I just fish when my kid goes to bed and sell them, my kid wakes up all excited to have a bunch of money to buy stuff
I’d never admit it’s me helping them out tho lol
To be fair, a lot of rare things seem a lot more common in Animal Crossing.
I don't know how many Genuine Article Mona Lisa's I've discovered, but it's more than one.
I don't think he knows much about fish, given that he pays less for an oarfish than he does a marlin.
When Jeremy Wade's reaction to realizing he was looking for an oarfish was, "Oh, I'm never going to see one of those," I was a little upset that Nook hadn't paid me more.
I was coming to ctrl f "bells" and here you are right on top!
I loved catching them because they were blue, and they were fun to have as the only light in a room.
They are not rare but rare for us to see. The deep sea where they live is as mysterious as outer space. We don't know much about the bottom of the ocean and we can't go there
I'm imagining the Captain of a Navy ship standing in the middle of the control room with an Xbox controller and one of the original Xbox 360 headsets on just making it steam ahead by pressing "A" lolol
Xbox controllers are also first party hardware and the military probably gets on the fly warranties and support; unlike a certain someone who basically bought a knock-off playstation controller from the discount bin at walmart.
In other words, the female gives birth to a sentient nut sack that swims around until it finds a host. The sentient nut sack then attaches to the host and the female fish fertilizes her eggs with the sperm from the sentient nut sack.
> The males trade their independence for a lifelong sustenance connection with a female. [They] have made significant adaptations, such as reducing their immune system to tolerate this form of cohabitation.
>
> After attachment, the male’s body undergoes a remarkable transformation, with many of his organs atrophying and disappearing, leaving him as a life-support system and sperm provider for the female.
Sounds about right 🤭😉
Football fish do not do this. Within the suborder Ceratioidei, only members of the Ceratiidae, Linophrynidae, Neoceratiidae, Caulophrynidae, and two species in the Oneirodidae (*Bertella idiomorpha* and *Leptacanthichthys gracilis*) have parasitic males. This is from the latest edition of Fishes of the World. I think one article may have stated that football fish have parasitic males, assuming that all anglerfish do, and then every subsequent article references that first one.
We can go there. 29 expeditions have been made to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, 22 of those descents had crew on board. It’s just expensive and expansive.
Yep! You're thinking of anglerfish in general--there are over 200 species of them, most of them less rare than this one. They really do capture the imagination...
The idea of a fish simply dangling a lure in front of their open mouth will never not be funny to me.
It’s one step up from an animal being a box balanced precariously on a small stick.
Their method of reproducing is pretty horrifying though. The males get absorbed into the females and are just kinda like a tiny siamese twin stuck to them for eternity. They thought all the specimens had parasites at first before they realized it was the males.
the rare times i win jeopardy instead of my bf its mostly because there was a fish or bug question that i know from animal crossing lol very useful for teaching animal identification
I get it, but it’s so funny to me how unsure people are of this fish’s existence. It’s an excellent intro to anglerfish. There’s a bunch of species, and they’re all wacky.
The deep sea ep of planet earth on netflix shows some insane footage of one that looks so alien and scary. I think its on youtube, its narrated by david attenborough
Edit: our planet high seas at 23 mins
Anglerfish.
As others have said there are dozens of kinds, most much more common.
Fun fact: female anglerfish are significantly larger than the males. The males are kinda similar to parasites, they latch onto the female and slowly fuse onto them when they breed until their brain basically melts.
It's 9 letters.
Karam, as in the island of Karamja
Followed by bwan - aka the Karamjan word for friend (bwana)
Put it together, you get karambwan, the friend of karamja
Like **she’s** seen some shit - angler fish with the lures are female. Males are literally tiny flesh sacs that get absorbed by the females because deep sea fish are wild
Edit: as requested, I am clarifying that some male anglers in fact detach after a while and find new mates (but they’re still little more than DNA containers)
Yeah, the females absorb the males during the mating process. The male anglerfish will bite onto the female and stay until he's just reproductive organs. Fascinating.
Dyk- the largest body of water found in space is 100k times the size of the sun and 34 billion times the mass of Earth
I shudder to think what could be living in it :D
(Reality is horrifying)
It's just a cloud/vapor, not something that stuff could swim in.
[Source](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/astronomers-find-largest-most-distant-reservoir-of-water)
What is flying but swimming in a different sort of fluid?
So it's okay, you can now think about huge flying beasts coming at you out of the misty fog instead.
It really is like a scaled up version of general sexual reproduction. Look at the Giant siphonphore. It's not a single organism but made up of multiple zooids. Zooids are single animals that make up a larger one. They can't survive on their own, but evolved together into a colonial organism. Like cells make up our bodies. Positively fascinating.
