How do you like your aliens, /tg/?

>>51720702
Highly sexual

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>>51720709
agreed

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old school

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>>51722315

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I'm a sucker for green-skinned space babes.

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Space apes

On a scale from Star Trek to Lovecraft, i'd like them to fall somewhere in the middle: Clearly different and non-human, but just on this side of understandable.

>>51722375
So, somewhere around the Mass Effect level of aliens?

>>51722207
Vette is for gently loving

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>>51722324

>>51722407
Didn't even think of that, but yes, for the most part. But leaning more toward Turians then Assari, on that spectrum.

And, now that i think about it, the Prawns from District 9 are another example.

>>51722671
I don't know, human-like aliens could be done kinda well if it was the "Human enough to be able to easily associate with, but alien enough to make our lizard brains go FUCK NAW! if in a prolonged interaction"

>>51722742
I don't necessarily dislike human-like aliens, it really depends on the context, which especially when it comes to TTRPGs can vary widely.
A hard sci-fi game aboard a derelict spaceship, adrift in the blackness of space needs wholly different Aliens than a pulpy space-opera where you are soldiers of fortune, hopping between planets like its nothing.

Me, personally, would really love to run or play a game that's somewhere between Star Trek and Star Game, with cool and somewhat different Aliens.

>>51720702
Oddly sympathetic Von Neumann probes.

>>51722821
To be fair, humanoid aliens isn't not hard sci-fi if you're one of those people that think convergent evolution is a universal thing as opposed to something that's limited to the local planetary body.

>>51723000
Not disputing that, but in a hard sci-fi game the Start Trek Aliens that are just humans with weird eyebrows or something like that are straining it imo.

>>51722375
Don't know what you're talking about here. Most ME aliens are basically just human reskins with a couple of quirks on top. There's not much alien about them, apart from a couple of "out-there" things that are grafted on so you have something to point at and say "HUMANS DON'T DO OR HAVE THAT THESE MUST BE ALIENS". Appearance-wise, they tend to either be clearly based on a human template, or have at least one obvious Earth analogue. The closest we got to a possible alien (that I can recall) was the Thorian, and even that was still fucked up by it being a sentient plant.

I guess there's the Reapers, but their Lovecraftian facade kind of fell away as their motives became clearer. In the end, they just turned out to be a variant on the classic "AI develops warped ideas about the nature of organic life and goes rogue" trope.

>>51720702
Purged with the Emperor's cleansing flame.

>>51723194
>Imperium
>xenophobia
pick one

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>>51720702
I like them spooky

>>51723192
Responded to wrong comment.

>>51723000
Yeah. I could see convergent evolution causing a handful of broad, general traits to occur independently on different planets. Not basically remaking whole terrestrial organisms on other worlds though.

Little grey men who say "ayy lmao"

>>51720702
> How do you like your aliens, /tg/?
Deported.

In all seriousness, Grays aka ayy lmaos are fine.

>>51720702
if that kind of alien has appeared in media before, i want it too
>green skinned space babe
good for orgies
>insectoid aliens
good for killing
>normal humans with a single exaggerated feature
they make good friends
>robo aliens
really cool
>energy balls
for that eldritch zing

>TL;DR
i want ALL the aliens

>>51720702
purged

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Unknowable, indescribable, inhuman timeless super intelligences.

Entities so intelligent and powerful, they'd make a super intelligent general AI the size of a dyson sphere shake with fear.

>>51720702
In my own writing, I like my aliens alien, because I tend towards harder sci-fi. Not transparent human reskins - if I need human-like characters, I use humans. Not just some other Earth organism that's been upscaled, or given sentience either. If I need leopards that can solve differential equations, I have a bunch of humans perform some genetic fuckery on leopards to give them human-level intelligence, or something like that.

I have no problem with more human-like aliens in other settings though, just as long as they don't try and say "it's hard sci-fi guize" at the same time. As with all things, it depends how they're used. I definitely find more Lovecraftian aliens interesting though, since I'm a sucker for mystery and cosmic horror-type shit.

>/tg/ doesn't take OP's bait

I'm simultaneously proud as fuck and disappointed as fuck.

