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M'going by my experience playing minotaurs more than anything else. The retaliation headbutt is a noticeable damage increase, especially against larger numbers, and UC offers a non-zero amount of auxiliaries (even with much heavier armor than that one had). It's definitely useful, especially when you're a melee character without much else to stuff experience into. Fellow's skills were a bit scattered, but it wasn't the UC that was the problem. Not on a minotaur.

Definitely a little silly to be fighting a hydra with a non-flaming long blade, though.

Today I learned the hard way that apparently italian cream cake has shredded coconut in it.

Shredded coconut tastes absolutely vile to me, and the texture does not freaking help. Also loves to get in my teeth and not go away. I do not like shredded coconut.

The cake looks absolutely delicious, too, and the rest of it is mouthwatering, but the bloody coconut filth ruins the entire taste.

Sad now.

Anything to actually say about the game? It's pretty good, actually. Especially considering what's being considered.

Tap water is hilariously unwise in my area. It made me sick multiple times before I stopped. I stopped Room temp water involves a gallon jug... or boiling.

Plus I'm fairly familiar with the local water dude. It does not inspire confidence (By which I mean, technically, the guy should be in jail. Literally. Pretty much everyone's still unsure why he isn't, but some form of blackmail is likely involved.).

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Remember, the whole statutory thing, re: couples right on the arbitrary age line. They kinda' have outlawed it in some situations.

To what extent is this prevalent nowadays? I thought that the existence of an age of consent would prevent most "statutory rape" incidents.

Prevalence wise, I still hear of it popping up locally relatively commonly; you'll have a couple where they're a year or two apart in age, but one of them's below the age of consent line. Someone outside the relationship objects (usually the parents of one of the involved), the cops get called in, someone gets on the sexual offender's list for the rest of their life for trying to have a relationship with a peer.

So, then, would a 16 y/o be liable to get accused of statutory if he had sex with a 15 y/o girl, for instance?

If 16 is the age of consent, yes, providing someone was willing to call it in and the cops didn't tell 'em to screw off. Which happens. E: Though do note they don't actually have to have sex! That's one of the "fun" parts of it. They just have to be unable to prove they didn't (at least in the area I'm in... maybe other parts of the states are a bit more sane with this). Good luck with that~

People tend to get more attached to domesticated pet rabbits than the wild kind that usually ends up on a plate in some form or another.
However, having owned multiple cats and multiple rabbits, maybe I'm biased towards not eating the adorable fluffy things.
Cows, on the other hand, deserve everything they get. Also, could you imagine marketing that? "Cat meat, now 99% less chance to contain microchip pieces, and 70% less chance to be your beloved pet!" It'd be a logistics nightmare, too. How on earth would you get enough cats to make killing and serving a viable option? Cat farms? There's a good chance you'd need employees, and people as depraved as that are either professional hitmen or cartoon villains.
Who would buy that? Crazy people? Even if you could get a full cat farm running, you'd need to sell the stuff. People eat rabbits because they're a popular hunting animal, even though they're adorable. People don't hunt cats, sport or food. Cats aren't exactly considered an invasive species, unlike rabbits.

No... cats are definitely an invasive species. They're currently causing problems in... Australia, I want to say -- somewhere around that area, anyway -- at the very least, and that's only what I know of.

The rest is fairly accurate, but the biggest problem with cat farming is the whole carnivore thing. Most land-based carnivores just have substandard meat (it's part and parcel to how meat eaters process food, iirc), and breeding them en masse is considerably more expensive than herbivores, strictly because of the necessarily higher energy cost involved with carnivores. Basically, we have fish and herbivores instead of land based carnivores as livestock for a reason, and it's not sentimentality.

Re: Cat attack -- if you've been mauled by a cat, it was you screwing up, not the cat, sorry. They're pretty easy to deal with if you know how. I've tamed a couple of full ferals (insofar as housecats get) with no lasting injuries, and had cats as pets for most of my life. Don't like 'em more or less than most other animals, but you do have to know what you're doing... same as any other nonhuman.

Not sure why this is in the starbound thread, though.

The dust gets hurt, but doesn't mind. Turns out when you're sitting there for what amounts to aeons, you end up a little kinky. It helps that the world is basically a rolling slurry of dust orgies, all day erry day.

Turns out there is, but it entails closing the bloody browser every time I want to use it. Mobile devices are incredibly constrictive for me

Better than nothing, though. Still kinda' getting close to the point I'd murder for some g'damn alt-tab and >9 tabs in browser (I'm used to having over a hundred open, nyargh.) action.

Feels like I'm missing an arm or something, honestly.