Only similarity I see is that Butcher Tree, which is SO copied.
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You guys can’t be serious. There are similarities, maybe, but if you truly think a team of scientists looked to a video game to copy from, I feel bad for all of you.
This guy from the internet is right, Iron Giant was a good movie.
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My thoughts exactly. Master Chef, are you stoned?
Copy? You fail to see how science works. It’s cumulative. Speculative science, especially, is willing to reuse preconceived ideas where they’re not inherently flawed. Sure, they’re not going to purposefully play games for inspiration, but once they’ve been exposed to such a concept, it becomes food for thought as credible as anything else. Some effort might be made to avoid copying it entirely. Perhaps by taking those cooperative bunches of trees and packing them together.
There isn’t much illogical within the xenobiology of Half-Life. For example, you won’t be too surprised to hear the ichthyosaur and bullsquid share a common ancestor. Each creature in the game is a viable organism, and that’s part of what made the game immersive - - observing the xenofauna and all the bizarre things a foreign evolution had yielded.
The Xen-tree is a viable creature, and for the sake of an entertaining show, they decided to share its unique existence with that general audience their channel attracts. And nobody is blaming them for this. If anything, we’re disappointed they weren’t willing to take more inspiration from the game universe we hold so dear :awesome: but then, of course, us real HL-veterans wouldn’t be surprised by anything in the show.
People need excuses to do that nowadays?
if you light a cat on fire to watch it burn, its cruelty.
If you light a cat on fire to study it’s behavior, its science!
(I AM KIDDING AND WOULD NEVER LIGHT A CAT ON FIRE.)
Makes as much sense as the rest of the thread.
I plead the fifth!
I’ve cut the liver out of a person while he’s still alive. Bathtubs full of ice are magical things.
haha not bad.
Also - Ram, do you want a tampon with that last post?
you animal abuser. I’m gonna do it right now! sounds fun! But I’ll cut the heart out and donate it to science so I’ll have an excuse.
ps I’m kidding I know Ram isn’t an animal abuser.