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>sci-fi game
>currency is Credits
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>sci-fi game
>every alien is a humanoid
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>Call money what it is
>NOOOOOOOOOOO YOU CANT DO THAT
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>>741552002
That's almost every fantasy game, futuristic or not.
>human
>human but green
>human but blue
>human but with horns/tail
>human but with wings
>human but with pointy ears
>human but with three massive dicks
>human but with animal head
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>sci-fi game
>the moon is called Luna
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>>741552141
>>human but with three massive dicks
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>sci-fi game
>aliens speak english
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>>741552141
Out There had non-humanoid aliens
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>sci-fi game
>white people still exist
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>>741551817
>Sci-fi game
>pshyc its a fantasy gamw
>PSHYC its sci-fi game
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>>741552097
Then just call it money.
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>>741551817
Yes you're right there should be 7 different currencies with exchange rates that operate with a time delay between markets because of space travel time. Individual traders should do business in limited quantities of the 7 currencies they may or may not own, and should only take payment based on the sentiments of other traders who may have strong feelings or sanctions on the use of said currencies at their planned point of future goods exchange. This is definitely better in every way possible than using a centralized currency backed by a single powerful government entity that uses a generic but universally recognized name. Faggot.
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>>741551817
>porn game
>currency is cum
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>>741551817
you're criticizing a game for not being original while posting a thread that has been posted here dozens of times
don't you feel like that's a little hypocritical?
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>>741553113
It's not money in the traditional, but the colloquial sense. It's literally credits and that is what it is called.
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>>741552141
No way around it, Mr intelligence. If they are actual alien, no one will be able to relate. That why avatar has huge cat people in blue.
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>>741552141
people want this
I don't remember what dev was it, but some studio made test studies with alternative player character, but it was always unpopular. Most people don't want to play some undefined creature. It's like that BG3 meme were everyone played some white hero dude.

At the bare minimum they want something anthropomorphic because your brain always tries to find a face in any living thing.
Even animals do this, it's how predators try to target weak spots or just get a sense of your mood/behavior like Gorilla's don't like being looked at.
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>It's the distant future
>Money still exists
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>>741551817
>Futuristic realistic sci-fi game
>Currency is Euros
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>quirky indie RPG
>currency is rats
>have to kill gold coins to get five of them
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>>741552141
Those are based tho
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>>741551817
Not fictitious enough for you?
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>>741553460
Name 3 games.
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>>741552141
Come up with an original alien design right now that isn't a human with accessories, a variation or combination of real earth animals, a sentient inanimate object (rock creature, fire creature, energy creature etc), a robot/AI, or just some mass of tentacles or whatever
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>>741552185
>What if I made a slight change
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>>741553934
>it's the distant future
>humanity still exists
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>>741555679
sentient plant :^)
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>>741555679
>create a design that doesn't look like anything
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>>741551817
What would you rather call it? Shekels?
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>>741552002
Name one sci-fi game where every alien is humanoid.
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>sci-fi game
>currency is doubloons
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>>741552002
>>741552141
This one suspects that most scifi games feature non-humanoid alien races.
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>>741551817
if this is the kind of thing you care about you're genuinely retarded. remember when this board used to prioritise gameplay? me neither.
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>>741555679
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>>741551817
>be stellaris
>energy was used as actual currency in the past
>hence "energy credits"
>>>>>>introduce "trade" to be used as new currency
>fleet logistics, market, planetay deficits etc. all require trade or use it for upkeep
>but events with NPCs still require you to pay using energy credits instead of trade
Now for nomads they fused energy credits with minerals as some sort of operational reserves just because.
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>Sci-fi
>Actually it's just space opera or science fantasy
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>>741552141
>human with three massive dicks
game?
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>>741551817
>complains about overused thing
>by overusing the same thread template more times than the thing in question has been repeated
third world behavior
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>>741551817
>scifi game
>currency is called niggerbucks
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>>741551817
i prefer there to be local currencies but also an intergalactic reserve currency called "credits" that are accepted everywhere. star wars, witcher 3 and new vegas all do this
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>>741558738
Like, I used to build a bunch of voltaic production yards, dyson swarms and dyson spheres to gather all that sweet energy.
Then I'd go to the market and use that energy as credits to trade for minerals, alloys, consumer goods etc. basically any other resource.
Now you need to use "trade" to trade for resources on the market.
So instead of trading energy credits for minerals you now trade energy credits for trade then trade that trade for minerals.
Do you guys get how retarded it sounds?
The developers haven't even figured out how to explain the concept of trade as a resource.
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>>741552002
God I fucking hate HSR so much for this.
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>>741552141
why wouldn't aliens be similar to us?

