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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 80 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Also, you cannot kill them in a way that matters

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."

  • mushrooms
[–] Rusty@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It's over, I have the low ground

  • mushroom
[–] bluewing@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

The shaggy mane mushrooms like growing on a hillside in my yard and not at the bottom!

[–] sploosh@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

They ARE the ground.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Break mycelium in half, now is just two mycelium. Mycelium win every time.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] hoch@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Why not ourcelium, comrade

[–] StellarExtract@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Then the sun develops a fungal infection, and don't scratch that itchy rash, it'll only make it worse.

[–] atlas@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

thank you for the gold reference. completely forgot about that post

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Burning them seems to kill them. As does fungicide.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Reminds me: In the roguelike game Cataclysm DDA, there's fungus monsters. Basically once they're on the map, the best strategy was to just run and keep running until they were out of the game's "simulation bubble."

They would spread fungal colonies uncontrollably, creating fungal towers, spawning more spores, and fungal versions of monsters, which would spread more spores...

You could hack away at them or burn them sure, but all of them? Unlikely. You could also get infected with spores! They'd rapidly take over the entire game basically lol ... Dunno if that's been nerfed now.

Spores are freaky. Really freaky...

[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago

40k Orcs work like that. It leaves open the question if Orc burgers are vegan or not.