>Play space game>warrior aliens>scientist aliens>merchant aliens>Humans somehow only race which can do many things at onceWhy do devs do this
>>736232371humans are a highly adaptive species able to live in many different environments being the jack of all trades and master of none species
What's the history with this image and is there a continuation
>>736232371stop making threads about every image you think is amusing even though it has nothing to do with videogames and then coming up with a post that has the word game in it that you dont actually give a fuck about you just wanted to post your retarded picture because you are 14 and think its funny
>>736232371Gruelcore goyim series. Like all HFY and HFY derivatives
>>736232457>master of noneWe are the most intelligent species in the world and maybe the universe.
>>736232464Its just a yaoi fapfiction.
>>736232464Whole universe is full of herbivores - and one carnivore species that is at war with their federation of herbivore planets. Then they discover humanity. A lot of "ah scary humans" and "it's okay we're omnivores" back and forthing.
>>736232371It's like how white people specialize in whining
>>736234062>Its like how I specialize in transitioningSo true sister
>>736232371>hurr isn't it weird how smiling is seen as friendly by humans but as a threat by animals even doe animals can't actually smile and only grin at best, which is also seen as a threat by humans?the very fact that this image looks like they're about to rape the thing to us humans destroys the entire premise of these stories
>>736234062And browns specialize in being parasites.
>>736232457>master of noneHow the fuck are we master of none?We got the best intellect of all animals and the best endurance.
>>736234313Well it is a sexy bunny. How else should they look?
Because it's easier to write that way.A good sci-fi setting makes human the strong ones since earth is actually a surprisingly massive planet, and at about the upper bound of escape velocity. So humans would be stronger but shorter than other aliens.Tho if you sci-fi setting wants to be realistic then there probably shouldn't be a single strand of human. You'd have a different type of human for every planet as well as countless billions of human who live in space habitats only.
>>736232371What exactly would humans be better that a hypothetical alien species at to make them as distinctive? Not intelligence because presumably in a galactic scenario most species are smart enough for space travel. Not lethality either because humans are actually pretty shit at killing things without weapons
>>736236382Making ayys cum
>>736236382Read: >>736236301Humans would probably be quite physically strong since Earth is in about the upper bounds of massiveness while still having achievable escape velocity (with the technology we have now).
>>736235495Assuming we're not the first ones out there we sure as fuck wouldn't be the smartest, unless all tech stalls out once you into space>>736236301So we're basically space dwarves?
>>736232371What was this called again? Some fagnon told me years ago but I lost the name
>>736236965nature of predators I think
Hypothetical question: Could Aliens drink alchohol?
>>736237023Thanks brotherman
>>736237026Hypothetically, yes.
>>736236301>Humans are denser and stronger than most aliens out there.Imagine their reaction when we bring something like a bear or tiger into their ship
>>736232464The continuation is the aliens mom panicking thinking her son is going to get eaten or something. There's no bad end, the humans are literally the alien's friends.
>>736232371because star trek did it and everyone copies star trek knowingly or not
>>736232520Are you sure about that? I don't see dolphins going to work every day.
>>736237234>son
>>736237187>something like a bear or tigerSomething that crossed my mind is that humans are literally in the top 0.1% of size and strength of all lifeforms on earth, that that's neither here nor there to our intelligence, that we're basically weaker gorillas/more flexible chimpsWe have this psychological "honor" that makes us pay undue attention to the handful of things that are larger than us, surely because they were actual threats to us in prehistory>the bull, the lion, the great white shark, the elephantbut think for a second about how many animals you could pick up with one fuckin' hand, how they vastly outnumber the few and rare large beastsimagine if these guys were the ones that were supposed to end up sentient spacefarers
>>736232457being good at everything and adaptable is a mastery in of itself
I want to see more games where humans are kobold-tier shitters
>>736236382I guess lean into the things we excel at in our own ecosystem - division of labour is out because that would be needed for space travel. Throwing things? Like, imagine an intergalactic federation all completely flabbergasted that we can do advanced trigonometry instinctively when throwing a ball. All their military tech is also based around projectiles, but the fact we can just casually lob something across the room with precision using our limbs is unthinkable.