life is really hard to replicate, it would make sense that it would've happened in similar planets with similar conditions
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I like my xenos kinda freaky.
Make me less reluctant of being genodical against them if they're abominations.
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>>741558974
For aliens to resemble us closely it would mean that their evolutionary history would have to be nigh identical to ours which is very unlikely given how our bodyoplan is a result of a long chain of path dependencies that began from the moment our first ancestors emerged from the primordial soup. Given how wide range of bodyplans have emerged just on this planet alone from a set of very simple first pathways such as bilateralism, it is highly unlikely that aliens that emerged on a wholly different world with different environmental conditions and history would end up with the same bodyplan as ours.

Some resemblances to earth life would no doubt exist that stem just from physics and the limitations those laws of reality place on what works and what is optimal (for example it is very likely that alien fish would have overall simialr bodyshape to earth fish, as in a teardrop shape, if they live in water just due to hydrodynamics) but I very much doubt that we'd find nigh identical lifeforms to those we find on earth on alien worlds, let alone other humanoid sapient aliens given how our own humanoid bodyplan clearly isn't some requirement for high intelligence or tool use as we see those traits even on this planet on non humanoid bodyplans.
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>>741553364
This but unironically
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>>741558516
Which ip?
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>>741558516
that's just a body builder with fused limbs and really long toes
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>Scifi game
>Currency is gold
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>sci-fi game
>currency is paperclips
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>>741551817
>Get to the end of the game
>Credits begin rolling
>I am now rich
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>>741551817
It's predictive programming.
Like how the "AI" shills have been using every single solitary widely held sci-fantasy belief about AI to market themselves and even wrote their over engineered chatbots to react like those AI fantasy creatures...with a little psychology added in to hook midwits and imbeciles better.
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>sci-fi game
>all the planets have the same gravity humans are used to
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>>741551817
>aliens talk between each other
>speak fluent english
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>>741556824
Neo-shekels
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>>741551817
The real problem with sci-fi is that for some reason the government always sucks. It should be a federal parliamentary republic, with executive federalism, two chambers of the parliament, each state copies the federal governance model exactly, except that it has one chamber in the state parliament, plus there should be a unified court hierarchy, as opposed to having two parallel judiciaries (one for the state, one for the federation). That's how it all should be, everything else sucks.
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>>741552141
This. Fuck the pathetic masses that need to relate to everything in the game/whatever.
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>>741559898
>the problem with sci-fi is that it's realistic
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>scifi game
>the universe has only three sentient species
>all the other animals are cobbled together from a very limited selection of lego pieces
>once you've seen a few planets you know what to expect on all the rest
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>>741555679
Can't draw worth shit, but a waveform that exists in the permutations of radiation from stars. Their lifespan is in the billions of years and they are completely inconsequential and inconsiderate of basic human species.
I don't mean an energy being in the Q sense. They literally have no interaction with alien species based on matter.
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>>741559898
Wrong. Feudalism is the future.
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>>741559319
To be fair, humans are in their infancy in the grand scheme of things. We've only existed for about 300,000 years, which is nothing as far as the universe is concerned. Even by Earth's standards that's a mere fraction of its life. We're still not done evolving and likely never will be, and should we ever start expanding beyond Earth it's going to complicate things further.
Not to suggest we are the apex species of the universe, but if extraterrestrial life determines that a humanoid, bipedal form is optimal, it wouldn't be out of the question for them to build space stations and facilities that replicate Earth-like conditions and environments to live in and evolve to, or even terraforming their home planet(s) to replicate it.

