How exactly is poultry a grey area? Have you met birds before?

I have, they are capable of feeling pain and possess reasonable intelligence. I just don't consider them sapient in a way that matters. If you cut off a chicken's head, it will still act like a chicken. This implies that most of what a chicken feels mentally is instinctual. If you cut off my head and I came into work the next day acting normal, it would raise serious questions about the nature of human consciousness. Poultry shouldn't suffer unnecessarily, but I doubt it has much sapience. Thus a gray area depending on how you judge their intelligence and your own morals.

I hear what you're saying about oysters (even though I disagree)

Vegans always say that but not a single person has ever responded to that point in my 6 years of making it. If you disagree, do what the vegans I've talked with failed to do and address it please.

making the same case for fish/octopus

You shouldn't eat octopus. Everything I said about poultry applies 3 fold to fish. Less capacity to feel pain and less sapience. I don't consider a creature that acts entirely on instinct to have any right to life.

None of the things you listed are inconsistencies. "Dont eat animals, don't support the harm of animals."

Yes it is, why is your line animals? Why are oysters so obviously worthy of life but not complex plants and fungus? Vegans claim that just because an creatures nervous system is arranged different, it doesn't mean that it's not worthy of life. Why does this not extend to complex plants and fungi?

That phrase describes the lines I draw in my personal consumption of animals. I said previously that vegans don't eat animals.

I agree with vegans on 90% of things but the vegan position is ultimately arbitrary on what's allowed and disallowed.

Vegans, generally speaking, do not eat any animals. Oysters are not vegan despite the fact that they do not have a brain and their nervous system is extremely simple, they are more or less meat plants. They do not suffer nor have anything in which suffering could be inflicted. If such a simple creature is worthy of life, then most plants we eat are also worthy of life. If not, then veganism is not a moral imperative.

As demonstrated, the line that vegans draw around the animal kingdom is mostly arbitrary. Eating cows and other mammals is absolutely a bad thing. Poultry is a gray area. Most seafood is probably safe to eat. The fact that I'm called a blood-mouth for eating oysters makes me skeptical of whether some vegans are arguing in good faith. If someone's righteous indignation on what shouldn't be eaten ends at animals arbitrarily, then I think their views are based more on a social clique than science.

I do think they are better than the average person though even if their views are inconsistent.

I'm not an expert in psychology, but straight up denying reality has to be a worse strategy than just admitting Biden is senile.

Yeah, but the mechanics really push you towards certain builds. Bosses are too fast so 90% of the time you can't use slower, heavier weapons effectively.

I also didn't like how they went hard on "long wind up but extremely quick execution" for lots of boss attacks. In DS1 and DS2, you can kinda dodge attacks on instinct alone if your reaction times are good. In Elden Ring, you just have to remember the timing on the attacks which isn't that engaging. Eventually, I just used my first attempt on ER bosses to kite the boss and study their patterns.

Joe getting covid, spreading it to Trump, and killing them both would be the one thing that could save America.

And I do think it's reasonable to say (correct me if I'm wrong) that Trump is the furthest right GOP candidate for at least several decades.

Trump just says the quiet part out loud. He's more or less a traditional republican, just more outwardly racist. In some ways, the fact that he's an idiot with no loyalty beyond himself has lead to him being slightly less horrible in a few ways than a competent republican would be.

I'm starting to wonder if the implicit assumption here is that if Biden wins, Trump and his base will be essentially defeated.

Liberals have been pulling the "lesser of two evils" shtick since the 70's. I'm not saying your wrong, they certainly do think this way. But they would think so regardless of whom the republican candidate would end up being.

Listen to cumtown, that's unironically where 70% of this site's humor comes from.

Everything looks just fine on 1337 and gogunlocked.

I'm early Gen Z and the thing I kinda dislike is how shameless this generation is.

Anime is a good example. It used to be a niche thing for nerds that you were kinda ashamed of outside of Studio Ghibli, but now it's really mainstream. That's all well and good but then you have some people with hentai stickers on their school laptop. Instead of adopting anime as a medium, we adopted the worst forms of otakuism. Instead of mass adoption tempering the worst aspects, it appears to have emboldened them instead.

I also know some people who go around sfw anime cons and pay women to step on them in public. When I said this was kinda weird, I was the one in the friend group that got flack. Gen Z is more willing to embrace their weird habits but some stuff should be done at home or with private groups.

i would actually find it horrific if they kept tissue from a human arm alive (say, a bicep) and made it do stuff with electrical signals (say, lift something) for 'research purposes',

Buddy, I hate to tell you this, but that's literally what your brain does with your arm every single time you move it.

Plus, these seem to be made from interneurons from skin cells. Basically, neurons who transmit signals along the nervous system. I'd be more concerned if they used Pyramidal cells which play more of a role in learning, cognition, and memory.

While interesting, you wouldn't say that keeping some tissue from the arm alive to be a "horror" on par with a brain in a jar.

No

The game is definitely balanced around them but making the player reliant on the jank of AI can make the fights hit-or-miss.

Sometimes your summon will get bodied by the boss in 10 seconds, sometimes it'll last the entire fight taking off a quarter of the boss's healthbar. There's just a large range of things that can happen which are mostly outside of player control.

That's assuming that an engine built for driving a space ship would be powerful enough to push the giant space rock.

It'd be like strapping a car engine to a mountain and expecting it to go just as fast.

Magic

Yeah, but the humans and other races they seek to integrate into their society aren't. They'd either have to do some necron-tier shit and destroy the souls of their citizens or they'd be at risk of humans creating a new chaos god.

Another option is they may decide that warp-sensitive races are too much of a risk to the galaxy and adopt a genocidal attitude for the greater good. That would be thematically appropriate for Warhammer 40k. A bad encounter with the effects of the warp leading to them abandoning their previous principles. Kinda like how the Horus Heresy affected the Imperium of Man.

I wouldn't be terribly opposed to a lord of altruism or comradery,

You fundamentally misunderstand the Tau. They're not altruistic, they're just the least-worst civilization. They're closer to a space Roman Empire than they are to communism. They'll conquer you, put you in a pseudo-slave caste, and collect taxes. They can only claim to be a lesser evil because every other civilization's default response is genocide.

What kind of chaos god would they make?

Probably something to do with absolute control. The Greater Good is an authoritarian philosophy in which individual citizens don't really have any rights. They have certain cultural freedoms of course, but no right to self-determination. For warp-sensitive races that believe in this philosophy, it would show up as a desire to dissolve the ego into the whole. This could create a god which seeks to create a galaxy wide hive-mind of sorts. A sort of warp based Tyranid empire composed of multiple races which would subject entire planets to experimentation for the greater good.

The grimdark part of the Tau empire is that despite being very morally good, they'd still be completely wiped out if any of the other factions considered them a threat.

Also, while this is less confirmed, it's also implied that the Tau's belief in The Greater Good could eventually wind up creating a new warp god leading to the destruction of their civilization. The tau are the equivalent of a squadron of fresh recruits surrounded by entire armies of people who hate them. That's why they still fit in the grimdark universe. They're the plucky, good civilization with no real shot of surviving.