has this:

:Gamers, as a whole, are much like primitive cavemen when confronted with a new game. Rather than 'oh, neat, what's this do?', the reaction is to decide if it's a sex hole, then hit it with a rock.-JonWake :

This, plus the fact that so MANY medieval confessor's guilds had huge numbers of entries for "penance for sex with farm animals," makes me think if the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy REALLY existed, the entry for Earth would say:

"Caution:  The dominant species will attempt to fuck damn near anything, and will attempt to eat damn near anything they can't fuck.  If they can't fuck it, and they can't eat it, they'll hit it with a rock."

So what kind of Traveller game would this create?  Or for that matter, what kind of Star Wars game?

A fairly normal style Traveller game, especially if you add in "will either try to steal/sell it, or be paid by a patron to hit it with a rock".

There is an ANCIENT, ANCIENT SF filk song I heard back in the mid 70s.  The tiny fragment I can remember went something like this (set to "The Irish Washerwoman")


I go anywhere that a fight can be found,
My knuckles are hairy and drag on the ground,
I'm the meanest damn critter that ever saw space,
I'm a typical member of our human race.

Quote from: Old Geezer;705254has this:

:Gamers, as a whole, are much like primitive cavemen when confronted with a new game. Rather than 'oh, neat, what's this do?', the reaction is to decide if it's a sex hole, then hit it with a rock.-JonWake :

This, plus the fact that so MANY medieval confessor's guilds had huge numbers of entries for "penance for sex with farm animals," makes me think if the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy REALLY existed, the entry for Earth would say:

"Caution:  The dominant species will attempt to fuck damn near anything, and will attempt to eat damn near anything they can't fuck.  If they can't fuck it, and they can't eat it, they'll hit it with a rock."

So what kind of Traveller game would this create?  Or for that matter, what kind of Star Wars game?

Sounds like Star Trek TOS

Quote from: Agent KHuman thought is so primitive, it's looked upon as an infectious disease in some of the better galaxies. Kind of makes you feel proud, doesn't it?

Just a little bit.

There was a SciFi novel I read as a kid, the onlysignificant memory I have of is that humankind were only allowed to join the "galactic counsel/space UN/federation of aliens" because Dogs vouched for them.

The big reveal of Alternity Gamma World. Assuming any GM ever got to that part of the book.

Quote from: dragoner;705262A fairly normal style Traveller game, especially if you add in "will either try to steal/sell it, or be paid by a patron to hit it with a rock".

Dragoner beat me to it.

It also applies to Star Wars.

I'm reminded of MZB's Hunters of the Red Moon, in which humans ("proto-simians") weren't really trusted and were considered perilously unstable by the rest of the galactic polity because they were always in heat and deemed obsessed with mating.

Humans, whores of the universe.

Males can impregnate anything. A females womb is so fertile, it can accept the seed of any species, bearing forth mutations only dreamt about in the darkest depths of terror...

In space... No one can hear you orgasm...

Quote from: YourSwordisMine;705360Humans, whores of the universe.

Males can impregnate anything. A females womb is so fertile, it can accept the seed of any species, bearing forth mutations only dreamt about in the darkest depths of terror...

In space... No one can hear you orgasm...

"In space, no one can hear you come" has a better ring to it.

JG

Quote from: James Gillen;705363"In space, no one can hear you come" has a better ring to it.

JG

Also, you could have "In space, no one can hear you come" as the front page tagline and "In space, no one can hear you go" as the back page tagline.

Quote from: YourSwordisMine;705360In space... No one can hear you orgasm...

Bah.  When I bring a woman to orgasm, she radiates in all the major hyperwave frequencies.

Norman Spinrad - The Void Captain's Tale.

"In space ..."

Hey wait, are these pages sticky? Fucking gross.