That's just me theorizing though. Earth is fucking weird.
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>>741560017
Universe?
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>>741556375
Plants are already sentient. Grass scream when you cut it. As do trees.
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>>741560250
We will never expand, as a biological species, from earth. We are as much a stepping stone to the next species as are ape ancestors are to us.
With FTL being impossible and biological systems requiring you bring an entire living biosphere with you to survive, there's no chance humanity gets to explore the galaxy. The best we can hope for is brain uploading, but the more likely result is self replicating machines and that will be our legacy. Machines won't care about taking 10,000 years to get to the next star.
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>>741558516
that's a man
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>>741559859
>aliens speak english
>humans don't
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>Sci-fi game
>Never touches the actual subjects of the genre
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>>741560519
What does a tree do if I have sex with it
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>>741551817
>fantasy game
>you can find foreign currency randomly as loot
>you have to exchange it at a bank npc to get cash you can use
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>cultivation game
>currency is spirit stones
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>post apocalyptic game
>currency exists
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>post human game
>the world is healing
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>>741559569
The movie Arrival
They never show them fully though
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>>741551817
I hate this meme becauae normies had black square profile pics for george floyd while also openly mocking the disabled without outright calling them retarded.
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>>741556932
Starwars
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>sci-fi
>Robots/AI are evil
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>>741552002
Get fucked faggot, being human makes the most sense
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>Sci-fi villian funds a high tech project to stop the good guys
>Calls the project Icarus
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>>741561506
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>>741551817
>Can grind for credits at the start of the game doing repetitive jobs
>Credits are only useful during the intro before the AI goes haywire and the robots start trying to kill everyone
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>>741551817
>>741552097
Credits made sense in settings where money was a scrip you were getting from a megacorporation. Which is why it's called credits in most sci-fi and cyberpunk games. Outside of that, it makes no sense and is done to abstract from having to give currency a name. Cyberpunk the tabletop game uses Credits to keep from having to explain what the Eurodollar is, and to explain that what you're getting is useless without the backing of a major corporation.
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>>741561395
>mocking the disabled
you think 4chan cares? most people here are shitty human beings faking a disability for neetbux
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>>741552141
Because the control would have to be inhuman for a "alien" to make sense.
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>>741552002
Since you people are such experts on alien physiology
What form would be more ideal than a humanoid? Because humans are peak of evolution, nimble, dexterous, sturdy, intelligent, inventive etc. There's a reason that humans reign over every other species, and it's not just about intelligence, but the build. If you gave a velociraptor a human brain, its build would still be suboptimal for tasks that require finesse.

If your build is that of an elephant, even if you had the biggest brain and enough strength to lift a vehicle, you'll just be slow and cumbersome. If you're a small rodent type, there's only so much real estate for a brain and you'd lack in strength to operate tools and equipment.
Some jellyfish or amorphous blob type aliens wouldn't have the mass to do anything.

