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Dingo ate my Triforce ([info]psychesky) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2006-06-30 04:59:00


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Current mood:Mildly Amused

Beware the Stealth Octopi
I've never seen YouTube wank (admittedly, I wasn't looking very hard), and I have a feeling it's worse than IMDB wank on the food chain. But this one amused the hell out of me.

Over at YouTube, sleboss posts a video about an invisible Octopus. The video itself was posted back in February, and only received a few comments from people impressed with the skills of the octopus. Then, YouTube went and featured the video...

...and all hell broke loose.

Unfortunately, I don't think you can link to individual comments, but they are all on that one page. All 1188 of them (last counted at 4:30 am or so EST.)

The first comments after the video was featured are still admiring of the octopus. A couple forum-standard insults are thrown, nothing wanky. CreativeS2dio thinks it looks fake, and cdg76 just wants to remind us that "everytime a blue whale jizms it spews 400 GALLONS of jizz, 10% of it actually makes it into the female (cow i believe) leaving 360 GALLONS of jizzm lingering in the water. and you wonder why the ocean is salty?" The octopus is compared favorably with "chamelions."

Finally tfsproductions comes along and agrees with CreativeS2dio, and the fight over whether the octopus is a miracle of nature or a miracle of CG begins in earnest. Sides are taken, tempers flare, and WikiPedia citations are thrown out like weapons. (Octopus; Chromatophore)

It's long and painful, and mostly tl;dr, but keep reading for some arguments about whether God or evolution is responsible for the octopus in the first place. (Maybe God has a video editor, who knows.) Ektelestes keeps the wank coming (and it doesn't appear to be done) and argues for the spelling of "oktapus."

Oh yeah, and the original apparantly comes from here:Roger Hanlon.




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flightstothesea
2006-06-30 09:32 am UTC (link)
Looks CG to me, but it's still nifty.

Btw, the grasp of English in those comments makes the baby Jesus weep.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 03:55 pm UTC
(no subject) - flightstothesea, 2006-06-30 07:22 pm UTC
Wank?
[info]bluenakedlady
2006-06-30 09:41 am UTC (link)
Who cares about wank? It's an invisible octopus!

*plays video over and over again*

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[info]benighted
2006-06-30 11:26 am UTC (link)
(ignores wank)

Dude, octopi are awesome.

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(no subject) - [info]hellespont, 2006-06-30 12:18 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]bangoskank, 2006-06-30 03:19 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]dreamoflife02, 2006-06-30 04:21 pm UTC
(no subject) - pink_lightning, 2006-06-30 04:53 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]moonpigeon, 2006-06-30 05:06 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mindset, 2006-06-30 05:32 pm UTC
(no subject) - flightstothesea, 2006-06-30 07:26 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]hallidae, 2006-06-30 08:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]capsulekei, 2006-06-30 09:31 pm UTC
Take III: I suck at spelling - [info]adora_spintriae, 2006-07-01 08:45 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]chibicurmudgeon, 2006-06-30 08:34 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]jadedphyre, 2006-06-30 08:49 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]psychesky, 2006-06-30 10:58 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2006-07-04 11:51 am UTC

[info]hellespont
2006-06-30 12:16 pm UTC (link)
That octopus could be anywhere right now. Even in this very room.

*clutches shawls a little tighter around self*

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[info]chibikaijuu
2006-06-30 12:21 pm UTC (link)
OMIGOD THAT IS SO AWESOME. At first I was hoping it would be the mimic octopus, which is one of my favorites (so far, it's been documented as making a convincing flatfish, lionfish, and sea snake, but divers say they've seen it mimic other animals, too), but that was almost COOLER. I love octopodes (and that plural. OctoPODES!)

...wank?

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(no subject) - [info]luthe, 2006-06-30 06:22 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]psychesky, 2006-06-30 11:00 pm UTC
Perfect icon! - [info]threegoldfish, 2006-07-01 01:30 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]hellespont, 2006-07-01 03:00 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]threegoldfish, 2006-07-01 03:11 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]big_bad_wolf, 2006-07-04 11:50 am UTC

[info]exdee
2006-06-30 12:23 pm UTC (link)
dude, that's awesome. screw the wank, watch the video.

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[info]isntitironic
2006-06-30 01:39 pm UTC (link)
Man, you do not fuck with the octopus. It is a mollusc ninja. You will awaken one night with a face full of tentacles and that'll be the end of you, and the coroner will be at a loss to explain the tiny sucker marks all over your body.

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(no subject) - [info]mmanurere, 2006-06-30 03:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]melandry, 2006-06-30 06:47 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wrongly_amused, 2006-06-30 07:37 pm UTC

[info]wolfshark
2006-06-30 02:03 pm UTC (link)
Awwww, I just want to pet it and love it and call it George!

Wank? What wank?

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[info]prettypinkkitty
2006-06-30 02:20 pm UTC (link)
OH MY GOD I ALMOST PEED MYSELF THAT IS SO SCARY. NOW I DEAD FROM OCTOPUS.

