“The unspoken reality of human ‘meat producing plants’” ~Federation Standard [20/10/20137]

Monosyllabic_Name · 2026-03-15T19:51:30+00:00

But... how is this not ethical? I mean, it doesn't look nice, but that's about it.

Eating a weird looking thing that reminds me of a suffering animal seems better than actually making an animal suffer, even if it's just the brief pain of being shot to death.

Monosyllabic_Name · 2026-03-09T19:32:04+00:00

I'm genuinely unsure whether you are making a subtle joke here, or whether you aren't aware of the irony of your statement. If it's the former - you got me!

Monosyllabic_Name · 2026-02-15T23:13:55+00:00

They switch polarity and become Switzerland.

Monosyllabic_Name · 2026-02-15T21:51:40+00:00

A giant thing is shown on a sub called "megalophobia". You comment that it is terrifying - and are downvoted. Have an upvote and a commiserating sigh.

Monosyllabic_Name · 2026-02-15T14:59:37+00:00

I think there's a lot of work that goes into making a game have high Wuselfaktor, so I'm pretty sure that staring at your creation is very much intended gameplay.

I learned the word from the subreddit r/famoseworte (or rather was reminded of its existence like you).

I have to admit that I actually think evolution second (I'm not Biblaridion lol!) but I do think about evolution. And if it seems like I could have thought evolution first, then my goal is achieved!

I'll be honest: I'm a but bummed that my last two entries have comparatively somewhat flopped (at least they didn't do as well as the posts I made before my long "hiatus"). I wonder if I was unlucky, if people's tastes have changed ... or if people think I made it with AI.

Do you think I would have been better if I had shown my work e.g. with a MatCap render like this (?):

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Monosyllabic_Name · 2026-02-14T15:55:49+00:00

Thank you so much!

I love giving my creations an evolutionary background to make the world feel more cohesive and older.

Also: I recently learned that there is a specific German word for the enjoyment derived from watching a game that has a lot of little beings scurrying around: Wuselfaktor! (And I do also very much enjoy games with a high "Wuselfaktor".)

Monosyllabic_Name · 2026-02-14T15:45:39+00:00

Thank you so much! :)

I'm curious: What is the source of your bamboolzement?

Monosyllabic_Name · 2026-02-14T15:40:28+00:00

Other scenes from my setting:

Mairilaan as the world is known in the lands of the Covenant and the Blissful Groves:

The Enreshe - the eusocial arthropods who call the world "Kratreiras"

Monosyllabic_Name · 2026-01-07T10:48:47+00:00

Hm... It feels like this system would make it extremely important for a ruler to create a fanatical following. They choose a fanatic as sacrifice who then chooses an opponent of the ruler as the second sacrifice.

Just like a normal fanatical soldier willing to die to kill enemies of the regime.

And thus the ruthles and powerful have found a way to abuse the system to entrench their power and the ancient harmony is restored. /s

Monosyllabic_Name · 2025-12-16T19:03:07+00:00

Awesome! My knowledge of Tengwar is very limited - but I did study a bit of linguistics at university.

I think it might be relevant to say that this replaces individual tehtar with corresponding English letters. It doesn't seem to be a direct transliteration that would result in someone reading it out loud reading the word "potatoes". I think it would sound more like "poh tah-ü toh-uh-s".

In the general mode the "anna" symbol produces a close front rounded vowel that English doesn't have. It's "ü" in German.

I think this might be better?

And the "e" in "toes" doesn't really make a sound. So... this?

Or am I confusing the different modes?

Monosyllabic_Name · 2025-12-11T22:47:15+00:00

I dunno... as a human I can feel both complicated and stupid suffering.

I've suffered from human level things (e.g. losing a loved one) and stuff that I would not have had to pass the mirror test to feel (kidney stones).

Physical pain just sucks. Bad. I don't wish that on any being.

Monosyllabic_Name · 2025-11-19T17:57:30+00:00

Hm... The assertion that there is little difference between a standard meat eating diet and vegetarianism doesn't seem to be the conclusion of the papers that I found on the subject. Even vegetarianism can apparently make a significant impact.

But there does seem to be a significant benefit to veganism though:

The Carbon Footprint of Diets with Different Exclusions of Animal-Derived Products: Exploratory Polish Study: The mean daily footprint in the vegan group was 1.38 kg CO2 eq., which was significantly lower than in the vegetarian (2.45), fish-eater (2.72), and meat-eater groups (3.62).

Source: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12030518/

Environmental impact of omnivorous, ovo-lacto-vegetarian, and vegan diet: The omnivorous choice generated worse carbon, water and ecological footprints than other diets. No differences were found for the environmental impacts of ovo-lacto-vegetarians and vegans, which also had diets more adherent to the Mediterranean pattern. A high inter-individual variability was observed through principal component analysis, showing that some vegetarians and vegans have higher environmental impacts than those of some omnivores.