If your species is capable of spacefaring, you'll absolutely have evolved into some sort of a humanoid, otherwise you'd just be some quadrapedal wild animal that just eats, shits and sleeps in their personal ecosystem on a distant planet.
Fundemental forces of the universe are all in favour of humanoid builds.
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>>741552002
>>741552141
>sci-fi game
>there are no aliens, just humans
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>>741559447
Thats probably in hypernet explorer
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>>741560664
it does not understand, nor does it care for your man-made constructs like language or humping your humanoid organs on their bark or sapwood
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>>741561985
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>>741555679
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>>741559859
>with a thick scottish accent
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>>741553460
>Gatcha troon
>Reatrded
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we call them creds
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>>741561985
>Retard can't read the whole thread before posting his mindless dribble
This shit has already been addressed here, lil gup.
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>>741562317
This is pretty much all of the above
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>>741562306
Amorphous blob that does not have strength to do anything except move around.
Its capability of turning into anything and have equal or greater strength than the subject it turns into is complete fiction. Conservation of mass, if it turns into something bigger than what its regular, smaller blob shape is, its structure will be incredibly rigid and weak.
How do you think it moves around? How do you think it keeps its shape? If it's made out of liquid or something closer to that, where does the entity conjure up strength to move whatever it consists of?

You people are completely ignorant of the "science" part in sci-fi
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>>741555679
A race of these guys would be fun
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>>741562665
quote me the posts that "address" what I said
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>>741562683
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>>741562317
>ezy ass to mouth
Oh no!
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>>741562703
Trying too hard to base fantasy creatures on actual science leads to boring uninteresting designs. There must be a balance between the fantastical and the realistic for a design to be unique/interesting.
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>>741552185
"Luna" and "Sol" are such lazy naming conventions. They should be called Artemis and Apollo, but modern nasiggers have no soul
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>>741562897
Science-fiction is at its best when the systems within seem believable
just making shit up and not grounding it to reality in any way is how you make it ridiculous and not fun nor entertaining
if you don't want to take your sci-fi seriously, then present it as ridiculous from the get go, so that people are aware that there's no "science" in your "fiction"
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>Silicon life form
Cringe and uninspiring
>Boron life form
Based und highly explosive
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>sci fi game
>currency exists and they havent figured out a post-scarcity society yet
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>>741563395
Actually it's more entertaining when a design is imaginative with a couple of aspects in the design that make sense scientifically. Needing every aspect to make sense with science kills things completely. Imagine star wars without repulsorlift vehicles because "repulsorlift doesn't make sense scientifically"
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>>741552141
Do it more I say.
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>>741563395
>Hard scifi
Yaaaaaaaaawwwwwnnnnnn
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>>741552002
>>741552141
>alien from another planet
>everyone look the same, same culture and language in the entire planet
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>>741558516
achievable natty?
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>sci-fi game
>no Ray guns that instantly kill the target
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>>741563617
It doesn't have to make sense in EVERY aspect, just make it BELIEVABLE
"if you take this atom and put it into that one... that might work"
"i need to move this regulator and put it next to the polascivator"
"what do you mean, all I did was integrate the artificial intelligence system with the internal logic unit"
These are quotes from few movies that are written exactly by someone who doesn't understand computers nor science and even to the viewer they sound stupid
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>>741562629
unlike you I didn't even know its gacha, just picked an image from a booru, retard
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>>741559569
Quake 1
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>>741559247
>t.
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>>741552002
aliens should be more crab like
multiple legs for mobility, large pincers for manipulation, strong shell for protection, compact and wide design to sustain high gravity by distribuiting weight in an uniform manner
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>>741567995

