US Navy / Dank memes compilation

That little guy’s name is Spike, or, well, according to the Navy, it’s “more like his gamertag” (I wonder what horrible things he’d yell at me on Call of Duty). Spike has been playing a very simple maze game now for three years using an “EVE” (no, not the MMO, though that would explain a lot, honestly) system that stands for “Enclosure Video Enrichment.”

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Spike is rewarded for successful completion of a level with a herring (not Mountain Dew, which is a crime). He’s able to fully track the cursor on screen and push the corresponding buttons to lead him to victory, after which it’s said he does a little dance.

Dolphins aren’t left out of the fun either. But as they can’t just hop out of the sea like ol’ Spike there, they’re given a “system rigged for the gamer who never leaves the water.” If that hasn’t made you jealous yet, know that they get a “large screen visible from the water” which functions better at night. “What looks like an eerie pierside movie night,” the Navy says, is “just bottlenose dolphins controlling joysticks with their mouths to play video games late into the night.” Sounds very familiar, honestly.

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None of this, I’m sure, will ever go horribly, horribly wrong.