7 Folks Who Turned to Cannibalism Way Too Fast

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[@outsidextra]

There's loads of sustenance at hand in these games, but these people prefer a different kind of finger food....yikes! 😱🍴🤚

[@Zeeeemonolith]

Possibly even sustenance in hand, arm, shoulder... I'll go now.

[@austinlawrence1655]

I genuinely believe some of these people went mad didn't really wanted human flesh

[@losttriad]

Outer world theres a family that turned cannibal despite plenty of dinosaur like creatures walking around

[@kallasantysanty6092]

Well i love Deus Ex but i never realy took that candybar description seriously ... becous its candy ... creepy dystopian candy ... that ive eaten so many in that game ...

[@LucanVaris]

Darn... My package of trading cards didn't arrive in the mail yesterday... ...Welp! Guess I'd better resort to cannibalism to pass the time! HEY, STEVE!?

[@SirRoderickThunderbottom]

dont forget the farmers in telltales walking dead. always bugged me 3 months into a zombie apocalypse and the people who operate an entire farm are the first to turn to cannibalism after the zombies.

[@grindinggrayson]

noice name

[@ScintillatingSusie]

The St. John's

[@joeboshears4210]

I have a sneaking suspicion they were cannibals before the outbreak. Maybe I'm wrong. Edit. I am, in fact, wrong.

[@ScintillatingSusie]

@@joeboshears4210 They stated that they did it to survive

[@CheeseLoverRed]

When you are so used to eating your fill it is hard to go on a diet. Meat would have been scarce. Since the wild animal population would have been difficult to get to. Any meat they had from their own animals were finite. Though that could have been mitigated by a few months had they froze meat ahead of time like a good farmer should do. They should be used to preparing and freezing food for long storage. They must have been incompetent farmers, not wanting to lose their meat supply they turned to eating people. Another reason to eat people would be to get rid of any visitors that stuck around too long. They were also at war with Walmart Workers.

[@misterthegeoff9767]

I can't fathom how many of these people went straight to cannibalism the moment there was some kind of apocalypse and completely skipped the blindingly obvious first step of panic buying and hoarding toilet paper.

[@TG-ge1oh]

Makes me regret my lack of imagination during the lockdown :(

[@michaelpettersson4919]

Of course they do. In the post apocalyptic world they are finally free of the social norms that villify people that have urges to, well, eat, their neighbours. Finally they they can indulge!

[@tranz2deep]

There's a Sim Settlements plot for Fallout 4 that is literally a TP production plant: An "entertainment" plot (more relief) is literally latrines! So much of Fallout 4 is weirdly unexplored, unrecovered, and unrecycled it's just weird, even with the Commonwealth being sabotaged by the Institute for decades.

[@r.j.penfold]

And yet it's been a year since the world went into lockdown/quarentine/limited services etc. And I have yet to devour the only two people in my household who before dying and being eaten by our dogs.

[@gothnerd887]

It makes me wonder that since the panic buying caused several hospital workers to go hungry they resorted to eating the corpses in the morgue then made a pact never to tell a living soul.

[@aspiringsandspeilmechanic9218]

"why would people resort to canabilism when there are giant iradiated cockroaches large enough to feed a family?" I think you just answered your own question there.

[@lulashlyn728]

Eat the danger roach

[@wugglesx]

forbidden chicken

[@aspiringsandspeilmechanic9218]

@Deborah Ajao while the word 'iradiated' might be the source of some health problems, I'd personally argue that just a normal dog sized cockroach is itself unappealing enough to resort to canabalism, even if that wouldn't be healthier.

[@jamesmeppler6375]

I'd rather trade for vegetarian food or the two headed cows

[@ZoobiethePopplio]

But cakes still exist

[@ToxicBastard]

What I find funny is how cannibals in stuff are always like "ah a fellow cannibal, don't worry I won't eat you!" like they have some rule against eating their own kind, as if that's not the literal definition of a cannibal.

[@cryptidkoi8418]

yeah, wouldn’t it be more helpful to eat the other cannibals so they can’t take any food from us? or maybe its because you know they are hungry as well and will fight with all they have

[@ToxicBastard]

@@cryptidkoi8418 Exactly! Another cannibal is the ideal meal; they're food AND a competitor AND a predator.

[@cryptidkoi8418]

@@ToxicBastard plus, if they’ve eaten recently, it could be like eating a turducken where you eat 2 in one

[@alfieboseley9884]

i agree with this for fallout, but for jade empire i wouldn’t. they eat the people for power, and so they want to share the power with as many people as possible, right?

[@blingsing5383]

After a few years murdering and eating people it’s bound to be nice hanging with someone who just gets it

[@SoulonFire13]

I love how "secret cannibal household" has become such a well worn trope that when I play games I can always see the plot twist coming. -nice household in the middle of nowhere -super kind residents (bonus points if they have no reason to be) -locked doors to either basement or attic -food puns ("its so nice to have you for dinner! *wink wink*) -some crazy person (either just insane, super aggro, or the only person trying to stop any of this)

[@patrickphelan279]

It's amazing that just "nice household and kind residents" is almost enough. "Why, stranger, welcome to Hamburg, the nicest little town in..." "Okay, shut up, you're a cannibal."

[@SoulonFire13]

@Sam Arnold Id actually really like to see that XD. It would totally catch me off guard for sure

[@legion999]

Yeah they need be very welcoming and very polite, and seemingly well fed. BAM! Cannibals.

[@Dash-lx4ng]

Don't forget the you can't watch me cook dinner

[@soxs9527]

I must be in a cannibal household then

[@MichaelSmith-zw5fu]

Alternate title: "Hey, Bethesda and Rockstar... you guys good?"

[@ohalfacoke5329]

@MrDjBigZ i guess it makes sense

[@everyfiend835]

@MrDjBigZ yes, but the characters they make don’t eat the corpses they find, they make fresh ones

[@dani007a]

These aren't even the only games of theirs that involve cannibalism. Even top-down GTA2 had a mission involving rounding people up in a bus so you can deliver them to a meat processing plant and then turn around and sell them as hotdogs to unsuspecting people.

