Which species will you never play as ?

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I don't feel any desire to play most of the mammal portraits, to be honest. I might give the humans a try to fulfill some ideological fantasy or the other, maybe the platypus because they actually look pretty based. But other than those two, I feel they just look too... vanilla or bland compared to other phenotypes.
 
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I don't feel any desire to play most of the mammal portraits, to be honest. I might give the humans a try to fulfill some ideological fantasy or the other, maybe the platypus because they actually look pretty based. But other than those two, I feel they just look too... vanilla or bland compared to other phenotypes.
Vanilla? Bland? Are you serious?

Let's see...

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Okay, we've got humans, relatively normal... then some crazy four-eyed mohawked monkey rhino... I don't know... thing... then there's Fluff McLargeHuge, Bray Whinnington, the ever-popular Cat Confederates, the anteater-lookin' dudes with the big snoots, DA 'OGZ, WAAAAA- sorry. Some weird combo of a space bison/ram, the #420BlazeItSloths, the 'Cute Foxes', some... uh... horny thing? Them dudes with the killer eyebrows, some freaky kinda spider-eyed bat people... Scruffy Goatington, some friggin' skeletal monkey lookin' motherfuckers, a demonic monstrosity that looks like it just came out of the Wizard of Oz, and the frankly quite awesome Platypus Overlords.
 
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All of them that aren't Humans. I will only be Humans. Glory to Humanity.
 
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Sad : I regret not being able to play as Elcor. Hopeful : they will probably be modded in at some point.
 

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Vanilla? Bland? Are you serious?

Let's see...
Well, I'll concede that with such descriptions they sound appealing. But IMO, compared to the other portraits all of them look too... earthlike, I guess? I can quite easily relate most of them to a Terran species. of some kind. Not only that but all of them have a human-like bauplan. Reptillian and Avian also suffer from that to a lesser extent. On the other hand, I'll be having a shitload of fun with the Molluscoids, Fungoids and(probably my favorites) Arthropoids ;)
 

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Well, I'll concede that with such descriptions they sound appealing. But IMO, compared to the other portraits all of them look too... earthlike, I guess? I can quite easily relate most of them to a Terran species. of some kind. Not only that but all of them have a human-like bauplan. Reptillian and Avian also suffer from that to a lesser extent. On the other hand, I'll be having a shitload of fun with the Molluscoids, Fungoids and(probably my favorites) Arthropoids ;)
That's very true, but I thought I'd make them sound entertaining. xD
There are definitely a lot of them that are very Earthlike, such as the cats, pigs, horses, etc
 

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I'll never play Humans. I've had enough of Terran Federations, Terran Confederations, Terran Imperia, Terran Terran Terran. Boring.

I don't like any of the Fungoid species.

The Blorg species looks like something my dog leaves in the backyard so no thanks.

Then there is the penis with genital warts Fungoid. Nope.

The mammal with the parasitic fungoid. Pass.
Honestly, I found myself drawn to the hideous fungoids. I mean, Star Trek-eque federations are so bland. I'd rather play as an incredibly alien civilization incapable of reason or understanding (and yes, extremely ugly).
 
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