As a lovely and friendly poultry species, and of course, incredibly tasty, I should be cherished wherever I go. Just look, whenever I go to a restaurant with my friends, they even come out to greet us at the door, carrying a magnificent and impenetrable building (I overheard that humans often call it a “cage”) to escort me in, no joke.
However, there is one place that I still cannot understand why it is so discriminatory, which is in the virtual world, what the kids often call online games.
In this space, the higher-class chicken species is truly oppressed. Many of my brethren don’t even dare to show their faces outside, the self-proclaimed “gamers” are extremely bloodthirsty, and upon seeing us, we get “killed” immediately…
Don’t think that just because I’m a chicken, I don’t know about the online games you all keep playing. My relatives, neighbors, and even my fellow chickens live in online games a lot, from old-school games like Half-Life, Worms (why do these worms even have their own game series???) to several new trending games like Gun Gun (the person who named this game seriously has a problem, what kind of game is called “gun gun”?), chickens are everywhere!
But the real issue arises when you see, they gather to play Half-Life, rushing into the Italy map, quickly running down to the market, and upon seeing my beloved, a chicken named “Turkey”, they shoot her, they “slice her up”, they stand on her. Many even go as far as to throw smoke bombs right at her face to perform what they call “lag bomb”…
Then there’s the game they call Chicken Shooter. We chickens have always been gentle, never harming anyone, so why is there a game about chickens INVADING Earth? Chicken Invaders, another extremely ridiculous name. Or did you create this game because shooting at your “Turkey” in Half-Life wasn’t enough, you had to create a new game to shoot to your heart’s content? This is truly unacceptable.
The peak of this unsettling situation for all chickens is the guy from Gun Gun. He recruited us chickens to be biological weapons… At first, the hiring guy made a lot of promises, but when I actually started working, I found out that the job is tough, highly dangerous, but the pay is peanuts. If this continues, the wives back home will have nothing to eat every month, starving to death, are you kidding me?
There, I’m the one they threw out like that, a job with extreme danger that they only pay “half a worm/hour”.
An absolutely unacceptable insult.
Gradually, that group of so-called “gamers” still doesn’t know when to stop; they continue to drag us chickens into terrible ridicule. Proof, evidence? Go to any internet café, you will definitely encounter insults: “This guy is such a chicken”, “Chicken skills”, “This chicken”, “What are you playing like a chicken???”…
Huh, if they play poorly, what does that have to do with us chickens??? A friend of ours, a dog, also has the same question. Why do humans, whatever they do, drag “chickens” and “dogs” into insults?
This situation has been going on for a very long time, ever since I first hatched, I clearly heard those insults. No wonder I have always wanted to become a lawyer since I was young, to understand the world, understand the law; I will sue all those jobless people who use us chickens to insult.
I am a chicken and I hate those gamers.
Frankly speaking, those gamers are the ones that cannot be accepted, towards chickens in general and dogs in particular. We desperately need equality advocates for “chickens” to reclaim justice and clarify our position.
For now, the “chicken extermination” issue in Half-Life must be stopped, right away. The image of the “Turkey” I love, every time the match starts, she explodes into just a few feathers left, I look at her and feel so sorry for her. Chickens are not bacteria or worms, why would they heartlessly let us “disappear” like that?
Next, stop all types of using chickens as weapons. Chickens are beings that bring smiles to everyone who eats them, not bring horrifying destruction that terrifies the world like that.
I boldly propose a swap between “chicken” and “cat”. Those cats don’t know how to do anything, just eat, sleep, and cause trouble, making them the perfect mascots for online games.
Just imagine, instead of insulting a poor player with: “This chicken”, you will replace it with: “This cat”. Or, countless gerunds using “chicken” to imply ignorance, replace them all with “cat”. “This guy is still a cat”, “Don’t go acting like a cat”, “Those cats don’t know how to play”… See, that sounds just right!
Best regards,
_Our Chicken_