Theres nothing wrong with HFY power fantasy games is there?
>>725429346This is either porn, gore, or both
>>725429346Stop spamming your shitty furry webcomic in tyool 2025
>>725429346what is hfy?
>>725429346reading this shit was such a waste of time but I did it anyways.
>>725429346Stop shilling your shitty webnovel
>>725429346Name 3
>>725429346>decent story to start with>devolves into "muh heccin gayyy lmao bf"
>>725429569Nothing, what's HFY with you? Oh, wait.
humans in the role of the advanced space faring species making contact with a less advanced alien race is cool, it opens up a lot of opportunities that you don't normally get in scifi"Humans are invincible terrifying predators from a death world and no one else in the universe has ever thought of inventing a decent weapon despite a thousand year technological head start" is cringe and stupid
>>725429346HOW MANY TIMES DO WE NEED TO SEE THIS THREAD
>>725429650So is it porn or what?
>>725429346for me its humans+attractive ayys vs demons+ugly ayys
>>725429346wtf is this shit buy an ad
>>725429705>"Humans are invincible terrifying predators from a death world and no one else in the universe has ever thought of inventing a decent weapon despite a thousand year technological head start"that's not what the story is about, but it's not much better than that eitherin general, the grand narrative is kinda shit and full of holes, but the soft humane moments are pretty well written
>>725429468>>725429750Not porn.>>725429650Part 2 has some okay moments but you could tell the writer was REALLY phoning it in by the end.
>>725429346sorry, by OOP is my kind of furry-adjacent worldbuilding autism
>>725429650>"the evil aliums are approaching, get ready to shoot">paragraph after paragraph of how the way the enemy ships are moving in a very predator way is making their instincts scream to shit and piss and cry>"...and now we activate the thingamajig that wins the fight">oh mah gawd I can't decide if humans are EVIL or not for not shitting and pissing and crying like we would've done
>Holy heckerino! Those dang humans have adrenaline rushes wowie so amazing. What's that??? They PURPOSELY ingest caffeine?? ARE THEY CRAZY???
Imagine going out into the vast reaches of space to find aliens and only discover weak frail things you could snap in half easily.Cruel
>>725430207also not how it went
>>725429346What about YFH?
>>725429705>>725430207>>725430235there has to be SOMETHING that would make us special in the eyes of an interstellar community, right?
https://arch.b4k.dev/v/search/image/67fY4O4ljLTFOD3x0z6HEg/I will NOT be reading your masturbatory fic.
>>725430364Nowhere else in the universe has blueberry inflation porn, because they don't have blueberries, or Willy Wonka.
>>725430178Based
>>725430479>the entirety of the human race in an alien's eyes is reduced to blueberry inflationGrim.
The yearning for extraterrestrial intelligent life disgusts me. Not just because it relies upon an incalculable, hopelessly-small chance of something akin to mankind developing in similar conditions within reach of us— the likelihood of these numerous factors all spontaneously coming into existence is laughably small, as any mathematician will tell you— but because those who pray for such "alien life" to be discovered do so for the same litany of reasons that make mankind such a repugnant species in the first place, one that would certainly repel otherworldly organisms just as reliably as it would any other spectator entity. This hunger for aliens is yet another ignoble consequence of the innate human desire to discover and ruin, again and again, no different from the pig or the locust. You will seldom find any extraterrestrial enthusiast who speaks of their perverse alien fetish without the additional, overt desire to include the other litany of human tortures within the tangle of these alien lives. Not just overt victimization (which would certainly come to pass) but all of it, all the things that contempt inevitably blossoms from. The twisted way in which human beings wish to pull aliens into their orbit of suffering is nothing short of evil, derived from that inherent impulse to want to ruin something so pristine, untouched, perhaps as close to "innocent" as one may find.
>>725429346>HFYmore like HMOAF
>>725429346The true HFY "experience" is if you had the aesthetics of Helldivers but the gameplay of You Have to Cut the Rope.
>>725430921my alien protagonists are insectoids who have won the evolutionary race and are slowly taking over the galaxy by being impeccable engineers and theoristsnow what
>>725429346They're not going to eat or rape it?