>>736236382Humans have lived in every climate on Earth with only the most rudimentary technology. Since we can get used to most environments we would be explorers and colonizers, and presumably excellent soldiers as well.
>>736236382Our ability to pack bond with literally anything.
Humanities insatiable wanderlust is what will make it the first space fairing civilization but still behind technologicallyImagine we mastered space travel and space living only to find a planet that knows how teleportation and matter conversion works or some equally magically sci-fi concept but they've never even thought about escaping their atmosphere because they're scared shitless of what might be out there
Unless literally every fucking alien lives on some Star Wars monobiome planet, I see no reason why they wouldn't be as adaptable as we like to circlejerk ourselves as being.
>>736232457I don't know. If boiled down to it, humans would be ranged pet masters.
>>736236382"smart enough for space travel" says nothing about individual intelligence. just think how many people drive cars vs how many understand how it works.
>>736237370You also don't see Dolphins invent the combustion engine.
>>736237918Most exo planets we currently know of are tidally locked shitholes and monobiomes, so I think humans would be unusual if not completely unique.
>>736232371Just look at sheer variety of human cultures and civilizations. Doing even 10% of that for some fictional aliens so they can be window dressing in your setting would be a tremendous undertaking. Giving everyone a single major trait is just easier.
>>736237918Adaptability isn't just physical but psychological as well. Humans in particular are adept at dealing with mental stress better than pretty much any other animal. Something about the brain's mental plasticity and ability to cope with stress that would kill any other animals.
>>736238000because there's different types of intelligence. also, hands. octopus is also an interesting example.
>>736234062Everybody whines, there's just more white people that do it and more white people who don't live their life with real purpose. 1st world society, 1st world problems.
>>736237473Most lifeforms on earth used to be fucking huge. We're just living through a low oxygen phase. Any large mammals got eaten by early humans. More than 80% of mammal species have been made extinct since humans learned to throw sharp sticks at them.
>>736237678>American sports become an intergalactic phenomenon
>>736238163Its more than just low oxygen right? Pretty sure the heat and sheer volume of plant life to eat helped a lot.
>>736238185>green cheerleaders>with 3 tits
>>736237234It's almost subversive anymore when they don't pull the "humans are the real monsters!" trope.
>>736236382I like how Mass Effect did it - humans have the highest genetic diversity and the best immune system out of all known sentient species
>>736237678considering how our entire weapon history up to the nuclear bomb boils down to "throw rock good", I guess that makes sense
>>736232371What story is this from anyways?Is there sex?
>you will never fly across the sea of stars in your lifetime>you will die here on behalf of flesh eating peds and incompetent nationstates
>>736238404Humans having the best immune system is legitimately a super power we possess compared to other animals. Its also why our medical implants and organ transfers are such a pain in the ass because the body is turbo geared towards detecting foreign invaders.
>>736236382
>>736232371Lack of creativity.>>736236382Ballistics.The very thing that made us dominate the planet and the reason why we're fucked against other animals in the water.We instinctively calculate ballistics.Humans can be lots of things but not every human can be anything, yet every human can catch a ball being thrown by instinctively calculating where it's landing and where to intercept it to catch it. Every human can use a ball and accurately enough throw it at an object in a distance to hit it using different speeds and heights based entirely on the weight of the ball in their hand.Even simple catch is advanced ballistics, almost every sport we play with another object is ballistics. Football is a team game where you calculate ballistics to intercept the ball, to pass it to your team and to score a goal, a goalkeepers job is to calculate ballistics to stop the ball.Humans are a ballistics species.
>>736232371I feel like it's stupid to try and make humans stand out using the physical/mental traits of our species. If intelligent species existed and we could meet all of them we would eventually some that possess some or all of the qualities that we do. I guess alien racism is easier to write than trying to invent interesting alien cultures to compare humanity's to. Imagine a human trying to explain anime to a sentient gas cloud.
