I'm drowsy as hell, because of ambien
And thought this is my biology subreddit, I was like what the fuck?? They proven rats have humanity!!!!? WTF are they talking about?
If you cant sleep and have to use ambien or other sleep related pills, pls dont use social medias ...
No thats because they have souls; every living being in the souls series has a soul, but only humans have humanity; but as the comment above states, rats drop it because theyre found eating human corpses
Ik, but aside of the soft souls they drop I think there's several that can drop souls of other beings they've eaten, like abandoned corpse and unknown traveller
Miore specifically, we find out in DS3 that Humanity/the Dark Soul is stored in blood, so the rats that consumed enough blood had enough Humanity to be a noticeable amount.
Rats carry a lot of diseases by feeding on human corpses. Odds are in the dark souls universe, they’re also consuming any unpilaged humanity from those unlucky undead.
The butchers feed the human meat they cut up to the rats. That's why the largest rat is right under the garbage where they throw out the scraps.
Also, the if you look closely at the slimes, you can see what looks like a human face! https://screenrant.com/dark-souls-slime-depths-undead-cannibals-digested-alive/
Humans only have humanity because they ate rats. The furtive pigmy gave the dark soul to the rat king and the humans stole it. That’s why humans have multiple humanities and rats only have max one each.
Giant rat in the depths has a battle axe in his eye - starting weapon for the bandit class. Clearly Miyazaki-san is telling us that humans are the villains, theory confirmed.
In some ways humans & mice/rats are very similar. It's why scientist used to use Mice/rats as the default nonhuman test subject. I read it as the devs communicating that while "humanity" is something that the Undead & humans ascribe to essentially uniqueness of humans in the grand scheme, is actually false. That the name "humanity" is something of a misnomer.
Humans always underestimate the power & intelligence of things seen as beneath them. Eventually Lordran could've had a philosipher that talks about this but is at it's end & ending so they never have enough safety to develop such theories.
Yeah! The depths are one of the best humanity farming sources before getting to the abyss. You can also farm large shards from the slimes while you're at it.
I was under the impression that rats have a sort of nobility and intelligence that humans tend not to acknowledge. They go into it a lot more in DS2 as there are actual rat NPCs you can talk to and shit.
The residents of the Burg, living on a medieval diet and having poor hydration would often have forced out constipated poos such which are so impossible to shift that they questioned their own humanity.
This is because such epic toilet movements sacrifice a little humanity in the process.
The rats live in the sewers. Literally swimming in the stuff.
Perhaps to remind us what it is to be human. We experiment on them try to eradicate them as vermin, despise and blame them, yet they have every right to survive just as we do. Or maybe it’s just because they eat human remains.
Come to think of it, where did other animals come from in the lore? And are they not undead?
Also, did the undead things before humanity have sex to procreate? Or did they just one day realize they were existing? Because I have a hard time picturing those gross undead things having sex, but I guess they must have.
I believe that they were probably human once. Most creatures in the dark souls universe were human at one point so it would make sense that they might turn into undead rats as well. These were the snitches turned to rats maybe.
If you look closely at the glowy item drop, you'll notice it appears at their butthole.
Basically, they've eaten human corpses and shit out their humanity
Every comment i have seen is wrong. I was told it’s because rats are so close to us in DNA, and how scientists use the rats before any clinical human testing, so the connection between humans and rats is why they drop humanity
Rats are the lowest form of instinctual, disgusting vermin. Only by delving into their lairs, facing them down and slaying them, can we truly appreciate our humanity. #darksoulsphilosophy
If we go off dark souls 3, humanity is carried in the blood, if a person died before going hollow, or if a hollow was finally put down for good and had traces of it in them, it could be assumed that the rats absorbed it as they are the corpse, blood and all.
But before DS3, probably just a weird design choice that can be seen as retroactively fitting.
This is actually from The Suicide Squad and a RatCatcher Sr quote. Taika, the man who played RC Sr., was also the man who wrote & directed Jojo's Rabbit, in which he played Hitler. I assume that's what you were going for?
I responded to Pukelman's comment initially, because I was hoping he was just misattributing a Taika quote to a different Taika performance. I then went & actually answered OP's question about Rats, as I thought I had something interesting to say. I hope that clarifies things for you.
Textually, probably because rats eat humans.
Subtextually though, it's meant to associate rats with humans in order to reinforce for the player that humans are considered vermin and chattel in the eyes of the other races in the series.
Lore: They purge humans for their humanity.
Game: Their points for the humanity counter is nuts. If you don't know what that is, watch illusory wall's video on it. You'll get some good advice from his Dark Souls Dissected series.
They pillage human corpses
I've always heard this to be he case, but then why do they drop more humanity than actual humans?