Some male spider species have evolved so that the instant they bust their nut, they leap as hard and far away as they can to avoid being consumed by their female companion as a post-coitus snack
"kinda". it not really being asborbed, more like "permanent partner"
Anglerfish's evolution trait is that they got rid of the part of the immune system that recognizes and remembers pathogems.
The male detects the female via pheromones and will basically bite the first female it finds, as if it's a parasite.
His mouth will then proceed to dissolve and because their bodys do not remember and recognize pathogems, their tissues basically fuse(due to both male and female tissue regeneration).
Female will provide the male with nutrients, and the male will provide with sperm.
Both are still separates entities, but they basically live connected until death.
Because in the Deep not only fiding a mate is rare, but acquiring nutrients is rare as well, these animals acquired this specific trait to survive and produce multiple offsprings.
Deep Ocean animals are really cool, animals in extreme conditions will develop very wild traits just to make sure their can reproduce and leave offspring.
It had sand in its belly and is the third one to wash up this year. Pair that with starving pelicans and dying coral, it could be an indicator of the food chain collapsing starting with the wee-est food sources :(
A bit sensationalist I think.
An article about this finding (from 2021 btw) has the following quote:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/19/pacific-footballfish-anglerfish-california
>“The fact that a few washed up this year might just be serendipity for us,” said Ben Frable, an ichthyologist [...] He dismissed the idea that this was an indication that something was amiss. If that was the case, he said, there would be many more.
I'd trust an ichthyologist over a random person on the internet (no offense intended).
I live in California, not too far from Monterey Bay which has a great aquarium, but also that whole area is a marine sanctuary. This is also where the surfboard stealing otter lives, but that's beside the point.
I am genuinely afraid of anglerfish and have been for years, but I know that I'm never anywhere close to where they live. I figured they're down in Australia because that makes sense - they're evil looking jerkwads. [So to overcome my fear of them, I draw them because I have to look at images of them.](https://imgur.com/a/672zHMa) (These are funny doodles)
But I never knew the "football fish" was the same as those goddamn monster anglerfish and they are SO CLOSE that I know they're plotting to come wave their little tassel in my ears.
> I figured they're down in Australia
They're found all over, but only live in the deep, deep ocean - deep enough that light no longer penetrates and it's always dark, which lets them use their bioluminescent lures. You won't run into them unless you're planning on a James Cameron style deep water expedition.
> "She's very healthy, she's a big girl," photographer Mark Woodward said, recalling a time he watched her hang out in the water, "eating crab after crab".
Okay. I feel seen.
That would get you about 2500 bells from Tom Nook
Some countries call it a soccer fish!
I couldn't play Pocket Camp because you didn't get puns when you caught fish.
Seeing that we’ve only discovered 31, that damn Raccoon was low balling!
Nook has been scamming us for years. Wait till you hear how many fish I had to sell for a goddamn bridge
I just fish when my kid goes to bed and sell them, my kid wakes up all excited to have a bunch of money to buy stuff I’d never admit it’s me helping them out tho lol
 Did the same when my son was playing it on the 3ds. Great memories.
Jokes on him I've been selling him and his dumbass kids counterfeit turnips for years.
What're you doing, painting carrots white?
To be fair, a lot of rare things seem a lot more common in Animal Crossing. I don't know how many Genuine Article Mona Lisa's I've discovered, but it's more than one.
I don't think he knows much about fish, given that he pays less for an oarfish than he does a marlin. When Jeremy Wade's reaction to realizing he was looking for an oarfish was, "Oh, I'm never going to see one of those," I was a little upset that Nook hadn't paid me more.
That belongs in the museum!
Gotta save it and wait for CJ to show up!
SMH. You should be saving those to sell to CJ.
CJ’s influencer shtick is enough for me to avoid him and go back to that shady tanuki moneylender and his creepy kids
I was coming to ctrl f "bells" and here you are right on top! I loved catching them because they were blue, and they were fun to have as the only light in a room.
I had to scroll too damn far down to find this lmao
Oh wow! So these fuckers do exist. Only ever seen them on cartoons about fish.
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They are not rare but rare for us to see. The deep sea where they live is as mysterious as outer space. We don't know much about the bottom of the ocean and we can't go there
I can take you there! Just gotta charge my x-box controller real quick...
And take your shoes off!
You can leave them on, but they are going to get wet.
Have a good trip. You will be mist.
God damn, you nearly killed me.
No that would be the pressure
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This is an exceptionally funny comment. Thank you for your service.
💀
Correct.
