Inui
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- Comment on Starfield's latest update draws player ire by sticking a bounty hunting quest behind the Creation Club paywall 2 weeks ago:
There was a quest like this in the original Dragon Age. A dwarf merchant in your camp who told you about a quest but then the game said you had to buy the DLC to complete it.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 1 month ago:
Well they did make Artifact. But if something is the best of something you already don’t like, that’s still disappointing. I don’t play games like DOTA or CS so outside of Half Life Alyx they haven’t put out anything they caters to me in a very long time. Which is fine.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 1 month ago:
I don’t think ‘past data’ is nothing. Something might defy your expectations but its perfectly reasonable to expect you won’t like something if you’ve never liked anything from that genre before. I’m not ordering pizza from a restaurant if I’ve eaten 12 pizzas before and never liked any of them. I’m ordering the pasta or something.
Especially if you have liked games in other genres that company has made in other genres you already know you do like. I’d have been pretty excited about almost any other Valve announcement.
I hope the game is good for people who like that sort of thing.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 1 month ago:
I never said that lol. The top commentor used a well known meme.
- Comment on Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter 1 month ago:
What if you’ve already played all the big names in that genre and hate all of them?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
I think you are a deeply unserious person who idolizes poverty by saying vegans making the choice are bad and people forced into are good. I also think, based on this conversation, that you hold no strong convictions that can’t be shaken out of you with a little bit of hardship and can’t contextualize any amount of self-sacrifice because of your obsession with veganism being a privileged position. I already told you that people who have no other option are not a target of criticism, but people like you who who use others as a scapegoat certainly are. I’m blocking you now though because this is going nowhere.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
You literally asked me the question and are now chastising me for my answer. This is the “how do you know someone is vegan” joke. I pointed out self-preservation to point out that vegans don’t go around attacking poor people and don’t expect people to keep their principles in those situations. I made a choice I don’t expect other people to make. I point my criticisms at the people I know in real life who shop at the exact same stores I do and make similar amounts of money, but still use poor people as an excuse not to change their own behavior.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Yes and yes because I’ve been there.
Everyone is more privileged than someone. It’s obviously more privileged to be able to eat fresh vegetables vs. people having to eat bark in occupied countries. But most serious vegans will also tell you that if you’re on a desert island and your only way to survive is to kill and eat a pig (as ridiculous as the scenario is), you should do it, because we acknowledge self-preservation is real and valid.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Am I privileged if I can afford to eat Beyond Burgers every night but I eat rice and beans instead? What if I can’t afford those things, still eat rice and beans, but I tell people I’m vegan to avoid awkward social interactions? You’re making up a caricature of vegans in your head, comparing them to poor people who happen to not be able to afford meat, and then saying the latter is somehow a better person.
The option you presented is a poor non-vegan person vs. a wealthier vegan person. There are people in between these two things.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
People aren’t vegan through limited choice. It’s a conscious decision. You might eat a plant-based because you can’t afford meat, but that doesn’t make you the same as someone who is choosing not to eat meat on purpose. You’re comparing someone who wants to be vegan with someone who doesn’t and saying one is superior. They’re two different people.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
There’s like two of us in here and we’re just downvoted no matter what we say lol.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
I’m not saying you’re incorrect. But I want to point out that many people who concern troll about how difficult vegan diets are to be healthy on are also people who don’t question how unhealthy their current choices are when it comes to consuming soda, energy drinks, red meat, other snacks, etc. Some people do, but most people who ask me about nutrition are not people who count their own calories or try to balance all their meals.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Do those other animals have the biology that allows them to subsist on other foods and the higher thinking required to question the morality of their actions?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Generally, no. You might see it in grocery-store labeling as a tactic to signal the food is okay for vegans but to try and not turn off someone who goes “ick” if something specifically says its vegan. But it’s because “vegan” means the same thing in dietary terms. Vegan food is suitable for both vegans and people on plant-based diets, because the other things vegans are concerned with aren’t related to diet so aren’t relevant to the context.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
I don’t know what point you’re trying to make. The same argument applied to different contexts is perfectly valid.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Plant-based is the label for people who follow a vegan diet but not a vegan lifestyle like avoiding leather.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
We’re arguing for the rights of animals over the rights of people who want to take them away. I just told you there’s no debate that killing an animal is killing an animal. How do you disagree with that? I never said ‘murder’, that’s trying to muddy the waters. The abortion debate is about whether or not abortion is killing a living being. Slaughtering animals is objectively so.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Expecting vegans to cook meat for you is a special kind of privilege. I wish carnists would stop asking everyone else to appeal to their special diets.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Look at almost any thread with similar comments it’s mostly people saying how much they love meat vs. anyone saying anything about them being vegan. Vegans politely mention their diet in real life more than other people because it limits the places you can go out to eat, and they don’t want to make things awkward. They don’t want to show up to your house and refuse to eat the steak you cooked since they didn’t mention it beforehand or reject the leather boots you bought them for their birthday. It’s better to be upfront about it and people take offensive to this.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Which is a non-existent strawman.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
I edited my comment after I made it, but you have to kill an animal to get meat. There’s no debate around fetal development or rights of the mother vs. the child. There’s no religion involved. If you argue that torturing or killing animals doesn’t hurt them, you’re arguing in bad faith. Even people who eat meat won’t deny it.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
And the context is completely different.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Veganism has never been about avoiding all animal products 100%. Only as far as possible.
To put it another way, would you feel responsible if the person who installed your solar panels drove an oversized truck on their personal life?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Because its not within any one vegans control whether a random factory worker has chicken for lunch. If there were businesses that only hired vegans and sold vegan products (there are, but very few), then vegans would obviously be buying things from there instead. If someone who isn’t vegan themselves uses this impossible purity test as an excuse not to make changes themselves, then they weren’t genuine about making any attempt in the first place.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
If I tell you that I bike to work, walk to the grocery store, buy most of my products used, and don’t have an Amazon account, will you listen to me?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
Why is it reasonable to expect me to have any control over what a factory worker is eating? There are entirely vegan businesses, but its setting up a ridiculous goal post to claim vegans are somehow hypocritical by not having a 100% vegan production chain as a consumer, which is literally impossible in the current world. If we could, we absolutely would. But if you want to argue that vegans should handcraft and grow literally everything they use as an excuse not make any changes yourself, I don’t know what to say.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
You’re making a big assumption here by saying that all vegans are buying vegan substitutes like Beyond Burgers. And I mean very big, since all the vegans I know don’t eat that stuff or buy it occasionally as a treat, or at a restaurant. Most of my meals are simple with rice, noodles, curry paste, and some vegetables. They can even be frozen or canned to reduce preparation time.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
I’m not trying to be combative with this but want you to consider something. If you see the cruelty of factory farms and decide that its unethical to be killing and torturing animals in that way, but nobody else around you seems to care, would that not be a little upsetting? What does it mean to be taking it ‘too seriously’?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
I’m not trying to be combative with this but want you to consider something. If you see the cruelty of factory farms and decide that its unethical to be killing and torturing animals in that way, but nobody else around you seems to care, would that not be a little upsetting? What does it mean to be taking it ‘too seriously’?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 1 month ago:
What percentage of meat and dairy comes from non-factory farms and how many people are actually buying from those places? If factory farms produce something like 95% of the meat sold, can we then call it characteristic of the industry?