Question of the Day, Feb. 27, 2010

[The Escapist Staff]

Question of the Day, Feb. 27, 2010



Let's take a break from talking about gaming to ponder one of life's more important questions: What's worse, being eaten by one large thing (like a bear) or many small things (like a school of piranha)?

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[Bassman_2]

A school of piranhas would tear you apart painfully and you would have to go through that before you die. A bear would at least kill you first right?

 

[Plinglebob]

Surely this is a no-brainer. A big thing would either knock you out first or eat you in a few bites while lots of small things would take longer.

 

[SachielOne]

Better a quick death by shark bite than a slow devouring by fire ants.

 

[SeanTheSheep]

For me, I imagine something big (Like a T-rex) would kill you pretty quick, and then that would be it.
A lot of small things (Like the tiny raptor things in Jurrasic Park 2) would have lots of small nips and bites before they managed to tear into you properly, and even then, they'd probably stop being hungry when they'd stripped off most of your skin and flesh, unless there was a lot of them.
Hence my decision of small things being worse.

 

[Hawgh]

Small things would be way worse.

 

[LTK_70]

It's a no-brainer, when big things want to eat you they'll kill you to make you stop struggling. Small things don't care if you struggle, they can eat whether you're alive or dead.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

Many small things.
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Worms...

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Unless I'm already dead of course, then it wouldn't matter so much.

 

[Latinidiot]

I'd rather die before I'm eaten, and I don't think piranhas bother with killing. they just eat.

 

[hazabaza1]

Big things eat you whole. Little things nibble and nibble and PAIN.

 

[Sam G]

Dammit, misread it as "Which is preferable". Disregard one of those "big things" votes.

 

[Haz88]

Depends. If I'm concious I think I'd rather be eaten by one big thing. Something tells me it'll feel faster than being nibbled to death by thousands of tiny mouths. If I were out cold I could go either way.

 

[Andronicus]

I think generally speaking, death by one big thing is preferable. Unless said big thing happens to be something like this [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sarlacc].

 

[GeneralGrant]

Seems fairly obvious that being nibbled all over your entire body slowly would hurt a lot more than one or two big hits.

 

[XJ-0461]

Better a quick death by shark bite than a slow devouring by fire ants.

This is the logic I applied to the situation. You wouldn't feel a shark bite as much, because after it takes a maximum of 5 chunks out of you, you're pretty much dead. But with loads of tiny ants eating you, you'll feel all the millions of bites and it'll take them longer to kill you.

In other news, I overthink things.

 

[DaxStrife]

Would "many small things" include being torn apart/devoured by zombies?

 

[reg42]

I large predators will generally kill you, then eat you. Small things won't kill you straight away. Large predator for me thanks.

 

[Kaltazraza]

being eaten by many small things must be most painfull, where a large creature could kill you with a single bite, the smaller ones will take many small bites, which won't kill you in one hit.