Dumping art for aliens, xenos, space monsters, creatures, critters,

>>50016221
I'm not certain if that's supposed to be a romba, or just something you'd find under a Ayy's bed.

>>50016266
Star control was so good

>>50018987
Is that from deep rise

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>>50019176
It's actually a VUX from the Ur-Quan Masters games

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>>50019190
>boobs and recognizeable facial features, same amount of fingers, same body porportions, look closer to humans than any other primate on earth

Anyone have any aliens that have some convergent evolution, but don't stretch it to make them overly anthropomorphic

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>>50019399
This might apply

>>50019426
Reminds me of the monsters from Tremors.

>>50016717
Jesus Christ, this book gives me real nightmares...

>>50019426
I like them, source?

>>50016717
Good shit right there

>>50016221
>aliens
>realistic
go back to star trek, kid

>>50019399
Why does that human just have his junk hanging out, what the hell

>>50019611
If you’re not intelligent enough to comprehend xenobiology, why not just fuck off?

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>>50019611

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What are some possible solutions to the apes or angels problem, the timescales of the universe and the unlikelihood of any species being at a similar level of developement. Two possibilities I think are artificially imposed stagnation, that has within the last few thousand years faded away allowing species to develope tech. Or take a Star Trek:tos approach and have sufficiently advanced aliens be relatively common

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>>50019905
Stagnation may be the norm for all we know. It took very specific conditions to be met for a small corner of Earth to start industrializing, and it's possible all the trends of history could have been different and those conditions may have never come about. Societies may stabilize and be stuck in pre-industrial stages forever.

Still less advanced, but not exactly cavemen.

>>50016717
Good shit right there

>>50016717
That was a good read, thanks.

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>>50016221
>realistic aliens

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>>50020048
Got a problem with that?

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>>50019932
That's true, these guys grew up on a greenhouse world, and the environment made some technological advancement difficult, and science never caught on.

The muuh from the same universe have a very very slow metabolism. Meaning progress is slower, and iirc they had a very romantic rather than methodical approach to science.

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>>50020130
Orion's Arm has some of the best xenobiology I've seen, just for the variety and actual alienness of it.

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>>50019932
One of those without the diving suit.

>>50020182
Even some of the terraform groups are pretty alien, as you would expect of societies in the far future. We would be alien as fuck to people ten thousand years ago.

>>50020237
Terragen I meant, posting on mobile sucks

>>50020237
>tfw modern day man are the elves of Lord of the Rings and neanderthals are the dwarves.

It's the main reason why I don't automatically dismiss the ancient astronaut theory. Although I am always left mildly insulted that so many scientists and philosophers seem hellbent on believing that our technologically lacking ancestors were incapable of creating any lasting achievements without extraterrestrial intervention.

Early homo sapiens were just as intelligent as we are now. All they lacked was technology, not knowledge.

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>>50016717
i was planning on posting that, good show, my good man.

have some traveler

>>50019983
Not even kidding, I saw one of these fucking things in a dream and not two weeks later I saw this picture here on 4chan. Creepiest shit that's ever happened to me.

>>50020506
>All they lacked was technology, not knowledge.
Technology is knowledge; all they did not lack in was intelligence.

That being said, I think it's fair to say that modern man might be a -tiny- bit more intelligent on the average, now.

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>>50020612

Had something similar happen. Had a dream some monster with metal claws chase me down on a snow covered mountain and slowly pealed my face off. I found this image for the "Rake" in a creepypasta thread that looks exactly like the monster from the dream.

I had that dream 13 years ago and can still remember it to this day.

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>>50020506
>Early homo sapiens were just as intelligent as we are now.

>>50020694
Maybe. Intelligence is really hard to measure. In general, I think modern man would struggle equally as much in ancient times as an ancient man in modern times.

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>>50020067
I don't have a problem with it.

Except when they are made to be weird looking for no good reason.

If you want 'realistic' aliens their design needs to take their environment into consideration. What is their world like? How do they obtain energy? Defend themselves? Locomote? How do things like this affect their design?

Nature doesn't just slap shit together with no developmental process.

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>>50020597
Anymore like this?

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>>50020906
I don't see anything here that obviously violates that.

