Fantasy or science fiction setting

fantasy or science fiction setting

humans are the most common race with no defining attributes besides being an all rounder

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Profound mental illness

but thats the best part, it makes the ayys seem more exotic and interesting

stop making threads about every image you think is amusing even though it has nothing to do with video games and then coming up with a post that has the word games in it that you dont actually give a fuck about you just wanted to post your retarded picture because you are 14 and think its funny

It's much worse, it's the same picture and text reposted over and over and over

ayy lmao

That rabbit thing sure is cute. I hope it doesn't commit some sort of heinous warcrime!

humans have more willpower, charm and ability to rally other races behind them despite other races predating them on a technological and evolutionary level

so we're the CHA build race, nice

I want a science fiction setting where humans are the best at using vehicles, zipping around at speeds that would make other races crash.

They're capable of interstellar travel but they don't know what prions are?

Reminds me of how Mayans and Aztecs somehow built large, monumental pyramids of stone yet didn't have beasts of burden or the wheel.

Is that a wayne barlowe monster on the bottom? Kek good taste

I like the idea that humans are the good enough race rather than the true generalist. You grab human mercs or research teams cause they're usually good enough to not need babysitting and always available, but lose hard to any real specialist.
Still though, they tend to have random skills, that are even useful sometimes Why yes, that assistant gunner does have a basic cert in xeno-medicine. Why? He says he was bored, and took some classes.

stop posting your furry faggotry you nigger

need a game where youre in a small research crew living in a space colony/ship (like how they have crews who live in antarctica stations) alongside other xeno species
i dont even know what the gameplay would be, thats just a cool setting.

humans are elves of the setting(high tech, decadent society in decline)

humans are orcs of the setting(low tech, warlike, honor-based society)

humans are dwarves of the setting(medium tech, isolationist, mining/industrial society)

Which of these is the best?

I should try reading that again, last time I was caught up with the story was after the human terrorist attack. That must have been at least three years ago.

probably something to do with rainforests

They're going to be the baseline race because they ARE the baseline race. They're what you know and are used to (presuming you are also Human) so it makes sense for them to be designed as the 'normal' race.
I mean what else would they be? What characteristic of mankind do we think we 100% do better than ayys? Sometimes we also get to be the most creative/individualistic, but even then I think that's pretty lame.

Little of all three. Make humans imperialistic, dependent on mining moons, asteroids or other worlds for resources and colonization, and their society on decline to the reliance on tech and needing more resources to feed their imperialism and self-destructive habits. I don't know I feel like Alien and Dead Space pretty much fit this bill but I'm sure theres others. Anytime I've lurked 40k threads humans seem to align with that too but I could be wrong.

sex with space cats

Humans are able to function instinctively as a group and develop large scale social structures. It seems like this would be a prerequisite to developing interstellar travel but other races might have managed without. Humans could be comparatively much more social than giant plant men or sentient sea cucumbers

could be like voices of the void where you collect space data? with alien romance options

You could go the endless space route and have humans take multiple positions depending on their culture and empire.

I don't know how an alien society would develop interstellar travel without some sort of overarching society. Scientific advancement sort of requires building off previous generation, it isn't a one man job.
I guess if they lived forever or had an inherit means (lake space whales) that would be different.

Look at Halo where a bunch of alien races found technology, somehow learned how to make it work and built an empire of genocide and zealotry around it.

Humanbros... why are we so weak???

how Mayans and Aztecs somehow built large, monumental pyramids of stone yet didn't have beasts of burden or the wheel.

yeah because Amazon sucks

I still they they would need to eventually form a society to keep something like that working.
You make a good point though, that would be an interesting species background

"Hot humans near you!"

Based

sure, but having all the time in the world gives you at least a chance to create a spacecraft

Jokes aside how else are you supposed to do it? Imagine other types of life that evolves and they don't have water to boil, do they get stuck in the stoneage?

nah, genuinely not being contrarian. im just weird in the head man. as long as she is sentient and we connected personally, i am down for it.
of course i also have my limits though, but they reach pretty far. i dont hold tastes like these for anyone or for appearances. its simply what i like

V3 never ever. Just wait for Mohrta instead.
store.steampowered.com/app/2881610/Mohrta/

already played the demo and its on my wishlist. i love all the interesting designs, its so bizarre and fresh

The good news is that we dont even have to consider that as an option until we have definite proof that life can even evolve at all without water.

