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Offline Hades

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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
The Lucifer doesn't look like a mosquito, but whatever.
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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
Looks more like a lobster.

 

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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
Its a lobster-dog!
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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
I do say that I liked the FS1 Shivan design much more than FS2's.

 

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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
I always wonder what that strange structure on the Lucifer's front-bottom is (to be seen in the FS1 Intro when it exists subspace). Looks like the cinematic model had some additional details modeled (but yeah, the Luci looks really threatening).
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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
Shivan ships are simply abominalized animals made into robots.

Wat.
That's just wrong.
Please tell me what animal the SF Scorpion, SF Dragon, and SB Nephilim are?

Ok, sure, the FS2 guys got lazy, but the FS1 shivans be Freakish Mechanical Horrors not le space bug.

Except the SSD Mosquito. :P

I have a pertinent question: what the **** does abominalized mean?
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Offline z64555

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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
Shivan ships are simply abominalized animals made into robots.

Wat.
That's just wrong.
Please tell me what animal the SF Scorpion, SF Dragon, and SB Nephilim are?

Ok, sure, the FS2 guys got lazy, but the FS1 shivans be Freakish Mechanical Horrors not le space bug.

Except the SSD Mosquito. :P

I have a pertinent question: what the **** does abominalized mean?

Made into a grotesque rendition or interpretation of some artist's dream/nightmare.

a.k.a. made to a point where you say "what the **** is that!??"
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
It's a made-up word used only in porn.

 

Offline kisumu

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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
I always wonder what that strange structure on the Lucifer's front-bottom is...

Mate, at first glance this looked proper wrong!

 

Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
It's a made-up word used only in porn.

I find your response most educational and probably most correct too, sir. Thank you for enlightening me.
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
It's a made-up word used only in porn.

I find your response most educational and probably most correct too, sir. Thank you for enlightening me.

When I google the word the only sentence in the entire UNIVERSE (read - internet) that seems to come up is "Sexy freshman Crista gets [her anatomy] Abominalized!"

Going from context is possible that the Abominator in question is

a) a large black man
b) a Culture ROU

given the physical descriptions of Culture ROUs I cannot rule out either possibility

 

Offline T-LoW

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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
I always wonder what that strange structure on the Lucifer's front-bottom is...

Mate, at first glance this looked proper wrong!

Now where you say it... :lol:
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Offline Liberator

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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
Well, as I think about this topic a bit more, the "Hammerhead" from Battle Beyond the Stars is kinda scary.  And there are NO good pics of it, I looked.   :sigh:
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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
Yeah, it honestly just looks like a mess of random spikes everywhere. Not very visually intimidating nor aesthetically pleasing.

I am not arguing that I'm correct here, but stating my opinion on why such a ship is scary.
I think it lacks the spookiness/creepiness of Nightmare vessels, but to me it obviously looks extremely devilish and sadistic. Yes, it's a "mess of random spikes everywhere", which forms a monster of a ship. The mere look of it doesn't send a chill on your spine, instead it'll pierce your throat.

Also, for my comment on Shivan ships being "abominalized creatures", means that they look like monster versions of living creatures.

Of course not all Shivan ships look like creatures, but they are simply too weird that they don't look frightening any longer.

For those who look like animals, let me give some examples.

The Sathanas looks like a four-clawed beetle. Notice its underside; it looks like it has a "covering", and legs underneath.
The Lucifer looks like a lobster.
The Astaroth looks like a bat.

Etc.

Hell there's been a thread about this already.
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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
For those who look like animals, let me give some examples.

Does anyone look like an animal in the HLP community?

...except Mongoose?
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Offline Darius

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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
#DECA CPU ship in X3:TC looks like a freakin' humungous mouth that will swallow you whole.


 

Offline T-LoW

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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
And we all know where their idea came from:




Also freaked me out as a kid.
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
i ****ing love waffle cones

(the X3 one is pretty badass however)

 

Offline Kolgena

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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
That looks like the end of a heighliner.

 

Offline Trivial Psychic

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Re: Scariest-looking ship ever?
I think that one of the design elements that lends itself well to scary-looking ships is uncertainty for the viewer... that is, not being able to tell which is the front or back, engine or uber-main gun.  Vessels that can radically change their configuration or appearance can also evoke apprehension.
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