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Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months ago

Aliens, cool or cringe?

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Aliens, cool or cringe?

Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net to askchapo@hexbear.netEnglish · 10 months ago
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  • Thallo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    Pretty cool if you ask me

    Although, the benevolent ones all tend to be blonde haired and blue eyed for some reason thonk

    • LaGG_3 [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      goku-doorstep

      • Thallo [she/her]@hexbear.net
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        This is the best use of this emoji this site will ever see

        xi-clap

        I swear to God, haters, I don’t want to hear that his eyes are green. I will hellzone grenade your asses

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      Yeah I always thought the Nordic Aliens were some fucking weird racism brainworms

  • micnd90 [he/him,any]@hexbear.net
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    They mostly only abduct bored suburbanite white anglo pepo

    • citrussy_capybara [ze/hir]@hexbear.net
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      • CarbonConscious [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        same-picture

    • Philosophosphorous [comrade/them, null/void]@hexbear.net
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      plenty of explanations for this map: cultural differences in how phenomena are interpreted (what americans interpret as ‘aliens’ may be more likely to be interpreted as ‘angels’ or ‘spirits’ or ‘weird imperialist jets’ or something in many other cultures without the same mass media sci fi trends in their pop culture, and maybe they are even correct to do so!), less access to electronics like cameras to record sightings, less interest among media industries of other cultures to cover such topics, less military equipment like radars and jets deployed to possibly detect phenomena, less organizations researching sightings in other countries, etc. Its silly to present this one map as some kind of ‘gotcha’ imo.

      • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.net
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        this map literally only represents reports from one org based in the US. it’s misleading nonsense and I wish people would stop posting it

      • Shaleesh [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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        deleted by creator

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Removed by mod

      • someone [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.net
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        Oh my god, we are living in a simulation, and that simulation is an episode of Jackass.

        • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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          Hi, I am Bam Margera and this “Sunkin’ Phil’s Dunk.”

    • TankieTanuki [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      Nah, that’s just using data from an English-speaking org.

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    • imogen_underscore [it/its, she/her]@hexbear.net
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      only reports made to an English language org based in the US. I wish people would stop posting this misleading shit, I used to think it was funny too until I learned it’s meaningless and misleading and doesn’t prove anything.

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    I like this guy

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      Gleeby little guy

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        Bogos binted aah feline

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          This makes me miss getting stickbugged

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    There’s this impulse among many contemporary fiction writers to imply there’s a “dead” universe out there, and to me it’s both lazy (they don’t have to think of convincing or at least fun aliens) and it panders to colonial mindsets about everything out there just being resource nodes to tap while Hans Zimmer BWAAAAAAAAAAMS are going off.

    So fuck that. I prefer aliens in my fiction. Learn to share, or at least to behave, o whiteys on the moon.

    • Philosophosphorous [comrade/them, null/void]@hexbear.net
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      they could at least give us some spooky space ruins to wax existential about

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        The Aliens franchise did that, but then it got lazy and made the universe tiny and had Original Synthetic Do Not Steal be responsible for annihilating the Engineers and making the Xenomorphs. desolate

    • BashfulBob [none/use name]@hexbear.netBanned
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      There’s this impulse among many contemporary fiction writers to imply there’s a “dead” universe out there, and to me it’s both lazy (they don’t have to think of convincing or at least fun aliens) and it panders to colonial mindsets about everything out there just being resource nodes to tap while Hans Zimmer BWAAAAAAAAAAMS are going off.

      I am less inclined to the believe the universe is “dead” and more inclined to believe it is “vast” and “inhospitable to human life”. Voyager 2 took 50 years to exit the Solar System and won’t get anywhere near another one before it is out of range of our instruments. We don’t have anything remotely fast enough to transit between planets reliably, much less solar systems. And even if we did, the rate of communication would make any kind of human interaction sporadic at best.

      So expecting to stumble on alien life any time soon feels overly ambitious. For the time being, we are alone and we have exactly one big rock where we have any chance of survival. Any exploration of deep space has to be approached with that attitude in mind. We are plunging into the Void, not sailing to a New World.

      Space exploration stories in the vein of Firefly and Ad Astra and Red Mars and the early seasons of The Expanse and even shlock like Exo-Squad give us a picture of space where its humans dealing with the consequences of their own history and technology and socio-economic choices. We aren’t going to find Techno-Wizards or New Edens or Space Monsters to battle and conquer. At best, we’re going to find things we have ourselves created. We’re going into space and we’re going to evolve what we need to exist in space and then we are going to become aliens unto ourselves.

      In the end, assuming we can truly get beyond Earth’s embrace, that’s what’s going to be out there. A million million iterations of us, staring back like faces in a broken mirror.

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    no ayylmao ever misgendered me so they’re in the clear as far as I care

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    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]@hexbear.netOP
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      I just hope they’re fun little green dudes and not the thing from Nope

  • 2Password2Remember [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    cringe, they’re out there watching us destroy ourselves instead of parachuting in and giving us a communism button to push

    Death to America

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  • Aradina [They/Them]@lemmy.ml
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    Depends on if they give me a spaceship

  • Adkml [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    Cool as long as they’re not just ham fisted analogies for different races.

  • tactical_trans_karen [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    Cringe, they show up everywhere naked, no sense of style at all.

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      no sense of style at all.

      LISTEN HERE YOU LITTLE-

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      how do u know that ‘green skin’ isn’t an advanced bionic life support suit?

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        It’s a gimp suit, they’re just doing fetish shit on us.

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    Ghosts are cool, cryptids are cool. Aliens tend to be cringe. As silly as little green men look, anything past that tends to encourage racism and a lack of curiosity.

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    If they were cool, they’d have eradicated the “international community” already. It’s not too late, but they better do it sooner than later.

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    screm-cool

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