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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:05:25 AM No.715315451
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Games centered around alien invasions make 0 sense. Realistically any species that has mastered lightspeed traversal, something physicists have only theorized on, would decimate in a few days max.
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:07:15 AM No.715315557
games arent designed for "making sense" theyre designed for having fun
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:17:23 AM No.715316242
>warlike civilization found an ancient civilization's FTL drive lying around and they crudely reverse engineered it (without understanding how or why it worked) and ducttaped it to all their ships
boom ez. you need to watch more sci-fi shows man it's easy to write around any supposed 'plothole'
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:18:41 AM No.715316314
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>>715315451 (OP)
ME1 did it right. ME3 did it terribly.
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:19:49 AM No.715316385
nah ill fuck an alien up. got a shield? bro ill sock you in the fucking jaw
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:22:00 AM No.715316545
>>715316242
not a chance that would make sense.

if you can utilize something like an FTL engine and keep it running, you would have to understand it, simple as that.

and with it, would come tech like FTL rock shots which would obliterate planets/solar systems.

once FTL is brought into the equation, all bets are off, and all conventional warfare is impossible, as FTL rail cannons trumps everything.
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:24:42 AM No.715316752
>>715316545
NTA but I can use my computer but I have fuck all idea how any of it works, just plug it in and start typing to use.

They found an FTL drive with good UI design and a power plug.
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:29:52 AM No.715317095
>>715316752
your computer is a tad different than something that fundamentally breaks one of the ironlaws of the universe to go fast.
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:33:49 AM No.715317372
>>715317095
>your computer is a tad different than something that fundamentally breaks one of the ironlaws of the universe to go fast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuvckBQ1bME

Explain this to someone from before the 1800s and they will pretty much say the pre-1800s equivalent of what you are saying.
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:36:37 AM No.715317537
>>715317372
irrelevent making a computer is a huge thing, making something go FTL is, frankly, impossible, so its not just "magic" to me, its literally Godly, as it breaks all known laws of Mass and speed.

a computer is something no one from the 1800's could conceptualize, going FTL is something I can conceptualize ,and also know, it isn't possible.
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:38:11 AM No.715317645
>>715315451 (OP)
Anon you're referring to FTL (Faster Than Light) travel. Lightspeed travel would still take many, many millenia to even establish interstellar contact. People really underestimate how vast and empty space is.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:40:05 AM No.715317770
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>>715315451 (OP)
in Half-Life 2 the war against the combine lasts only 7 hours
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:41:35 AM No.715317878
>>715317770
I haven't played them but what I know is that HL1 is an interdimensional alien invasion into a secret lab but HL2 they've taken over the whole world and it's a dystopia setting. What happened between 1 and 2?
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:42:03 AM No.715317912
>>715315451 (OP)
define mastered
did the plant mastered pollination by spreading its seed through wind?
Did the fish mastered the waters by traversing from one lake to the sea?
It could be pure chance that they landed here, and it would be a fatal one because I HAVE THE POWAH OF GOHD *unzips glock*
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:43:54 AM No.715318051
>>715317878
the invasion in half life 1 was because the xen aliens were opressed by the combine, the combine overtook the earth and xen inbetween games, by the time gordon arrives the earth and humanity is pretty much done for
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:44:54 AM No.715318129
>>715315451 (OP)
realistically any species that can travel faster than light would most likely be intelligent enough to be more benevolent than human rule, and resistance to them would not only be pointless, but also foolish
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:46:17 AM No.715318240
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>>715316545
>if you can utilize something like an FTL engine and keep it running, you would have to understand it, simple as that.
Blatantly fucking incorrect.
Niggers utilize internal combustion engines.
Indians utilize trains.
Retards utilize smartphones.
None of them know how they work or mastered their efficiency or replicated their design, but they have figured out how to use them to do SOMETHING, if incorrectly.
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:48:00 AM No.715318360
>>715316242
>>715315451 (OP)
macross had aliens glass earth entirely in seconds, they weren't fucking around lmao
https://youtu.be/rVKFN8-HCAQ
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:49:10 AM No.715318419
>>715318240
then the space niggers would run out of FTL drives by breaking them, thus they couldn't invade earth.

if you don't understand something, you can't build another one, if they are that dumb, they couldn't mantain or build more FTL drives, especially since something like FTL is so fundamentally impossible.
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:50:23 AM No.715318484
>>715318419
Pakistanis polish engine heads on a concrete floor and make gaskets and clutches in the dirt. It won't last long but it'll keep the engine going for a few hundred more miles and then they do it again.
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:53:16 AM No.715318702
>>715318360
this is definitively, how it would go, fighting a FTL civilization.

it would probably be worse than this, just a near FTL rock thrown right at our planet, complete and total destruction in a picosecond.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:54:37 AM No.715318803
>>715318484
FTL isn't a gas engine.

you'd have to know precisely how it functioned to fix it, you can't eyeball something like that.
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:55:36 AM No.715318892
>>715318803
And you know this because FTL is a real thing in our world that you have seen before.
You absolute fool.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 4:56:48 AM No.715318979
>>715318803
Any technology that exists or will exist, can be half-assed by a nigger into a form that works a couple times before it falls apart.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 5:01:23 AM No.715319272
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>>715315451 (OP)
>Realistically any spe-
>Realistically
>Alien invasion
>See: Fiction. Noun. something that is invented or untrue.
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 5:01:35 AM No.715319282
>>715315451 (OP)
maybe, maybe not

