#bobsicle

[skeksisloving]

I'll never forget the day when I was playing Bugsnax, and a Bobsicle rammed into Chandlo and knocked him off the map.

[straightyuri]

seems about right

[shellsy-woolbag]

Snax redesign

little bobsicle became sad and melted a little

weenyworm became fried

sandopede became more detailed

[i-am-thedragon]

While Snakification Modifications is in progress, I made a very quick texture edit mod that turns the Bopsicle and Big Bobsicle cyan. I did this after learning that they were cyan in early pre-release versions of the game. Go ahead and try it out if you'd like. It at least gives a way of making Filbo look like his original colour after full snakification.

[t-hacker-brdfrd]

I LOVE YOU(platonically)

also how’s Randy and the Emo Minecraft kid?

Thanks sweetheart. Randy and Bobsicle are doing fine. I heard Bobby wants to make a tumblr of his own, but I really only think he’d use it to try and talk to Nightmare. Whatever floats his boat

[fiddlepickdouglas]

Guys, guys, guys

I've seen plenty of headcanons about Luke, Alex and Reggie with the members of the book club they played for. But what about Bobby? He played those gigs too! I wanna know if he picked anything up!

If we go with the hc that he was super into reading, I wanna believe that he booked (lol pun) the gig in the first place.

All the guys are just like "Bobby, you what? Are you serious? No, we're not doing a quiet gig for a bunch of old ladies!"

And he has to tell them "No, come on, it'll be good exposure!" (Yeah, Bobbert, you just wanted to discuss Vonnegut, we know) "I know this lady on my street, Imelda, she's super nice and she'll make a ton of food for us -"

"Food?" Reggie is interested. They do the gigs.

And he keeps tabs on all the members, even when he disappears as Bobby and re-emerges as Trevor. Sometimes he'll find rare copies of some of their favorites and strategically plant them so they get found in the bookshops they regularly visit. He doesn't always know if they actually find them, but when he hears about the few who do, he just secretly glows from the inside all day. He did attend Imelda's funeral when she passed and he brought little Carrie with him (who understood nothing, but it was a growing experience). Imelda had made especially delicious blackberry cobbler and he kept a copy of the recipe even though he can't bake. Eventually Carrie tries it one day and he is transported back to being a teen struggling to get his band some recognition.

Book nerd Bobsicle, that is all 💕💕

[eddwardtheseventhspacewizard]

To get Cromdo back to Snaxberg you have to turn his feet into bobsicles so his feet wouldn’t get hurt while walking back. To get Chandlo back you have to get bugsnak so he can get stronger. Some bugsnak have side effects other than snakification. Did it hurt when Floofty cut off their leg? If so was the pain numbed at all? Their leg was just a strabby.

[ursifors]

jeremy and kat are finally doing the bugsnax cooking stream tomorrow!! i better see yall there shouting BOBSICLE in chat!!

[mercuryhomophony]

Do you think the Grumpus world is facing an imminent Bugsnax-pocalypse?

I actually.... don’t think so! (Spoilers below the cut!)

So the thing is, Bugsnax is a grey-goo situation, right? they come in contact with a thing, they absorb the matter, and it becomes them, and they grow and expand.

But! The two have a few key differences:

1. Grey goo has no instinct. It just spreads. However, Bugsnax are complex enough creatures that they have instincts they follow. They don’t just convert things, they make themselves tasty enough, simple enough to catch (although difficult enough to give a sense of satisfaction), and use that to enter their hosts. They’re more than just the cellular absorption of a grey goo situation, they’re actual larger scale parasites (or mega parasites, if you consider that the whole island is one Bugsnax). If it was as easy as converting matter, they wouldn’t need these instincts, which means there’s a difficulty for them to convert Grumbles to ‘Snax.

