uwuinculta

side blog/hoard for new vegas (prob general fallout) if you receive a follow from @barmybuck hahaha that's me!!

[worthlesssix]

You make Benny so kissable

You sure you didn't misspell "punchable"??

[sarsaparilla-star]

SO IVE BEEN PLAYING NEW VEGAS AGAIN and ive been having thoughts about the companions. how i see them in my head. ya

[letmebegaytodd]

The Brotherhood of Still On My Bullshit

[protosymphonette]

benny shenaniganery

[roseyturtles]

I love how everyone who genuinely likes Benny just took this pathetic man and swatted Bethesda away like a horsefly like no. He Is Not White. He Is Not Straight. He Is A Bisexual Whore And Just A Little Guy And It's His Birthday. For shame, Bethesda. We're making him into a communal oc/fucktoy

[robert-edwin-house]

do you see him

[calder]

vegans make peace with honey

no shut up do it

[calder]

vegans will pretend not to hear when natives tell them their agave products are unsustainable because they have whimsical feelings about, and i cannot stress this enough, the freedom of hive insects

Honey is literally murder but go off

[kasaron]

Prove it.

They literally puke their guts up to make your honey

[kasaron]

I have not seen any evidence tonsugges they are harmed or die in the process of production. They do regurgitate the nectar as part of the process to concentrate it into honey (an interesting process) but they do not suffer any injury during this process. If they did, the cost to produce honey, which is done naturally as a measure to survive over winter and through times of lower availability, would outweigh the benefits. If you kill several bees to produce enough honey to make one more bee, It makes no sense. Any animal that did that would die, even with human intervention.

Do you have any sources which suggest otherwise? I’d be interested to hear of this (relatively publicly available) information was false or misunderstood.

Bee farmers use whats called a honey maker. It’s a crude devices. It similar to a meat grinder. They force the bees in and grind them up. What comes out is a paste. That paste is later filtered into what we know as honey

[hematite2]

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read

[leonardo-nierman]

@zoologicallyobsessed please show us pics of your bee grinder

[gemstone-gynoid]

they might be falsely thinking about a honey extractor machine. but all these do is you place the beehive frames inside and a motor rotates it at a speed that removes the honey, which is then tapped through a tap at the bottom. 

[darkenedyeastextract]

…do they think they put bees in that and spin them around until they vomit…?

[demonius-darkblade]

bee carnival

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

bad and naughty bees get put into the b e e c e n t r i f u g e to extract their honey

[bastlynn]

Vegans coming after beekeepers is one of my major teeth grinding annoyances. For many reasons, because there’s so many lies. And to go one step further because it’s such a waste. You see, the strongest vegan argument is that they don’t want to exploit animals or take from them without their consent.

… but… Bees consent. NO. I’M NOT KIDDING.

How? Bee hives aren’t kept on leashes. They’re outside, the bees can travel miles every day. They follow their queen. Who is also outside, not on a leash, and can travel miles every day. If she doesn’t like the hive for any reason - for example: it got too hot, too cold, too messy, too filled with sugary stuff and they need more space… then the queen leaves. And with her the hive.

The queen stays in the hive because the hive is the best place to live. Period. Done. End of. If the hive is staying with the beekeeper it’s because the keeper is doing their job correctly and keeping them happy because the bees can, and do, leave bad beekeepers.

Of all the animals we have domesticated as livestock, bees are the ones you can most easily argue are consenting participants in their keeping.

[alicentsgf]

[mystical-mew]

Here it is. The bee post is back

[korrasera]

I feel compelled to explain the misconception part for anyone who doesn’t know anything about beekeeping and finds any of this confusing. This might be a little redundant, but I’m scratching an itch.

Harvesting honey does not murder bees.

The device pictured above does not mash up bees or their hives.

There’s no ethical concern when it comes to eating honey, it’s totally ethical as food is concerned.

Bees manufacture honey using pollen. They store it in the cells of their hive, where it’s used as food for the colony, particularly the larvae growing into the next generation of bees.

When you harvest honey, you remove parts of the hive that are being used to store the honey, without taking any bees along for the ride. Those parts of the hive are then put into a device, like the centrifugal extractor shown above by gemstone-gynoid, where the parts are spun really fast to pull extract the honey. The honey gets collected on the walls of the extractor, drips down, and can then be filtered and bottled for human use.

So.

It turns out that bees love making honey and can make more of it than they’d ever need. It also turns out that beekeepers taking care of hives and harvesting their honey keeps bees healthy and thriving, more so than they’d normally accomplish on their own. And we really need bees healthy and thriving because they help us grow an astonishing amount of food by pollinating plants.