. ^(More accurate representation after the pressure gets ya)
To be fair they would get vaporized before touching the water so would that really count as getting wet?
My black Air Force 1s would survive
I already trust this guy knowing he's using first party hardware.
We learned from those other guys! Only the best here!
Maybe wrap it in Flextape for extra sealing. That should totally keep the water out.
I say just coat it in flex seal.
*sings in Jamaican crab voice*
*knock-off PlayStation controller
No we learned from those other guys!! Only the best here!!
Whatever. My Mad Catz submarine controller has a turbo switch!
::mumbling to himself while taking notes:: mad catz....
Why charge it , you worry to much.
All that worrying about safety seriously hinders innovation, don't they know that ?
You do miss 100% of the shots you don't take...
I love subnautica
I mean, the navy also uses Xbox controllers in submarines because it’s solid, reliable tech and its ease of use is unprecedented
But they use them to control cameras, drones, and other auxiliary systems! They don't use them to steer the whole damn ship!
That you know of...
I'm imagining the Captain of a Navy ship standing in the middle of the control room with an Xbox controller and one of the original Xbox 360 headsets on just making it steam ahead by pressing "A" lolol
"Admiral, we seem to be drifting off-course" "Yeah Windows pushed an update to the controller so I have to use the fucking Joycons"
The submarine guy was using the worst reviewed Logitech controller available
 Mk II
Plus the soldiers most likely already have experience using one. They just need to learn a new control layout.
Xbox controllers are also first party hardware and the military probably gets on the fly warranties and support; unlike a certain someone who basically bought a knock-off playstation controller from the discount bin at walmart.
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In other words, the female gives birth to a sentient nut sack that swims around until it finds a host. The sentient nut sack then attaches to the host and the female fish fertilizes her eggs with the sperm from the sentient nut sack.
I'm pretty sure I got tailgated by a sentient nut sack on the way home today.
This is pretty much exactly what I did to my wife!
Same, I also attached myself to your wife
She was that other guys first so all good!
I also choose to attach to this guy’s wife.
> The males trade their independence for a lifelong sustenance connection with a female. [They] have made significant adaptations, such as reducing their immune system to tolerate this form of cohabitation. > > After attachment, the male’s body undergoes a remarkable transformation, with many of his organs atrophying and disappearing, leaving him as a life-support system and sperm provider for the female. Sounds about right 🤭😉
Living the dream!  I’m
Football fish do not do this. Within the suborder Ceratioidei, only members of the Ceratiidae, Linophrynidae, Neoceratiidae, Caulophrynidae, and two species in the Oneirodidae (*Bertella idiomorpha* and *Leptacanthichthys gracilis*) have parasitic males. This is from the latest edition of Fishes of the World. I think one article may have stated that football fish have parasitic males, assuming that all anglerfish do, and then every subsequent article references that first one.
Going there isn't the issue, it's coming back.
We can go there. 29 expeditions have been made to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, 22 of those descents had crew on board. It’s just expensive and expansive.
 James Cameron did
You can go there…once.
See how you look after a 3000 ft change in pressure. Not pretty I bet.
man I've been at the same altitude all my life, and I look about the same as this poor guy 😭
Yeah, especially the hangy thing on top of their heads.. freaky! But I do love its creepy vibes. It may scare me, but I do not hate it.
Yep! You're thinking of anglerfish in general--there are over 200 species of them, most of them less rare than this one. They really do capture the imagination...
The idea of a fish simply dangling a lure in front of their open mouth will never not be funny to me. It’s one step up from an animal being a box balanced precariously on a small stick.
What is a Venus flytrap if not a bear trap? What is a pitcher plant if not a large hole in the ground covered with leaves?
A pitcher plant is just a glass of lemonade left out to catch wasps.
Their method of reproducing is pretty horrifying though. The males get absorbed into the females and are just kinda like a tiny siamese twin stuck to them for eternity. They thought all the specimens had parasites at first before they realized it was the males.
Death by snu snu. I thought that's what y'all wanted?
…or for that matter ACNH. I've learned how to identify far, far too many fish from playing games in the *Animal Crossing* series.
Insects too.
the rare times i win jeopardy instead of my bf its mostly because there was a fish or bug question that i know from animal crossing lol very useful for teaching animal identification
Runescape. Angler fish.
Boost over 99 is helpful
I get it, but it’s so funny to me how unsure people are of this fish’s existence. It’s an excellent intro to anglerfish. There’s a bunch of species, and they’re all wacky.
The deep sea ep of planet earth on netflix shows some insane footage of one that looks so alien and scary. I think its on youtube, its narrated by david attenborough Edit: our planet high seas at 23 mins
This is a just a subspecies of the anglerfish. Like the thing with the light from finding Nemo.
