Why do video game skeletons put themselves back together?

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• Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because that’s how skeletons work dumbass

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• hzl@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Presumably if they’re just skeletons they were animated this way anyway. Otherwise they’d just be a pile of bones with no way to move or hold themselves together.

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  • prettybunnys@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This right here is the most obvious reason why this concept exists so ubiquitously, they’re already reanimated.

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  • AkatsukiLevi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Me using a bunch of spring joints to join all individual bones together to make a skeleton

    That’d be bad in so many ways

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    • swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Only if it’s all the bones

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• tanisnikana@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Cause they need to, man. Next hero comes down the hall expecting dancing fuckin’ skeletons to whack, what else are they gonna do? Their union contract guarantees them good pay, calcium paste, and a continuous supply of puppet strings. Let ‘em do their jobs. They’re tired, man.

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  • CaptKoala@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Worked to the bone, you could say.

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• cecilkorik@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The same reason ghosts and vampires often similarly reappear soon after being banished or defeated. All are undead, protected or animated by powerful magics, and you generally can’t just “kill” something that’s already supposed to be dead. Death no longer has meaning to it, its mere existence proves that it is beyond what we would normally consider death. At least not without exploiting some kind of specific weakness, using some elaborate ritual or calling ghostbusters.

  Zombies are sometimes considered undead too, and originally they pretty much were, but more recently they’ve mostly been modernized and adopted into a more pseudo-science existence where they’re simply dead-ish, but with bodies still animated by some kind of infection in the nervous system and brain that allows basic biological activity to continue. The biological activity, then, can still be stopped using most or all of our conventional methods of stopping unwanted biological activity.

  True undead are much more difficult to permanently end, and a skeleton is very clearly not using any traditional biological activity to exist, so whatever does allow it to exist isn’t likely to be stopped by our traditional methods of ending life.

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Because it is visually cool.

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• imsufferableninja@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What is dead can never die

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  • FooBarrington@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But it CAN be ground to bone meal and replace a small amount of flour in commercial bread baking operations

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “That is not dead which can eternal lie,
    And with strange aeons even death may die.”

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  • Infrapink@thebrainbin.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You cannot kill what doesss not live

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• chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It makes for some pretty neat (infuriating) game mechanics. Like an infinite mob spawner, but more intuitive and less dull.

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• Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  In its original Japan, Dry Bones is known as Karon, a reference to the sound of bones clattering.

  Well there you go. They won’t rest until they speak to your manager.

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• brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They’re possessed by the power of Music.

  Necrodancer : REANIMATE!!

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• Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Magic

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Image

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    • Tigeroovy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Maybe also from a curse, but also kind of the same thing when you think about it.

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• Sanctus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “…bone to his bone.”
  - Ezekiel 37:1-8 KJV

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  • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dem bones Dem bones Dem dry bones
    Dem bones Dem bones Dem dry bones
    Dem bones Dem bones Dem dry bones,
    Hear the word of the Lord.

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• JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They got back together and got up the first time they died, why not do it again the second time?

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• Sharkticon@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Why shouldn’t they?

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• Apeman42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was about to hazard a guess that it hearkens back to Ray Harryhausen, but I rewatched the skeleton fight from Jason and the Argonauts, and I’m astounded that they apparently didn’t do it there.

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