And max evade with mad strafing skillz
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>>741551817
>>741552002
>>741552141
Midwit thread
Originality for the sake of originality never works as intended
That's how you get quirky chungus peepeepoopoo-core games nobody gives a shit about
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>>741564543
>It doesn't have to make sense in EVERY aspect, just make it BELIEVABLE
Exactly what I said, the believability changes depending on the person, and achieving maximum novelty/believability is a balance
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>>741553630
Star Control II did it well.
Just because you lack an imagination doesn't mean everyone does.
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>you find old currency in crypts
>have to exchange it for modern currency in a bank
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>>741563395
>Retarded Hard sci-fi ultimatum
K. I'll keep reading out of this world and believable sci-fi stories, while you bitch and moan like a faggot and continue holding back the entire genre from interesting concepts
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>>741561281
>Weird torso with a human-alien hand
>non-humans
Ok
>>741558516
>>741565635
Would a game with these as protag work?
>>741562317
OK? Alium?
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>>741567995
yeah I liked PHM too
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>>741563395
>grounding it to reality
Have I ever...!?
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>>741552141
The humanoidization of space is just the crabbification of our ocean
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>>741564808
>I actually didn't know it's a crime before I committed
>I got it on the gatcha website
>Anime girls are not gacha
Ok triple retard.
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>>741552368
>Sci-fi story
>Jews still exists
>They want to create a new Israel.
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>>741561985
>implying dinosaur like aliens HAVE to have non dexterous hands
>implying elephant like aliens HAVE to be giant when small elephants literally fucking existed in history
>implying small aliens can't be intelligent when crows are as intelligent as chimpanzees
>implying that a jellyfish or blob alien wouldn’t be on a world with low gravity in the first place
> Fundemental forces of the universe are all in favour of humanoid builds
your hubris disgusts me, especially when our own worlds gravity is just BARELY within the limit that permits the development of space travel technology.
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>>741570287
what the fuck is phm
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>sci-fi game with many different alien cultures
>they all magically agree on a centralized currency
:^)
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>>741551817
>sci-fi
>faster than light travel
just call it fantasy
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>>741571184
wait till you learn what the "fiction" part in science fiction means
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>>741571037
Pretty kitty
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>>741560664
enjoys the smell like when you go outside to smell the flowers.
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>sci fi game
>can't drive a flying car into space with my robot buddy
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>sci-fi game
>currency is credits
>but also metal coins the old mega corps made
>and a paper fiat currency
>and some dodgy eastern euro bills
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>>741555679
Just make it a sentient fundamental law of reality or an idea parasite or some shit.
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>>741552002
>he doesn't know all life was seeded by "the ancient ones" with a humanoid life form
in fact we should call it the "ancientoid" life form, not humanoid
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>>741555679
>original alien design
I guarantee you anything vaguely realistic was already thought of
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>>741571062
All kneel before the Petrodollar
