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[Fougaro]

 

[Crabbo]

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When attacked by monster watermelons...

 

[Witthel]

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

 

[Stilgar of Troon]

 

[Banditotron]

When attacked by monster watermelons...

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I think I'm starting to understand the appeal of this "anime" thing

 

[glow in the dark animals]

His name is Wiley

 

[Witthel]

 

[Fougaro]

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

Lol I really hope someone actually tried to look this up.

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It's one of those Internet things that if you know, you know.

 

[Doctor Placebo]

Spoiler: Big

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This is an honest work of outsider art. The amount of effort that went into it is kind of frightening. It's like if Henry Darger were a modern anime and video game junkie and tried to make a cyberpunk RPG.

It's one of those Internet things that if you know, you know.

All I know is that it's some kind of guro thing. That's enough for my imagination.

 

[CivilianOfTheFandomWars]

This is an honest work of outsider art. The amount of effort that went into it is kind of frightening. It's like if Henry Darger were a modern anime and video game junkie and tried to make a cyberpunk RPG.


All I know is that it's some kind of guro thing. That's enough for my imagination.

It's a shock image from around 2013(?) and yes, it is a guro thing.

 

[Goofy Logic]

To understand this: around 2000 Molson had a commercial made where a man talked about how he was Canadian.

This led to some comedy parodies

 

[Witthel]

 

[LofaSofa]

 

[Witthel]

 

[No Exit]

No, you're a faxxot.

 

[Witthel]

No, you're a faxxot.

Don't worry, I fixed it.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

I can easily name one who has experienced more pain: the Ur-Quan race from Star Control 1 and 2:

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TL; DR, to escape from psychic enslavement, the Ur-Quan literally engaged in near-fatal self-flagellation, and continue to undergo pain torment as a defensive measure.

They are the main antagonists in Star Control because they then set out to subjugate the rest of the galaxy to prevent their enslavement from ever happening again, but hey, gaze into the abyss and all that.

To add a few nice little tidbits about Starcontrol and the Ur-Quan.

There are two competing sects of Ur-Quan, one is called the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za (former scientist caste), the other the Kohr-Ah (former warrior caste). Both are afraid to be enslaved in the future, so their goal is to subjugate all sentient beings and make them harmless, but both do so in different ways. The Kzer-Za offer the race a choice: Either become thralls to the Ur-Quan and submit to them totally or to be locked up on your home planet behind a black energy-shield that can not be penetrated. The Kohr-Ah, on the other hand, simply wipe out that other species, to be on the save side.
Now, the interesting bit is that the Ur-Quan believe in rebirth, so the Kohr-Ah argue that by destroying all sentient life, they slowly turn all souls into members of the Ur-Quan species, so from their point of view it is much safer and doing the other (lesser) species a favor.
Both Kzer-Za and Kohr-Ah are in an eternal conflict, but so they travel around the milkyway, one clockwise, the other counter-clockwise, until they meet again to fight over whose doctrine is the correct one. Over 20,000 years, the Kzer-Za enslaved or locked up thousands of species, the Kohr-Ah have wiped out thousands more.

Here's how they appear in SC2:

I absolutely love the writing and backstory for the Ur-Quan. And it is utterly weird, when you look at the rest of the game, there is so much goofy shit. Like a race of cowards that was subjugated by the Kzer-Za and accidentally became fighting slaves instead of getting locked up in their home planet.

Contrast the Kohr-Ah with this:

It's really silly, but it's the good kind of silly.

When you fly around, you get hailed by drones a lot that tell you they want to establish contact, then they go "Priority override, new behaviour dictated: Must break target into component materials" and they attack . Eventually, you find out the probes are sent by a peaceful species, that bought the probes from a merchant race. Since the probes are expensive but possess the ability to replicate, the buyers thought it would be a good idea to tinker with the behaviour settings:

SCAN (for targets, as defined in Target List).
IF (no current target).
THEN (select New target from Current Targets list, using specified priorities).
IF (Current Position is AT Current Target).
THEN (Set Current Behavior to New Behavior, based on Behavior Priority Settings).
PERFORM (Current Behavior).

TARGET LIST (with associated Target Priority).
Space Vessel (5).
Transmission Source (4).
Astronomical Anomaly (3).
Planet Bearing Life Signature (2).
Raw Replication Materials (1).
PROBE BEHAVIORS (With assigned priorities).
Communicate (5).
Record Data (4).
Analyze Data (3).
Seek Replication Materials (999).
Move to Current Target (1).

What makes this especially interesting, is that this is actually a pretty smart gameplay mechanic to help players that run out of fuel, since you can salvage it from the probes, when you defeat them.

Star Control 2 hasn't aged well gameplaywise, but damn it's a fun and creative game. The Ur-Quan are a great antagonist species and there are so many funny and witty things to be found, I love it.

I'd love a straight remake with modern space combat.

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Please tell me this is somehow tied to a new Homeworld title.

 

[Witthel]