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"You're saying in the state of Oregon, someone can walk up to your two-year-old kid completely bare naked and that's not a crime?" "Correct"

Subnautica 2 is a pacifist ideology woven into a game. Players have noticed you cannot defend yourself against attacking fish. Not even in self defense. Only passive means are available. This was by design. You can't kill anything because the devs feel it would support gun violence and aspects of colonialism: "Subnautica is one vote towards a world with less guns. A reminder that there is another way forward." "We want people to feel like they're learning to adapt to the world, rather than being a conqueror or dominator." "We aren't a killing game. Go play Sons of the Forest or something if you want to kill." The anti-violence stance got stronger from Subnautica 1 -> 2, which now has a complete "no kill" policy even when the fish can still kill *you*.

"Gorillas eat plants and they're jacked, so we can too." Let's have a look at the gorilla, shall we. A silverback gorilla weighing 200kg, casually deadlifting small trees and tearing limbs off other gorillas in the morning, has the following equipment list compared to you: - A digestive tract roughly 60% longer than yours, proportionally, with an enormous hindgut where microbial fermentation breaks down cellulose into short-chain fatty acids he then absorbs as a primary energy source. You do not have this. Your hindgut is small, decorative, and primarily there to make awkward noises in meetings. - A jaw with a sagittal crest, a vertical ridge of bone on the top of the skull where his temporalis muscle anchors, generating a bite force of approximately 1,300 PSI. Yours is about 160. He uses his to chew bark. You use yours to nibble a sourdough croissant. - Twelve to fourteen hours a day spent chewing. Not eating. Chewing. He must masticate roughly 18kg of fibrous vegetation daily just to extract enough calories to keep being a gorilla. Your lunch break is forty minutes. - A gut microbiome dominated by bacteria genuinely capable of fermenting plant matter into usable nutrition. Yours is dominated by whatever survived your last course of antibiotics and a complicated relationship with hummus. - Teeth designed for grinding tough vegetation. Yours are designed for tearing flesh and crushing the occasional walnut, which is why you intuitively reach for the steak and not the bark. - A 200kg body that nature has engineered to live entirely off shoots, stems, leaves, and the occasional insect by accident. Your body, by contrast, was engineered by two million years of hunting and scavenging large herbivores on the African savannah. You are not a gorilla. You are the thing the gorilla would lose a fight to if the gorilla were a deer and you had a spear. Eat accordingly.