Isn't this whole story just a series of misunderstandings and everyone actually gets along pretty well in the end?

lol no it tries to make you believe that early on but in the end everyone finds out that evil space jews are just playing both sides

you will never team up with alien spacebros to topple the spacejew empire

feels fucking rancid man

I always wondered where this whole "don't blink" staring contest thing comes from. Is it some regional thing? When I was a kid, you lost if you laughed, not if you blinked, and everyone just made ridiculous grimaces.

>humans are the most common race

That usually makes sense because usually you play from a human perspective, it's not that humans ARE the most common but it's who the MC surrounds themselves with

>with no defining attributes besides being an all rounder

Again, it's the human-centric perspective. +10 to strength means absolutely nothing without something to compare it to. Even the number itself right here can mean:
Almost nothing in for example World of Warcraft
A nice chunk but not much in D100 PnP systems
Absolutely broken much in D20 PnP systems

in my school (US) we had staring contests (no blinking) as well as dont-laugh contests. i never heard of them combined though

If humans weren't an all-rounder, what would you make them specialized in relative to the other races?

Endurance.

Endurance, obviously. No other animal is as hardy as humans.

humans arent actually "all rounder" in the nature of predators

most of the aliens in that setting are weak herbivore creatures so humans absolutely mog them all physically, this along with binocular predator vision absolutely terrifies them too

Intimacy.

im really on board with this guys idea all the races want to rally behind or with us. we're natural leaders among species who tend to be follower-coded

Seems neat, though I am very skeptical about first-person indie adventure games after recent blunders.

So Star Trek.
Despite the Klingons and Vulcans warping around the quadrant for hundreds of years before humans invented the lightbulb, somehow humans end up ruling the Federation and convince the aliens to give them all their tech.

nta but its made in doom engine or something, gz doom? something like that

Its a gamble, but nothing like a little bully helps if they stray from the path. Its two devs this time.

Based.
I unironically think this about any amount of furshit. Its an attention/reaction fetish.

post the rabbit stew one

Humans are so dangerously OP (more so if they're genetically tamped) that they end up making colonized Romulan the "human race" in STO

even going full Medieval Village that get destroyed

most of the story end up assuming you're the Romulan character

I still find it funny to this day

there was this one 'humanity fuck yeah' short story I really liked. I don't remember all the details, but it went like this

humans get introduced to alien space council (or maybe there was a war, don't remember)

aliens see humans as weak, inferior, dumber etc

alien societies are clean, efficient, largely robotic and soulless

they watch the humans closely and slowly get introduced to more and more human culture

at the end of the story, one of the high ranking aliens commanders has started to wear a scarf like humans do and the other aliens comment about it

Is this from a specific setting or is it just some generic HFY art?

nah, project harder. its a fetish, and fetishes cant be helped.
it literally makes me harder than any human woman does. thats not "contrarianism." youre just so vanilla that you cant comprehend fetishes i guess - which isnt a problem, just dont project it.

that sounds funny
I somewhat enjoyed one that had the premise that all the alien food was extremely utilitarian and their first experience with sugar-fat-salt correctly ratioed almost gave them an existential crisis. its been done again but people make the alien's cum from it and I think thats tacky.

It's called "The Nature of Predators"

whatever you want. In fantasy games they're usually the race with better tech so intelligence is obvious. For sci fi settings you could make them the physically strongest race, or have them be a zerg rushing strength in numbers race like starship troopers.

I can go both ways sometimes it feels like "look how weird and not normal my boner is" but at the same time people do be that fucked up. I feel like a lot of it comes down to that weird feeling when someone has the same fetish as you but they're "doing it wrong"
I like weird aliens too but they're at least in eye shot of humanly attractive. Like they're weird but there's an obvious attractive aesthetic they're built around, a lot of the advance shit feels like they took a diagram of a Precambrian lifeform and went "yeah I just cum SO hard to this"
I know my porn isn't normal but do you really get off to goats with lord zedd face grills and klinefelter proportions?

People act like human exceptionalism isn't a common trait in science fiction when it's one of most ancient and played out ones in the genre.

Damn, I don't remember getting off to being contrarian. Guess all the terato content I felt aroused by was because I was secretly thinking about how unique I appeared in the eyes of others!
Retard.