>aliens survey earth with drones
>see its not inhabited by any intelligent life forms
>just apes who use stone tools to build mud huts
>Aliens decide to colonize earth
>they send a colonizing ship with weapons that are just meant to clear out local fauna of mindless animals, not fight an actual war
>takes thousands of years to get to earth
>by the time they get here humans have advance thousands of years in technology and get way further up the tech tree than the aliens ever thought they would
>aliens for whatever reason try to clear out humans anyways instead of trying to make peace
>what ensues is earths best VS what is effectively the alien version of settlers with muskets.
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 5:02:39 AM No.715319372
>>715316314
If mantises were the size of humans we would be fucked.
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 5:04:47 AM No.715319565
>>715319272
Holy fuck I havenโ€™t seen this scene bitch since like 2009 fuck why did the future turn out to be so lame
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 5:04:53 AM No.715319571
>>715319372
There isn't remotely enough oxygen density on earth nowadays for that
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 5:06:53 AM No.715319749
>>715319565
She has an active youtube channel commenting on current events dude
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 5:21:26 AM No.715320812
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>>715315451 (OP)
You lack imagination, and planning. You assume faster than light travel is both necessary, and some determinate, distant point, and that scientific advancement is linear in all fields.

It could be very particular technology only really applicable to traveling vast distances in space. It could require such a great deal of energy that only a limited amount of resources, and personnel could be brought for a invasion force. They could have limited short distance travel afterwards, and have little, or outdated intel on life on Earth. They could have particular goals that limit a invasion forces efficacy, like wanting exotic meat, or as essentially a hunting trip of the rich ,and eccentric as opposed to a society's endeavor.

>>715316242
Another fine idea, why not two aliens. What if it's conscripts of a larger empire?

>>715316545
Ah yes, you know exactly how they work, and they wouldn't fall into the same design as every other piece of non-bespoke technology, being deliberately made to be operated by people who don't know how to make one?

>>715319282
You could only really get a good picture of how long it takes for a society to develop intelligent life, and select for sufficient intelligence to develop sufficient weapons technology to be a threat if it'd happened before.

Not to mention the huge jump between "Okay we're sending a group large enough to avoid inbreeding to put Ubungu in a cage, and start settling the planet." and being able to send a force large enough to challenge all the worlds militaries.


Ultimately the sort of thing being a spacefaring civilization gets you is more high level space war stuff, like having a tungsten rod fired at your ship's traveling speeds.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 5:27:29 AM No.715321221
I don't want to make a new thread about this but maybe I should.

Been thinking about games with "seedy nightclubs on the edge of the galaxy" vibes.
Mass Effect 2 has this with Omega
Kotor 2 has this with Nar Shadda (and SWTOR has it, also with Nar Shadda, Nal Hutta and maybe a few other planets)
But I need more
preferably with tons of aliens. Cyberpunk 2077 has nightclubs for example and that's a lot of the vibe I'm looking for but weird aliens are important.
maybe I need to rewatch Star Wars Episode II.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 5:30:56 AM No.715321454
>>715317537
>t. thinks the "laws of physics" are set in stone laws and not just guesses made by a bunch of eggheads who will update their tables once something proves them wrong
the universe and reality are vast and unknowable in their totality. the "laws of physics" are not real, they are assumptions about how reality operates and not totally factual. once we understand how new phenomena operate, we will update those "laws" to include or understand the new phenomena that did not previously fit within our tables.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 6:16:15 AM No.715324341
>>>>Anyone sufficiently technologically advanced enough to travel the starts MUST be xenophobic murder hobos with weapons of unimaginable power?

Why? Why do you assume beings that originated from other star systems MUST behave the same way humans do?
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:10:57 AM No.715327594
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>>715315451 (OP)
>Realistically any species that has mastered lightspeed traversal, something physicists have only theorized on, would decimate in a few days max.
Exactly. this is why there should be more games where you play as the invading aliens instead of the people getting invaded.
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:13:00 AM No.715327702
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:15:14 AM No.715327826
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:17:51 AM No.715327957
>>715324341
What might be tools for them could be weapons for us. A modern day sledgehammer would be a legendary weapon for cavemen
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:20:06 AM No.715328070
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>>715315451 (OP)
The Halo games handle it well enough
>Covies assrape entire planets in a matter of hours through glassing if there no weren't any forerunner artifacts or if they found the local resistance to be too bothersome to destroy through conventional warfare
>Spartans, the pinnacle of human biotech and weapons technology, were barely on par with elites and were outclassed by other common troops like brutes
>Earth lasted as long as it did because the fleet that found it was small, and because the covenant had a civil war
>literally the only reason why Truth didn't win was because the lovecraftian space zombies joined forces with everyone else for an extremely brief period of time
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:24:51 AM No.715328301
>>715327957
Nta, but i remember a short scifi story in which an alien empire that conquered most of the galaxy invaded earth, just to get completely destroyed by our military, the twist being that space travel is actually piss easy to achieve and these aliens stagnated with black pwder guns since every planet they encountered was on the stone age basically, earth instead of achieving space travel focused on developing weapons
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:36:21 AM No.715328915
>>715328301
It's from a short story The Road Not Taken
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Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:36:31 AM No.715328926
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>>715317095
Might I remind you that the universe is commonly accepted by physicists to be made up of 95% literal fucking space magic?
Stop acting like you know it all
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:38:28 AM No.715329030
>>715328915
Thanks, i was starting to think that i was mixing it up with something else
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 7:39:41 AM No.715329097
>>715315451 (OP)
This is not correct.
Just because a species has mastered space travel doesn't mean it has also teched down the weapon tech tree. That's literally a non-sequitur. You don't get one "for free" with the other like e.g. metallurgy and chemistry or whatever.
There is an "exception" -- but it kinda isn't since you didn't mean it in that way. That is a FTL civilization could simply turn any old rock into a relativistic kill missile by just speeding it up and aiming it at Earth.
Anonymous
7/13/2025, 8:15:07 AM No.715330985
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