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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: jr2 on September 27, 2013, 07:27:43 pm
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http://www.likealaugh.org/laugh.php?laugh=20189
Thought it was amusing. True, too, humans are always portrayed as weenies next to the big bad aliens.
(http://cnt.likealaugh.org/120LongDong/20130905-050047-120-318.jpg)
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I have thought of this kind of concept too. I do like the idea of humans being big players in the universe and respected/feared by the other aliens.
Ever since I played Mutant League Football on the Sega Genesis. That game is American Football, but with humans, robots, skeletons, trolls and an alien race. Each race has a bunch of different lines they speak in situations like killing an opponent, scoring a touchdown, etc. And ever since one of the humans said "That was so easy! Us humans are the real monsters in this league!" I've had the idea in the back of my head, a sci fi universe with humans at the top or near the top of the tree. So this is very enjoyable to read for me. :)
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I have thought of this kind of concept too. I do like the idea of humans being big players in the universe and respected/feared by the other aliens.
Ever since I played Mutant League Football on the Sega Genesis. That game is American Football, but with humans, robots, skeletons, trolls and an alien race. Each race has a bunch of different lines they speak in situations like killing an opponent, scoring a touchdown, etc. And ever since one of the humans said "That was so easy! Us humans are the real monsters in this league!" I've had the idea in the back of my head, a sci fi universe with humans at the top or near the top of the tree. So this is very enjoyable to read for me. :)
They're trying to kickstart a new version of that game:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mendheim/mutant-football-league
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This looks similar to the idea that humans are awesome (http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=humans).
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Yeah, the "Humanity, **** yeah!" trope is kind of fun. Like a lot of things on the internet, I think people tend to go overboard with it and kind of wear it out. I like the idea of humans in a sci-fi setting having a mix of strengths and weaknesses when put up against other species, rather than just being the middle-of-the-road guys.
Or maybe we're the crazy warrior race, idk.
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we invented nukes
i dont think i need to say anything else.
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Yeah, the "Humanity, **** yeah!" trope is kind of fun. Like a lot of things on the internet, I think people tend to go overboard with it and kind of wear it out. I like the idea of humans in a sci-fi setting having a mix of strengths and weaknesses when put up against other species, rather than just being the middle-of-the-road guys.
Or maybe we're the crazy warrior race, idk.
Yeah, it of course makes sense to begin with the humans in the middle and then start building all the other races around them, but it could be fun to have humans at one of the extremes. Perhaps the largest, physically strongest species.
Sometimes there's a dominant race, imagine it's the humans, stronger, faster, smarter and larger than all the other races with the best ships! :cool: :pimp:
A lot of sentient aliens are like humans, as in bipedal, upright. Imagine a universe where humans are the weird ones, and most of the aliens instead of being bipedal are something else, like going around on all fours (or sixes!), or insects, or aquatic, with a few other types thrown in. Maybe humans are the only mammals, which makes us thoroughly weird to the rest of the universe. Imagine mammals are the most disgusting, phobia-inducing species to the rest of the universe! Which of course makes humans terrifying monsters that are the stuff of nightmares!
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The Veil of Madness (http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Mankind)
Always had a soft spot for this story/setting, but I had some trouble digging it up until just now. Good fun. Apparently the savants at /tg have built some manner of game setting around it.
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The Veil of Madness (http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Mankind)
Always had a soft spot for this story/setting, but I had some trouble digging it up until just now. Good fun. Apparently the savants at /tg have built some manner of game setting around it.
I really enjoyed reading that.
I don't know what /tg is.
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We feed our young a liquified portion of our own flesh.
sortakinda.
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They're trying to kickstart a new version of that game:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mendheim/mutant-football-league
Thanks for showing me that. Quite interesting. It doesn't look like it's going to make it though...
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If I recall correctly... Mass Effect made humans out to be rather awesome
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Humans:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HumansAreWarriors
Fear us.
(http://daily-steampunk.com/steampunk-blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/The-humans-are-coming.jpg)
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Water is the ultimate solvent. It dissolves everything, is highly reactive, corrosive and in a way is the strongest acid and alkaline at the same time. It's not strange that the alien from Alien had acid for blood, it's strange that we didn't!
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I actually have read a sci-fi where everyone else was terrified of humanity.