>>51723512
Maybe OP should have posted a better 2hu than one of the smug assholes from the moon

>>51722207
>by the way, I found my old shock collar
what did she mean by this?

>>51720709
FPBP

>>51723297
>reading Atomic Rockets
>suddenly a little piece on how if you have a universe that goes through a cycle of big crunches, you can have advanced aliens that build habitats in orbit within a certain point around a certain type of black hole and survive the various big crunches because nothing around the black hole is affected
>aliens that might not be billions of years more advanced than mankind
>aliens that are actually trillions upon trillions of years more advanced than mankind

I have the hardest hardscifi cosmic horror boner right now.

>>51723561
Or just posted a better moonbitch. technically, eiren, kaguya, and reisen would all count.

>>51723205
HERETIC DETECTED!
*BLAM!*

>>51723263
FOR THE EMPEROR!

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>>51723773
>HERETIC DETECTED!
Say it to your new Emperor and his new Aeldari friends.

>>51723750
He didn't even post the better of the two worst moonbitches.

Also I think the gu gets into the list on a technicality.

>>51723885
gu?

>>51723957
Sagume. Stuck doing goddess work on moon with the worst case of "shouldn't have said that" you'll see for a while.

>>51723989
ah, i see.

To be fair, trimming down a name by 2/3 will leave people understandably confused unless they know you.

If we're really getting that technical, there's also reisen (the other one), and perhaps sakuya though that isn't confirmed.

>>51720702
Sexy

>>51723512
>/tg/ doesn't take OP's bait
>I'm simultaneously proud as fuck and disappointed as fuck.
I didn't know that was anything other than "generic anime girl" until people replied to your post.

>>51724194
Like i said, proud as fuck and disappointed as fuck, simultaneously.

On one hand, i was hopin for a touhou thread, where this usually devolves too. On the other hand, i'm proud that /tg/ didn't take the bait for once. I just wish they'd chosen different bait to ignore.

>>51724213
I'm sure I'm not the only fish on the board who doesn't think random anime girls look like tasty worms.

>>51724224
Oh, not at all. What i'm saying is that the first pic can often decide the fate of a thread due to bandwagon effect. In this case, /tg/ as a whole resisted that.

Or you are all actually aliens. Thats a possibility too i suppose.

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>how do you like your aliens?

Well done

>>51724224
>>51724213
>proud that /tg/ has been taken over by asexual autists who care more about PnP and metal figurines than the actual franchises they come from

>>51724284
Been here since 2007, still don't know exactly what a Touhou is, other than "some vidya-based anime series that neckbears fap to".

>>51722929
this pham

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adaptable

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>>51724272

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Illegal

>>51720702
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL2FbGH2DDs

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>>51722929

WE COME IN PEACE

PRIORITY OVERRIDE: MUST BREAK TARGET INTO COMPONENT MATERIALS

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>>51722929

>>51720702
Mixed. Space Elves/Not!Humans/Green Babes, classic Greys/ >>51722315 tier stuff, Elder Things/Mi-Go/"Starfish" Aliens, and even more exotic stuff are all fine. In any given setting though, care must be taken to have some fucking consistency. If most of your aliens are Lovecraft or weirder, Space Elves don't belong and had better be well explained if they appear. Same goes for the reverse.

>>51720702
Full of human semen.

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cute

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Just fuck them up desu senpai.

>>51720702
>>51725834
Not looking like anime girls

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Like eldritch abominations.

>>51720709
/thread

>>51723710
>suddenly a little piece on how if you have a universe that goes through a cycle of big crunches, you can have advanced aliens that build habitats in orbit within a certain point around a certain type of black hole and survive the various big crunches because nothing around the black hole is affected
You realize this is patently fucking bullshit right?

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>>51724468
It's a bullet hell game with terribad art but somehow became absolutely massive and got fanart 100000 times better than the actual art.

>>51720702
Swordians.

>>51723710
If black holes could be created but not destroyed then after a finite number of cycles the universe would consist of nothing but black holes.

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>>51731914
If they can't kiss you back, they're worth exterminating!

>Pic related also applies