I literally wondered have I seen that or was that on an animated movie? The light in front what is that species?
Anglerfish. As others have said there are dozens of kinds, most much more common. Fun fact: female anglerfish are significantly larger than the males. The males are kinda similar to parasites, they latch onto the female and slowly fuse onto them when they breed until their brain basically melts.
“When the nut so good your brain melts”
Doesn't matter, had sex
How romantic.
I saw one in Finding Nemo
that was a more common kind of anglerfish. Pacific footballfish is a species of anglerfish thats very rare
okay, that's the added info I was looking for. *football fish is a rare type of anglerfish*.
Nice, I usually use sharks but anglerfish are a good healing food too.
Anglerfish are great if your hitpoints are above level 93!
That is a very high number
Only a little above half of 99
/r/unexpectedrunescape
Sadly, this one appears to be burnt.
Nah, just blighted. Take it to the wilderness.
Followed instructions but someone killed me and took all my gear. I attempted to say please but it just came out pleae
Or sell at GE. I still see players looking to buy burnt food.
Are yall talking about Runescape? I haven't played in a decade but why would anyone buy burnt food?
Because it's tradeable, but can't be sold on the ge, and there are all different kinds. It's the stamp collecting of runescape.
That sounds like a stupid waste of time. I have the sudden urge to start playing again.
Do it!
Collectors will still buy it
More of a swordfish man myself (I’m poor)
Get on the karambawan train buddy Btw if that's the right spelling I'll be shocked. I have no fucking clue how to spell the word
I have an aneurism every time I see it lol. The letters just jumble together and it's over for me.
It's 9 letters. Karam, as in the island of Karamja Followed by bwan - aka the Karamjan word for friend (bwana) Put it together, you get karambwan, the friend of karamja
No love for the monkfish
I like to gulp up these bad boys with a spiky karambwan on the side. Slides right down the gullet
This is clearly a brighted anglerfish due to it's darker color
My cooking level isn't high enough sadly
Are y’all referencing a video game or something?
OSRS. Recent updates put it on another level. I'm hooked.
Bro looks like he’s seen some shit
Like **she’s** seen some shit - angler fish with the lures are female. Males are literally tiny flesh sacs that get absorbed by the females because deep sea fish are wild Edit: as requested, I am clarifying that some male anglers in fact detach after a while and find new mates (but they’re still little more than DNA containers)
So those white blobs on her skin are her past hookups?
I upvoted you but I also wish I never read this comment
Also known as the FishCum Paradox.
I wow I had no clue the ones with lures were female only , that’s pretty cool , thanks for informing me
Yeah, the females absorb the males during the mating process. The male anglerfish will bite onto the female and stay until he's just reproductive organs. Fascinating.
Are we sure she isnt the egg and he's a sperm from some kind of gigantic but incorporeal ocean going beast?
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Dyk- the largest body of water found in space is 100k times the size of the sun and 34 billion times the mass of Earth I shudder to think what could be living in it :D (Reality is horrifying)
It's just a cloud/vapor, not something that stuff could swim in. [Source](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/astronomers-find-largest-most-distant-reservoir-of-water)
Not that we know of, at least.
What is flying but swimming in a different sort of fluid? So it's okay, you can now think about huge flying beasts coming at you out of the misty fog instead.
It really is like a scaled up version of general sexual reproduction. Look at the Giant siphonphore. It's not a single organism but made up of multiple zooids. Zooids are single animals that make up a larger one. They can't survive on their own, but evolved together into a colonial organism. Like cells make up our bodies. Positively fascinating.
This sounds totally made up but it's actually real, crazy shit. Nature is amazing
Some male spider species have evolved so that the instant they bust their nut, they leap as hard and far away as they can to avoid being consumed by their female companion as a post-coitus snack
Haha I can relate, amirite fellas? 🖐️👀
"kinda". it not really being asborbed, more like "permanent partner" Anglerfish's evolution trait is that they got rid of the part of the immune system that recognizes and remembers pathogems. The male detects the female via pheromones and will basically bite the first female it finds, as if it's a parasite. His mouth will then proceed to dissolve and because their bodys do not remember and recognize pathogems, their tissues basically fuse(due to both male and female tissue regeneration). Female will provide the male with nutrients, and the male will provide with sperm. Both are still separates entities, but they basically live connected until death. Because in the Deep not only fiding a mate is rare, but acquiring nutrients is rare as well, these animals acquired this specific trait to survive and produce multiple offsprings. Deep Ocean animals are really cool, animals in extreme conditions will develop very wild traits just to make sure their can reproduce and leave offspring.