It was called "Mind Pool", and in it all the other alien races of the galaxy were absolute pacifists. Apparently this is the norm, and the fact that humans *gasp* kill other intelligent creatures makes us unique among the known intelligent species and terrifying beyond belief.
Despite this, humanity is in a peaceful alliance with the other species, and on the rare occasion a threat can't be talked down or neutralized and actually needs killing, well, guess who proves to be rather useful?
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I'm not deficient! I'm Superior!
Humans are SUPERIOR!
I think there was an episode in Old Man's War where the aliens where maybe a couple centimeters tops and the platoon was going around stomping them like Godzilla in their tiny cities.
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I think there was an episode in Old Man's War where the aliens where maybe a couple centimeters tops and the platoon was going around stomping them like Godzilla in their tiny cities.
Why were they doing that?
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Chapek 9
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I think there was an anecdote to that same effect somewhere in the Hitchhiker's Guide series.
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Yeah, the alien fleet got eaten by a dog.
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I think there was an episode in Old Man's War where the aliens where maybe a couple centimeters tops and the platoon was going around stomping them like Godzilla in their tiny cities.
Why were they doing that?
Because it was more efficient then using firearms.
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I think there was an episode in Old Man's War where the aliens where maybe a couple centimeters tops and the platoon was going around stomping them like Godzilla in their tiny cities.
Why were they doing that?
Because it was more efficient then using firearms.
That isn't what I meant. Why are they killing them?
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Because they were an alien colony on one of the few worlds capable of sustaining human life, and therefore they needed to be killed off so we could move in. That simple.
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Because they were an alien colony on one of the few worlds capable of sustaining human life, and therefore they needed to be killed off so we could move in. That simple.
There isn't room for us to live alongside such a tiny race? How much space would their whole civilisation take up?
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How big is "one whole civilization"? Seriously, how big? Objectively?
Humanity covers this entire planet. The only parts of it we don't inhabit are those that it is physically impossible for us to live in, and hey, that isn't stopping people from trying to change that!
Just as we humans were not content to stay in Africa, they would expand beyond the borders set for them. Just because their species was tiny doesn't mean they wouldn't use up the planet's entire surface given the chance and some time.
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How big is "one whole civilization"? Seriously, how big? Objectively?
Humanity covers this entire planet. The only parts of it we don't inhabit are those that it is physically impossible for us to live in, and hey, that isn't stopping people from trying to change that!
Just as we humans were not content to stay in Africa, they would expand beyond the borders set for them. Just because their species was tiny doesn't mean they wouldn't use up the planet's entire surface given the chance and some time.
Good point. Maybe some enormous aliens might show up here one day and crush us underfoot... :shaking:
It gives new meaning to "curb stomp battle". If it even was a battle, which I guess it wasn't if they're just being crushed like insects. If they were a threat you'd bomb them.
Poor things...
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Good point. Maybe some enormous aliens might show up here one day and crush us underfoot... :shaking:
"You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it."
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Because they were an alien colony on one of the few worlds capable of sustaining human life, and therefore they needed to be killed off so we could move in. That simple.
There isn't room for us to live alongside such a tiny race? How much space would their whole civilisation take up?
Why don't you go read the book, cos it actually explains those bits (And, for a full picture, read the others in the series too.
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Good point. Maybe some enormous aliens might show up here one day and crush us underfoot... :shaking:
"You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it."
Is that a quote from the book, or something else?
EDIT: I googled it.
Here's something similar:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMfRd0qxMSE#t=1m39s
Because they were an alien colony on one of the few worlds capable of sustaining human life, and therefore they needed to be killed off so we could move in. That simple.
There isn't room for us to live alongside such a tiny race? How much space would their whole civilisation take up?
Why don't you go read the book, cos it actually explains those bits (And, for a full picture, read the others in the series too.
I am starting to get intrigued about this book with the fact a few people here have read it.
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Old Man's War has more than one book cover available. Including this one:
(http://aidanmoher.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/old-mans-war-by-john-scalzi.jpeg)
Poor little aliens...
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Good point. Maybe some enormous aliens might show up here one day and crush us underfoot... :shaking:
"You exist because we allow it. And you will end because we demand it."
Quoting Sovereign for the win! Man the reapers are cool. And I've never played ME.