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[info]crysiana
2006-06-30 02:21 pm UTC (link)
...that is an awesome octopus. Wow.

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dracothelizard
2006-06-30 02:29 pm UTC (link)
Cool video!

Also, yeah, Youtube probably has some amazing wank. Especially on the videos about Iceland's entry for the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest.

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(no subject) - [info]eli_eli_oh, 2006-06-30 04:07 pm UTC
(no subject) - dracothelizard, 2006-06-30 04:08 pm UTC

(Anonymous)
2006-06-30 02:31 pm UTC (link)
The only thing I've really taken away from this is the conviction that "Invisible Octopus" would make a fun band name.

And yeah, the video is cool.

-zahyr @ lj

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[info]hallidae
2006-06-30 03:01 pm UTC (link)
Dude. Octopus. (Now why can't mutants have useful spy abilities like that? Why they always gotta go in and blow up the information they were looking for?)

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[info]hickorydickory
2006-06-30 03:10 pm UTC (link)
Sooo... how long until that octopus gets a career in hentai?

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(no subject) - [info]dark_puck, 2006-06-30 03:16 pm UTC
(no subject) - iwanttobeasleep, 2006-07-01 02:40 pm UTC

[info]fallohidepride
2006-06-30 03:59 pm UTC (link)
Awesome octopus. *pets it until it disappears*

The comments mostly make me weep for humanity, especially ragemanchoo, who replies to EVERY SINGLE expression of doubt with the following: "Actually its real. My uncle saw one in person while vacationing. Yes, they really do that. So yeah, shut the fuck up, fuck-up." I started to count how many times he'd replied with that exact phrase but got bored and watched the video again. Several times.

On the other hand:

Khudaheat: thats so ghetto

various posters: wtf ghetto? don't use words you don't understand, etc.

n11n12: If the octopus hid itself with a cardboard box, THAT would be ghetto.

Hee!

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(no subject) - [info]jadedphyre, 2006-06-30 08:52 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mcity, 2006-06-30 10:47 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]jadedphyre, 2006-06-30 10:49 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mcity, 2006-06-30 11:01 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]psychesky, 2006-06-30 11:03 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]threegoldfish, 2006-07-01 01:31 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]goodrobotsdance, 2006-07-01 02:10 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]mcity, 2006-07-01 02:25 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]prettypinkkitty, 2006-07-01 03:38 am UTC

(Anonymous)
2006-06-30 04:01 pm UTC (link)
ragemanchoo seems to be stuck in a rut. I read only 30 or so comments and I saw this exact comment: "Actually its real. My uncle saw one in person while vacationing. Yes, they really do that. So yeah, shut the fuck up, fuck-up." at least five times. I wonder if s/he uses the same comment for non-octopus posts too.

-jennybunny

P.S. The octopus is a wonderous beast. WONDEROUS.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2006-06-30 04:05 pm UTC

pink_lightning
2006-06-30 04:52 pm UTC (link)
I think someone linked to Wikipedia for this on the thing in the octopus that turns it invisible. It's SO DAMN COOL! XD

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[info]batshitinsane
2006-06-30 05:16 pm UTC (link)
THE EYE. OMG. THE EYE.

Still, it's a coooool octopus *koffs*

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[info]cleolinda
2006-06-30 06:25 pm UTC (link)
Can't sleep, invisible octopus will eat me. Can't sleep, invisible octopus will eat me. Can't sleep, invisible octopus will eat me... and I won't see it coming.

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[info]jabberwockypie
2006-06-30 07:15 pm UTC (link)
But . . . I can't see an invisible octopus.

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[info]wrongly_amused
2006-06-30 07:35 pm UTC (link)
I love the fight over calling the octupus "ghetto." That's just plain amusing. :-D

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[info]emiweebee
2006-06-30 08:31 pm UTC (link)
Gosh, people are stupid. The octopus is a thing of beauty and wtfery. It is one of my top five/ten animals. It is brilliant at camoflage. Obviously these people have NEVER SEEN A VIDEO OF AN OCTOPUS, EVER.

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(no subject) - [info]spawn_of_kong, 2006-07-02 05:49 pm UTC

[info]sisterelwood
2006-06-30 09:39 pm UTC (link)
Now that is just special. xD

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[info]mcity
2006-06-30 09:44 pm UTC (link)
D:
I haven't been that scared since I cought the statue's head moving in Eternal Darkness.
and you wonder why the ocean is salty?
Sperm isn't salty?

/reference to that joke about the biology class and the blonde

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(no subject) - [info]scootermcgaffin, 2006-06-30 10:31 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ianthefira, 2006-06-30 10:46 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mcity, 2006-06-30 10:55 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]scootermcgaffin, 2006-06-30 10:58 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]mcity, 2006-06-30 11:01 pm UTC
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(no subject) - [info]greenling, 2006-07-04 10:56 am UTC

[info]annaham
2006-07-01 01:09 am UTC (link)
CAN'T. STOP. WATCHING. INVISIBLE OCTOPUS.

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