>>736238506i cope by telling myself it would be boring as fuck most of the time
Humans are omnivores, and we were present in all continents bar Antarctica due to our adaptability (even before we got technology to make that east).There are animals on this planet that only eat a single species of plant, there are animals that exist only on one continent, most animals either eat just plants or just eat other animals.It's completely fair to consider us the flexible species.
>>736238683>Humans can be lots of things but not every human can be anything, yet every human can catch a ball being thrown by instinctively calculating where it's landing and where to intercept it to catch it. Every human can use a ball and accurately enough throw it at an object in a distance to hit it using different speeds and heights based entirely on the weight of the ball in their hand.Yeah, about that...
>>736232371>>736232457>>736232464>>736232506>>736232507I read NoP because of one of these threads two years ago. It's kind of shit, really. But the fanfics I've read are pretty good. "A recipe for disaster" was one that I liked a lot.
>>736236382Make them mercenaries. We can do pretty much any form of combat provided we have weapons and we are a naturally violent species so I can imagine us as a sort of body guard faction You need a planet destroyed? Call up the monkeys that just love killing
read the damned trilogy by alan dean foster. it's pretty good
>>736236382Space radicalism. The Geneva Suggestion doesn't apply to external lifeforms from beyond the atmosphere.
>>736232371white people are scary?
>>736238809KWAB
>>736236382>What exactly would humans be better that a hypothetical alien species at to make them as distinctive?Nothing really. How do different human cultures set themselves apart from each other? Art. Music. Writing. Humans won't be anything special physically if we ever join the Milky Way federation, but I'm certain there will be humanboos who are obsessed with baseball and hentai.
>>736232371AAAAHHHHH SO SCARY HUMANS
DON'T mess with us humans...!
>>736236621This, humans are the infinite stamina sex machines of the universe. We're also attracted to anything with a hole so you'd have human gigolos on every planet.
>>736239740>We're also attracted to anything with a hole Sup ranjeet
>>736236382>What exactly would humans be better that a hypothetical alien species at to make them as distinctive?Nothing. Because we have no data points to imagine how life could have evolved outside of the one planet that we know of. But realistically it would require a few characteristics>decently long lifespan>intelligence>social behavior>appendages for fine manipulationetc.
>>736238809You can do it better than any other animal, even if you're the worst in human history, you'd beat the best of any other animal.>>736238683Another one is sound mimicry.You can learn to chirp like a bird, howl like a wolf, bark, oink like a pig, cluck like a chicken and so on.All because these sounds we used to hunt and draw out prey.Other aliens might not be able to speak other aliens languages because of their anatomy but humans can just copy their sounds. This means alien to alien translation is done through 2 aliens that both speak their own language and understands the others language but can't speak it.Meanwhile humans can speak the language of aliens which opens up far more aliens they can talk to. Making for great diplomacy and trade.
>>736239783I can't believe I'm reading this on a board that sucked off Mass Effect. You must be a special kind of retarded.
>>736232371Sex with Venlil (female)
>>736239783Only a jeet would have no drive for fucking other races.Either a jeet or some bitch afraid to admit the desire to impregnate non white women.
>>736236382Nothing. Humans are the Indians of the galaxy. HFY is just izzat farming.
>>736232371The concept is that humans are relatively new to the scene, and haven't settled into their galactic niche, yet. Mass Effect did this well. Most of the races do at least a bit of everything, but are famous for the things they do better than everyone else.
>>736237473Have you ever heard of a fic called "The Howler from the Void"? It's a mostly Alien PoV story where the small alien bugs from the pic that finds an human astronaut (who is massive compared to pretty much all of the aliens in the story) that has gone insane from loneliness and they decided to bring him back to their home planet where shit starts hitting the fan pretty soon afterwards.