>>725430364Our capacity for certain psychic phenomena and the occult I would imagine
>>725431159no, but evil alien lizards gladly would
>>725429346I've seen this pic so many times now I've gotta know, is this gay porn? Snuff?
>>725431342yes
>>725431159it's wholesome species chauvinism(just a SFW tip of a degenerate icebergwhy would they spam it here otherwise)
humans are the indians/brazilians of the galaxy.
>>725431365Yes to which one?
>>725430364Earth is near the upper limits for gravity that traditional rocketry can escape from. We're unironically heavy worlders, any heavier planet isn't going to be able to leave for centuries later than we could.But if you want general sci-fi stuff you can either do psychic powers, sheer numbers, or the migration and siege mentalities we have that let us tough out the most bullshit of circumstances. A human ship will have double the number of crewmen than an ayy equivalent because of sheer ability to put up with "unlivable" conditions by their standards
>>725431403both
>>725431342No.just ai lewd fanart posted last thread
>>725431365>yesWHAT DOES IT MEAN
>>725431742that it's gay as fuck and a lot of animals die
>>725431742this is a (pretty long) webseries about humans ending up one of the few meat-eating species in the galaxy after discovering FTL travel and now they can't look at them the wrong way without making them shit themselves because canines, eyes and all that.it's kinda okay at the beginning and has a lot of cute (and also very cruel) moments but after like 1/3 the way in it just becomes a slog too focused on character relationships
>THE HECKING HUMANS EAT CHILI PEPPER FOR FUN>AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH IM GOING INSANE>SAVE ME NIGGER MANWhat a waste of time this bs was.
All alien women should lust after human dick.
>>725432176there a good ai chatbot about this
>>725432229link?
>>725429468Worse. It's a rationalfic.
>>725429346>Theres nothing wrong with HFY power fantasy games is there?there is no scientific why the HFY premise is any worse than the usual preachy shit libshits like to push, tranoids getting angry, conflating HFY = white supremacy, should tell you that much when it's just political honry furries
>>725432345*apolitical horny furries
>>725432273https://janitorai.com/characters/211ac652-d19b-4b06-a0ab-65f91a3d1900_character-do-you-come-in-peace
>>725431917What's the name of it if you don't mind? It seems like a spooky read
>>725432345Ironically, rightoids find HFY as a promotion of globalism since it implicitly includes 'all' of humanity and tells you to respect niggers because they can spit or something equally stupid.It's just one of those things that sounds corny and out-of-touch that promotes a Pre-Great Reset mindset when there wasn't two irreconcilable worldviews dividing the world in half.
>>725430364I don't have the pasta but I am reminded of the post an anon made that human males sling the best dick in the animal kingdom due to most other animals being built to just shoot n' scoot due how vulnerable they are while they bang so they make it quick
>>725432482it's really not, but finenature of predators
every time i see this image, i keep thinking it's the kratt brothers
Ahem... Botanics.
>>725430364the indomitable human willy and their desire to stick it inside the nearest warm hole
>>725432550>not sharing the xeno-boipussi with fellow brown brosc'mon
>>725432608wtf
What finally snapped me out of the self-flagellation ritual of reading Star Trek as written by Reddit was having the defrosted FBI agent's side story conclude with him being interviewed by a fucking non-binary podcaster.>inb4 paying for a bonus chapterI got this shit off Kemono.Party and I can confidently state it's the biggest load of wank on the site.
>>725430364Why do you start from the position that we are worthless to begin with, that's the classic post WW2 (((liberal))) conditioning that taught you to hate yourself and your culture as a white man.
>>725432682If my setting has the technology to meet aliens then I expect all brown "bros" to be exterminated decades ago.
>>725432829and its still one of the better xeno fucker stories out there is the worst bitutterly ridiculous how shit writers are nowadays
>>725432176isn't this implying that it's humans who lust after alien woman dick?
