There's so much weird shit here. From Yajirobe's little dodging-dance to how effortlessly he's clowning Krillin to Yamcha being Tien's equal and doing a Dodonpa...it's all fucked up.
My various fanfics.He'd probably eat Krillin if he were hungry enough and the latter were dead.
And the last part is questionable.
One Strip! One Strip!Not sure if those are sentient in the same way we are. If they were, we likely wouldn't eat them.
One Strip! One Strip!No, we totally would. We just wouldn't advertise it at the supermarket.
Everyone knows that your hamburger originates from a store somewhere, and was never alive at any point. As long as it keeps on tasting delicious and nobody actually has to see it in person, only a very small percentage of the community cares about the conditions the cow was under when it died. Getting to reap the perks of violence without ever having to acknowledge it exists is one of the First World's foremost benefits.
It is a serious point of contention whether other human beings deserve the same basic rights as us. Good luck with the chicken. Sentience doesn't actually mean as much to us pragmatically as it does ideologically.
edited 11th Oct '14 10:42:49 AM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.To be fair, cows aren't exactly sentient/sapient in the same way, say, dolphins are. While dolphins were at one point killed and eaten, the revelation that dolphins may be one of only a handful of self-aware non-human species on Earth has caused a general decline in the practice.
Granted, we still basically enslave them, keep them in captivity and force them to perform for our amusement while ignoring their rights as thinking, feeling people in their own right, but hey. Baby steps
EDIT: Studies also show that dolphins are total assholes, so there's that.
edited 11th Oct '14 10:51:55 AM by KSPAM
I've got new mythological machinery, and very handsome supernatural scenery. Goodfae: a mafia web serialthough eating their brains would surely grant us their powers.
considerng this probably actually happens,the joke sucks.
But Soylent Green is so tasty!
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Why do I feel like we've already had this discussion twice before?
At least, I know I've had a discussion on the difference between sentience and sapience before.
By the way, as to the earlier discussion on time travel, I feel like you were all wrong as to how it works here. In the DBZ universe, each trip back in time effectively creates a new branch universe. This was explained in Abridged Ep. 41
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edited 11th Oct '14 2:35:13 PM by wanderlustwarrior
But doesn't that just result in timelines 1, 2, 3, 4, etc?
So I was rewatching the episode where 17 and 18 were activated, and I noticed that it contains strains of the Doctor Who Cybermen theme
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Yeah, but what are you getting at? That's what the episode describes as well, isn't it?
The timelines are the branched universes.
Also, I think there could be more than 4, as the existence of Daizenshuu 7's "History 4" that I (and many others) previously dismissed actually is a logical conclusion to come to.
edited 12th Oct '14 12:54:30 AM by Saiga
The letters just helped with illustrating which version of the timeline was branching, because there's two versions of Trunks's Future and two versions of the timeline where everyone didn't die.
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Again, I label them like that because it makes them easier to visualize.
What I typicallly call Original A and B are actually universe 1 and 4, and Main A and B are 2 and 3. But titling them like that not only makes it easier to see what they are offshoots of, but how and by whom they were split off - because the show itself presents them that way: there are two versions of Trunks' future, one where Cell killed Trunks and one where Trunks killed Cell, and while they are the first and last of the timelines to be created (technically) the show presents them as mirrors. So thinking of them as mirrors works for trying to visualize them conceptually.
Likewise, the A and B still works in a general sense - Trunks is talking about the branching event that created the initial split between what I call the Main and Original sets, both of which are split/branched again when Cell travels back. Trunks is unaware of either of those, and in fact the last split doesn't happen until after he returns home (which is why it works to consider it a branch of the "Original" timeline and not a general timeline).
And as Saiga said, we did explain the timelines and how they worked in both the original series and abridged. What Trunks notes is basically what we said, but... well... abridged.
edited 12th Oct '14 5:34:57 PM by KnownUnknown

I forgot Yajirobe trained with them.
I also forgot he tossed salads.