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I know this is a semi-sacrilegious take, since the game is a spin-off, not even developed by Nintendo, but I might like it more than Breath of the Wild? AoC is much more focused on story and character development, which I appreciated. BotW is all about gameplay. No spoilers please! I'm only...

I just got to Tarrey Town in my vegan Master mode run. I have tons of wood, but haven't been to Zora's Domain or Goron City yet, so I can't complete the quest.

The beach village is probably the one I go to the least.

For some reason, I almost always cash in for heart pieces and stamina at Kakariko Village. Obviously, Link's house is in Hateno Village, so I go there a fair amount. But once I have Tarrey Town set up, that's probably where I spend the most time. I love the music. The business options seem...

They definitely felt religious to me too. They reminded me of Tibetan prayer flags or something, but they're obviously solid. I'm bookmarking the link for later, when my kids are less crazy! EDIT: Interesting. Here's the relevant portion from that blog post. "Past these doubled gates are...

Probably a dumb question, but I was curious.

That's silly. We bring billions and billions of animals into existence every year. It's not a natural or inevitable process. If we stopped eating meat, we'd stop breeding them.

Hmmm, that's not what I've heard. I'd recommend We Are The Weather by Jonathan Safran Foer to anyone interested in the subject.

Yeah, the Rito armor is an edge case. I decided not to use it since they never actually specify it's made with Rito feathers and they appear to eat other birds. Also, the additional challenge makes things more interesting. As for other stuff, that the developers might have intended to be made...

I'm in my third playthrough, doing a Master Mode/vegan run. I'm headed to Gerudo Town to get the Ruby Circlet, which, paired with the Warm Doublet, means I don't have to use the Rito Armor, which has feathers.

So a couple of different things inspired this thread. Not too far back, someone posted a floor plan from Jerry's apartment in Seinfeld, showing how it wasn't really feasible in an architectural sense...

Gotcha. I thought it was in a more recent game, made decades after OoT's release. So that example isn't a good one.

Thanks for the ideas, everyone!

One thing that inspired this thread was a question someone had about redeads. Are they zombified villagers or a purely magic creation? Apparently one of the Smash Brothers games said the latter. I'm kind of on the death of the author train. Ie, once creators release a work of art into the wild...

I know whatever Nintendo says now is the official answer. I should have phrased my question better. Which do you personally take more seriously?

The intentions of the developers who worked on a game or whatever Nintendo is saying in ancillary material now? Because I imagine they won't always be the same as new generations rise through the Nintendo ranks and the old timers retire.

I figured they were zombified citizens.

I assume it's collecting and selling gems, but are there certain places you go to that are very mineral rich?

I think you're leaving out a lot of factors, like methane production from cattle, how cutting down forests for the purpose of grazing reduces the land's ability to absorb greenhouse gases, etc. But this isn't really something I'm super knowledgable about, as I'm vegan primarily for animal rights...

So where do we think Zelda stays for the second half of the game? Is she camping in the Lost Woods? Is she hiding in someone's basement in Kakakiro?

She's like Hyrulean Batman.

Anyone have any good evidence or head canon for this? Besides stalking Link, what does she do? Where does she hide out? How does she survive? I honestly think it might make a good Zelda game in its own right.

I haven't followed the issue too closely, but I've heard some cultured meat industry folks have approached Jewish leaders about getting a kosher classification.

The production cost is coming down. One company can make a quarter pound of cultured chicken for $7.50: https://www.meatpoultry.com/articles/24461-future-meat-technologies-lowers-cost-to-produce-cultured-chicken-breast-to-750 Obviously, that's significantly more expensive than conventional meat...

Ah, ok.

Yeah, it's nutritionally identical to meat. So if you're allergic to seafood, you will be allergic to cultured seafood. From what I've heard, stuff like ground beef will be easier to produce than something more texturally complex, like a steak. But they're working on the latter.

Is this a quote from something?

A NYT columnist made the case for federal funding for cultured meat research yesterday: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/24/opinion/climate-change-meatless-meat.html

I'm super excited about this technology. Basically, it's meat grown from animal cells, without slaughtering livestock. I think it will be better for the environment, public health, and, obviously, animal welfare. Cultured meat only has regulatory approval in Singapore so far, but eventually it...

Really? I don't remember that.

Lol, obviously over thinking things here.... But I feel like we have a decent idea of how Gerudo reproduction works. They procreate with Hylian men and then give birth to female Gerudos. Not so much in terms of the apparently all-male Gorons. Do you think Nintendo will ever explain it?

Interesting. I don't remember that at all in OoT.

I'm noticing it in BotW, but don't really remember the term in OoT. I haven't played many of the games in between.

I just started Master Mode. So far, I'm doing a lot of running on the Great Plateau.

Master Cycle earlier in the game

You know — rock climbing, snowboarding, golf, etc. I think mine is golf, although I'm terrible at it. I just love the concept of gorons playing golf with these gigantic boulders. I'm also kind of curious if there are some minigames I've yet to discover.

I just did the Special Delivery quest. Pretty weird! Are we supposed to think Sasan and Finley are equivalent ages?

Put all the old point-and-click LucasArts games on Switch.

I just finished my second playthrough.

Yup

I haven't played enough of the games to have an expert opinion, but it has to be OoT Zelda, right? I mean — she's a ninja, living on the run, in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Yeah, I hop off the horse immediately. Where does the spoiler info come from?

It seems like a bizarre choice given BotW's play-it-how-you-want ethos.

Yeah, I kind of want them to introduce more technology. Make it solarpunk!

And will you get it earlier? I certainly hope so.

The OoT title screen song? I'm not sure.

Yeah, I actually have a problem with the whole quote. "The flow of time is always cruel." So, just to expand a litte bit, I've been reading some Buddhist stuff lately. A big point I've gleaned is it's not change that causes suffering, it's our attachment to the way things were. So to say, "the...

I generally can't do glitches, but this one is incredibly easy to accomplish. https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/03/random_take_yunobo_anywhere_in_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_with_a_simple_exploit

I mean, I think that's the implication of "the flow of time is always cruel." But maybe that's a weird reading on my part,

I was playing around with the Yunobo glitch, which allows him to follow you anywhere. I think I'm going to move on with the Divine Beast now, though.