stupid shit you love thread? i love it when humans are portrayed

>>53154361
This dose amuse me.
I like the a lot of HFY tropes
>Humans innovate far faster than any sane race
> Our idea of safety methods and experimental procedure terrify our peers.

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another thing:
magic arms
the edgy amputee kind
did a campaign with an half orc berserker with a possessed demon arm, ended up as not!Asura

>>53154450
i mean
we host world famous competitions where we hold on to dear life to 320km/h deathtraps with only a thin layer of cowhide protecting our skin, one of the most renown ones involves racing at breakneck speed through an ancient island village, mere centimeters from the spectators and certain death
for fun
and bragging rights

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>>53154361
Steampunk.

Not just any steampunk, but cogfop, tophats and goggles steampunk. Flying machines, mechanical steeds and power armor and all that.

However I do draw the line at the whole steampunk fashion culture bullshit that plagues our world today. Also I am generally not a fan of existing settings steampunked, like star wars or some bullshit.

I know it's stupid, but I love it.

>>53154530
i don't like the
>GEARS! MORE GEARS, GEARS EVERYWHERE
kinda steampunk, but i find the "gloriously overcomplicated solutions to stupid problems" one to be extremely charming

One particular cliche I love in fantasy is gods that gain power through worship, particularly when they're just powerful beings who tricked lesser beings into worshiping them by calling themselves gods.

Either that, or fantasy without active gods (neither past nor present) and with no proof of an afterlife at all.

>>53154530
I wish I loved it. I find 80% of steampunk intolerable for most of those reasons.

why is everyone in sci-fi atheist?
i wanna see some some deus vulting outside 40k

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>>53154361
Really pulpy post-apocalyptic stuff:

Mutants, cyborgs, raiders, robots, tall, statuesque, women in scrap-metal bikinis who refer to men as 'man-animals', the whole nine yards.

Pic related.

>>53154626
There's a whole spectrum of religiousness between atheist and deus vult that you're missing, and it's usually well represented in space opera sci-fi.

Also, often times the religion focuses on a precursor race instead of a god.

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>>53154613
I just really like the idea of the gear. So much engineering can be accomplished through one.

So when i see it on steampunk, I get the idea of a culture surrounded by the gear. Like an engineering guild controlling everything, or something.

I just think it looks really cool too, but again, only in art and story.

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I fucking love Dinosaurs. You throw in tameable, rideable dinosaurs into a setting and I will accept all kinds of absolute bullshit in it. Regardless of how ill-fitting it might be to the setting. I will ride a Dinosaur into battle in your engineer's paradise Hard Sci-Fi and only death itself will stop me.

>>53154530
What are your views on space-steampunk that treats the solar system much as 19th century astronomers would have imagined it?

So mars is covered in huge canal networks and ancient ruins; Venus is a tropical jungle planet and so-on.

>>53154676
yeah no
i mean a regular christian human
like
>90% of abtuctions are depicted in hick towns or straight up farmland
>abductees relinquish their past selves and become rational beings of logic and spess
i don't buy it

>>53154702
Does it have to be actual dinosaurs or will any massive reptile suffice?

Like, say, dinosaur-like alien life-forms, or post-apocalyptic mutant lizards the size of a bus?

>>53154713
Dunno, I've never read sci-fi with abductions, but I have seen regular christians (not fundamentalists, but regular people who believe in christian god) as part of spaceship crews or something.

Look into near-future military sci-fi written by American authors, there's plenty of christians there.

>>53154704
I like that too. Like Space 1889.

>>53154665
Check out Mutant Future. I mean, if you haven't already. I'd kill to run a Weird Future game in it.

Also, for me, goddamn do I love Raygun Gothic as an aesthetic. Similarly, I like Soma. The whole wheezing, breathing, living technology was very interesting to me.

https://youtu.be/w34fSnJNP-4
postan
THEY SAID CHRISTIAN SO IT'S RELEVANT

I also especially like steampunk that is in a different setting outside of historical earth.

Iron Kingdoms is a good setting (but I despise any of the games). It has a little too much magic for my taste, but cygnar's aesthetic I really dig.

Tephra is a decent setting, but the races and stuff are super weeb. But I bought the RPG book and I like it. I would just replace all the fantasy races with humans subtypes.

>>53154741
Actual Dinosaurs are ideal, but I'd totally play with mutant or aliens that sort of look like them too.

>>53154361
Villains with crazy overcomplicated hidden moves.

As boring as "It isn't even my final form" can be, I fucking love it when a major villain mid fight just goes "GOTCHA FUCKERS" and brings in something even more nuts.

>>53154626
The Mote in God's eye was pretty great.

>>53154626
It seems to me you didn't read a lot of sci-fi.

>>53154515
get of my touge faggot

>>53154713

There was a interesting short story I read where a group of scientists was sent to colonize a nearby planet, but it turned out to be crap so they headed back, but in the 10-15 years (can't remember exactly) years they'd been gone it looked like the Rapture happened (complete with left over newspapers with pictures of Jesus at the Grand Tetons), and as a group of Rational Agnostic scientists have to figure out what the hell they are going to do with themselves on an abandoned planet and a ship load of frozen embryos.

>>53156672
That is interesting. They are at a crossroads between religion and logic.

Do they accept Christianity as they try to rebuild the human race on earth?
Is there a point to Christianity now that the rapture is gone and done?
Do they raise the human race without religion, hoping it leads to a more enlightened future based on logic and reason?
However since everything they have found is pretty much definitive proof of creationism, will that shake their 'faith' in their proposed non-religious ideology?

Sounds delightfully complex. What story is this? Who is the author?

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Mixing Fantasy and Sci-fi old school pulp style
You know where the Evil Wizard has deathray robots patrolling his tower or the dungeon turns out to be a crashed spaceship

I hate that the two genres have been so segregated that anytime you attempt to bring them together people look at you funny

>>53156743

I'm looking for it, it's in one of the "Wastelands" Anthologies. I think the first one. They are pretty good collection of Stories for the most part, though the second collection gets preachy at times.

Give me a few minutes to find it.

>>53156888
A fire upon the deep did it quite nicely.
Half of the book is about a spaceship stranded in a medieval world populated by a species of sentient psychic dogs where a person was actually a group of dogs telepathically linked into one consciousness.

>>53156743
>>53157097

It's called "Judgement Passed" by Jerry Oltion.

