I Low-key Love The Fact That Sci-fi Has So Conditioned Us To Expect To Be Hanging Out With A Bunch Of

I low-key love the fact that sci-fi has so conditioned us to expect to be hanging out with a bunch of cool space aliens, that legitimate, actual scientists keep proposing the most bizarre, three-blunts-into-the-rotation "theories" to explain the fact we're not.

Some of my favourites include:

Zoo Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they're not talking to us because of the Prime Directive from Star Trek? (Or because they're doing experiments on us???)

Dark Forest Theory: What if there are loads of aliens out there, but they all hate us and each other so they're all just waiting with a shotgun pointed at the door, ready to open fire on anything that moves?

Planetarium Theory: What if there's at least one alien with mastery over light and matter that's just making it seem to us that the universe is empty to us as, like, a joke?

Berserker Theory: What if there were loads of aliens, but one of them made infinite killer robots that murdered everyone and are coming for us next?!!

Like, the universe is at least 13,700,000,000 years old and 46,000,000,000 light years big. We have had the ability to transmit and receive signals for, what, 100 years, and our signals have so far travelled 200 light years?

The fact is biological life almost certainly has, does, or will develop elsewhere in the universe, and it's not impossible that a tiny amount of it has, does, or will develop in a way that we would understand as "intelligent". But, like, we're realistically never going to know because of the scale of the things involved.

So I'm proposing my own hypothesis. I call it the "Fool in a Field" hypothesis. It goes like this:

Humanity is a guy standing in the middle of a field at midnight. It's pitch black, he can't move, and he's been standing there for ages. He's just had the thought to swing his arms. He swings one of his arms, once, and does not hit another person. "Oh no!" He says. "Robots have killed them all!"

I just played the ending sequence of my game FriendShapes with all music in it I just did and wow, watching the credits with the music n seeing it basically capped off aside from one or two fixes is really somethin - still needs a few tweaks but it's really basically done, after almost 4 years - crazy

Potentially the last day of testing for me with my game FriendShapes, then it's for testers to check a final time... it's been a whole lot of work, most of it wrestling with bloody RPG Maker MV and its occasionally severe limitations and ton of plugins used - but it's basically finished

Demo's been up for years and hasn't caught many people's attention, I'm hoping it being the full release will convince people to give it a ago - most people don't want to play a demo, they want the whole thing at once... either way, game'll be done and dusted 🤘

Woah I've been meaning to try and get into the Moomins as I only saw it very occasionally on TV as a child, this is deffo pushing me to wanna do that sooner 🙏

Sniff beating the shit out of Moomin (verbally) (idk I just hate gusty Moomin)

And maybe a little sniffmaiden¿ (They're sillies who deserve so much better)

(I want to note here that Sniff is being irrational here but his resentment has built up so much that he doesn't even want to be near the Moomins even during the apocalypse anymore. Also, this is some speculative season 4 stuff)

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Love them,,,,,

My Freya collection grows... There's so little merch of her it's criminal, but I managed to get the one on the left just today via ebay for Not Much At All Actually and may or may not have ordered a bunch of keyring things featuring her as my need of Freya and Burmecian content cannot be overstated

So so wish there was more Yuke stuff around, I know this is a old post but v much appreciate seein it 💜

Thinkin’ about Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and remembered how much I absolutely adore Yukes. Like aside from the weird arbitrary gendered clothing most of them have, the idea of an intangible magical entity that puppets the physical form of an armored faceless stripey bird furry with giant hands is 200% my aesthetic. So I drew myself as one.