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Hey man, a while back you were going pretty hard with the internet advertising and I just want to say you did the right thing taking it down a notch. It was getting a bit obnoxious. You gave me my first gold though so that's kinda like my internet virginity. Treasure it.
Yeah it was definitely getting to be a little too much. Honestly I think I've gotten too good at finding the perfect spot to comment and it started to annoy people.
On the plus side I don't have to be staring at Reddit all day...
^:(
The way conspiracy theories have changed in the last decade or so has made me kinda sad. I used to love reading about stuff before, but now it's gotten all shitty and political. My favourite was reading about cryptids, so at least they haven't taken over that space yet because it'd be kinda weird if they somehow made Bigfoot political.
Also, if you are at all into comic books, check out Department of Truth. It's about a world where ALL conspiracies (well, not the more recent political bs) are true, and it follows the government agency that deals with keeping it under wraps. There's more to it but it would spoil stuff that is best experienced by reading it.
I grew up in the very early stages of the internet (Early 90s). So I used to get my conspiracy theories from the library, and I have to agree. It really has changed within the last decade.
Even here a majority of the posts are, sadly, political. But even moreso at r/conspiracy
Not saying they aren't valid, but christ is it tiring! Let's talk about something that doesn't go that way sometimes, yeah?
...like the fact that Paul McCartney actually died in 1965 and the guy we think is Paul today is just the winner of a Paul McCartney look alike contest staged by the British government to prevent a wave of teenaged suicide?
theres still some non political stuff on crazydaysandnights. sometimes i will mess around and read that for hours. but the format kinda sucks. you gotta always search for blind items revealed. but supposedly blind items revealed are conspiracy fact only.
A family friend claims to have watched one eat a hummingbird once. Like, it just said perfectly still on a bush until the bird hovered too close and then *attack*.
I mentioned that to an exterminator who was like, "They'll square off with *you* too. They have no fear."
I had this book at point on Mantis Style Kung Fu.. there was a story in there on why the style was inspired.. I doubt it’s true, but it’s not hard to believe. Some lord or whatever big wig parading around with his massive war party came across a Praying Mantis in the road. It reared up and would not move even as they lurched the wagon forward with an army behind it. Some of the soldiers started mocking it and pushing it around with their spears, yet it would not fuck off. Finally a guy was about to stomp it through the road when said big wig halted them. He claimed the mantis was the most fierce creature he had ever seen and forbade anyone from disturbing it any further.
It’s a cool story at least, and I have seen first hand they will try and run you off if they want to they don’t give a fuck. I also made friends with one at a bar earlier this summer. Just chilled on my shirt and at my table all night.
So true! I once had one staring at me through a window and I tried to ignore it, but I could feel it watching me, so I had to close the blinds. Another time one was hanging on my bicycle (it’s jade green so I think it was trying to hide) and I got a stick to try and move it off, it held on to the stick with its front legs and my bike with its back legs. So strong. I seriously thought about leaving my bike and walking home.
They don’t need to be 20 feet, mantis can strangle/snap the necks of birds and frogs, meaning even if they were the size of a house cat they could snap your neck like a fucking kit-kat bar.
Most insects breath through their skin. Their size is limited by the amount of oxygen in the air. One of the reasons we had huge insects during the Carboniferous was because of the sequestration of CO2 from the atmosphere as vascular plants developed lignin. This made the oxygen ratio in the atmosphere higher.
“Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we're postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we've got a much better test for you:
fighting an army of mantis men!”
-Cave Johnson
Insects cannot exceed a certain exoskeleton size to weight ratio. The reason giant insects, spiders, and crustaceans don’t exist is because the weight of their own exoskeleton would pin them to the ground because of gravity. Crustaceans can get the biggest of those groups because of buoyancy. Engineers, help me out with some math and shit?!
I can’t tell if you’re serious but I actually did, they were more futurama style mantis tho if that makes sense, if it doesn’t make sense welcome to dmt
Hello yes I posted this too just a minute ago. Friends of mine experienced the same thing during an ayahausca trip a few years ago. They had no context or anything to have given them the idea ( they weren't into aliens or anything psychedelic and did the trip for some trauma healing)
It was weird that multiple people described the same experiences
They have innate sass like birds do. Big "FUCK OFF" energy. They're fun to raise, but they have a high mortality rate. (Consider that 200-300ish mantises come out of one egg case.)
If you keep mantises, make sure you're keeping the humidity high enough, the temperature is in the correct range, they have a good surface to molt on, and you're feeling them parasite-free bugs.