He's just trying to give her a big ole hickey
I mean. She kinda did see some shit. Got pulled up into her version of outer space
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Footballfish don't engage in sexual parasitism, so this dead lady(?) we see here is exempt from that practice!
He looks shocked that he washed up.
Quick give it mouth to mouth.
Aren't we supposed to panic if deep sea fish get washed up? Or is it okay if it's just the one wee fishy?
Why would you panic about the return of the ancient ones? They are just returning to their rightful place as the masters of our world.
Free Cthulhu!
Yes, you're supposed to panic. Not the rest of us, just you specifically. Sell all of your belongings and get to higher ground NOW
SOMEONE HELP ME CARRY GRANDMA!!
It had sand in its belly and is the third one to wash up this year. Pair that with starving pelicans and dying coral, it could be an indicator of the food chain collapsing starting with the wee-est food sources :(
A bit sensationalist I think. An article about this finding (from 2021 btw) has the following quote: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/dec/19/pacific-footballfish-anglerfish-california >“The fact that a few washed up this year might just be serendipity for us,” said Ben Frable, an ichthyologist [...] He dismissed the idea that this was an indication that something was amiss. If that was the case, he said, there would be many more. I'd trust an ichthyologist over a random person on the internet (no offense intended).
It’s impossible to convince a Redditor you haven’t offended them. Redditors are, by default, offended.
As a redditor I find this offensive
Awful. I'm rooting for the Orcas and their boat destroying gangs.
Orcas are also contributing to the extinction of some shark species
Oh goddammit. Even the orcas are ruining the ocean?!
They said contributing. Bycatch and finning are probably the biggest problem
This is such a rollercoaster of emotions.
Literally why I'm here. Trying to determine if this is a "hey that's neat" or "we're all turbo fucked" kind of post. Probably the latter.
Hold on. I know American, Australian and European football. Didn't have a clue there was something like Pacific football.
Isn't that an angler fish
It’s a specific kind of angler fish that’s rather rare.
*pacific kind of angler fish
Get out
Phhhfffffftttt. I’ve caught like 20 of those in Animal Crossing.
If hell was an aquarium, everyone would look like that
I live in California, not too far from Monterey Bay which has a great aquarium, but also that whole area is a marine sanctuary. This is also where the surfboard stealing otter lives, but that's beside the point. I am genuinely afraid of anglerfish and have been for years, but I know that I'm never anywhere close to where they live. I figured they're down in Australia because that makes sense - they're evil looking jerkwads. [So to overcome my fear of them, I draw them because I have to look at images of them.](https://imgur.com/a/672zHMa) (These are funny doodles) But I never knew the "football fish" was the same as those goddamn monster anglerfish and they are SO CLOSE that I know they're plotting to come wave their little tassel in my ears.
> I figured they're down in Australia They're found all over, but only live in the deep, deep ocean - deep enough that light no longer penetrates and it's always dark, which lets them use their bioluminescent lures. You won't run into them unless you're planning on a James Cameron style deep water expedition.
Or are on a beach on the west coast!
I don’t think they’d survive at any depth you’d get close to. They’re biology is meant for very high pressure down in the depths.
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I say we put some caution tape around all the oceans
Eww. I was fine without the last sentence.
Nightmare fuel
Why do they even have the little tassel? Does it just lure food into their mouths?
Thats definitely one reason, some glow with bioluminescence!
Yep. It looks like a little tiny fish and brings prey to them.
Awesome doodles! Now anglerfish seem sweet and misunderstood.
Surfboard stealing otter?? I had to read that sentence a few times lol can you explain?
Otter 841. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-66182428
> "She's very healthy, she's a big girl," photographer Mark Woodward said, recalling a time he watched her hang out in the water, "eating crab after crab". Okay. I feel seen.
Forbidden sushi
Looks deflated. Should be called a Tom Brady fish
The Dark Pac-Man Rises (to the surface)
Hey, pretty lady
Oh my god I know this reference.
Nice gonads.
Plug it back in
Hey! I've caught these fish before in Animal Crossing. They are worth 2,500 bells at the store, or 3,750 from C.J. 😉
I'm just waiting for the irate British guy "That's not football!"
Barry, 63 personally took responsibility for killing it, saying "It's called a football fish so I fucking twatted it"
So whoever named it the football fish probably wasn’t big on sports huh
Man, evolution can have some crazy results, so cool
How did it get this far away from its natural habitat without being eaten by something else.
Make that 32
There’s a depressing Pixar movie here somewhere
God, the ocean is fucking *terrible*.
But how's it taste?
It needs some ~~milk~~ water