YetAnotherLinuxUser wrote: »Also, vegan and veganism can't be used as the are specific to religion and religious discussions are verboten on these forums. So that means the only language left is 100% plant based.
I just hate we have to kill animals in this game. Ive tried so hard to skip this but zos really need to add an option to the game where animals arent harmed. We need to do better.
SilverBride wrote: »I just hate we have to kill animals in this game. Ive tried so hard to skip this but zos really need to add an option to the game where animals arent harmed. We need to do better.
We also kill other humanoids, and we go to Cyrodiil and kill each other.
This isn't reality and these are things that are happening in a different world in a different time. If we kept our activities to only things we would do in our real lives we would all have to quit playing.
spartaxoxo wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »I just hate we have to kill animals in this game. Ive tried so hard to skip this but zos really need to add an option to the game where animals arent harmed. We need to do better.
We also kill other humanoids, and we go to Cyrodiil and kill each other.
This isn't reality and these are things that are happening in a different world in a different time. If we kept our activities to only things we would do in our real lives we would all have to quit playing.
That's true. But a nature-loving magic wielder is a pretty standard fantasy archetype and a way for vegans to engage in the ethics of fantasy world's morals while bringing in a small slice of themselves into that fantastical setting. They could make a warden, use Druid furnishings for their house, and only use plant-based recipes.
SilverBride wrote: »spartaxoxo wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »I just hate we have to kill animals in this game. Ive tried so hard to skip this but zos really need to add an option to the game where animals arent harmed. We need to do better.
We also kill other humanoids, and we go to Cyrodiil and kill each other.
This isn't reality and these are things that are happening in a different world in a different time. If we kept our activities to only things we would do in our real lives we would all have to quit playing.
That's true. But a nature-loving magic wielder is a pretty standard fantasy archetype and a way for vegans to engage in the ethics of fantasy world's morals while bringing in a small slice of themselves into that fantastical setting. They could make a warden, use Druid furnishings for their house, and only use plant-based recipes.
These nature-loving magic wielders are still killing animals and monsters and even other humanoids if they are doing any quests or running any dungeons. If players aren't killing something how are they leveling?
I'm not against the idea of more plant based recipes because it is a healthy way to eat. But ultimately this is a fantasy game and it's a different world with different norms. If they made the game so it only confirms to our real life morays they would have to eliminate almost all combat.
SpacemanSpiff1 wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »spartaxoxo wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »I just hate we have to kill animals in this game. Ive tried so hard to skip this but zos really need to add an option to the game where animals arent harmed. We need to do better.
We also kill other humanoids, and we go to Cyrodiil and kill each other.
This isn't reality and these are things that are happening in a different world in a different time. If we kept our activities to only things we would do in our real lives we would all have to quit playing.
That's true. But a nature-loving magic wielder is a pretty standard fantasy archetype and a way for vegans to engage in the ethics of fantasy world's morals while bringing in a small slice of themselves into that fantastical setting. They could make a warden, use Druid furnishings for their house, and only use plant-based recipes.
These nature-loving magic wielders are still killing animals and monsters and even other humanoids if they are doing any quests or running any dungeons. If players aren't killing something how are they leveling?
I'm not against the idea of more plant based recipes because it is a healthy way to eat. But ultimately this is a fantasy game and it's a different world with different norms. If they made the game so it only confirms to our real life morays they would have to eliminate almost all combat.
crafting.
SilverBride wrote: »spartaxoxo wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »I just hate we have to kill animals in this game. Ive tried so hard to skip this but zos really need to add an option to the game where animals arent harmed. We need to do better.
We also kill other humanoids, and we go to Cyrodiil and kill each other.
This isn't reality and these are things that are happening in a different world in a different time. If we kept our activities to only things we would do in our real lives we would all have to quit playing.
That's true. But a nature-loving magic wielder is a pretty standard fantasy archetype and a way for vegans to engage in the ethics of fantasy world's morals while bringing in a small slice of themselves into that fantastical setting. They could make a warden, use Druid furnishings for their house, and only use plant-based recipes.
These nature-loving magic wielders are still killing animals and monsters and even other humanoids if they are doing any quests or running any dungeons. If players aren't killing something how are they leveling?
I'm not against the idea of more plant based recipes because it is a healthy way to eat. But ultimately this is a fantasy game and it's a different world with different norms. If they made the game so it only confirms to our real life morays they would have to eliminate almost all combat.
spartaxoxo wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »These nature-loving magic wielders are still killing animals and monsters and even other humanoids if they are doing any quests or running any dungeons. If players aren't killing something how are they leveling?
I'm not against the idea of more plant based recipes because it is a healthy way to eat. But ultimately this is a fantasy game and it's a different world with different norms. If they made the game so it only confirms to our real life morays they would have to eliminate almost all combat.
