Where/who do you want to be right now?

[Sophgay]

Why are they all crying?

becasue they hadn't been fed for months

[Pyraxis]

Do they eventually die horribly of starvation?

[Sophgay]

i think they stay "starving" for life lol

[SovaNu]

actually they're happy when they're starving but when they're dying they are sad. and they keep on dying until you feed them. mine were dying for years.

[Pyraxis]

I could never own one of those things. Digital animal cruelty somehow gets me worse than the real thing. 

[Lucifer]

I could never own one of those things. Digital animal cruelty somehow gets me worse than the real thing. 

really?  why do you think that is?

[odeon]

I could never own one of those things. Digital animal cruelty somehow gets me worse than the real thing. 

really?  why do you think that is?

hurts more:

digital \dig"i*tal\ (d[i^]j"[i^]*tal), a. [L. digitals.]
   1. Of or pertaining to the fingers; done with the fingers;
      as, digital compression; digital examination.
      [1913 Webster]

[Pyraxis]

I could never own one of those things. Digital animal cruelty somehow gets me worse than the real thing. 

really?  why do you think that is?

Not sure. I seem to consider computers as potentially alive as people. If they're giving off the same signals of sentience, I don't use how the systems operate to produce the signals as criteria of whether it's a "real person" or not.

A digital pet is fucked over worse than an IRL pet if it's being neglected, because it doesn't have the communication means to bark or yowl in a way that passers-by might hear. It's completely isolated, in a completely rigid system.

[Lucifer]

I could never own one of those things. Digital animal cruelty somehow gets me worse than the real thing. 

really?  why do you think that is?

hurts more:

digital \dig"i*tal\ (d[i^]j"[i^]*tal), a. [L. digitals.]
   1. Of or pertaining to the fingers; done with the fingers;
      as, digital compression; digital examination.
      [1913 Webster]

   

[Lucifer]

I could never own one of those things. Digital animal cruelty somehow gets me worse than the real thing. 

really?  why do you think that is?

Not sure. I seem to consider computers as potentially alive as people. If they're giving off the same signals of sentience, I don't use how the systems operate to produce the signals as criteria of whether it's a "real person" or not.

A digital pet is fucked over worse than an IRL pet if it's being neglected, because it doesn't have the communication means to bark or yowl in a way that passers-by might hear. It's completely isolated, in a completely rigid system.

hmmm...  is sentience the same as a nervous system, though?

[Pyraxis]

No, and it's true that I can override my gut reaction with logic - I'm well aware that a neopet is not sentient, though I still wouldn't take any pleasure out of owning one. I thought you were looking for the reasons for the gut reaction.

[Lucifer]

No, and it's true that I can override my gut reaction with logic - I'm well aware that a neopet is not sentient, though I still wouldn't take any pleasure out of owning one. I thought you were looking for the reasons for the gut reaction.

ah - i missed the bit about it being a gut reaction.  that makes sense, now.  ta.   

[Persona]

Not here.

[Lucifer]

come to the south west, then - it'll make wherever you are seem like paradise.

[Sophgay]

i will soon be entering my 21st year of being stuck in manchester

i want to go to san francisco