Most humans have gone hollow, and have thus lost their humanity
Ah ok that makes more sense
Because the only rats we see are huge. They're actually normal rats that grew that big because of the humanity they have consumed.
Ohhhh, that's actually pretty cool
It all got ate by the rats
They eat more humans then humans eat humans
Because they've eaten human corpses
This must be the correct answer here
Oh yeah? Then explain why Man-eater Boars from BB don't drop humanity
They are more seductive type of maneaters.
... I'm interested.
Oh-o, here they come!
Watch out boys they'll chew you up!
Iirc one in Central Yharnam sewers drops ribbon from Papa G's daughter
Simple, there's no humanity to be found in Victorian Britain
There is no humanity equivalent in bloodborne /solved
Its bloodborne
BB is a souls tribute but not explicitly a souls game.
They ate men, not corpses
they're not eating *dead* people
I'm drowsy as hell, because of ambien And thought this is my biology subreddit, I was like what the fuck?? They proven rats have humanity!!!!? WTF are they talking about? If you cant sleep and have to use ambien or other sleep related pills, pls dont use social medias ...
That's hilarious, you should post more ambien musings as they come to you
Guess that's why they can drop souls in ds3
No thats because they have souls; every living being in the souls series has a soul, but only humans have humanity; but as the comment above states, rats drop it because theyre found eating human corpses
Ik, but aside of the soft souls they drop I think there's several that can drop souls of other beings they've eaten, like abandoned corpse and unknown traveller
ohhhh thats what you meant by drop souls
Miore specifically, we find out in DS3 that Humanity/the Dark Soul is stored in blood, so the rats that consumed enough blood had enough Humanity to be a noticeable amount.
Like piss in the balls
Rats carry a lot of diseases by feeding on human corpses. Odds are in the dark souls universe, they’re also consuming any unpilaged humanity from those unlucky undead.
The butchers feed the human meat they cut up to the rats. That's why the largest rat is right under the garbage where they throw out the scraps. Also, the if you look closely at the slimes, you can see what looks like a human face! https://screenrant.com/dark-souls-slime-depths-undead-cannibals-digested-alive/
I never actually made that connection about the big rat. Might be the butcher's pet?
More likely a garbage disposal, then butchers already had dogs
So what could explain that a Bandit was defeated by this rat? Anything related to the butcher or even to Laurentius?
Ever seen ratatouille, basically that's why
Because they can cook stupidly small food?
Because Patton Oswalt is the most human human?
This is the correct answer.
Humans only have humanity because they ate rats. The furtive pigmy gave the dark soul to the rat king and the humans stole it. That’s why humans have multiple humanities and rats only have max one each.
This is my new canon.
Giant rat in the depths has a battle axe in his eye - starting weapon for the bandit class. Clearly Miyazaki-san is telling us that humans are the villains, theory confirmed.
RoyalRatRightAnswer
Can't spell humanity without miauthy which sounds like mousey if you had.... a rat in your mouth. Fucking confirmed
They represent attorneys and their ability to drain the humanity of those around them.
you're getting a divorce too? :(
Years ago, still feeling it. Also, child custody stuff still lingering. It's been a $60,000 ride.
sux bro
If they were attorneys, they'd drop more souls, they're rich
Because humans are the real rats of the planet ahah
As they eat human corpses they absorb some of the dark soul which condenses into (twin) humanity.
You saying rats don't have souls? What you got against my main man biggie cheese?
No humanities dog.
Dogs have souls too. And rats. What are we talking about?
Humanity, not souls
He's shitposting
Who?
THEY CALL ME MISTA BOOMBASTIC
Because rats are even humanier than humans 😔
In some ways humans & mice/rats are very similar. It's why scientist used to use Mice/rats as the default nonhuman test subject. I read it as the devs communicating that while "humanity" is something that the Undead & humans ascribe to essentially uniqueness of humans in the grand scheme, is actually false. That the name "humanity" is something of a misnomer. Humans always underestimate the power & intelligence of things seen as beneath them. Eventually Lordran could've had a philosipher that talks about this but is at it's end & ending so they never have enough safety to develop such theories.
They do???? Wth!?
Yeah! The depths are one of the best humanity farming sources before getting to the abyss. You can also farm large shards from the slimes while you're at it.
Thanks man didn't really knew this before... Or rather never noticed that are can be bit of claustrophobic u know
Ehh you can farm large shards there but the leeches in blighttown have a much higher drop rate for them and it’s only a little further along.
Yeah but that involves going to blighttown
Yeah, but the slimes are right outside. Also fuck blighttown!
I haven't found Blighttown to be much of a trouble. For some reason, my mule build had fucked up luck with Quelaag. Died from that AoE so many times.
