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• MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Nah it’s the thumb finger, like the index finger etc. We have fully truncated it to just thumb because of how it feels more unique to the others. Doesn’t mean it no longer fits the categorisation though.

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  • sugarfoot00@lemmy.ca ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We have fully truncated it to just thumb because of how it feels more unique to the others

    Kinda like the goalie on a hockey team or the drummer in a band. Still on the team, just a bit weirder.

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• dotson@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  how is a thumb different from a finger?

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  • Quadhammer@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its a thumb. Its oppsable. If you had 2+ thumbs on each hand we would probably differentiate them more

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    • Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Are your fingers not opposable? I can move all of my fingers and touch the other 4?

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    • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah yes, that’s why we can only count to 8 using our fingers

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    • dotson@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      how does being opposable make it not a finger?

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    • VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The Sangheli in Halo actually have two fingers and two thumbs on each hand.

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