Also remember artificially created or uplifted species which didn't naturally evolve.

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>>50020906
I agree with you, though doing humanoid aliens that look 90% like us is just as unrealistic.

>>50017586
Adun Toridas, my fellow upright zergling

>>50016717
what the actual fuck

>>50016717
Of all the scary and creepy shit in there "Second Contact" has to be the most frightening two words of the entire book. The terribly brief but unmistakable reminder that everything you have just read was still technically human.

>>50020975
>I agree with you, though doing humanoid aliens that look 90% like us is just as unrealistic.
We only have one data point for intelligent life, anon; everything is equally realistic and unrealistic.
Who knows, maybe the humanoid form is actually the shape intelligent species most commonly follow; all bubbles are spheres and all that.

>>50021099
By humanoid I don't mean bipedal with two eyes, I mean, like mass effect or Star Trek humanoids

>>50019658
I want to say that's an unfortunately placed left hand, based on the "funky dancing" description

>>50020835
By the iron age we're no longer 'early', anon. Read up on it sometime.

>>50016221
>realistic
>aliens
That's an oxymoron.

>>50020738
Fucking creepy shit, anon. Glad it's not just me.

>>50020597

Are birrin more susceptible to recreational substances than humans though? or they just more tolerant of it.

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>>50016221
>realistic aliens

>>50022555

Is that Seven Views of Olduvai Gorge? I seem to recall one of the researchers was insect-like.

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>>50022626
Not sure if it's related or not, I just found it from deviantart. Reverse google searched it and found the original page.
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>>50016221
what part of this guy do I look at when I talk to it, the thing on the top?

>>50019905
Intelligence is actually common, but the Great Filter is a bitch. Most species invent ICBMs and blast themselves into the stone age, often repeatedly. Between us getting that right on the first try and Earth having evolved intelligence earlier than average, the universe doesn't have many angels yet. There are lots of apes, and lots of sentient non-spacefaring races, and a handful of spacefaring races.

>>50022663
I'm pretty sure the brain is in the bulbous body, and the top is just a specialized eyestalk/arm.

>>50022803
I'm not really concerned about where the thinking happens, what I need to know is what part of its body it sees with and emotes with some I don't come across as being rude in a conversation.

>>50020906
You also have to consider what factors caused them to evolve intelligence. Evolution isn't progressive, there is no set goal. Humans became intelligent tool users at the expense of a lot of physical ability compared to other hominids.

A lot of these aliens seem to be megafauna, but still wear clothes and use tools for some reason. I'm not sure what evolutionary advantage intelligence would provide for a large powerful animal.

Then again, I'm a sucker for group intelligence, sapient fungal colonies, space coral, non-sapient hive insects with a dedicated hybrid emissary caste for interacting with sapient life forms.

>>50022824
What do we not have that other hominids have

>>50019983
looks like the Ent from Sacrifice

>>50022860
We aren't nearly as strong as chimps, and because our brain size is limited by the width of a woman's hips, we are much more likely to have fatal complications in pregnancy than any other hominid.

I think the only mammal that has it worse is the Spotted Hyena.
>Giving birth
>Through a dick

>>50022898
I wonder what kind of evolutionary advantage that is supposed to give to hyenas.
>mating is a pain in the ass
>higher chance for a female to die during its first time giving birth

>>50022923
It allows the female to chose better mates because it's impossible to rape a female spotted hyena.

Or something like that. Evolution doesn't always pick the best choice. Also, it's only the Spotted hyena IIRC. Other breeds don't have that trait.

>>50022942
>It allows the female to chose better mates because it's impossible to rape a female spotted hyena.
This is generally considered a consequence, rather than the reason for the adaption. It also doesn't explain why the genitals of the females resemble male genitals so closely (they even have a false balls) and doesn't really track logically with the females being slightly larger and more physically powerful than males.

It likely has something to do with their social behavior, specifically that for some reason it became extremely beneficial for females to start engaging in dominating behavior that was previously the purview of males.

Exactly what the fuck was such a problem that females had to adapt to the extent of growing dicks and becoming larger than males at the expense of having to give birth through a dick is completely up in the air.

>>50021016
Reading it for the first time can be quite an experience.

