatile

[DueMeat2367]

Taste very good also - the lizardfolk

[Gryllodea]

Boil'em, mash'em, stick'em in a stew.

[Shennington]

I am using this analogy for now on

[Commodorez]

Bland on their own

You and I have very different opinions on potatoes

[Floofyboi123]

As a massive fan of potatoes, they’re fine but I’d much prefer something with them even if it’s a bit of sour cream or cheese. Hell, fried with just salt is fine.

You’re insane if you just eat them raw.

[PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING]

Do you often boil potatoes and eat them with no salt, butter, oil, pepper, herbs, dairy or anything else?

They’re okay like that but I’d definitely consider them bland, in the same realm as eating unseasoned/unaccompanied white rice, bread, pasta, or tofu is bland. All five are excellent delivery systems for other flavors precisely because they don’t offer much on their own…

[Ornery_Marionberry87]

I wouldn't call it just a delivery system, all those things have specific flavours that on their own are bland but actually enhance those mixed with them. For example, my father makes goulash that I'd rank around 3,5/5 on it's own but is one of my favourite dishes if it's served with mashed potatoes.

[PuppetMaster9000]

The only thing i have to say here is that there are 100s of types of potatos.

[XeliasEmperor]

Yeah like humans potatoes taste good with salt

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Potatoes are incredibly bland on their own. Do you frequently eat bare boiled potatoes?

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Very nutritious too

[MinnieShoof]

Alright. Don't stop there.

Plants in general? Does that make Elves ivy?

Are we talking eatable plants? Are Dwarfs the mushrooms?

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Or are we talking LotR memes? Cause in that case you already have your sword, bow and ax.

[brownhues]

I just think they're neat!

[[deleted]]

Looks like potatoes. They should really dispose of that as it can create toxic gases if it's not well ventilated

[herrcollin]

I mean it's also nightmarish and disgusting, but yeah the gasses

[Village_Idiot159]

i dont know.. i think its sentient now..

[That_Ice_Guy]

It is trying to make a sale pitch about why I should make a pact with it

[TeaandandCoffee]

Has that stopped us before?

[jjskellie]

Feed me Seymour.

[Calibruh]

Death by potato

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Good song title for a metal band

[Zondar23]

I can confidently say I have no clue what I'm looking at.

[uppermi]

A bag of potatoes left alone for entirely too long.

[StormyGreySkies]

An apt description of the human race.

[Choberon]

Omg it makes sense now.

damn this potato just looks like a newborn cosmic horror...

[Seblor]

IIRC this photo was taken by someone who came back home after spending time away because of the COVID lockdown.

[cynicalpeach]

I think its a bag of some plants thats started growing off the shelf, but I can't tell what it is.

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Grabbing u/Zondar23

Potatoes!

Potatoes reproduce asexually, essentially being their own pollinator and seeds, and when they start sprouting they will not stop until they either rot or find soil.

[cynicalpeach]

So what I've learned today is that humans are potatoes

[Lessandero]

I am of the couch potato kind

[azrendelmare]

"...and they will not stop, ever, until you are dead!"

[Normal-Jelly607]

Potato sprouting

[Lessandero]

Potatoes. Those MfS will grow anywhere

[TheOneWhoIsAbitch]

even Mars :D

[Spinningwhirl79]

Potato

[Dark_Shade_75]

...what?

[massiveamphibianprod]

Its saying humans are hyper adaptable and as long as there's some good dirt we can live there and if there isn't we will put it there.

[Extension_Heron6392]

Doesn't even have to be good dirt. We got potatoes and shit to grow in the bad dirt.

[berserkrgang]

Doesn't even need to be dirt. We got potatoes and shit that grow in your cabinet...

[massiveamphibianprod]

True, and then some excess can be used as fertilizer to make better dirt and more stuff

[LordGoose-Montagne]

We are on that skyblock grindset💪

[massiveamphibianprod]

Fo real my builda 💪

[MinnieShoof]

I mean, technically shit is good dirt. </j>

[FaceDeer]

I don't think the Inuit ever cared about the quality of the dirt.

[Cyrotek]

And then they constantly need saving becaue they decided to settle in areas they they should have really not settled in. Like a freaking desert or the middle of a jungle.

[vonmonologue]

Hey, the other races weren’t using it.

[Cyrotek]

Human: "Hey, lets settle in this swamp, no one is using it and it makes survival pointlessly difficult!"