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>>741562731
you know this guy originally was half snake half humanoid, right
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>>741555679
A semi buoyant filter feeder that lives in a gas giant. Its essentially 6 continent sized "walls" that migrate up and down in the cloud column on a seasonal basis.
Inspired by the hexagon "storm" on saturn.
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>>741555679
I had an idea for a colony organism that was able to make extremely fine manipulations at extremely small (microscopic scales), and as the colony grew in size they would grow in memory and develop personality. They were borderline immortal in the sense that each colony shared memory, but if a significant chunk of the colony were destroyed they'd lose those memories and suffer a personality change.
But part of their development was to infest fungus and pilot it so that it can effect work on a macro scale, so they ended up kinda humanoid anyway.
I called them dwarves, It was my donut steele concept for a dwarf race, it'd solve for:
- an almost religious predilection for industry, because metals are too hard for the microorganism to manipulate without tools
- a clannish organization of family/clan/civilization
- very low population growth
- adaptation and preference for subterranean environments
- hardy and resilient, a 'dwarf' who suffered even catastrophic injury could be recovered and reconstituted, albeit with a change in personality
- alien foods and nutrition requirements: the fungus could carry nutrient-dense bricks of 'bread' for long-term sustenance, and spends one day every week soaking in alcohol for its high caloric content
- "hair"/"beards" are the colony's external manipulators and substitute for all non-metal tool use
- extremely finely-detailed artworks, microscopic in scale
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>>741552141
>alien is humanoid
>until he's suddenly really fucking not
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Endless space is by far my favorite sci-fi setting. Really good 4x gameplay too.
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>>741552141
Unfortunately that's kind of how our brains work. If it doesn't look like a human or an animal somewhat it pretty hard to take seriously, especially if it's meant to be threatening. Our brains just aren't wired to see floating flesh sacs or worms as too threatening unless they have human characteristics which is usually what you want to make an audience think when they come across an alien. Probably something do to with evolving against other human species
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>>741573063
For some reason I can never get past the early mid game.
I just end up feeling like nothing I do matters. All the techs just sort of blend together and I don't really understand how pop management works.
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>>741572820
>original
that's like babby's first spec bio idea
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>>741573063
>4X
Boredom the genre
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>>741573361
Our brain works like that according to what exactly? You make it seem like it is some biological fact.
>worm no scary if not human face
Right, that's why the dune worm has a human face. Else it wouldn't be threatening.
>>741573525
Micro kills it. I dislike stressful games. Darks souls 2 isn't stressful most of the time, as its slow and on rails. Instead of rolling you can just dodge walk away.
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>>741573408
early mid game is all about balancing your empire, a non-sense bit of advice so I will explain it with an example.
>playing X faction
>scout ship probes an advanced armor tech
>requires adamantium but gives crazy stats
>grab the tech that lets me get extra resources from deposits
>stock up on adamantium
>go grab some dust techs to support my military
>pump out an invasion fleet using the better armor I found 10 turns ago
>steamroll my neighbor and take their systems
>use that to catapult my empire ahead of everyone else
Its all risk vs reward and using techs to gain an advantage in one area to offset ignoring something else.