2. Grey goo, as mentioned above, is usually pretty instantaneous. Touch the thing, get absorbed by the thing. Bugsnax, however, seems to require 2 factors - volume of ‘Snax, and strength of will. Sufficient of either of these factors seem to be enough to protect a Gramble from full Snackification - Lizbert was intensely strongwilled, and even though she faced down a hoard of ‘Snax marching down her throat, she was able to keep hold of herself and (presumably, based on the end photos and notes from the developer) get herself and Eggabell back. Likewise, if you don’t have enough volume of ‘Snax, the Gramble will process it like normal food, and it won’t be an issue (I have and had some theories regarding the Outhouse, some debunked some still fun to play with. Ask me about it) - it’ll just pass from the Grambles system as the Snakification wears off. That’s why Snax have to be smart, and as Liz said, insidious.

3. Grey Goo is as dangerous in a molecule as it is in a blob. It will slowly eat away at anything around it and make it part of itself. The same is demonstrably not true of Bugsnax, as mentioned in the volume bit in 2. Additionally, Bugsnax are also seen to combine to be more than the sum of its parts - Picantis, Bobsicle, Sandipede, Scoopy Banoopy, are all more powerful than the individual bits that make them up. A sufficiently small Bugsnax is easy to scoop up and chow down on, Easy Peasy, and we already know that a little Bugsnax won’t kill you.

4. There’s then the question of whether Snacktooth island is an island, or a giant aquatic Bugsnax itself. If it is an island, then it’s unlikely (between how ‘Snax are not very hardy compared to Grumpuses and how they can presumably only regenerate as part of the “hive”) that they would be able to reach the mainland in high enough quantity to establish a proper Bugsnax base, and work from there (and even if they did, it would fail. More on that in a moment). If it’s an aquatic Bugsnax, it may not be able to go on land... or, it might be aware that it faces danger if it actually tries to go to the Mainland. Right now, it’s getting a fair bit of seafood just existing (evidenced by the shells on the beach), and every hundred years or so, some sort of civilization sets up, and it feeds on them for awhile before wiping them out entirely (there could be an argument made that if Bugsnax had evolved slightly differently, there could have been a more symbiotic relationship - in fact, maybe some of the older Grumpus civilizations were like that, and died out for unrelated reasons!).

5. That brings me to how to beat the Bugsnax. If a few Bugsnax came to the island, destroying them (or even eating them, in small quantity) would be enough to take out the infestation. Plus, Bugsnax. They’re tasty! If a BIG Bugsnax invasion arrived... The same plan would work.

Bugsnax eventually pass through a Grumpus’s system, presumably without any long term effects (that we’re shown in game). If that’s the case, then we can assume that at a certain level, these parasites are... prosessed... by the body, and become Inert (yuck, but everybody poops. Even Grumpuses (Especially Grumpuses, by the way everyone will drop what they’re doing and BOLT to the outhouse, trampling innocent journalists in their path)). To beat a big Bugsnax Infestation, I suspect you just need enough hungry mouths and a way to make sure you’ve thinned out the Bugsnax to a level they can’t Snackify the Grumpuses, and boom! Problem solved.

Now! That all said... it seems like there are forces beyond our ken going on behind the scenes in Bugsnax, because in the good ending, we hear voices discussing the continued existence of Bugsnax. Which means, in a perversely safe way, someone already knows about it and has a handle on it, one way or another. Now, they could be using them for nefarious purposes (probably are), and they definitely aren’t stopping people from going to check it out (Lizbert got there, after all), but they’re probably not going to let the Grumpus world get overrun.

Probably ;)

[skeksisloving]

Ok so. A big Bopsicle just made Chandlo disappear from the face of the earth. Poor himbo never stood a chance. I'm so sorry Snorpy.

[stimtaurworld]

🐱💟 bobsicle

please credit if you use 💟

[acidxfrost]

Don't show off. #Bobsicle #IceSkating #FigureSkating #ShowOff #CuriousBob #ComicStrip #SundayFunnies https://www.facebook.com/AcidFrostComics

[sianmichaela]

Look at those eyes though 😻😻😻 #BobbySinger #Bobsicle #catsofinstagram @linkinpaddy

[boxedgremlin]

HEY @bob-like-in-bobsicle and @immigrantphenomenon Y'ALL ARE MY BIGGEST FANS AND I LOVE YOU BOTH AND Y'ALL SHOULD HIT ME UP SOMETIME I LOVE YOU HOES 😭❤💞💜💙💕👀

[bithesda]

a bobsicle (a popsicle but it’s named bob)