>>725430364The power of the human dick.>That one series of images where an XCOM Viper becomes addicted and tricks her entire squad into becoming addicted as well
>>725432887mayhap the blacks, but keep the browns that are just products of being COLONIZED
>>725432887Okay buddy, I'm still waiting to see your epic science fiction setting where "your" people won the (race) war.
>>725433006>>725432630>>725432563>muh dickc'mon guys...to be fair the last guy is getting somewhere
>>725433150You mean white people? That already happened, the lunar landing crew didn't have any browns in it.
>>725433006You can't just say that without linking it.>>725433164>human supremacy is le SHITTEDGo back to /ptfg/.
Fuck you robot.
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>>725433164Maybe someday you'll get it.
>>725433365whats this?
>>725433150Euros already won the planet by 1900's, the current collapse is from their infighting and losing confidence, nonwhites either adapted to Western (white) standards like East Asians or are just parasites like you.>>725433201NASA will probably send black women to Mars, nigs and women can better withstand cosmic rays for various biological reasons, also it's something a pozzed nation like USA would love to do
>>725432345>>725432550Is it too much to ask for all of humanity to forget all of our present problems and unite together under the promise of flexing on ET?
>>725429346Is it true that the retard who wrote this turned the goat boy into a retard because he hated him so much?
>>725433486If the aliens are bad, we can unite to fight them.If the aliens are good, they can help us rid ourselves of the bad parts of humanity.
>>725433486not gonna happen unless ET strikes first and fails to go the whole way
>>725433486irl it'll happen of coursebut in current fiction, nothe left dominates the media and demands that everything be seen through an intersectional lens
>>725433521If, after following these herbivorous cocksuckers (sadly figurative) around for several million words, you don't want to see them suffer, you might just have brain damage yourself.
>>725433521why the hate, the pussi too good?
>try to read this>every single line of dialogue is like it was written and spoken by a childI'm not expecting wonders or anything but this is verging on shounen dialogue with how blatantly they're just saying the next line of the story instead of what a person might say
>>725430178Zased
>>725433648Writing in porn is like a story in video games, it's expected to be there, but it's not that important.
>>725429346>sci fi setting>the United Nations is a world government
>>725431421>A human ship will have double the number of crewmen than an ayy equivalent because of sheer ability to put up with "unlivable" conditions by their standardsThis is how I play my space games. Bigger ships with bigger guns. Fancy lasers and fast ships are for gay aliens.
>>725430364I like the idea of humans as the high speed vehicle race, running around in our cars at speeds anybody else would crash at
>>725433795>SF setting>clearly the dystopia we're all obviously heading towardstoo real?
>>725431421That was even the basis for John Carter. Mars had much lower gravity than Earth in those stories so he was like a superman in their environment.
>>725430364we're naruto, obviously and make the xeno species you want to fuck the most be sasuke
>>725430364I like the idea that we can tell apart shapeshifters due to the uncanny valley. I think it's a neat niche without being OH MY FUCKING GOD HUMANS CAN SURVOVE AFTER STUBBING TOE????
>>725433976That's a neat one, could potentially expand that with recent developments into being the ai image/video detection race
>>725430235The worst I've ever seen is OMG HUMANS DRINK WATER?!?
>>725433976uncanny valley is a result of natural selection filter that lets us judge how healthy other members of our species aresome animals also have itsomething as fundamental as this would definitely be instrumental to upbringing of a spacefaring civilization so they wouldn't just breed ten million retards with alien down syndrome who are just functional enough to survive but nothing else
>>725434189The best i've ever seen is lmao humans boil water
>>725430007>picGod, remember when the author had to put a disclaimer about not being pro-Christianity before his religious bonus chapter? Though it is kind of funny he made the priest a predator.
>>725430878>they like it
>>725433859The dystopia we are heading towards (well, already in actually) would not be some capable SF polity capable of space exploration, let alone capable of putting up a fight against other galactic empires. It will be a global brazilian favela of 85 IQ total racial entropy goycattle ruled by a totally degenerated elite who are barely sapient themselves. The timeline where we conquer the stars is one where the UN, and every ideology and impulse associated with it, is annihilated.
