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  • Wild cow herds are regulated by predators, but also by themselves. Like with most herd animals, males are either killed or exiled once they reach puberty.

    On my parents farm we leave the calves with their mother for a day and then move the calves to their own enclosure nearby. If I had to guess, I'd say that the social contact with the other calves significantly reduces stress for the calves and the direct line of sight helps the mothers cope. But it really depends on the individual cow how well they take it.

    As far as I'm aware organic farms often keep their cows for roundabout one decade given that their health allows it. Upper teens are rare because older cows are a lot more prone to develop serious health issues and most of the time it's more humane to slaughter a cow with a torn ligament than watching her die painfully from gas buildup.

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  • My source is that my family owns an organic dairy farm and every single number you pulled is either wrong or out of context

    • Cows get pregnant about once per year. When we have an actual bull with the herd, that interval is even shorter because the bull won't consider milk production at all. He'll jump on as soon as he smells she's in heat.
    • There's nothing forceful about artificial insemination and every statement in that direction is extremist bullshit spread by Peta Terrorists and other lowlifes
    • Wild cows also get pregnant every year, yes. They need to produce as much offspring as possible so the herd doesn't die out and when there's a bull present and the cow goes into heat, then there's nothing stopping them.
    • Cows on organic farms often live into their teens and are usually only slaughtered when they develop severe health problems. Our oldest one is 16 years old as of last month and you can easily tell that she's an extremely old lady. Wild cows have a way shorter life expectancy because they get hunted down by predators or die of an infection as soon as they show any kind of weakness or old age.
    • A dignified existence for a cow is the ability to graze on fresh pastures, a roof over the head for bad weather, soft bedding for resting, a reasonablely sized herd for companionship and a painless death when her time has come.
    • Separation of cows and calves is your only argument that has any kind of merit, but honestly most cows take it pretty well. A lot of farmers are actually exploring concepts where mother and calf are kept together, but those usually result in higher maintenance cost and slightly lower milk yield. And customers are just not ready to pay the difference.

    The thing that people like you always forget is that most farmers and especially organic farmers care a great deal about their kettles' wellbeing and some of you would do well to remember that.

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  • I became a vegetarian for environmental reasons and I do think all animals deserve a dignified existance, but my criteria for that is obviously very different from yours.

    Still though, it never ceases to amuse me how that forceful impregnation BS is still floating around with people who've never encountered a live animal in their entire life. How about you try getting a male and female pet and do a little study on how small the intervals in between litters really are.

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  • I don't know and don't care about the US, but at least in the EU this statement is false. The EU-BIO- Label doesn't regulate as much as it could, but it does regulate a lot more than just "no pesticides".

  • ich🥰🚄🙍‍♂️iel

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  • Hamburg geb' ich dir, aber fucking BERLIN? Junge, Berlin ist mit das hässlichste Drecksloch, das dieses Land zu bieten hat. Selbst der Frankfurter Hauptbahnhof hat mehr Charme als Berlin!

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  • Gone vegetarian 5 years ago just before the pandemic hit. I've never had any real issues so far and my friend group has mostly switched to vegetarian meals when I'm present. Not because anyone forced them, but because it's a lot easier and there's so much awesome vegetarian food nowadays.

    And when we barbecue, everyone brings their own stuff anyway. So that's a non issue as well (I don't care about cross contamination at all)

    I don't think I could go full vegan, but in all honesty, I save enough money from not buying meat that I can buy all of my milk and cheese organic and that got rid of pretty much every last one of my moral qualms.

    Queue militant vegans telling me how awful even organic dairy is in 3, 2, 1...

  • When you committed a crime in the 2030s.

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  • Just stop man -.- I can't handle that much edge on my weekends...

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  • You just gave a perfect example for my "How do I deal even more damage?" point and you don't even realize it. Do you? If all you have is a hammer...

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  • Wrong. I'm perfectly capable of creating complex encounters. It's just a fact that the system actively punishes any DM who tries to set up a FUN encounter because there's so many special abilities that just simply solve any inconvenience at the cost of an action.