>>736236382The typical answer is adaptability/colonization population growth. I wouldn't discount our physicality, there's a decent chance we could be the strongest chads or within the top percentile of races but any advanced space colonizing civilization isn't going to solve wars with muscles so strength is once again going to help with colonization adaptability. The type of shit the normal persona deals with in their daily life, think of the strength gap just between your average woman and your average man and how it applies to daily tasks and workability now apply that to an alien race that is similar in shape but possibly lankier thinner even among males. Like another Anon said we'd end up being the space dwarves capable of growing long beards, being a bit crabby and hardy and liking shiny things.Outside of that alien races would most likely be defined by quirky cultural differences but not anything too extreme since certain culture foundations are incapable of advancing stages due to shooting themselves in the foot IE look at a company that has an unruly HR department or has progressive stacks.
>>736234062i hope whitey gets back into the kill everyone era soon
>>736232457This is always a dumb answer because in order for there to be space faring aliens they would literally need all the same traits we have to do that shit on a baseline.
>>736237234this anon didn't read the author's newest chapters and that's a good thing
>>736236382Sex unironically. It already works in fantasy, look at elves who spurn sex cause they live so long or dwarves who are so consumer by digging for gold and drinking.
>>736232371I'm sorry to tell you guys but aliebs would NEVER do it with humans, not in real life and not in vidjea
>>736234062You'd still whine about white people even when they're all gone
>>736232371I like the idea of humans being a race uniquely suited to industrialized war. Like their psychology and the way they arrange their society makes war both easy to justify and convenient to wage. While other races would be taken aback by the atrocities and staggering waste of life of it all, humans are thinking about how much they hate the other guy and anyone who looks like him, and trying to maximize casualty numbers.Just look at war in the 21st century. The kind of destructive, illogical, wasteful and hateful behavior people got up to in Afghanistan or Ukraine. The scientist aliens would tap out after a week, the warriors would go extinct after trying to fight a total war with one hand tied behind their back in the name of honor, and the merchants would stop after they realized their opponents would destroy literally everything they own just to deny it to them.
>>736240627replying to this so everyone can see it fuck jannies
>>736240724Nah, they'd just whine about asians instead, assuming the Japanese and Chinese don't immediately restore their old imperial governments and exterminate turdies entirely.
>>736236382Like other anons have mentioned, the best way to go about this is some seemingly innocuous feature we take for granted. The best idea I can think of to highlight our fairly impressive healing, in conjunction with adrenaline. We might be soft and relatively easy to injure, but we're also well equipped to power through the ghastliest of wounds to stay in a fight/get away from it. We can even recover from those wounds with basic medical treatment, which will only get more impressive as medical treatments get better. Depending on the aliens, they could very easily see us as a whole race of Micheal Myres's. Anything short of completely obliterating our bodies leaves the very real risk of seeing us again.
>>736232464The ultimate take away is that g furs cant write.
>>736234062meanwhile Indians still whine about how their shithole is a shithole because of the Brits, 80 years later.
>>736236382Organization as Humanity has managed logistics so basically nobody dies of real hunger despite several billion people existing, pack bonding like motherfuckers with basically anything, innovation in technology despite current constraints and inefficient systems, curiosity, fucking (breeding even if you make that an infrastructure), general output of things given pretty good efficiency without needless constraints.You might go but the aliens would also have this, and sure, but this isn't required. You can have only small levels of organizations or consolidated power instead of more global empire type shit, you can have systematic issues of logistics a plenty, you can have isolationist cultures rule in many places and a lack of empathy creating hostile situations, a tech sector in the aliens that's far less interested in inovation and merely optimizes shit and ignored critical things like behavioral sciences and analytical predictive systems (also tied to logistics which we use today) making them far less curious besides certain objectives (ideological spreading or dogmas, economical growth, etc), and they could be inefficient as fuck. Industrialization doesn't necessarily mean mass production, it means industrial capacity, you will basically never be short of anything in our world due to structures of powers always encouraging inovation, efficiency and cooperation for further growth.Sneed 420 six seven.
>>736234313Rape implies a lack of consent. That alien is clearly very happy to be there.
>>736232371>Tyler>MarcelThe Nature of Predators. Good HFY series.
