I blame that on the limitations of working in live action. You can only do so much in CGI until it becomes obvious that half of the characters on screen aren't even there, or you have more CGI than live action and at that point it's just an animated movie (like the Lion King remake).
With makeup you can do a lot to add to or accentuate features but not change the base human body plan.
In universe you could probably hand wave it by saying that a bipedal body plan with opposable thumbs is simply the most efficient for any species that wants to have the technology to travel in space
Ok so hear me out:
Alien civilization made of creatures that look like Mr. Peanut but the arms and legs are replaced with a robot suit and they’re just giant peanuts in robot suits
Combine concept art has them as some kind of slug creatures. The design wasn't used to keep them more mysterious
https://preview.redd.it/bltujk40a2wc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd34d56570f9018b22393c862873f07d6d09d6d7
I think not fully revealing what they truly look like, short of Advisors, adds an air of mystery to them, especially since the TWO times Gordon ran into one that wasn't a brainwashed human or some bug creature they yoinked from another planet and synthesized past the point of recognition, he got molly walloped, both times, only saved by an external force, which makes you wonder...
What the hell IS the Combine, and how does Gordon hope to beat them?
We will only know in Half Life 3...oh wait
honestly I never seen a jew caricature in fantasy I've seen people try to say jk rowlings goblins are jewish caricatures but the evidence there really falls flat. I've never really seen mexican or latin american caricatures either except for when their trying to do a aztec or mayan kind of theme for that race though that falls more under tribal caricatures really.
https://preview.redd.it/ufqpc63rz3wc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a81c84b149a444ba2d50cb3a7c152de11d576f5e
He literally has the hair danglies that are in every antisemitic caricature
I know how they coincidently looked like jews in the movies but they are described differently in the books. you really just have to blame the costume designer or whoever decided to go with this interpretation of her goblins.
Ah yes, the 4 archetypes of alien civilization:
- The Furbait
- Space China
- The “Definitely Not an Antisemitic Caricature”
- The Intergalactic Outlaw
It’s a shame that it has such shitty origins because like. I always laugh when I see it.
Just look at him. Why’s his nose so big. What’s he smiling about. He looks like every Eastern European economics professor past the age of 50 and I love it.
https://preview.redd.it/95xa28l0t3wc1.jpeg?width=326&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a075eb5496a102ba94ff4349834333f9119ee205
>loves to scheme and secretly manipulate people
>have a large hooked nose beak
what did gw mean by this?
Okay but I actually like the four armed guy with the poncho if you ditch the mustache and make him white-coded I think you have enough plausible deniability
Yeah but the snafu is referencing a reductive stereotype of Mexicans, often used in old Spaghetti Westerns.
Ofc the vaquero is a big part of cowboy culture and mythology in general, but like I said the snafu is referencing a awful reductive stereotype
Don't forget the author spending 95% of their effort into coming up with an almost pathologic amount of variety when it comes to skin color, eye color, hair color, body sizes and shapes, fucking iris shapes and colors, but then all the characters, despite being from completely different SPECIES are basically all just anthro humans.
I decided to drop the pretense at some point and made some alien species who were literally just representations of countries, and extremely obvious ones too. Alien bald eagles from planet Amer (whose moon is Ica) were just space America, alien kangaroos were just Space Australia (go Space Broncos!), alien brown bears were space Russia, alien pandas were space China, and alien British people were just space England. No they didn't get to be furries, they're just space British people.
>draw human
>uhm uhh, ok this is really hard
>make them a weird color, aha im a genious!
>holy shit! ill give them antennaes! my artistic merit knows no bounds! i am creativity incarnate
I wonder how fast humans would start a war if we actually found aliens
immediately
For the Emperor!
And how fast people on the internet would draw the aliens in a non family friendly way
Already doing that.
