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the duality of beetle (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Here's a super rare, cool, and interesting beetle!
*posts a super low quality image*

Here you go, since OP doesn't care about quality.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Appreciate your images. But I don’t think that shade on OP was necessary lol.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The shade absolutely was necessary. This isn't reddit; have some standards.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I disagree

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

…and you have 0 posts on your account.

There is a shortage of posts on lemmy compared to active users. So no use outproportionally criticising someone who is posting a post based on something like image quality of a reposted meme lol. That’ll just make people who bring content to lemmy less likely to continue.

Obviously it’s okay to criticise bad posts, but I think in thise case the criticism was more just insults. (and especially in a meme community, like dude we don’t expect 4k image memes).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

This is a meme?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The one tagged "female" was just a bottom view and they both look similiar? Is that the joke?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No there's no joke. It's the same beetle, top and bottom. Split down the middle to be genetically male and female

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ohh ohh damn lol. Posting two pictures was extremely confusing given "left" and "right"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's so you can see the top and bottom. It seems pretty obvious it's left-right that has the differences. Just look at the mandibles!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I'm no beetle expert. I thought it's a weird beetle that has asymmeyric pair of scissors, and male and female had left/right handedness

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair, your images are full of jpeg artifacts. But at least they're higher res.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's why I didn't say anything about jpeg artifacts. Just low quality.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Reminds me of something I drew a while back.

I screwed up the equal length of the mandibles from the reference image. It does look very similar to this bettle though. The body texture and shape is not quite roght though.