Like, there’s no need to have a conversation about this, anyone who claims that harvesting honey requires that you kill bees is lying. Either they don’t know anything about beekeeping and are just repeating a lie someone else told them, or they know that they’re lying and they’re just straight up trying to deceive people. Neither is a good look.

[ariaste]

And just one more point of clarification – “cells of the hive” doesn’t mean the anatomical cells of the bees’ bodies, it means the little holes in the honeycomb of the physical structure of the hives, which they build using beeswax. Think of it like a bee pantry. They put their honey in the pantry, but since they’re working hard every day, they often make wayyyyyy too much of it. So the beekeepers come along and take the extra honeycomb that the bees don’t need and aren’t going to use, but they leave plenty behind for the bees to eat. Additionally, if anything happens to the hive’s honey supplies in the winter, the beekeepers can supplement their food by either giving some honey back or giving them sugar water. Also, fun fact! When beekeepers extract the honey from the comb, they often leave all their equipment out afterwards so the bees can come along and clean up, re-collecting any traces of honey or wax left behind, which get put back into the hive and recycled. Any leftover waste (dirt and grime from old comb, for example, or bees that died natural deaths of old age) makes great fertilizer for the plants that produce the pollen the bees make next year. No waste!

Vegans, the bees are not going to stop making honey if they’re left to their own devices in the wild. The bees are just doing a thing that bees do. Eating honey is not exploitation, it’s sustainability. That said, if you’re still worried about the ethics, I’d recommend looking up some local beekeepers/honey farms in your area and reaching out to them for more education! I’ve known a lot of beekeepers that are really excited about doing education and outreach to teach people about the importance of pollinators, the partnership between bees and beekeepers, and the process of how honey is collected. Some honey farms will even give you a tour of their process so you can see in person how it’s made and that it’s not a harmful or exploitative process for the bees at all! (and of course eating local honey gives you an amazing connection to your local environment, both spiritually and physically?? like apparently eating local honey can help with seasonal allergies??? it’s really cool)

[itszonez]

CHAPPELL ROAN - Casual (2023) dir. Hadley Hillel with MIKA LESHA as THE SIREN

[cathartic-crypt]

fallout nv companions (+ extras) and what kinda asmr theyd listen to

[1feralraccoon]

fallout new vegas honest hearts really asked is there truly a point of no return, is someone ever irredeemable, when does someone deserve to stop hurting for their mistakes and do they deserve to ever stop hurting? how much of someone is their choices or their circumstance? do intentions matter at all in the face of real consequences?

and then had the nerve to package it in “finding god and hurting will make you a better person✨”

[mensajeroseis]

this is fucking animated crazy good, how come ive never seen this

[manyblinkinglights]

This isn’t animated, this is somebody with full-body tracking in VRChat! I believe they also have ELBOW TRACKERS, which is two more trackers than people usually have. VRChat’s native IK (inverse kinematics) does its best to guesstimate a good elbow position for you, but this looks much more coordinated than it usually manages.

The elbow trackers are also extremely funny imo because they contrast with the grungy, rough-and-ready utilitarianism of the chosen avatar. That’s a significant extra financial and system outlay PLUS a significant extra physical burden of strapping in and out of your fullbody setup, which also implies uncluttered, dedicated space. Like, the avatar (and choice of topic) is of a man unconcerned with appearances but then the ELBOW TRACKING is the cat’s tailtip poking out of the bag: this is a person maximally concerned with appearances.

[woowsie]

while i’m here ig i’ll post this one too

[b1tter-m1lk]

[nukacola-cowboy]

Should have stayed buried, Courier.

[sayodoko]

[milesonsight]

HI HELLO I ADORE YOUR VULPES SO MUCH OH MY GOD

He's. Such a pathetic little wet cat of a man I need to sink my teeth into him and shake him around like a chewtoy

Also how you draw his EYES???? HELLO????????? I ADORE IT

Sjdjdjf sorry I'm. So mentally ill

HI HELLO JESUS I THOUGHT I SOMEHOW SENT THIS TO MYSELF BRO YOU ARE LITERAY ME FR jokes aside, I WANT TO SINK ME TEETH IN HIS N E C K AND AAAA I like him I love him he is so fun to make bullshit with oh also here have Vulpes staring at the fires of Nipton with child like fascination

[snakeaterr]

a magnum opus of my artistic abilities (requested by my gf)