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Nurglings•

That whole post belongs in r/thathappened.

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DrGalactuslevel 5 vegan•

Every post about vegainsm on reddit outside of r/vegan belongs in r/thathappened

*FTFY

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AlternateMewvegan newbie•

Meh, games are completely different from reality.

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oogmarvegan•

I'm a gamer who has mastered the art of nailing bunny rabbits with my bow at a few hundred paces in Skyrim. There's a tracker on bunnies, so I got good at killing them. It's a video game. I don't give a shit. My character also isn't a vegan (though she is kind of a vegetarian these days).

That said, my ex could not do the whaling in Assassin's Creed. He just... couldn't. Dude isn't even a vegetarian, let alone a vegan, and it was too much.

Different people react to different things.

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Vevliravegan•

I just recently played Assassin's Creed 3 for the first time and felt a bit uncomfortable with the hunting mechanics and that you were forced to hunt at some points in the game. I was quite happy that you don't have to hunt most of the time and never did it. I didn't see the need for it, since it seemed like there weren't any interesting portions of the game that could only be accessed through hunting.

I know, it's kinda stupid... here I am, going around stabbing and killing people, but I feel bad about killing a virtual fox...

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elfam•

Do people think vegans are stupid? I just wonder because it feels like they want to believe this shit. Video games are full of immoral shit. No one in their right mind would single out monster hunter as an immoral experience. It's like the word vegan automatically allows you to discriminate.

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anachronicvegan 20+ years•

People want to believe that all vegans are gullible misled idiot "star children" or whatever... because it's easier to dismiss someone ridiculous.

They can't handle it when we're hardcore science nerds who have read thousands of more pages on human nutrition than they have, and know more about their omni food than they do. It makes us a lot harder to dismiss.

Hence, the stereotype.

"If all vegans are lunatics, I don't have to consider veganism seriously"

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mismanaged•

I've actually had something similar said to me at a group gaming event by a vegan friend of a friend who saw me hunt in Far Cry 4.

I don't think it's the norm, but there are people out there who say stuff like this.

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elfam•

Did he/she not realize all the arguably more horrific things people do in video games? Without a general disapproval of video games I don't see any reason to single out hunting. I mean I literally destroyed the world in some games.

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mismanaged•

He was against the other ones as well.

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