>>725429346>>725430007if the thing in the middle doesn't get brutally spitroasted why would i care about whatever this is???
>>725434281>first contact plays out like blueberryinflationanon meeting the Willy Wonka guy
>>725434389>first contact is quickly followed by the great commission
>>725430235Yeah that's the worst side of hfy writings and primarily a reddit feature because they have no redeeming qualities or strong convictions. Actually entertaining hfy stuff is about taking an introspective look at our most outstanding cultural and sociological traits, the ones informed but not defined by our biology, and seeing how we consider those qualities, both the great and terrible, to define us as a people.Not about wanking that >bro we can run for a really long timeeven when the individual writing it couldn't run a mile but instead>strong men marched an army of elephants over a goddamned mountain top out a burning need for victoryExamining what drives men to accomplish such monumental feats that we almost normalize because of our familiarity with them and how we would repeat them, in essence, again and again in front of aliens who have no context for it.
>>725429346that drawing looks like shit if it's yours OP you should kill yourself you have no taste or talent
>>725434190If you want to actually be realistic about it you have to write about weaknesses, not strengths. Most spacefaring races will share roughly the same features, but only humans have their monstrosity of a neck/spine configuration that causes endless neck and back problems and can cause instant death if you fall slightly wrong. Compared to other animals you'd stat it as like an increase to critical damage taken or something.Like there's no way a race of quadrupeds with no thumbs or eyes is going to make it to space, I'm sorry. Being a biped is more space efficient, you need thumbs to make tools, eyes are absurdly important for tool making too, etc. Every space race is going to be some variety of differently-coloured human with like, ankles that just fucking explode sometimes.
>one of my favorite Nature of Predators fanfics was close to the end>author made it sound like he was about to upload a bunch of the remaining chapters in fairly quick succession>no posts in almost two yearsHe's dead, isn't he?
>>725434672and octopuses
>>725434808Yes, and onaholes.
>>725433007Harry is such an embarrassment, I really enjoyed how the media here rolled out the red carpet for Meghan all because she was black and they kept saying it was going to 'modernise' the modern family only for the entire country to turn against her and for Harry and Meghan to fuck off to Canada and then the U.S. and be exiled there and have their titles removed.
>>725434808Octopodes are far shittier on land when they lose out on all leverage. The tentacle is a superior manipulator to a hand but comes with loads of downsides of having no bones.
>>725433648Specifically, all the dialogue reads like children who are either having manic episodes or doing a lot of coke. The only reason to read Nature of Predators is to have context for the fanfics that are much better written, and you can probably just read a summary to get what you need there
>>725434323Have faith anon, I'm sure the (((UN))) will harness the innovations of the remaining white population to launch a space-faring communist interstellar empire.
>>725434954you've reminded me of the epic shitflinging on thrive forums about whether theoretical sapient underwater species with fine manipulators could use geothermal vents to extract and forge iron
>>725434951kek.Look at his eyes as he gaze upon what they just spawned into the earth.
>>725433648>>725434964it's online amateur fiction, you have to give some allowance for people willing to start on their writing journey, professional writers are not born perfect, you have to start somewhere
>>725434785his mom probably saw his works and sent him to the military.
This is making me want to play a campaign in Aurora 4X with multiple human factions starting from Earth...
>>725435256>to them the atmosphere is as deadly as the vacuum of spaceneat
>>725435256That does sound ridiculously autistic>could use geothermal vents to extract and forge ironGut feeling i'm going to say no, water would transfer the heat way more to the smith than air does so even if it could get hot enough to work everyone working it is dead or can never leave the vents in the first placeNot that it matters because cooking food is the first, more important step.
>>725435369There's "not perfect" and there's>“The aliens are friendly, except for one species. That species is at war with the rest of the galaxy, and they’re quite the formidable foe. They wiped out 62 worlds, and fighting them has cost billions of lives.”>“They destroyed 62 planets…by themselves?! Jesus Christ. Please, tell me you’re kidding.”>“I wish, sir. There’s a full brief on the page labeled ‘Arxur’ in your file. There’s also footage of them committing every war crime in the book. I mean, they literally eat children.”>“Shit. Let’s face it: we’re barely spacefaring. We need to hammer out alliances with the other aliens, pronto. I want every diplomat relegated to this project.”I would be ashamed of writing this at 14
>>725433795Worked in Alpha Centauri. Lal's faction maintained the U.N. Charter.
