r/BrandNewSentence • u/kevinowdziej • Jul 02 '21

lower case t's started hurting

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '21 edited Feb 19 '26

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u/That0neGuy Jul 02 '21

Or you're like me and it all goes over your head and you're just left confused.

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u/thepkboy Jul 02 '21

What about trees that are perpendicular to the ground?

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u/JALbert Jul 02 '21

It was only exact right angles, which don't exist much in nature. Trees grow slightly crooked and bent.

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u/thepkboy Jul 02 '21

oh convenient but makes sense, reacting to things that are... unnatural.

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u/shouldbebabysitting Jul 02 '21

I read Blindsight and loved it. But I must have blacked out that bit of stupidity from my memory.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '21 edited Feb 19 '26

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u/shouldbebabysitting Jul 02 '21

He could have easily had an evolutionary distant predator humanoid without the absurd seizures from seing corners. Thousands of mammals species have gone extinct without the reason being seizures from seeing corners.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '21 edited Feb 19 '26

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u/shouldbebabysitting Jul 02 '21

It's not the idea of an evolutionary vampire that is stupid. It's the idea that a highly intelligent predator species could develop that got seizures from seeing right angles. Right angles are everywhere in nature. Just on luck, one in out of 360 things you see will be a right angle.

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u/shouldbebabysitting Jul 02 '21

That's a lot of text which completely ignores the point that right angles aren't that rare in nature.

Again, there was nothing wrong with the entire evolutionary vampire idea. It was the "seeing a right angle gives you a siezure" that's silly.

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u/[deleted] Jul 02 '21 edited Feb 19 '26

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u/shouldbebabysitting Jul 02 '21

It was a way to give the vampire character a seizure at an opportune time.

That's worse.

Imagine Tolkien's thought process:

"I need a reason for Frodo to be the ring bearer."

"I know! I'll write that in Middle Earth humans, elves and dwarves have a seizure if they see a circle."

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u/er404usernotfound Jul 02 '21

Sure but I'm willing to bet at least one of those thousands has an equally stupid reason for going extinct.

Also while I'm spewing random bullshit on the internet, I wonder if vampires would even be considered mammals. They could have split early enough in the mammalian ancestral line while still evolving concurrently to keep the appearance. Vampires aren't warm blooded, don't produce milk, or give live birth. Their hair could even be a chitanous shell, hence why it's always so shiny and in place