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Author Topic: Starbound - We have lift off.  (Read 944586 times)

Kaitol

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Re: Starbound - We have lift off.
« Reply #7575 on: May 29, 2014, 04:44:57 pm »

Why would a ships AI, that's subservient to you, the pilot, be of something like a portrait of a queen? That would be close to treason. Glitch nobility would not look very kindly upon that at all. Far more sensible to have it simply be a representation of a steed that is comfortably beneath everyone on the totem pole.
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WillowLuman

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Re: Starbound - We have lift off.
« Reply #7576 on: May 29, 2014, 06:15:53 pm »

Why not a brain in a jar, then?
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Vorthon

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Re: Starbound - We have lift off.
« Reply #7577 on: May 29, 2014, 06:34:42 pm »

Why would a ships AI, that's subservient to you, the pilot, be of something like a portrait of a queen? That would be close to treason. Glitch nobility would not look very kindly upon that at all. Far more sensible to have it simply be a representation of a steed that is comfortably beneath everyone on the totem pole.

Well, seeing as PC Glitch are explicitly ones forced to flee their homes or be hunted down like vermin, I doubt they give much of a fuck about what the nobility thinks. :v
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KingofstarrySkies

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Re: Starbound - We have lift off.
« Reply #7578 on: May 29, 2014, 06:57:45 pm »

Hmmmm. What would a PC Glitch want as a AI Avatar...
DEFINITELY NOT A HORSE WITH TATS.
Mayhap a...A SQUIRE!~
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Re: Starbound - We have lift off.
« Reply #7579 on: May 29, 2014, 07:04:19 pm »

Also, why isn't it a robot horse?
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Re: Starbound - We have lift off.
« Reply #7580 on: May 29, 2014, 07:13:07 pm »

Novakids need like, a sentient gun.
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Re: Starbound - We have lift off.
« Reply #7581 on: May 29, 2014, 07:25:48 pm »

I love these kinds of conversations.

Find thread, get argument about horse tits.

Needs more crotch teats, because horse.
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Re: Starbound - We have lift off.
« Reply #7582 on: May 29, 2014, 07:35:22 pm »

I love these kinds of conversations.

Find thread, get argument about horse tits.

Needs more crotch teats, because horse.
MODS! MODS!
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Re: Starbound - We have lift off.
« Reply #7583 on: May 29, 2014, 07:40:49 pm »

I love these kinds of conversations.

Find thread, get argument about horse tits.

Needs more crotch teats, because horse.
MODS! MODS!

BIOLOGY!
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BigD145

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Re: Starbound - We have lift off.
« Reply #7584 on: May 29, 2014, 07:42:28 pm »

I'm surprised nobody has made a mod that turns everything into tits, TBH.

Titrees, titbushes, titNPCs, titplants...

There IS a penis mod.
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Re: Starbound - We have lift off.
« Reply #7585 on: May 29, 2014, 07:43:19 pm »

As if the other anatomy biomes weren't creepy enough.
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Re: Starbound - We have lift off.
« Reply #7586 on: May 29, 2014, 07:58:03 pm »

As per that, why not complain that all the races are bipedal humanoids? Why is everyone fixating on the breasts? Freud would probably have a field day. It's not like this is or ever was meant to be hard sci-fi. Its simply the simplest easiest way to convey gender at a glance in such a limited media

To me, it looks weird because the Glitch know they're not organic, right? And aren't their horses robotic, too? So it's deliberately ugly, fine, that's an art choice. But it's weird for it to be organic when all the Glitch artwork that we see is inorganic. (see: The Vitruvian Man homage)
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Re: Starbound - We have lift off.
« Reply #7587 on: May 29, 2014, 08:25:56 pm »

Hmmmm. What would a PC Glitch want as a AI Avatar...
DEFINITELY NOT A HORSE WITH TATS.
Mayhap a...A SQUIRE!~
Or a valet named Jeeves; I'm sure, in a game that slaps boobs on everything that moves (robot boobs, plant boobs, fish boobs, and now horse boobs), we can forgive a slight mixing of Victorian and Elizabethan sensibilities.  RoboJeeves, possibly with just a hint of...dare I suggest, sass. 
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Darkmere

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Re: Starbound - We have lift off.
« Reply #7588 on: May 29, 2014, 08:43:45 pm »

Why wouldn't it be a figure of power? The Apex have an image of Big Ape. Hylotl-sensei-AI is an elder, to be revered. Humans is... well zero-effort lazy for the intent of zero-effort lazy carrying over to florans with no work. I have no idea what the avian crystals are for, so I can't comment there.

But there's at least tie-ins or direct cultural explanations for everything except glitch that does not involve rationalization gymnastics, which still leaves me at "we wanted a tithorse. have a tithorse and like it."
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And then, they will be weaponized. Like everything in this game, from kittens to babies, everything is a potential device of murder.
So if baseless speculation is all we have, we might as well treat it like fact.

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Re: Starbound - We have lift off.
« Reply #7589 on: May 30, 2014, 03:44:17 am »

Am I the only one who thinks that particular one is made as a test or some kind of joke?
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