Please remove Shark Fin Soup

[Kosmos992k]

HEY!!!!!!!

LOL! My apologies, I should have mentioned that in the 4th Astral era, the barbaric practice of harvesting the earlobes of infant Elezen was outlawed and instead the flakes of dry cured, lightly smoked Perch were substituted. The last known case of anyone actually using an ear-lobe was (as related to me by my great grand mother, who was something of a folk historian) in the late 4th Umbral era. In that case the perpetrator was incarcerated for several years and fed a diet limited to mushrooms and dried slugs. No one in their right mind would suggest that real ear-lobes should ever be used. Certainly no civilized Miq'ote would support such a thing. Nyah!?

SE! Please remove everything combat related in this game! We were killing Gilgamesh's chicken Enkidu! That's animal cruelty right there!

If you're going to use a game to promote animal cruelty then I'm gonna speak up!

By the twelve, steer clear of the region of Eastern Thanalan, there are myriad goats slaughtered there each day for their horns and skins. Often times, the poor creatures flesh is left in the field to rot, or scavenged by Quirin.

[Terrini]

This topic has been done before. Really, don't blow things out of proportion .. .. .. .. http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...shark+fin+soup

[JayCommon]

If they do away with Sharkfin Soup, can we have Elezen ear-lobe Fricassee instead?

Hmm, a cat making comments about ears... Rich indeed. *nocks enough arrows for a Wide Volley* Touch the little ones and you will *hear* yourself being pinned to the wall of your kitchen, furball.

Will you join me and my Miq'ote family for a celebratory Elezen Ear-Lobe Fricassee this weekend? I hear that the harvest has been excellent this year.

Cat-puns.... after we finish off your pathetic family we will remove your tails and use them as Shish-ka-bob Skewers for the wonderous variety of fruits/vegetables that we can acquire in the Shroud. Then of course we discard the tails, and they decompose into Eorzea and this is how Melt came about.

Ya know, a ball of shit with eyes?


Yeah....sounds purrrr-fect....

[Kinkoz]

So, this thread sure is a thing.

Out of everything in this game that this person could have chosen to take offense to, the one thing that really manages to get under their skin is a description for an item. A description for food.

I'm downright amazed.

[Magis]

Holy crap, this post is serious?

lol.

We should also remove murder from the game, cause killing people is bad.

This is an outright lie. A virtual lie because the only other recipe that includes Megalodon is a trophy recipe from GSM. The truth is that shark meat is not used as the broth in Shark Fin Soup or any other popular soup. It is not savory. Shark Fin Soup actually uses a pork or chicken broth. Ironically, the chicken broth is the only part of the soup that has any nutritional value or taste.

BAHAHHAAHAA, an outright lie in the real world maybe. Last time I checked the game took place in Eorzea XD.

I used the "it's just a game" rationale until I read the description. Plenty of other games have Shark Fin Soup. But the quote I mentioned above did not sit with me right. It is a completely unnecessary fabrication. It makes you wonder why it is in the description at all. It is also a lie used IRL to justify this shameful practice. If SE is going to use a game for political agenda then I'm going to speak up.

Bro, it's a fantasy game, the writers can make sharks taste like God's nectar and have them piss gold. If you have such a big issue with shark poaching, I think you'd have a bigger effect at going after... real sharkfin soup? Nah, bitching about it in a freaking video game forum is the way to go! Damn slacktivists.

[Silkerin]

what about the karakul? they were mudered in the thousands for their skins and fleece *even though they apprently multiply and grow up super fast*

and even worse! what about the water sprites? have you ever seen one in the real world? NO? thats becuase we killed all of them already! To avoid the same to happen in ff14 we should make water sprites untargetable so we can protect them, especially the ones at Urths Gift.

To find out more of this you can check this out:
http://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ



... no but seriously... its cool and all to want to protect REAL wildlife but... what op is saying is in the same category as "people who play gta or cod become killers"... which is of course true... right?

*also... i am at work and really bored... so even if this is a troll post... i want to enjoy the most out of it....XD*

[Shougun]

Please remove all recipes related to animals all food recipes (yes, you vegans out there, plants have feelings too).

Additionally, please remove all combat skills from the game, as it promotes violence and SE should not be sending the message that violence is acceptable in the real world.

To account for the inability to earn any experience or defeat monsters, characters will be granted max level upon character creation, and time in the game world will be speed up so that you may still "defeat" your enemies by having them die of old age.

Plants in FFXIV may have feelings, Mandragora for example. However in the real world calling adaptability a feeling is very questionable*, we design mathematical unfeeling (mutating even) algorithms that can adapt to better transport themselves. Their ability for memory and self preservation (per our design) does not mean it has feelings. Eating the self adjusting robot, while incredibly counter productive for health.. lol, would not cause it feelings.

*Not impossible, but it is a great leap of faith versus saying a cow has feelings.

[Chihaya]

No, if I wanted to play a censored game, I would be on the chinese server.

[Dyne_Fellpool]

Holy crap, this post is serious?

lol.

We should also remove murder from the game, cause killing people is bad.



BAHAHHAAHAA, an outright lie in the real world maybe. Last time I checked the game took place in Eorzea XD.



Bro, it's a fantasy game, the writers can make sharks taste like God's nectar and have them piss gold. If you have such a big issue with shark poaching, I think you'd have a bigger effect at going after... real sharkfin soup? Nah, bitching about in a freaking video game forum is the way to go! Damn slacktivists.

This. This so much.

[Magis]

Plants in FFXIV may have feelings, Mandragora for example. However in the real world calling adaptability a feeling is very questionable*, we design mathematical unfeeling algorithms that can adapt to better transport themselves. Their ability for memory and self preservation (per our design) does not mean it has feelings. Eating the self adjusting robot, while incredibly counter productive for health.. lol, would not cause it feelings.

*Not impossible, but it is a great leap of faith versus saying a cow has feelings.

Listen, removed everything from the game, because something will make someone feel offended. Replace everything with squares.