[@THAC0MANIC]

Bethesda and Rockstar are like the among the best Gaming companys so yeah there not good there GREAT

[@sphjinx1448]

@@THAC0MANIC ummm... Your English is horrid. It should be, “Bethesda and Rockstar are among the best game companies. So yeah, they’re not good, they’re great.” And that statement in and of itself, is not necessarily correct. I mean, if you like them, that’s fine. I love their games too. Though at the end of the day, they are corporate entities that make games for profit. Which isn’t necessarily bad, I’m sure many people who work for them enjoy it, but still. The fact remains that they only care about profit and money at the end of the day.

[@calebfielding6352]

"They are nice even though you barge in with a shotgun." Maybe, just maybe they are nice because you barged in with a shotgun.

[@Felipemelazzi]

Hauahaahauahauahaa! 😂😂

[@newperve]

It's Fallout, barging into people's places with a lethal weapon ready isn't considered impolite.

[@aceofjacks7071]

"if I had a nickel every time a game character went to cannibalism lightning fast, I'd have seven nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened way more than it should"

[@CatLeone2003]

Actually you would have significantly more...... I would be surprised if it isn't over a hundred by now, even if it's just those who resorted to it too quickly .

[@brinaiwalker9327]

love the nb flag^^

[@IvoryLoaf]

@@brinaiwalker9327 ^^ hell yeah

[@sardonicus1739]

I would have at least 17 nickles just from the games I've played

[@anjam.242]

"frannibalism" sounds like a cannibalistic version of veganism or vegetarianism where you only eat people you've befriended first because it's considered kinder and reduces stress hormones.

[@HovektheArtist]

No farm here, all out meat is free range

[@maimaikoa]

It makes the meat sweeter

[@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human]

Maybe it's the other way round. Maybe the betrayal gives the meat a nice bitter aftertaste, like dark chocolate.

[@sourapple7831]

@@Pro_Butcher_Amateur_Human im pretty sure it would be sweeter since youre a psychopath to eat somebody you know and befriended to specially eat

[@delicateghoul]

@@sourapple7831 of all the TV cannibals I know if they enjoyed you before eating you then eating you is like a memorialization

[@MikefromTexas1]

"If you can afford to have a robot destroy cake, you can afford not to eat people." Guarantee that's one of those never-said-before sentences.

[@jessicabellandy5687]

Nah my grandpa used to say that all the time too.

[@amthatdad3450]

Nah, man. That very slogan is emblazoned upon my family crest.

[@jessicabellandy5687]

@@amthatdad3450 Yours too? Man get original already! I can't tell you how many family crests use that.

[@kamo7293]

a very unique statement that will probably never need to be said again

[@etcetera1995]

Also, the fact that the likes of 101 *have* cakes and robots is exactly why vaulties tend to not be cannibals.

[@nightsong81]

I was a vampire by the time I bumped into Eola. Suffice to say, when she started up her speech I thought she was going in a very different direction.

[@timothymclean]

Now I'm imagining a cannibal and a vampire getting _extremely_ judgmental at each other.

[@CatLeone2003]

@@timothymclean Lmao

[@leyrua]

​@@timothymclean "Wow, that's disgusting. You eat other humans?" "No man, you're disgusting. Imagine trading in your humanity for a liquid diet!"

[@kittyplayz1480]

They should have prepped for that, offering vampires special dialogue for her

[@-imsn-theexecutioner7515]

Dying Light has a very good example of this. It is true that food has become scarse but there are plenty of airdrops with first needs suplies to keep everyone who is still alive reasonably fed. However, in one of the sidequests you're send out to look for the friend of a little boy that one of the survivor groups found. The boy is in total shock and won't say anything but keeps repeating the name Mike in his sleep. So you go to the appartment building where the boy was found and you go in to explore. Following the kid's footsteps by listening to his voicerecorder you found, it is clear that the boy and his friend Mike where looking through the building trying to find the boy's missing father. After some searching the trail leads you to the basement. Here you find a large man in a room filled with a butchers table and a whole lot of sharp tools. On this table you see the half butchered remains of Mike, who turned out to be the boy's dog. But when you look around the room a bit more thoroughly it become's pretty clear that this guy's had been here eating several people, including the boy's father.

[@MBiz.]

Christ, that's a little messed up.

[@stratigangames508]

​@@MBiz. Welcome to Dying Light. We have zombie children.

[@MBiz.]

@@stratigangames508 yippee

[@jeremyc4215]

The Outer Worlds' 'The Secret People' quest. The family lives next to a town WITH food!

[@insaincaldo]

The Hope, but at least that was under more reasonable circumstances.

[@iwalani2697]

I walked into that house and I was this is a cannibal house isn’t it? And yup

[@losttriad]

Don't forget those dinosaur like creatures right outside

[@Mr3ppozz]

Yeah the moment I talked to the son I knew xD then I went up the stairs and was like... yup called it... now I gotta kill them don't I... xD

[@eln5343]

It's not the best choice

[@NathanWeeks]

To be fair, if my choices are eating Steve or eating a giant glowing, roach, I might have to think about it for awhile.

[@DirgeTV]

If my situation is in this state of bad and those are THE only options, I'll just take a nuke to the face. Can't be hungry if your dead, right?

[@NieroshaiTheSable]

@@DirgeTV -rolls dice Oh crap I'm a ghoul. Hope I don't turn feral!

[@DirgeTV]

@@NieroshaiTheSable Welp, thanks radiation.

[@stevef5888]

I take offense to this.

[@Fenris2]

Can I have a the leg meat less fat

[@sterling7]

If Skyrim has one glaring weakness, it's that there's a few quests that need need not just a "I'm not going to do that" but a "I'm not even going to let you wait for someone else who might fulfill that quest, thanks" option. The Dark Brotherhood being one welcome exception.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

Except I always exterminate the Dark Broderhood but that is just me, I know that they got plenty of fans. Since getting in contact with them involves killing a rather nasty old lady I tend to have a black souldgem at the ready for that occation.

[@eileenconway2966]

If only you could feed Grelod to them.

[@DinsRune]

The cult of Boethiah told me to sacrifice someone I cared about. I said no, and killed them for good measure. Boethiah herself, presumably having nothing better to do, showed up and told me to do a sacrifice. I told her to get bent. Now I just have to go around with this shitty quest stuck in my menu. At least I got that cool ritual armor out of it.

