Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!
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Apparently, the giving of cookies to parrots is meant to be a reference to Nirvana's song Polly, a song which mentions neither cookies nor parrots.
INB4 dead parrot sketch.
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User 1jl expressed concern that some of the millions of children who play Minecraft would try to imitate the game in a way that poses a danger to pet parrots. "You can't tell me some 6-year-old is going to play Minecraft and then try to feed their Mom's 45-year-old Macaw chocolate chips or a chocolate chip cookies,"
He expressed his concern by writing exactly the opposite of what he meant.
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@RaceProUK Behavior that isn't wrong for obvious reasons are more likely to be imitated.
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@RaceProUK said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
Apparently, the giving of cookies to parrots is meant to be a reference to Nirvana's song Polly, a song which mentions neither cookies nor parrots.
But which does refer to the pre-existing idiom "Polly want a cracker" which is about parrots and cookies.
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@gwowen said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
But which does refer to the pre-existing idiom "Polly want a cracker" which is about parrots and cookies.
Except that crackers aren't cookies. Cookies are sweet. Crackers generally aren't.
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How long has Minecraft had parrots?
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It makes sense, lots of shows have caused people to do stupid things. People adopted turtles because of TMNT, Clownfish because of Finding Nemo, etc.
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@CarrieVS said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
How long has Minecraft had parrots?
They're part of the upcoming version, 1.12.
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I'm reading the article and suddenly I see this:
"Our reasoning for originally using cookies was twofold; it gave cookies a reason to exist within Minecraft, and it was a subtle reference to the Nirvana song 'Polly.' However, we didn't consider what the chocolate ingredient would mean to real life parrots!"
Yeah, sure, because it's all fine and dandy go subtly reference a song that's about rape and holding a person captive, but it's wrong to teach children that they can feed a cookie to a parrot.
Seriously?! Of all of the songs they decided do acknowledge that they referenced this particular one? I think only Paper Cuts would have been worse.
Fuck you, Microsoft.
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@anonymous234 said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
It makes sense, lots of shows have caused people to do stupid things. People adopted turtles because of TMNT, Clownfish because of Finding Nemo, etc.
What's next, are you going to put the blame of people adopting pet rocks on the Rolling Stones?
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@anonymous234 said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
It makes sense, lots of shows have caused stupid people to do stupid things. People adopted turtles because of TMNT, Clownfish because of Finding Nemo, etc.
FTFY
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@boomzilla You are technically correct - the best sort of correct
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@kt_ said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
Yeah, sure, because it's all fine and dandy go subtly reference a song that's about rape
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Seriously?! Of all of the songs they decided do acknowledge that they referenced this particular one? I think only Paper Cuts would have been worse.or uh... Rape Me? The nirvana song that is not even remotely subtle in referencing rape....
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@kt_ said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
Yeah, sure, because it's all fine and dandy go subtly reference a song that's about rape and holding a person captive,
Thanks for transforming a cool music I don't understand the lyrics into this for me, you monster
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@darkmatter said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
@kt_ said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
Yeah, sure, because it's all fine and dandy go subtly reference a song that's about rape
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Seriously?! Of all of the songs they decided do acknowledge that they referenced this particular one? I think only Paper Cuts would have been worse.or uh... Rape Me? The nirvana song that is not even remotely subtle in referencing rape....
Rape Me is about the strength of a rape victim. Polly is about actual rape.
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I think they should make it possible to feed the birds chocolate, as long as it makes them sick and dead.
It would be educational.
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@Zecc That would make it obviously wrong to do so.
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@darkmatter said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
or uh... Rape Me? The nirvana song that is not even remotely subtle in referencing rape....
Polly (Nirvana song) on Wikipedia:
In the VH1 Classic Albums documentary about Nevermind, bass player Krist Novoselic remembers Cobain writing "Polly" after reading a newspaper article about the abduction, torture and rape in August 1987 of a 14-year-old girl by Gerald Arthur Friend; Friend had picked her up near the Tacoma Dome in his car after she had attended a rock concert. She managed to escape when he stopped for gas; she got out of the vehicle and made a scene, attracting attention from surrounding people.
