Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion - Page 9848

On November 07 2018 22:54 Atreides wrote:


I dunno, I've hunted my whole life. Its not too hard for me to shoot a caribou and two deer every year which is enough red meat for a single guy to eat for a year. (~200 lbs finished weight I guess? I do maybe another 100lbs finished weight of fish/shrimp) I do cut it and package and freeze myself. I have friends who take to shops but its kind of expensive to be honest. My best friend had a 1700$ bill for taking his moose meat to a local butcher. lol. I could hunt moose also and my limit on deer is actually 5, but 1) I don't need that much meat and I am mostly a meat/experience the outdoors hunters 2) It takes time and money to go hunting. As far as how hard? Well, this year my dad and I hunted for 8 days to each kill a caribou, but it was harder than usual they were very dispersed and far off the road/trails. We put in over 200miles in the backcountry on four-wheelers. Usually its more like 3 days. We were fortunate to have freedom of schedule to stay out so long. You can spend a lot of money on hunting stuff, though. Its a kind of expensive hobby to get into but the trip expenses arent bad at all. Once you have all the stuff. Mainly I have a small atv (4 wheeler) which if I was to go buy one right now I'd spend maybe 9k$ on but in fact I bought mine 17 years ago for 4K$ (Which I saved very fucking hard for over 2 years @ 14) and maybe 5k$ in optics/electronics/rifle etc for caribou hunting that I've gradually spent over the years I started out with cheaper stuff. Obviously guided hunting and trophy hunting can be VERY VERY expensive. It is big business here. A lot of residents self hunt though. Its not exactly a financial reason to hunt for yourself, its more of a lifestyle choice. People tend to think you hate animals or something, but I love and appreciate wildlife more than almost anyone I know. I've trapped thousands of muskrats for example but I think they are cool critters and it makes me super happy to see/watch them out of season.

Meat is very lean and good for you compared to basically any storebought meat. It is actually far healthier and more environmentally friendly than farmed/ranched meat. Populations are managed pretty carefully and the rules are quite complicated actually. I don't like the word 'gamey' because everything tastes different but its not that strong. But yes caribou tastes different than moose or deer or beef. It tastes like caribou. xd. Some people don't like it, but I actually like it a lot. If you live somewhere where you can buy higher end 'reindeer' (caribou are basically north american version of reindeer) or 'elk' meat thats free range it is basically like that. But that shits expensive. Wild game, even when fat and healthy are very different than cows that live in feed lot their whole life, the fat is all under the skin, outside the muscles or layered in the intestinal cavity. THere is virtually no fat "marbled" in the muscle because these critters actually use their muscles. they travel 5k+ miles a year. Basically moving constantly.

When I was gone this fall caribou hunting I told my WoW guild that I was larping my wow character for a week and a half.


As to Diablo: As someone who actually LOVES D3 (and will play the next season very seriously and try for top 10 on leaderboards again) I don't give two flying shits if Blizzard sells out and makes (has someone make) a Diablo mobile game. I won't play it, but I don't care that it exists. Seriously though, how fucking out of touch do you have to be to pitch it as the feature presentation to the hardcore gamers who attend blizzcon? They deserve everything they got rofl