I just finished a cup of joe, am I a cosmic superbeing?
>>725429705counterpoint: aboriginal tech level vs european tech level before meaningful contact
>>725430178Agreed
>>725435575short answer is noto know the long answer, you'd have to go through about a decade of posts of one of the most discussed topics in the history of the game up until it got officially banned because there are like two dozens of different reasons of why underwater sapient society has a nearly zero chance of ever arising in the first place
>>725434265to be fair, we DO love boiling water
>>725435351He's addicted to cocaine, he was caught buying in London on one of his recent trips to London. He dismissed his security and was caught on a Ring camera trying to buy drugs. Sounds ridiculous right? Yet it's true.
>>725429346Thats the most reddit shit imaginable Laundered and whitewashed masculine power fantasies, no more icky racism or sexism with aliums>>725429547Turns out it was some gay shit as well, in addition to all the gay redditism
>>725435670It's pretty bad.But this kind of case is the only situation where it's appropriate to say: You should write some yourself if you think you can do better.
>>725435945it's mostly an excuse for porn, I'll allow it
>>725435832About what I estimatedA sapient species developing primitive civilization in the first place is already a long shot, adding on being completely aquatic makes all those core requirements so much harder its not funny.
>>725435773counterpoint to what?
So, can anyone recommend decent hfy?
>>725436469The Last Human.It's like Camp of the Saints, but in space.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzZ7pimxjhE&t=2s
>>725436469I recall enjoying deathworlders for what it was up until it switched to following the story of several tumblr sexuality aliens instead
>>725436096how did i do?https://pastebin.com/PtaSHPSZ
>>725432829You are talking on op novel?
>>725430364If it would be anything it should be our hands and shoulders.
I renember seeing a hfy video. And unironically flexing humans boundless beast ability to...not die after getting hit with a baseball ball....lol
>>725435670Wow.
>>725435670just get ai to rewrite it, lol
>>725436814No dude you don't understand, we're PERSISTENCE HUNTERS that means we can run for TENS OF MINUTES without being tired. That, on top of our ability to throw things accruately, means aliens would be absolutely terrified of u->instantly atomized by relativistic rod entering atmosphere at four fifths the speed of light
>>725437172Hey, throwing rock gud is a skill that never stops being usefulThere's always a bigger rock to throw and a better way to throw it.
>>725437172cixin liu addresses thishis answer is that the greatest power humanity has is sexism and that giving women power will instantly murder billions
>>725437172I tanked that thanks to my indomitable human spirit.
>>725436408>no one else in the universe has ever thought of inventing a decent weapon despite a thousand year technological head start
If humans got FTL, we'd treat the rest of the Universe like Columbus did to the natives, don't kid yourselves.
>>725437354I maintain that most anti-chinese racism is a cope for them elevating themselves while we flounder and degrade, and while most of them are "bugmen," that applies to every race on earth, including my own. Three Body Problem is one of the few pieces of literature written this century that is worth remembering after the decade it was written. "Savages" is also really impressive sci fi from china.https://youtu.be/G0UfFNpOsxw?si=bUQ9AnCqpQGXodOaAll my racism for the chinese really comes down to how they treat the environment, really.
>>725437742Columbus was based and had a superior culture to the savages. The Age of Sail was the spiritual peak of human civilization. What's the problem here, exactly?
>>725437824get space AIDS and die
>>725437765>All my racism for the chinese really comes down to how they treat the environment, really.pray you never have to work with them
>>725437439that would be the first part, humans in the role of the more advanced species. The other part was about the common thing where humans get treated like unique and terrible because we are capable of violence and every other advanced species is some herbivore pacifist that invented space travel before inventing a gun.Abos abosolutely knew what violence was and how to use it, if they ever figured out technology more advanced than sticks and fire they would have been killing each other as efficiently as possible just like every other kind of human.