[@GarkKahn]

@@DinsRune Yeah that sucks, i hate when i tell a quest no and then by some convenience they say "ah, you said no but by your actions you clearly stated you wish to fulfill this quest, just in another way" No bro, i just don't want anything to do with this at all!

[@neotheresa]

I mean, if you’re fast and strong enough, you *can* kill Eola. Right after she ends her convo with you in the hall of the dead and she turns invisible, she’s killable. But you have only like 3 seconds to do cause she’s moves faster than an argonian in the water

[@aljonliberato7563]

To be fair, one of the first factions the dragonborn can join is the companions, who will turn him/her into a werewolf. The dragonborn is eating human flesh waaaay before Namira called them. Also, human flesh and heart are alchemical ingredients.

[@davidgeorge1943]

Well, on the other hand, I feel like werewolves, at least when transformed, are literally a beast of a different color. If they're still in human form, then it's still cannibalism.

[@andymcp4752]

*Cannibal who’s just been found out by the player, thinking to themselves* : This isn’t good.. better play the ol’ ace in the hole “I GoTTa EaT dOnT I?”

[@ddjsoyenby]

"i had to do it to survive" "THERE'S FOOD EVERYWHERE COWS AND BUFFALO ROAM THE FIELDS THERE'S A STORE 2 TOWNS OVER YOU HAD OPTIONS!" "eh i'm too lazy to go there"

[@D0cSwiss]

In my experience, that line is usually followed by a swift increase in their lead intake

[@kingsleycy3450]

You would think there would still be a lot of SPAM lying about in the apocalypse.

[@S_047]

Understood, carry on

[@LonarYolhala]

Seriously, there's at least one writer at Bethesda who likes his cannibal storylines a little bit too much.

[@noahjester8471]

Resident vore expert

[@miyukidawn9803]

@@emmaisalone this is not true Mods have better storys

[@Sarah-qx4vz]

Or they ran out of ideas

[@JoshuaJacobs83]

Sort of like the episode of community about marrying your own cousin

[@AR15andGOD]

@@miyukidawn9803 no

[@spamuel98]

"Vittles" is an abbreviation for the word "victuals," which was an old timey word for provisions or rations. Given the time period, it probably consisted of preserved meat and hard bread, but would most likely have been supplemented by any edible plants that travelers could find along the way.

[@kittyplayz1480]

Yeah I was thinking they look like jerky, which is very popular as a snack.

[@300IQPrower]

“Eola must have put all her points in speech...” It’s been so long since i last heard a speechcraft joke that genuinely made me laugh

[@RimeyCH]

One time when I did the taste of death quest in Skyrim I was already a vampire lord, so I went along with it, then once I was done with the quest I Vamped out, killed everyone, drank all of their blood and ate them all. The one thing they didn't consider, Its not cannibalism if I'm no longer human.

[@leafyisqueer7155]

I usually do the same thing but as a werewolf

[@galacticmoonwolf8462]

@@leafyisqueer7155 yeah I was a werewolf and was like, "I have no room to judge, I eat people a lot anyway as a wolf so..."

[@9ightdreamer]

I usually dont do anything because Im a human that doesnt have Skyrim.

[@unkledoda420]

​@@9ightdreamer Damnit, if Todd Howard sees your comment and realizes there's still someone who doesn't own Skyrim he's gonna release another damn edition of the game.

[@creatorxxiii6156]

@@unkledoda420 I also do not have Skyrim.

[@aidan6471]

Any fallout game could be on this list There’s more cannibal factions than ammo

[@rezachoudhury823]

Fallout New Vegas pops into mind. The White Glove Society is not a poor faction, but they practise cannibalism like it's a fashion statement.

[@jamesanthony8438]

I miss the Hobo Dog stand from "Wasteland." Hobo Dogs was good eats!

[@rezachoudhury823]

@@wburchell3468 Oh is that the case? it's been a while since I played FONV so thanks for reminding me.

[@cyberneticblood7291]

The Gourmands from 76 also ring a bell especially since one became the progenitor Wendigo

[@doesthisunithave1soul46]

@@wburchell3468 maybe tricking people into cannibalism is just a thing in the Mojave. The food vendor in Sloan sells human meat.......

[@davidjones3165]

" It's only been an hour bob, AN HOUR!" Bob " I hunger"

[@mewmew34]

I always kill Eola at the cave entrance before making any effort to clear the draugr. Doing so means not having to kill Verulus, and the shop keepers don't become hostile towards you and cause you to lose an entire town's worth of merchants. I always play as a goody goody character, so joining the cannibals is out. Some day I'll finally join them once for the sake of achievements, but who knows when that day will be.

[@redwitch12]

I once gathered up all of the Princes' artifacts except for Vaermina's and Namira's, then VERY CAREFULLY saved my game and went through those two questlines to get the artifacts and earn the achievement. Then I reverted to my earlier save and went through the quests with the options I didn't loathe. :D

[@MultiMoe11]

Usually go the Vampire Lord route in Skyrim so my vampire brain goes oh you did not just try to get me to betray Molag like this your not my Serana you have no idea what you have just called down on you foolish human.Then I betray the cannibals and slaugther them all its fun.

[@lacytaylor1501]

Let's not even go into the fact Andale's only residents are family to each other and the two kids are supposed to get married when they grow up.

[@michaelmorton5698]

That's why I annihilate the adults so the grandfather can raise his grandkids to be NOT cannibals.

[@chillhour6155]

Most fallout universe towns really

[@dustymuffincop2481]

Luckily you can off the parents so the grandfather can raise them. Unfortunately you can't invite them to leave Andale.

[@BadModder]

SWEET HOME ALABAMA

[@typacsk]

Somebody was cribbing off of Sawney Bean's homework.

[@TheLadyLiddell]

You left out the best part of the Skyrim quest. You can actually betray the cannibals right before sacrificing the priest by... well, killing everyone else in the room. Afterwards the priest will thank you and reward you for saving him (and not mention anything about you being the reason he was there in the first place).

[@pixelgaming2301]

what happens to the shops after like no more shopkeepers is no more business

[@TheLadyLiddell]

@@pixelgaming2301 I think some of them are taken over by other NPCs? It's been a long time since I did the quest tho, so I can't be sure.

[@GrayAndGrey]

The Ebony Blade is my weapon of choice for that one quest. "Excellent work!" Says the voice of the sword in your head.

