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[–] 94 points 7 months ago (19 children)
  • [–] 20 points 7 months ago (17 children)

    Only correct answer.

    Centaurworld is probably one of the best Netflix shows

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Hush now, hide, all you little ones Rush now, into the middle of nowhere Singing and laughter will die.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    One of the few "kids" shows who treated their audience with upmost respect, never talked down to the audience, and knew that kids are able to see and understand heavy topics. the suicide episode still haunts me on how incredibly good it was.

    Yes, I will die on the hill that a show about farting animals is genuinely a must watch for everyone.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I was stoned out of my gourd one day after work, and the friend that talked up Steven Universe (warning me not to binge - I did and it shattered me.) said to watch centaurworld. I gave it a chance and have no regrets.

    Gritty, heavy, but loving and communicative. Beautiful show.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (8 children)

    Netflix sort of went to shit so I've been off it for a while.

    Is this an outlier or do they actual serve anything decent these days?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (7 children)

    definitely an outlayer. give it a watch.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    Imma sail the high seas on this one.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (5 children)

    however you watch it, enjoy it.

    not really a spoiler butmake sure you are in a good place and close to good company for s01e08.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Shit, maybe not. I'm in the US and I'm pretty fucking fragile right now, emotionally. XD

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    mate. feel free to DM me if you need to after that episode

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (2 children)

    Gonna pass for a while, but thanks for the warning.

    Probably none of us need trauma rn.

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  • [–] 69 points 7 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I do believe that would be more like a minotaur than a centaur

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  • [+] 53 points 7 months ago (12 children)
  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago* (5 children)

    I... what the fuck am I looking at... ?

    Please draw a diagram of this creature's digestive system for me. Also their spinal structure.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Good ol' Hamlet! Anytime one of these "what if centaur but different" posts come up I think about him

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Good ol' Hamlet

    ..that play is apparently VERY different from how I remember it 🤔

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (2 children)

    How long has it been since you've visited Denmark? Because that geraffe is the spitting image of this Danish exchange student I dated in high school

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    How long has it been since you've visited Denmark?

    Since I'm a Danish citizen and have lived here my whole life, I guess I've technically never VISITED Denmark 😄

    Because that geraffe is the spitting image of this Danish exchange student I dated in high school

    That's probably Pernille. She works at my local hardware store.

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  • [–] 31 points 7 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I don't like it. But it's probably #2. Centaurs replace the neck of the base animal with a human torso.

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  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Do giraffes have long necks, or long torsos?

    Yeah, the first one obviously.

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  • [–] 36 points 7 months ago*

    Ps everyone should go watch centaurworld. It's a masterpiece.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    False dichotomy.

    Centraur is when the neck of an quadruped animal gets its neck replaced by an human upper body... So the giraffe centaur would have neither a long human stomach, nor a long human neck.

    It is reductionism to say that something isn't a giraffe, if it doesn't have a long neck part. Shame on you! 😉

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Yeah. Everyone knows giraffe centaurs share the ears and ossicones of giraffes, but not their long necks and legs.
    It's more like the ancestors of giraffes that had not elongated yet. Oh, and pretty long tongues too.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    A centaur has explicitly horse features until a certain point, then explicitly human features from that point onwards.

    That would mean the upper part not being allowed to divert back to horseness/giraffiness, as the left pic does.

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    centaur have human shoulders and neck and head. And horse body without neck&head

    so the first one is right, except with human neck

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    My wife and I frequently bond over a mutual hatred of giraffes. I think this meme just got me laid tonight

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    I'm glad you two monsters found each other. I hope your kids grow up to love giraffes.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    The family that hates together ungulates together!

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (3 children)

    All ungulates? What about the tasty ones?

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Well no, just mainly giraffes. I was hoping that the rhyme would have been funny and distracting enough that I didn't have to explain.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    So why do you two hate giraffes?