There's plenty of quests that only have you kill daedra and people. I don't think nature loving mages in most fantasy games care about killing people because they view it as protecting nature.
Obviously, a player wishing to play such a character in a fantasy game wouldn't necessarily want to do that in real life, and would even find it morally wrong. Still, it's a pretty standard fantasy type character. I think the Druids in this is game are somewhat like that. Although as far as I'm aware they eat meat.
SilverBride wrote: »spartaxoxo wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »I just hate we have to kill animals in this game. Ive tried so hard to skip this but zos really need to add an option to the game where animals arent harmed. We need to do better.
We also kill other humanoids, and we go to Cyrodiil and kill each other.
This isn't reality and these are things that are happening in a different world in a different time. If we kept our activities to only things we would do in our real lives we would all have to quit playing.
That's true. But a nature-loving magic wielder is a pretty standard fantasy archetype and a way for vegans to engage in the ethics of fantasy world's morals while bringing in a small slice of themselves into that fantastical setting. They could make a warden, use Druid furnishings for their house, and only use plant-based recipes.
These nature-loving magic wielders are still killing animals and monsters and even other humanoids if they are doing any quests or running any dungeons. If players aren't killing something how are they leveling?
I'm not against the idea of more plant based recipes because it is a healthy way to eat. But ultimately this is a fantasy game and it's a different world with different norms. If they made the game so it only confirms to our real life morays they would have to eliminate almost all combat.
SilverBride wrote: »spartaxoxo wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »These nature-loving magic wielders are still killing animals and monsters and even other humanoids if they are doing any quests or running any dungeons. If players aren't killing something how are they leveling?
I'm not against the idea of more plant based recipes because it is a healthy way to eat. But ultimately this is a fantasy game and it's a different world with different norms. If they made the game so it only confirms to our real life morays they would have to eliminate almost all combat.
There's plenty of quests that only have you kill daedra and people. I don't think nature loving mages in most fantasy games care about killing people because they view it as protecting nature.
Obviously, a player wishing to play such a character in a fantasy game wouldn't necessarily want to do that in real life, and would even find it morally wrong. Still, it's a pretty standard fantasy type character. I think the Druids in this is game are somewhat like that. Although as far as I'm aware they eat meat.
This is all true but the point I am trying to make is getting lost. I originally was replying to this, in particular to the text in bold:
"I just hate we have to kill animals in this game. Ive tried so hard to skip this but zos really need to add an option to the game where animals arent harmed. We need to do better."
This is a combat based game where a lot of game play involves killing others. Why is this acceptable but killing an animal for food is not?
But more importantly whether we consume animals products or not does not mean one group is "doing better" than the other. This is a personal choice.
YetAnotherLinuxUser wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »I'm not against the idea of more plant based recipes because it is a healthy way to eat. But ultimately this is a fantasy game and it's a different world with different norms. If they made the game so it only confirms to our real life morays they would have to eliminate almost all combat.
having 100% plant based purple and gold recipes dos not take anything away from those who wish to use purple and gold recipes that have animal ingredients in them. it adds more possibilities, it takes nothing away from anyone.
SilverBride wrote: »YetAnotherLinuxUser wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »I'm not against the idea of more plant based recipes because it is a healthy way to eat. But ultimately this is a fantasy game and it's a different world with different norms. If they made the game so it only confirms to our real life morays they would have to eliminate almost all combat.
having 100% plant based purple and gold recipes dos not take anything away from those who wish to use purple and gold recipes that have animal ingredients in them. it adds more possibilities, it takes nothing away from anyone.
Which is why I stated that I am not against the idea of more plant based recipes.
SilverBride wrote: »It would be fun to see what new recipes we could come up with using ingredients already in game.
KiltMaster wrote: »all this over pixels
JemadarofCaerSalis wrote: »I was thinking some mushroom based recipes.
I didn't see any, but to my (very limited knowledge) a lot of people like to substitute mushrooms as the main ingredient in dishes.
SilverBride wrote: »JemadarofCaerSalis wrote: »I was thinking some mushroom based recipes.
I didn't see any, but to my (very limited knowledge) a lot of people like to substitute mushrooms as the main ingredient in dishes.
I used to have a recipe for sloppy joes that used chopped portabello mushrooms instead of ground beef and it was delicious.
SilverBride wrote: »spartaxoxo wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »These nature-loving magic wielders are still killing animals and monsters and even other humanoids if they are doing any quests or running any dungeons. If players aren't killing something how are they leveling?
I'm not against the idea of more plant based recipes because it is a healthy way to eat. But ultimately this is a fantasy game and it's a different world with different norms. If they made the game so it only confirms to our real life morays they would have to eliminate almost all combat.
There's plenty of quests that only have you kill daedra and people. I don't think nature loving mages in most fantasy games care about killing people because they view it as protecting nature.