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>catgirls from space

>>50021099
As >>50021119
says, humanoid can be used to describe varying levels of human similarities, but when designing an alien biology, the primary thing to keep in mind for its body plan, in my view, is dependant on how it manipulates its surroundings.

Start with a proto-alien, and then either turn one pair of limbs into graspers, or make at least one set of limbs multi-purpose. Man never started evolving towards tool use and intelligence until they became upright and got a free set of hands to fiddle with, and it seems logical that a race won't gain any advantage from tool use if it uses all of its limbs for locomotion.

Likewise, those grasper limbs should have started out as locomotion limbs, or some other dedicated function such as mating rituals or feeding, otherwise it would have been selected out long before it could evolve the dexterity for tool use.

So if your planet's norm is four limbs, your intelligent alien will likely have two legs and two arms with at least two eyes for binocular vision, since eyes are an obvious organ that can be assumed to evolve in some way just about everywhere, since stars are somewhat common things. If your average animal has six limbs, however, you may end up with a more centaur like race, or either setup could be more arboreal with multi-function limbs like an ape.

So the environmental questions that need asking are: What is the limb count standard, and what is the intensity and frequency of the local star's light? Those, in my view, will have the largest impact on the overall body structure of the alien in question.

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But what if we are the aliens?

>>50026617
>or some other dedicated function such as mating rituals or feeding

While you probably meant "mouth or antlers" I like the idea of a species that uses it's genitals as manipulators.

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>>50027697
There are plenty of mammals that have prehensile genitals that could plausibly be adapted to use as manipulators.

Antlers is just silly, they aren't even a little prehensile!

>>50028140
TH-that's an alien right senpai?

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>>50027697

>>50028173
It's proof that no shark, no matter how large will ever be as horrifying as an Orca.

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>>50028240
Sharks are the adorable dogs of the sea.

Delphinidae are monsters with good PR.

>>50028140
That's horrifying, would be great for an alien

>>50020899
I fucking love crustacean xenos.

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>>50028140
The old gods rise!

>>50016221
>realistic aliens

I'm reminded of a thread on /gif/ where someone asked for "fake alien porn."

>>50019412
> No hair
> Too many clothes
> No lips or teeth

Looks like something that used to EAT puppeteers.

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>>50029973
Could just be a different species. I imagine an advanced race spread across the stars would speciate between planets or have genetic engineering. Also possible to have different related intelligent species, like what if Neanderthals never went extinct on Earth.

>>50027697
Actually for mating rituals I was thinking of animals like the jumping spider's pedipalps which use them in mating dances or to drum out mating calls, or the wings of some birds, the idea being that an animal could evolve a highly complex limb evolved for beauty, that could then gain a function that it is further selected for.

For feeding, I was mostly thinking of the idea of a dedicated set of claws like talons or crab claws or the arms of the mantis shrimp, which are evolved specifically to kill the shit out of stuff and can do nothing else but could over time evolve the complexity to use tools, and likely lose their deadly capacity as they become more dexterous and the alien becomes more intelligent.

However I do like the way you think!

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What's the best depiction of aliens in media, /tg/?

>>50030333

I really hope this film is good. It's one of the few things coming out that I'm actually excited for.

>>50031579
you know how, plot and design-wise, Super 8 was what you got when you mixed ET with Cloverfield?
This is what you get plot and design-wise when you mix ET with Interstellar. To similar experience effect too, not a terrible movie, but not one you're going to want to see in theaters more than once. You'll probably have a good time watching it, but ultimately it's not gonna stick with you.

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>>50019611

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>>50026923
Is this an edit or something? I could have sworn this was the actual picture.

>>50033841
Some artists use the same model and then simply color the finished product different colors.

Like how you order a dozen identical models online, and then paint half Imperial Marines, and the other Chaos Marines.

It looks way too detailed to be a mere shoop. Especially since it doesn't clash with the surrounding art style of the background.

>>50029026
If that's not an andelite, I'll eat my hat.

>>50018972
Wow, evangelion got really wierd with the 4th movie.

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>>50016717
>>50019514
How bad can it really be? On a scale of 1 to 10 Wats? I mean, you can't just real a pdf and go bloody bonkners for a week, life isn't CoC.

