Children are impressionable, I think this is a good change.
children should be taught that video games arent real life. ive barely touched minecraft but if a parent cant teach their child that "this is only a good idea in this game" then its on the parent, not the video game.
Nah, feeding birds (and other pets) chocolate is a pretty common and dangerous mistake for all ages, no matter the nanny aspect of this change. Good on Mojang.
I'm okay with this change. It does sound like a minor thing that a parent could and would easily overlook and could lead to some minor pet tragedies.
normally i'm an advocate of "kids aren't fucking stupid and know video games aren't real", but given this is something that's easy to think is safe and the age of a lot of kids playing Minecraft it's an understandable change tbh
[QUOTE=_charon;52240948]normally i'm an advocate of "kids aren't fucking stupid and know video games aren't real", but given this is something that's easy to think is safe and the age of a lot of kids playing Minecraft it's an understandable change tbh[/QUOTE]
Exactly. 99% of kids know that shooting people is bad, but most kids aren't going to know chocolate kills parrots and would probably just give a bird a few pieces of their Chips Ahoy!.
Hell, I didn't even know parrots couldn't have chocolate until I read the article...
[QUOTE=usaokay;52240842]Next you'll be telling me to not put a saddle on a pig.[/QUOTE]
Most kids don't have access to a pig or a saddle, and those who do probably know better since they live on a farm.
Meanwhile tons and tons of kids have access to parrots and chocolate cookies, and it's completely reasonable for a kid not to know that chocolate is toxic to parrots. I bet most adults don't even know that.
They will either make it generic/wheat seeds or maybe they will get around to officially adding sunflower seeds. I gotta agree that the change is a bit justified since having access to parrots and chocolate chip cookies is fairly common and that both children and lazy/idiot adults would try that.
[QUOTE=_charon;52240948]normally i'm an advocate of "kids aren't fucking stupid and know video games aren't real", but given this is something that's easy to think is safe and the age of a lot of kids playing Minecraft it's an understandable change tbh[/QUOTE]
It's one thing to compromise artistic integrity, but this is more of helping to change a misconception.
[QUOTE=Revenge282;52241014]Exactly. 99% of kids know that shooting people is bad, but most kids aren't going to know chocolate kills parrots and would probably just give a bird a few pieces of their Chips Ahoy!.
Hell, I didn't even know parrots couldn't have chocolate until I read the article...[/QUOTE]
It's surprising how many animals are so vulnerable to theobromine poisoning. Cats and dogs I knew were especially vulnerable, the median lethal dosage (LD50) being 20-30% of what could potentially kill a human, but I wasn't aware of it being particularly toxic to birds.
Funnily enough, though, the LD50 for a mouse is a mere 80% of a human's LD50, whereas the LD50 of a rat is 265mg per kilogram higher than that of a human. So in theory, a man-sized rat would require 26.5% more chocolate to kill them, though if you were dealing with a rodent of unusual size, your first thought wouldn't be "kill them with chocolate". It would probably be "OH SHIT A SKAVEN".
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