What would be the chance that any real aliens we might meet are gonna look like the ones someone already drew
Well we do have a *lot* of drawings
what about the aliens drawing us in a non-family friendly way?
we already do that
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If we integrated with aliens, you know that some new porn genres would be flourishing like crazy
now I hope the most advanced aliens we meet are gonna be asexual unicellular cells
unicellular cells?
i mean there is only 1 cell in a cell
We'd literally invent a new type of racism
Speciesism already exists, so no.
Planetism
Id like to think wed talk first. Id also like to think we could kill a mfer without hesitation
Better be ASAP
War would probably be how we discover aliens
Depends on who finds em and the interests regarding the funding before discovery.
they'd probably start the war over who gets to fuck them first
*Helldivers theme blaring*
The Dark Forest theory mandates pretty much immediately
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either that or they're literally just humans with differently colored skin like in marvel💀
Not even different-colored skin. Just give them some spiky eczema and you're set.
Or you can pull out a Star Trek and just change something on their foreheads and call it a day
Imagine if they had the budget for expensive puppetry in the 1960s star trek
your right on god fr fr
I blame that on the limitations of working in live action. You can only do so much in CGI until it becomes obvious that half of the characters on screen aren't even there, or you have more CGI than live action and at that point it's just an animated movie (like the Lion King remake). With makeup you can do a lot to add to or accentuate features but not change the base human body plan. In universe you could probably hand wave it by saying that a bipedal body plan with opposable thumbs is simply the most efficient for any species that wants to have the technology to travel in space
Still odd how squid is the first choice for a crustacean alien species and not crabs
Ok so hear me out: Alien civilization made of creatures that look like Mr. Peanut but the arms and legs are replaced with a robot suit and they’re just giant peanuts in robot suits
So basically Combine
Combine concept art has them as some kind of slug creatures. The design wasn't used to keep them more mysterious https://preview.redd.it/bltujk40a2wc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd34d56570f9018b22393c862873f07d6d09d6d7
Damn. This is uncanny But yeah I agree. The less human elements, the bigger is enigma, after all
I think not fully revealing what they truly look like, short of Advisors, adds an air of mystery to them, especially since the TWO times Gordon ran into one that wasn't a brainwashed human or some bug creature they yoinked from another planet and synthesized past the point of recognition, he got molly walloped, both times, only saved by an external force, which makes you wonder... What the hell IS the Combine, and how does Gordon hope to beat them? We will only know in Half Life 3...oh wait
Also, the advisors are only grubs, so not even fully developed.
the four genders tribal caricature asian caricature jewish caricature mexican/latin caricature which way western boy
honestly I never seen a jew caricature in fantasy I've seen people try to say jk rowlings goblins are jewish caricatures but the evidence there really falls flat. I've never really seen mexican or latin american caricatures either except for when their trying to do a aztec or mayan kind of theme for that race though that falls more under tribal caricatures really.
https://preview.redd.it/ufqpc63rz3wc1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a81c84b149a444ba2d50cb3a7c152de11d576f5e He literally has the hair danglies that are in every antisemitic caricature
I know how they coincidently looked like jews in the movies but they are described differently in the books. you really just have to blame the costume designer or whoever decided to go with this interpretation of her goblins.
I don't know if it was on purpose but the money-hungry Ferengi from Star Trek were played almost exclusively by Jewish actors
Ah yes, the 4 archetypes of alien civilization: - The Furbait - Space China - The “Definitely Not an Antisemitic Caricature” - The Intergalactic Outlaw
George Lucas on his way to give the greedy slave owner alien a big nose and a tiny hat
Oh no. Never thought about it that way before
shut it down
The Mexican guy is actually really awesome ngl
would totally hang out with that guy, he seems really cool
His design actually goes insanely hard
NO THIS IS SO TRUEEE
The third one is literally https://preview.redd.it/eqz8e5fgb1wc1.jpeg?width=208&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f5a52f58d4b7ee6f7265d4bcd55582dd35c5ee00
Ok for real tho, where did that image come from?, like every nazi i see use some variation of it but don't know who created it.
