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Let me try, let me try:
Lemmings, would you rather fight 100 duck sized horses or 1 horse sized duck?
The tiny 1ft -ish extinct Dawn-Horse was a real thing. PBS documentary modeled it as skittish, jumpy, fast, tough enough to drag and push logs. Catch a couple of those and you got youself a pair of 30mph roller skates.
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1 horse-sized duck, male, that's in the mood... Ever witness firemen tackle a charged firehose that broke loose and is whipping around... amorously. Now put a Clydesdale at the end of that. You may be chance lucky enough to distract it with bread, but can really only fight it from space.
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Taking notes here for some... new projects.
Obviously the duck-sized horses, that's not even a fight. What amounts to pretty much a t-rex, on the other hand...
Nah, ducks have hollow bones, making them pretty crap in physical combat against creatures that don't. As long as you can avoid the beak, you should be fine.
Duck-sized horses, on the other hand, would still be faster and stronger than humans even if it's scaled 1:1 relative to horse size vs duck size and there's a hundred of them! You'd be swarmed in no time!
But they would still have instinctual skittishness, and they just got exponentially smaller then the thing they are facing.
Nah, they would be out for blood in this scenario, otherwise the premise of fighting them wouldn't make any sense. The bigger problem for the tiny horses is their inability to reach the upper parts of your body. Sure, they probably have a mean bite, but because of their size and the shape of their teeth they most likely won't be able to enclose your leg. A horse bite crushes, so keep your fingers away and you are most likely fine.
They also have hooves, so no scratching and climbing. Horses hooves are dangerous because they have a massive horse behind it when it comes flying towards you. Take that away and they could be baby fist for all you should care.
If you look at their jumping capabilities, yea they ar impressive for an animal of their size, but once you are 30cm tall it's much less impressive to jump as high as you are tall (and horses really don't jump all that high, most of it comes from tucking their legs).
If you compare the tiny horse to a cat, the cat would be much more dangerous, because it has claws, sharp teeth and can reach your face. As long as you wear heavy boots and have a good stomping/kicking technique you should be fine versus duck sized horses.
Do I get tools? If so, the horse sized duck. If not, 100 duck sized horses.
Yeah, but the horse sized duck gets tools too.
Then no
I'd like to see the horse use an rpg
The tool of a horse sized duck would be terrifying.
100 duck sized horses, and it's not even close.
Bring on the horde of duck-sized horses!
On Lemmy, it's the celebrities who asks lemmings the dumb questions!