Why is it so rare in video games for alien food to be bad or toxic to humans?
>>735979638Stealth /pol/ thread
Because that's lame and only midwits try this hard to show how "smart" they are.
>>735979708is it?
Those are avocados
>>735979638Because most people aren't autistic .enough to care about shit like that
humans are pretty resilient. we drink alcohol, we enjoys pesticids such as capsain, cafein and nicotin.The only reason we don't eat that many fruits is because we don't like their taste
I can only think of this happening in Mass Effect. Some species can only eat L-isomer or D-isomer proteins.
>eaten by prey animals>skin that stops you from eating it>pit that chokes you and could kill you>something that is only even edible for a specific few days>unnatural fluorescent green colorKeep in mind people call this "food" and think humans are supposed to consume it
>>735979937I dunno it's pretty good when it appears in the Mexican food I've tried
>>735979638because the laws of physics are the same all over the universe, and if they're carbon-based lifeforms, the carbon-based foods will provide energy through the same mechanisms our own bodies employ.if they aren't carbon based organisms, or they survive through atypical metabolism like the bacteria that breathe iron then maybe it would be toxic. also there can be random poisonous compounds like in certain plants here on earth, but that's just random and uncommon anyway.
>>735979937>>eaten by prey animalsPrey animals eat almost everything. What the fuck are you eating anon if you're avoiding all of it? Why even avoid it?
>>735980058Your body doesn't break down protein into single atoms. It breaks it down into amino acids.
>>735979638convergent evolution dictates that alien lifeforms would end up remarkably similar to humans because this is the best it gets. you basically need opposing thumbs, bipedal mobility, front-facing eyes and large brains to go as far as we have, and it's feasible you would be able to consume the same foodthe same goes for plants, if it didn't want to be consumed by a humanoid - but rather a flying animal, it's evolved that way, like most capsicum
>>735979638Same reason why most aliens speak English, my autistic friend.
>>735979708How the fuck is this related to /pol/?
>>735981641They love avocado toasts over there.
>>735980551>plebbit brained idiots guessing at biology on our planet said it has to be like this anywhere there is lifeThats actually as retarded as morons saying a mathematical law about shapes dictates everything about biology.
>>735979638Convenience.
>>735980058nigga doesn't know about chirality and how half of chiral chemicals are basically biologically inert on earth because right-handed won that coin toss 4.6 billy years ago
>>735982495?
>>735982495>chiral chemicals are basically biologically inert on eartht. germanoid, enemy of mankind (probably a zoomlennial too)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide_scandal
>>735983070>Thalidomideare you telling me you wouldn't want to be turned into robo from chrono trigger?
>>735979937sounds more like it's trying to prevent me from consuming its juicy goodness
>>735979937>pit that chokes you and could kill youhello american
i'd assume that a civilization advanced enough to travel between stars would have technology sophisticated enough to detect if a biological thing is safe to consume or not
>>735983329that's not why it was banned moronit was banned because of a law enacted before kinder eggs were even a thing because americans kept mixing inedible shit like plaster into their food to make more money when selling it off to consumers
>>735983478ok, but they still are banned
>>735983781but not because of the reason you thought it was , meaning you're trying to debate lord with false evidence
>>735983839i dont give a fuck about the reason, i was equating that it's impossible to accidentally choke on the pit unless you're a mouth breathing usatoid
>>735983936the reason why the kinder egg is banned in the USA isn't because of a "choking risk"you are just an ill informed moron thinking they're making a sound argumentyou are worse than the american strawman you made up
>>735984082And yet the "real" explanation isn't any better.Imagine living in a place where you need laws that state you can't fucking mix plastic goop into dough.How come the rest of the world gets around this easily, but not you?
>>735979937Well it was cultivated by humans for thousands of years, so I'd say so. What, you thought it was giant sloths and shit? Nope, you were the megafauna that eats the avocados all along.
>>735984204every country was doing that shit you ignorant retard, america is just the only place that went out of their way to make a blanket law to stop it forever
>>735984283Cope.Remind us again what is the maximum allowed amount of insect-parts in your peanut-butter.
>>735979638I'm more curious on how many people have to have died from trial and error before we learned how to safely eat something.There's a large number of things people can eat but can only be eaten after a very specific process that involves a bunch of different steps or a large period of waiting. A lot of things you can kind of guess that they were desperate and ate what they could which inspired them to take risks, but it's still strange.