[@Petaurista13]

@@TheLadyLiddell it is possible as Ysolda can take over shop in Whiterun after death of previous owner so others are possible.

[@annamaria9073]

@@Petaurista13 iirc Arnleif and Sons is being taken over by her assistant

[@kalef2]

I got to the tomb place in Skyrim basically right after a jaunt through the woods that included 3 different groups of bandits, so when this lady starts in on her gothic monologue I'm just kind of confused and then "Smell? smell what? Ohhh, no, I haven't eaten anyone. I just killed like 15 people and am just still completely covered in blood."

[@hoodiegal]

Edit: The below information is incorrect, there is in fact an option in Frostpunk that lets you turn to cannibalism - it's just somewhat hidden and I mistakenly thought it was removed from the game at some point. In Frostpunk, you can come across cities that failed to survive the cold, and before dying, turned to cannibalism to stave of starvation. However, even if your people are dying in droves of starvation, that's not something you can do as a player. The developers drew a very interesting line between what's okay to put in the world as writing, and what is okay for the player to be able to do. Altough, there is an upgrade that allows you to use dead people as fertilizer in your greenhouses, so that kinda skirts the line.

[@Ylyrra]

Umm, nope, Frostpunk absolutely lets you do it, it's an event choice.

[@hoodiegal]

@@Ylyrra Yep! It's a fairly hidden option and I didn't know about it when I made this comment. I had lost games of Frostpunk due to starvation without that event ever appearing for me, so I assumed it wasn't an option. Wrong of me!

[@lordmalice5711]

I get all the choices except the Skyrim one, they didn’t just “decide” one day to be cannibals, it’s a centuries old practice that they have been doing for generations. So technically it’s more like their religion that it is some sort of convenience.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

A certain shopkeer lady complains about how hard it is to run the business now since her husband have dissapeared. I used to feel sorry for her. Used to...

[@KarakTo]

The ones in Jade Empire aren't eating people because they're hungry, they're eating people to turn into Gollum.

[@SimuLord]

I liked the premise better when the White Glove Society did it.

[@Death2all546]

@@SimuLordI honestly expected them to be on the list. The entire premise of the quest is odd. “I’m going to trick everybody into eating human, that way they’ll be as guilty of cannibalism as I am and have no choice but to return to the old ways!” Like, m8, it’s not like they chose to eat human. It’s just not the same thing! But then everybody does just agree and return to cannibalism way to easily.

[@AndrewsYoutube]

In defense of the Skyrim cannibalism, the Ring of Namira is one of the artifacts you need to complete the Oblivion Walker achievement. Sorry, Brother Verulus. :(

[@maximaldinotrap]

Or you play as a Bosmer

[@ignisshadowflame1027]

And it's a cult so there's that.

[@aerenrose3528]

yeah cannibalism is a form of worship not out of need. so its okay.

[@clothar23]

@@maximaldinotrap Well considering we have yet to go to Valenwood in the Main Elder Scrolls series I think it's safe to assume all the Bosmer we meet and or play as are not members of the Green Pact.

[@cheesaliciousable]

You also kill a monk of mara to get Varmina's staff in Dawnstar

[@kendallmcdonald3130]

12:36 You should try putting the dagger in the left hand. The left hand controls the speed of both hands, meaning if you put the dagger in the left, then the sword in the right would swing as fast as the dagger

[@levilandes1719]

Regarding the fallout 3 one, I caught what she said when I first encountered her, she was the first person I'd talked to in the place. Immediately opened fire and left as expeditiously as possible.

[@stilgar-xg9nc]

The Forest needs to be on this list. 15 minutes after the plane crash, you get a little hungry so you massacre the locals and eat them.

[@seprithlicastia463]

That, dear sir or madam, is called a choice.

[@TimedRevolver]

...Dooley?

[@alexroy5854]

Such an amazing game! I love how the tribes slowly begin to interact with you, how they react differently to fire and the like, and most of all how there is a random chance that any cannibal will just plain act differently than the ai usually does!

[@keltonreynolds5464]

I never eat the locals just the animals I believe in keeping my sanity

[@alexroy5854]

@@keltonreynolds5464 Meh, sanity is over rated!

[@KaraDennison]

"Luke himself, while playing Carrion" belongs on this list.

[@randomthunk]

What, he's just spreading his biomass.

[@lnsflare1]

"And to clarify, those two clauses are mostly unrelated to one another. Luke just likes to snack while he games."

[@marhawkman303]

@@randomthunk yeah in Carrion you are asome sort of horrific monstrosity that isn't Human... probably.?

[@sakurakitsunestar]

That doesn’t count you play as a cosmic horror

[@lnsflare1]

@@sakurakitsunestar That's a mean and accurate thing to call Luke.

[@googanmcboogie9307]

In the old sailing days human meat was served as "long pork". Those who resorted to eating people meat had "Long" added to thier name.

[@raineblackstar3522]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the Volkihar vampires, more specifically Harkon, Valerica and Serana. They just turned themselves into bloodsucking cannibals because they admire their daedric prince Molag Bal so much and wanted immortality and power..

[@simone6726]

Lore wise, Serana didn’t have a choice, and likely Valerica didn’t either. Harkon forced them so that their family would be immortal. The experience was canonically traumatic for Serana as she was literally attacked non-consensually (not using the word cuz ya know).

[@MultiMoe11]

@@simone6726 Yep love how people forget that one i usually go the Vampire Lord route but i do enjoy giving Harkon the comuppance he deserves

[@w415800]

That's irrelevant, they chose Cannibalism for Power, a completely different subject, they'd make that choice even when drowning in food.

[@seanellis5410]

People in Fallout turn to cannibalism REAL quick: even the (admittedly super creepy) high end casino is run by cannibals!

[@thanotosomega]

Yeah i think it's been implied it's mutation that actually causes an addiction to human flesh,

[@Dr.GregHouse]

Wym high end casinos, the white glove society has never and will never dine on human flesh

[@michaelpettersson4919]

Maybe cannibalism are simply normalised in the post apocalyptic world of Fallout and it is non cannibals that are wierd.

[@minkeyandzomble6206]

Ex cannibals, technically

[@greatandmightykevin]

@@Dr.GregHouse [Cannibal] Oh yeah, I forgot. No eating human flesh, wink wink.