If I remember correctly the scientists all go different ways, based on their logic. A few figure they got left behind and at first try to contact God. Atleast one points out that it wasn't neseccarily Jesus; all the people are gone, not just the Christians for example. One goes pretty hardcore into trying to get God's attention, starting out shooting birds ("Yet not even a sparrow falls without him knowing") and working his way up. One of the other characters thinks they should keep their head low, because why would to leave the world when it's finally recovering and is practically a garden of eden on its own? The POV character can understand where everybody is coming from, but stays with the last character I mentioned with a sort of "Why not?" attitude.

There never is a definite "This is what happened and why." answer, only that a being calling itself Jesus appeared, and humanity disappeared soon after.

>>53154831
Just found that album last week and now I keep seeing it everywhere. Not complaining - great music.

"Jayme Dawson was the captain of the Christian and her crew..."

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>>53157100
I really need to check that out

Really I like a lot of the stuff >>53154665 said, real pulpy sort of kitchen sink settings that have everything you could ever want for making a character

Like you could have a young man whose village is destroyed by the Vulture Men flying robot murder machines that are under the control of the Evil Wizard in his floating Sky Fortress, so the boy takes his father's Magic Sword basically a lightsaber and charges off seeking vengeance. Along the way he meets a Knight in Shining Power Armor, a beautiful young Sorceress in Training, a Super Strong Mutant Barbarian, and a Comic Relief Robot

>>53154626
Babylon 5, season 1, episode 5, The Parliament of Dreams. Very, very end of the episode.

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>>53154361
Absolutely nonsensical weapons. Just anything that would make a lover of realistic combat and weaponry cringe.

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>>53154530
Similar but I always preferred dieselpunk. Steampunk just feels a little too clean.

>>53154361
>stupid shit you love thread

Straight up pulp cliches. Mystery men in trenchcoats, two-fisted heroes, experimental jetpacks, proto-Nazis in dirigibles...

>>53158782
I know those orange tips are supposed to be red-hot glowing, but I can't help but think of airsoft orange tips.

Like, sometime in the far future, a group of historical reenactors are doing WWI, but they've got some facts wrong.

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>>53154361
I dig giant robots.

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Psychic powers because [lazy pseudo scientific handwaving] and "Humanity is on the verge of extinction due to [threat]"

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>>53158842
We dig giant robots.

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>>53158864
Chicks dig giant robots

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Creepy ass reverberating noises that aren't readily identifiable or familiar being used for weird stuff. Fuckin' dig that shit in movies or videogames, so I always try to put together a few for my roleplaying games. I was a little nervous of just sounding fucking stupid, but the reception has been surprisingly good. I have a couple of sound bites I play, but a few I do as mouth sounds. I felt invigorated when I was told my first attempt "sounded like a whale that got given the robocop treatment telling someone to hand over their driver's license through a fan"

>>53158812
YES

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>>53158782
>Steampunk just feels a little too clean.
That was cogflop

The SteamPUNK will dive into some low Victorian shit, like bad higene, pollution, plague, cthulhu's threat. I don't have any better example, but Dishonored universe done it right.

>>53159703
then again, dishonored waves a lot of stuff away 'cause whale magic

>>53154361

I like flashy, explosive magic, especially when it's wielded by a potbellied, excessively boisterous wizard.

>>53154530
>Clocks on her bicep and necklace
>Gears on earrings, necklace, bra
>Gears on clocks, gears on architectural trim in the background
>Pressure gaskets on a hookah for some reason
I honestly did not know I could hate an image this much

>>53154361
Pulp adventure, scifi and fantasy.

Blonde haired, square jawed space heroes and Conan style barbarians or grissled,rough and rugged whip wielding treasure hunters that always get the girl/s etc etc. I fucking love that shit.

>>53154626
the Covenant and Burning Legion

>>53158892
Nice.

>>53156888
Anything with science and fantasy in the style of He-Man or better yet Thundarr the Barbarian where it's the far future is just fucking awesome.

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>>53154361
I like faceless characters, you know, the kind you never see take off their helmet. I also like militaristic societies, whether they're evil or good, as long as they're cautious and defensive as heck then I like them.

>>53154626

scarbacks in Killjoys

pretty much the entire reboot of BSG

Caprica

>>53158839
>T-34 was mass produced Soviet combat walker operated by one squatting Russian.

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Badass/frightening characters that will defend a child no matter what.

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>>53162243

>>53154361
Any setting where I can become such a powerful cleric/chosen one that I can ascend to godhood and fuck the shit out of my patron goddess.

>>53162334
Ascending to godhood is one of my favorites too.

>>53156672
>as a group of Rational Agnostic scientists have to figure out what the hell they are going to do with themselves on an abandoned planet and a ship load of frozen embryos.

Almost sounds like a setup for a bad sci-fi porn movie. "Oh my, Dr. Venkman, what is a poor, nubile girl like me supposed to do with myself on an abandoned planet with a shipload of frozen embryos?"

... actually I think I need more sci-fi porn in my life, like right now.

>>53161830
>not having pressure gauges on your bong so you can determine with absolute certainty who smokes hardest

>>53156888
>laser wizard
I'd play that class

>>53161531
Ever heard of Jim Darkmagic?

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>>53161830
>>Pressure gaskets on a hookah for some reason
It's clearly a vape-hookah

>>53154626
Check out Infinity. They even recreated Jeanne d'Arc and Saladin for more efficient space crusading against infidels and aliens.

People far enough in the future to have weirdly distorted views of contemporary 20th-21st century events, culture, technology, etc.

>T-shirts required for tea ceremony
>misquotes of Shakesipre

love that shit

The
>I'm so fucking amazing at magic that I can accomplish anything without using any of it
kind of wizard. He's just so wise that he has no need for flashy reality warping. He can already play the current reality like a fiddle.

>>53158900
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_LMXmgAhLc&t=8s

use this for a creepy creature in my games, never announces its arrival just start the audio and they freak out

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>>53154361
I adore good hearted lovable rouges who suceed with a mix of audacity and sheer luck.

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>>53154361
>that one guy who carries the armory with him

Particularly if he gets to actually use all his stuff.

>>53154361
That actually makes a lot of sense. Earth is near the upper limit of gravity for chemical rockets to be feasible. Higher gravity would make space exploration difficult, so the average spacefaring civilization would be more likely to be from a planet with lower gravity compared to earth rather than higher.

>>53154665
I'm a fan of that kind of stuff in comics and cartoons but I can't get into it in RPGs. I like all of it, but my brain just can't handle that level of extravagance and I need some kind of visual support.

"always chaotic evil" races or groups that end up being neutral or good. It's not always that good because it's babby's first genre subversion, but when it works, it's great

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>>53163379
Nice.

