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source Are there any closet exobiologists lurking on the forum? If so, then this is the thread for you! In this game we each take turns to briefly describe a race of aliens, using a picture provided by the previous poster and four stock questions and a miscellaneous question of the users choosing. The rules are pretty simple, all you need is take flight on the rainbow coloured wings of imagination! :3 First things first, using the image and the five questions provided by the user above you, describe the alien species by species name, planet name, kingdom of life/classification, personality and an extra question of their choosing (feel free to copy n' paste the format for the examples I've posted below) Now you need post a picture of an alien creature. Where you source the image from is entirely up to you, don't limit yourself to sci-fi alone! Consider fantasy art, modern and/or abstract art, memes, even images of real life animals provided they are unusual/obscure enough. Some people look odd enough to warrant being alien species in their own right! Next, provide a misc. question about this imaginary alien species for the next poster to answer alongside the four aforementioned stock questions, preferably questions that can fulfilled in a sentence or less. Exactly what you ask is (once again) up to you. Ask about the species diet, lifestyle, culture, language, preferred brand of abrasive cleaner, etc. Feel free to steal other users ideas for questions and answers Your part is now over. The next poster must posit names/answers for all the criteria for your chosen picture. After they are finished doing that, they should start the process again by posting their own picture and the four stock/one misc question for the next poster Feel free to take this game as seriously or as light-heartedly as you like I only implore you to not ruin it by being deliberately unimaginative or dismissing these simple rules (assuming you don't already know, start from this alien, ignore the gameplays examples) Species: Planet: Classification: Personality: How do they communicate?:

I barely drink, at all. It actually has far less to do with any kind of hoighty-toighty moral high ground that might cite and more to do with the fact I'm a complete lightweight when it comes to alcohol. I was never that receptive to peer pressure as a teenager, and now I'm in my mid-twenties going on thirty I'm honestly quite comfortable not drinking. Last month during New Year's eve I drank two cans of Strawberry & Lime Kopparberg and even that made me feel unwell. I've been drunk (or some state closely approximating it) twice in my entire life, neither experience is anything I'd like to repeat. I just angry and ill. Plus with my barely reigned-in and generally foul disposition towards most people, I cant imagine drink is going to help me make friends... I guess I have a somewhat contemptuous attitude towards binge drinkers. I'm all for defending individuals liberties and lifestyle choices with the understanding they aren't ruining anyone else day, but I find to hard to defend the conduct of people who purposefully go out to get shit faced by drinking to excess. Let me make it clear I'm not against people with a serious love and appreciation for alcohol, there are plenty of communities around ale, cider, wine, etc that have a serious passion for their product and still manage to behave like respectable human beings. I'm not really sure if an age limit of any kind will really help a cultural habit that is endemic. Even if we except that young people (between fifteen to twenty-one, say) are generally more likely to overdo drinking and behave less responsibly whilst doing so, the underlying bingeing culture in England isn't going anywhere.

[/Psychotic Ninja says nothing, just waves his/her head cheerfully to the most harrowing and extreme power electronics music you can imagine]

Present (as in "he's here", not the wrapped up kind)

8/10, I wish I had that kind of optimism! "There's more evil in the charts than in an Al-Qaeda suggestion box." - Bill Bailey

Chilling horror story about a mysterious woman who makes strangers doubt the likelihood of house fires starting in their abodes due to lax attitudes towards checking their smoke detectors batteries. They later die in not-so-mysterious house fire related deaths. No Country For Old Men

Hell is having to work with people who contribute nothing, yet no one else seems to notice or care.

7/10, I know how this PHL character feels. Who is PHL though?

Well actually I've had a dull ache in my left thigh this week. It doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Briefly describe an alternative historical scenario you wish took place.

Mum Simulator: Think of any game in the world. In Mum Simulators you pay the the protagonist's mum, going about worrying about if he will ever settle down and meet a nice, stable lady/man/significant other/necromorph.

