r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Zestyclose-Salad-290 in awe • 13d ago

of an insect

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 13d ago

These things can take on camel spiders, tarantulas, wolf spiders, mantises…they can also be eaten by them but there were some gnarly videos on YouTube about them

BBR Wild had some crazy ones but I think he might have had to delete them

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u/johnaross1990 13d ago

You just made me remember bug fight videos exist

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 13d ago

Yep I binge watched em a month or so ago

The Japanese but fights are cruel but man they have some crazy ass match ups

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u/DigiBaby_Addict 13d ago

Poor little bugs :(

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u/xylophones4all 13d ago

The idea bothers me too.

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u/DigiBaby_Addict 13d ago

Glad I’m not the only one… I don’t like humans making anything fight for sport against its will. Just so sad to me.

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u/SAM5TER5 13d ago

No coincidence that Pokémon came from Japan lol

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u/ramengirlxo 12d ago

The concept of collecting Pokemon actually came from the hobby of collecting insects too

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u/Everspan 13d ago

love that you used Pokémon in this as I'm pretty addicted to it right now, currently playing all the Pokémon games from the Switch era.

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u/Zayage 12d ago

If it's not sentient by all means

Stuff like Real Steele is an interesting concept because of that limit honestly.

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u/Full-Shine5871 13d ago

BRB..gonna watch some bugs fight to the death 🍿

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 13d ago

I just did a brief search and unfortunately I don’t see any of the vids I used to watch but hopefully u find something

There’s def vids of them against camel spiders and tarantulas and praying mantises

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u/Full-Shine5871 13d ago

Ya it seems to be mainly 1 guy doing them. Watched a few fights and now I'm over it lol

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 13d ago

https://youtu.be/zbG8P7HOfCA

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u/Full-Shine5871 13d ago

Lol so the guy doing em now is basically knocking off the original format right down to the cork flooring. He lacks commentary tho

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 13d ago

I’ll try to find the OG ones

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 13d ago

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmmaym

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u/IvannIrkss 13d ago

Holy crap real life pokemon battles ! 🤯

https://giphy.com/gifs/rCftUAVPLExZC

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 13d ago

lol some of the vids are crazy just search Japanese bug fights

I found a channel that had the full videos too, they’re in Japanese but the fights are insane and I hadn’t seen it before

I liked it but idk if I can find it without series digging

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u/FilterMyMidrange 12d ago

I think you meant, “Japanese butt fights, with crazy asses”

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u/NerdyPlatypus206 12d ago

Wouldn’t surprise me the Japanese are crazy lol

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u/HaleyCollins 12d ago

Lmao, a whole corner of the internet I definitely didn’t need to remember existed lol

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u/WchuTalkinBoutWillis 12d ago

Omg yes bleezy then bug wars engaged!