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[Graknorke]

hello fellow gamers

...they levelled up.

[Tack]

She likes tinned fish and hates fish fish?

[Tiruin]

[Street Fighter(?): Scientist version]

I recall there was an imgur version that had a LOT more fighting move examples and showoffs (heh, Pythagoras was literal ).

Also yay for Toady for a very quickly done thing that I won't speak about! Just yay quick reaction time.

She likes tinned fish and hates fish fish?

I think it's that there are bones.
I can relate if that's so. Fish with spines/bones make it really...vigilant eating.
_{I shudder to remember when I chewed on a tiny spine. It was vertically positioned}

[Rolan7]

It's kinda like the difference between eating spam, and seeing a spitroasted hog.
Almost all the food we eat is basically unrecognizable as being formerly a thinking animal.
I love pork but would I cut a pigs throat?  I know the answer, but still that's the question.

ha i'm kinda drunk

Fakedit: Yeah, as Tiruin said.
Except I've eaten a lot of poorly-removed fishbones before.  They are an annoyance, I don't really think of fish as important.  A boat-maiden might, though.

Edit:  Oh, I should mention, I have killed animals.  Mammals, squirrels, with a BB gun.  I didn't enjoy it, it was rather sickening, but I did eat them.  That's the cycle of life and death.

[hector13]

Least you ate them. Never really understood the killing for sport thing. Or why it's called "sport". Far as I'm aware, both sides in a sport have ~equal chance of winning...

[Gunner-Chan]

Hm, question since it's been popping up in my head since I realized it's a thing now.

Is stardew valley any good? I've been wondering a bit how it would turn out since it was announced. I quite liked the GBA harvest moon so I guess I'm curious if it would appeal or not and what sort of stuff it has.

Also yeah I think Iowa in that picture is just not used to seeing a full on cooked fish corpse in front of her. The united states consumed much more processed food than japan in ww2!

Least you ate them. Never really understood the killing for sport thing. Or why it's called "sport". Far as I'm aware, both sides in a sport have ~equal chance of winning...

Most people that regularly hunt for sport actually just don't use the meat themselves. Very few people just toss the meat besides like... Poachers. I used to hunt for food and because I found butchery/skinning and the hunting process fun. But no one wants me anywhere around guns now so...

[Orange Wizard]

Never really understood the killing for sport thing.

Probably because it's fun, in the same way shooting people in Counterstrike is exiting. Not for everyone, but I guess the hunters enjoy it.

[Putnam]

Hm, question since it's been popping up in my head since I realized it's a thing now.

Is stardew valley any good? I've been wondering a bit how it would turn out since it was announced. I quite liked the GBA harvest moon so I guess I'm curious if it would appeal or not and what sort of stuff it has.

I haven't played it, but it's one of the most popular video games on steam in the last few weeks and people seem to like it a lot, so if you like GBA harvest moon I think it'd be exactly the kind of thing you might like.

[BFEL]

Well I'm in the giveaway thread for it, so I certainly HOPE its fun

[Rolan7]

Least you ate them. Never really understood the killing for sport thing. Or why it's called "sport". Far as I'm aware, both sides in a sport have ~equal chance of winning...

They were eating our pecans from our yard in the city (this was during my later childhood when I was in a city).  They were even eating pecans that weren't fully developed, out of desperation.

It wasn't easy, and one of my worst memories is when I wounded one.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

My father killed it... him/her... days later.  The image of it's black, bloated sore will haunt me for a long time.  8 years already.  Hopefully I'll never forget:  "Never wound an animal.  Either kill or miss.  Always finish it, don't let it suffer."
For an intellectual who grew up in a city, my father kept some dark lessons from his agrarian family.

Never really understood the killing for sport thing.

Probably because it's fun, in the same way shooting people in Counterstrike is exiting. Not for everyone, but I guess the hunters enjoy it.

These days, people have no excuse.  Old games and consoles are shit-cheap.  Hunting purely for sport is purely barbaric.
I strongly believe that it's okay if they eat the prey, and ideally give proper respect.

[Gunner-Chan]

There's an important caveat to hunting for sport and not using the animal, pest populations. Some places have aggressive wildlife that migrated there or were accidentally imported. Killing those is actually a net benefit to the local biosphere as they don't actually belong to it and are hurting it.

Well I'm in the giveaway thread for it, so I certainly HOPE its fun

Honestly I don't even know why I'm humoring my curiosity, given realistically Ill likely need to dump all the money in my bank into hospital bills.

[GiglameshDespair]

Eh. A huge number of creatures that you can shoot for sport are overpopulated and/or pests, at least here in Britain.
It's not like if you shoot a rabbit and don't eat it yourself it disappears from the ecosystem, either. It still provides food for carrion eaters and breaks down into the environment.

EDIT: Ninja'd by Gunner saying similar things

[Sirus]

Well I'm in the giveaway thread for it, so I certainly HOPE its fun

Honestly I don't even know why I'm humoring my curiosity, given realistically Ill likely need to dump all the money in my bank into hospital bills.

You could always sign up for the giveaway thread. I would assume it doesn't cost you any money to do that

[Owlga]

It's not like if you shoot a rabbit and don't eat it yourself it disappears from the ecosystem, either.

This actually reminds me of a story Gunner-chan told me about a hunting trip. Where she wanted to try out her .45-70

Apparently, she seriously overloaded it to like some sorta super magnum level, and since all they came across was a rabbit it's all she got to shoot. Both Gunner-chan and the person she was out with say the rabbit turned into mist and ragged strips of fur.

[Gunner-Chan]

You could always sign up for the giveaway thread. I would assume it doesn't cost you any money to do that

My lucks usually pretty bad, and the one time I won a giveaway here everyone assumed me entering it made it get rigged. So I decided I'm not doing that anymore.