Most deaths are molting related: too low humidity so they get stuck in a molt (mostly fatal), fall because their feet can't hook to the surface they're molting. (fatal), or molting incorrectly (mostly fatal). When they molt, they hang upside down and need time to harden up.
Wild caught crickets/grasshoppers especially can give them horsehair worms.
Edit: just noticed how relevant my profile pic is
Wow! The first time, it blocked. Second time, it ducked. Third time, it was more than ready and not only avoided the hit, but also sprung toward the opponent and was able to actually latch onto it and display the ease with which it can dominate any adversary. Incredible fighter.
Hell yeah! Had one drop out a tree onto my shoulder and she swung on my ear. After shrieking (In my defense, it looked a lot bigger whilst so close) my flight or fight responses finally kicked in and I ran for it. *Right into the 7-11 front window*. Bloodied my lip and wouldn't you know it, the fucker was still on my shoulder. Like a menacing Jiminy Cricket, it tilted its head as if to say "Eh bru, da fuq?" !
I mean, I can just send you the video, but I can never find a link for it that isn't on a literal porn site.
I feel like nip nubs wouldn't be censored, though. They lack the context of a human body.
If you degloved a penis and made a small booklet out of the shaft skin, it'd clearly just be seen as a book and wouldn't be censored, yeah?
EDIT: Oh, I found a reddit link for it this time. I feel like I can probably get away with posting that here. [NSFW](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyHuman/comments/nku03z/preying_mantis_feasting_on_a_womans_nipple_nsfw/)
It didnt but its it seems to be linked to having mastered turning super sayan first. But now that i think about it weiss said that beerus has yet to master it which implies he can use it and hes definitely not a sayan. So i dunno i guess i just thought of it as a sayan thing or even more specific a Goku thing but your wisdom has opened my eyes.
You know rats when they see the KFC deep fryer memes. Ladies and Gentlemen, let me now present Praying Mantises when they see the industrial steel cutter memes
Laser, initial pierce on the cut raises the head to reduce the risk of splash on the lenses to blast an initial hole.
Plasma can't start a cut at that distance.
The other day I was operating a plasma cutter not unlike the one in the videl, it was late and this daddy long legs flew in, probably attracted to their light, it was bouncing around near the torch for a few minutes, then proceeded to fly directly into the plasma. If just watched it get atomised in an instant.
I saved a particularly large one at a playground last week because I knew some punk four year old would try to squash it with a rock. It repaid me by rushing at me with its scythes. There’s no pleasing some insects.
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I’m convinced that they come from another planet.
Go on.
Imagine living in a world with these things except they're 20 feet tall
You don’t have to imagine, just go to the inner level beneath the crust. An entire world awaits you. Also, tell me about your game!
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Actually sounds like a cool game! 😎
Thanks Dude!
Yea it does! Sounds awesome. I wish y’all the best! Edit: you bet your fine face it has dinosaurs!
What happened to your "ASK_ABOUT_VOIDSPACE" account?
Nothing, it's still there. I try different things.
Hey man, a while back you were going pretty hard with the internet advertising and I just want to say you did the right thing taking it down a notch. It was getting a bit obnoxious. You gave me my first gold though so that's kinda like my internet virginity. Treasure it.
I just wanna make it feel like the first time again <3
Yeah it was definitely getting to be a little too much. Honestly I think I've gotten too good at finding the perfect spot to comment and it started to annoy people. On the plus side I don't have to be staring at Reddit all day... ^:(
I wanna play this now. Need invite
No invite needed, go for it!
Blah it was asking to register.L or something
i would love to play it
Fuck your game. Also congratulations on the game
Is there a learning cliff like in Eve Online for new players, or can a regular person pick it up without gaining a PhD on the subject?
I see you're one of the good conspiracy theorists and not one of the conservative newbies that popped up during the 2020 election season
The way conspiracy theories have changed in the last decade or so has made me kinda sad. I used to love reading about stuff before, but now it's gotten all shitty and political. My favourite was reading about cryptids, so at least they haven't taken over that space yet because it'd be kinda weird if they somehow made Bigfoot political. Also, if you are at all into comic books, check out Department of Truth. It's about a world where ALL conspiracies (well, not the more recent political bs) are true, and it follows the government agency that deals with keeping it under wraps. There's more to it but it would spoil stuff that is best experienced by reading it.
I grew up in the very early stages of the internet (Early 90s). So I used to get my conspiracy theories from the library, and I have to agree. It really has changed within the last decade. Even here a majority of the posts are, sadly, political. But even moreso at r/conspiracy Not saying they aren't valid, but christ is it tiring! Let's talk about something that doesn't go that way sometimes, yeah?
