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5 years ago

Blood Effects Setting On/Off

I know that there is already a feed titled "blood," but it looks like that thread has been dead for quite some time now, so I thought I should start a new thread here. Here's my perspective: it's not...

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EdwardDLuffy

5 years ago

I didn't let my son play 'shooty bang bang' games until he was 13. He didn't mind as he seemed to prefer Little Big Planet and Minecraft anyhow. He ended up on Battlefield. He's just turned 23 and doesn't play games at all. He seems well-adjusted.

Being vegan is annoying. I've lost count of the times I've had the following conversation:

PERSON; I hear you're a vegan.

ME: Yes.

PERSON: So what's wrong about eating meat?

ME: Nothing.

PERSON: So why don't you eat meat?

ME: Because I don't want to.

PERSON: Don't you like it?

ME: Yes, I like meat.

PERSON: So why don't you eat meat?

ME: Because I don't want to.

PERSON: You must think it's wrong to eat meat if you don't eat it.

ME: I think it's wrong for ME to eat meat.

PERSON: What about everyone else who eats meat? Are you saying they are wrong?

ME: Of course not.

PERSON: Have you ever eaten meat?

ME: Yes.

PERSON: Ah-ha! So you're saying it was okay to eat meat then, but it's wrong now? That makes you a hypocrite.

ME: I used to run around naked all day, but I stopped doing that when I was four. I guess it was okay to do that then, but now I'm in my 50s, it's wrong now. I would still like to run around naked all day, but my attitude towards doing that has changed, so I keep my clothes on. If you want to run around naked all day, I'm not going to stop you, but if you do decide to do that can you let me know, so that I can be somewhere very far away.

apostolateofDOO

5 years ago

@EdwardDLuffy He was 13 and would have already been exposed to things by that age either generally with friends at high school or in films or adverts anyway. It's the ''my kid is 6 and coming online to play this evening'' be it Apex or other shooters like COD ect and i just think this isn't something they should be doing at that age, especially unsupervised. I don't judge them at all but that's my opinion.

I imagine that's frustrating. I've had a similar conversation long time ago tbh and appreciate some might not for health concerns, they don't like killing animals or whatever other reason. I'm perfectly content with knowing i have to kill the animal to eat it. Grandparents are farmers in Sweden so i was aware from a young age of the process before it was packed and on the shelf.

Kill it quickly so it doesn't suffer and don't waste anything was and is the rule.

The only thing stopping me running around starkers is it's indecent exposure and illegal here. Also it's usually cold in the UK. 😛

EdwardDLuffy
5 years ago
That's the thing - eating meat is perfectly natural. As soon as people hear I am a vegan they immediately get defensive. I just don't like the idea that something has to die just to fill my fat stomach - but that's me. I have an issue with people who kill for fun but other than that I mind my own business 🙂
I don't eat eggs because I don't like the idea of all the day-old male chicks being killed.
I don't drink milk, eat butter, cheese because I think drinking/using a fluid created by another animal's body is a bit ... icky ...
Hey! I am in the UK! If you're ever in Devon PM me so we can meet up (post COVID) for some Apex tales and tips :D
- Koochi-Q
  5 years ago
  @EdwardDLuffy That’s the thing. People feel so defensive if something’s not in their own ‘norm of comfort’. Heck, the bloodiest battles... mostly religion driven it seems are because of that ideology.
  
  I eat meat & everything animal, despite me caring about nature, how weird and contradictory that may seem, yet I hold nothing against vegans or vegetarians... tho most vegan stuff I’ve eaten or drank sucks... but that’s another topic xD.
  
  I think it was a very weird troll attempt or a weird fanatic. I think latter, but either way, it. was. weird. But great for laughs xD.
  
  @apostolateofDOOM: Post 2000 children xD
  - EdwardDLuffy
    5 years ago
    @Koochi-Q I used to love cheese and vegan "cheese" is an abomination. My vegan chilli is ace though.
    
    Been vegan for about four years now. Used to be a veggie but lapsed back into a fully canivore for about 23 years.
    
    It was my parrot wot turned me vegan. It seemed weird and illogical that I loved, cared for and singled out a specific animal, while eating loads of others, and I am a very logical person.