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- I told my wife that from a genetic standpoint starfish are disembodied heads crawling across the seafloor on their mouth, and she was so squicked out that she left the room... Which was, in fairness, my intent, so, uh... mission accomplished?
  
  I enjoyed that SpongeBob episode
- Not gonna lie, that turned me on a little
  
  what.
  
  zzzzziiiiippppp
  
  😏
- Don't leave us hanging... what are they called in France??
  
  They're called "étoiles de mer" in French
- this would work on me
- Seems a bit weird that every culture would call them some variant of "stars" since they don't look like actual stars. Actual stars are just dots.
  
  They particularly look like diffraction spikes/starbursts.
  Astigmatism, cataracts, glaucoma or smudged glasses can cause you to see starbursts when you look at bright lights at night.
  
  I must assume all people who name things have astigmatism.

He must have been dating someone else who has an even greater knowledge of coelacanths.
- True. When it comes to knowledge about coelacanths, never settle.

Jokes aside, maybe OOP didn't cite their sources correctly. There is no bigger turnoff, especially on your first date. My mom used to say know your facts and have your sources handy. Best dating advice and honestly the only one that really matters
- Also: always carry a Laptop with you, so you can always hold them a power point presentation.

100% this is it.

Sea anemones are relatives of the jellyfish. They have these tiny hairs growing on them that they use to feed by stunning fish, shrimp, zooplankton, and so on.
But they can survive for years without food. They're like jellyfish in that way. There are even sea anemones that have lived longer than 70 years with the proper care.
They're found all throughout the world's oceans, and they can slowly move too. There are also fish that live inside them called anemonefish. The sea anemones protect them from predators and share their food scraps.
In tropical waters, sea anemones latch on to coral reefs or rocks.
Starfish are echinoderms and relatives of the sea urchin. There are as many as 2,000 starfish species around the world. Not all of them are star-shaped either. There's even a species with 30 arms.
When they get attacked by a predator, they'll rip off their own arm to get away while the predator eats it. Their arms can regenerate, so I guess they regrow later.
Starfish can eat almost anything in the ocean. They feed by pushing their stomach out of their mouth and directly digesting their prey. Fun fact, there's an area in Kumamoto Prefecture where they eat starfish. As you'd expect from a relative of the sea urchin, you strip the skin to eat the insides, like with sea urchins.
Even in other languages, starfish mostly have star-related names. For instance, in France they're called...
- I WAS COMING IN HERE TO POST THAT
- Go on. What are they called in France?
  
  "Star of the sea"

Looking at the post at face value, and joke aside, it sounds that it was a one way conversation for 30+ minutes, non-stop.
Esoteric knowledge can be interesting. A sure-sell selling point about you to a stranger on a first meeting it ain't.
"Hi, how are you? ...Good? Great. Let me go on for 30min. on a topic you may care or not about and do so uninterrupted, and if you don't like it, I will make a quippy post online about it, okay? Like, for sure people will take my side. Win/win."
- Bad take. They clearly didn't offer enough information on coelacanths. I've spent the last few hours reading about them and they are cool as hell, and I want to learn even more.
- Tbh if someone talked off the bat about their passion itd make me a lot more likely to want to date them. I want people to talk about what interests them and with most people it feels like pulling teeth trying to get them to do that.
  
  Ohh man, maybe my extensive knowledge of Europa Universalis 4 will pay off after all.
  