Obviously, a player wishing to play such a character in a fantasy game wouldn't necessarily want to do that in real life, and would even find it morally wrong. Still, it's a pretty standard fantasy type character. I think the Druids in this is game are somewhat like that. Although as far as I'm aware they eat meat.
This is all true but the point I am trying to make is getting lost. I originally was replying to this, in particular to the text in bold:
"I just hate we have to kill animals in this game. Ive tried so hard to skip this but zos really need to add an option to the game where animals arent harmed. We need to do better."
This is a combat based game where a lot of game play involves killing others. Why is this acceptable but killing an animal for food is not?
But more importantly whether we consume animals products or not does not mean one group is "doing better" than the other. This is a personal choice.
SilverBride wrote: »spartaxoxo wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »I just hate we have to kill animals in this game. Ive tried so hard to skip this but zos really need to add an option to the game where animals arent harmed. We need to do better.
We also kill other humanoids, and we go to Cyrodiil and kill each other.
This isn't reality and these are things that are happening in a different world in a different time. If we kept our activities to only things we would do in our real lives we would all have to quit playing.
That's true. But a nature-loving magic wielder is a pretty standard fantasy archetype and a way for vegans to engage in the ethics of fantasy world's morals while bringing in a small slice of themselves into that fantastical setting. They could make a warden, use Druid furnishings for their house, and only use plant-based recipes.
These nature-loving magic wielders are still killing animals and monsters and even other humanoids if they are doing any quests or running any dungeons. If players aren't killing something how are they leveling?
I'm not against the idea of more plant based recipes because it is a healthy way to eat. But ultimately this is a fantasy game and it's a different world with different norms. If they made the game so it only confirms to our real life morays they would have to eliminate almost all combat.
NoticeMeArkay wrote: »Would somebody be so kind and explain to me why people are discussing the morality behind the digital ingredients or digital food on a video game? I'd absolutely get it if this discussion was about the lack of new potentially good buff food over the past years or the lack of creative effects upon consumptions or the split-second these visual effects appear for or the absolute abundance of any utility provided by food apart from ressources, handling curses and wether or not the fishing food still works or not...
...I don't get it and I don't mean to mock anybody. Why is this being discussed?
SilverBride wrote: »spartaxoxo wrote: »SilverBride wrote: »I just hate we have to kill animals in this game. Ive tried so hard to skip this but zos really need to add an option to the game where animals arent harmed. We need to do better.
We also kill other humanoids, and we go to Cyrodiil and kill each other.
This isn't reality and these are things that are happening in a different world in a different time. If we kept our activities to only things we would do in our real lives we would all have to quit playing.
That's true. But a nature-loving magic wielder is a pretty standard fantasy archetype and a way for vegans to engage in the ethics of fantasy world's morals while bringing in a small slice of themselves into that fantastical setting. They could make a warden, use Druid furnishings for their house, and only use plant-based recipes.
These nature-loving magic wielders are still killing animals and monsters and even other humanoids if they are doing any quests or running any dungeons. If players aren't killing something how are they leveling?
I'm not against the idea of more plant based recipes because it is a healthy way to eat. But ultimately this is a fantasy game and it's a different world with different norms. If they made the game so it only confirms to our real life morays they would have to eliminate almost all combat.
You can definitely level via crafting and exploration only. It's certainly slow and of course not quite rewarding, but it's possible.
16BitForestCat wrote: »Re: veg*n foods (that's a long-used abbreviation for "vegetarian and/or vegan" in one, in case anyone mistakenly thinks it's a weird form of self-censorship):
I'm not and don't have any characters that are veg*n, but I still use in-game terms like "meat," "cheese," and "milk" pretty fluidly for crafting and RP purposes. Veg*n meat substitutes, milks, and cheeses have been around for centuries in the real world—who's to say that's not also the case for Elder Scrolls? If you want to say that your Apple-Eidar Cheese Salad contains a soy-based Eidar cheese, or you're using almond milk instead of dairy, or young jackfruit pork instead of piggy pork in Sticky Pork and Radish Noodles, no one can tell you otherwise. We had a New Life festival in one of my guilds where we traded foods in a roleplay event, and we all mutually RP'ed that if someone requested veg*n meals, we were crafting them veg*n versions of the recipes.
In other words...loot those cheese slices by that one Hollow City guild vendor with a free conscience—it's non-dairy veg*n cheese if you say so.
That said, I wouldn't complain if more of the existing recipes were tweaked to be specifically veg*an from the start. We already have a lot of recipes in game that many players never use, so it'd be really cool if more obsolete ones were repurposed for diversity and usefulness rather than have even more new ones added to clutter up the database.
P.S. Those soy-based Impossible Chicken nuggets are amazing. Pretty much as unhealthy as animal-based processed nuggs, but you don't eat 'em for your health.