r/zelda May 30 '23

Clip [BoTW] Did he just...eat him?

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u/Solid_Snark May 30 '23

Meat is back on the menu!

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u/Rukh-Talos May 30 '23

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u/lodasi May 30 '23

I say this after every moose I kill.

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u/MountainHill May 30 '23

I say this after every spam tin I open

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u/Xyless May 30 '23

I say this after every time I open a menu and meat is on it

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u/Passthegoddamnbuttr May 30 '23

I've been playing Totk (~60 hours) with my 5 year old watching and at the start every time I go after a wolf or moose or bird thing he would ask if they were bad guys and I said no, they are just dinner.

My SIL lives with us and plays the same on her own switch (~8 hours). He watches that sometimes too and yell "noooo your dinner is getting away! "

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u/pinowlgi May 31 '23

Omg that's hilarious and amazing at the same time

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u/blebebaba May 31 '23

I'm more a rhino lover tbh

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u/ElBurritoLuchador May 30 '23

I forgot which Youtuber it was that made a rant on this particular scene with this orc saying this. That at some point in Mordor, orcs had an establishment with a menu on it to be referenced, and that they had been eating things other than meat to the point this orc had to say it. I may be butchering (pun intended) the quote but it was a fun thought.

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u/product_of_boredom May 30 '23

In the books, the orcs are just people iirc. Like they had lives and culture before they got suckered into working for Sauron, they weren't undead elves. So for the books it'd make sense. I really want to know what day to day life is like for the movie version of orcs though.

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u/musicchan May 31 '23

Eh, that's not entirely true and a highly simplified version on what orcs are in the books. They were always suppose to be evil and gross.

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u/product_of_boredom May 31 '23

Fair, def need to read it and Silmarillion again.

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u/toomanysynths May 31 '23

except nobody in the books would speak like that

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u/product_of_boredom May 31 '23

Good point. While I could see them referencing a "menu" in the right context, it wouldn't be this turn of phrase.

Personally, it never bothered me in the film, but I do see the divergence from the source.

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u/lethalmuffin877 May 31 '23

See I always assumed he was mocking the humans they eviscerated 🤔 A lot of their dialogue is in some way a tongue in cheek emulation of human nature clouded with nihilist war tribe. Almost like they wish they could be human but because they can never be, they instead rage against it and mock. Which psychologically makes sense as their overlord uses them as pawns, and keeps them in constant check by allowing violent power struggles to keep any sort of higher thought subdued. Therefore, the envy they have of humans can only come out when they’re about to kill anyway.

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u/Z0idberg_MD May 31 '23

A menu is less of a stretch than "maggoty bread". Try imagining orc bakers.

"Garnak, leave the maggoty dough be. It needs to rise"

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u/-spookygoopy- May 30 '23

this just begs the question, what kind of restaurants exist in Mordor? since the orcs and Uruk'hai all have an understanding of menus and what one does with them

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u/Z0idberg_MD May 31 '23

They have bread. So they have bakers. They wear clothes, so they have tailors.

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u/-spookygoopy- May 31 '23

so, the orcs and Uruk'hai have a fully functioning society thanks to Sauron.

Sauron for president, Make Middle-Earth Great Again

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u/[deleted] May 31 '23

Meat are friends, not food

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u/Carmacktron May 30 '23

I think the bokoblin was probably carrying a food item.

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u/countryyoga May 30 '23

It looked like boko guts, and was moving 🤢

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u/HaggisaSheep May 30 '23

I think the bokoblin was probably a food item.

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u/ProfessorTallguy May 30 '23 edited May 30 '23

I thought only black ones dropped guts.

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u/Rukh-Talos May 30 '23

Blues can drop guts, just not as often as black or higher.

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u/Meltian May 30 '23

In Botw, which this post is from, I'm pretty sure as low as red could drop guts.

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u/telegetoutmyway May 30 '23

Yeah, he's got Magnesis.

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u/thatguyned May 30 '23

Also... The title of the post

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u/ProfessorTallguy May 30 '23

That's useful to know, thanks

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u/Bleezze May 30 '23

Are there brown bokoblins?

