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Real Cats vs Pixel Cats

This is a real cat:

Real Cat

Distinguishing features and behaviour:

  • Lounges around on the deck all day.
  • Regularly leaves unidentified gory bird body parts on the doormat.
  • Meows loudly:
    • To be let in, very early in the morning and very late at night.
    • To be let out again.
    • To demand immediate attention and scritches.
  • Leaves hair in unlikely places.
  • Will immobilise unsuspecting humans by jumping on their lap and staying.
  • Doesn’t even live here - he’s the neighbour’s cat.

This is a pixel cat:

Pixel Cat

Distinguishing features and behaviour:

  • Has exciting adventures.
  • Explores alien space ships.
  • Outwits killbots, dodges lasers, evades stompers.
  • Crawls through ducts. Just like Sigourney Weaver and Bruce Willis.
  • Exploits quantum superposition to exist in multiple states at once.
  • Saves Earth from alien invasion.
  • Facilitates excellent image compression.

I think it’s pretty clear which type of cat is cooler.