YWNBAJ

You know what, I think STD season 1 COULD have been a very interesting story...if the writers had the balls to make both the Federation and their girl boss characters the villains of the larger narrative. Let the Feddies drop a bomb that horribly irradiates the Klingon homeworld. Let them deal with the moral ambiguity of the aftermath. Give a greater reason why the Klingons despised the Federation for so long and show that the Fedrats are willing to actually fight to maintain their ideological framework.

But they pussied out.

Solution: Here's four distinct variations of human

They are all racist. They are surrounded by other races who are also racist. Sometimes races form temporary alliances so they can be racist together.

Characters frequently defy your racial expectations. They also frequently meet your racial expectations. Just like real life.

It is a flawless system that they will fucking ruin in TESVI because they won't make it racist enough.

what if humanity was the big bad

I love this trope but there's only a handful of examples

you guys want Undertale

Avatar is the only one that comes to mind.

I don't fully agree, any particularly defined traits for humans makes a statement on why that's notable compared to the aliens. It's taking human traits that we take for granted and recontextualizing them to make the ayys more unusual.

fuck aliens

I like to imagine humans as a species of extremes. On one hand, they can express abhorrent brutality with complete lack of care for the lives of others or even their own. Yet on the other, they can show saintly compassion, willing to help anyone and anything for no reason other than they "feel" like it.

Cha Build, avoids the pitfalls of physically capping your universe as well as making it easier to have an avenue to better interact with all the other species.

avatar

humans are the bad guys

the only bad guy is the protag who sold out the humans for alien pussy. Genesis Rising is the only other good example I have of humans being the worst space race

Do you think aliens would become romeaboos?

killing people and destroying the environment to get money is bad actually

Jake Sully was an idiot who got blinded by pussy so fastwhile also failing to actually help the people he went native for. Morn seriously forgot to warn them that they were getting forcibly evicted
But Humans in avatar are so fucking lame and are only enjoyable if you're looking at them like Orcs where the fun is that they're just so fucking terrible. but I don't get the feeling that's how they're actually enjoyed. Like that gay ass copypasta of Quattrich really just feels like "yeah I really think these guys are cool and right"

good boy UN Federation humans got Earth blown the fuck out by xenos and the surviving refugees realize the edgy militaristic humans were right all along.

stellaris trailer lore is pretty based.

It's more that in both movies, the humans are made to be almost comically evil in their desire to destroy the planet for an incredibly important resource for space travel, then in the next it's immediately brushed aside that humanity has decided to just abandon a dying Earth in favor of Pandora yet the main problem with them this time is killing space whales...for serum that extends lifespans?

There's more fucking subtlety in a children's cartoon.

No, we want Undertale but we fuck every alien and impregnate them with out seed. Sadly, Meandraco is too far gone

influence
aliens would get addicted to memes, movies, shows, games
alien news would start to reflect human news

alien neet problem on the rise

why is alien youth consuming so much human media?

top 10 human films about us (were we the aliens all along?)

why humans love fighting aliens in videogames so much

The humans were literally alien invaders.

money

Oh I'm sure someone is getting rich in the scenario, but at the end of the day it was about the survival of humanity and that movie is misanthropic trash.

If there's nothing to compare us to there's no way to know.

Empathy and negotiation. Maybe humans are uniquely good at modeling others' thoughts in their own minds and determining what they want. Maybe we have a knack for moral reasoning.

In the Three-Body Problem setting, the way the aliens communicate with each other doesn't allow what they "say" to be different from what they think, so they have no concept of what lying is. When a human explains it to them, they get scared and stop communicating with humans at all for a while.

Maybe but I have a hard time believing Aliens could contextualize the history of a alien species to such a specific cross-section. Even humans have a difficult time viewing our own history without being so broad. Typical Human Romaboos tend to paint the topic broadly themselves.
How would you even explain Rome to aliens

Okay get this bro, they managed to take over 3/4 s of a subcontinent and lock down most the inland coastline for a few decades and didn't lose it completely until a few centuries later

What the fuck does that mean to an alien? The reason we as humans are really interested in Rome and our own History is because we have a personal context for how far we've come and how similar we still are. The fascination with Humanities usually boils down to a fascination with Humanity.