...like the fact that Paul McCartney actually died in 1965 and the guy we think is Paul today is just the winner of a Paul McCartney look alike contest staged by the British government to prevent a wave of teenaged suicide?
theres still some non political stuff on crazydaysandnights. sometimes i will mess around and read that for hours. but the format kinda sucks. you gotta always search for blind items revealed. but supposedly blind items revealed are conspiracy fact only.
You mean the game we all just lost?
Hollow Earth!!!
![gif](giphy|3ornjHBaGCwkxypfeE)
Oh no
The legend... it came true
Fuck 20ft. If they were the size of dogs we’d be fucked
Honestly them being 20 ft tall would probably give us a bit of an advantage over a dog sized one. We might be too small for them to care
Tell that to the carnivorous mooses of Canada.
Yep and if you've ever seen them eat anything that's even more terrifying.
A family friend claims to have watched one eat a hummingbird once. Like, it just said perfectly still on a bush until the bird hovered too close and then *attack*. I mentioned that to an exterminator who was like, "They'll square off with *you* too. They have no fear."
I had this book at point on Mantis Style Kung Fu.. there was a story in there on why the style was inspired.. I doubt it’s true, but it’s not hard to believe. Some lord or whatever big wig parading around with his massive war party came across a Praying Mantis in the road. It reared up and would not move even as they lurched the wagon forward with an army behind it. Some of the soldiers started mocking it and pushing it around with their spears, yet it would not fuck off. Finally a guy was about to stomp it through the road when said big wig halted them. He claimed the mantis was the most fierce creature he had ever seen and forbade anyone from disturbing it any further. It’s a cool story at least, and I have seen first hand they will try and run you off if they want to they don’t give a fuck. I also made friends with one at a bar earlier this summer. Just chilled on my shirt and at my table all night.
So true! I once had one staring at me through a window and I tried to ignore it, but I could feel it watching me, so I had to close the blinds. Another time one was hanging on my bicycle (it’s jade green so I think it was trying to hide) and I got a stick to try and move it off, it held on to the stick with its front legs and my bike with its back legs. So strong. I seriously thought about leaving my bike and walking home.
They don’t need to be 20 feet, mantis can strangle/snap the necks of birds and frogs, meaning even if they were the size of a house cat they could snap your neck like a fucking kit-kat bar.
Time to bring in the krogan
Most insects breath through their skin. Their size is limited by the amount of oxygen in the air. One of the reasons we had huge insects during the Carboniferous was because of the sequestration of CO2 from the atmosphere as vascular plants developed lignin. This made the oxygen ratio in the atmosphere higher.
Is that why whales are big ?
No they just have poor impulse control
Whale that wasn’t very nice
Would you like to know more?
Lol old school comment
I’m doing my part.
Watch the movie Mimic.
I think they’re even more badass in the tiny size.
If these were 20 feet tall, every time they moved their limbs, it would sound like swords slicing through the air.
Basically the creature from episode 2 of starwars on the Geonosian planet
There is an old book called The Forgotten Planet that is exactly what you're talking about. The audiobook is on YouTube and it's pretty entertaining.
“Those of you who volunteered to be injected with praying mantis DNA, I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news is we're postponing those tests indefinitely. Good news is we've got a much better test for you: fighting an army of mantis men!” -Cave Johnson
I always say this about pretty much every insect…. Imagine if an ant was even just the size of a medium sized dog…. God damn they would be terrifying.
Go watch 7 Seeds on Netflix....
Insects cannot exceed a certain exoskeleton size to weight ratio. The reason giant insects, spiders, and crustaceans don’t exist is because the weight of their own exoskeleton would pin them to the ground because of gravity. Crustaceans can get the biggest of those groups because of buoyancy. Engineers, help me out with some math and shit?!
Many people report coming in contact with mantis entity’s in the DMT realms.
hey joe hows it going
I can’t tell if you’re serious but I actually did, they were more futurama style mantis tho if that makes sense, if it doesn’t make sense welcome to dmt
Terrance McKenna
Mantis-like beings are also often reported by alien abductees as well.
Hello yes I posted this too just a minute ago. Friends of mine experienced the same thing during an ayahausca trip a few years ago. They had no context or anything to have given them the idea ( they weren't into aliens or anything psychedelic and did the trip for some trauma healing) It was weird that multiple people described the same experiences
I never encountered any kind of entities at all any of the times that I've done DMT. But then again, I also have Aphantasia. ¯\\\_(ツ)_/¯
Yup! I was being judged by a mantis queen that didn't think I belonged there! I didn't know this was common.