>>50033841
Huh have never seen that version before

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>>50035997
It's an andelite
Have an Andorian

>>50037602
Read it to find out.

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Anyone got any cyborg/robot aliens?

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Uh oh

>>50030050
The puppeteers never spread anywhere, and considered anyone who would willingly subject themselves to the risk of space travel to be incurably insane. "Scouts" are almost never allowed to breed, and reproduction for Puppeteers is already strictly government controlled. Genetic engineering is risky, and therefore it isn't allowed.

Humans are the weirdly divergent species in Known Space. We're really the only ones who do anything like adapting ourselves to new environments; and that was only because initially our options for space colonies were limited by our lack of FTL travel, and some malfunctioning probes that categorized some marginally habitable planets as fully habitable, forcing the slow-boat colonists to adapt when they got there to a far harsher environment than they'd been expecting.

Spooky scary aliens

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>>50039735
(Meant to post this)

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>>50016717

>>50016717
The ideas have promise, but by Bragi it's self-contradictory to the extreme. At least three times it's like "and then they all died ... except not! PSYCH!"

Doesn't help that the art is awfully samey, but that's subjective. I liked the Qu though.

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>>50040868

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>>50039462

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>>50041699
Fetish porn my dear, fetish porn. Pretty tame fetish porn too desu senpai.

>>50042225

Pretty fucking elaborate, well written and thorough for fetish porn. Like, the magicalest realm ever.

>>50042692
I've seen worse. Heck I've thought up worse, but I'm not going to derail this thread with it.

>>50016266
>new star control game being made by Stardock
>have full rights to music, setting, themes
>don't have rights to any of the old races/aliens
>original creators still have rights
>wont let them be used because "its not our game"
>they're too busy printing money with skylanders
>new game wont have any old races as a result

I was beyond ecstatic for the return of Star Control, but after reading about this all hopes are dashed. It just won't be the same without the old races.

Maybe after the debacle that was SC3, it's for the best.

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The guy who made this moved his stuff to another site, he had some nicely designed aliens but now they are gone, anyone have them

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>>50044247
What was it called? Pic is too small to read anything.

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>>50044271
Found it now

>>50031579
What movie is this?

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>>50044621
Arrival, based of a short story called Story of your life.

>>50044340
Reverse Google image search doesn't give anything.

I can see now why most movies and games stick to humanoid designs. Most of the stuff in this thread just fills me with the desire to shoot, and keep shooting just to be sure.

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>>50044775
Why are you so eager to kill your fellow sapient beings? You would not make a good space explorer

>>50044775
Also it's hard to do motion capture for body plans that don't exist.

>>50044887
Not him, but the problem is that, to me, meeting another creature of any kind with the same level of intelligence, or even being smarter than you, is naturally scary. It's like seeing a wolf or a dog look at you and judge you, fully aware of who you are and what you're doing, and the implication that they themselves know how to build something equal to or even better than human technology.

The possibility that we could be upstaged by things not like us is instinctively terrifying.

>>50045026
It's called a puppet

>>50045104
Of course, I completely understand that, we are animals to eachother, tool using clever animals.

That doesn't mean shooting at eachother at every opertunity

>>50045135
But the difference is we can recognize similarities. Species solidarity borne from the basic ability to communicate via sound, two legs, two arms, two eyes and a recognizable face.

The thought of us meeting creatures who don't even operate on the same theory of consciousness, yet have the power to dissect us or wipe us out with impunity is just naturally terrifying. At least with humans, you can find motivations and reasons to work with each other. With an alien, who the fuck knows if the thing you're speaking to is even sapient? It could be a living creature with all the operation of a machine, mimicking sapience but working under scenarios and logic situations, but with the ability to toss an RKKV our way. Trying to talk to it would be like the Chinese room argument.

>>50045246

That doesn't mean that killing eachother is inevitable, we study eachother from a distance until we understand eachother enough that we are slightly less scared.

>>50045290
Or they go full space imperialist on us because they're more advanced than we are.

If I had that story comparing human revolution against alien imperialism with Gandhi and India I'd post it

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>>50045363
What do they have to gain?