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@boomzilla said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
Cookies are sweet. Crackers generally aren't.
Cookies are also usually moist and chewy and break apart into large crumbs; while crackers are dry, brittle, and easily crushed into a coarse powder.
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well while Cobain was apparently fascinated with rape, Courtney Love thought he had a lack of romantic interest in her and sang Doll Parts about it.... what a relationship...
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@Gurth said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
bass player Krist Novoselic
TIL Nirvana had members other than Cobain and Grohl.
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@Maciejasjmj said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
@Gurth said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
bass player Krist Novoselic
TIL Nirvana had members other than Cobain and Grohl.
Fun fact: Novoselic was pegged by everyone to be THE ONE to succeed after Nirvana broke up (or, at least, after Cobain's skull broke up). After all, he was the one who wasn't THE DRUMMER. What the fuck could a DRUMMER do on their own? Please.
And then Grohl.
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@Maciejasjmj said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
@Gurth said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
bass player Krist Novoselic
TIL Nirvana had members other than Cobain and Grohl.
I guess you’re too young to remember seeing him throw his bass into the air at some MTV awards show performance and catching it with his forehead, then. (And Eddie Vedder later commenting, while wearing a plastic helmet, that “he should have worn one of these.”)
What the fuck could a DRUMMER do on their own? Please.
Write Marigold, which I thought was quite good — certainly for a B-side — but then go on to have more success with a ton of songs where a wall of noise and screaming seems to be more important than melody and lyrics.
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@Gurth said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
but then go on to have more success with a ton of songs where a wall of noise and screaming seems to be more important than melody and lyrics.
Clearly someone who's never heard Everlong.
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@RaceProUK I have the album that’s on, and find it to be okay, but I’d get tired of it before it’s out if I were to play the whole thing in one go. Most of the later Foo Fighters stuff I know, I almost get tired of before the song is out these days.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
What the fuck could a DRUMMER do on their own? Please.
Write "In The Air Tonight".
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@Lorne-Kates said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
What the fuck could a DRUMMER do on their own?
Narrate Thomas the Tank Engine?
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@Lorne-Kates said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
What the fuck could a DRUMMER do on their own? Please.
Write top-ten hits for the rest of the band to perform? Do a solo album where he did all the vocals and almost all the instruments (with the recording engineer doing some of the keyboards)?
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@kt_ said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
Fuck you,
MicrosoftMojang.FTFY. HTH. HAND.
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@boomzilla Just to hop on the Pedantic Train, crackers are originally made for a different purpose. It's a way of making an extremely dry bread product that doesn't spoil on long voyages, namely for sailors, before there was no refrigeration. Same principle behind beef jerky -- less moisture, less spoilage. Cookies, while they can be made quite dry and therefore keep for a long time, are generally just made as small confections that you can give to a lot of people at once.
EDIT: Forgot to put "no" in front of refrigeration. Kind of the opposite of what I meant...
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@Zecc The latest RC does just that. Now seeds are used to tame parrots, and giving them cookies kills them instantly with a poison particle effect.
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To be fair, there's a history of them using whatever was handy as a stand-in an figuring out the real taming/breeding food later. Chickens, pigs, sheep, and cows all used to breed with wheat. Now chickens prefer seeds, pigs like carrots, rabbits like carrots, I think sheep and cows both eat wheat still though.
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@Yamikuronue IRL pigs will eat pretty much anything.
Including, in some highly unfortunate cases, their owners.
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@abarker said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
@kt_ said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
Fuck you,
MicrosoftMojang.FTFY. HTH. HAND.
They were bought by Microsoft at one point. Like 3 years ago.
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@Arantor said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
@Lorne-Kates said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
What the fuck could a DRUMMER do on their own? Please.
Write top-ten hits for the rest of the band to perform? Do a solo album where he did all the vocals and almost all the instruments (with the recording engineer doing some of the keyboards)?
I think @Lorne-Kates was being sarcastic. The guy is awesome.