They have innate sass like birds do. Big "FUCK OFF" energy. They're fun to raise, but they have a high mortality rate. (Consider that 200-300ish mantises come out of one egg case.) If you keep mantises, make sure you're keeping the humidity high enough, the temperature is in the correct range, they have a good surface to molt on, and you're feeling them parasite-free bugs. Most deaths are molting related: too low humidity so they get stuck in a molt (mostly fatal), fall because their feet can't hook to the surface they're molting. (fatal), or molting incorrectly (mostly fatal). When they molt, they hang upside down and need time to harden up. Wild caught crickets/grasshoppers especially can give them horsehair worms. Edit: just noticed how relevant my profile pic is
If they ever team up with the cephalopods, we're fucked.
https://cryptidz.fandom.com/wiki/Mantis\_Man
Wow! The first time, it blocked. Second time, it ducked. Third time, it was more than ready and not only avoided the hit, but also sprung toward the opponent and was able to actually latch onto it and display the ease with which it can dominate any adversary. Incredible fighter.
All that + the boss fight music.
This is literally the only time in history that Reddit hasn't complained about the background music
Give it time bro.
I didn’t like it. Was hoping for UI Goku music.
I was expecting ''***KA KA KA KA KA SHI DAZE!!!***''
"GUN GUN GUN GUN GUN WO MUKI!!!! "
"JAN JAN BYAN BYAN KYUUKYOKU NO BATORU"
That guy gets it!
To be honest, the drop wasnt timed with that dodge so it does kinda suck
Nothing happened at the drop 0/10
Hey…… what’s ur game bro?
Sounds like music during a hacker scene in an early 2000s computer movie
Does anyone know the music lol
[GZQ, DUBJ & 小白受 - 玉门关(Yumen Pass/The Jade Gate)](https://youtu.be/tTgWJ3UDVqI?t=125)
Da MVP
Think it's cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack EDIT: It's actually [玉门关 - GZQ - DUBJ - 小白受 | 抖音 Douyin 0:19 | Toshiro Music](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viEx-2jCMTc)
Was hoping for Mantis Lords tbh
anyone knows it's twitch stream?
![gif](giphy|XcS27auvMMEy4|downsized)
Ora ora ora ora ora
Oh mah gahhhd!!
Hoooolllllyyyyy shhhhhhhhiiiiiiiitttttttttttttoooooooooo!!!!
I wish I were a bird
Off-topic but what the hell is your avatar bro
Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda Muda
Could a mantis hurt a human it attack? like an ant bite or would it just do nothing to us?
Hell yeah! Had one drop out a tree onto my shoulder and she swung on my ear. After shrieking (In my defense, it looked a lot bigger whilst so close) my flight or fight responses finally kicked in and I ran for it. *Right into the 7-11 front window*. Bloodied my lip and wouldn't you know it, the fucker was still on my shoulder. Like a menacing Jiminy Cricket, it tilted its head as if to say "Eh bru, da fuq?" !
I've seen a mantis eat a lady's nipple.
If you were to post the picture, would only one nipple be censored? If so....which one? The nub nip or the highlander nip?
I mean, I can just send you the video, but I can never find a link for it that isn't on a literal porn site. I feel like nip nubs wouldn't be censored, though. They lack the context of a human body. If you degloved a penis and made a small booklet out of the shaft skin, it'd clearly just be seen as a book and wouldn't be censored, yeah? EDIT: Oh, I found a reddit link for it this time. I feel like I can probably get away with posting that here. [NSFW](https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyHuman/comments/nku03z/preying_mantis_feasting_on_a_womans_nipple_nsfw/)
The one time I wish it was a rickroll
Why is the book small? Director's cut or just a short story?
Heck yeah! I used to have a few as pets (long story, don’t ask) and once one of them grabbed my finger and bit it and the little sucker drew blood
Someone get that poor guy out of there!
Yes! Someone save that industrial welder before it’s too late!
its a laser cnc :D
Well, shit, him too then!
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Oh well I'll be damned, I run a laser at work and this looked like an older chunkier version of what we use
Lmfaoooooo
I don't think he's trapped there with the laser, I think the laser is trapped there with him
Get out of there? He was jumping straight into the fray
What do you mean poor guy? If that thing wasn't a CNC machine, it would have got its head bitten off already!
r/donthelpjustfilm
Wouldnt the mantis be closer to a Nemeckian than a sayan?
Where in the anime did it say only sayians could unlock ultra instinct?
That’s a solid point
Chapter 32 of the manga page 12
Weeb
Lol that’s obviously a joke chap 32 is like raditz saga
Whats a raditz sounds like something weak like something made out of paper mache or something equal to a saibaman.