You're going to drop the title or not? I want to taste it for myself now.
>>725438240>is some herbivore pacifist that invented space travel before inventing a gun.Space jews genetically engineered them to be giant pussies with a genetic fear of carnivoresUnironically what happened in NoP
>>725429346>no Venlil bf[Screams into the void]
>>725430364We are experts in the occult. This is not a good thing.
>>725437742>>725437857that could be an interesting point.what if alien civilizations were generally scared of each other because of the threat of infection from an alien pathogen, meaning that even a small vessel landing on your planet could mean a planet-wide crisis?
The HFY in Mass Effect is comical. Based on how well mankind has integrated into a galactic civilization that has been around for 3000 years, you would think humans have been a part of it for AT LEAST a century. Nope, they've carved out a large chunk of the galaxy for themselves and becoming an economic power within 25 years. There are trillions of others, and only 12 billion of us, yet you see humans everywhere. Like, for Shepard, the first contact war with the Turians was as far in the past as 9/11 is for us.
>>725438240The far more important part is that any means to go from one system to another is also a grossly powerful weaponYou don't even have to write your aliums as being particularly belligerent or even violent when by virtue of being capable of reaching humanity, they're able to wipe it out
>>725438354read the thread, the title has been mentioned
>>725438628it's just copying Star Trek, down to fuckable alien chicks
>>725438574The physiology would likely be so different that diseases would simply not transfer. I doubt you could eat any alien food, the structure and chemistry of the cells would not have an earth analog.
>>725433521Not just a retarded, but so mentally broken and with most of his memories scrubbed that he was basically reset all the way back to his very beginning-of-the-story self and could hardly function. Then Part 2 pretty much offhandedly states he got worse and died, and his human partner went utterly bugshit nuts trying to find a way to "bring him back".Shit was depressing.
>>725434485you wouldn't do a hannibal either and it was definitely an idiotic move that exhausted themselves just to sow chaos.
>>725434485I liked the one where ayylum doctor was terrified how human who lost his arm was saying that his new si-fi prosthetic is awesome.
>>725436469Wearing Power Armor To Magic School.
>>725429346The best part of Nature of Predators is, instead of humans being a capitalism race who loves annihilating ecosystems for the next quarterly report, our understanding of ecology and love for nature is unique among races. I love the idea of us being space druids who maintain at least one massive wildlife preserve on every planet and moon, and not just as a zoo or a place to farm meat.
>>725430364No if your assumption is that humans aren't exceptional. You can find animals on earth that outperform humans in anything aside from collective knowledge, which another technological society would also excel at.
>>725438628Its extremely chauvinistic. And played totally straight
I'm only interested in the Pinwheel Universe
>>725438730they don't need to be biologically compatible to cause harm, their bodies or ecology can be made of chemicals that can damage human beings... just open an organic chemistry book
>>725438795>you wouldn't doSo? I'm not writing a story about myself in my average wage slave life>idiotic moveHey buddy, hot tip for ya: a lot of famous shit done by great generals/leaders is actually pretty fucking stupid if it didn't work out but it did so it isn't. If Caesar hadn't finished his double walls, or had run out of supplies before finishing the siege, he'd be a gigantic fucking retard.
>>725438730i mean, would you take the risk, if you were on the planetary UN-equivalent council?at best, for two civilizations to establish contact they would have to have some sort of controlled lab environment where they test every single pathogen and how they interact with every form of flora or fauna on the planet, which is frankly kinda ridiculous to think about.>oh yeah, our dog-people can't share pathogens when the insects-people it's all good>insect people land on the planet>the give the sniffles to the not-bees>entire ecosystem collapses
>>725430364Hear me out: humans are not "rugged individualists" but basically seen as groups of competing hiveminds. Like, our capability to conform to groupthink or fall prey to psychological warfare and do what we are told by our leaders without resistance is seen as legitimately insane. The idea of WW1 occuring, us gathering by the millions to gun eachother down on trench lines, call a Christmas truce for a day, share gifts and play with eachother, and then immediately getting back to industrial slaughter the morning after is absolutely bugfuck crazy. Naturally, once we learn of how the psychology of other alien races work, we should be able to fuck with their minds using a million psyop techniques that they would have never even considered before. Humans are mindfucked, and mindfuckers. Total cognito-hazard.