>>53163219
What is this from?

>>53163519
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, it's an amazing animated film

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I am a sucker for oversized weapons and bros fighting back to back, and since all campaigns I play in are with my best friend and my brother as DM I get plenty of that.

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>>53163519
Sinbad: Legend of the Sea

An old Dreamworks movie from 2003 with pirates, high flying adventure, and a cool villain. It's a bit like the Road to Eldorado in that it was pretty fuckin' good, and then everyone forgot about it.

>>53154361
I love super-powers
I can't explain it, I love the idea of normal eople doing impossible things and the implication it have on their lives and the world they live in

>>53154361
I love needlessly ritualistic and proud space empires, albeit ones that aren't necessarily evil (or good), who spend a non-trivial amount of money on having aesthetic and good ships.

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Chainsaws, monster trucks and industrial/post-industrial lanscapes.

>>53154626
A lot of sci-fi has a very spiritualist approach to religion. Not much for temporal power usually. I can think about two examples.

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>>53163833
Okay, post-industrial landscape isn't retarded. Replace that with "needlessly gloomy post-industrial landscape".

>>53163890
Also gratuitously villainous villains vs. grizzled morally grey hero with a heart of gold buried under all the rust and angst.

>>53163890
If anything the first movie of Nolan's batman trilogy had a very good ambiance.

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>>53157100
More like the book was about the vibrating dogs. The sci-fi intro felt kinda just tacked on and didn't really add anything to the story other than introduce the human characters.

>>53157280
>>53154831
I've been looking for downloads for this album for years and have never found it. can anyone help?

>>53156888
You might like the "Numeria, Land of Fallen Stars" Pathfinder premade adventure. There is also the "Technology Guide" for things like robots and lasers stat'd out for Pathfinder.

>>53164058
It's two separate stories that are intertwined.
One is about dog orgies and medieval intrigues. The other is about a ship tripulated by two humans and two sentient bonsais who are trying to scape a fleet of aggressive xenophobic insects.

>>53164058
I think the idea is that no matter where you go, it's same shit: new day. At the very edge of Fastness, and in thw very gutters of Slowness there are going to be malevolent assholes who just want to make everyone into their puppet, there are going to be so-called good and wise figures that move to oppose them but have their own hangups and failures, and then there are individuals somewhere in between just trying to make sense of it all and fuck.

Plus, cmon, that book had such a sweet 'an ancient evil awakens' hook going for it.

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>>53154361

Green apocalypse post-apoc worlds, where people just fucked off and died without much fuss, leaving the world largely intact and unpolluted, to have their abandonded cities conquered by plants and trees and critters.

That really corny witch doctor stereotype. You know the one. Bag full of human bones, voodoo ceremonies, Caribbean accent that would offend the faint hearted. Great stuff.

>>53156888
Dragonstar was made for you.

>>53164709
>>53164785
I think my real complaint is that he introduced a lot of great ideas but didn't do enough with them. Instead of going into great detail about the dog politics and mating rituals, their society should have just been a stop along the adventure (or have had its own book).

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>>53161954
Yeah it is
But it seems like that particular style has all but disappeared since the 80's

>>53154361
Oldschool space opera science fiction. Grizzled spacemen flying the triplanetary run, heroic space patrolmen exploring ancient ruins deep in the Venusian jungle (we all know Venus is a hot swampy world populated by gaitn reptiles, right?), atomic-powered rocketships with a baffle plate (whatever that is) that break at dramatic moments, forcing one of the aformentioned grizzled spacemen to sacrifice himself to safe his ship and crew by holding it in place with his bare hands...
I actually prefer it when it's played straight, though. Ironic self-referential parody of oldschool pulp SF can be fun, but when the stuff, even if silly and inaccurate to modern viewers, is still treated seriously by the characters in the story it's even better.

>>53154530
I feel like that about clockpunk. Not really as a setting, but as aesthetic. I just find clockwork machinery very aesthetically pleasing.

Characters actually having their theme music playing in universe.

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>>53157249

There is a similar one, I think by Arthur C Clark, where a regular survey ship is checking out the remnants of a supernova. On the way back the main character does a bunch of calculations and figures out that they had just visited the Star of Bethlehem.

I wish I remembered the name of it

>>53164913
They do, though. A Deepness in the Sky is only about the doggos.

>>53164864
sign me the fuck upppp

>>53154626
Another prominant example beyond what everyone else has said: Mass Effect. The Asari are very spiritual, and while human religion is mostly just not talked about in the trilogy, Andromeda has Suvi who very clearly proves that Christianity is not entirely dead in the future.

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>>53154702
Entirely agreed

>>53164489
Just use a youtube downloader, it's not like there's any FLAC versions of it.

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>>53154626
I'd love more scifi species that weren't stereotypical Deus Vult bad guys, or wishy-washy deists. Just give me not-evil aliens that have strong, elaborate religious beliefs that aren't clearly shown to be false.

>>53157794
I've always thought this was one of the worst episodes of B5. The only reason Human religious pluralism is supposed to be seen as a shocking reveal is because the aliens have cliched monocultures with exactly one religion per species. It's either an issue of bad writing or limited budget, and judging these quotes by JMS at face value, I'd say it's a bit of both. "Snow, don't tell" clearly failed over the series, as none of the people I know who have seen B5 remembered any aliens with multiple competing religions.
Also, the angel-like creatures from all species' mythologies are just Vorlons who also genetically modified them to have psykers, and Valen, the prophet of the Minbari, was just a time-travelling Sinclair. So pretty much all religions, including the Human ones, can be inferred to be false, which is a pretty dick move.

>>53161908
The Covenant are the average theocratic bad guys who worship dead aliens as divine beings. And if Burning Legion refers to WoW, then they're literal chaos demons. I greatly dislike both of those overused tropes.

>>53166372
The most religious species are the Asari and the Hanar, but then it's revealed that their false gods were just Prothy the Prothean and his buddies who uplifted them. And then you remember they had an outpost on Mars where they observed and influenced Humanity 50,000 years ago....
Notice a trend here? Even as an atheist it enrages me that religious aliens' sincere beliefs always get fucked in 90% of scifi.

>>53167453
>religious beliefs get fucked in 90% of sci-fi
I think that mostly comes from "we have all this crazy tech so the existence of god(s) has been disproven or there is more likely factor".

The other cases would be those where it's ignored and then something else happens that can imply it wasn't due to god(s), though that might not have been the intention. Like what you mentioned with the Protheans. If memory serves, it would imply but not explicitly contradict the existence of god(s). So I doubt it was intentional.