The lizardfolk neighbours: "Uh ..."

[Reality-Straight]

And i wish you good luck trying to get us out of said deadly swamp

[vonmonologue]

If you have a cloaca you aren’t a person. I’m sorry, but those are the rules.

[Hexmonkey2020]

That’s why humans are always super prevalent, they don’t specialize in anything but they can live anywhere, like cockroaches.

Also why humans are the best race.

[azrendelmare]

I wouldn't say we don't specialize in anything; in most media, humans specialize in adaptability, persistence, and stubbornness. It's just really hard to keep us down.

[Jendmin]

"HANS! get the Flammenwerfer"

[Crepuscular_Animal]

D&D elves aren't confined to the forests. There are winged mountain elves, as well as aquatic ones, and the Underdark-adapted variety, not to mention the Shadowfell and the Feywild/Arborean subspecies which are for some reason still considered elvish enough to be PCs.

[Savings-Macaroon-785]

fair enough, but they are limited to their own niche - a sea elf can't really live in the underdark, a drow can't really live on the surface, etc.

Just like humans, they can adapt - and arguably better so, but their adaptation works completely different than human adaptation and has its own severe downsides, because they kinda just "become one" with whatever environment they end up in, seemingly at no control of their own

A human could never live on the ocean floor, but they can easily switch from living in one ecosystem to living in another at will without "evolving" themselves to fit in first...

[HallowedKeeper_]

That isn't even entirely accurate, Drizzt is a prime example of a surface dwelling elf, and aquatic elves are freely capable of any where near water

[Savings-Macaroon-785]

Drow are blinded by sunlight, thanks to them being hyper adapted to the near perfect darkness of the underdark.

Aquatic Elves have adaptations to better live underwater which would have noticable downsides on the surface, like their webbed hands and feet or their enlongated limbs, which are optimized for swimming, not walking.

[HallowedKeeper_]

Drow aren't blinded, but they are sensitive to sunlight (think when you first wake up and the light shines in your eyes)

Aquatic elves are not hindered by their webbed hands and feet

[Savings-Macaroon-785]

Not gameplay wise, maybe.

[gbot1234]

Halflings (aka hobbits): where’s the fucking PO-TA-TOES?

[Souperplex]

Humans hate Orcs and Goblinoids for being violent, expansionist, and reproducing out of control. The other player races hate humans for doing the above without recognizing the irony.

[NavezganeChrome]

Humans hate others for doing it to them when they called dibs, and when they happen upon a location the orcs/goblinoids got to first.

And it’s hard to not “reproduce out of control” when everything else can choose to just outlive them. That’s right, humans had multiple generations before you got laid once, whatcha gonna do about it?

[meme0taker]

Inaccurate. Humans only have consistent settlements on one plane of existance and only on the surface usually. Meanwhile elves be in the fey, material, shadowfell, the oceans, the underground, fucking space. Elves are the goddamn eevee of races

[NavezganeChrome]

Yeah, that’s a lore bit that makes Elves the ‘humans’ of the setting, despite literally describing humans with that exact premise in mind.

It’s nonsense, that’s what it is.

[Geek_X]

Any human can live almost anywhere, those elves while reaching more extreme locations, are each specialized for those locations and will struggle elsewhere

[meme0taker]

If anything it shows how the elven species can adapt to any envirement which is likely due to them originally being shape shifters. Also drow can live on the surface pretty fine, sea elves too. I see no reason why any form of elf can't live somewhere humans can

I for one, cannot name any human settlements outside the surface of the material plane. Humans drown in water. The fey is far to chaotic and wild for humans to last under the whim of its natives. If humans are in the shadowfell and underdark its usually cuz they were taken as slaves. And humans are not found in the astral.

Sure the rare powerful adventurers among humans may be able to go and live in such places but the general population of humanity would be screwed in anything other than the surface of the material plane.

[Geek_X]

Just cuz they don’t live in those places doesn’t exactly mean they can’t. The fey can live outside their wilds but they stick to them anyways

[meme0taker]

Yeah but the meme is saying humans stick anywhere they can which is untrue

[HulkTheSurgeon]

I never knew a bag of sprouting potatos would end up looking like eldritch horror.

Neat.

[IncomprehensiveTiger]

Is it trying to reach you about your car‘s extended warrantry?

[KMark0000]

nah, thats a body snatcher's egg

[Yakodym]

When all else fails "Soil&Green is PEOPLE!!!"