Also population management doesn't really matter lol.
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>>741573063
>>741573408
For me I just didn't like the semi-simulated combat. I hated the card mechanic and the odds felt like xcom, a fight 80% in my favor would end with me losing 50% of my ships.
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>>741553730
I want to be a human wizard, and I want my companions to be strange creature ladies.
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>>741563814
>>everyone look the same, same culture and language (English) in the entire planet
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>>741555679
>attempts to think up a new alien design
>realizes I just reinvented a sergal
>attempts to think up some other new alien design
>gets shot and dies
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I don't get how hardcore xenofags find it hard to understand that no sapient race with an advanced society is going to be some species of telepathic octopuses or 100 foot tall crabs or some eldritch abomination that speaks in tongues.
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>>741574165
>I hated the card mechanic and the odds felt like xcom, a fight 80% in my favor would end with me losing 50% of my ships.
Rolling with a bad combat strategy can lead to wipes even when you're projected to win. Same is true in the opposite way. When you finally learn how it works its pretty fun.
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>>741574458
I don't get how alienfuckers don't understand that we don't know enough about evolution in different planet's ecosystems to definitively say what aliens will look like in any capacity. The idiots always saying humanoids are actually just straight ignorant.
In fiction, do whatever you want. Hot alien babes are a good enough reason to have humanoid aliens as any other. But if you're talking about what is actually possible/probable you're just being intentionally retarded by going the the humanoid supremacist route.
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>>741558974
>>741559319
This is a really good talk about this topic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuRllHHu7No
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It really comes down to whether people care about science in science fiction, or if they just want fantasy with a chrome coat of paint.
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>>741575454
This.
Its truly eye opening to see the reactions to people who try reading Project Hail Mary after watching the movie and bouncing hard off the actual science parts of the book. Which I thought was the best part.
And now I see why some of my favourite SF books get such bad reviews. People really don't like the actual science part. Seveneves is fucking fantastic but about half of it is an orbital mechanics lecture
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>>741574738
Its science-fiction, ergo rooted in some degree of plausible science. There are no species right now that have our physiology and combination of attributes and intelligence. Cetaceans might be smart but they don't have hands, can't make fire. Octopus the same deal. Crows and ravens same thing. Nobody is stopping your level of delusion but its not going to leave a mark in history and will be laughed at across the board. Or to use an obvious example, theres a reason people will always remember the xenomorph something that still had a humanoid figure from hands to legs, over the elcor from Mass Effect.
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>>741574458
all you really need to be a technologically advanced race is sensory receptors to learn about your how the universe works, a brain to actually retain information, some way of passing information between generations, and some way to manipulate your environment precisely and use tools (fingers or something equivalent or better)
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>>741562317
would
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>>741575659
for me, it's Greg Egan. Some of the stories are basically dressing for esoteric physics he invents for his stories.
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>>741556824
Icelandic Kroner
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>>741551817
>sci-fi game
>you gain brouzouf
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Commonalities with intelligent aliens would probably be
>bilateral
Its just too efficient of a body plan.
>carbon based
Carbon is both extremely common and the most ideal element for complex biological systems vs something like silicon.
>high water content
Water is common, its also the best solvent for biological processes.
>omnivore or carnivore
The protein and energy requirement for intelligence would be very difficult to evolve off a herbivore diet.
>manipulating limbs
Tool use is obvious.
>communal societies
You would need knowledge to be passed between generations along with the advantages of combined work.
>long lived
As with octopuses you need to live long enough to make use of your intelligence.
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>>741552226
>three dicks
>he does a double take four times
ONE JOB
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>>741576434
ammonia has almost the same properties as water (strong hydrogen bonds, solvent for chemical reactions). It is perfectly feasible for life to exist that evolved to use ammonia instead of water, and planets exist with ammonia oceans.
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X4 has cute little fish people that live in tanks.
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>>741577136
Pure ammonia has too low of a boiling point though? Unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean by ammonia here.
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>>741572935
Based Oban Star Racers, that was a good show.
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>>741577517
NTA
But if you're fully ammonia based chemistry then you're probably in an environment where it remains liquid all/most of the time. Your whole ecosystem will be sub -33C. Which really isn't all that cold.
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>>741577517
define low. Boiling point is not a fixed thing, it depends on pressure. And the planet could just be at a different pressure and temperature to accommodate different chemical reactions.
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>sci-fi game
>you have to humor the "less advanced" races
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>>741563298
>they should stop using latin and use greek!
you are the problem
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>>741577719
>>741577838
Are there ammonia based life form models? Naturally our knowledge of how life works is based on earth but I do not know if the chemistry required for life would be possible under the conditions necessary for ammonia to act as a proper solvent. The lowered temperature would be the biggest hindrance so it would probably have to be an organism that lives under a lot of pressure.
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>>741575768
>one of the most iconic horror monsters
>from the 80s, an era when its medium defined the shared consciousness of society
versus
>an inconsequential side species, completely irrelevant to the franchise they are found in
>in a medium that is still treated as for children (and man-children)
>in a genre that even large swaths of its target demographic will never play
>in an era where the social consciousness is completely fractured and balkanized by social media
gosh I wonder why the elcor aren't remembered like xenomorphs???? could it be these things are completely incomparable???????????????
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>>741552185
Thats always funny because thats just spanish lmao
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>>741574458
Watch this
>>741575365