>>736236382A psychological edge. Humans turn into violent chimps when provoked (sometimes they do it anyways) and can tolerate an infinite amount of suffering as a species as long as its justified with an other to hate.Aliens would be horrified by the concept of never ending guerilla warfare. Just imagine some advanced scientist race finding one of their scouts mortally wounded and turned into a booby trap. Or seeing a human suicide bomb an alien squad. Or imagine their horror watching human soldiers charge into gunfire again and again in a brutal trench war.
>>736241469Based ban evader
>>736237234>there's no bad endingDo NOT read this shit. It's terrible. Read Grass Eaters instead.
Lets be honest in almost every sci-fi continuity humans are the ones who master intergalactic travel later than almost all other races. They would see as inept, barbaric primates. It would be the equivalent of orangutans entering the Bronze Age 10,000 years from now. We would laugh at them.
>>736241829Ironically, a lot of the fanfic for it is pretty good
>>736242294Oh really? Which ones?
>>736242171I wouldn't laugh at the pongos...
Do you think aliens have their own 4chan?
>>736242171If I saw Orangutans mastering bronze I'd be forming aliances with those fuckers, that sounds awesome.
>>736242171Pongos are awesome though, We would be the greatest allies
>>736238000why would they invent a device that grants the ability to travel slower at a higher energy cost?
>>736241469How is fucking outside your species furthering humanitys goals and evolutionary status?
Humans = Whites, Aliens = whatever other races.
>>736242331My top 5 back when NoP was still being written was >Apex Predator>Hunting with Predators>Love Languages>New York Carnival >Introduction to Terran ZoologyThe first two are finished, the next three are still getting new chapters. I haven't kept up with new fics in a while, so there are probably some good ones I don't know about. Most of the other ones I really liked have gone a long time without new chapters, with one's author probably being outright dead
>>736243162Domestication
>>736232457We are masters of niggers.
>>736236382Humans are really good cooksEntire empires have risen and fallen on the basis of the commerce of spicy and sweet plants. Entire countries have been toppled to acquire cheaper fruit. Humans just love food. We're the food species.
Why is that one guy trying so hard to make this a /pol/ bait thread
>>736243736>food analogy
>>736242171With that in mind, we should go around to other primitive races and make friends with all the space thirdies. We can have badass pulp sci fi adventures like Flash Gordon, meanwhile all the faggots in the Galactic Federation are playing Star Trek (postTNG).
>>736234062>>736234062>all that seethe this comment producedNail on head.
>>736243162Making human women extinct would slingshot us forward 5000 years
>>736243448Where do I find these?
>>736240226Not that anon, but I love that story.I hate a lot of HFY because of how hard it sucks off humanity seemingly without merit, so I really like how the author just made the human huge and insane. Most HFY stories can only make humans seem exceptional by making all of the aliens worse, so it's nice to see so much attention put into the Fyrix culture as well.Definitely recommend
"""HFY""" is the gayest shit imaginable.
Speaking of HFY whatever happened to First Contact?
>>736244235>shit all over the floor>heh, lotta seething about the smell in here
>>736244730Fyrix were built for bullying
>>736244896>food analogy
>>736232658what is it called?>>736233843
>>736244896Don't give bait attention
>>736240226>>736244730Where do I fuck it
>>736238245That is also due to the extra oxygen.
>>736236621What if ayys were the ones that specialized instead and we were woefully primitive in comparison to them in that regard?
>>736245180In the bug hole
>>736240282We did, thats why the straight is shut down so we can manufacture famines for everyone around the globe.
>>736242171>wePost cloaca
unga bunga justice
>the bugfuckers are here
>>736240226Realistically how is a berserk human going to defeat an alien race that has the capability for space travel? You're telling me none of these bugs came up with the idea of a fucking gun? Even just a sharp stick? We're not armored. An innocuous cut to the thigh can sever an important artery and we're dead in like 3 minutes. The only way I see this working is that the aliens are so fucking scared of the human they don't think any of that will work so they don't try it.
