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Coconut crabs

Have you ever heard of coconut crabs?  The first time I saw/heard of one, I thought it was a joke.  Because…srsly?

Coconut crab. . .

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Look at that!  The thing is about the same size as the trash can!  And no, as far as I can tell, it’s not a tiny trash can.

So anyway, coconut crabs are a species of hermit crabs are are the largest of the terrestrial arthropods.  They grow up to about 16 in with a leg span of about 3 ft.  Three feet!  That’s about the same length as Yaris!  It’s a Yaris-sized crab!  (Ok, I know it’s only the leg span but still.)

They aren’t as heavy as Yaris though.  Yaris is now at a svelte 55ish lbs.  A coconut crab with the dimensions described above would probably be about 9 lbs.  Can you imagine a 9 lb crab on your plate for dinner?  It wouldn’t even be a plate.  It would have to be a platter.  A platter holding a single crab.  And you have to eat it all.  Gosh, why are you such a piggy?

But anyway, you probably won’t find any here (by which I mean the continental US).  Coconut crabs are found on coasts in the Pacific and Indian Oceans, but not all the way out to the continental States.  It’s sad that they also don’t exist in wherever my Animal Crossing town is.  Actually, coconut crabs only made it into one game, I think.  I guess I won’t get to see one of these things up close any time soon.

Mr. Arachnid is really Wilson!

I’ve recently been playing a new game. I do not really have time to be playing a new game. But I have been playing this new game, nevertheless. I blame Super Secret Robot Agent Sheri, Wrist Brace Girl–Adventuress Extraordinaire.

Anyway, this new game is Don’t Starve. Um…is it in the style books to italicize game titles? I’m going to pretend game titles are like book titles and I’m going to italicize it. SO ANYWAY…

I’ve been playing this new game, Don’t Starve. It’s this adventure-y, wilderness-y, survival-y game in which the main character is an intrepid gentleman scientist named Wilson. He’s been trapped by a demon and transported to some mysterious world and now you have to help him survive.

As with any other time I start playing a game, I start seeing similarities and parallels in my normal, everyday, mundane life. This time…it’s with the main character. You see…I’m convinced that my coworker, Mr. Arachnid, is really Wilson.  Here, let me show you:

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Do you not see?!  It’s Mr. Arachnid wielding an axe!  Because he is being chased by spiders!  Just like in real life!

Ok, so Mr. Arachnid does not normally come into work with an axe.  I don’t think Clib security would like that.  At all.  I think they would take great umbrage to that.  But Mr. Arachnid does get chased by spiders.  Or, at least spiders and other arachnids seem to like him a lot.  There was a reprieve due to our apple deadfall (more on that another time), but we were forced to take that down and I’ve since caught/killed several spiders.  Mr. Arachnid is on high alert.

Other similarities between Mr. Arachnid and Wilson are their abilities to grow magnificent beards.  Wilson is the only character in the game that is capable of growing a beard.

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There’s another character whom I really like that has a truly magnificent mustache, but he is unable to grow a beard.  Alas.

The thing with beards though, is that it decreases sanity.  I asked Mr. Arachnid about this and he says that I might be onto something.  I told him that shaving off the beard increases sanity by 10.  He said he’d consider it.  I think he really should consider faster and harder because I noticed the other day that he was holding his head in his hands and shaking his head.  JUST LIKE WILSON DOES WHEN HIS SANITY LEVEL STARTS TO GET LOW.  Mr. Arachnid’s beard is also becoming quite long.  It’s definitely decreasing his sanity.

I did also tell him that wearing fancy headgear would increase his sanity.  It might help make up for the beard that he’s growing.  At first, I told him that he could wear a garland made from 12 flowers, but he didn’t much like that idea.  I can’t imagine why.  But after I told him it was just fancy headgear in general that increases sanity, he thought maybe he could wear his motorcycle helmet.  Not only would that increase his sanity (his helmet is fancy because it has a small rocket depicted on it) but that it would make him much safer.

I remain convinced that Mr. Arachnid is actually Wilson, intrepid gentleman scientist.  Um, I guess that means I must live in this weird, wilderness-y world.  Maybe I’m an NPC.