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gay-artificer · 11 months ago

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It's funny when people get really really mad when you don't view slugcats as almost-people or super intelligent when almost all evidence for that kinda interpretation comes from MSC, a fan-made and non-canon extension of Rainworld people are completely free to either build off of or disregard. Like it or not MSC handles slugcats very differently from base game and people can like MSC and dislike that vibe at the same time

#like i like msc but one of my criticism is that the animal protags feel significantly less like creatures #and thats both in feeling more like little special protags and also the way slugcats are as a whole are handled #because an animal that doesn't outwardly express huge tells of human like intelligence but still shows evidence of being smart like trading #with the scavengers for tools etc etc is fun and cool #i also find it interesting the way that #people interpet spearmaster learning some sign to communicate with suns as like them being fully fluent in ASL and not like #them potentially having a few tells theyve agreed to mean certain things #like you can train a dog to ask to go outside its not particularly complicated to learn bodylanguage #especially considering spearmaster is lab grown and likely doesnt know how to communicate with other slugcats

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