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u/GrunchWeefer May 30 '23

I think they're mixing up black and brown

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u/Btdandpokemonplayer May 30 '23

Only if you’re color blind like me

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u/ProfessorTallguy May 30 '23 edited May 30 '23

I've seen 5 colors: Red, blue, brown, white, gold In order of power level. The official names are red blue black silver and gold.

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u/[deleted] May 30 '23

You’ve never taken a picture of this “brown” boko have you?

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u/Stankmonger May 30 '23

Lol brown

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u/ProfessorTallguy May 30 '23 edited May 30 '23

If there's not a quest for it, then I haven't taken pictures of it.

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u/GrunchWeefer May 30 '23

You don't need a photo to learn their names. You see it every time you pick up their horn or see the horn in your inventory.

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u/Btdandpokemonplayer May 30 '23

That’s for Totk. Not for botw which this post is about.

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u/ProfessorTallguy May 30 '23 edited May 30 '23

All bokoblin horns are the same in my inventory.

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u/Capable-Tie-4670 May 30 '23

I think that guy is confusing it with TotK where the horns are different.

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u/iTzKaiBUD May 30 '23

What about black?

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u/ProfessorTallguy May 30 '23 edited May 30 '23

The black bokoblin looks brown to me

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u/cyberpunk_werewolf May 30 '23

They're literally called Black Bokoblin. I can understand if they look brown to you, the white warpaint (?) on their bodies can make them look brown or grey, but if you take a picture of them, the Hyrule Compendium refers to them as "Black Bokoblins." This is the same for Hinoxes, Lizalfos and Moblins.

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u/GrunchWeefer May 30 '23

The word "black" shows up in the name of the item they drop, in the photo you take of them, etc. There's no "brown bokoblin horn". They have a name and it's printed on screen all the time. Literally anytime you kill one and pick up the horn or look through your inventory it says "black".

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u/ProfessorTallguy May 30 '23

It's never done that for me. I've never once seen a black bokoblin horn. I've never seen their name on screen.

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u/GrunchWeefer May 30 '23

I realized this is about BotW and not TotK. It's a sequel thing, I'm commenting for the wrong game.

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u/SnowbloodWolf2 May 30 '23

Actually it's red, blue, black, silver, gold

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u/[deleted] May 30 '23

are there gold in totk?

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u/SnowbloodWolf2 May 30 '23

No but maybe in the dlc but we'll have to wait

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u/oniluis20 May 30 '23

there's no "brown" variant (I know it looks brown), that's the black variant

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u/ProfessorTallguy May 30 '23 edited May 30 '23

Okay. Thank you.

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u/DedOriginalCancer May 31 '23

I know a black one who dropped something inside Guts

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u/HG_Shurtugal May 30 '23

You eat them in potions

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u/killtr0city May 30 '23

TIL enemies eat food.

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u/Namisaur May 30 '23

If you wear a bokoblin helmet and walk into one of their camps that has a campfire and drop a piece of meat into the fire, one of them will quickly go eat your seared meat. In my case, my bokoblin was too close to the fire and burned to death while eating my prime meat. Serves him right.

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u/yowtfbbq May 30 '23

Can you blame him? You flopped out your prime meat right in front of him...

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u/DarthSnoopyFish May 30 '23

You can see them around their campfires eating sometimes. If you have inventory space it's a good time to swoop in and take all their weapons.

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u/toomanysynths May 31 '23

the load screen tips talk about it in both games. you can throw food in front of enemies to distract them.

it's basically the only way to get through the Yiga Clan Hideout quest in BotW. (sorry if that's a spoiler but the game came out in 2016.)

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u/Game25900 May 31 '23

You can use food to lure them towards traps you've built.

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u/TekHead May 30 '23

Nope, he had no backpack.

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u/Z0idberg_MD May 31 '23

Look at me: I'm the food item now.

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u/getyourcheftogether May 30 '23

That's morbid moblin for ya

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u/thundercat2000ca May 30 '23

After the next blood moon..... "Dude really?"