[@KingDuckGuy]

"We have two options for dinner: Candy Corn or some human meat." "I'll take the human meat"

[@theunwelcome]

for drink we offer crab juice or Mountain Dew

[@matsujonen]

@@theunwelcome guess I'll take the crab juice if those are my choices

[@mrmanceres7653]

Use both, Melt Candy Corn down use as glaze.

[@MrGokuson22]

Master chef, we’ve been expecting you

[@einstin2]

I mean... I do hate candy corn

[@michaeledmunds7266]

Dragonborn: "Wait. I know you." Me: "You have committed crimes against Skyrim and her people. What say you in your defense?"

[@michaelmorton5698]

LOVE THAT CHICKEN FROM POPEYE'S!

[@daemonflayer]

Now, to be fair here, Namira is one of the more powerful entities in TES... Not that the reward for eating Soylent Green reflects that in Skyrim. Healing by eating people might be a bit more useful if you didn't start out with a channeled healing spell. And, you know, if food was a bit harder to come by.

[@ygazgge1356]

The skyrim cannibals do it because they like the taste, they weren't forced

[@Gilhelmi]

Still way too fast.

[@Sundereddreams]

@@Gilhelmi not fast enough

[@seprithlicastia463]

It is also a cult so religious dogma might play a part in it.

[@insaincaldo]

They may have been influenced through daedric promises. They could have been tricked into believing they always had been, like Eola tried on you. Could even have been just straight up word of power suggested to, like the priest. They do seem to enjoy it though.

[@janeenschultz8502]

At least you can save the priest if you want. You can also straight up kill Eola the moment you meet her.

[@snukastyle]

The first time I saw Eola in Skyrim, it was from a distance. I shot her, thinking she was a Forsworn. Then immediately failed the quest that I didn't know was a thing at the time.

[@JustaJabberwocky]

For me as soon as she turned invisible I killed her thinking she was attacking me, personally I don't regret it.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

Shooting people from a distance in an Elderscrolls game before you actually know that they are actually bad/hostile are rarely a good idea. Any witnesses and you ends up wanted for murder. I remember playing Morrivind and sometimes I just had to kill and npc for a quest but to avoid ending up on Morrowinds most wanted list I had to start out insulting the target until they attacked me first. Self defence are ok after all.

[@DaDunge]

@@michaelpettersson4919 the trick is to save every time you see a humanoid in the distance then you shoot them and if you found out you shouldn't have you reload.

[@Outlaw7263]

I just followed her, saw the coven, turned into a werewolf and ate everyone

[@JT-ev5jh]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🫱🏾‍🫲🏽 me too reloaded my save thinking I missed a good quest only to find out it was a cannibal quest. Pass

[@AaronJLong]

"When the only fatality you can pull off in Mortal Kombat is Mileena's" Oh wow, didn't expect to be called out on something quite so specific. When I was a kid and sneaking a peek at my older brother's Fatality cheat sheet it seemed to be the easiest one to memorize.

[@Nightfire613]

Okay, so, I was recently replaying Skyrim and I noticed something...when you tell Eola that you are not a cannibal, depending on when you start the quest, there's actually a decent chance you might be. See, Human Hearts and Human Flesh are Alchemy ingredients, and in order to learn what an ingredient's effects are so you can use it you have to eat it... including the Human Heart and Human Flesh. Your probably not safe even if you're Mer or Beastfolk, if you count Falmer Ears and Sabercat Eyes/Teeth as being close enough to the playable Elf races or the Khajiit. Heck, if you REALLY delay starting "A Taste of Death," you might even be or have been a full fledged Vampire Lord or Werewolf and have outright just eaten other human/Mer/Beastfolk NPCs, WITHOUT the ring of Namira. For a game where you have to unlock the ability to eat people, you sure can eat a lot of people in Skyrim...

[@laninjachica]

The Mather family in Outer Worlds eats people when there's at least one pub in every town, settlement, moon fragment, and abandoned laboratory in the game. Not to mention the 900 boxes of tarmac & cheese the PC inevitably trips over while walking about.

[@tranz2deep]

You're right, of course, although I suspect that last is so prevalent because it tastes like... tarmac (asphalt) with cheese mixed in!

[@laninjachica]

@@tranz2deep yeah, I suppose that also explains the piles of bred noodles, nanners, fish stix, frozen dinners, saltuna, mock apples, Purpleberry Munch, raptidon meat, juices, sodas, water, and fake saltuna made with edible mushrooms.

[@tranz2deep]

@@laninjachica Actually I was referring to the sheer amount of Tarmac and Cheese, not the cannibalism; All the food loot is corporate surplus whose packaging is probably tastier than the food.

[@thequietkid4887]

‘7 Villains With An Alias That We Believed’ would be a good video, that would include enemies that were known by another name and we believed that they were real. Like Atlas in the first Bioshock game.

[@michaelmorton5698]

"It's time to put an end to this masquerade. There ain't no Atlas, kid; never was." - Frank Fontaine

[@ghostbean7582]

like Black Widow and Director D in Poptropica

[@Haru-spicy]

Darth Revan...

[@SyndicateOperative]

There's nothing that makes me feel like jumping up and down like a child in excitement quite like seeing Deus Ex on a list. I absolutely love that game.

[@monkeythemooch141]

Your character in The Forest can just start eating limbs literally immediately, like bro there are so many animals and berries and snacks, but ya know dried limbs are pretty good ngl

[@KatieTP]

Ah I see, so as long as you SLOWLY become a cannibal it's no biggie. Thanks for the guidance Oxtra!

[@ddjsoyenby]

way ahead of you.............which reminds me there's a dog in that mysterious soundproofed shed over there wanna go pet it, and NOT i cannot stress this enough NOT get murd3r3d cause i am definitely not k1ll1ng p30ple for food :)

[@floxersadd4952]

@@ddjsoyenby .........is the dog fluffy?

[@ddjsoyenby]

@@floxersadd4952 yeeeeeeeeessssssss.

[@Shawn_Quick]

Dead Rising: Larry the Butcher. He's literally under a stocked supermarket. Dead Rising 2: Chef Antoine. Has pasta that might not have human meat in it. Regardless, there's food all over Fortune City.

