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Are goombas vegan?
- Thread starter KDR_11k
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Yeah, but I think of Pokemon like Blubella, that should be ok, right?
They have eyes and feet and move around so they probably have subjective experiences and consciousness... no. But now I'm wondering if the mushrooms Mario eats have interiority because they move around, too. Maybe they're just very slick so there's no friction and that's why they slide around eternally.
...I mean, yeah, dude. It's called the Mushroom Kingdom, it's where Goombas are from? Thought we all knew this already.
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The 1up mushrooms in 64 and Sunshine react to your presence, in 64 they move towards you and in Sunshine away from you.
I think the problem is the harvesting of the eggs and the suffering of the chickens that lay them. I'm not a vegan though.
Yes. It's why vegans don't consume animal products in general, like dairy. Being vegan means being against animal exploitation too.
Depends on whether Mario is a vegetable.
In actual answer to the OPs question, yes. Definitely sentient fungi IMO. Eatings Toads is also okay.
In actual answer to the OPs question, yes. Definitely sentient fungi IMO. Eatings Toads is also okay.
In the original NES game the original sprite basically looks like a brown super mushroom with eyes and feet.
That's a fungus, right? So it'd be vegan food. Or do you think goombas are animals that are just shaped like mushrooms?
Fungus are primary decomposers and live off rotting organic material. The most zen way to live. No living organisms are harmed in their life cycle. Unless you consider their digital counterparts. They are out to get Mario and the crue.
That's a fungus, right? So it'd be vegan food. Or do you think goombas are animals that are just shaped like mushrooms?
Hippos are also twisted monsters that will crush anything or anyone who gets too close so bad exampleI know the question is whether or not eating Goombas is vegan (it either isn't or shouldn't be) but people answering that Goombas are carnivores because of the teeth shouldn't be so hasty. Hippos are herbivorous and have much scarier dentition.
I understood what they were supposed to be in the sequels, but the first time I played SMB when I was a kid I thought they were tiny walking birds (the torso was the beak).
There are parasitic Fungi, you know...
https://images.app.goo.gl/Q668MaP8QLPJYJLN6
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The mushroom is the fruiting body of a fungus, it's quite possible that goombas are hyper-evolved fruiting bodies that detach from the mycelium and walk around spreading spores.
Leaves the question: Are powerup mushrooms domesticated goombas?
And where's the main fungus, does the goomba fungus grow in pipes so when they "flower" they make goombas come out of pipes? And powerup mushroom fungi grow in question mark boxes?
I only eat dead, non-sentient animals, guess I'm vegan!
Same here—and I was so looking forward to yet another moral justification for stomping all over them.
Gonna be a pedant here. Yes fungi are their own group, but the reason they are placed closer to animals is that they are more closely related to us (we technically both form a monophyly called the opisthokonts), it's not really about intelligence or anything like that. Given that there are some single celled organisms that are more closely related to us than any fungi, it would be a stretch to imply that closer relationship makes them any less vegan than plants.
Unless you're eating exclusively jellyfish and bivalves, I think you'll find you're wrong there, pal.
That's a really cool lizardIt can look like a fungus/a fruit/a plant all it wants. If it's sentient then it's not gonna fly for vegetarians or vegans.
Goombas are clearly creatures. It's a little creature that looks like a bit like a mushroom. It's not actually a mushroom. This type of gecko looks just like a leaf. It doesn't mean it's a leaf. It's a gecko. Vegetarians don't eat lizards.
Miyamoto's gone into detail about this. They were pretty meticulous about designing 1-1 in SMB. They wanted the player to die to the first goomba and learn that the walking mushrooms hurt you, then when they hit the ? block and the super mushroom comes out, they wanted players to be afraid that it would hurt them and run away from it, but get caught and be surprised that it makes them bigger.
Definitely not. I remember one game where a Goomba said to some Koopa Troopas, "Tonight I dine on turtle soup!"
No, wait, that was the Shredder saying that to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But you know, same thing, basically.
I vividly remember the first time I played SMB, and I jumped over the Goomba (its eyes clearly indicated that it was an enemy, but I was used to avoiding rather than jumping on enemies in my past experience with games), hit the question block, and grabbed the mushroom because I assumed that it would be helpful. I was four at the time, but then again, I had experience with 2600, Colecovision, and arcade games.
On the other hand, the first time I played SMB2 (JP), which must have been about eight years later on Super Mario All-Stars, I totally got suckered on the poison mushroom the first time I encountered one.
No, wait, that was the Shredder saying that to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But you know, same thing, basically.
I vividly remember the first time I played SMB, and I jumped over the Goomba (its eyes clearly indicated that it was an enemy, but I was used to avoiding rather than jumping on enemies in my past experience with games), hit the question block, and grabbed the mushroom because I assumed that it would be helpful. I was four at the time, but then again, I had experience with 2600, Colecovision, and arcade games.
On the other hand, the first time I played SMB2 (JP), which must have been about eight years later on Super Mario All-Stars, I totally got suckered on the poison mushroom the first time I encountered one.
Vegans don't eat animal products period. Not all animal products MUST result in suffering or exploitation for animals (beekeeping/honey is a good example of a mutually beneficial relationship between the creature and the animal production process) but vegans don't consume animal products regardless. Vegetarians, on the other hand, are against the consumption of animals specifically, but are typically fine with animal product consumption (eggs, milk, honey, etc.). Some vegetarians are OK with certain types of animal consumption (fish, crustaceans, insects) but not mammals (these are pescatarians).
That's a fungus, right? So it'd be vegan food. Or do you think goombas are animals that are just shaped like mushrooms?
Sharp canines means carnivore or omnivore
Unless they are just trying to look cute AF
There are parasitic fungi that feed off of living organic material. Just like there are plants that eat living creatures (venus fly trap). Assigning morality to consumption habits/requirements of living creatures (sans humans) is pointless, in that case a large swath of creatures who can only consume other living creatures for survival would be considered immoral for their sheer existence (say, cats).
I'm not arguing for moral fiber, just that Goombas don't necessarily eat meat because they have gnarly teeth.
Kingdoms are outdated. We've got three domains of life (Prokaryotes, Archaea, Eukaryotes). Within Eukaryota we have plants, fungi, and animals, but also a ton of other shit both single celled and multicellular.
For example, this giant kelp.
No, they probably feel pain.
There are some different schools of thoughts regarding veganism and people have many different reason to go vegan.
Some vegans eat oysters since they don't have a brain and no advanced central nervous system.
There are some different schools of thoughts regarding veganism and people have many different reason to go vegan.
Some vegans eat oysters since they don't have a brain and no advanced central nervous system.
