Talk:Slugcat

I think I figured out how long the slugcat is. the slugcat is 2x the length of a vulture mask (which I think counts as an accurate measurement of it’s skull) A real world vulture’s skull is 5 inches. Therefore, it is likely that the slugcat is 10 inches long, like some irl slugs.

This logic is flawed as it runs off the assumption that the scale of anything in Rain World resembles its real world counterparts, or that creatures in-game are 'meant' to be interpreted as having real world counterparts. You remark that slugs can be 10in but "slugcat" is a fan name. They were originally called "ghost"/"bear" in development and in-game they are only ever referred to as a rodent one time. Should we begin presuming that they are some kind of supernatural rat because of these names? Additionally, vulture masks are slightly bigger than vulture's actual faces, meaning they are not a good measure of their skull size.

The point is that everything in Rain World has an intentionally vague scale and chances are any attempt at figuring out actual sizes will rely on too much conjecture to have a place on the wiki.

-- Kip

Nightcat
In the dating sim parody at the end of Sofanthiel's (might not be their actual name but it's the best I've got) campaign, at one point when talking to Spearmaster some very interesting dialogue comes up:

"i kinda get wat it feels like to be nerfed, tbh..." You pat spearmaster on the shoulder. "i gotta eat soo much food to hibernate, its just dumb. they even removed me from arena mode, wth??!"

So (if I'm interpreting the dialogue correctly) Sofanthiel is probably our beloved Nightcat! I think that's really sweet, they never actually got rid of Nightcat, and now they have a campaign of their own.

...or maybe Sofanthiel's just saying they're upset they didn't get put into arena mode with their "egg."

This is just an idea, and if it has any merit to it it's very likely that others have already come up with it (as I've seen the old Nightcat image used in the [|page where we're currently putting things about the easter egg Sofanthiel slugcat])

gifs
Shouldn't we have a transparent walk and jump cycle gif for all the slugcats?

Spoilering of ???
It was funny, but at this point it's getting tiring to even just watch the back-and-forth undoing & fixing of how the link to ???'s page is hidden, so I can imagine how those involved feel. It should probably be discussed here rather than played out as edit-the-wiki ping pong

I believe (may be wrong) that this was the first time ??? was spoilered as itself: https://rainworld.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=Slugcat&diff=next&oldid=15369

Users RW_me, Sinnamonsters, and Editorhaha appear to be the main ones involved at the time of writing this, I agree with Sinnamonsters' reasoning so far but whatever consensus is reached is probably fine, I'm not a wiki expert

Scavsarecool (talk) 18:22, 6 March 2023 (UTC)