Why does almost every setting need to treat an insect race like it's a horrid, dystopian, culturless hivemind?

Well they don't right?

Like here's D&D, Greyhawk, one of the O.G. settings:

wiki.greyparticle.com/index.php/Bralm

>Bralm is the Suel goddess of Insects and Industriousness. Her symbol is a giant wasp in front of an insect swarm.

>Bralm is depicted as a middle-aged woman with dark blonde hair, sometimes with insect wings on her back. She also takes the form of an ankheg, giant wasp, or giant scorpion.

>Bralm is friendly with the rest of the Suel pantheon. However, she has no close allies in the pantheon because she judges others on their ability, having no concern with age or status.

>Bralm is prayed to for aid and blessings in various sorts of labor, especially those kinds that involve large numbers of people such as construction, farming, and mining. She is worshipped both by slave drivers and by slaves who hope to be rewarded for their service in the afterlife. She is a major deity in the Empire of the Scarlet Brotherhood and the Hold of the Sea Princes, and her faith is strongest in hot regions such as Hepmonaland and the Vast Swamp. Suel nomads in the Sea of Dust hold her in high regard. Bralm is popular with farmers both because of her patronage of labor and her control over harmful insects.

>Some of Bralm's churches worship insects or keep giant insects as pets.

>The holiest day of the year is the hottest day in Goodmonth, when clerics anoint themselves with exotic scents, build strange structures from sticks and mud, and release small swarms of insects that cling to their scented followers without stinging. Prayers to Bralm are recited at twilight and dawn, when the insects are most active. During all ceremonies, a high priest wears a gold pectoral with crystal wings sprouting from the back.

Bralm isn't exactly nice - she's Neutral - and the overtones of community and industrious and suppression of individualism appear in both Good and Evil societies that worship her. But she isn't cultureless or default dystopia.

Both of you need to read up on how actual hives, especially with ants which is usually the model everyone points to when it comes to a hive mind. They actually have a voting process for changes they make to anything.

> labor focused hive mind communal industrialist
> her symbol is a wasp

You fucked up you stupid bitch.

says the bipedal vermin.

Worms and insects don't drown their brains with Lil Peep and Stockhausen and Hyperdimension Neptunia and Spinoza and Sword Art Online and Emile Zola and the Quran and Batman v Superman and the Book of Mormon. They don't play with fidget spinners and hadron colliders and tax reports. They don't wear purple limited edition Doc Martens and bow ties and Supreme hoodies.

lets not forget that the queen in an ant/termite hive doesn't rule shit, rather she's kept as a breeding slave by her own daughters.

Depends on setting

lets not forget that wasps are natures assholes who exist solely to ruin your and other insects day.

>because most people are creeped out by bugs so they make good bad guys.
pretty much, the pecking order of our ability to project human emotions onto creatures goes:
>other people
>mammals
>birds
>fish/reptiles
>insects

>giant wasp in front of an insect swarm
I assume the wasp represents Bralm herself senpai.

Which is exactly why humans can't relate to them, dumbass.

anthropomorphic bugs > anthropomorphic fish
>inb4 spiders aren't bugs, they're arachnids!

it's also exactly why humans deserve to be exterminated in priority, fucktard

So she is a malevolent parasite who needs to be annihilated.

Perhaps the same could be said of all religions.

>*tips fedora*

I want to fuck that moth.

SotN is a good game and I recommend you play it user.

The problem with bugmen is that they don't care for anyone when there are too many.
NSFW, but Veeky Forums is still only for over 18 so who cares.

Thing is. Insect hives work the exact same way as monkey hives (cities). The only real difference between the two is insect hive have a designated breeding sow while cities do not.

>tfw no qt moth race

except ants are way better at forming super highways then we are exactly because everyone trusts the others.

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Because nobody wants to actually do anything new or interesting. Someone else made insects a cultureless hive mind, so everybody copies it the same way every setting must have humans elves and dwarves that are all the same.