Otherwise I have to agree with you. It'd be nice to see aliens, or even humans, that are religious without there being something that implies their god(s) don't exist.

>>53167926
I don't think technological progress will be incompatible with religious belief to any degree. The percentage of nonbelievers in the world is predicted to increase by 2050, not drop. And even backwards religious movements like ISIS aren't fazed by modern technology: they just adopt it, tweeting propaganda and filming their executions in HD.

So something like the Mormons building a generation ship in the Expanse to establish their own Earthly paradise in another star system is in my option great writing. They're just peaceful, regular guys who want to escape what they see is political persecution.

>>53167453
Im >>53166372
While I agree they cheapen the Asari's faith with the revelation about the Protheans, i still think Suvi is the perfect character for faith in sci-fi.

>>53168258
I didn't mean technological progress being incompatible with religion. I meant that an author or other creator would have the perception that humanity would have enough knowledge that they would not be inclined to believe in religion. So the creator either says "god(s) isn't real" or "dunno if there is a god(s), but it's unlikely".

Which the "it's unlikely" is either blatantly stated or inferred, intentionally or not, by other parts of the work.

>>53168326
If I recall correctly (it's been a damn long time) Protheans like Javik weren't enlightened or godly but then they were a war generation after a protracted conflict against the Reapers.

>>53168791
100% wrong. They were dicks, dicks who would most likely eat you.

http://masseffect.wikia.com/wiki/Prothean

>>53161830
Not to mention the lone gear keeping her from flashing everyone her cooter.

>>53154626
Star Trek has the Bajoran religion. Sure it gets used as a foil for Starfleet to tip its fedora at, but the Prophets and Pah-Wraiths are quite real.

>>53157100
I was never able to finish that book. The acousic hive weasels were too creepy and unsettling for me.

>>53168791
While Javik's was born during the war, the Protheans still had brilliant scientists as evidenced by the Ilos team that managed to hack the Citadel, the first time in the history of the galaxy. Besides, Reaper purges last for a couple centuries at most, and the Protheans only stopped observing primitive races after their empire had been chopped to pieces and they realized they were fighting a war they could not win. It might've been people from Javik's generation that were still walking among the Asari on Thessia. Certainly no more than a generation or two had passed.

>>53154515
Urgh fuck the Southern 100.

I'd rather go get aids in Peel than go near Castletown.

I hope that island burns.

>>53169398
It's possible that Javik's people devolved, as it were, culturally due to war pressure but the way he talks about them they were still pretty fucking nasty. They believed in survival of the fittest and outright conquered other races, only accelerating this due to the Reaper crisis to unite organics against the threat. Even then they ate primitive races even fi they were sentient. Apparently helping the Asari was a fluke, or if we want to be extra suspicious because the Asari were one of the few non-Promethean species they didn't prohibit knocking some sensual alien boots with.

>>53156888
Might and Magic gotchu muh fampire count

The stupid shit I love is characters finding themselves in a place following different set of rules than normal world, or some strange consistent dream logic and learning those new rules, harnessing and finally mastering them.
An example of this would be Greg Egan's Diaspora, where C-Z polis follows the Transmuters into a universe with four spatial dimensions.

Unlike 99% of /tg/, I really like peaceful cooperation between different races and cultures. I also like integrated societies where you see a good mixture of aliens and humans in the background of scenes and such.

Star Trek and Star Wars are both pretty good at that, but /tg/ seems to mostly like "kill the ayylmaos deus vult for the emperor" type of shit, which I'm not a huge fan of. Xenos are friends.

>>53169677
That's pretty deep in the lore though. I don't think they really made it obvious until near the time the franchise went to Ubisoft (who destroyed it).

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>>53159703
The Bas-Lag series, I thought, pulled off the grimy and "punk" elements of Steampunk really well, along with throwing in high fantasy that felt like it belonged in the world. Basically 50% steampunk and 50% DnD on LSD. In place of elves and dwarves we have women with bug faces and frogmen.

>>53165419

*spideroos

>>53154626

You read very, very little sci fi.

Hyperion comes to mind immediately, without even having to think about it.

>>53170171
My fuckin man
Hyperion was great, fall of hyperion jumped the shark so hard it created four possible future states of shark jumping, two of which invented time travel to retroactively go back in time to try and prevent the shark from ever having been jumped.
I mean, it was fun, but shit halfway through, the story just kind of explodes.

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>>53158735
In kinship with this. Characters who wield weapons in incredibly nonsensical ways, like Mifune from Soul Eater with his hundred sword style, Date Masamune from Sengoku Basara who wields katanas between his fingers, or Kuro from One Piece who has gloves with katanas on each finger tip or Zoro with his Santoryu style

>>53158812
I do have a small love for the concept of really simple (in terms of most fiction) devices being complete game changers in a specific setting, like a jetpack just completely tipping the scales, or like in Steamboy, where the main character isn't a fighter, or a super soldier, he's just an engineer with a groundbreaking steam engine he uses to fly around with.

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Rust and ramshackle. Vehicles and buildings that look like absolute garbage, barely held together by a heap of bolts and weld marks. I adore that shit so much. Even if it's horrible, if I see a fucking shanty town I get an aesthetic boner.

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>>53164864
This nigga knows what's up

>>53154361
>humand
>small world
You've clearly not actually played the game if you think that's why you can jump gud in XCX

>>53154361
I once had an old idea for a story where numerous aliens are brought together and forced into a gladiator arena and forced to fight for a massive audiences amusement. Numerous aliens with various special skills and abilities, and the human is the first of his kind forced into this competition, and it turns out Earth is one of the only hospitable planets with the heaviest gravity, thus the human who is forced into the fights is extremely fast, strong, and durable, despite being an average human

>>53154361
>>53171299
Came here to post this. Gravity has nothing to do with the jumps your character makes in XenoX, and that world is everything but small.

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>mfw my custom modern fantasy setting I made specifically to be over the top covers like 85% of the shit in this thread

>>53154361
HFY will always host some of my favorites.
>Aliens are all sub manlet size by human terms
>nobody dares venture close to the planet known as Earth, the breeding ground of a species thought by most aliens to have been created as weapons of the gods

>>53154626
>tfw born too early to see the rise of space paladins
Why even live

>>53171752
>space paladins
Yeah but knowing star wars faggots, they will probably call them jedis and replace their armor with robes

>>53154361
>precursor races, especially ones that build megastructures/other wonders
>the precursor tech is adapted by others who don't fully understand how it works, with optional unforeseen consequences

I also prefer it when the precursors are left mysterious to some extent, I enjoy a mystery more than the truth in a game, and I can't think of an example of a precursor race reveal doing justice to the buildup around it.