>>50045418
Resources, land, water, a workforce if they need it, a puppet state to order around, a garden world to xenoform (assuming they work roughly around the same biochemistry we do), plenty of stuff on Earth and (and its possible colonies) to take

>>50045652
>water
Literally the most common molecule consisting of more than one element existent in the universe.

>>50045702
Okay, not water, but that doesn't rule out the other reasons

>>50045957
What resources do we have that others do not?

One idea I had, was interstellar colonization mission in which return to homeworld is impractical, they did not know if life was here.

>>50022824
>I'm not sure what evolutionary advantage intelligence would provide for a large powerful animal.
We have elephants and whales. Long childhoods + social complexity.

Also, gorillas and dolphins are also technically filed under the label of "megafauna" as are humans.

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>>50046031
>What resources do we have that others do not?
Meat and vegetables

>>50046177
Our particular plant and animal life probably aren't valuable to aliens. The general environmental conditions on the planet might be.

>>50046327
Nah, still easier to maintain a space colony than try to fix all the weird things in another planet's chemistry that might be bad for you.
>>50045652
None of these really make sense if they have any reasonable amount of tech.

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>>50046655
>None of these really make sense if they have any reasonable amount of tech.
And what exactly IS a reasonable amount of tech? They aren't gonna pull resources out of thin air, and mining on an actual planet has got to be easier than using up fuel to rocket around the asteroid belt all the time.

And don't space colonies require a whole lot of maintenance to keep working, while having your population be vulnerable to solar radiation and all kinds of degenerative conditions from zero gravity?

>>50016717
Great read. thanks anon

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>>50037602

"So they were made into disembodied cultures of skin and muscle, connected by a
skimpy network of the most basic nerves. They were employed as living filtering devices,
subsisting on the waste products of Qu civilization like mats of cancer cells. And just to
witness and suffer their wretched fate, their eyes, together with their consciousness,
were retained.

For forty million years they suffered; generation after generation were born into
the most miserable of lives while absorbing the pain of all that they were going through.

When the Qu left, they hoped for a quick extinction. But their lowliness had also
made them efficient survivors. Unchecked by the Qu, the colonials spread across the
planet in quilt-like fields of human flesh."

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>>50044775
They're not so bad.

>>50046729
If you have the tech to travel between worlds, you might as well be able to pull resources out of the air. And even if you can't you can find more resources on asteroids.

The only reasons to go to war in space are either ideological, or self defense. The latter including preemptive attacks against races that might be threats in the distant future, and the former including supposedly "altruistic" intervention.

An alien race might not care about our material wealth, but they could very well decide that it's their duty to make sure we conform to their societal values.

>>50046729
Also, it takes a lot more fuel to extract resources from a planet than it does to extract resources from the asteroid belt. Gravity sucks.

>>50040868
anymore like this?

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>>50028310
More inspiration for you

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>>50049661
I wish it was possible to ask Orcas why they do things like launching a 200lb seal 80 feet into the air.

I feel like the answer is probably just "It's more fun this way."

>>50049718

I bet it tenderizes them good.

>>50049718
....don't you tenderize your steaks?

>>50019399
pupeteers from the ringworld books
>>50019412

they are "smarter" than humans and run away from everything

>>50049969
I legitimately do not, do you?

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https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03031

Aliens soon lads.

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>>50049718
Yup. Basically imagine a matriarchal biker gang of sadists and rapists. That's the Transients. The Residents are... a slightly less violent gang of post-apocalyptic survivors holed up in a secure bunker.

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>tfw people being spirited away by fairies actually are being abducted by autistic aliens

>>50049718
That particular whale may be aware of what merry hell terminal velocity and surface tension plays on a body.

>>50045135
You've obviously never been to the ghetto before, have you?

>>50049969
Not that anon, but I don't. What I do is marinade them for a full 12 hours in an airtight sealed bag.

>>50050991
>marinade
>steak
If you're doing that to any decent cut of meat, then you might as well be cooking them well done to boot.

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>god dammit these aren't space pictures... what the fuck is /tg/ arguing abou-
>>50020835

>>50042822

...please do

>>50021443
What makes it an oxymoron?

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>>50016234
Ayy patrician taste my bro.

Gyrosprinter is my personal favourite though.

>>50019983
Is that the Gonarch?

