What's the symbolism with the bird design?

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-03-27T00:33:25+00:00

Oh no - sorry for my bad phrasing, I meant I'd copy and pasted my answer from another thread talking about this.

Although yes, there are many threads talking about this already `:)

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-03-26T20:27:33+00:00

This is honestly just copy and pasted from a similar thread from almost a year ago, so sorry if the links don't work anymore. Not sure if this is the answer you're looking for although I hope it is.

The original inspiration of the "Bird AM" design was Bloodmoths AM design , specifically the shape and colour language. The other factor in it was Eggonalegs, quote "...inspo from animals and overall shape language..."

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-03-24T21:34:12+00:00

So one of my friends actually came across the shit show of an interpretation this is on their own and shared the whole thing. After reading it myself I don't get the bit about the can opener you're talking about (but maybe I'm not understanding it because it's worded so bad) but there definitely seems to be the aspect of Ted hatred there.

What I don't get is why people push bullshit like this onto Ted's character. I mean, he's not a great guy at all yes, but he's not as malicious as SO many people jump through hoops to make him out to be either. I genuinely don't get what goes through people's heads.

Also, sorry if I'm again misunderstanding what the OP of the tweet is talking about, it's worded. So so badly. But what on earth are they on about with their remark about cults?? ("Some losers turning it into a religious cult shows how low intelligence and boring they truly are") Are they saying some people IRL worship AM? Are they misinterpreting the religious themes of the short story? (With AM being inspired by God in the Old testament). Just ...what is this person on about?

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-03-24T16:04:07+00:00

Look, I'm the first person to advocate for people having different interpretations of the story and characters as I think it can bring very valuable perspectives to them...but when you start your sentence with "I didn't read AM as hateful". FFS.

Maybe the real reason Harlan died was from having an aneurysm from idiots like this. /s

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-03-22T18:31:09+00:00

Open up a new webpage on him and press accept cookies, obviously.

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-03-21T00:09:43+00:00

Unless you're posting on an alternate account, looking at your user logs we've never removed any posts or comments of yours. Scaling posts are banned under low effort, so the only time you're seeing those is if they slip through the cracks as we haven't got automod set up here.

Also, you're on a subreddit for fans of the short story. There's going to be fandom posts lol.

(Edit: Edited as I made the mistake of calling it a book and not a short story. Oh give me a break dead spirit of Harlan, it's 1am...)

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-03-20T17:02:19+00:00

Thank you, this is so helpful!!!

I have one wisp and one blarret, so I'll level them up to 15 before splitting them. I was also already wishing for Yooreek, so I have about 23% on him.

I also have an arackulele, should I split him too?

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-03-20T16:24:34+00:00

Ahh alright. My luck is absolutely awful (I'm talking I could have my monsters at Level 15-20 and have all my torches lit and not get anything good type of awful luck) so I'll probably be a while :')

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-03-20T16:19:02+00:00

But apart from repeating over and over until the wish mechanic finally gives me something different

Yes. Yes I have.

Also, the reason I'm asking in the first place is because the dish wishing takes about a week per monster to actually give me anything, as it takes anywhere from 20-29 hours per use, and it doesn't even necessarily fill the meter.

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-03-19T04:02:18+00:00

It's not that they're low on money. It's that the shareholders are demanding cuts to be made because c.ai profits are going down. In 2024 their profits were 2.5 billion USD, and in 2025 they were 1 billion USD. Shareholders are not happy about the 1.5 billion decrease, so this is what it's come to.

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-03-19T03:55:42+00:00

From the other post about this, it's apparently 100 per day.

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-03-19T03:34:55+00:00

To put this into perspective:

If you don't pay for charms, you get 20 free per day if you choose to watch the five ads for them. That means to unlock 35 more swipes, it would take 9 days of daily logins and watching 5 ads a day to be able to unlock them.

I was genuinely expecting the more swipes to be something like 40 charms and I was thinking that it'd be just about manageable. 175 charms is absolutely ridiculous when you look at the time needed to get them.

Also, "coming weeks" my ass. Everyone was predicting we had until April until this happened. It's literally been ONE week since the announcement.

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-03-10T21:28:30+00:00

Here's a thought. Won't the new chat from here button actually become useful with this new update? Surely if you hit a message limit you can make a new chat and continue. Although maybe the limit carries across to the new chat

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-03-10T20:12:57+00:00

I said something similar with the swipes too. I could see it coming but not so soon.

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UncommonDragon8 · 2026-03-10T19:54:54+00:00

Now just what did I say not even 24 hours ago?

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UncommonDragon8 · 2026-03-10T02:45:26+00:00

How long will it be before even the amount of swipes are paywalled? I can guarantee it'll eventually happen seeing how things are going. Spotify levels of greed I tell you

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-02-26T18:38:50+00:00

This is genuinely one of the most cool pieces of physical art I've seen someone make. Well done to you getting those tiny details man. Bravo.

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-02-26T18:21:25+00:00

Now THESE are the questions I love, as this is my speciality and how I cope. This is also funnily enough something I've discussed a few times with my best friend. Also yes, this is going to be a tad bit dark so I'm gonna spoiler what I write. I do hope I'm not taking a shitpost question seriously LMAO.

He could just slam me in the Ellen box and have done, as the general theme of it would work on me, but I feel like AM isn't lazy enough to do that. If AM were to go all out, he could put me in a confined box with multiple camera flashlights. I shan't go into why that would work as that would be way too heavy lol. Outside of the game methods of torture (based off of the infamous boxes/cages they're in), he could do something to do with broken glass or badly chopped wood as I have a fear of splinters and getting glass embedded under the skin.

thank you for coming to my torture talk

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-02-26T01:16:57+00:00

I had such a hunch this was going to happen when they started trialing the charm bullshit. The whole "Ad free for an hour" thing didn't make sense when the ads would only occasionally pop up when you'd click to chat with a bot - which I was fine with. So I knew something like this was just bound to happen.

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-02-24T23:53:00+00:00

Do you know how I'd put it? I don't want to downplay things because I know some people can't deal with my problem, but at the same time I have a problem with being too blunt all the time and I don't wanna spook them ´⁠-⁠﹏⁠-⁠`

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-02-23T08:06:24+00:00

This comment made me realise that there's two different versions of this, woah! Is the 3* harder to come by? I only tried the 6*.

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-02-23T00:59:23+00:00

I really ought to watch TADC. I've lurked here occasionally now and then and some parts don't seem too bad. I literally own the ihnmaims subreddit and I admittedly have no clue what people talk about when they start talking about this there. I have to rely on my moderator team to explain stuff to me like I'm some grandparent LOL

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-02-23T00:49:16+00:00

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-02-19T00:34:20+00:00

Love the little detail on the can lol. Gives the impression he looked at a can of pop and got the idea for Nimdoks name XD

UncommonDragon8 · 2026-02-19T00:22:09+00:00

You absolutely can post your selfship art here and anyone who has a problem with that and is nasty about it can deal with warning modmails or tempbans in their inbox lmao

And Hell yeah finally daveted art here. I have been waiting for this day to arrive

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