[@scruffymatt42]

"Mmm. It's true what they say. Tastes like chicken..."

[@MrIcePho3nix]

"Antoine... will make you DINNER" was my first thought too. The outbreak hadn't been going on for, what, two days when you see him? AND he was shacked up in HIS OWN RESTAURANT in a FOOD COURT.

[@joevenespineli6389]

Makes me think they're just waiting for an excuse to give in to their base urges, as it were.

[@dennismeza8287]

Antoine is not a cannibal by hunger. He is crazy and needs to be the best chef in the world by using "fresh" and "unique" ingredients. He would use Snowflake the tiger if he could.

[@marhawkman303]

@@dennismeza8287 I'm not sure Antoine understands how food works....

[@Breachidon]

In the japanese rogue like Elona, in the tutorial they tell you how to eat food when there’s the remains of the person whose cave they brought you to. If you tell them you ate it (you don’t have to) they become concerned but don’t say much more

[@GrayAndGrey]

In Skirim, you find out that some of the people you helped or haggled with in Markarth are cannibals and worshipers to malevolent deity, Namira. So, what can you do if you *don't* want to become another degenerate cannibal by killing that poor priest that you have already helped, has become your friend and even be one of the guests to your wedding should you marry? You can give worship to your own malevolent deity, Mephala, to power up your Ebony Blade _by betraying and killing Eola and everyone else in that coven that thought they could trust you to become one of their flock._ Then you go and do the same to destroy the Dark Brotherhood to finish powering the Blade up should they try to recruit you, since Mephala opposes Sithis, apparently (or it's a bug that scripts them as friendly even before meeting them.) Hey, sometimes the right thing to do is paying evil unto evil.

[@artemisDev]

Ellen: "Nothing was wasted" *Clearly all of that calsium is wasted*

[@insaincaldo]

She might have a mean set of chompers, but she would have to pulverize it.

[@rattvisa]

Dont forget the bone marrow

[@williamwagonfield9603]

Soup

[@thequietkid4887]

Not to mention the enemy themselves. Their screen would clearly flash ‘WASTED’ and they’d feel pretty bad. But you’re right. The calcium and marrow in those bones could have many health benefits. But still, the clothing was eaten as well. *THE DAMN CLOTHING WAS EATEN AS WELL-*

[@davidjones3165]

There is also nutrient rich marrow in the bones.

[@twinkiemonster4412]

I never did the quest for Eola in Skyrim, but to be fair, it would be a good thing to do for a Wood Elf character who is role playing hardcore, because in Wood Elf lore, they are honor bound to consume any and all creatures they kill. They are only to eat Meat, as part of the Green Pact (I think that's that name?). But if course there still is a taboo with eating other people , so they try as hard as they can to not anger others and avoid fights , cuz if they win, there are basically forced to eat their foe and use the rest of their body to make weapons, tools and whatever else they can.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

They also eat their dead. Funeral barbecues, jummy. Hopfully grandpa didn't die of some nasty disease...

[@blingsing5383]

Wood elf John wick is feckin metal

[@stefaniekreiman6772]

I always played a wood elf in Skyrim.

[@andreasamardzija1496]

I was telling my therapist about how Fallout 4 was fun and relitively light hearted because there was some seriously dark shit in FO3 and I forgot this. Although there's also a cannibal faction in NV.

[@cryptidkoi8418]

if i had a nickel for every time a cannibal was in a video game, i could probably have enough money to give them food that’s not human meat

[@kittyplayz1480]

Burger King sells ten chicken nuggets for a dollar, you’d have enough

[@Squidlydee]

18:43 "how's choco-lent?" "It varies from person to person."

[@RamadaArtist]

OMG underrated.

[@Fanimati0n]

Any, Futurama reference

[@PatrickLongblkwhtrbbt]

Haha the cannibal perk in all the Fallout games lets you munch corpses for the opportunity to intimidate enemies and horrify your friends. You can take it immediately after your first level up

[@Gensolink]

What I love with the taste of death is that it feels like you're gaslit into eating someone. If you could use cannibalism beforehand the interaction would make way more sense but it ends up feeling absolutely jank

[@theresagrawe7053]

Can we talk about how Linda Smith at 1:25 literally is talking about "Preparing YOU FOR dinner" not "dinner FOR YOU"

[@randomthunk]

"Hey, there's a new Oxtra video with a hell of a title." "Haha, what could it possibly - oh."

[@KaraDennison]

I wasn't lying, was I?

[@randomthunk]

@@KaraDennison No, no you weren't.

[@jamesgorman5241]

Jane playing Shelter? Andy: "there was still food in the freezer" Jane: "now theres more food in the freezer".

[@andrewweston3783]

Wat are ye talkin about

[@jamesgorman5241]

@@andrewweston3783 I've been trying to find the episode but it's when the were also awarded their first button about 4-5 years ago.

[@jamesgorman5241]

It plays out pretty much as above.

[@TheRealCodeBlack]

I was hoping to see Antoine from Dead Rising on this list: the "master chef" who turned cannibal like a day into a zombie outbreak.

[@rpgaholic8202]

To be fair, in Skyrim, by the time I'd gotten "The Taste of Death" quest, I had eaten some Human Flesh in my alchemical adventures...

[@MarsellusWallace]

My first playthrough, I brought Veralus to the Namira cult because it seemed like the only alternative was to basically ignore the quest and let it sit unfinished, and I saw no "take down the cult" alternative branch to the quest. However, when the moment of truth came and I had to kill and eat him, I couldn't go through with it. Ended up blasting the cannibals with an AoE berzerk spell and letting them tear each other apart. After I finished off the group, I was glad to see Veralus actually wakes up and thanks you for rescuing him.

[@daniellagos8584]

I think the protagonist didn't eat that night after all

[@GarkKahn]

Happened to me and a cousin with another daedric quest, vaermina's Right at the end when your companion is about to solve the problem vaermina speaks to you wanting you to kill him, my cousin insisted it was the only way to complete the quest and i didn't wanted to because i don't like (most) daedra, while he was complaining to me time passed and finished the quest with my companion still alive You can choose to kill him or simply wait there for a few seconds, both are valid ways to end the quest

[@patrickphelan279]

My brain immediately says to me "The Namira-worshippers (and some others, like the Pilgrim's Rest) aren't really doing cannibalisms because they ran out of food, but, you know, as devotion and for power", but my brain also says to me "If you want to worship a Daedric Prince for power, Sanguine is RIGHT THERE and all he wants you to do is a somewhat embarrassing pub crawl".