  SO, there are seven Chaos Emeralds and they are able to generate tremendous amounts of energy, effectively making them a source of unlimited power. The Emeralds become even stronger when in proximity to one another, and having all seven in one place can create miraculous effects. In particular, gathering all the Chaos Emeralds allows the bearer to temporarily gain incredible abilities, an effect most often used by Sonic himself when he transforms into Super Sonic. Shadow is also notable in his power to use the Chaos Emeralds, manipulating time and space via Chaos Control.
  Despite their name, the Chaos Emeralds each have a different vibrant color. There is no known difference in power between the different colored Emeralds. The Chaos Emeralds are blue, green, red, purple, yellow, turquoise, and white. A Chaos Emerald that has been drained of power (a state which is always temporary) appears grey. This happens most prominently in Sonic Unleashed, where Eggman diabolically sucks the Emeralds straight out of a trapped Super Sonic, using them to power his Chaos Energy Cannon – which leaves them dry.
  In Sonic Adventure 2, Tails is able to create an artificial Chaos Emerald, intended to fool his foes, that has a more subdued hue than the genuine article. While it is less powerful than the real thing, the false Emerald still functions as an energy source. Sonic is even able to use the artificial Emerald to power Chaos Control, despite it being established that such a feat should not be possible. No explanation is given for how Sonic is able to accomplish this maneuver when equally-powerful characters like Shadow cannot, beyond an indifferent shrug of "he just tried really hard; and he's the protagonist."
  Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik is constantly searching for the Chaos Emeralds, intent on using them to power his doomsday weapons such as the Egg Carrier. With an unlimited source of energy, his oversized contraptions could easily allow him to conquer the world. In the original Sonic The Hedgehog game, defeating Eggman without collecting all the Chaos Emeralds would result in a bad ending - Eggman would taunt the player with the uncollected Emeralds, suggesting he is able to continue with his diabolical plans despite Sonic's meddling.
  It isn't just Sonic who can make use of the Emeralds to transform into alternate forms. Knuckles, Tails, and Amy Rose are similarly able to go 'Super' when all seven are assembled, though they don't replicate his Super-Saiyan-style transformation, instead merely sparkling with magical energy. Shadow and Silver, two fellow hedgehogs, share this ability, too, and have employed it on numerous occasions to seal away such foes as Black Doom and Solaris.
  Additionally, Super Sonic is far from the only form the Emeralds can spawn. When Eggman saps their energy in Sonic Unleashed, their polarity is reversed, and they amplify the negative influence of the newly-awakened Dark Gaia. The combination of these two dark energy sources pulsing so nearby to him causes Sonic to mutate into the Werehog, a lycanthropic beast that emerges only when the moon is out. It takes the restoration of the Emeralds, and Dark Gaia reclaiming the last of his wayward energy pieces, for the hedgehog to be cured.
  Sonic Superstars shows off a whole new host of powers granted by the Emeralds. One of these is Avatar, that generates a swarm of clones identical to the user, while another is Vine, enabling one to cause towering plants to erupt from the earth. Swimming through the water like a fish, darting across the skies as a fireball, seeing invisible objects; the Emeralds offer a veritable laundry list of perks.
  The Chaos Emeralds are bound to the Master Emerald, an enormous gem enshrined on Angel Island. With the correct prayers and rituals, the Master Emerald can further increase the power of the Chaos Emeralds, granting the user almost godlike power. The Master Emerald can also be used to temporarily remove the Chaos Emeralds' energies, rendering them inert.
  The Master Emerald was first encountered by Sonic in Sonic The Hedgehog 3, when Sonic and Tails pursued Eggman to Angel Island. The devious doctor convinced the island's guardian, Knuckles the Echidna, that Sonic and Tails had come to claim the power of the Master Emerald for themselves, tricking Knuckles into delaying Sonic while Eggman set about his latest scheme.
  Knuckles is the last of his clan - the rest of whom were wiped out by Chief Pachacamac's warmongering intentions, described below - sworn to protect the Master Emerald and prevent its powers from being used for evil. Upon learning of Eggman's deception, he joins Sonic in defeating the doctor. Knuckles has been an on-and-off ally to Sonic ever since, but he always makes it clear that his duty to the Master Emerald comes before everything else.
  Oh, there's a character limit. Anyway, when can I see you again? Wanna bang or whatever?
- I don't think this post is meant as quippy, but rather self-deprecating. She only realized afterwards that she talked a little too much...
- Honestly, I love it when people start geeking out. It’s fun, and usually i learn something new.
  
  Same as long as this isn't the only thing they do. I work with a guy that loves to talk about his passions and it's awesome for like thirty minutes. Then it's alright for another 15-20. After that it starts to drag and I begin to feel the weight of my mounting unfinished tasks.
- Reminds me of this scene from chainsaw man:

Talk living fossils to me and I'll do anything you want baby.
You tell me about cryptids and you can just take me right there on the table.
- "Hey am I boring you, you've hardly said anything and your eyes are glazed?"
  "Nnggh no baby... I-I'm... really close. P-please... d-don't stop"

He's just studying for the test.

No lectures before the third date, everyone knows that. Huge red flag.
Did anyone else not know it's pronounced see-la-kanth? I've been saying it wrong in my head all these years omg.
- You were pronouncing it cloaca-canth weren't you?
- I'm revoking your koalafications
  
  Surely a man is entitled to his koalafanfiction.

Neurodivergent person shares one special interest, neurotypical tells you everything you need to know about them.
- NT: I'm regular AF. Here's my bank info.

The nights I stayed up trying to catch as many of those fuckers as I could in animal crossing

This would absolutely work on me
- Same. I'm not much of a talker so the more the other person fills in the gaps the better.

Man getting lengthy lectures from a woman, and here I am talking to myself. What is wrong with some people? Not me; I know what’s wrong with me.

Thanks to Pokémon I immediately knew what kind of fish the post was about…
- my sapphire brain instantly got braille ptsd
- Relicanth!

maybe he was vegetarian and would have wanted to hear more about sea"cucumber" instead of fishy things.
- I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants, not because I love animals!
  
  Based

I'm down. After that I'm paying for the meal. We're definitely exchanging digits.
- I'm not nerdy about fish. But I am nerdy about people who are nerdy.

I wonder if this is what it's like dating Lindsay Nikole.
For the record, she's one of my favorite YouTubers.
- She's the bees knees.

Maybe I should contact her and ask her to talk at me about colecanths so I can give her feedback.
- Get in line. About a dozen of us are trying to audit her presentation.
  
  I opened this post looking for coelacanth facts.

Blathers told me all I ever wanted to know about colecanths back in the first Animal Crossing. I want facts about other prehistoric fish.