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago* (2 children)

    Here the thing. You ever looked into a giraffe's eyes? There's nothing there, they're mentally vacant. They make deer look like they read the New Yorker. They fight with their necks, which is dumb, but it's even dumber that their evolutionary gambit worked at all. You wanted to eat the leaves, you got tall. Your medals are in the mail, giraffes. Gold medals with sarcastically long neck ribbons. It makes me sick. They're no better than camels, and don't get me started about those filthy bastards.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Well no, now we're interested and you need to elaborate on the camels.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    Come on, have you seen them? I could name three thing to do with their mouths alone that serve as proof that God doesn't exist. Go watch a video of camel mouth bubbles and tell me I'm wrong, and keep in mind this is a creature that will spit on you.

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  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    You have to have the long neck, or it's not a giraffe man thing

    Edit: A giraftaur

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

    Giraffes have the same number of neck vertebrae as you and me, the bones are just much longer.

    An actual giraffe centaur with human torso from the animal's chest up would just be a long-legged spotty horse centaur.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    It's posts like this that just reinforce the idea that centaurs are freaky creatures.

    Why a six-limbed creature? Actual mammals have at most 4 limbs. What does it eat? Is the stomach a horse stomach or a human stomach? Does the human head have to eat 15 kilograms of grass per day, munching it inefficiently with its human teeth? Can it just blend it up and drink vast quantities of smoothies instead? Are the centaur's front limbs massively strong, unlike a horse, because it has to support a whole secondary torso right at the front of its body? Does the whole body have the same notoriously finnicky immune system and fragility of a horse? Where's the heart, is it in the human chest or the horse chest? If it is running hard will it be the human chest that's panting, using those tiny lungs to power an entire body? Or is there just an air tube down through the useless human chest all the way to the horse's mighty lungs? If the lungs being used are the horse ones, what's all that room in the human chest being used for?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    The centaur diet consists mostly of meat, so they require fewer plants to survive. But plants are very good for their health, preferably root and leafy plants over grains, nuts, and fruits, but they can still enjoy any diet.
    Centaurs used to prefer to eat only raw meat and alcohol, but after contact with humans they developed a cooking culture, preferring methods like spit roasts over methods like boiling, but they still enjoy a good stew.
    Foods that are toxic or harmful to horses but not to humans are not a problem for centaurs, such as garlic, onions, avocado, chocolate, bread, dairy, and the brassica cultivars.

    The upper torsos of centaurs have secondary lungs and a second small heart that help support their brain and make it less likely that they'll faint during heavy activity, with an esophagus leading to the stomach and a thick trachea leading to larger lungs, both on the second torso.
    Their esophagus moves food faster than a human esophagus does, so eating something sharp that could scratch their esophagus is more harmful to them, so it's more important for them to really chew their food well. Unlike horses, centaurs can vomit. Their upper torso has none of the other vital organs humans have in that area, leaving more room for muscles, which gives them their massive upper body strength. When a centaur appears to have a belly, there's no interintestinal fat there; it's all abdominal fat.
    The lower torso has all other main vital organs, and a larger heart and lungs similar to those of horses, and the thicker trachea allows them to breathe faster. Centaurs often have large nostrils and a slightly elongated face to allow for faster airflow.
    Their livers are more similar in function to those of humans and sledge dogs, giving them high endurance. They can run without rest far longer than any other creatures they know.
    Their lymphatic and blood system, on the other hand, is more similar to that of horses.
    Unlike humans, centaurs do not lose muscle mass due to lack of activity, mostly due to illness or lack of nutrition.

    There are some variations depending on what 'taur' is their lower body, but these are the common traits shared among all tauric species.

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  • [–] 17 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

    Number 2 would fall over.

    Right now a giraffe needs 600lbs of neck muscle to hold up a 50 lb head on a 6 foot lever.

    There is no way the giraffe's neck could hold a regular human torso. Forget a proportional one. It's not possible.

    Picture for scale. A regular human torso would look comically small on top of a giraffe.

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  • Neck has to be long. if torso is long that's biologically impossible you die of low blood pressure to the head

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    Why would the giraffe have a 6 foot torso?

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    The first one. The second one is way too top heavy to be practical.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Asking the real questions.

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