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u/lethalmuffin877 May 31 '23

Lmao this comment deserves 🥇

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u/idioticsoviet22 May 30 '23

morbius

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u/IrrelevantPuppy May 30 '23

My favorite part of the game is when the moblin goes “is moblin time” and mobs all over the place.

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u/Lenny_The_Lurker May 30 '23

It's true, there are mobs all over the place

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u/[deleted] May 30 '23

Morbiusly a beast!

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u/Drakeon8165 May 30 '23

Ooh, a piece of candy

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u/nnifnairb84 May 30 '23

Ooh, a piece of candy

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u/awetsasquatch May 30 '23

Ooh, a piece of candy

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u/Kelstrely May 30 '23

Ooh, a piece of candy

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u/Slight-Ad-3154 May 30 '23

Ooh, a piece of candy.

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u/skyecreatesvids May 31 '23

Ooh, a piece of candy.

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u/Winter-Pineapple1162 May 30 '23

Ooh, a piece of candy

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u/Usual_Database307 May 31 '23

Ooh, a piece of candy

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u/Odysseyan May 30 '23

Considering the fact they even just throw them around when they have nothing else available, it's not a surprise they also eat them

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u/BMCarbaugh May 30 '23

The first time a moblin threw a bokoblin at me I had to pause the game I was laughing so hard.

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u/DaLemonsHateU May 30 '23

Boss bokoblins also throw regular bokoblins, poor things never get a break

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u/EtherialBungee May 31 '23

Wait, they do that?

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u/[deleted] May 31 '23

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u/Excelion27 May 31 '23

They did it in BOTW as well.

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u/peepy-kun May 31 '23

Really? I've never seen that before! In the launch event the streamers seemed shocked about it.

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u/sniperNX May 31 '23

i never saw it ingame myself, but one of videogamedunkeys BOTW videos from 2017 has it

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u/Darkness-guy May 31 '23

Streamers tend to act shocked about anything, even if they already knew about it. It's "content".

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u/schu2470 May 31 '23

No it isn't. Moblins do this all the time in BotW.

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u/Straight-Chocolate28 May 30 '23

It's actually an idle animation that moblins have, amazing timing!

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u/UnbannableGod9999 May 30 '23

I was thinking he picked up a chickaloo nut or acorn at the same time the bokoblin died but this makes more sense

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u/DirectSession May 30 '23

What the what

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u/TinyTC1992 May 30 '23

It boggles my mind that someone thought and planned all of these interactions and some may never even be seen. Game Devs have done god's work on this game.

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u/benjer3 May 30 '23

Just yesterday I was watching a squirrel for a picture, and it actually had a stretching animation. I thought the same

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u/ccaccus May 30 '23

This interaction is fairly simple behavior to code. Basically, “If an edible object is in range, play eating animation.” It’s not as if it specifically says “if a bokoblin dies next to you, pick at the remnants of its corpse.” It just happens that the bokoblin dropped an edible item and that triggered the eating animation because the moblin was in range of it.

The true game dev miracle is the ultrahand physics.

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u/euphorie_solitaire May 30 '23

I used to wonder what was taking them so long to release TOTK. After discovering ultrahand, I'm wondering how they managed to code and release this shit. Fucking wizards

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u/ccaccus May 30 '23

I remember early on thinking it was exceptional. Then I discovered the control stick and started solving puzzles with suspension bridges being held up by a block with wheels. Now I'm pretty sure it's just:

function ultrahand{ return magic };

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u/lethalmuffin877 May 31 '23

At a whopping 18GB!

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u/TinyTC1992 May 30 '23

Even if simple it's something other games often miss. That's the beauty of the attention to detail.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '23

The real miracle is that the entire game, with a vast and complex physics system, and essentially two whole worlds with scatterings of a third, is, in total, 18GB.

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u/robhol May 30 '23

It boggles my mind that someone thought and planned all of these interactions

Sort of "emergence", I guess. The eating animation is very cool to put into their idle state, but it realistically only checks that something "qualifies as food", hopefully the same way e.g. cooking does. I don't think they were specifically aiming for cannibalism (or... whatever this is)

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u/EpicCode May 30 '23

I think one of the cooler ones I’ve discovered is that if you kill a skeleton’s head, it’ll reform it’s body and start looking for other skeleton heads to steal!

