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Fish is bad not because how much food it gives that can go to waste. If it gave 15 instead of 20 it would be only worse. It's bad because of effort it takes and one bite it gives.

I don't understand why from time to time an argument returns that foods giving less pips have "advantage" of less food going to waste when overeating.
Popcorn is great not because of how little food it gives and thus how little is wasted, but because of it's multiple bites allowing better use of pips (and how well it compares to raw corn).
Best example is milk (forget butter for now).  Drinking skim milk usually means less wasted food so it's better than whole milk, right? Of course not. Because no matter how much food is wasted from whole milk it will never make skim give you more. The only reasons to get skim milk are butter and yum, not less waste.

"Less waste" is barely a silver lining for worse (less calories) foods. Berries are good because of how many there are on single bush (plus cultivation advantages), not because how little food they give. If they gave suddenly double pips it would be only huge advantage and argument that now more is wasted would be silly.

Am I missing something?

Yesterday I played with first-timer as twins, we coordinated over voice chat. I knew it might be tough because of approach to twins here...
First spawn Seemed like generation 3, mom asks are we new, I say N, he says Y after a moment. She says something more I missed and then quickly ends with "goodbye griefers". I know where it came from and don't hold a grudge, but my twin was puzzled...

But luckily this was it. Later we spawned in town with sheep pen and some crops and it was glorious. I mostly taught him, but we accomplished this way a lot: we cared for berries and wheat, made some compost, baked a lot of pies. We had at least 6 kids each, most lived to "self-reliance" age.
Since there was corn and pen I decided we will do my thing and get cow. We went far away to make three arrows (raising awesome kid who helped and survived the whole trip) and finally got bison, calf and raised it. Sadly no time for milk.
He died at 57 due to yellow fever, I unfortunately starved at 59.

All of this with first-timer! Coordination is amazing and so is not spending minutes to find coworker for cow business.
Since many abandon twins out of fear by default, how else are experienced players to introduce people they know into the game if not by twins, hmm?
And to our first "mom": I say you missed a lot of help to your camp by abandoning us.

Me and my in-game brother had awesome run today. We got cow tech from no arrows or bow to pink milk and butter. All we had left was to use butter, so we were guarding the dough when psycho-girl killed him! I guess she thought being the last fertile woman (though there was one more girl) would protect her. She thought wrong.

Wolfgang, I avenged you and finished our work as you can see below.

In my recent run I focus on getting cow and preaching milk to all. Only now I learned water trick for more milk (thanks Connie!). This whole process from hunting to butter is very satisfying and even more efficient! And with a few corn cobs it can be amazing buffer when suddenly soil runs out and compost needs restart.

I pretty much registered to say something about DT. Isn't that a perfect (or at least very, very good) mechanic!? I haven't suffered murder from griefer or curse anyone yet, but I see the appeal.

When do you know that griefing countermeasures placed by developer are doing the job? When you see multiple post by punished griefers venting on forums and whining for changes, even adding something about them paying for the game. And at the same time everyone else being happy pandas about how DT works.

That is exactly what you expect and such complains are signs of job well done, not a reason to reconsider!

That would be enough, but DT is more! People say in forums how DT changed their perspective, appreciated team work and effort it takes to start a village. They gain skills and get back to society eager to contribute (the rest can rot in DT ). That's more than any rehabilitation program could expect to achieve.

And all with simple and elegant implementation, completely outsourced to players. Kudos, Jason! You did the impossible.

One more thing: even if you didn't get name of your killer, I understand you can look it up in Family Trees and curse them for next 2 hours? Yeah, perfect solution!