>>53171707
>And are willing to fuck everything and anything they get their hands on.

>>53167453
>it enrages me that religious aliens' sincere beliefs always get fucked in 90% of scifi.
It would be interesting to have a story where there are characters from several different species, all of them searching for their creators. Some of them find their creators, some of them don't, and the story would expand on the various reactions of the characters.

>>53164864
>The Last of Us
>The walking dead
Amd that's all I can think of now

>>53171868
Damn straight
Diplomacy through debauchery is the best diplomacy

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>>53154361
1) Super weapons

2) Settings where pilots and air support are the major focus in the war.

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>>53171928
Toyko Jungle
Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

>>53171928
Nier Automata

>>53158812
same here. one of the reasons I went Fate, since it was built for that.

really wish it was done more often these days in fiction.

>>53154361
Thing is we kinda are. We were saved by the bell just a few notches of G or else reaching space would've been inpossible.

So any planet with higher gravity than earth is a one landing new home plannet.

>>53172873
>or else reaching space would've been inpossible.
With contemporary chemical thrusters*

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>>53171389
Where have I seen that before?
Oh that's right in every HFY ever

still like it when done well though

I'm a big fan of melee weapons in high tech settings, especially when there's a silly justification like dune's bulletproof shields

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>>53164864
>>53171928
>>53172193
CATastrophe

>>53173028
What is this anyway? I keep seeing it pop up, always assumed it was someone's OC one-off.

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>>53173998
Never mind, should have tried 1d4chan first.

Neat though, if just a little magical realm just how I like it.

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>>53174053
Yeah it's fun and cute. I'm planning on running a game based on it.

>This thread is literally describing the setting I'm working on.

Vigor flows through my veins today.

>>53175240
ramshackle steampunk in a lush postapocalypse?

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>>53154361

The big, Lovecraft-ish, incomprehensible evil from beyond. Like, it's an intrinsic part of the universe evil. Winning isn't an option. Surviving and possibly redirecting or delaying for a few millennia it are your options.

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>>53175316
Not post-apocalypse but there is shit like gritty jacked men chainsawing space Nazi's and dinosaurs in the jungles of Venus.

The basic idea is that every country gets its own individual "-punk", the solar system is based on old-style interpretations and melee weapons are about equal with lasers and bullets in effectiveness.

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>>53175407
You know exactly what Mars has to be

>>53175456
I've been using it for Classical Rome and Greece plus America and all its different versions. Give me some juicy context m8, mars is a big place so I can always add more flavor to it.

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>>53175488
Full on Barsoom man, swords and Radium Guns and the most scantily clad everything
Plus 4 armed Green Martians and Giant White Apes and Tigers

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>>53175664

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>>53175674

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>>53175664
>>53175674
>>53175683
Fuck yeah that's what the whole solar system is like. Savage and skimp is GOAT

Roadtrip stories always get me. Also muscle cars.

>>53175820
Oh, and archers in settings where guns exist. Love it all.

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>>53154361
Wild West-type settings with elements of sci-fi, camp, and fantasy. Steampunk options welcome.

>>53165361
>alien cyborg dj with 6 arms
>even moongod is biting his lips awaiting the sound

>>53154361
Any other settings where this is a thing? Also generally looking for humanity fuck yeah settings.

>>53156888
I've had the idea for a campaign in which the pilots are mecha pilots a few hundred years after a cataclysmic, galaxy-wide event nearly wiped civilization out completely. Humans were able to pick up the pieces and reclaim technology, but as far as they know it's all just magic.

I've considered using D&D to really nail the point home (Magic Missiles are just ACTUAL missiles). I think it'd have the neat potential for cool genre blends. The Knights of the Round are a group of extremely skilled pilots that found the story of King Arthur and thought it was real, so they themed their gear after it. Most of the mythical beasts are just rogue robots and AI (the Hydra is a giant mess of construction arms that dismantle machinery to rebuild damaged parts; the Manticore is a military AI that's gone haywire, and it displays a human face on its main screen to fit the manticore myth; Charybdis is a Black Hole).

The plot twist is that the cataclysmic event was, itself, magical, so humanity isn't entirely wrong about magic existing.

>>53176635
http://hfy-archive.org/book/deathworlders

This series is pretty good
The main idea is that Earth is a Deathworld, in fact it is perhaps the most dangerous deathworld in the galaxy. The story itself is ongoing, and has a few spinoff series, it takes place currently over 13 years of in setting time and has a cast of characters that rivals Game of Thrones

The plot mainly revolves around different humans, from abductees to soldiers to colonists, and aliens dealing with humanities discovery and their subsequent attempts to gain a foothold in a Galaxy that fears them

It starts as a classic HFY post on reddit but the writing is top notch
The series itself is a doorstopper at over 900,000 words and counting so you're in for a long haul if you decide to check it out

Gratuitous quantities of Napoleonic warfare but with futuristic technology and tanks and such, preferably with a healthy dose of steam or atompunk. Also tech advantages actually meaning something to the protagonists other than "aha, I have found a weakness in five seconds that we can go sabotage". Sadly there are few books that actually put emphasis on sci-fi logistics over the actual weapons at all.

Also that "old hero comes out of retirement" thing. It's been overdone for most of the time it's existed, but I still like it.

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>>53162850
I absolutely love this to no end. Like how we may just have fucked up some stuff entirely about ancient society, our ancestors too will do the same. I am thrilled to have my ancestors misunderstand every culturally significant I value because it will be fucking hilarious.

>>53154361
The Dragonball (not Z) setting.

Futuristic, post-apocalyptic, high tech, points of light world with adventure, wuxia style martial arts, dragons, quests, dinosaurs, magic, flying cars, more adventure, a flying nimbus, demons, robots, ancient mystical items, martial arts tournaments, even more adventure, talking animals and no aliens yet (that only came with Z).

>>53177522
Dragonball really is the perfect setting

>>53163607
>a cool villain

If by cool, you mean Muh Dick, then yeah, she was pretty fucking cool.

>>53177647
I think that bath scene is responsible for a good chunk of my fetishes

>>53177690
Oh, absolutely. It's traumatizing how arousing she was.

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>>53164864

Based.

>>53171299
>>53171611
i 100%ed it
amd as far as i'm concerned they are human enough
well, not she in particular
also the main reason they are there at all is "spess magic"

>>53163958
Tim Burton and at least the first half of Shumacher's movies had great Gothams.

