the poop happens world we live in thread 2XXX

[Phaze]

My right-ear-heartbeat thing is becoming very frustrating and it's NOT GOING AWAY.

I think I'm gonna go to the doctor's soon if it doesn't stop. If he tries redirecting me to the prick who tugged on my eardrum again though, not gonna be happy (to be honest I'm fairly sure he did it to my right eardrum, too. I got redirected to an ear doctor who decided the fact my eardrums are sucked in is a problem and ended up painfully pulling on it & recommending I don't sniff to increase pressure anymore. My constant pain was so much worse with the added eardrum/sensitive hearing pain that I ignored his advice 10 minutes later and went right back to sniffing.).

[Goemar]

Sorry man, I guess my brain is too tired to actually do things like, work - I think it's off to the land of snooze for me.

[Kami]

Procrastination & lack of motivation...





My only two enemies..

[Mutsukki]

I still eat meat, but the treatment livestock get is what is, umm..."inhuman". The act of killing for survival isn't really, it's nature thing. A hungry lion or any other animal will not hesitate to kill you. It's just how the food chain works. Besides, you're also killing living things when you eat vegetables, they just don't scream.

The problem is, when they hunt so much that a species ends endangered or the terrible life that animals who are raised just to be killed have and how cruel they are when killing them. It's because our market need so much meat, that they need all these bullshit things to produce it faster.

[Garamonde]

Procrastination & lack of motivation...

My only two enemies..

This is me, so much of the time... but I think I'm starting to get over it a bit (the lacking motivation part that is).

[Sengir]

Besides, you're also killing living things when you eat vegetables, they just don't scream.

They release a pheromone equivalent to a scream

[Phaze]

Youtube decided its "real name" policy was more important than the comment I was writing and decided to interrupt me in the middle of it.

I decline and the interface locks up while "working".

I adblock the overlay which is blocking my access to the comment I was writing.

Ad-blocking causes page to refresh.

Since this was the rare time I used Chrome, I did not have Lazarus and thus my comment got obliterated.

Thanks, Google.

[Garamonde]

If something like that was happening I would have copy and pasted my comment somewhere if I could.

[PatientZero]

Man, you guys need some facts up in this joint, some logical fallacies going around.

So here's some quick corrections, in no particular order or anything;

A vegetarian diet lacks some of the vitamins and nutrients of a regular diet, which is even more true for a vegan diet. But those can be replaced by taking supplements, and a lot of vegetarian foods are already fortified with those vitamins. (for example a lot of cereals and fortified with B12 and iron)

A lot of the evidence for animal abuse and cruelty in the farming industry should be taken with a pinch of salt, there is a lot of fake and staged footage around, always remember that if it has an agenda it's propaganda, even if you agree with it.
(That's not to say these things never happen or that the meat industry is entire humane, just that you should always question anything presented as evidence one way or the other)

The animals we farm are chosen on a number of factors, mostly based on local culture. As an obvious example, in some countries it's entirely acceptable to eat dog, but in western society it isn't, it has almost nothing to do with how intelligent the animal is or even how domesticated they are.

Plants and animals are both living things, the distinction is that an animal is sentient, plants do not "think" or "feel". They don't have a brain or a central nervous system so they literally don't have the ability to do either.
On top of that, part of the natural life cycle of a lot of plants is for them to be eaten by animals, that's why berries and fruits tend to be in bright colours that stand out against green foliage.

One of the big arguments currently in favour of a vegetarian diet is the sustainability and yield of plants over animals, the basic idea being that animals have to eat so much food for us to farm them that it would be a better use of resources to cut the animal out of the equation entirely and just cultivate and harvest the plants that would have been used to feed that animal. It's a pretty solid argument, but it falls down pretty quickly when the reality of it is that, if it was just about a resource to food ratio, the most viable source of easily farmed and nutritious food would actually be insects.
I know that sounds crazy, but the fact is that in the western world our diet is unique in the fact that we don't eat insects. Grubs, spiders, beetles, scorpions, crickets, worms and more are all regular parts of their diet for millions of people around the world, which includes industrialised countries where they also farm plants and animals.
What might shock you is that not only are insects perfectly viable as a source of nutritional food, apparently they also taste good too, and they're so abundant all around the world that it's genuinely being seen as the most serious solution to famine.

Personally I think it's great, anything that could be used to increase the amount of food available and feed starving people is fantastic.
Just, y'know, I think I'd rather have a burger myself.

[Phaze]

If something like that was happening I would have copy and pasted my comment somewhere if I could.

It happened literally as I was typing and the "darken" overlay prevented access to it.

Though in retrospect perhaps I could've done some Firebug surgery on the page to remove the elements manually. A bit late for it, but at least I can think of it for next time I guess.

[Helmo]

I have eaten bugs before but it was a while ago so I don't remember how good they actually tasted, but I've always known they were full of protein.

[Kami]

Well, it seems on some other forums I got swarmed with PM's that were requests to make a game for a few people. Children Immature teenagers these days...

Jeeze, I just wanted to get some critique on pixel art, and maybe show engine progress or something.

[alexmach1]

my room is just a hive. first, a scorpion decides to inhabit my bed (that went away quickly though, dohoho) then a weird red wasp decided my lamp was a good sleeping spot (that thing had a hard exoskeleton, took a while) then a flat spider with large fangs decided to hang out on my shower curtains (water ftw) and then a large ant-shaped scorpion sat at my door (not as hard as said exoskeleton, but still). oh, nature.

[Kami]

Well at least you don't have any of those huge ass japanese hornets in your house.

[Garamonde]

I would literally rather torture myself trying to eat a raw onion than eat a spider.