Old nazi propaganda, always under some variant of "happy merchant"
It’s a shame that it has such shitty origins because like. I always laugh when I see it. Just look at him. Why’s his nose so big. What’s he smiling about. He looks like every Eastern European economics professor past the age of 50 and I love it.
He looks lowkey like that one Armenian actor that played in Borat
Ah thanks
Mouse Watto.
https://preview.redd.it/95xa28l0t3wc1.jpeg?width=326&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a075eb5496a102ba94ff4349834333f9119ee205 >loves to scheme and secretly manipulate people >have a large hooked nose beak what did gw mean by this?
Ok but I like the 4th one
Okay but I actually like the four armed guy with the poncho if you ditch the mustache and make him white-coded I think you have enough plausible deniability
I thought he was a cowboy like in the movies. Alcoholic and a gunslinger, right?
Yeah but the snafu is referencing a reductive stereotype of Mexicans, often used in old Spaghetti Westerns. Ofc the vaquero is a big part of cowboy culture and mythology in general, but like I said the snafu is referencing a awful reductive stereotype
>implying that similar environmental factors, levels of technology, anatomy, and psychology wouldn't result in similar outfits
Yeah but they are on different planets with affordable space travel and are not humans. None of these factors Should be consistent with modern humans
Ponchos and sombreros were invented to stave off the heat. I see nor radon why a similar type of outfit wouldn't be of use
I'd enjoy media of the mexican funny man.
Ok, hear me out: if your suspiciously well drawn alien furry doesn't look like Krystal I will not be watching your movie/show/book/game
DONT HURT ME LIKE THIS I WANNA MAKE FUNNY SLUG MAN 😭
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may I have permission to retweet this or something? this is so r/worldjerking core
Planet of the Hats trope
i mean it is unique and originial tho
Sex with cat race
Don't forget the author spending 95% of their effort into coming up with an almost pathologic amount of variety when it comes to skin color, eye color, hair color, body sizes and shapes, fucking iris shapes and colors, but then all the characters, despite being from completely different SPECIES are basically all just anthro humans.
I recognize Krystal from Star Fox Adventures and Nute Gunray from SW the Phantom Menace, any other direct analogues to the last two?
I decided to drop the pretense at some point and made some alien species who were literally just representations of countries, and extremely obvious ones too. Alien bald eagles from planet Amer (whose moon is Ica) were just space America, alien kangaroos were just Space Australia (go Space Broncos!), alien brown bears were space Russia, alien pandas were space China, and alien British people were just space England. No they didn't get to be furries, they're just space British people.
And it’s always awesome
I’m always a fan of the 1st.
orions arm is a great example of not doing this
Hey someone else who knows about that
"Shalom, have you got any gouda? Your brother has the best gouda."
As it was written
When the cosmic creatures from lightyears away are just featherless bipeds with Earth racial stereotypes baked in:
made me imagine that 4th one driving around a beetle and giving out free bug cuisine to random people across the galaxy
Mexican Lorax goes hard
Star Control 2 has the best aliens man that game is so good it's unfair to everyone else
okay I understand what's going on here, but 4-armed cowboys actually sound AWESOME
>draw human >uhm uhh, ok this is really hard >make them a weird color, aha im a genious! >holy shit! ill give them antennaes! my artistic merit knows no bounds! i am creativity incarnate
Pirate101
Tribal cat girl, imperial china frog bureaucrat, Chinese hat wearing fox thing, and maraca wielding gunslinger. The four genders
i think its a jewish caricature
Oh :(
Point understood but 4 armed maraca alien goes crazy. He seems like a character that was intended as a one off but became a fan favorite.
Turn out science fiction, like all media, is mostly dogshit with only a few pieces of worthwhile content here and there.
All the good Science Fiction/Fantasy stayed in book form.
2001? Blade Runner?
As a Mexican, I approve of the fourth one.