[@maximaldinotrap]

Forget Sanguine. Molag Bal has a fricking Daedric Quest in Markarth as well.

[@michaelpettersson4919]

Sanguine is a party animal.

[@redwitch12]

As a bonus, Sanguine seems like a much cooler Prince to hang out with. Namira most likely smells really bad and is a total buzzkill.

[@GarkKahn]

Sheo also is cool You just have to do some crazy shit, i've seen worse on youtube early days

[@alexanderzhmurov9624]

8:49! I KNOW RIGHT!!? I've always thought that about most apocalyptic or catastrophic scenarios! All those snacks!!

[@SekiberiusWelkesh]

"I really look forward to preparing you for dinner sometime", that's a major red flag.

[@Terry9135]

Oxtra, where's the White Glove Society from New Vegas? Their excuse is basically "we eat people because we're fancy".

[@kathryncampbell4432]

Actually, before they became the White Gloves they were a tribe: think like if you mixed the White Legs (wait...) and Fiends and gave them a classy veneer: that’s who Mr. House modified into the Society you see in the game. *All* the New Vegas families were tribes. We just don’t see the history before that.

[@kentlindal5422]

"Meat pie" implies wheat and eggs for crust...

[@jimijenkins2548]

smh not real carnivores. shoulda used liver for the crust.

[@LordHammer33]

Just because you're a cannibal it doesn't mean you have to limit yourself to just eating human meat. The people of Andale have some class after all

[@hondaaccord1399]

And eggs suggests an egg-laying fowl species that could be an alternate meat source

[@0ceanicify]

You can make an interesting flour from bone shards.

[@RageUnchained]

Human blood can be used in baking as a substitute for egg whites

[@booley]

Reminds me of that Kids in the Hall Sketch: Man on Trial: You had no idea what it was like. I had no idea if I would live or die! Prosecutor: Sir, you were on a 15-minute delay at the airport!

[@jmace2424]

A cannibal wrote a cookbook called “How to Serve Your Fellow Man” 🤣

[@shyviolet2161]

Ahh how’ll ill never forget being invited to dinner by the Mather family in Outer Worlds 🤮 EVEN THOUGH THEY LIVED DOWN THE STREET FROM A TOWN THAT MADE FOOD!!!

[@PatrickLongblkwhtrbbt]

To be fair would you eat anything that came out of Edgewater

[@shyviolet2161]

@@PatrickLongblkwhtrbbt i think ill just sticked to the canned fruits 🤢

[@insaincaldo]

@@PatrickLongblkwhtrbbt You have got a point, the local wildlife seems an almost better choice and well... maybe going cannibal is the more sane one actually.

[@thehellborne7182]

In addition to Skyrim's cult of Namira, there is also a separate cannibal settlement in the ESO public dungeon 'forgotten crypts' in Deshaan. The inhabitants are "forced" into the tomb to seek shelter from the maulborn and their plague, but they immediately turn to cannibalism for no good reason!

[@redwitch12]

I complain about that one every time I go through it. "Seriously, didn't anybody think to pack a lunch before fleeing their homes?" "How long have these guys been down here, like a week or so?" More egregious, many of the containers you can loot in the room almost always contain provisioning materials--a/k/a FOOD. I personally think the leader of the group is just a closet Namira worshipper and seized an excuse when he saw one. :D

[@chuckdontjudge]

"I really look forward to preparing YOU for dinner sometime?!!" 😅

[@AjenjoAnejo]

"We are not eating people" Then an uncomfortable silence.

[@bhull242]

What about that one cult in New Vegas? You know, the one that specifically says that they don’t eat people in the charter, which is an oddly specific thing to include in a charter if, as they claim, you do not and have never partaken of human flesh.

[@newperve]

They used to but they don't anymore. Honest. Seriously. The disappearances have nothing to do with them.

[@firemaker1258]

@@newperve They are sort of telling the truth, comically. Some of them do it in secret, and the player can expose them.

[@mattgarrett2583]

"We're not eating people.... right folk?" Me: "Uhh yeah! No, not at all!"

[@ddjsoyenby]

me: "I SWEAR JAMES DISAPPEARED NATURALLY!" people: "wait now that you bring it up a lot of people who go into the shed alone with you mysteriously disappear" me: "*sighs* you just had to use logic to come to the natural conclusion"

[@fergalharte]

This feels like a double bluff 🤔

[@deannal.newton9772]

As terrifying disturbing is for cannibalism to exist in the human world, it's pretty common in the wild. However, the reason why animals would resort to cannibalism is a lot better than the people who resort to cannibalism when it's not even necessary. Heck, even the game Kitchen Companions is only when there's a last resort to cannibalism after running out of food in the cabin. Also for some reason the guy in the kitchen from the game Prey kinda reminds me of the chef from Dead Rising 2 that became a psychopath after seeing all the zombies ruin his main shot of having his own cooking show.

[@EdgyShooter]

There's being indiscrete and then there's Eola literally telling everyone she is a cannibal and trying to convince everyone that they are as well 😂

[@skvaderarts7009]

"I really look forward to preparing you for dinner sometime!" *Ummmm...*_Excuse me?_

[@timothymclean]

You know how cannibals sometimes make subtle allusions to their cannibalism? (Because as the video pointed out, cannibals are all obsessed with wordplay.) That's what happens when someone with no skill for puns starts eating people.

[@Jonathon_Hennessey]

In Fallout 3 in addition to the citizens of Andale there's also the Family from the Blood Ties sidequest they are a group of cannibals who have chosen to limit themselves to only drinking blood.

[@clothar23]

They seem to prefer blood packs as you can turn those in for caps and xp. No one died for a blood pack...Though how a room temperature blood pack survived centuries of exposure in a post nuclear war wasteland is anyone's guess. Though I suppose there is the fact if you chose the cannibal perk before starting their quest you can get their vampire perk which increases the healing factor of blood packs so...

