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Re: X-Com 2: C-Day
« Reply #2085 on: August 03, 2015, 09:36:50 am »

Guys those snaketits don't have nipples. Whatever their function its not for feeding offspring.

My guesses as tto whet they might be:

1 - Offspring
Snakeladies can vomit up up to 2 eggs that hatch into tiny sneks.

2 - Venom sacks
Self explanatory.

3 - Extra armor grafted under the skin protecting the heart and several vital organs (extra trolling if the autopsy sayd the "armor" is soft and springy unless hit with enough force that causes it to instantly harden)
Thanks, I was going with "They got human DNA and screwed up a bit" but these explanations make sense.
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Re: X-Com 2: C-Day
« Reply #2086 on: August 03, 2015, 09:39:22 am »

Have you touched both a snake and a boob? Very different textures.
Different in terms of skin texture sure, but they could be similar in terms of (don't know what the word for this would be. Like consistency or texture but not for a liquid).
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Re: X-Com 2: C-Day
« Reply #2087 on: August 03, 2015, 11:53:23 am »

Guys those snaketits don't have nipples. Whatever their function its not for feeding offspring.

My guesses as tto whet they might be:

1 - Offspring
Snakeladies can vomit up up to 2 eggs that hatch into tiny sneks.

2 - Venom sacks
Self explanatory.

3 - Extra armor grafted under the skin protecting the heart and several vital organs (extra trolling if the autopsy sayd the "armor" is soft and springy unless hit with enough force that causes it to instantly harden)
Could be muscles, maybe? Their muscular structures bound to be a bit different, but they seem like pretty strong creatures (think how high the thin men could jump).
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Re: X-Com 2: C-Day
« Reply #2088 on: August 03, 2015, 01:21:09 pm »

Could be but those 2 lumps don't really make sense as muscles. What are they helping with?
Jumpy muscles should be in the elongated "foot" rather than on the upper chest,

So far the venom sack explanation seems to be them ost logical one seeing as tey seem to lead up to the neck (andl ikely mouth)
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Re: X-Com 2: C-Day
« Reply #2089 on: August 03, 2015, 01:47:06 pm »

The arms. The pectoral muscles.
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Re: X-Com 2: C-Day
« Reply #2090 on: August 03, 2015, 01:49:18 pm »

Eh, the snekes are hybrids.  They probably are bewbs.
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Re: X-Com 2: C-Day
« Reply #2091 on: August 03, 2015, 01:50:39 pm »

I like to think they're venom sacs with surrounding emergency-full-venom-spit muscles, just because the idea of a Viper vomiting acid everywhere as a defensive measure is kinda funny.
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Re: X-Com 2: C-Day
« Reply #2092 on: August 03, 2015, 01:53:37 pm »

Actually, if they shrank after they used a venom spit attack that would be pretty hilarious.
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Re: X-Com 2: C-Day
« Reply #2093 on: August 03, 2015, 05:58:25 pm »

Why would that be the case? Wouldn't sapient species tend towards low numbers of high-quality offspring?

Why would they? Why would "less" intrinsically mean "better"?
...because it implies more resources going to each one, and an overall quality-focused evolutionary (and/or manufacturing) approach rather than mass producing expendable models on the assumption that some will get through?

We humans don't owe our sapience to our reproductive method, nor is it an evolution of something lesser from our relevant past.
By its most basic definition, probably not. A lot of the things we associate with sapience require a great deal of teaching and learning to accomplish, though, which is hard to do when your reproductive strategy is "hurl offspring into a meat grinder, at which point the ones that slip through quickly mature and begin hurling their own offspring into a meat grinder."

The second point is factually incorrect. Menopause is believed to be an evolutionary adaptation in human females to encourage improving their current offspring rather than producing more, because humans are that hardcore K-Breeders. It's not found in any other primates, which implies that it's a relatively recent and meaningful improvement in hominids.

That doesn't guarantee it's linked to sapience in any particular way, but at the very least it seems to have worked out.

Can doesn't mean did, and their engineering has repeatedly been shown to be somewhat more complicated than that; they couldn't fully disguise Thin Men in NuCOM, and apparently couldn't or didn't want to copy & paste all of their current goons' advantages into each other. That seems to leave quite a bit of room for odd aesthetic choices.

It would be far too strange (and hentai-like) for aliens to develop an aesthetic preference for human breasts, to the point of wasting scientific resources to purposefully replicate them on one of their combat species.
Speculating on alien preferences is an odd place to go; humans like and don't like plenty of noteworthy features in other animals, so who knows what aliens might consider cool or sexy or distinctive or whatever. As mentioned, though, they wouldn't necessarily have to "waste scientific resources purposefully replicating them," because they might creep in on their own from a variety of sources. Also as mentioned, "combat species" does not appear to mean "war droids made of meat."


Let's face it, the function of the snaketits isn't actually important, as long as they look enough like tits. Humans as a general rule really dgaf.
It's also important they feel like tits.
Okay that too. Similar enough superficially. I don't know of any particular reason why they wouldn't be.
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Unfortunately structure matters a great deal. Human mammaries are mostly fat encased in thin low-fur mammal skin. Snektits are ? ? ? encased in what are probably light armor scales. Clearly more research is needed.

Guys those snaketits don't have nipples. Whatever their function its not for feeding offspring.
Strictly speaking, neither are monkeytits; they don't need to be that big, they just look nice when they are. They could still do something between the scales (or even through pores in the scales, ala scorpion milk), or serve as visible declarations of "I can vomit high-nutrient gruel into my offspring's mouth really well."

Actually, if they shrank after they used a venom spit attack that would be pretty hilarious.
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Re: X-Com 2: C-Day
« Reply #2094 on: August 03, 2015, 07:19:36 pm »

Have you touched both a snake and a boob? Very different textures.
Different in terms of skin texture sure, but they could be similar in terms of (don't know what the word for this would be. Like consistency or texture but not for a liquid).
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Re: X-Com 2: C-Day
« Reply #2095 on: August 03, 2015, 08:31:55 pm »

They are probably storage-space for the tongue...
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Re: X-Com 2: C-Day
« Reply #2096 on: August 03, 2015, 08:33:11 pm »

Since the tongue is probably forked, that almost doesn't not make sense.
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Re: X-Com 2: C-Day
« Reply #2097 on: August 03, 2015, 09:40:42 pm »

I'm still feeling "why is this one thing breaking suspension of disbelief and nothing else?", but whatever.
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Re: X-Com 2: C-Day
« Reply #2098 on: August 03, 2015, 10:42:51 pm »

I'm still feeling "why is this one thing breaking suspension of disbelief and nothing else?", but whatever.
The same reason this thread managed to make multiple pages on just cryptic announcement shenanigans.
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Re: X-Com 2: C-Day
« Reply #2099 on: August 04, 2015, 01:25:00 am »

I constantly want to go "GUYS THEY'RE JUST BOOBS NOT A FUNCTION OF ALIEN BIOLOGY SIGH" but I don't want to interrupt your fun.
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