I would love to have an option to disable pet-in-cannon features on my captained ship...

Like isn't that empathizing animal cruelty in some way?

No, it isn't. That's like saying Minecraft empathises with people who go out into the wild and illegally cut down trees. It's absolutely preposterous!

That aside, there's nothing wrong with having the option to disable pets being fired out of cannons.

People have different sensitivities and types of humor and people are generally capable of separating their humor and escapism from their behavior and interactions with people and pets. It's not really any different than having one character throwing the other one around like in Donkey Kong Country.

We kill sharks in the game, that's not anyone condoning that or sending messaging on that it's just activity within the game.

yeah it should have an option to turn it off just like distressed animal sounds should have an option to turn off

This is a good idea I think and on that note, I'd also like to disable take a seat and trinket foreplay so I can actually get in my barrels or grab harpoons in the middle of a fight and/or when flying full speed northwest waves, can we bundle all these into the captains options?

And no more eating fruit. It’s murder!

@talia-sendua said in I would love to have an option to disable pet-in-cannon features on my captained ship...:

For example, when I was a 14y old back then, I didn't swear or use curse words in general. Once I started playing online games it became a bad habit to do (that still remains to this day) because of the people I interacted with and the type of games I played (GTA V contributed a lot to that). Children can massively influenced by the wrong media in their behavior, no matter if video game or online forum/social media. That's a fact.

unhealthy habits are not the same as lack of empathy and violence

kids might get in to smoking because it's shown as cool in their early development, that's something to avoid in kid's games

Example, many metal heads and horror fans are quite empathetic and compassionate people even though they began listening/viewing that material from an early age. Community is strong within these passions. They use it as a form of escape, expression, and creative stimulation. The environment a kid is in, how they are treated, that can mold them negatively. What they connect to in art is not the danger in their lives for the most part.

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@wolfmanbush said in I would love to have an option to disable pet-in-cannon features on my captained ship...:

that's something to avoid in kid's games

The last kid's game i play...erm..observed was Peppa Pig.
They were in the country, went through a gate and left it open :(
Three times they went through it and didn't close it. Three times!
Bad message for a kids game i'd say...

yeah, when I was growing up leaving a gate open was a farm felony

I'm going to agree, it adds nothing and kids are stupid. When I was in HS some kids threw my friends cat off the bridge, about a 100 foot drop to the iced over river below, to see if it would land on it's feet :(

@foambreaker said in I would love to have an option to disable pet-in-cannon features on my captained ship...:

I'm going to agree, it adds nothing and kids are stupid. When I was in HS some kids threw my friends cat off the bridge, about a 100 foot drop to the iced over river below, to see if it would land on it's feet :(

The blame is put on art/games/music/movies/books/etc to reject accountability for the environment that young minds are developing in. Kids are not stupid they are developing, a vulnerable time in their life. When they are developing around abuse and/or neglect without consistency, principles, structure, and emotional stability they are developing in chaos. Escapism is not what leads them to chaos it's what they turn to in order to escape it.

They do make mistakes, some of those mistakes are serious, but it's the guardian's responsibility to support their healthy development and reduce the chances of those serious mistakes.

@talia-sendua said in I would love to have an option to disable pet-in-cannon features on my captained ship...:

Oh, my mother really tried. But kids can be really persistent and persuasive and quite creative in thieving. At least I was. My mom saw once a scene from the game (nothing extreme, just an empty bus exploding I was driving) and demanded I hand her the disk. I gave it to her with the casing, later when she was asleep, I sneaked into her room, took the CD from the casing but left the casing. Even later, after she discovered, I just bought the game digital to prevent her from taking it from me again.

On the other hand my father, making me watch as a child stuff like the movie "300" so I understand the historical meaning of the 300 Spartans (he was greek).

Or something totally uninfluenced from their actions, the rare brutal scenes in Pirates of the Caribbean 1 with the skeletons stabbing all the sea soldiers of the British marine (the movie is rated USK 12 btw. in my country - the equivalent for PEGI 12).

That's just me and my history with violence. And just to be clear, no, I am not violent nor do I condone violence IRL. But said media surely left a mark on what level of brutality I can endure or enjoy (I love blood and gore for example like in Warhammer Vermintide 2 and such). And I bet that wouldn't be the case if some of the more extreme media I consumed in early childhood/teenager wouldn't have been that brutal and filled with violent content.

That's where it's on guardians to observe and communicate. Make changes where necessary, communicate openly why changes are made, communication is important at all stages of life, not just punishment/removing access and calling something bad or wrong. Kids learn from conversation just like adults do.

I grew up a bit wild, a lot of what I say didn't exist in the environment I was developing in, it's something I worked on years later. What you are saying can be accurate for others and it's certainly accurate for you as you lived it but it's not the content itself it's the environment the content was consumed in.

We all handle things very different, uniquely. It's understandable that it's something you are passionate about.