There's this unspoken rule that the less human something looks the less viable it is as anything other than monster manual fodder.

Wait, isn't your mom the designated breeding sow?

>Why does almost every setting need to treat an insect race like it's a horrid, dystopian, culturless hivemind?

Because WANNA FUG THE BUG MUH DICK xD isn't as riveting of a setting detail as you have been led to believe.

>dystopian
>hivemind
Hivemind society is the ultimate paradise

only to a retarded socialist

Nihil novum sub sole.

Damn only 1 seems dead, 2 wounded, it could have been a lot worse. good reactions on those kids

Have you ever heard of insect politics?

Isn't that the comic where she get's eaten from the inside out by larva?

Starfinder's Shirren are super friendly bug people who actually get high off of making their own decisions.

God fucking damn it user, I was about to cook dinner.

Yes.

Haven't fapped to this in years, completely forgot it existed.
Thanks for the reminder, I'll be back in 30 minutes.

The sci-fi campaign I've been playing in has a race of small, mechanically-inclined insectoid aliens that hitch rides on other species' starships in exchange for engineering work. They've all been portrayed as good-natured and chipper.

mechanicalthinker.tumblr.com/post/56665928296/the-hollows

Think it's a story about everyone in purgatory in the form of a house

I've been noticing a trend among shitty posters like this of taking things they don't like and appending "-shit" to the end. You need to fucking stop. It's furfaggotry; always was, always will be. Not "furshit" or any of your other made-up words.

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>t. Rick and Morty

YOUR WORDS ARE AS EMPTY AS YOUR SOUL

are they dating?

And this is why we shouldn't have interracial relationships.

She wants the big human dick

Damn, now i want to see the rest

>hurr

see

I meant

Moths who obsessively fly towards "the light" as a metaphor for their culture's religion/enlightenment thought.
Their wings look like robes that make them look like sages.

Exactly, see the Chinese for details.

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Hey! We use dragons and lions all the time.

Sure, but she survives it.

It's actually novi, make your adjectives match your declension you fucking pleb

I knew I should've taken Latin in high school.

Sauce?

Asking for my mom.

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The funny(?) thing is that they have a lot of old people, what they need is more kids but all these reckless drivers keep killing the kids.

I think that's a cool idea. They could follow a religion similar to that of the humans from warcraft where they worship "the light".

They and humans could potentially be allied and fight against the forces of darkness/savage races.

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because it prevents magical realm shit like you are pushing for

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They would if they could. Seeing as how all the things you named are incomprehensible to insects, I don't think it's a very good argument. At least to a human, they can be understood and then properly looked down upon.

fpbp

this
I'm really getting sick of furries and other animalfuckers

Hey as long as we agree that it's garbage

Then why not have a human only setting then? Because no matter what you do, somebody out there is going to want to fuck something that isn't human, whether its the dwarf, the elf, the dragon, the pixie, the sentient sword. Let's just not have anything fun or interesting because someone will want to sexualize or fuck it.

Why did you quote me? I had nothing to say about sexualization

Don't quote me, you sick fuck.

>tfw no sentient staff boyfriend

don't remind me!!

this thing looks too humanlike

W-would you do this to your staff bf?

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...this seems lewd to me, somehow

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skreeeee

You do realize that wasps aren't aggressive as a clade, right? It's yellowjackets and hornets that are shitheads.

Isn't that the baddie from Men in Black?

>the bugs are just recolored humans

What's the point of them being bugs then? Just have human barbarians.

e621.net/post/show/1019564/

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I have hard time rating how attractive human men are, how the fuck are you getting attracted to insects

What if they used to be human barbarians?

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Train your degenerate powers for another 5 years, then you will understand.

Hypocrite you are, you accuse others of being vermin, only showing yourself to be vermin. You cannot aspire to the heights that the greatest of us achieve, but we could not have mountains without valleys. The existence of tragedy does not negate triumph.

House of Mystery, from Vertigo.

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