Mr D Wrote:Lucky777 Wrote:It's a stupid thing to try because you're trying to breed one thing of one sex with itself, and that is not how breeding works.
Only if you are not looking at this as a game. The core mechanic of this game is to manipulate stats using the monsters modifiers. There are 2 windows and you can chose ANY of
the monsters from those 2 windows. Even if the monster you are choosing for both windows is the same the game does let you do that and there is no reason for you not to use the "breed button" on the 2 strongest monsters from each window. Trying to "breed" the same monster was the first thing I tried in this game because in regards to stats it was an obvious choice to do. The problem here is "the lack of curiosity" because it does make sense if you look at it as an game.
The point is that it's not an obvious thing to THINK of doing
because it is so absurd, or so "stupid" a thing, and that is the sense that "stupid" is really being used in, here.
Like, it seems silly to try something that is unlikely to have any beneficial effect, and which CANNOT have any beneficial effect from the point of view of "BREEDING" AT ALL.
Indeed, the RESULT is not the result you'd expect either, that being some kind of odd self-fucking behaviour of some kind by the monster, (or in my case, I'd have expected the game to produce a glitch or something of the sort).
I still did it when I first played, just to see if the game even let me, and I was amused at the result. That result is not intuitive.
Mr D Wrote:Also the the word breed does not only mean fuck -_-. For example artificial insemination (had to google those words ._.) is seen as more advantages when it comes to breeding horses. So in that case picking the same monster twice still makes sense.
Are you proposing to educate me about the meaning of an English word, my friend?
The relatively common word "Breed", in particular?
Because you see, I happen to know the meanings of that word, and I'll take the opportunity to mention that you
can't inseminate a male creature (artificially or otherwise) with the male's semen, because males do not become pregnant.
They do not tend to have eggs to "inseminate", and that is
by virtue of being male.
You CANNOT breed a male with a male.
Similarly, females cannot USUALLY inseminate themselves, for they shouldn't have any semen, being female... though nature is weird, and there are some exceptions I think, or... at least some asexual reproduction HAPPENS...
... I mean, at least I think I heard that one kind of frog egg can produce offspring without any contribution of the male, if you just prick it with a pin or something...
GENERALLY SPEAKING, though, you
CANNOT breed a female with a female.
This is why choosing ONE monster of ONE SEX, as I said, to breed with itself, makes no sense.
Unless of course you count "hermaphrodite" as a single sex, but still, that's really just a creature that has BOTH sexes.
Anyway, If you want to feed the monster its own juices, to buff its stats in accordance with the core mechanic of the game, you can do that.
You do not do that by using the breed option, and it would ALSO make no sense to be able to do that by using the breed option, because such an action IS NOT BREEDING.
By definition.
