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I'm talking like instead of metaphors or analogies, buildings and entire cities are in fact their own sort of constructed organisms and colonies of organisms.

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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago
[–] DLSantini@lemmy.ml 11 points 10 months ago

I'd just ask which opening I should come in through, same as my girlfriend. Obviously.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, can we have sex with them?

[–] Kase@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago
[–] Jaarsh119@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Probably about the same as regular buildings tbh. If it was normalised I wouldn't bat an eye at it. Having buildings made of something like coral sounds pretty rad tbh

[–] banana_meccanica@feddit.it 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Like sentient organism? A building made of flesh who have thoughts? I will stay very far from any cities.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not necessarily made of flesh, just alive in some strange way that's apparent. Think something more along the lines of plantlife.

[–] banana_meccanica@feddit.it -1 points 10 months ago

Tree with intelligence? I don't see any reason why this trees accepts to be buildings, there will be no benefit from them to having us around.

[–] LegionEris@feddit.nl 5 points 10 months ago

As long as the little brick box that is my dispensary wants to sell weed as much as I do, we're good. I'd greet it heartily and and feed it edibles.

[–] XEAL@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

I want you to do it. C'mon, hit me! Hit me, hit me! C'mon, HIT ME!

[–] SirToxicAvenger@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

so like house mimics? I'd bring fire.

[–] ALostInquirer@lemm.ee 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Hmm, well if you have friendly forms of them I suppose you'd also have the odd pests and hostile forms, so that's not a bad response. Speaking of, if you had lamp mimics you'd have a hell of frustrating time keeping your place lit.

Although I was thinking more in terms of domesticated, benign forms of living buildings/structures.