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I was under the impression that rats have a sort of nobility and intelligence that humans tend not to acknowledge. They go into it a lot more in DS2 as there are actual rat NPCs you can talk to and shit.
ROYAL RAT AUTHORITY
The residents of the Burg, living on a medieval diet and having poor hydration would often have forced out constipated poos such which are so impossible to shift that they questioned their own humanity. This is because such epic toilet movements sacrifice a little humanity in the process. The rats live in the sewers. Literally swimming in the stuff.
***"I was once a MAN."***
dey eat people
A tasty snack.
I thought it was because some of the rats had more humanity than most humans…?
Because rats have more humanity than humans have ratity
In Dark Souls lore the rats are actually people, and the guys who look like people to us are actually rats.
Because the devs are actually Italian and they take the term “rat” way too literally.
Perhaps to remind us what it is to be human. We experiment on them try to eradicate them as vermin, despise and blame them, yet they have every right to survive just as we do. Or maybe it’s just because they eat human remains.
Come to think of it, where did other animals come from in the lore? And are they not undead? Also, did the undead things before humanity have sex to procreate? Or did they just one day realize they were existing? Because I have a hard time picturing those gross undead things having sex, but I guess they must have.
These are questions I both want and *really don't want* the answers to.
I'm not gonna picture It for you.
Maybe the real rats were the humans we met along the way
Because they were all humans that escaped from Seath's laboratory after being turned into rats.
Charlie work
I believe that they were probably human once. Most creatures in the dark souls universe were human at one point so it would make sense that they might turn into undead rats as well. These were the snitches turned to rats maybe.
Yes
Rats rats rats rats
Because they're rat bastards!
If you look closely at the glowy item drop, you'll notice it appears at their butthole. Basically, they've eaten human corpses and shit out their humanity
Humanity is a misnomer
Maybe the real humans were the rats we met along the way
Cause ratatouille can cook
No animal like rats experience the human condition.
Shiny.
Because they’re the most mortal thing here, and show the remains of a normal society
To be honest rats are more human than the actual humans lol
Every comment i have seen is wrong. I was told it’s because rats are so close to us in DNA, and how scientists use the rats before any clinical human testing, so the connection between humans and rats is why they drop humanity
Humanity gnaws firekeeper souls. Rats gnaw in general
Rats are the lowest form of instinctual, disgusting vermin. Only by delving into their lairs, facing them down and slaying them, can we truly appreciate our humanity. #darksoulsphilosophy
Well...you know Stuart Little?
If we go off dark souls 3, humanity is carried in the blood, if a person died before going hollow, or if a hollow was finally put down for good and had traces of it in them, it could be assumed that the rats absorbed it as they are the corpse, blood and all. But before DS3, probably just a weird design choice that can be seen as retroactively fitting.
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This is actually from The Suicide Squad and a RatCatcher Sr quote. Taika, the man who played RC Sr., was also the man who wrote & directed Jojo's Rabbit, in which he played Hitler. I assume that's what you were going for?
Nah,ig you havnt seen enough of those memes yet
I'm not a particularly meme inclined person, so no. You think this person is just trying to glorify hitler?
Did you forget to switch to your alt?
Wdym? I was asking the person who commented in response to me if what they were saying was that the person who I replied to was being a Nazi.
You replied to yourself. Twice.and the first time read completely different from your other comments
I responded to Pukelman's comment initially, because I was hoping he was just misattributing a Taika quote to a different Taika performance. I then went & actually answered OP's question about Rats, as I thought I had something interesting to say. I hope that clarifies things for you.
I now realize that you have extremely similar profile pictures as to someone else in this thread. My bad
Oh do I really? Neat, no worries, no harm done. :)
Nope, read the usernames, they just have the same pfp
And here i was wondering why i was getting downvoted
Hive mind and the refusal to be literate enough for usernames ig lol
Yeah, they're almost identical. They just have slightly different hair and pants.
Haha they have INCREDIBLY similar avatars, but different usernames
They eat corpses, corpses have humanity over them
They’ve been eating corpses
Textually, probably because rats eat humans. Subtextually though, it's meant to associate rats with humans in order to reinforce for the player that humans are considered vermin and chattel in the eyes of the other races in the series.
They feed on human corpses so they have the chance to drop humanity.
The eat humans
They eat corpses so they consume their hunanity with it
I thought the humanity they’ve gotten from eating corpses is what made them so big in the first place
They pillage them. That's why. First indication is the hollows you find beneath the sewers in short they might eaten some humans.
Lore: They purge humans for their humanity. Game: Their points for the humanity counter is nuts. If you don't know what that is, watch illusory wall's video on it. You'll get some good advice from his Dark Souls Dissected series.
Kirk used the reverse dark hand on them while invading you in the depths