The team swiftly assembled, despite having been roused from an apparent lull. An unannounced sense of "eight bells and all's well" had been allowed to reign, given the prior assumption that the matter with the door had been settled. Whatever contentment and apathy the operatives had managed to muster evaporated like forced optimism in the face of cold remorseless reality. Brian made cursory acknowledgements, checked all that needed accounting for with his team, but that dried blood beneath the door held some other part of his attention fast. It was the baser part of his mind, adamant that whatever the answer to the doors sudden and sullied reappearance wasn't something he needed to know. Shouldn't know.

7/10, makes me smile. Wish the image had slightly better definition.

Last week I said... ...he said it was pretty good! He particularly liked House of Cards, and I reckon it might be the best track on the EP. It reminds me a little bit of people like Pedro The Lion and Frightened Rabbit (you heard of them?)

Blimey, you guys are getting into the spirit of the thread! :3 I hope nobody thinks I'm an arsehole for pointing out that ScottD.Betson accidently added a thirteenth track the mixtape (I think he skipped Psychotic Ninjas changes?) I deleted one of my own previous choices as well as the the usual song replacement. Muffin Man by Frank Zappa ( )Mr. Handagote by Tomas Dvorak ( )Dog and his Master by Marcy Playground (link) Blackstar by David Bowie ( )BULMA ブルマ by ｍ aｉ t ｒ o ( )Bikini Kill by LED ER EST ( )No Twilight Within The Courts Of The Sun by Steven Wilson ( )Ancient Echoes by Eternal Tapestry ( )Smile Like Sword by Iron Fist Of The Sun ( )Streams Through Thick Air by Komodo Haunts ( )When The Dog Bites by Tropic Of Cancer ( )We're going to be friends by White Stripes (

That Move by SKY+ デジタル

They are a lot of fun. Just when you think your character is settling in and scraping by enough to be reasonably comfortable, something horrible and unannounced happens and you are brought back to a state only marginally better than when you first woke up on the island. Assuming you don't immediately die that is Have you been killed by any of those cyclopean birds yet?

Moth Hole by Rommek

You know David Attenborough turned 90 recently. I don't want to think about a world without his genteel manner and soothing voice.

Melted by Ty Segall ( )Mr. Handagote by Tomas Dvorak ( )Dog and his Master by Marcy Playground (link) Boys Keep Swinging by David Bowie (link) BULMA ブルマ by ｍ aｉ t ｒ o ( )Assimilate by Skinny Puppy ( )Bikini Kill by LED ER EST ( )Rifles by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club ( )Ancient Echoes by Eternal Tapestry ( )Smile Like Sword by Iron Fist Of The Sun ( )Sounds of a Holy Heart (Left Ventricle Mix) by DJ DarryL & DJ c3po (no link) When The Dog Bites by Tropic Of Cancer ( )

I personally believe your own life is what you make of it, it can be as facile and meaningless or fulfilling and purposeful as you subjectively will it to be. I think whatever side of the spectrum you fall under - though I honestly reckon most people hover uncomfortably between two poles, in terms of their daily experience - it's only anthrocentric hubris on our part that allows to even have the nerve to assign or deny "meaning" to the whole broad scope of reality. Or, the easier version of that answer is, I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW. Being the heathen ig/agnostic that I am...

I'm with you on this one. I don't expect "special treatment" from the industry or market or whatever, but it would nice if the more ultra-competitive aspects of the gaming community could grasp that not everyone in the wold actually wants to trophy swagmaster their way through Bloodborne on super-hardcore-terrorism difficulty mode. It's the mediums equivalent of "bro, do you even lift" and I won't tolerate it, one little bit.

Would you be opposed to me sig-quoting this Seattleite? It struck me as something Freeman himself would say... :3 Knock yourself out. Cheers me dears! :3

Well there are very sincere attempts at doing that being experimented on right now. BCI research ("brain–computer interface") was in its infancy as far back as the 70's, so I don't find too much of a stretch to envision some sort of substantial cognitively controlled system existing in our lifetime. Of all the fantasy schools of magic (necromancy, conjuration, illusionism, etc) which is your favourite and why?

I don't deliberately go out of my way to post immediately after you in every thread, BTG. You're just being paranoid.

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