Dude, animals eat too. And although cattle and sheep can get some of their food via grazing, most of what farm animals eat is livestock feed. Which means humans had to grow crops to make that livestock feed - over a third of the world’s cropland is used to fatten up animals instead of feed humans. In the USA,…

AFAIK, the guy who wrote that Conversation piece isn’t vegan, nor were the people who wrote the QI question that inspired the article. So this just seems like a bunch of omnivores appointing themselves the Vegan Police.

Used to be able to hunt megafauna in central Europe around the LGM. In today’s climate, simply not possible. 

Well, we now have our first two members of The Takeout Commenters-Writers Figure Drawing Club Society. 

To me, raisins are basically the little rabbit droppings that come out when Satan is constipated. Raisins ruin a cookie, they ruin a cereal, and they ruin bagels. They test my trust in people when I’m offered any baked confection that includes cinnamon or oats, and they have historically killed relationships and…

I’m one of the horrible people who fell out of love with this show the more ambitious and byzantine its plotting became. Some day I’ll get caught up, but I can’t imagine anything will approach my affection for the first two seasons.

I missed last week since I had to go out of town for a bar mitzvah, so I couldn’t document the fact that I beat Bloodborne. It was kind of anti-climactic finishing up the main game and DLC after doing all the chalice dungeons and getting really overlevelled. All the bosses and enemies seemed very weak and predictable…

How’s summer folks?

An internet For once, I’m not starting out with “not a lot of time for gaming this week!” The end of the World Cup helped with that. So far, I’ve played a little bit of Fallout 1. I think I mentioned before that I had never previously played a Fallout or Elder Scrolls game, and that I’m somewhat of a crazy completist.…

Once again, I haven’t had tons of time for gaming this week, so let me focus first on this: Nominations are now open for the 60th edition of the Game Revue Club in the Gameological group on Steam! Here’s the Web link:

Salutations~!

Oh man, Octopath Traveler has been such an amazing adventure. The combat has been simply amazing. I’ve only found four of the characters so far and am focusing on grinding, but the boss fights have been so epic.

Salutations~!

I will stick up for Borderlands whenever necessary. Those open areas were NOT boring! The desert is beautiful and wonderful. I love deserts, and shanty towns, and Borderlands would have been better with 15 minute drives between areas of significant interest. Hah! Take that, modern gaming conventions! Borderlands would…

Bloodborne Bloodborne Bloodborne. Still joyfully progressing through this game. Last night I got through the Upper Cathedral Ward and beat Ebrietas after about an hour and a half of dying constantly. She’s the cheapest of the bosses I’ve encountered so far. I beat her, but it was purely because the RNG of her attacks…

“Should I tip my barista for a cup of coffee?”

It’s a real “water cooler” game, one of those experiences where you and your friends kind of grill each other and talk about all these incredible moments and shocking secrets as you play it together. Breath of the Wild was a lot like that, too.

Great call on the John Carpenter vibe! Calling RE4 “a perfect mash-up of the best visceral horror of The Thing with the hokey over-the-top insanity of Big Trouble in Little China” nails it even better than the Gymkata/Commando parallels.

I’m both so happy and totally unsurprised at how you came out of RE4. It really is this bizarre, brilliant beast. It’s frenetic, and honestly kind of demented a lot of the time; you mentioned Gymkata and Commando, but there’s also a huge John Carpenter vibe as this thing that’s both deeply campy and viscerally intense…

It’s been a while and I hope all of my fellow Gameologirinos are doing well! It will surprise no one that I am mainly playing one game and one game only: Destiny 2. I still really enjoy the game and have since launch (I am fairly easy to please) and the improvements they’ve made in the latest expansion (Warmind) are…