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[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 99 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

Reminds me of my ex questioning why I would eat meat in Minecraft since I'm vegetarian

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Lmao. Oh no, the pixels in the shape of a ham hock are suffering!

I'm vegetarian but I don't even like playing vegetarian Sims. I mean, it's cool to be included, but I already have to navigate menus to find specific foods IRL. I don't want to have to do it in a game.

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago

But your promoting big meats agenda !!!!!

[–] Contentedness@lemmy.nz 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm a meat eater but had trouble killing those Minecraft sheep

[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 7 points 2 months ago

I never do it. Look at my name. First thing I craft with iron is shears.

[–] lime@feddit.nu 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

pigs in videogames use real electricity

[–] hallettj@leminal.space 10 points 2 months ago

Hmm, good point. The pig AI requires a lot more computations than wheat or pumpkins which are managed by random tick updates.

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Is it bad that I actually refuse to eat meat in Minecraft, too.

I don't judge people for eating a few pixels, but personally I don't want to promote animal cruelty, real or not. It also makes for a nice challenge to create a sustainable food source without the ol' lava chicken machine.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

i eat meat but i think what you're doing is perfectly fine. no different than playing an rpg character who won't kill for moral reasons.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Meanwhile, I'm a cannibal in Fallout 76.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

And don't get me started on rimworld

[–] als@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's just that bread is a bad food source in Minecraft but steak is very good. That is, until you have enough gold to eat golden carrots, but that usually involves battery farming pigmen. My irl morals don't come into play when playing most games and nowhere is this clearer than my rimworld saves.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Carrots and baked potatoes are an amazing source of food, but you need to find a village to get them

A better source of golden carrots is trading with villagers at the highest level, which dont require you to find a village, but require finding a nether fortress or igloo

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope you mean golden carrots because raw carrots are soo annoying

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

Raw potatoes are annoying. Raw carrots arent that bad

[–] KombatWombat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can also get carrots and potatoes from zombie drops.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

But they are rare

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I tend to avoid killing bunnies in games when I can, but when that's all you have to eat, food is food.

[–] Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago

Suspicious stew (saturation) is ethically AOK and is also just the best food item in the game. Too bad it's non-stackable, so I just keep a bowl and a stack of each ingredient in my inventory at all times.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

I do vegan playthroughs of the games I play

[–] parlaptie@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

So, do you also avoid leather products in Minecraft? Because that kinda locks you out of progression with enchanting unless you play modded.

[–] Zangoose@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If your goal is just to avoid killing animals, technically you can get bookshelves from villagers through trading (also just in villages and strongholds themselves).

[–] parlaptie@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Okay, I thought of that too, but then you're honestly just outsourcing the problem. You don't know how villagers made their books. (Yes, I know, they technically just spawn them in.)

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Depends on the definition of an animal. I suggest we go with science instead of tradition and include humans.

[–] mauumauukittycat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

never got the point of leather armour, your gonna hit iron before long anyway, why waist time and resources on leather armour?

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

books need leather which is why enchanting was mentioned. base game enchanting without books is not ideal

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[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

L-l-l-lava! Ch-ch-ch-chicken!

[–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 5 points 2 months ago

🔔🔔🔔🔔

Oh god, I thought that was an experience unique to me. I found it so stupid that I was sure such a thing could only happen once.

My ex is a vegan, a -final boss- vegan

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Meanwhile I have a full on vegetarian farmstead in Vintage Story, and eat some meat IRL

[–] Dandelion@programming.dev 3 points 2 months ago

As a vegetarian, eating meat really isn't amongst the worst things I do in Minecraft. If you think about the way an iron farm functions, you repeatedly scare a villager so that iron golems spawn, which you than kill. To even be able to start a new village you first have to kidnap a few villagers(unless you want to do the zombie curing thing). Oh while we are at it, if you want cheap prices with the villagers, you can trauma bond them to yourself, by repeatedly letting them get killed by zombies and curing them again. Villagers are also the only way to automatically farm crops so I have one trapped on a farm with a minecart under it as well. :>

[–] lath@piefed.social 89 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Rabbits eat their own babies.

[–] FrankFrankson@lemmy.world 111 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Think about all the creative ways they can do that now since they have seen some recipes.

[–] twikz@sopuli.xyz 7 points 2 months ago
[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 52 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I tell my cat all the time when she's misbehaving that her fur would make a great coat. Then I pet her and give her some kibbles anyway.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 25 points 2 months ago

She has domesticated you well

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Excellent approach, keeps the fur shiny & increases the amount

[–] vulturebirch@slrpnk.net 49 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I got in trouble on reddit for writing "stupid cats box" and my cat jumped in because they said I was abusing him like whaaaat

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 41 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] EldenLord@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He looks like he knows whats written on that box

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've always figured most cats wouldn't care even if they knew what you were calling them. As long as they get food and pets, whatever.

[–] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

It's nothing compared to what they call us, anyways.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

HAW DARE YOU!!! IM CALLING OSHA!!!1!1!! 😡😡

[–] vulturebirch@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 months ago

HOW CRUEL! I love it lol

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 30 points 2 months ago

I admonished a relative's dog for not stopping at a curb while we're walking. My relative asked me "Why do you say that to the dog? Do you think he can understand what you mean?"

I said "No that lecture was more for his owner's sake, that he needs consistent training to not run into the street."

[–] vulturebirch@slrpnk.net 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I found my picture! It wasnt the same writing I remembered but yeah lol

[–] Morph9@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

Probably the same people who force animals to wear ridiculous and uncomfortable clothes or impose to some poor omnivorous pet a vegan diet.

[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Dare we mention hasenpfeffer ?

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 points 2 months ago