C O L O N I Z E

This is how TLOU starts in real life.

It already started last year
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/cdc-fungal-infection-candida-auris-alarming-spread-rcna75477
- An otherwise healthy person can take care of a candida problem by eating a tbsp of coconut oil a day for a week, fyi. It'll cause a big die off of the infection so you'll feel like shit for a couple days while the dead yeast bits flood your waste management system though. Cut back sugar during so you're not feeding the little fuckers while trying to kill them also.
  TLOU was cordyceps, the same fungus that makes zombie ants. Thankfully not the same thing.
- “But we don’t want people who watched 'The Last of Us' to think we’re all going to die,” Javaid said. “This is an infection that occurs in extremely ill individuals who are usually sick with a lot of other issues.”
  bruh

Dude just gave people ideas of how to get revenge on bad landlords, spray some spores on your last day and hope for the worse.

I thought that was the point of the image
- That was definitely the joke, yeah

Now that's goblincore af

A win is a win.

Everyone loves a good toilet mushroom
- Toilet mushrooms go great with crotch fries, they really bring out that tanginess.

I've never seen the term toilet mushroom before, and here it is all over this thread

Isn’t it amazing how the coming together of minds from across the world can bring fresh and new vocabulary to the world?
- It's one of the things I love most about being alive. When I was a kid I loved reading the names and flavor text of Duel Masters cards. They always seemed pulled from the most weirdest corners of people's minds lol
  My favorites were always the lovecraftian horrors that had really mundane descriptions.

Probably a terrible idea, but would these in any way be safe to eat?

Obviously not the toilet mushrooms, but maybe the ones growing out of the chair, cracks in the floor etc would be safe to cook if washed?

You want to eat the toilet mushroom the most, don't you?
- Its already got some nutella on it too
Mushrooms grow out of rotting organic matter. Oyster mushrooms are all safe to eat so I would imagine that even the toilet shrooms are fine.
- It's not an attack, but I will never understand how mushrooms can be appealing to people. I will never be able to grasp it. To me, mushrooms are grotesque and the desire I see in people to eat them is the equivalent of craving spoiled food. The flavor is not enough to counter the texture triggering my gag reflex.
  Yeah, yeah. We all have different tastes and stuff. It's just a hard thing to wrap my head around.
- Yeah the piss on top of them is just added flavor!
You can always try the chew test.
Chew a bit and see if you die in 24 hours. If you don't, eat away!
- I feel like this system is flawed but I don't know enough about mushrooms to refute it
- Some mushrooms can be poisonous after 24h, just in case. angel wing mushroom shows no digestive symptoms but encephalopathy after 2 day to 1 month of latent period. The mushroom was known to be edible for a long time. Were it not for full screening for encephalopathy cases (enforced due to SARS spread back in 2004), it could've remain "edible" still now.
Most certainly not. Fungi/plants take up and bioaccumulate compounds.

DO grow Golden Teachers. Just ask uncle Ben for help.

You just need to be positive.

My wife just bought me a pack that's oyster mushroom growing kit. Now I'm scared

Have fun welcoming Ork Boyz to your house
Are you at least vaguely responsible? You should be fine, grow a way man!
- They got an oyster mushroom growing kit, not a way man growing kit, silly.
Enjoy the grow, nothing to be worried about. You should try to pick them before they start dropping spores, but it's not a big deal if they drop spores.

Oyster mushrooms are one of the few known carnivorous mushrooms. They're cool (and edible).

What the fuck was I watching with someone growing mushrooms on sedated people? What the fuck? I know I didn't make that up, people think of some very disgusting things.
- Was it that one episode of Hannibal where the guy grows mushrooms on diabetics he keeps in comas in the forest?
- It was an episode of "Hannibal" - episode S01E02 "Amuse-Bouche."
- Sounds like an episode of x files

Time to burn everything down and start fresh.

Yum roasted mushrooms

I mean, that's an advice I'll happily follow

Eh, they'll just cut them back, plaster over the holes and rent it to the next victim.

This one time at my old basement apartment I went away for a few days and came back to find a mushroom had grown in the bathroom. Never saw it happen again after that one time.

Ive seen them at work growing out of the walls near sink drains and behind dishwashers where its always wet. Pretty fucking nasty seeing shit like that. Thankfully we were tearing the place apart for cleaning to prep it for a remodel.

I should grow hen of the woods (maitake) all over my house. I could make a fortune at the eastern market, and have relatively clean mushrooms every night of the week. My cats might lick 'em.

The planet belongs to the fungi, they are just letting us live on it. For now.

how long until we see this pop up on a billionaire mindset youtube video?

short on cash? try growing mushrooms in your walls

Dude being here, eating for free while having reasons to lower rent. Genius.

I don't know why but mushrooms growing on things like carpet/flooring really scares me for some reason 😂 😱

Me too - for me because things like my floor are meant to be durable, and seeing it being destroyed so easily just by some spores flying around discomfits me.

Is this early stages of Caelid?

I wonder if they would stall the growth of normal mold, like if they have to compete for the same resources or something.

They can, since they literally are competing for the same resources.

When I was in high school my family slept on a single mattress in the living room. For some reason I don’t remember, the water from the half bath next to the living room would leak out into the living room, and so the wall separating the living room and half bath would get colonies of mushrooms growing out of the baseboard. Those mushrooms weren’t as exotic as these, tho. I don’t recommend sleeping next to things that give off spores.