>>725438908Oh yeah, there was a scene where teddy bear race was giving hummies a planet to settle and they were like>here you are guys, we are almost ready to glass it for ya, just give us a minuteAnd hummies were like what the fuckFunny stuff
>>725439281Even as hannibal succeeded in his goal of bypassing the roman forces and occupying northern italy, it failed in the greater goal of using his troops to defeat Rome while Fabius bogged him down until he was forced to retreat because he left north africa undefended. Circumvallation meanwhile is universally agreed as a vital aspect of maintaining a siege.
>>725436469>>725438826seconded, though it falls for 'le endurance hunter' mythThen there's Assignment Risk, They are Smol and Hunter or Huntress, all of which don't do the 'humans are le perfect lifeform' shit
The guys writing and/or enjoying these stories balk at any sort of sexual chauvinism. They have a strong aversion to cultural chauvinism, and especially racism- any sort of white supremacy is a big no no Instead they write these stories where some reddit factoid about the human body is taken as proof of biological superiority as compared to pathetically depicted aliens who are made of plasticine and broken dreams Its hack writing. Genuine slop.
>>725439613Rome was a very hardy society. Very virile and could absorb the costs of war. The Carthaginians could not, mostly due to political reasons. They had no will to fight a protracted battle - the reliance on large mercenary armies already proves this. That Hannibal inflicted serious damage on the Romans with all those negative factors surrounding him was the real feat. You could say the carthaginians didn't deserve his genius.
>>725434384In fairness the things that Slanek does in this series are way fucking gayer than a m/m/m spitroast
>>725430364>A weird number of responses are "oh we do the occult"What is this samefag gibberish? The occult is nonsense for mentally ill people and psychic powers aren't real. Why are we being inundated with retarded spergs from /x/?
>>725439845I can agree with that. I think Hannibal is overrated when it comes to war but he was a very capable general.
>>725439715The concept itself is inherently speciest and racist, nice try tran-oid.
>>725430364it's basically the same as asking "is there anything that makes the french special in the eyes of the rest of the world"Assuming the other spacefaring civilizations aren't so far ahead of us that any comparison is pointless, like trying to find something chimps are better at than people, there will be things that humanity considers itself to be good at as a culture or a people, that we might develop a reputation for or get value from, and equally there will be negative stereotypes. Frenchies are a bunch of rude snobs that make great cheese and wine but it would be really stupid if you were designing earth as a setting to make no one else ever get good at fermenting dairy and grape juice or be dicks to each other, and it would be equally stupid if every single frenchman was a rude cheesemonging vintner, at least if you're trying to be realistic. There's nothing inherently wrong with having scifi species separated by gimmicks and specialties, it's basically a staple of the genre that the warrior race is warlike, the space jews are tricky and jewish etc, but usually that comes with humans being the default perspective race that has all the depth and complexity of individuals instead of a species superpower anyway.
is the anon with the hot venlil sloppa around?
>>725429346
>>725439613>CircumvallationIs the process of setting up with the purpose of warding off the defender's attempts to shake you looseThe second wall he built around alesia was the purpose of defending himself against relief forces>failedBecause rome was a society capable of losing tens of thousands of troops and still immediately raising new armies. That doesn't make Hannibal's march and his following actions any less impressive as a tactical feat.And all this is getting away from the operative point that men can do impressive shit, even just in every day life that gets forgotten about, which could seem almost mythical to an ayyThe idea of some random schmuck risking, or outright losing, his life for some alien he doesn't know and expects no compensation from simply because he thinks its the right thing to do is a narrative opportunity. Same is the reverse, the idea of torching an entire city to the ground in front of our allies for various ignoble reasons scarcely covered up by pragmatism can create interesting interactions.