>>735984397since you have no argument i accept your concession
>>735984526You do understand that the rest of the world is eating kinder-eggs just fine, right?Whatever. I accept your concession.And you have my condolences. I hope one day you'll get to eat real food.
>>735979937>Prey animals eat plants.You’re an omnivore you fucking retard so do you.
>>735984628if you had even a single active brain cell you'd have picked up on how i'm not american
>>735984843Yet your butthurt betrays you.lollmao even
>>735981641Illegal aliens and Latin food
>>735984504hmmmm, this fish sure is deadly if ingested, ugly and full of poisonous spikes that can kill you at any time when handling it, almost as if it doesn't want to be eaten.let's eat it raw.
>>735979638what are you talking about? burritos seems safe enough
>>735982495what does the seductive lizard have to do with your post
>>735979832Actually, Avocados are lethal to most animals. Humans are a rare exception. Tasty though.
>>735985087These guys look like idiots
>>735985708Only the most powerful animal can eat the most powerful fruit.
>>735986101they cutehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axiGV09C85A
>>735979638There wouldn't be much reason to put the alien food that is poisonous on human-centric ships or stations.
>>735984628You're not supposed to be speeding up the microplastics concentration in your body.
>>735986889You build up plastic immunity that way bro, in the future, people will be able to consume plastic for nutrients.
>>735979638To be fair, the entirety of human history has had us going off and eating things that have evolved with mechanisms to prevent being eaten, like things with capsaicin for example. Just about any kind of animal will back off after biting into a carolina reaper. But us? We just go "fuck yeah gimme more of that shit".
>>735987313>Just about any kind of animaljust mammals really. birds are not affected and for a good reason
>>735979937>pit that chokes you and could kill youAmericans are so fragile
>>735987002Funny you mention that, it's a thought I've had a couple times the last few weeks. Presuming a situation where mankind goes extinct and takes a decent chunk of the biosphere with it, we leave behind our refuse. In particular, plastics. I've been wondering how that will play out, as in what kinds of ecologies will arise that depend on refined petrochemicals and plastics as part of their biology(even if we're only talking about something in the food chain like plastic-eating bacteria being at the bottom and other things eating those or needing byproduct from the breakdown). We could end up setting up a second extinction event after we're gone, when the supply of plastic we made dries up and starves the organisms that came to rely on it as an energy source.
>>735979638Humans are pretty hardy.Most animals straight up die after breaking a bone.
>>735988127Yeah penicillin was fucking useless. Who need that gay shit?
>>735987948Much like humanity's demise, in the hypothetical case we wipe ourselves out, it would be yet another evolutionary suicide for whatever evolves to depend on something man made.
>>735988582You, for your monkey pox.
>>735979710what?
It's a real shame that animals can't enjoy the taste of a buttery avocado eith salt and pepper, neither cocoa. Ive wanted to share it but then I remember they can't eat it
>>735979937You can say this about a lot of things. We've been developing our staple foods into something edible over tens of thousands of years. Most food hasn't been genuinely au natural since agriculture began.
>>735992854Animals don't care about flavors, that is entirely a human thing.
>>735979937you'd piss yourself if you saw the fruits your ancestors ate thousands of years ago
>>735979937This nigga afraid of fruit lmao
>>735979937>gets stopped by skin that's hardly thicker than paper>can't eat perishable food, requires highly industrialized hyperprocessed "food">can't eat around an easily removable seed>can't eat chlorophyll, found in damn near every plant humans rely onFound the alien
>>735998006Aliens only eat cows and cheese from the moon.
>>735987532>for a good reasonits a shitty reason and you know it
>>735980551eh, all a civilized alien intelligence hypothetically needs is a powerful brain, good senses, and a fine/strong set of manipulators. Mobility is preferable, but that's honestly not impossible to work around, I think. Everything else is up to fate and evolution.
>American "food"
>>736000887>"American"
>>735979638Why is it so rare in video games for alien food to be bad or toxic to humans?Do you have any idea how many fruits and vegetables on our own world are bad and toxic to us? How many fruits are just straight up poison that will cause organ failure and kill you?What we eat now has been carefully cultivated and grown over thousands of years to get to this point and be edible.
>>735979638Humans and all carbon lifeforms are made of the same elements in the same ratio as planets they come from. It's not unreasonable to assume aliens eat the same stuff as we do.
