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[ollobrains]

still no video many tears are shed

[Graknorke]

I get the strangest feeling that Bay12 community will end up compiling a huge collection of insanely difficult planets. Then turn them all into farms or zoos. If something more mundane exists, then into that.

Also, that lizard-on-a-caera-bot wallpaper is now my wallpaper. SO. COOL.

[freeformschooler]

Nah, we'll turn them into factories. Vast armies of purple ogre penguins will power our hand-crafted laser towers.

[jocan2003]

I get the strangest feeling that Bay12 community will end up compiling a huge collection of insanely difficult planets. Then turn them all into farms or zoos. If something more mundane exists, then into that.

Also, that lizard-on-a-caera-bot wallpaper is now my wallpaper. SO. COOL.

Too... Much.... DF.... drove us crazy!

[miauw62]

What? Youre wrong! Its the OTHER people who have gone crazy, due to a lack of essential vitamin-DF!

[BigD145]

What? Youre wrong! Its the OTHER people who have gone crazy, due to a lack of essential vitamin-DF!

[Graknorke]

Oh dear, I was just in the chatroom discussing a (serious; not DF) thing I thought up about how butchering cats could be extremely beneficial to the economy (providing a plentiful source of cheap meat) and environment (Less cats killing everything).
They seem to be extremely sensitive about cats and I got banned from the chatroom.
Whelp.

[mattie2009]

Oh dear, I was just in the chatroom discussing a (serious; not DF) thing I thought up about how butchering cats could be extremely beneficial to the economy (providing a plentiful source of cheap meat) and environment (Less cats killing everything).
They seem to be extremely sensitive about cats and I got banned from the chatroom.
Whelp.

>Discussing the mass killing of an animal most people find to be quite adorable
>Not doing so here, where the major forumites are morally drained from abusing depressed alcoholic midgets every so often, then posting about it for the lulz
You got everything you deserved.

[Graknorke]

Oh dear, I was just in the chatroom discussing a (serious; not DF) thing I thought up about how butchering cats could be extremely beneficial to the economy (providing a plentiful source of cheap meat) and environment (Less cats killing everything).
They seem to be extremely sensitive about cats and I got banned from the chatroom.
Whelp.

>Discussing the mass killing of an animal most people find to be quite adorable
>Not doing so here, where the major forumites are morally drained from abusing depressed alcoholic midgets every so often, then posting about it for the lulz
You got everything you deserved.

I still don't understand why so many people seem to think that practical solutions are so bad. Cats are snooty and stuck-up anyway. They deserve what they get.

Also, I wasn't doing it "for he lulz". I was doing it because it is a subject conversation. Conversations. Like what happen in chatrooms.

[mattie2009]

Oh dear, I was just in the chatroom discussing a (serious; not DF) thing I thought up about how butchering cats could be extremely beneficial to the economy (providing a plentiful source of cheap meat) and environment (Less cats killing everything).
They seem to be extremely sensitive about cats and I got banned from the chatroom.
Whelp.

>Discussing the mass killing of an animal most people find to be quite adorable
>Not doing so here, where the major forumites are morally drained from abusing depressed alcoholic midgets every so often, then posting about it for the lulz
You got everything you deserved.

I still don't understand why so many people seem to think that practical solutions are so bad. Cats are snooty and stuck-up anyway. They deserve what they get.

He says, as if there aren't enough pigeons in existance already.
Or mice, who eat food, spread disease and scare people into standing on chairs and screaming.

[Graknorke]

Oh dear, I was just in the chatroom discussing a (serious; not DF) thing I thought up about how butchering cats could be extremely beneficial to the economy (providing a plentiful source of cheap meat) and environment (Less cats killing everything).
They seem to be extremely sensitive about cats and I got banned from the chatroom.
Whelp.

>Discussing the mass killing of an animal most people find to be quite adorable
>Not doing so here, where the major forumites are morally drained from abusing depressed alcoholic midgets every so often, then posting about it for the lulz
You got everything you deserved.

I still don't understand why so many people seem to think that practical solutions are so bad. Cats are snooty and stuck-up anyway. They deserve what they get.

He says, as if there aren't enough pigeons in existance already.
Or mice, who eat food, spread disease and scare people into standing on chairs and screaming.