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>Huge fucking weapons, like swords so huge the weight alone is reason enough to avoid getting hit.
>Demon or otherwise monstrously infused weapons.
>Biological or living looking weapons.
>Demon/monster/robot arms, preferably asymetric.
>Revolvers, bolt action, lever action and pump action weapons in futuristic settings

Also really love post apoc settings that dramatically alter the landscape, flora and or fauna. Radiactive rivers, lakes and sewers, toothed penises on the ceiling snatching you up with long tongues, monsters underground, water levels all fucked up, killer robots, ship wrecks in weird places, like through the top of skyscrapers, zombies, monster infest neighborhoods in populated cities, wastelands, dried up oceans, toxic air, triffids, forests and jungles eating civilizations, demons, literal hellscapes, all that jazz. I also particularly love when even though the apocalypse has had an apocalypse, shit just kind of carries on, not so much like something new rose from the ashes and called itself the NCR, civilization didn't collapse and was remade, it just kept dragging it's own corpse through the ashes as it continued to grow. So all the stuff that killed off the other post apocalyptic setting happened, it just didn't actually end anything, and instead it's just a shitty future rather than post apocalypse.

Also really love 70s apocalypse stuff, the slow creeper that's slowly ending everything, but nobody's really doing anything about it, either because they can't or won't, Mad Max and Dawn of the Dead are great examples, part of me wants to mention China Syndrome, but that it's really apocalyptic, but it kinda hass that feeling to it.

>>53154361
realistically speaking, wouldnt coming from a high gravity world just mean we'd be really short? Gravity is a growth limiter for land animals after all thats why there's no land whales.

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>>53179015
>there's no land whales

>>53179035
SJWs dont count

Magic/Occult Nazi shit.

Gimme a bunch of wacky germans messing with shit they really shouldn't to fight against, and I'm a happy man.

Especially when it inevitably backfires and goes to complete shit

Magic guns and paladin cowboys

>>53156101
Oh man I love that setting

>>53154626
But there is no deus vulting in 40k, just emperor worship, and he's real. Just like the chaos gods are real and have direct effect on that universe.

>>53174982
>>53174053
>>53173028
Every time I see these I can't help but imagine how horrific a waterworld would be for cats. Every day hundreds of cats getting damp and shrieking their displeasure.

>>53163242
Both as a tech I love seeing show up and a counter to that, orion drives could easily get off a far more massive planet, what with nuclear energy being orders of magnitude better that chemical.
Footfall is amazing, and while not nuclear, the titular spaceship in King Davids Spaceship is also pulsed propulsion. 2 of my favourite books.

>>53162243
>DO NOT WORRY TINY HUMAN.
>WE WILL IND YOUR TINY PARENTS SOON.

>>53179825
Bonus points if he's the one who ate the parents in the first place.

>>53176705
This is my shit, right here. Remnants of old technology that people mistake as magic give inappropriate tingles.

I blame Scrapped Princess

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>Uniformed teams of 5
>POSING
>IN
>FORMATION

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>>53180136
Especially if they do it even when it's really not practical.

>>53170205
> No mention of the Endymion saga

>>53154530
Iv'e loved stampunk ever since i played Rise of Legends. Also fucking love it when steampunk and magic collide and mix.

>>53154704
>>53154799
I suggest checking our Sunless Skies, the sequal to Sunless Sea. Its in the same universe, but the British empire is now in space, ridding spaceship trains.
Its not out yet, but it looks really good so far.

>>53177522
Dragonball really has all that? Shit that sounds cool. I've never watched it.

>>53158842
>>53158864
>>53158892

Transforming mecha and their pilots are for the fucking win.

Hell, mecha in general seem illogical as anything but a niche weapon, regardless of the tech. But they're still awesome.

>>53180478
With optional explosions

>>53177610
>>53181326
Yeah, and a lot more. Very underrated setting, but keep in mind that DB is mostly adventure and silly comedy. DBZ is more action oriented

>>53154831
Oh fuck it's this album, the best shit I've ever heard

I love this setting right here
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Deathworld
Mostly because of Americans turning into necromancers who worship the revived Founding Fathers as gods

>>53180066
>>53156888
check out numenera

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>>53158735
oi don't talk shit about my waifu damocles

>>53154626
What does god want with a spaceship?

>>53182685
>islamabama
My sides have transcended!

>>53154515
>magic arms
>the edgy amputee kind
Objectively the best cliche in anything

>>53182685
Yeah, lovecraftian voodoo muricans were always my favorite part of that setting.

>>53182685
>operation sealion ever being carried out

I know it's a fantasy setting but I can only suspend my disbelief so far.

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>>53154361
Giant vehicles

I don't care how impractical they are, they're too fucking cool

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Needlessly aesthetic robots

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>>53154626
You want some sci-fi deus vulting? Read the High Crusade.
A medieval english village jacks an alien spaceship and HFY's across the galaxy.

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Also any jury-rigged Kid adventure setting like KND. Whether they make real life katchup guns or if it is just in their imagination.

>>53163219
>>53163543
on TvTropes, they used to call this a "Mongolian Striptease"

>>53184346
I read this. Highly recommended.

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Dark, grey, crumbling worlds where it looks like everything is ending and nobody really knows why

An honest-to-god effort in making societies with non-human beings function by different, non-human standards

Redemption arcs

Tsutomu Nihei

>>53154626
it's like you've never heard of a little book called Dune

>>53171928
Kemono Friends.

>>53185459
Maybe he just never bothered to read sci-fi's most overrated doorstopper.

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>>53154665
Is dat sum muhfuggin Storm?

>>53165174
Hopefully Thor: Ragnarok sparks interest in blond shirtless hunks going on sci-fantasy adventures.

>>53185881
He has reduced his life unduly if he hasn't at least watched the movie if only to witness Patrick Stewart riding the mighty space worm while shouting, "RELEASE THE ATOMICS!"

>>53185370
The last hold out patch of civilization at the end of time is something I've come to enjoy lately

>>53182726
Did. Played a few sessions. Not particularly a fan of how the cypher system plays out mechanically, but I enjoyed the setting and had fun playing.

>>53185881
I tried once. I made it to around the point where the guy takes the pain test thing before I got sick of flipping to the glossary in the back for every other sentence.

