Predators are just extreme doomsday preppers, setting up on their own planets and killing any trespassers. The rest live in a post-scarcity society and have no interest in convincing those weirdos to come home.
Predators are like humans going to Africa for big game hunting.
They’re mostly dentists, Fortune 500 CEOs, and children of dignitaries. Every time we kill a predator, their planet’s stock market is affected or a bunch of parents have to negotiate a new provider with their insurance.
They literally use the phrase ‘on Safari’ in the second predator movie.
This is a well known concept in sci-fi where civilizations massing in the tens of billions will have all kind of weird outliers. But at such a scale, even the really weird ones can form groups of tens of thousands or even larger. In sci-fi storytelling this is often used to explain weird behavior that probably wouldn’t make a lot of sense otherwise.
It also comes up in the fermi paradox a lot. For example aliens always want to stay at home and not be noticed or interact with anyone. But at a certain scale of civilization that doesn’t hold water. Even if 99.99% of a given alien species think that way, there would stil be at least a million of them that think otherwise and would be willing and able to act on it.
So it makes perfect sense for all the Predator people to be really normal and the hunting cult is a hobby that got out of hand.
I’ve read a lot of sci fi but I’m not familiar with that concept, but it makes more sense than thinking of a whole culture as weirdly sadistic etc.
I also listen to Isaac Arthur.
I know it’s an important literary device in sci-fi but it always bugs me that whole planets are mostly mono-cultural with usually only up to 3 different governments.
Star Trek crew arrives at a planet. Meets a group of aliens. Meets another group of different aliens. Both aliens are literal opposites of each other. Doesn’t agree about one issue. Crew fixes issue. Star Trek ship leaves.
Wait you read sci-fi where a planet has THREE governments?
Maybe I’m reading bargain bin material but the stories I see is a mono-culture, with a mono-religion and if I’m extra blessed, a single ecosystem like frost planet, or sand planet.
This is why I could not get through Xenocide. I absolutely loved Ender’s Game and Speaker For The Dead, two of the all time greatest, but xenocide was so flawed I just couldn’t keep going with the series. Also, fuck Orson Scott Card in general.
The US, Japan, China, India and Europe all watch the same major block buster movies. We can talk to each other about the MCU and at least have some idea what each other is talking about. There are only a hand full of religions left in the world unless you want to counter obscure ones and each sect and even then three of those big ones are basically branches of the same religion. the most common language in the world is spoken by a large variety of people all over the planet while the second is pretty regional.
An advanced society would probably end up being monocultured going by the one model we have. Though it could depend on if they are a space fairing race and how long it takes to travel between ‘settlements.’
But what if the species is genetically/psychologically inclined to a single form of governance?
What’s the yautja word for “ammosexual?”
Those predators are just the offspring of the predator oligarchs.
Every “big game hunter” ever.
Nothing screams baby dick energy like killing an animal from a distance, using advanced weapons designed and engineered by people far more intelligent than you are.
That was the original idea for alien. The aliens are actually this advanced cultured race. But they get crazy in childhood and puberty.
That’s also kinda the explanation for the velociraptor behaviour in the second Jurassic Park book. They were a social species and the lab-grown ones grew up to be absolute sociopaths.
It’s like their version of guys who spend a fortune on gear and tactical everything to go weekend paintball shooting in the woods.
I want to see a romantic comedy, where in the background the TV is playing a news report about how Tokyo is being attacked by Godzilla again. No one in the foreground acknowledges it, probably because it’s so common you may not comment on it. Still some people in the background are looking concerned. Maybe a poster for donating to rebuild Japan.
i mean this isn’t exactly that but it’s kinda like it https://m.imdb.com/title/tt4680182/
Oh, I say!
How did they develop space travel for real? These ugly motherfuckas can’t be smart enough to develop star drives!
I thought they established in the the movie before Prey that the predators are really autistic.
What does that even mean in this context? I haven’t seen the movie.
I tried to find the answer and I’m not sure if this is what they’re referencing but in the 2018 movie, the Predator is hunting a kid who exhibits every stereotypically-positive aspect of autism…so he can incorporate it into its own genome? The movie supposedly includes the quote, “autism is the next stage of evolution”
The implication is that what we call “autism” is actually a collection of net-positive traits (our society simply is ill-equipped for it) and those traits were sought out by a predator. So, the “lesson” is to stop viewing autism as something icky, and instead ask how we can adjust our society to adapt to it, rather than asking autistics to adapt to our society.
Looked that up and realized I’ve never seen it. Any good?
This sounds like a really good Rick & Morty episode.