Do you have a problem with me or something? It seems like in your posts you're angry at me or something. Is it something I said to you before?
In any case, there are multiple bird species (admittedly mostly on islands) where the introduction of domesticated cats has brought their populations down severely; and it does not balance itself out like it normally would because humans provide food for the cats and encourage reproduction. In a natural system involving a predator and prey, the numbers would fluctuate at a steady pace, but with them domesticated the food is never in short supply, so they just keep on killing whatever it is they're killing.

Also the food point still stands. Although industrial production would have to be put up to a similar level as "mainstream" meats to be a worthwhile alternative.

On the "can't eat pets" thing, many people have rabbits as pets and yet they are a popular meat.
In fact, a lot of the stuff about not eating cats+dogs is just a remnant of the religious days of yore (Or now I guess, but religion is a lot less popular in the west now; and even those who are religious don't tend to treat it as importantly), due to them being carnivores. So yeah.

[mattie2009]

People tend to get more attached to domesticated pet rabbits than the wild kind that usually ends up on a plate in some form or another.
However, having owned multiple cats and multiple rabbits, maybe I'm biased towards not eating the adorable fluffy things.
Cows, on the other hand, deserve everything they get. Also, could you imagine marketing that? "Cat meat, now 99% less chance to contain microchip pieces, and 70% less chance to be your beloved pet!" It'd be a logistics nightmare, too. How on earth would you get enough cats to make killing and serving a viable option? Cat farms? There's a good chance you'd need employees, and people as depraved as that are either professional hitmen or cartoon villains.
Who would buy that? Crazy people? Even if you could get a full cat farm running, you'd need to sell the stuff. People eat rabbits because they're a popular hunting animal, even though they're adorable. People don't hunt cats, sport or food. Cats aren't exactly considered an invasive species, unlike rabbits.

[Graknorke]

Wait, what have cows done to deserve anything? They're one of the cleverer animals (as far as I am aware) and generally just stand still eating all day anyway.
Cats on the other hand. You wouldn't even believe how much I hate cats. Every time I have ever tried to be nice to one (EVER) I have left bleeding. I have three sets of scars actually; One on my left middle finger and one one on my left arm (Same incident), and one across my left nipple (This was staying at a friend's house at the age of about 7 or 8, and I was going to the bathroom in the night, saw the cat, leaned down to pat it and CLAWS IN MY CHEST).
So I'm probably biased the other way. Also, people seem quite happy to hunt cats.

Also I get the feeling that this is never going to get anywhere; seeing as how much you love cats. I, if it was not made clear, do not.

[Frumple]

People tend to get more attached to domesticated pet rabbits than the wild kind that usually ends up on a plate in some form or another.
However, having owned multiple cats and multiple rabbits, maybe I'm biased towards not eating the adorable fluffy things.
Cows, on the other hand, deserve everything they get. Also, could you imagine marketing that? "Cat meat, now 99% less chance to contain microchip pieces, and 70% less chance to be your beloved pet!" It'd be a logistics nightmare, too. How on earth would you get enough cats to make killing and serving a viable option? Cat farms? There's a good chance you'd need employees, and people as depraved as that are either professional hitmen or cartoon villains.
Who would buy that? Crazy people? Even if you could get a full cat farm running, you'd need to sell the stuff. People eat rabbits because they're a popular hunting animal, even though they're adorable. People don't hunt cats, sport or food. Cats aren't exactly considered an invasive species, unlike rabbits.

No... cats are definitely an invasive species. They're currently causing problems in... Australia, I want to say -- somewhere around that area, anyway -- at the very least, and that's only what I know of.

The rest is fairly accurate, but the biggest problem with cat farming is the whole carnivore thing. Most land-based carnivores just have substandard meat (it's part and parcel to how meat eaters process food, iirc), and breeding them en masse is considerably more expensive than herbivores, strictly because of the necessarily higher energy cost involved with carnivores. Basically, we have fish and herbivores instead of land based carnivores as livestock for a reason, and it's not sentimentality.

Re: Cat attack -- if you've been mauled by a cat, it was you screwing up, not the cat, sorry. They're pretty easy to deal with if you know how. I've tamed a couple of full ferals (insofar as housecats get) with no lasting injuries, and had cats as pets for most of my life. Don't like 'em more or less than most other animals, but you do have to know what you're doing... same as any other nonhuman.

Not sure why this is in the starbound thread, though.

[Darkmere]

So I saw a new post in Starbound, and was all like "NEW SCREENSHAWTS?!" and I get this...