Sapient Snacks?

[Lonewulf]

Originally Posted by Sydney

Should we not forget that in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe has cattle that will come to your table and recommend what bits of itself you should order?

And shows perfect sapience while doing it, as well.

"Don't worry, sir. I'll be very humane."

The "cow" version in the HGTTG *show* was fugly, though. Wouldn't want to eat that thing.

[djones]

Read this thread, thought of the Snacker caste jarum kee from Stefan Jones's alien metaculture the Jorwuril Kee in Roleplayer 25 (here http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/Rolepla...arvesters.html)

[Jürgen Hubert]

Originally Posted by Sydney

Should we not forget that in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the Restaurant at the End of the Universe has cattle that will come to your table and recommend what bits of itself you should order?

Such ideas are spreading through the RPG community. The Exalted boxed set "Dreams of the First Age" has sapient cattle as living sacrifices. At one time, the ruler of the world decided that human sacrifice was no longer an appropriate form of worship for the highest of the gods, and so they created this breed of cattle to have sapient sacrifices who would look forward to being sacrificed...

[Lonewulf]

Originally Posted by Jürgen Hubert

Such ideas are spreading through the RPG community. The Exalted boxed set "Dreams of the First Age" has sapient cattle as living sacrifices. At one time, the ruler of the world decided that human sacrifice was no longer an appropriate form of worship for the highest of the gods, and so they created this breed of cattle to have sapient sacrifices who would look forward to being sacrificed...

Of course, such a society, if it were logical (and many societies aren't, really), would be perfectly fine with allowing suicide amongst the general population. ;)

[Ramidel]

I cannot say that I am in the least surprised at this idea existing. (Whether it's ethical...::shrug:: Probably.)

I have to wonder how long it'll be until someone develops the technology to make sapient-snack bioshells and upload ghosts into them (and get them back out after death). There'll be a hell of a market for that.

[Lonewulf]

Originally Posted by Ramidel

I have to wonder how long it'll be until someone develops the technology to make sapient-snack bioshells and upload ghosts into them (and get them back out after death). There'll be a hell of a market for that.

A hell of a market? Are you sure on that?

I know of voreaphiles, but I had no idea they were a majority group.

[Ramidel]

Majority? No idea about the numbers.

But given the number of videos you can -trip over- just on Youtube (I mean it; stuff that shows up when hunting for music videos because a keyword looks remotely similar)...there's a market. Someone will fill it.

[jeff37923]

What would PETA think of sentient snacks?

[Lonewulf]

Originally Posted by Ramidel

Majority? No idea about the numbers.

But given the number of videos you can -trip over- just on Youtube (I mean it; stuff that shows up when hunting for music videos because a keyword looks remotely similar)...there's a market. Someone will fill it.

Youtube stuff is made for free, and I'm somewhat experienced in this area, and I find it difficult to find products with much backing behind them. At the best, I can find a $30-a-month subscription for some decent high-quality photoshop or decent editors, but that's about it. Nothing like making a robotic chip to suit the "tastes" of certain people, and I'd think that they'd get more fun out of a near-perfect virtual simulation instead of buying an expensive robot-based snack (although there will be some that think that when it's "more real", it's better...)

Of course, if you look hard enough, you can find some real cases of animal abuse (swallowing live fish, abusing rats and mice and the like for those with a particular fetish), but I'm finding that that's going more and more out of style, especially since the law is cracking down on a few of them. I find more cases of animal abuse in Fear Factor, anyways. >.>

Regardless, just because there's a market, doesn't mean it's a good one. When you have 1000 people that want something, and many of them aren't willing to shell over big bucks and aren't rich to begin with, there's really not much you can do with that. Yet 20 of those 1000 can upload decent videos up on Youtube (and let's face it: The average video is not decent, and the only decent ones are made with a basic DAZ account; art geniuses like Dragoness Markie notwithstanding).

Then again, maybe we've confused what we're attempting to subtly talk about here, and maybe I'm thinking of the wrong fetish group. ;)

[SuperGamera]

Kids will love Sentient Snacks, especially if they can make the snacks fight one another. Put them in gladiatorial matches, where the survivor avoids being eaten (for now). Or have a whole range of "hot pocket monsters", so kids can have their lunches duke it out (gotta eat them all!).