>>50050678
I wish

>>50048100
Now that most certainly didn't make me moist.

>>50046729
>mining on an actual planet has got to be easier than using up fuel to rocket around the asteroid belt all the time
Not really. Most of your assumptions about what aliens would want seem to be based on fundamental misunderstandings or grasping for any excuse to fulfill your need for them to be evil conquerors.

>>50040868
this realm is too magical.

>>50046729
>mining on an actual planet has got to be easier than using up fuel to rocket around the asteroid belt all the time.
As opposed to using up fuel to launch all of your mined resources into space.

>>50030085
Rick and Morty.

>>50058968
get fucking rea

l>>50030085
Expedition by Wayne Barlowe

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>>50050683
>TFW the oldest known Orca is 105 years old.
>TFW orcas are probably the most intelligent non-human animal.

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>>50059274
>>50049718
>>50049661
>>50049102

http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/WattsChanner_Bulk_Food.pdf

This story is definitely worth a read if you're interested in this sort of thing.

>>50059344
That was a funny story, but there's a very good reason Orcas don't eat humans, even though they tottaly could. We are mostly skin and bones. A bunch of skinny hippies won't have enough fat content to feed them.

Also While it's true that wild Orcas have high infant mortality rates, and that we shouldn't expect a predator species to conform to our modern judeo-christian "slave" morality, I don't think selling young males to bloodthirsty Japanese tourists would be economically sustainable for either party.

>>50059790
>A bunch of skinny hippies won't have enough fat content to feed them.

I read it more as "ooh, a luxury treat!". Presumably the aquarium people also help out with proper meat and not just hippies. The hippies are just like the orca steaks; a rare and delicious snack that's more of a status symbol than actual nutrition.

>n't think selling young males to bloodthirsty Japanese tourists would be economically sustainable for either party.

Well, the whales aren't exactly going to beat us on the SAT. It's a good deal for the humans - we're not sure what the whales are getting out of it, other than the occasional hippie snack.

>>50042207
yeah! Hiver vs Zuul!
sword of the stars for the win!

>>50059860
For a luxury treat to make sense, it has to taste better than what they normally eat. Sharks only "attack" humans because they are too dumb to realize we aren't seals and because they investigate things by biting them, as soon as they actually taste us they usually swim off in search of something with a higher fat content, leaving the human to bleed to death.

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>>50060819
Not true. Caviar tastes lousy. Pufferfish is leathery. Lots of human luxury food is... kind of shit from a nutrition perspective. If caloric content were the only arbiter you'd need to get reservations to go to McDonalds.

In the story, the Orcas eat humans because they know we're intelligent and it's a rush to eat something intelligent.

>>50060915
Then why do Orcas not eat humans now when they have the chance? Transients literally eat anything else in the water. As far as apex predators go they are among the largest in the world, beaten out only by sperm whales and giant squids.

>>50061509

I hear Humboldt squid will eat people. Fishermen down around Baja California are apparently more afraid of them than sharks -- you can see the sharks, they're very showy, but those six-foot squid come up from below in groups and drag you down and rip you to little bitty pieces to eat.

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>>50061975
>boobs on aliens
Magical Realm bullshit.

>>50062574
And that's image cap. Anyone up for a new thread?

>>50062654
Can we bicker about the aliens posted in this thread until we hit the bump limit instead?

>>50056857
>fulfill your need for them to be evil conquerors
Its not like nature or history has shown reason to be optimistic about people meeting each other, humans meeting new animals, or animals waging war with each other

>>50062916
This thread has already outlined plenty of reasons to conquer that don't involve measly planetary resources.

>>50062654
I am up for a new thread, perhaps with talk about how to play alien characters, make them memorable. And also how to handle alien NPCs in an interesting way.

>>50062654
>>50063133
New thread up >>50063651

>>50041108
That's because it is not really about the science fiction part. The story is written as a social allegory (very much like Wells' The War of the Worlds) and the author rather un-subtly says what they want the reader to get from it at the end.

In terms of the science fiction and the pictures, the author is supposed to be an alien living a long time after the last post-humans died out and they are drawing pictures based on what they think the post-humans looked like.

>>50048611
birrin is not for sexual

>>50041913
Endless Space? Hopefully the sequel will be good