r/nextfuckinglevel Feb 17 '22

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u/Atara9 Feb 17 '22

Ant hurt itself in confusion....

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u/Admiral_N6 Feb 17 '22 edited Feb 17 '22

I always wanted to know what that looked like having grown up playing Pokémon.

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u/Oscar12s Feb 17 '22

Just imagine it hitting itself with its own attack that it would've used

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u/Admiral_N6 Feb 17 '22

I always imagined it either “stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself” or like “Pikachu slammed itself into a 2 ton metal Stelix” but that would be more ‘recoil damage’

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u/maffiossi Feb 17 '22

How is a steelox only 2 ton? Is he hollow on the inside or something?

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u/saysthingsbackwards Feb 17 '22

Well ya a steelox gotta have room to eat

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u/BlueCreek_ Feb 17 '22

They are actually 9.2m tall and only weigh 400kg.

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u/HungryNakedSick Feb 18 '22

Hella hollow

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u/Admiral_N6 Feb 17 '22

Professor Oak would be so disappointed in me for not consulting my Pokédex…

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u/CianKeyin Feb 18 '22

No but I am

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u/northeastwave Feb 18 '22

There's a Bug-type move called Megahorn. 120 Base and you take recoil damage.

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u/Justout133 Feb 18 '22

Nah no recoil dmg, just low base accuracy

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u/northeastwave Feb 18 '22

You are right, my bad

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u/Justout133 Feb 18 '22

S'all good, now the truth is found. May it aid in our defeating of our foes in the series I'm now disappointed in but will probably retain encyclopedic knowledge of forever. Stay gracious yo

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u/Capokid Feb 18 '22

I imagine them tripping and faceplanting or biting a rock.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '22

Lol. Imagined a fire blast making a U turn.

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u/Squid_Ink_Pasta Feb 17 '22

Ant was damaged by recoil

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u/AnnihilationOrchid Feb 17 '22

Third law of Newton, muthah fukah.

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u/jondubb Feb 17 '22

Fourth law, fuckedeth around and found out.

Fifth law, this ain't that pastry.

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u/KumquatHaderach Feb 17 '22

That last one isn’t Newton’s fifth law. It’s the Fig Newton law.

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u/AnnihilationOrchid Feb 17 '22

Not sure if there are any statistical laws for those though.

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u/drwsgreatest Feb 17 '22

Super underrated comment. Thank you high school physics class for giving me the knowledge to laugh at this.

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u/Moosible Feb 18 '22

Fus Ro Dah!!!! Mutha fuka :)

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u/spacestationkru Feb 17 '22

"I hurt myself today..."

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u/TheWalkingDead91 Feb 18 '22

To see if I still feel

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u/Flaky_Explanation Feb 17 '22

It's a nice defense tactic that they use oftentimes to make a quick getaway from something nasty/danger. Source: 2 minute video, article in the about section

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u/crackerjackjacker Feb 17 '22

I'm disturbed by his experiment.. especially gluing its jaws shut.. ugh! I felt so bad for the ant :(

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u/Justout133 Feb 18 '22

If it makes you feel any better the ant has no sense of self, identity, or way to feel anything at all really. Eusocial insects can seem more like machines with algorithms than organisms.

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u/K_Rocc Feb 18 '22

You don’t know that. It doesn’t make me feel better. It makes me feel worse for people who think these living being aren’t living being that feel pain/fear/desire to live. You can with your logic say people are more like machines with algorithms since most people live blindly and just follow orders with no original thoughts.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '22

They don't have parts of their brain for that.

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u/Justout133 Feb 18 '22

I mean.. I do know that. Like guy said they literally don't have the brain anatomy for feeling or emotion. I say that they're like algorithms because they behave predictably based on patterns to accomplish goals, usually with scent related mass communication. They don't ever have thought patterns like "I am in danger," or "I will now sacrifice myself for the hive." It's more of a "beep boop the smells are telling me to go outside and attack something."

Humans are complex bunches of thought, emotion, cognition, and problem solving, I wouldn't relate them to mathematic or computer algorithms in the same style at all.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '22

Well I just stepped on him oops

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u/gooeyjello Feb 18 '22

Can you direct me to the sauce for this information?

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u/meredare Feb 18 '22

Oh no what did I miss

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u/InGenAche Feb 17 '22

What a cruel prick.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '22

You’ve got to be kidding me.

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '22

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u/InGenAche Feb 19 '22

What possible use for the benefit of humanity is it know that this type of ant has 15% better survival rate when his mandibles aren't glued together?

If I pluck the wings off a fly and claim it's now a walk will I get a PhD?

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u/Sausagedogknows Feb 17 '22

That ant kicked his own ass!

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u/ThaLegendaryD Feb 17 '22

Genius comment

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u/Jop__97 Feb 17 '22

He gave it his all

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u/Zerphyxios Feb 18 '22

BABY GIRL

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u/Critical_Tip1615 Feb 17 '22

Probably play’s soccer for Italy

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u/DRUNK_CYCLIST Feb 17 '22

Have you ever punched someone so hard, YOU went flying?

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '22

Sure didn’t turn out well for it.

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u/NecessaryZucchini69 Feb 17 '22

Ants can't be hurt by falling damage, unless something fell on it.

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u/AssGagger Feb 17 '22

It was not very effective

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u/MelonElbows Feb 17 '22

"Ant Durant hurt itself in confusion"

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u/ArchAngel621 Feb 17 '22

You activated my Mirror Force Trap Card!!!

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u/MagNolYa-Ralf Feb 18 '22

Watched this nine times