Spyke
shalafireply
lemmy.world

Monstrous demi-god of Biblical proportions

vs.

A Giant Animal

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RGB3x3reply
lemmy.world

Not cute babythulu. Babythulu wouldn't hurt anyone.

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He brought his dream journal to school for show and tell but the other kids made fun of him for it. "You think my dreams are funny? Let me see yours..."

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lemmy.world

Shunned by the eldest gods, it was banished to a group of solar systems so far from the origin cluster as to be, at best, irrelevant. Deep into the arm it was injected.

Moping about rocks and stars gamma-scarred.

It found earth.

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lemmy.world

I mean, who's to say whether xenomorphs perceive time and space like humans. Sure, they behave like animals, but they could still have evolved or been created in some strange part of the universe where space-time is shaped differently, making those horrible, non-Euclidean shapes look like home to them.

For all humans know or can comprehend, xenomorphs are tiny, eldritch fleas that evolved to live on Cthulu's pet, so while I'd still give the overall win to the Big Guy/Gal/Entity, the xenomorphs might be on his/her/its radar and might even be able to annoy him/her/it in a way that humans can't.

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I've been thinking about this the last few days, and while it may have been easiest to explain the mechanics as "smell," the way it was implemented, you could also explain it as being able to faintly glimpse into the past to see where the humans/predators were several seconds ago.

Just a thought I had because I like thinking about this stuff

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sh.itjust.works

non-Euclidean shapes

I've tried to find out but can you explain exactly what that means?

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Just a reference to the way Lovecraft described the architecture of the ancient cities built by worshipers of the eldritch beings, especially in At The Mountains of Madness.

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Relative to other Xenomorphs or relative to humans?

Not sure if they can perceive the universe in higher dimensions than humans or not.

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