Humanoid aliens are a laughable concept outside of pulp scifi/science fantasy. Any actually serious attempt at depicting an alien race would have to at least try to model their evolution and when we take into account the way we ended up with the bodyplan we have, for an alien species to converge with the same bodyplan, they would have to have undergone basically the exact same chain of events in their evolutionary history as our ancestors did.

Even a cursory knowledge of biology and evolution reveals how luridicilous of a notion such convegence is. Our bodyplan is a result of hundreds of millions of years of evolution that led us to this point, it merely enabled our intelligence and civilization building capabilities to develop very recently. We can see other animals on this planet that do not share our bodyplan also showcase high intelligence and tool use thus clearly those abilities are not inherently tied to this specific bodyplan we have. Our species merely developed those traits to the furthest out of the other species on this planet that share those traits.
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>>741563298
>Selene and Helios
Fixed
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>>741579389
Well, at least pulp tends to go crazy on designs
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>>741580061
True, there is nothing wrong with pulp scifi. I personally love cute alien catgirls for example. I however don't try to pretend that such depictions of aliens would be in any way realistic.
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>>741580287
I really like the worms from >>741577948
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>nooooo!!!!
>you can't just make something that the overwhelming majority of people are gonna enjoy!!!
>you have to reinvent the wheel and change things just for the sake of changing them because that makes it better automatically
>also pander exclusively to the handful of people like me who want things that are grotesque and unappealing
Hmm, why does this logic sound so familiar? Is there some other exceptionally small group of mentally unwell people who demand that that the world be remade in their image? Nah, must be my imagination.
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>>741580662
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>>741555370
Aisha Sex-Sex
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>>741580662
Nice things are nice
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>money that people living in Europe spend
>"Euros"
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>>741580662
Nothing wrong with some innovation here and there, nta btw
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>>741555679
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>>741582262
Ah, solinds. Great.
>got one solinds
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>>741580662
>NOOOO YOU HAVE TO PANDER TO THE BRAIN DEAD MASSES
>EVERYTHING MUST BE THE SAME
Waste of space normalfag scum kill yourself asap
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>>741583434
Can he wait for like after the world championship finals? I mean it's soccer in the us and the team doesn't play abysmal.
>>741580662
Did what I could for you, fag.
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>>741559447
No, retard
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>>741552368
Non-white people love white people. They bleach their skin white, dye their hair blonde, etc. Everyone's going to turn themselves white when we have genetic engineering.
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>>741561783
>Credits made sense in settings where money was a scrip you were getting from a megacorporation
Thats not whst credit means
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>>741585315
its a play on the term store credit
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>>741561783
Fool doesn't realize that money isn't issued by the state, but by private companies.
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>>741587362
No, its credit as in credits a bank issues whenever a loan is taken out
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>>741552141
>human but with animal head
Based. Animal feet are weird.
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>do some shit of value
>"how we gonna name this arbitrary unit of value that means you have credit for something valuable"
>"uhhhhh 'zeebls'?
>"GENIUS"
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>>741553730
So what
Leave in the normal options for the normalfags and put in variety picks for people who want something interesting.
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>earth is a homogenised liberal utopia called the "United Earth Empire"
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>fantasy game
>but actually the first game in the series is the last one chronologically
>and its not fantasy its actually sci fi and you discover the ruins of the past like skycrapers and towns totally abandoned and in ruins
>fantasy monsters are actually aliens that are trying to terraform the earth for them
>its why the current know world is called eden, it was the safe place from the monsters (aliens)
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>>741551817
Mons.
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>Single player game
>setting is an mmorpg

>mmorpg
>Setting is a single player game

Japanese are so weird lads
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>>741588858
>liberal utopia
>empire
nah, they'd call it something else, like united earth federation, nations of earth coallition, earth union, or terran alliance
empire is a word that is too fascist for liberals
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>Fantasy game
>Currency is gold
>Everything ripped straight from Tolkien from the races to the main antag and everything in between
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>>741551817
Secret of Evermore comes to mind.
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>>741589880
>Rip everything
>It's still shit
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>Sci-Fi game
>Over half the features are a placeholder and clearly one step away from having depth
>even the default camera view has no hands
>The flagship "engoodening" feature of basic multiplayer is one of the most comedically broken pieces of shit ever made with gamebreaking bugs every 5 seconds
>The public consensus is that it's literally the best game ever made and is also perfect with zero flaws, you entitled manchild

I really do feel fucking insane whenever I try the latest build of Sean's game. Like I don't understand reality anymore and am no longer a human.
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>post apocalipse game
>currency is just metals

finally some good fucking food
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>>741590128
The newest expedition is so bad it blows my mind.
It's basically shining a giant spotlight on the absolute worst aspects of the game and it's just nuking their reputation.
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>2000s alternate reality game
>Currency is printer ink cartridges
>Printing without a loicense is a crime equivalent to burning money
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>>741589981
You fuckin' liar, no one thinks of secret of evermore.
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>>741561985
These guys seem to work pretty well.



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