# Carnivore? Herbivore? I'm an infovore!

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/carnivore-herbivore-im-an-infovore/5848>\
**Category:** The Garage\
**Created:** [April 14, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/carnivore-herbivore-im-an-infovore/5848 "2014-04-14T20:56:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![callista](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/callista/32/4610_2.png) [@callista](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/callista)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 8:56pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/carnivore-herbivore-im-an-infovore/5848/1 "2014-04-14T20:56:12Z")

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Pretty minor bug… Gave me a laugh anyway.

Steps to reproduce–  
Give your character the “internal furnace” bionic.  
Eat a “USB drive with misc software”.  
The message will read, "You eat your misc software."  
The USB drive will remain in your inventory. Your character has just eaten the data from a USB drive, leaving the drive itself untouched. Somehow.

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**Author:** ![Zaweri\_Runewright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/5e9695/32.png) [@Zaweri\_Runewright](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zaweri_Runewright)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/carnivore-herbivore-im-an-infovore/5848/2 "2014-04-14T21:04:37Z")

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Looks like some wizard accidentally assigned software a flammable material.

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**Author:** ![GlyphGryph](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/glyphgryph/32/847_2.png) [@GlyphGryph](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/GlyphGryph)\
**Post date:** [April 15, 2014, 3:29pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/carnivore-herbivore-im-an-infovore/5848/3 "2014-04-15T15:29:15Z")

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Ahahahaha. How much power did it give you?

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**Author:** ![CIB](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/cib/32/903_2.png) [@CIB](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/CIB)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 8:42am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/carnivore-herbivore-im-an-infovore/5848/4 "2014-04-16T08:42:27Z")

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This sounds like a good idea for a game-mechanic.

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**Author:** ![Slax](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/slax/32/5385_2.png) [@Slax](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Slax)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2014, 9:09am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/carnivore-herbivore-im-an-infovore/5848/5 "2014-04-16T09:09:59Z")

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Good thing future humans come with USB sockets.

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**Author:** ![Coyote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Coyote](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Coyote)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 11:53am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/carnivore-herbivore-im-an-infovore/5848/6 "2014-04-17T11:53:05Z")

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Datajacks, chummer. Never played Shadowrun?

In all seriousness-- This might be a bug, but it’d be cool to add a datajack implant and make “eating” software give you a mild hacking boost, either temporary or permenant.

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**Author:** ![Natures\_Witness](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/natures_witness/32/165_2.png) [@Natures\_Witness](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Natures_Witness)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/carnivore-herbivore-im-an-infovore/5848/7 "2014-04-17T14:17:47Z")

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An Apple program a day keeps the doctor away?

Actually, this makes me think of a REALLY old educational game (like Apple II old) where you played as this little guy who had to run around a screen eating numbers to solve math problems. I think it was called “Number Munchers” or something.

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**Author:** ![EditorRUS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9fc29f/32.png) [@EditorRUS](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/EditorRUS)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/carnivore-herbivore-im-an-infovore/5848/8 "2014-04-17T14:18:05Z")

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Can’t resist: INFOWHORE.

Where is bug is obvious. All the types of software are objects and USB drive is a container thus you eat something located inside.

Maybe USB drives of the future are based on electrons, lol, like there’s a lot of electrons and depending from their locations inside the “box of data” computers scan the data.

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**Author:** ![callista](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/callista/32/4610_2.png) [@callista](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/callista)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2014, 3:42pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/carnivore-herbivore-im-an-infovore/5848/9 "2014-04-19T15:42:21Z")

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[quote=“GlyphGryph, post:3, topic:5848”]Ahahahaha. How much power did it give you?[/quote]None that I can tell. I was just eating all the random stuff to clear out my inventory.