    My players should feel rewarded because they managed to build a campfire from discarded boxes so that they have a steady source of light during an important fight and not feel punished because they picked one of the threeish races that don't have darkvision.

    My players should feel clever because they managed to fashion a pulley system to move a significant amount of treasure out of the dungeon and not because they just stuffed everything into their bag of holding and forgot about it.

    5e is boring by design and making it interesting means fighting against the system every step of the way!

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  • Completely agree. Combat should feel fast and dangerous. With 5e It feels exactly like what it is. A bunch of sweaty nerds having a make believe d*ck measuring contest of whose made up character is the most awesome. But combat is far from the only problem here.

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  • I think my biggest complaint might actually be that no matter what you plan to do, you're pretty much always better off just bonking your opponent and doing damage.

    Taking an extra turn to sneak around enemies and take them out stealthily? Hitting two turns in a row is better! Grapling an enemy to give your teammate a better chance at succeeding his attack? Still, two bonks will do twice as much damage. Healing? Complete waste of time as long as your HP stays above zero (and even then it only matters when you're still down by the start of your next turn).

    But I think my biggest paint points are not even combat related. It's stuff like dark vision, spider climb, passive perception or Alarm, fly or breathless nature. A lot of characters start with these get out of jail free cards from level 1. 5e players will never experience the sense of dread and excitement that comes from exploring a deep windy dungeon with only a couple of torches that may run out at any given moment. 5e players will never struggle to hunt down enough prey in the arctic wilderness because someone will just cast goodberry.

    DnD takes everything that makes the journey just as interesting as the goal and throws it away. There's only this fight and then a long/short rest followed by the next fight. That's really all the fun DnD allows its players to have.

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  • But you see, that's not how 5e works. 5e just throws an endless amount of instant problem solving abilities at your players to the point where there are no problems left except for "How do I deal even more damage?". It still kind of works with characters up to level 7ish, but everything after is just cool™ character moments without any problem left to overcome. I mean, there's a reason why almost no one plays double digit levels in DnD.

    I just finished my last DnD campaign and am now enjoying my life with systems that allow me as the DM to actually challenge my players without the need to spend several days of preparation to make sure my encounters won't just be solved by a single "Um actshually..." sentence.

  • Game developers desperate for you to join their Discord "server"

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  • Because having your entire community on one platform is just a hell of a lot more convenient and manageable especially for smaller development studios. And Discord offers way better tools for moderation and real time discussions than any other tool I know.

    Sure, the searchability via search engines is pretty much none existent. But then again, you don't really need that if all information regarding your game can be found via the Discord search.

    Additionally, players from all platforms can contribute and ask questions on Discord. The same is not true for e.g. the Steam User Forum.

    There's a lot of problems with Discord and I feel like it's only gonna get worse now that they're public. But being blatantly oblivious to the obvious reasons why developers are choosing Discord over its alternatives helps no one.

  • ich_iel

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  • Eine Scheibe Bauernbrot komplett ohne alles ist großartig. Ich liebe das am Abend, wenn ich noch ein bisschen Hunger habe, aber nicht mehr kochen will 🤩

  • Sounds like a bitch problem

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  • It's funny. I know a lot of players who think like you, but I and many others go in the completely opposite direction. The tension in my combat encounters has increased significantly since my group and I started to only give vague health info. Suddenly, it's a surprise agin when a character goes down and you can almost feel the tension every round when another hidden death save is rolled!

  • ich🍪🔝⬇️iel

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  • Ein bärtiger Mann mit Rucksack

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  • No, it doesn't. That's precicely what classes are for. Everyone has their job and the rogue's job is to finde traps and deal sneak attack damage. You don't see the rogue going around demanding second wind, action surge and heavy armor, now do you?

  • That'sa spicy meat-a-ball

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  • Or he's just one of the dozens of races that can just decide to not beathe...