>>53180066
I don't know if it counts, but you should check out Caves of Qud.
It has a very nice atmosphere and most of the lost technology and mutants give off a sorta post-apocalypse with magic feel.
Its also a pretty fun game

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>Party is in a dungeon crafted by an elemental spirit
>Using the memories of one the PCs it kidnapped
>The gateway to the next level can either be passed by completing four "memory rooms" based off of the PC's backstory
>Or, they can answer the riddle posed by the gate
>"I stand before you, questioning your intellect."
>"To defeat me you must give me the answer I seek"
>"Or come to know the truth about your ally."
>"Your friend lies beyond, past stair and fire"
>"What am I?"

It took until the PCs completed two memory rooms, and one of the players said
>"Hold up, I want to think about this stupid door for about five more minutes before we give up again"

The gateway opened shouting "A DOOR!"
I would have also accepted any other way to describe the door, such as gate, or portal, or whatever. Just something that is the literal answer to "What am I?"

I love Dad Jokes and bad riddles for sphinxes.

It also helped that the kidnapped PC was a bit of a dunce.

>the hero falls in love with the villains daughter.
>bonus points if its mutual.

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>>53187816
i wonder what reminded you of it

Bits of an evil deity forming smaller but still terrible beasts, a la sinspawn.

Fantasy races completely integrated into a functional society.

Towns built on ruins of ancient cities, old roads that have become holloways or are also littered with stuff of archaeological value.

Giant tortoises.

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Flying pirateships, just love em to bits

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>>53188317
Airships are awesome

>>53177251
imagine a future where all our statues have been painted like the ancient greeks

where the earliest known song is hallelujah https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4
and its used as "the old history song" and played as a backing track in EVERYTHING set in and talking about the era, usually by a "busking shark", a one man band in a shark costume

in movies set in the past, everyone eats hamburgers all the time, for every meal, even when they are on a journey and eating around a campfire they ALWAYS cook burgers over the fire, with lettuce and pickles and cheese they just happened to have on them

there are only four costumes, t shirt and jorts, tuxedo, wedding dress or camouflage boiler suit

everyone has a manbun, mohawk, undercut or mullet

everyone worshiped the divine pantheon of Bowhai (god of symbols and chief god), Christi An (god of torture and oligarchy, whose symbol is the tortured prisoner), Is Slam(god of the sky, the moon and stars and shapes especially spheres and cubes), Mu Slam (god of the night and stealth, all her worshipers are female and wear black capes), Paygan (god of plants, represented by a face carved into an orange or random plants and vines), Buddyer (god of music as told by his prophet Nirvana The Band), Is Real (god of law, change, time, fashion and food) , Sick (god of animals, especially the lion, king of animals and weapons, especially guns the king of weapons), Judeo (god of martial arts and fighting), Jane (the white robed god of marriage, married to the saint Thor), Hind Santana Dharma (the thousandfold god of musicians) , Santana (who lives in the icy hell of the poles and enslaves sinners to create trains and cars under the watchfull eye of his bear totems) and John/Jain Doe (the nameless one)

the main weapons are rocket launchers and hand grenade

the standard vehicles are the bus and tank

>>53171707
Scientifically, most aliens we coudl theoretically interact with would be larger then humans. Were at the level of gravity in which we can just barely breach escape velocity. Any stronger gravity and we couldn't bring enough fuel to overcome the delta-v. So aliens are more likely to be from lighter gravity worlds, and would be able to grow larger then we do in our gravity. But we'd have the advantage of denser bone and muscle structures.

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>>53179015
Short, stocky, and with denser muscles than natives of lighter gravity worlds. Aliens would be taller and more lean, but humans would be exerting their same musculature force in an environment with less resistance.

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>>53190142
In space, everyone is Ranma.

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The juxtaposition of hard scifi humans and basically magical Things.

>>53176831
>Sadly there are few books that actually put emphasis on sci-fi logistics over the actual weapons at all.
That's because most people with a mind for logistics don't write fiction.

>>53163607
>>53163543
It wasn't great. If I remember correctly this was the film that bombed so hard that dreamworks stopped doing 2d animation altogether

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This movie was made for this thread.
>Alt-WWI expedition to Atlantis where our daring hero saves the magic blue haired princess

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>>53192476
I'm still mad that this movie wasn't appreciated more. It had its flaws and pacing issues, but god damn was it good.

Also, Kida is white haired, not blue.

>>53192550
But in all seriousness, this fucking opening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8pAhdGsc50

>mfw they actually built Atlantean as a legitimate and complete language for the movie
>mfw I have no face

>>53192582
>the cryer as he looks behind himself at the wave while he issues the warning
>the guy at 1:40 who drops to his knees
>the couple hugging

>>53192476
That movie was awesome, and the sequel was straight up "the writers were playing an RPG".
I love how gloriously pulpy it is.

>>53192628
The sequel mini-movies were fun, but I feel they were just a little -too- cartoonish and light hearted compared the first; had they just been a tad more serious, they would have been great.

>>53156888
Well there's a video game called Destiny that does that somewhat.

I really like that shit too mang, you and me both.

>>53170028
Would you a Khepri?

>>53173028
Stop posting your furry shit everywhere.

>>53193230
>monstergirs/nekomimi
>"""furry"""
Please, don't be retarded
t. actual furfag

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Extreme (read: realistic) industrial output in sci-fi.

I want the Space Empires Grand Fleet to have more than a million warships, I want mega-structures galore. Usually in sci-fi you only see this in background precursor-type empires but I prefer it when everyone can do it, even races that have only been FTL for a few decades.

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>>53185370
>>53186265
Ever read "The Night Land"? You guys may like it

>>53189702
big big kek

>>53156672
There is a longer story/game called Portal for the c64. You can find the text online and there's a hardcover edition too because who has time to deal with c64 loading bullshit.

Funny thing is he predicted the billion gender culture we have going now.

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Bizarre farragos between occult/paranormal stuff mixed with religious/pseudo-psychological themes within a sci-fi setting or at least futuristic backdrop.

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big fuckoff robots' stats and attacks are determined by parts

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>>53156888
>>53191706
>>53192715
>>53194593
We need to Get Shit Done again and make this into a setting.

>>53188317
No doubt you've watched Laputa: Castle in the Sky. That movie is a gold mine for airship inspo

>>53190099
Only if you stick with shitty chemical thrusters

>>53164864
There's a mod on Fallout 4 that makes all of the vegetation alive and lush. I can't remember its name. Trees are flourishing and there are huge fields of tall grass and flower beds with green vines growing off of buildings and grass/weeds growing through the road cracks.

Made the playthrough actually tolerable for me. Makes it such a different game.

>>53179015
We could be pretty short and stocky compared to the rest of the Galaxy. It's relative. Everyone else is tall and spindly.

>>53197429
So basically, we are the space-dwarves?