>>736243736>>736244079>aliens try to colonize space america>burger music starts playing
>>736236382I'm going to sound like a christ cuck but I like the idea that "GOD MADE US IN HIS IMAGE" and think if you explored that in a sci fi setting it would be cool.Like aliens maybe faster or smarter or stronger but we have the universal creator on our side
>>736245949He's gets shot twice, tased, and has an artery sliced open throughout the course of the story if you're concerned about that.
>>736246253Ok, but what if the aliens were also made in their god's image? Are we going to get a sci-fi setting where every culture is a theocracy in perpetual war with its neighbors?
>>736245664that only affects americans doe
>>736245949You ever realized that, while that's technically true, you can also eat like 10 shots of 9 millimeter to the core, tank that shit from adrenaline and beat someone to death or stab them into the afterlife.If you are about 6 times bigger, 12 times stronger and assumedly about 40 times tougher than a smaller species which is used to smaller ballistics or the like, then you are automatically a major fucking threat. Space travel doesn't mean standard troops have fusion plasma guns either, it means they are capable but not likely to have that equipment or the highest standard grade due to basic logistics, distancing from production, economy, availability, cost of operation and gearing up, specific knowledge of maintenance, political influence, budgets which can be affected by all former mentioned things, etc etc.Wiping out an entire alien race, no, able to be a major fucking threat the same way a krokodil using rhino is in the middle of a playcare filled with Kolibris, yes.
>>736246357Sounds pretty cool. Various races waging war against each other in the names of their respective gods. Sounds a lot like ancient Greek mythology.
>>736246357Cook too but that's just 40k
>>736246408When you put it like that I guess it makes sense. Especially if most forms of life in the universe, or at least where these aliens travel, aren't comprised of human sized creatures. If you're used to travelling around your local galaxy interacting with other small aliens then there's no reason to think you'd need the equivalent of our rhino hunting guns on a simple patrol.
>>736246379It affects everyone because its not just oil thats getting cocked blocked as an export. Regardless, lots of countries in SE Asia have already started fuel rationing and energy lock downs as infrastructure got blown up as well in the ME. Can take up to 5 years to repair these things. The biggest issues are things for farming, like fertilizers and urea. The Ukrainian war pushed things to the limit, this Iran war pushed it over the limit.
>>736243736I like this idea.
>>736236382something that might actually be a rare trait is the human capacity to easily bond with non-humans. keeping livestock is one thing, but tons of people love their pets like family and that could be unique to us. humans as the beastmasters of the galaxy, maybe?
>>736232371The only response space niggers should ever recieve from ushttps://youtube.com/watch?v=dkdFvvsCOq4&pp=ygUTcHJvamVjdCBtb3JuaW5nc3Rhcg%3D%3D
>>736247004Most species would have had to use beasts of burden or dog equivalents to advance though. Otherwise you end up like Sub Sahara Africa or the Aztecs building grand pyramids but getting fucked by a bunch of sickly retards in metal armor. Fire, domestication of animals, tool usage, oral and written, language, cooking all essential.
>>736246717its ok at least you voted in a jew
>>736240706WRONG.
>>736245726This nigga watched too much Primal.
>>736247895Yes, have fun starving to death. At least in the USA we got all this shelf stable corn syrup to pad us over for awhile.
>>736245783Bugs are cute!
>>736232371It's hard to write and create another culture, let alone a whole other species. Writers are just people, they can't make miracles.
>>736247548What's the ideal uniform you'd wear when doing a space racism with the lads /v/?
love venlil
>>736243736>Aliens don season dey chicken
>>736248058cope
>>736248259For me it's the replica uniforms from FEAR, you have to look good when doing a space racism.
>>736248259Gotta go with the glowy eyes nazi trooper look
>>736248479I am, thank you very much. We are all going down together. But I recommend you stock up on things before its no longer available in the stores due to panic/hoarding or simply not available.
>>736248014I mean Spear fights several empires, dinosaurs, demons, humanoids and other prehistoric beasts and comes out on top.