[@kittyplayz1480]

You mean they are those weird people irl who think they’re vampires or that it could be good for you

[@bruxistkodiak]

Well, at least in Eola and her crew's case, their deity Namira is more than just "patron of cannibals". Her sphere is decay and primordial darkness, and she watches over those who are strongly aligned with physical, moral or social decay - beggars, lepers, cannibals...

[@Kiss_My_Aspergers]

I'm guessing the guy in RDR is giggling uncontrollably due to Kuru, an illness caused by prions found in human brain tissue, and thus generally only existent in cannibals. It's essentially Mad Cow Disease: Human Edition™️.

[@rban1999]

In Genshin Impact, the head maid at the Dawn Winery, Adelinde, has been heavily hinted to be eating the guests who come by. Two of the maids talked about how one of them came across a hidden room and there was a thudding noise coming from inside and when she tried to run away, Adelinde was right behind her. And there's another piece of conversation where they talk about how some guests seem to have disappeared and when they asked Adelinde, she just ignored the question. If the player goes and asks Adelinde about the rumors, she knows exactly which one you're talking about and later gives you some Delicious Sticky Honey Roast and says the following: "Like I said, don't overthink it. These are perfectly normal animal steaks. There's nothing wrong with them at all... *chuckles*". The maids made me suspect that she's a murderer. That one line Adelinde said just added on something that I was most definitely NOT expecting from a game like Genshin Impact!

[@kamikazelemming1552]

A cannibal serves as the Head Maid of Dawn Winery, and yet Diluc has the gall to insult the Knights of Favonius and claim that they suck at their jobs? This just gives me one more reason to him. It will be interesting to see if anything comes of this, like maybe a quest involving Diona's attempt to find something that could help her destroy the Monstadt wine industry.

[@rban1999]

I don't think any of the characters are even aware of this and I doubt this will be so much as mentioned in any quest because topics like cannibalism isn't really Genshin's style... I think it's just a creepy little story meant to entertain those players who'd go around talking to every NPC they find.

[@l0stndamned]

All this talk of cannibalism has left me feeling really hungry. Nice to see Jade Empire get a mention

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Not to mention Deus Ex.

[@soulblightx9847]

"I really look forward to preparing you for dinner sometime!" "What?"" "What about what?" "What did you just say?" "I said I really look forward to having you over for dinner sometime." "I'm pretty sure you said..........erm......nevermind."

[@jakethesnake4040]

I did namiras quest specifically for the ring as it’s pretty powerful. Right after I killed everyone there. Live by eat or be eaten. Than I might as well do the same, tho I didn’t eat them.

[@a2-2b-9s]

Seeing Jade Empire here makes me still wish we would get an actual remake or a sequel to it...

[@insaincaldo]

Yeah..

[@Gamer3427]

Unfortunately it's become increasingly unlikely over the years. In Mass Effect Andromeda they included an easter egg that basically said it was unlikely to get anything new. It's a comet called "Comet Dawnstar" and the analysis description was as follows: "This comet is rich in the empirically useful nephrite, although other elements have complicated exploration. Very Bright, but a second orbit is unlikely. Best to mine it for other purposes." Nephrite is also known as jade. My guess is that there's some reason they can't make a sequel or re-release, (hence the "other elements have complicated exploration"), but it's still something I'd definitely get the moment it came out if they ever did. To this day Jade Empire is probably one of my most played games, and I still go back and play it from time to time despite knowing the entire game by heart......

[@michaelandreipalon359]

A remake/remaster is fine, but a sequel... Also, really interesting that this talk eventually became a nice conversation about gems. Really nice.

[@marhawkman303]

@@Gamer3427 some games end up with rights issues. IE multiple people have to agree to it.

[@revan0890]

I love that game.

[@ThrottleKitty]

Trevor, encountering cannibal boomers: *_You're generation ruined everything for everybody._*

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Every generation has its own flaws. Hopefully, our current generation won't escalate things far too much.

[@ThrottleKitty]

@@michaelandreipalon359 As a millennial, I actually have a lot of hope for the new generation "Z", they seem to be very self aware. and concerned with society as a whole more than just themselves. My generation is to beat down and jaded. Not as much as Gen X, but still a lot.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@ThrottleKitty You have a point, but even they will bring their own problems.

[@ThrottleKitty]

@@michaelandreipalon359 Nothing is ever perfect, but it's a lot better than it could be. I think each generation does a pretty good job of learning from the mistakes of their parents.

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@ThrottleKitty Yes, that's exactly true.

[@veronicatoon5901]

I spent the majority of the video hoping for a Soylent Green reference and you guys delivered in the final entry. Good on ya.

[@tuffy135ify]

The Namira cult was the perfect way to fuel the Ebony Blade. That's a lot of people that trust you and aren't well equiped.

[@SupersuMC]

Would be interesting to see a list of games that reminded you to save your game in subtle ways. For example, Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic starts by graying out view windows, and eventually disappearing the pre-built roller coasters in the preview window. The way to fix this? Saving your game!

[@swj719]

Luke: "We're not eating people, right folks?" Sounding awfully judgy there, Mr. Westaway. How about you stay in your lane, okay mate?

[@killergames9256]

15:15 I don't know why I couldn't stop myself from laughing

[@WillieManga]

Grimm from Twisted Metal Black had the opppsite problem. He was too reluctant to survive at the expense of another at first. When a twisted enemy soldier tried to get one to kill the other, it took his partner dying of his injuries, possibly even longer, for Grimm to reluctantly make his decision... and given what I know about necrotic decay, it's a disturbing thought to consider. I get wigged out enough when my bread gets moldy! So he wasn't about to let his next victim, the enemy soldier, go stale. Because if you can only eat people, may as well eat fresh! ... and now I'm imagining Jared as a cannibal.

[@eadanime1741]

The gourmet club in Fall out new vegas was the fallout group I was expecting, I mean the leader literally had to say 'we don't eat people! Its written in the Charter!" Also they saw it as the 'finest of meals'

[@unwrittenmariposa09]

I thought that was so weird. Like pick a side!

[@JohnWilliams-cr2sz]

Luke - "We're not eating people, right folks?" Me - "...No?" *slowly puts down fork*

[@LoganWH8]

I swear, if I had a septim for every time I encountered and infiltrated a cult based specifically out of Markarth, then betrayed the cult and killed all of the members, I would have two septims, which isn’t much, but it is weird that it happened twice.