>>735985087basedfuck nature
>>735983478It wasn't that, either. It was because lollipop and icepop vendors used ridiculous, tapered sticks to jew people out of treats. So the FDA had to step in and say that no more than a certain percentage of a treat could be incredible.
>>735979638Most compounds are not significantly toxic; toxins are evolved for potency over millions of years of exposure to predators/prey. The biology of alien fauna and flora is likely so foreign that it just passes by unnoticed to most human receptors.
>>735979638The same reason most games don't include weapon durability, water intake, or menstrual cycle tracking.
>>735980551>convergent evolution dictates that alien lifeforms would end up remarkably similar to humans because this is the best it getsAt the level of biomechanics (limbs, digestion, sub-cellular compartmentalization), maybe. At the most fundamental level (molecular basis for genetic encoding, codon tables, etc), no. That stuff is impossible to evolve away from because it would require too many simultaneously harmful changes, but if the earliest life evolved an amino acid containing phosphorus or boron or chlorine, you can bet we'd nearly all be dependent on that amino acid existing.
>>735979638Let alone interest, a lot of devs just lack the necessary foundation in biology education to understand the potential issues. The Bioware leads (before selling out to EA) were actual doctors. 2/3 anyway. The opening of ME2 showed different baseline BP for male and female Shepards. And it's not a coincidence their lore accounted for biological differences in the alien species including diet, though it never showed in practically.
>>735996743Not true at allCarnivores have much weaker taste buds than herbivores or omnivores. They can barely detect anything. A rat could likely taste most of the things you stick in a stew
>>736002307>menstrual cycle trackingThere's only one game that does that and it's a boyfriend simulator.picrel is your biological brother
>>736002231Is there a source for this? I'm not saying you're wrong I'd just like some more detail. I thought it was just to prevent choking. Like the way Lifesavers are made lets air through.
>>735979638I recently tried avocado, and it tastes like the essence of a vegetable. Like thick mash potato celery in texture, and very prominent chlorophyll taste. That is not a compliment. I wanted to vomit. Liberals unironically say that this shit is good.
>>736006040Pure avocado is nasty, you are meant to turn it into a guacamole to unleash its true power.
>>735980364>What the fuck are you eating anon if you're avoiding all of it?As an alpha male I only eat the meat of other carnivores. Anyone who doesn't subsist on a diet of female lions, wolves, and people is a woman. I am liiterally Yujiro but straighter btw.
>>736006040Absolute tasteletDid you even put salt on it? Lime juice? Like the other guy said, make guacamole.
>>736006040Avocados are great. They're soft, creamy, but there's no real way to cook them. You're better off adding slices raw to food. Though to be honest, just dumping a shitload of spinach into a dish would do you far better. Spinach is the best.
>>735997019I had one of those old bananas a few years ago. Those seeds are alien, I tell you.
>>736006232Spinach is great. Turkey sandwich and spinach on rye.
>>736002063Man, it's bizarre how the most likely kind of aliens to actually exist are the fucking Nordic Pleiades Star Cluster dudes, and they're literally just white people but as 8 foot tall motherfuckers.
>>735979937We're not supposed to eat cum out of cute muscular twinks either. ;)
>>736006370They're called twunks, liberal.
>>736006556They're called otters, faggot.
>>735979936We can eat both, we just don't get anything out of the wrong handed food. People even said that L-glucose tastes the same as regular glucose.
>>736006040You have to spread it on toast like butter and put cheese on top silly
>>736006637W-Glucose Chads, L-Glucosecels stay coping.
>>736006040I had a small amount of quacamole today and now I'm farting nonstop for like 4 hours straight. Had no idea avacados did that but it's the only thing different I ate recently.
>>736006814You have been rejected by the god of fruits and deemed unworthy of its consumption.
>>736002282This. We actually require a decent portion of the periodic table to even live. We need calcium (Ca), phosphorus (P), potassium (K), sodium (Na), chloride (Cl), magnesium (Mg), sulfur (S), iron (Fe), zinc (Zn), copper (Cu), manganese (Mn), iodine (I), selenium (Se), chromium (Cr), molybdenum (Mo). We might also need (in very small amounts): fluoride (F), cobalt (Co), nickel (Ni), silicon (Si), vanadium (V), and Boron (B).Lithium might also be necessary to some extent. And I might have missed a few.
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