Because better writers liked the setting and started writing fanfic better than the original. By the end of the first one, I was just skimming through the chapters so I wouldn't miss any references used by the fics I followed

somehow humans end up ruling the Federation and convince the aliens to give them all their tech.

You should watch ENT. That's not what happens at all. Vulcans basically soft conquer Earth ("We're advisors here to help make sure you don't get into trouble by meeting new alien species before you're ready, we're just going to hobble you for 50 to 100 years until we're certain you're not a threat to us."), then when the humans are allowed out on their own they start meeting aliens.
Since humans aren't (yet) stogy, egotistical retards like the Vulcans, nor particularly possessed by the specific regional politics of various neighbor alien species, they're free to do what humans do best: fuck for hours.

Even before the arrival of humans onto the scene, the Vulcans have been whispering amongst themselves about the insatiable appetites of female humans that need to be fucked for hours, and human men that need to fuck several times a day.
By the time Humans were finally ready to meet alien diplomats, it was already game over for whole swathes of technologically advanced, culturally rich, highly organized, independent species.
All of them fall to human dick, and the promise of being able to visit human planets, human stations, human beaches, hang out at human bars, fuck and be fucked by humans.

well how does that translate to "give humanity their technology"?

It doesn't. What happens is a busty human science officer goes "Oh wow, what's that thing? that's so cool, that's really impressive; why don't you tell me every single detail you can in an effort to impress me? That's amazing! Can I borrow this? What if I do this thing with my mouth again, apparently your species females are barred from doing this because of weird esoteric religious reasons? That's pretty interesting! *glorp glorp glorp* Thanks for letting me borrow this, I'll have it back to you in a few days! See you later tonight?"

Humans are mammals, which means they're small, highly energetic and heavy with solid bones.
A reptile alien would have a slower metabolism so could grow larger over a longer life, but would be sluggish.
Dino or bird aliens would have fast metablisms like humans, but would have air-sacs in bones so could be lighter for size as well as egg-laying allowing for larger child size or larger child numbers (live birth pregnancies are energy-intensive because the fetus has to be carried around for its development so it limits babby size)

But Humans would have the best hands: apes are "animals" like how we think a cat or dolphin is an animal, yet even in "animal form" they still have the best hands. If you evolved a cat into a person it would have retarded hands, if you evolved a dolphin into a person it would have fucking no hands. Apes evolved into a type of intelligent alien would have the best hands.

Utterly wrong Reddit knowledge.
Wolves, hyenas, reindeer, horses, wilder-beast, kangaroos and camels can all easily outrun humans by gigantic margins.

No contrarianism here
Woman + nice + gets pregnant is all I need to work with, whether human or monster

Venlil were made for interspecies conception

Humans have excellent endurance and migratory ability compared to other apes. Obviously properly quadrupedal animals are better at running both short and long distances.
As far as I am concerned, having good hands is a prerequisite for developing advanced civilization.

we are a proud and ancient race of warriors, mystics and farmers who care little for the affairs of outsider barbarians

"but I want to be a slutty pop idol singer like the cool humans on the galactic network!"

based Macross.

Humanity is just lucky. We observe the Fermi Paradox because we've actually just developed improbably early in the lifespan of the universe. Because of that, we end up with big advantages in tech, information, and territory.

filthy lefthander redguards

human

lmao

we're the only species made in God's image, and we will remind them all

Birds could use beaks or feet, elephants could use trunks, something like a raccoon could use their "hands" as well they just wouldn't be as good.
I think it's possible, they'd just need to use tools more so civilisation would take longer to start off until they accumulated enough tool know-how.

I think a learnable language is the only mandatory prerequisite, and that means not having an instinctual language that gets in the way.
Whales and birds will never become civilised as long as they're yelling all that gibberish!

The problem with the Human Race is that you have to consider that 90% of the race is either basket ball players, [[merchant]], 711 cashiers, or bugs. Why the fuck do you want to associate with that?

what if we genetically engineered ourselves into becoming space elves?

the implication that the intelligent aliens we meet traveling the galaxy are actually just a single ethnicity of their entire species and they don't really want to talk about what their home planet is like

here his your new space elf

you rike?

