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PaperclipPerfector  2d ago (text post)   1169 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for November 21, 2025

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I feel like were I to submit this as data in a psychiatric profile I could get a very good paper out of it.

So I decided the rhinos needed something to eat besides fish and one another. The problem was, they were so hostile and hungry that they would gobble up every other terrestrial life form on sight. Thus I decided to spawn a race of elves, but adapted to live in the ocean.

I made them aquatic, gave them fins, etc. but to keep them from trying to go on land, build things, and get wiped out, I deleted their frontal lobe and essentially reduced them to animals. I let them keep their emotions and capacity for language though, since those seemed to help them breed, which I had them do at a prodigious rate as egg-laying hermaphrodites.

It worked out pretty well. I made them physically weak but curious and outgoing. They would swim right up to a bunch of rhinos intending to blabber at them nonsensically and get shot immediately. Eventually you'd see rhino ships out there harvesting them in bulk via cannon fire.

Guys they made a Chaos God Simulator, they just gave it cute aesthetics but it's pretty great.

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