Souplex said:
But humans are also nuclear-armed, obstinate, and xenocidal. (Literally nobody in this thread has condemned this theoretical genocide) Pigs taste almost exactly like humans (Many cannibalistic cultures call human flesh variations on "Long Pig", "Tall Pig", "Upright Pig" for this reason) have a similar texture, and have comparable meat-race traits to the cow. Any space-faring race could simply trade their space-resources (Helium-3, Iridium, metals mined from asteroids, or services that can only be achieved with their advanced technology such as terraforming to counteract global-warming) for these meats with much less effort and cost than an invasion.
I admit I'm a bit lost. But then..I'm getting the impression you are taking me more literally then intended in that you seem to be treating my comments on human eating legit seriously, quoting science and stats.
Basically I'm just recounting how my most recent space empire in Stellaris (the comment i was replying to and the related pic were from that game) would see things, aka view purging as a great waste of good food.
The humans in my games are xenophiles (i'm playing the xenophobic spiritual authoritarian race ty vm), had much better then nukes when i invaded them with my armies of psionics and fleets of ships bigger then planets, and i'm building ringworlds and dyson spheres.... So it just seems a bit odd to single out the human eating prospect and go scientific on me on that particular thing, especially when I'm now trying to summon elder gods from beyond the void to utterly destroy the galaxy.
That said, on an actual serious response to some of what you said: We humans do innefficient things all the friggin time for all sorts of reasons, we ain't machines whose every decision is based on mathematical logic.
I don't think it's out of the question that this would also apply to extraterrestial forms of life even if super advanced, and you look at things very dryly.. I can easily see plenty of reasons why an alien species might want to seek out human meat over pig one even if it does taste the same :3 Cultural value? The symbolism of eating a sentient species (aka eating the brain makes you smarter!)? The only limit here is your lack of imagination frankly. And those ressources you quote can be found in abundance by your own admission, whereas the humans only come from 1 planet.. Seems rare enough to me especially if we are talking about a hypothetical space empire numbering in the millions of planets. Make it a food only for the elite, like caviar!
Gotta love how I suddenly finding myself in the corner for the advocation of human eating though..
But yeah seriously, this is how my current game of stellaris is. Don't worry, it's a one off, I usually prefer to play xenophiles but i wanted to be "evil" for once and do all the things i normally don't do in the game.
And i'm always doubly confused when I see us tooting our own horns as prospective space badasses even though we have yet to actually meet a space faring species to which we can compare ourselves to. Right now our only basis of comparison is based entirely on our own fiction, and for all we know nukes isn't really the trump card we think it is. Cue a race like the elerians (from masters of orion 2, just to make clear i'm referencing a game once again) simply coming over and mind controlling everyone so they meet 0 resistance and 0 nukes and take over the world without firing a single shot and people actually volunteer to be food and walk into the meat mincer machine of their own "free" will. Friggin elerians, so OP.
Baffle2 said:
Ah. I've played quite a few Paradox games because I love the idea, but I do fall down on the attention span issue. I shall return to Golden Axe.
Fair enuff', yeh paradox games ain't for everyone.
Good taste for Golden Axe, ain't played the recent ones but 1-3 back in the day were amongst my favorite games. And now you reminded me of that i'm gonna go listen to the orchestra remix of the golden axe 2 ost...Yey.