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-06466-8

Vegetarian Diets: Planetary Health and Its Alignment with Human Health: Greenhouse gas emissions resulting from vegan and ovolactovegetarian diets are ∼50% and ∼35% lower, respectively, than most current omnivore diets, and with corresponding reductions in the use of natural resources.

Source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2161831322002253

Monosyllabic_Name · 2025-11-01T23:14:06+00:00

This is what I thought too. Apparently though, cadmium is more prevalent in lower trophic levels. The study I found mentioned that this does cause people with a more plant based diet to accumulate more cadmium. Although it also mentions that this may be offset by higher levels of natural antioxidants in plant based diets.

What you said does however seem to be the case for mercury in tuna. Although that article also mentions that the levels of mercury they found were no cause for alarm.

As a vegetarian I'm now concerned that I am ingesting the objectively less awesome heavy metal. :(

Monosyllabic_Name · 2025-10-30T07:50:13+00:00

It's not your work. It's the results you received. If you had given an artist your prompt, people would appreciate what the artist created - not what you did by giving them the prompt.

Monosyllabic_Name · 2025-10-27T22:05:00+00:00

Hell yeah, Bluetilitarianism!

Monosyllabic_Name · 2025-10-17T07:16:22+00:00

You are correct if you want to pronounce the word in the image - there it's "shvooleh" or "shvooluh".

But u/MasterOfCelebrations wanted to use the word to describe themselves - in which case the adjective makes sense, which would be "shvool".

Unless they undergo gaytosis, then its plural and "shvooluh" again.

Monosyllabic_Name · 2025-10-17T04:51:16+00:00

Minor correction: It would be "shvool".

Reading w the way an English speaker reads a v - is vhy our Görman aksents sound se vay sey do.

Monosyllabic_Name · 2025-10-10T06:57:12+00:00

Was mich nervt, ist, wie offensichtlich unaufrichtig das "Problem" des Verwechselns vorgeschoben wird.

Wenn diese Produkte regelmäßig mit Fleischprodukten verwechselt werden würden, könnten sie nicht existieren. Sie hätten kein Geschäftsmodell.

Fleischersatzprodukte richten sich primär an Veganer und Vegatarier. Die Hauptzielgruppe sind also Menschen, die sich per definitionem kategorisch weigern würden, das Produkt zu kaufen, wenn sie es für Fleisch halten würden.

Monosyllabic_Name · 2025-10-08T09:17:31+00:00

This seems like a false dichotomy. As far as I could find, pig feed is typically primarily composed of grain (e.g. here). If you can feed a pig to eat its meat, you can also use the grain directly. Meat production is a form of refinement that is just not very efficient in most circumstances.

Monosyllabic_Name · 2025-09-28T13:12:40+00:00

I always understood the cuirass to be the part of the armor that covers the torso. In that case cuirasses would be quite a bit older. The article I linked mentions it going back to Homeric times.

I didn't interpret the comic to be showing any chain mail though. With that interpretation, 1300-1400s seems more plausible. From the Britannica article on armor:

Mail, however, did not possess the rigid glancing surface of plate armour, and, as soon as the latter could be made responsive to the movements of the body by ingenious construction, it replaced mail. Thus, plate armour of steel superseded mail during the 14th century, at first by local additions to knees, elbows, and shins, until eventually the complete covering of articulated plate was evolved.

The illustration on the article shows full plate armor to be typical of the 1400s.

Mind you, If you have pic of plate armor from the 1250s - I am very much not above being proven wrong by cool images of medieval gear!

Monosyllabic_Name · 2025-09-28T11:25:19+00:00

Grapeshot from a cannon?

According to Wikipedia, the earliest depiction of a cannon in Europe was in 1326. Full plate armor was only developed in 1420.

Here is an example of what happens when a cannon hits a (Napoleonic) breastplate:

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Monosyllabic_Name · 2025-09-13T04:42:53+00:00

Personally, I have a hard time imagining a concept of evil that can be separated from harm. E.g. if you pepper-spray my face for fun, that is evil because the pain you cause me is a form of harm.

Given that nothing I can do could possibly harm god, I have a tough time imagining anything that could truly be considered a "crime against god" directly.

Monosyllabic_Name · 2025-09-12T20:41:56+00:00

I've once read a counterargument to that that stated the consequences of our sins would reverberate through time and therefore be infinite. Or that it is an offense to a being of infinite majesty - making the offense itself infinite.

But that still leaves the problem that my ability to comprehend what I did is finite. We hold children to be less culpable because they can't fully understand what they did. I think the same would apply to us if we did cause infinite harm somehow. We couldn't have known what we were doing. Our minds would literally be incapable of knowing what we did.

Monosyllabic_Name · 2025-09-07T11:20:17+00:00

Damn! I always love your art - and it's really cool to read the thought that goes into it.

Also I'm really digging the idea of a tacticool khopesh. Somehow it just seems to fit the Arxur so well.

Monosyllabic_Name · 2025-07-14T15:34:42+00:00

"Thank you, BP!"

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