Source: https://mastodon.social/@MrLovenstein/113844297604610435

Secret panel: https://tapas.io/episode/220482

Alt text from replies: 4 panel comic.

First panel: A strawberry, a raspberry, and a blueberry are sitting on the floor. A tomato comes along and asks: “Can I join berry club?” – “Sorry, Tomato. Berries only”, says Strawberry.

Second panel: Tomato holds up a sheet of paper. “Well this article says I am a berry and you’re not.” Angrily, Strawberry says “No way! ‘Berry’ is right in my name!”

Third panel: Close-up on Strawberry and Raspberry. “What?! I’m an ‘accessory’ fruit? What the hell is that?!”, says Strawberry in disbelief, looking at the paper. “I’m not a Berry either?!!” exclaims Raspberry, sweating.

Fourth panel. “These are strange times for berry club. Strange times.” says Blueberry. Tomato, a watermelon, and a banana are sitting next to it. Strawberry is sitting way in the background, looking sad.

    • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
      11·
      11 hours ago

      Stregnth is being able to crush a tomato

      Dexterity is being able to accurately throw a tomato.

      Constitution is being able to eat a rotten tomato without getting sick

      Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit.

      Wisdom is knowing not to put one in a fruit salad.

      Charisma is being able to sell a tomato based fruit salad.

      Person: Wouldn’t a tomato based fruit salad be salsa

      Person2: Hey I found the bard!

      • CarrotsHaveEars
        3·
        10 hours ago

        I would say intelligence is the ability to absorb the information that tomato is fruit.

        • TheFogan@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          1 hour ago

          Well these are D&D based stats… generally speaking, doesn’t quite fit the rules of reality. IE int would give a bonus to knowledge nature, in addition to increasing skill points allowing you to put points into it. (or in 5e inteligence (nature)), either way in pretty much all iterations the skills tend to be leveled by going out and adventuring. (A DM might grant a circumstance bonus if your character had specifically done some kind of teaching related to the subject, but the rules as written effectively having high int gives a bonus on the chance of knowing something, even if the character hasn’t seen a plant or a classroom in years.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
    49·
    19 hours ago

    The pitfalls of mixing culinary categories and scientific (botanical) categories. We have to ask ourselves the hard questions: If you were an anthropomorphic fruit, would you refer to yourself with culinary or scientific categories?

    • esc27@lemmy.world
      242·
      17 hours ago

      I never thought of using tomatos as a way to explore the themes of gender and sexual identity, but there might be something there…

    • prowe45@lemm.ee
      11·
      18 hours ago

      I think whether I was a fruit or not, I wouldn’t want to operate with the assumption that I’m going to be eaten, so scientific categories all the way. As a human, I like to think of myself as a mammal/ape/homo sapien/whatever instead of wondering which parts of me are white meat vs dark meat.