>>736248634nothing is going to happenprint this post out and hang it up on the wall while you pray to israel
>>736248259For me its the UE
>>736248662I hope nothing really happens, but it will because infrastructure has already been blown up and people dont have replacement manufacturing set up elsewhere already. So its going to take awhile before things are back to where they are. I also find it interesting you keep calling me a jew/jew worshipper for some unknown reason. Probably its because youre brown and its all you can do at this point.
>>736248526Good choice, the ol' demoralization before the fighting even starts making the space niggers shitting themselves in anticipation about to be hammered by what looks like death itself.
>>736232371because humans are usually the last to join the universal community, so we're not as specialized at one thing in particular because we never had to be
>>736248453>Klorkip going against the spice police
>>736248259Tempestus Scions are the realest fuckers ever, everyone else is pretty damned good but the Tempestus are still personable while denoting a knightly like carapace and the like.
>>736232457I kinda view it this way, what little we do know about other potentially habitable planets is earth is high gravity but not high enough where we can't escape with rocket ships and we have seasons which would be rare from what we observed of other planets. I think if we are a master of anything we probably would be the Krogen of our universe.
>>736248980>unknown reasonlol
>>736248259Helghast have it down to a T
>space game>Aliens don't wear armor, space suits, or clothing at all You know not even the most bumfuck tribals in africa go around in the nude
>>736246408Also worth noting that the human went thru extensive body modifications to survive in space and combat training, so it's frail bugs against a space marine bear grylls suffering from insanity.God bless that clusterfuck of story.
>>736245949>Realistically how is a berserk human going to defeat an alien race that has the capability for space travel?The human isn't really planning to defeat them, he's just running away at first but then he aims to kill their leader, thinking that he's the God known as "The Defiler", nearly puts it off too. The alien's issue is the fact that they are massively underestimating the human (thinking he's just an animal at first), with this character here >>736244730 (effectively Captain Ahab as a bug) being among the first to understand that he's quite intelligent and nearly get him at one point.>You're telling me none of these bugs came up with the idea of a fucking gun?They have guns but not the one that can take out being that much bigger than them as a standard loadout. Think of it like trying to kill an elephant with 9mm. They do have more destructive weaponry like antimatter bombs, but those are only for war, not for hunting a massive alien escapee (plus the alien bugs have a massive ego and don't want the other aliens to know that they can't handle this).
It might be funny if instead of figuring out how aliens are different from us may how aliens would try to connect with us, like if they like humans and see us as kin>Bug species wants a arthopod enthostate, but they insist humans have a exoskeleton >>736236382Not better but different would be that humans are a symbiotic species,Mitochondria, gut microbiome, eyelash mites, ect, earth life might have literally evolved that way uniquly because theres no precedent and that is unique to our ancestry
>>736248157I wouldn't say it's necessarily hard, it's mostly just amplifying existing cultures on Earth. I think the real problem is is that it's just not interesting or worth the effort to write a truly 'alien' culture, unless it's in an extremely abstract sense in something like Solaris where being unintelligible is the point. Even if you put all the effort into a system where aliens communicate by rhythmically clenching their gas bladders and have completely different values and timeframes to their thought, it wouldn't be worthwhile because in a story people can't meaningfully connect with them.Even if I, as a writer, think up several unique emotions for an alien like the satisfaction of gaining elevation, it would be impossible to express that meaningfully to a reader in the long term, and even if you wanted to, it would take so much effort to explain that any entertainment value will have been thoroughly sucked out leaving only pointless hypothetical conjecture. There's some fun in that, but not for stories.
This is the thread
>>736236382Ummm ahh... adrenaline rushes or something... fuckkk we are so weak...
>>736232371>>736240226these are great, got any more story recs like them?
>>736235495>Best endurance Lol
>>736249742we're so weak because we traded it for high as fuck int, humans are the giga-wizards of the animal kingdom but that also means other equally intelligent aliens would be just as weak (in theory)
>>736249858As a species anon, we know you are a fat slob
