minecraft
a year ago
General
Just had a thought. How do games that involve animals like Minecraft work in furry contexts?
I was playing Minecraft and had to kill a sheep for food (#starving), and remembered I know someone who has a sheep fursona and...I feel like I have to apologize to them now. For an action in a video game. ;w;
I was playing Minecraft and had to kill a sheep for food (#starving), and remembered I know someone who has a sheep fursona and...I feel like I have to apologize to them now. For an action in a video game. ;w;
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The way I always like to think about it is "common ancestor" stuff, like how monkeys and humans are theorized to come from a similar ancestor. Anthro sheep and "quad" sheep are similar, but different creatures.
...That being said I often challenge myself to play vegetarian for this reason, and another: Animal husbandry is just unfun and unpleasant to me because you have to constantly hear these noises on loop all the time while you're working on stuff, and treating creatures as if they were merely a source of resources contributes to breaking the illusion of Minecraft as a world where things happen, and the game stops being fun for me once that happens. The amount of meat and leather and feathers you get from killing a single animal is absolutely fucking pitiful so unfortunately unless you have mods to give you things like leather and wool from farming it's basically mandatory to keep a barn or animal pen. and the most cost effective way to do this is just...a hole in the ground...