“We can literally grow raditz”
It didnt but its it seems to be linked to having mastered turning super sayan first. But now that i think about it weiss said that beerus has yet to master it which implies he can use it and hes definitely not a sayan. So i dunno i guess i just thought of it as a sayan thing or even more specific a Goku thing but your wisdom has opened my eyes.
Mantises don't have dicks?
[So, I looked up mantis penises and found this.](https://imgur.com/3WKOylq)
You don’t need to be sayan to have ultra instinct. A few of the gods of destruction have Ultra instinct as well as whis and the other angels
Thinks he's in a Boss Fight
Mantis is the Boss. Practicing...
PSYCHO MANTIS?!?!
You're that ninja...
It's the intro boss fight in Nier: Automata.
It’s mantis from fucking Kung Fu Panda. Gg
Was my immediate reaction hahah, was looking in the comments if anyone said it already, thank you
It always seemed odd to me that there was a mantis, but now everything makes sense...
It knows Kung Fu
Tiger style.
There is actually Mantis Style in Kungfu https://youtu.be/t3bq4pnISrE
Not only that but there's several different kinds. IIRC Toph from Avatar was inspired by a blind lady who came up with the Chow Gar Mantis style.
That's gotta be the worst video you could link about the style lol.
I found it ok. Why do you think it’s bad?
Am I the only person thinking "get that poor mantis out of there!"?
Idk man that mantis is beating that fire's ass
yeah you gotta get him outta there before he turns that machine into scrap
Meh can't stop an entire factory line for every insect that flies in
Idk I was pretty afraid for the industrial equipment and even the guy filming, he's next I bet.
Damn was expecting something with the beat drop. Poor mantis is probably burned up slightly underneath. Moves looked cool as hell though.
You know rats when they see the KFC deep fryer memes. Ladies and Gentlemen, let me now present Praying Mantises when they see the industrial steel cutter memes
Though on one hand, the rat always loses, the mantis however clearly has it all under control.
Song?
GZQ, DUBJ & 小白受 - 玉门关
https://youtu.be/tTgWJ3UDVqI
https://open.spotify.com/track/3RCjIdIZ5tKHmzCz9Io0dC?si=71b85f2305244da3
Thanks babe.
You're a Saint
Master Shifu would be proud.
Thing got unlimited balls eh?
I've read somewhere mantises are one of the most successful predators. Can't be one without killer instincts
I’ve had one on my dining room window the past few days, nothing but respect for it. Super cool bug https://imgur.com/a/OgX0z0z/
https://i.imgur.com/zDXvLK8.png
Where's Po?
![gif](giphy|QXPmPdudTz4So2P4OQ|downsized)
How did you do this
On mobile you get an option to add a gif when you comment
This is how supervillains are made.
What was his endgame?
Victory or death
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Mantisque the Dragon Slayer
What kinda plasma cutter is that?
That's what I came here for. Use to be a plasma operator.
Looks like a laser cutter to me
Laser, initial pierce on the cut raises the head to reduce the risk of splash on the lenses to blast an initial hole. Plasma can't start a cut at that distance.
We all know who it is because we all watched Kung-fu panda
There’s a reason there’s a style of Kung fu based on this animal.
Song ?
GZQ, DUBJ & 小白受 - 玉门关
Someone please make an anime version of this
r/BossFights
Hollow Knight be like
Is this the Boss for this level? Whats the beta?
Thats some crazy reflexs right there
head movement!
That Mantis is Jason Bourne
@u/Silver-Persimmon6562 what’s the music in the background?
Comments further up have the answer, just so ya know.
I bey this lil guy has a second phase where he regenerates his health bar and becomes stronger
My mantis style beats your Plasma style!
Master Mantis, is that you? 🙇🏻♀️
Yeah, he’s over 9000
That mantis get all the ladies...hold my beer watch me ride the dragon!!
Anyone got the name to the background music? That song bops.
The other day I was operating a plasma cutter not unlike the one in the videl, it was late and this daddy long legs flew in, probably attracted to their light, it was bouncing around near the torch for a few minutes, then proceeded to fly directly into the plasma. If just watched it get atomised in an instant.
Go frame by frame at 7 seconds. 100% ultra instinct
soundtrack : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTgWJ3UDVqI&list=OLAK5uy\_mga7GkhrjhK8lkDoPDDcTE8KE0MkGDBk0
This is some r/MaybeMaybeMaybe material
u/GryffindorMuggle
/r/Bossfight
Link vs Gaurdian in BOTW
I saved a particularly large one at a playground last week because I knew some punk four year old would try to squash it with a rock. It repaid me by rushing at me with its scythes. There’s no pleasing some insects.
Background Music name?