>>53197935
We are the squa-

>>53191706
The best part of hard sci-fi is when you try to invent hyperspace and fall straight into space madness, cosmic super evil, and space babies.

>>53193864
I have such a boner and a hatred for this.
Because it is both the best and worst thing when you play it in any space strategy game.
It's amazing, but MANAGING all that shit is a job for more than a single player.

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>>53154361
When the jesus-like father figure of a new science makes things that are obviously weapons, but then is legitimately distraught when it is weaponized.

>>53202220
Remember, Nobel never imagined dynamite had any military uses and was shocked when it was used as a weapon.

>>53158854
My favorite psychic powers premise is "turns out migraines were the evolutionary stage between normal brain and psionics"
Then the people with the most crippling headaches have the hugest tetsuo freakouts.

>>53202285
I love it so much I feel like I could survive with no other nourishment.

>>53202285

Kalashnikov wanted to create a weapon to defend his country and was horrified to see it used by criminals and terrorists. He wished that he had created an agricultural tool instead.

>>53202063
I love it when people mix in cosmic horror or just straight Lovecraft references in as the method of doing that, like the world building for Cthulhutech. If I were homebrewing a setting I'd say that manipulation of zero point energy and the quantum vacuum is the first point where science gets Mad. This has a couple of funny implications for our own world.
>Emdrives are arcanotech engines, no matter how slow and shitty they are
>microwave ovens are basically extra shitty emdrives so we've been using arcanotech starship engines to make popcorn for over 60 years

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>>53202285
>>53202449
BUT HOW COULD SOMEONE EVER USE SUCH A THING FOR WAR?!?

>>53202474
>>microwave ovens are basically extra shitty emdrives so we've been using arcanotech starship engines to make popcorn for over 60 years
Turns out there's a simple modification which turns a commercial microwave into the Event Horizon's Gravity Drive. Cue the mother of all product recalls when some asshole posts instructions on /x/ and /diy/

>>53202703
Knowing the full reprecussions of my actions, I WILL MAKE THE MICROGRAVITY DRIVE ANYWAY.
This is another stupid thing I love. I cannot resist pressing the "extremely bad high science incident" button.
I love causing cascade reaction scenarios. Helvettica incidents. Chernobyl syndromes. Warp cascades. Infinite recursions. Self destroying time loops.

>>53202449
>Kalashnikov wanted to create a weapon to defend his country
...which at the time was run by a bloodthirsty psychopath with a habit of invading his neighbours and a larger kill count than Hitler.

>>53177723
Now this shit I love. Incomprehensible tech and architecture from bizarre forebears that were actually just normal humans.

Like Laputa.

>>53187816
But the classic is
>villains daughter falls in love with hero
Or, if she's a dangerous and psychotic nympho (like the best villainesses are)
>villains daughter develops dangerous and obsessive one-sided crush on hero

>>53203100
>Or, if she's a dangerous and psychotic nympho (like the best villainesses are)
>>villains daughter develops dangerous and obsessive one-sided crush on hero
I think the Dresden Files count for this happening is up to at least a dozen villains' daughters.

>>53165174
Really both it and the sword and sorcery genre withered away in the 90s and that's a shame. Heavy Metal had one insane sci-fantasy setting.

>>53161954
>>53165174
>>53203427
I am so grumpy that this style died so hard that even trying to ressurrect it gets you pegged as a that guy in some places.

I just want to wear a loin cloth and save the two headed lizard princess from the arch skull.

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>>53171786
>implying jedi don't armor up when it's mcfucking go time

>>53164683
I'm currently running a science fantasy campaign based off of the iron gods adventure path, and while things can get a little out of hand (never give an orc a rocket launcher btw) it is hands down the most fun I've had in a campaign in years

>>53203493
>I am so grumpy that this style died so hard that even trying to ressurrect it gets you pegged as a that guy in some places.
I blame the 90s for this. There was so much cool shit in this genre in the 80s, that in the 90s rejecting it for more "gritty" and "realistic" settings became the new fad.

>>53203924
I have mixed feelings about the 90s.
On the one hand, GRR GRITTY THE EDGE.
on the other hand, they practically invented hype.

>>53202474
>>53202703
>>53202752
Play this straight and entirely for horror. Call Of Cthulhu would be the ideal system.

Imagine that only after the extremely dangerous product was already commonplace, a few people discovered that it posed a great occult threat. They can't tell anyone else, because at present, there's some small measure of safety (that nobody is deliberately trying to weaponize it because nobody knows it exists) but if the knowledge becomes commonplace, the Streisand Effect insures every terrorist alive will know how to turn common household items into a weapon which teleports its victims somewhere where they won't need eyes to see.

>>53205409
That's a boring plot hook. All you'd have to do is convince some crunchy-granola lefty rag to start screaming that the product causes cancer, autism, and "toxins" and you'd get concerned housewives abandoning them en masse. Meme magic beats real magic, GG no re.

>>53205493
As someone who espouses liberal social values, I hate everyone in every party.
There is literally no american political party that is not currently trying to infringe on some piece of the constitution or another.

>>53205526
Inb4 >>>/k/ or >>>/pol/ but there's work being done to permanently cockblock the states from infringing the Second Amendment the way they do now, which removes MUH GUNS as a wedge issue so the parties have to compete on something else.

>>53205565
Honestly, it is too late at this point to have any faith or hope for our political system for another two decades at least.

>>53169799
Peace and cooperation are boring.

>>53206156
>>53169799
The best kind of peaceful cooperation is when you're holding hands with an insectoid warrior beast and a tentacle monster, having a great time, enjoying a picnic.

AND THEN IT'S WAR

THEY GOT BUENOS ARES

And the bug guy either gets shot or you fight alongside him to defeat the romulans depending on which movie we are talking about here.

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>>53154831
"Some Kind of Hero"
>If any old shipmates come ask after Moll',
>just tell 'em she finally died clean

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HFY to an extent.

Not the "My god how could we have predicted the humans would fight and use tactics by all that is holy did you know they breathe OXYGEN?"

Just when humans are a specialized race to some degree instead of the baseline stats, like OP's point.


Also humans and aliens having to work together to fight a mutual goal and finding out more about the other.

>>53205493
>This has already been done. With the right meditations during use, tobacco unlocks powers some might deem unnatural...

>>53208511
fuck mang
that song is just tears

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Settings where all the cool shit has happened already. Like, you hear legends of people who did crazy shit and realize you will never ever amount to anything even close to them.

Necropolis is a video game that does this really well. Pic related is some flavor text from a loading screen.