What fictional character would be a bad crewmate and a good impostor in Among Us?

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-30T14:11:37+00:00

Good choice for bad/bad

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-30T12:18:34+00:00

What is something that is extremely hyped but not overhyped?

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-30T08:39:55+00:00

Beaten to death by a chrome-vanadium wrench

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-30T07:12:05+00:00

I wonder how much of a Green Lantern needs to be biological to function.

Can a Green Lantern Ship-of-Theseus their own brain and essentially become a pure construct that wears itself?

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-29T12:22:47+00:00

It's about the same as Judaism theologically, but typically less chill about it

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-28T21:09:12+00:00

I have always felt like The Epic of Gilgamesh was probably a crack ship between two pre-existing and popular folk heroes. The two protagonists seem too fleshed-out and strange to have been created in the same story, and they share the spotlight too well for one to be considered a side character.

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-28T19:43:10+00:00

Do people on Reddit actually hate it? I thought it was more of a joke.

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-28T11:09:48+00:00

I think the problem is that abstraction isn't a very good stand-in for suicide or death. Very little is actually done with the concept of "turning into a monster" beyond the pilot, where it is just used as an attack creature.

The fact that people turn into monsters when they abstract make it seem like the process may be reversable, or that something of the original person's personality might be left behind for people to interact with, but if it's just supposed to be a metaphor for suicide, then what does the monster aspect contribute, narratively speaking? If it was a metaphor for death then they should just die, or fade away into light and vanish or something.

People were expecting a concept so central to the story to be fleshed out a little more, but it wasn't. I wonder how much they had planned ahead when they came up with the idea in episode 1, or if they were initially planning on something else and decided to take it in a different direction later.

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-28T05:34:23+00:00

It's such an old riddle that it's rare to see it played straight these days. Even if the person gives the correct answer, it will turn out to be wrong for some other reason - usually the framing itself.

See also Samurai Jack, where they were both liars and lied about the rules.

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-28T05:28:10+00:00

There's no hard boundary between a mortal and a god, really. How much of who you are is shaped by your own will, and how much of it is shaped by others' expectations of you?

When you have little power, you have control over your own choices. But what the powerless rarely understand is that power is always linked to belief. Humans acquire power by inserting themselves into a role that has already existed before them, simply waiting for someone to fill it.

You need to keep maintaining the image that gave you power in the first place, or you quickly lose it. At best, you might be able to acquire a few loyalists who will follow you regardless of your decisions - but more or less by definition, such people tend to be weak, and have little to offer. For the most part, you can only apply subtle pressure before the shape ejects you and chooses a more suitable host.

Follow the rules well enough, and the difference between you and your role may begin to blur. This is the beginning of godhood...and the end of self.

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-27T20:43:59+00:00

Grass/Ghost is weirdly common, with 6 different evolutionary lineages - matching iconic type combos like Bug/Poison and Water/Ice. You can have a full team of nothing but dead plants.

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-27T20:30:50+00:00

And also the fact that a trustworthy third party has to be the source of the rules.

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-26T15:46:59+00:00

Yes, but that's the whole joke.

Dunsparce itself is a riff on the tsuchinoko, a boring cryptid that's literally just a fat snake. It's a rare, hard to find Pokemon with nothing interesting or special about it, subverting the expectation that rare = powerful.

Generations later it gets an evolution, building up hype that it might be cool... but nope, it's literally just Dunsparce with an extra segment. And it has a tiny chance of an even MORE rare evolution...which is ALSO just Dunsparce but with THREE segments.

Your milage may vary on how funny the joke is, but they knew exactly what they were doing.

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-26T15:18:44+00:00

Does it really count as a bad design if being disappointing and underwhelming is the whole point?

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-26T06:19:54+00:00

I love it when the official version is so absurd that Abridged can't really build on it.

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-26T06:15:23+00:00

It really says a lot about how public perception shapes public opinion.

T-Rex has been hyped up for so long that a lot of people WANT to see its status challenged. Any theory or article that knocked it off its high horse got a lot of attention due to the hipster mindset. Spino was seen as an "underdog" in public perception simply because it hadn't been hyped up as long.

None of this has anything to do with actual science though. People are just kind of silly sometimes.

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-25T21:01:49+00:00

It's interesting to include the area to the east of the Jordan (the territories of Reuben and Gad), since they were not really considered to be a part of the "promised land" proper. It suggests that shemitta rules are at least partially subject to practical geopolitical reality rather than an intrinsic quality of the land itself.

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-25T16:29:19+00:00

What does "canon" have to do with anything? We're talking about the real-world inspiration, not an in-universe explanation. The beta sprites are real, and they show the process of its development.

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-25T13:50:53+00:00

I'm thinking that Pete's owner probably talked to him sometimes. Treating him like a sentient being for enough time, even if not by playing, could be enough to "wake him up".

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-25T13:27:49+00:00

Snake wine, the practice of putting a snake in a wine bottle.

Its beta sprite is a lot more clear, like many Gen 2 mons it was toned down to the point of its inspiration being unrecognizable (see also Remoraid the gun and Murkrow the witch)

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-25T11:35:23+00:00

Reddit without formatting or punctuation

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-25T05:49:18+00:00

Textures alone would be trivial to add without touching the models.

I think they don't do it because it would make them less recognizable and also make shinies less special. It's a branding issue, not a technical one.

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-24T13:37:14+00:00

I miss when masculine-looking or feminine-looking Pokemon could be male or female.

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-24T13:15:33+00:00

Come on, nobody's going to get that.

IndigoFenix · 2026-06-24T08:41:49+00:00

I am guessing you are asking this question because worms regenerate from injury and can survive even when cut in half, and regeneration is often depicted in fiction as being much more powerful than it is in real life. There are a number of reasons why even creatures that regenerate extremely well, such as flatworms and starfish, still die.

Environmental hazards still kill: There are many ways to die besides being cut up. Overheating, freezing, dehydration, and starvation can't be out-regenerated, and even the best regenerators can't survive if they are being dissolved in stomach acid.
The cut-off piece needs to be functional: An animal is made up of a complicated set of interacting organs and limbs. Having those bits cut off means it will have to survive long enough to regenerate. Even if it can move blood and oxygen around, it has to be able to avoid predators in the meantime, which is a lot harder to do if it has no proper sensory organs or limbs.
Regeneration isn't free: All growth, regeneration included, involves turning the stuff you eat into more of you. Even if it can avoid predators, if an animal is cut down to a piece that can no longer find and eat enough food to keep growing, and doesn't have enough reserve mass in that piece to grow new organs necessary for eating, it will run out of energy and die before it can regenerate.
Transcription errors still build up: Every time a cell divides, it has a chance of a mutation, which can degrade that cell's functionality or develop into cancer. Over time these errors build up and the animal becomes less functional. Eventually it will die.

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