>>725432275>>725429468It's not a rationalfic, it's just the most basic fic about HFY ever. Humans are special because all others species in the universes evolved from preys, and we're predators, so all species instantly believe we're psychopaths who will barbecue them. Our smile sends signals to preys (aka all the species in the entire universe) that we want to eat them for dinner.It's also furry as fuck, in between sucking mankind's dick. It's all about fucking the cute rabbit girl and how the cute rabbit girl learns that the scary humans aren't that scary.It's not a good fic, by any measure.>>725429346>Theres nothing wrong with HFY power fantasy games is there?Yeah, sure, it's a little bit of spice. If you give me a good reason why mankind is FUCK YEAH, then yes, reading about mankind T posing over all extraterrestrial is a fun concept, and a fun reading. It's not a hugely new concept, but it's a bit of harmless fun.I've read more than 100 HFY stories. Most of them are garbages, some of them are good.
>>725440263contravallation* I originally meant to elaborate on both.
>>725430364earths genetic diversity would be interesting to anyone, there are lots of niche solutions to various survival problems to be found here. it depends on the nature of those that discover us though. there is a decent chance that alien life is just a brain in a tube orbiting a star, or traveling to others.
>>725440152omg he's so hot
Grass Eaters is way better than Nature of Predators.
>>725430235>>725430364>>725431167>>725438564>>725438972See >>725440254>>725439310This is actually a neat concept, and a nice take on "inherent flaw/weakness makes them exceptionally dangerous"
>>725437172Any dingus with a spaceship can do one of those or be annihilated by one, how does that make anyone stand out?
>>725430364We're the first one that were able to evolve in the very infancy of the universe, under one of the youngest generation 2 star needed for life. We're basically already the Precursors.Our Moon is also special and likely one in a billion chance in the galaxy (which means there are quite a few planets with the same moon).That's it in universal term.
>>725438757>Then Part 2 pretty much offhandedly states he got worse and diedPHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHFucking imagine if in LOTR first book someone said like yea Bilbo fucking eat shit and died hahahahah
>>725440832imagine going to proxima centauri and finding out that humans are even older than our sun
>>725435670Please don't tell me this is from an actual, published work.
>>725440602>Wait, you guys don't tell ghost stories?
>>725438972That is just gay "elfs are better than humans at everything". Two wrongs don't make a good.
>>725432275World building kino....what is the first rational fic anyways>inb4. Space battles
>>725430235Peak tumblr writing
>>725430364Nah. Any other sentient race is going to be just as good at interfacing with tools, keeping off broken legs, mass hysteria and warmongering. Any alien interaction is probably going to end up like the Cortez Conquistador saga, where we get taken for rubes and used as shock troopers by various nations in exchange for cash and pussy, and any real damage is going to be some virus shit we didn't even want to happen.
>>725436673it's not quite a 400 chapter webnovel so it's quite hard to compare
>>725441325A Harry Potter fic.In this Harry Potter loudly mock magic because the Langrangian of Quantum Field Theory doesn't allow for more energy under the Laplace transformation, and also he slaps Hermione because she's just a dumb bitch who is just there for her hypergamy to kick in and be fucked by a real man. Which, I can get behind slapping Hermione, the second concept is appreciable, but I dunno about Langrangians in Harry Potter.More seriously, it's an absolutely insufferable fic about Harry being absolutely insufferable for far too many words that somehow garnered enduring attention.
>HFY thread did not devolve into 90% offtopic /pol/niggeryWhat miracle is this?
>>725441653we can start now if you want
>>725429346i couldnt give a shit about HFY trash which is always gay as fuck circlejerking for retards, i just wanted context for the furshitjust give me good furry star trek please
>>725441653the tr.0.0n went to sleep
>>725441653America is in bed for school atm
Sex with Vysith and Isif
>>725441980Porn is alwasy better with story and lore.
>>725442264i agree, that's why i want good furry star trekthe OP story was close in concept but HFY and the overall bad quality of writing brought it down hard