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@wharrgarbl Well, duh. The fact that several of us came up with different drummers that had all done things on their own reflects that we all got the joke and just went on to do something slightly surreal with it. (I was citing Roger Taylor, but Ringo Starr and Phil Collins both got mentions)
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@CrazyEyes said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
doesn't spoil on long voyages, namely for sailors, before there was no refrigeration.
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EDIT: Forgot to put "no" in front of refrigeration. Kind of the opposite of what I meant...Emphasis mine. I think you were right the first time.
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@masonwheeler said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
@Yamikuronue IRL pigs will eat pretty much anything.
Including, in some highly unfortunate cases, their owners.
Chicken are not that far behind. A chicken coop will start to resemble the surface of the moon after a while.
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@kt_ said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
@abarker said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
@kt_ said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
Fuck you,
MicrosoftMojang.FTFY. HTH. HAND.
They were bought by Microsoft at one point. Like 3 years ago.
Shows how much I pay attention to Minecraft.
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@abarker said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
@kt_ said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
@abarker said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
@kt_ said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
Fuck you,
MicrosoftMojang.FTFY. HTH. HAND.
They were bought by Microsoft at one point. Like 3 years ago.
Shows how much I pay attention to Minecraft.
I don't pay attention to them either, just the amount they paid for this company was so ridiculous it got my attention. It was like a billion or something.
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@Rhywden said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
Chicken are not that far behind.
Chickens will eat people?
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@masonwheeler said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
@Rhywden said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
Chicken are not that far behind.
Chickens will eat people?
If they get a chance then probably yes.
Chicken Catching Then Eating a Mouse – 02:16
— Bring Back The Farm
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@masonwheeler they are descended from dinosaurs, after all.
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@LB_ Beware teh fearsome chikkinraptor!
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@Yamikuronue said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
To be fair, there's a history of them using whatever was handy as a stand-in an figuring out the real taming/breeding food later. Chickens, pigs, sheep, and cows all used to breed with wheat. Now chickens prefer seeds, pigs like carrots, rabbits like carrots, I think sheep and cows both eat wheat still though.
I had to work really hard to correctly parse the highlighted sentence. The first time, it came out as a sort of weird plant-animal hybrid, chickens crossed with evolved grasses.(1)
(1) Most grain crops are "advanced" forms of grass, with the main exception being maize.
Also: the part of wheat that people eat (OK, processed, but ...) is the seed, so it's actually reasonable for chickens to eat wheat.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
the part of wheat that people eat (OK, processed, but ...) is the seed,
But not in this form:
The seeds you plant to get that make more sense. The part that doesn't make sense is I can't mill those and make cookies with them, they have to be planted and grow first. Also you get seeds from grass, but it grows into wheat.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
the fuck could a DRUMMER do on their own? Please
While searching for that, I found this, which I thought was quite funny
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@Yamikuronue said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
Also you get seeds from grass, but it grows into wheat.
I did say that In-The-Real-World wheat and other grain crops are advanced forms of grass. (Look carefully at grass that is allowed to grow without being mown, especially the types that end up with round stems - the top often looks like the head of a wheat plant, but smaller.)
Maize (sweetcorn, or just corn(1) in the US) is NOT a form of grass.
(1) This word is ... problematic ... in British English. The Corn Laws did not regulate the price of maize, but of, well, corn. That is, the locally dominant grain crop, usually wheat, but sometimes oats or barley or even rye.
EDIT: ADDENDUM: Yes, that implies that sweetcorn is not corn.
EDIT: ADDADDENDUM: Unless it is corn.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
grain crops are advanced forms of grass
Yes, but that's not how evolution works. This would be like planting seeds from ryegrass and harvesting rye.
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@Yamikuronue said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
@Steve_The_Cynic said in Today's winner of the award for Evil Game That's Corrupting Children Worldwide: Minecraft, for feeding cookies to parrots!:
grain crops are advanced forms of grass
Yes, but that's not how evolution works. This would be like planting seeds from ryegrass and harvesting rye.
Yeah, we're missing a few(1) cycles, but the historical concept is, at least, vaguely related. (And of course it is evolution, but by artificial selection, not natural selection.)
(1) For LARGE values of "few".