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How has this not come up? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
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[–] 56 points 6 months ago (10 children)

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  • [–] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    his (assuming he?) existence can be compared to that of Carcinisation. some species just always evolve into crabs, some always evolve into amorphous tar blobs that embody evil.

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  • [–] 17 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    One head-type-thing and four limb-type-things, with only two being primarily locomotive, makes that more humanoid than not on an intergalactic body plan scale.

    We are very bad at thinking up truly alien life.

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I respect the constraints of production budgets. I don't expect TV aliens to look much different than people with some crap glued to their face.

    Mass Effect at least branched out a little. But all of the squad mates were still basically humanoid. I expect they used mocap and similar limitations. Though it really could have benefitted from an Elcor squad mate.

    "Irritated; you are a jackass... Captain. Irreverent; the cultists... Do not matter. Hopeful; bombard them from orbit and let's... Go."

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I don't expect TV aliens to look much different than people with some crap glued to their face.

    I mean.. I kinda do.. especially these days when CGI makes up more than half of your budget for nonsense reasons. Why don't they try harder? They could and it would cost them zero extra.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    The Hooloovoo resemble a super-intelligent shade of the colour blue. One was seen in a prism for Zaphod Beeblebrox's address upon stealing the Heart of Gold. On certain special occasions, such as the aforementioned Presidential event, they refract into a free-standing prism.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    Ok, fair enough, I’ll give us one example of being good at it, as the exception that proves the rule.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I can't find the name of them but in one of the Star Wars novels the Millenium Falcon ends up trapped in some ice caverns and they encounter sentient clouds of gas, methane iirc.

    So we do have some people making up cool aliens.

    Oh, the Pequeninos in Speaker for the Dead. They were sentient humanoid beings that became the trees of their world when they died. There's more to it than that, but that's the gist.

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