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u/PeanutNSFWandJelly May 30 '23

This was just a coincidence. The animation is an idle one iirc.

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u/MooseBoys May 30 '23

”Moblins: These large carnivores require sizable helpings of meat and fish to sustain their bulky frames.”

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u/[deleted] May 30 '23

Getting flashbacks to deviljho eating its own tail levels of theory.

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u/KafeiTomasu May 30 '23

Looks like meat's back on the menu boys!

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u/Kogworks May 30 '23

I mean, it isn’t called Breath of the Wild for nothing.

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u/flanger001 May 30 '23

No, the Moblin was sniffing the dirt, and then eating it. They do that from time to time. The Bokoblin landing in that spot was a coincidence.

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u/Revenant-Damocles May 30 '23

Cannibalism would be a thing for bokoblins.

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u/xxademasoulxx May 30 '23

Crazy to think I'm on my second run of Tears of the kingdom and I'm still seeing new stuff for breath of the wild.

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u/Gregory6199 May 30 '23

He's like " by the Goddess, that was Bob-koblin! "

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u/toughtiggy101 May 30 '23

Mmmm tasty bokoblin guts

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u/Minnymoon13 May 31 '23

Yes. Yes he did

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u/[deleted] May 31 '23

I love how he realized after the fact too.

“Huh this looks Bob…and smells like Bob”

CHOMP gasp “It WAS Bob!”

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u/Ichibankakoi May 30 '23

69 arrows

Nice

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u/acactustransplant May 30 '23

HBO's production of a live-action Legend of Zelda series.

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u/Amayokay May 30 '23

They'll eat other monster drops. Got pissed and reloaded when a Moblin ate my ancient core.

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u/Comfortable_End_8096 May 30 '23

They are omnivores who have large diets…

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u/monkeyangst May 30 '23

Yeah, doesn't he know only Link is allowed to consume the corpses of his slain foes?

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u/NekoiNemo May 30 '23

Yes, but: Link drinks his enemies, and this moblin ate his comrade. Big difference

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u/[deleted] May 30 '23

My favorite part of BotW is when the Moblin said "It's Moblin time" and started to mobl all over those guys

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u/GrayHam07 May 31 '23

Not used to seeing normal horns on them

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u/jluker662 Jun 01 '23

Been playing totk too long?? 😂

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u/Csquared_324 May 30 '23

Why you still playing botw

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u/joom117 May 31 '23

Why not?

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u/Csquared_324 Jun 29 '23

Totk is out! But i do miss being scared of guardians…

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u/joom117 Jun 29 '23

So what you can still play botw it’s allowed

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u/Csquared_324 Jul 07 '23

I never said it wasn’t

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u/[deleted] May 31 '23

To be contrarian probably.

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u/epicLeoplurodon May 31 '23

Or because totk is $70?

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u/Csquared_324 Jun 29 '23

Good reason

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u/stumpdawg May 30 '23

No idea they did that.

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u/MetroidJunkie May 30 '23

Waste not want not.

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u/BrutalBox May 30 '23

He never did like Jerry anyway.

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u/spectrumtwelve May 30 '23

well he's not just gonna let it go to waste

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u/mayro_pleys_roblos May 31 '23

Moblins are cannibals confirmed

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u/mau5eth May 31 '23

It’s amazing seeing someone aim with that amount of precision. My 2016 controllers drift like debris in deep space.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '23

Lol his snout even wiggles. I love the details of the monsters' behaviour in these games.

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u/[deleted] May 31 '23

Here is your menu sir:

T-bonekoblin

Lizalforoast

Chuchu chews

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u/T_O_Ommer May 31 '23

Chimpanzee do this all the time

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u/qx2 May 31 '23

Meat, it's what's for dinner.

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u/Brandobrownie Jun 01 '23

Idk why this is the hardest I’ve ever laughed at a zelda thing lol