Predators? YOU? What a fucking joke. The average human can barely lift their own weight in the morning to go to work and you're expecting to scare off other species with actually relevant physical prowess?
motherfucker. YOU would be the cannon fodder WE use. You're OURS.

you need to overcome your racism if you want to promote speciesism

humans are the oldest civilization in the universe

by the time we went to space, the next most evolved species on the line was a single-celled organism

by the time we achieve interstellar travel, they'll still be swimming in a pool of primordial muck

before they have their first sentient thought, we've long since vanished from the memory of the universe

Endurance

willpower

Intimacy

sex, sex will always be the answer.
There WERE other hominids on this planet,and we didn't kill them but probably fucked them to extinction.
If there weren't a fantasy copout like the kid always being like the mom then we probably fuck any species thats compatible with us to extinction given enough time.

The average human can barely lift their own weight in the morning to go to work

Reminder that any planet with a gravitational force slightly larger than earths is not capable of conventional space travel using known physics because the ships cant even leave its own gravity well.

This looks pretty cool but calling these things human is a bit of a stretch.

Wouldn't that also lead to OUR extinction as well if more people fuck the aliens then other humans? Or would that create new species of homo sapiens?

What's the context of this? Are they gonna rape it? Eat it?

They are friends :)

I think it's more likely we killed them and then raped their daughters. That's more consistent with human behavior than friendly relationships between tribes.

Eyes in front of face=Predator.
Prey have the eyes at the sides of the head to extend their range of vision to detect predators, predators have the eyes at the front of the face to make it easier to follow the prey during a chase.

canonically, humans fuck venlil, not that one though it's just a helpful little murderer

humanity will be the ancient alien civilization the rest of the universe will uncover remnants of and can only take educated guesses on trying to piece our history and culture together

what a strange timeline

Imagine the aliens in a trillion years finding a server full of hentai.

how do you do, fellow humans? I'll have you know I'm 14% human myself genetically, with some bhoredar, yihva, melesin, beev, nyurgalgu, and a cute smidge of kkgegah too! I'm practically pureblooded terran.

Damn I really gotta buy this.

You might also want to look up the Prophet reboot.

Eyes in front of face/binocular vision doesn't 100% mean predator. It's mostly means that the animal in question needs to better judge depth rather than having a huge FoV.
Sharks, most of snakes and fish, and Crocodiles/Alligators don't have front facing eyes and those are all predators.
Meanwhile all primates have front facing eyes while only humans and smaller monkeys who eat insects actually hunt instead of being opportunistic omnivores.
Invertebrates also throw this whole thing outta whack but it's fine to ignore them because those little cunts need to stay in their own lane.

that's just a human woman dipped in paint. might as well think elves are exotic because they have pointy ears.

I need me a Tymbrimi girl.

the conditions for life on earth to be possible are so specific, that even our primordial common ancestor connects us all to life

alien that looks humanoid is just 'le too lazy'

I think the want for spectacular design over the idea that alien life on our level, would yield creatures with similar living conditions and in turn similar biology, is a skill issue.
Star Trek did it better than Star Wars, you'd get Klingons and Vulcans more than Gungans and Jabbas.

All the aliens are afraid of humanity because we're a bunch of weirdo rapists who will fuck anything

Ayo, where all the three-boobed wimmen at?

WE use

Ours

anon?

destroying the environment to get money is bad actually

Why? Why is "the environment" something that inherently needs protecting? Is it not part of human NATURE and the natural order of things for humanity to utterly dominate? Denying humanity ownership over anything it can establish ownership over goes against humanity's nature

I like the Idea of Humans being the strong race because every race eventually priorities intelligence over strength and humans are just the young race that hasn't physically devolved as much. A human to an alien is what a gorilla is to a human but since humans are intelligent enough for basic tasks they're the preferred race for anything that doesn't involve hyper intelligence.

Is there any setting like that? Usually humans are always inferior in every way to an alien but somehow are still the strongest race because of the indomitable human spirit.

In fantasy, get rid of fucking dwarves and make humans the tech race. I'm tired of those bearded midgets appropriating human ingenuity. Other critters can have magic, but tech is ours.

ackshualey redguards technically aren't human, since they share no common ancestry with any other race on tamriel. they are more alien than even argonians.

AND THAT'S A GOOD THING

different games
the make each other laugh one is a more social thing, people clowning and having fun
no blink staring contests are part of the willpower test category with stuff like bloody knuckles, though a much tamer version

They're weebs. Of course they aren't human.

niggers

the least human ones

less human than a race that can literally just be feral cats

What did Todd mean by this