Writing and Drawing: to Entertain & Enlight

[FunsizeNinja123]

I’ve eaten paper before…

Me three.

[wad67]

I chew that shit up in school, teachers are all like "spit that gum out.
paper derail activate

[Alpha]

[quote=“wad67, post:5, topic:5672”]I chew that shit up in school, teachers are all like "spit that gum out.
paper derail activate[/quote]

God the memories i have from my school days, i was such a little shit, id get a mouth full of paper wad then chuck it at the ceiling lights… what a horrible person i was
poor damn janitor

[Worldmaster27]

On topic: I think writing is a good idea, though I don’t know about drawing to raise your skill directly. Blueprints seems okay for learning knew things, it could be treated as a book and give a random, skill related, recipe.

Off topic: Paper doesn’t really taste as bad as it is in-game. And I’m sure that a sheet of paper is also more nourishing than it is portrayed!

[halberdsturgeon]

It isn’t nourishing at all, because it’s impossible for a human to digest cellulose. It should literally give you 0 nutrition. Or more reasonably, be inedible.

Edit: I swallowed a small piece of metal once, but that’s a poor argument for making scrap metal edible. It’s possible to ingest almost any small object. That doesn’t mean we should make anything a person could feasibly swallow edible in Cataclysm.

[Jakers]

Thanks for all the feedback! I personally haven’t eaten paper… I might have to try it sometime…

But yeah anyway I thought of this because it would just… make sense. Also it would be a good way to boost up the intelligence skill in terms of its power; I already know its a great stat already but strength always seems to be the one I max out.

Speaking of stats, sorry to go off topic, but could we PLEASE make perception a more useful stat? Compared to the other stats it may as well be the trapping skill… [No offense any perception/trapping lovers!]

Just my opinion, anyway thanks again for the feedback! Stay awesome!

[system]

I want actual books, with readable writing.

Logbooks pls.

[Alpha]

[quote=“Jakers, post:9, topic:5672”]Thanks for all the feedback! I personally haven’t eaten paper… I might have to try it sometime…

But yeah anyway I thought of this because it would just… make sense. Also it would be a good way to boost up the intelligence skill in terms of its power; I already know its a great stat already but strength always seems to be the one I max out.

Speaking of stats, sorry to go off topic, but could we PLEASE make perception a more useful stat? Compared to the other stats it may as well be the trapping skill… [No offense any perception/trapping lovers!]

Just my opinion, anyway thanks again for the feedback! Stay awesome![/quote]
Well with perception I’m pretty sure it help you spot land marks from further away, so you could scout an entire city much easier with a higher perception… Paper contains no nutrition… Yes cellulose is indigestible… On a side not just cause we cannot digest it properly doesn’t not make it “Inedible” it just uses it as a fiber which in turn helps you poo. Which is one thing i think should be implemented a littlebit into the cataclysm… I mean we all gotta do it… where is all these mres im eating going??? or how about them 10 bottles of water i drank?.

[infectedmochi]

Let’s just say those activities are abstracted.

[halberdsturgeon]

On a side not just cause we cannot digest it properly doesn’t not make it “Inedible” it just uses it as a fiber which in turn helps you poo. Which is one thing i think should be implemented a littlebit into the cataclysm… I mean we all gotta do it… where is all these mres im eating going??? or how about them 10 bottles of water i drank?.

Did you not read the rest of my post? You can eat lots of things that are indigestible and pass them right through your system, but how exactly would it benefit the game to make every small object edible? The ability to do something stupid in real life doesn’t justify its inclusion in a game.

Also, no to a shitting mechanic, please.

[Alpha]

[quote=“Alpha, post:11, topic:5672”]On a side not just cause we cannot digest it properly doesn’t not make it “Inedible” it just uses it as a fiber which in turn helps you poo. Which is one thing i think should be implemented a littlebit into the cataclysm… I mean we all gotta do it… where is all these mres im eating going??? or how about them 10 bottles of water i drank?.

Did you not read the rest of my post? You can eat lots of things that are indigestible and pass them right through your system, but how exactly would it benefit the game to make every small object edible? The ability to do something stupid in real life doesn’t justify its inclusion in a game.

Also, no to a shitting mechanic, please.[/quote]
You seem to want to instigate an argument so im going to stop with this… This was MY OPINION… I am not saying your opinion is wrong and i’m not saying mine is more right than yours just that I find intelligence in eating fiber based items… many people ingest indigestible things for this exact reason… While i really don’t care all together i feel you think i was attacking your comment which i was just stating a counter view.

[halberdsturgeon]

I simply get tired of people trying to justify the inclusion of pointless, obscure or absurd features in the game by going on about how it’s theoretically possible, or how they did it as a kid, or they know someone who did it. The OP pointed out, correctly, that the ability to eat paper in the game is pointless and its implementation is ridiculous, and got dogpiled by people talking about how they’ve eaten paper. That is annoying to me.

[Blackopsman9999]

Well would we be writing it? If so I see it being abused.
off topic: The taste of paper depends on the type, college ruled paper has little taste, but the paper used in books tastes similar to construction paper from my experience.

[Hibou]

I just wanna be able to fling shit at zombies. Oh, and drawings would be nice, too. Maybe being able to put direct input onto pieces of paper, y’know, writing notes for yourself and posting them on the wall or something. Maybe write the names of all the people you’ve killed on a paper in blood, or just write the word “penis” hundreds of times on a paper instead of actually doing something productive.

[system]

No poo throwing, you may have degenerated into a monkey, but you shouldn’t act like one.

I like direct writing.

[Alpha]

I just wanna be able to fling shit at zombies. Oh, and drawings would be nice, too. Maybe being able to put direct input onto pieces of paper, y’know, writing notes for yourself and posting them on the wall or something. Maybe write the names of all the people you’ve killed on a paper in blood, or just write the word “penis” hundreds of times on a paper instead of actually doing something productive.

Bahahahaha

[Jakers]

I appreciate the… erm… nice ideas about flinging shit and eating paper, but let’s get back on topic please xD

[Slax]

On this wall you see a bunch of... post-apocalyptic pickup lines? Philosophy? You're not sure what to make of it. All drawn with crayons. "Hey baby, we may be covered in gross bile but your personality is fresh as a daisy." "I've wiped my ass with pages from both the Bible and the Quran. Does that make me a holy man? "The corpse was still warm so it doesn't count as TRUE necrophilia, I'm sure." "Your ass was so big and soft, Vanessa. That's why I cut it off and use it as a pillow." Oh dear.

[Blackopsman9999]

O.O

[Alpha]

[quote=“Slax, post:21, topic:5672”]On this wall you see a bunch of... post-apocalyptic pickup lines? Philosophy? You're not sure what to make of it. All drawn with crayons. "Hey baby, we may be covered in gross bile but your personality is fresh as a daisy." "I've wiped my ass with pages from both the Bible and the Quran. Does that make me a holy man? "The corpse was still warm so it doesn't count as TRUE necrophilia, I'm sure." "Your ass was so big and soft, Vanessa. That's why I cut it off and use it as a pillow." Oh dear.[/quote]
Well that took an unexpected turn