Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20160125214134/@comment-25936766-20160921152050

Phantomlink959 wrote: 1-If they were organic entities, maybe the size and energy requirements would cause problems; but they're not organic, and as such the square-cube law as it applies to biological creatures does not apply.

2-Now, the camoflage thing: Chameleons actually don't blend with the environment that well, they mostly adjust colors based on the weather and their mood, or for communication. They do it with a combination of pigment and a crystaline lattice which changes colors when excited.

3-Grimm, simply put, don't have pigmentation, or the biological functions necesarry for camoflage. 1-Oh, silly Phantom. The Square/Cube Law applies to e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g with Mass. Machines, plants and buildings are just as much affected by that law as animals are.

Even if they give biology the middle finger, there is no fucking way you're going to say "they don't have MASS" and expect me to believe it. As such, they are indeed still affected by the law. The whole "Bigger, thus slower, thus less acceleration, thus less force" part is in effect. Or do you have evidence that they are Mass-less?

2-A lion octopus would've been too weird. Cuttlefish, forgot those things existed. That said, the Chameleon influence in the design is just in the "changes color" aspect and the tail, so I could change these 2 bits.

3-Do you have evidence that they don't have pigmentation, at least some species? And besides, they don't even have the biological objects necesary to live, yet they still do, for quite some time even. So them lacking the "biological functions" is not really a good reason to say they can't do X.