i'm tempted to watch that new predator movie, Prey, but hearing the modern world jerk it off as "the best one" has certainly put a damper on my desire to see how it plays out.

@thebleedingphoenix The amerindian was/is an impotent savage
The likelihood of a whole warband of them standing any chance against some alien like that is laughable at best
But a single one of them? And a woman at that?
Yeah I can't suspend my disbelief that much
I only like the original because of the cheezy 80s action and the vietnam war metaphor

savages yes but they were highly competent fighters

just cared a lot more about killing each other

@fluffy @thebleedingphoenix Highly competent against other savages perhaps
But in real life we saw what happened when a few "aliens" came to their hunting grounds
No more Aztecs
And the Spanish didn't even have lasers and thermal vision and shit

They were possibly the best soldiers in the world at the time:
> “The Indians of the American West might have been among the best soldiers man for man in the world, but their tactics were developed over decades of inter-tribal warfare, and poorly suited to open combat against a disciplined regular army unit.”

Most american soldiers at that time were drunks and wastrels, untrained and underequipped due to debt and budget cuts. But even so, the whites were organized.

> “Not only did the Indians fail to unite . . . they also continued to make war on one another. There was no sense of ‘Indianness’ until it was too late.” When the cavalry rode against one tribe, it was easy to find warriors from a rival tribe who wanted nothing more than to kill hereditary enemies.

https://www.unz.com/jtaylor/american-settlers-meet-spartans/

@fluffy @elftummy so with all of that in mind, does that measure up to an alien warrior with advanced technology, one that has garnered experience from many hunts, and has mastered the art of the kill to the point of fighting other aliens with acid blood?
yeah, i have my doubts. if one of those things are capable of knocking Judge fucking Dredd on his ass i press x hard on a single indian faring any better.

hell no

first off, unless you hit a predator with a cannonball i doubt there's anything from those times that can even harm him. maybe if it's some young blood with no armor

@fluffy @elftummy i'm looking at the design right now... no armor visible... wait what the fuck is this mask? how can he see through that?

i guess it's one of those things where you try to make the hunt a challenge

@fluffy @elftummy @thebleedingphoenix plus he crash landed iirc, so he's not really decked out.

as long as they dont' try and retarded 'noble savage' bullshit or make the indian a woman, i think the premise could be good. they are capable hunters and trackers and have the mobility advantage on horseback

assuming the indian wants to kill it, he's more likely to just gtfo

@fluffy @elftummy @thebleedingphoenix
>Make the Indian a woman
I got some bad news for ya. Heh

I don't wanna ruin it for those watching or planning to watch, but yeah there's a lot I can say that they could have done better.
But I will say I kinda liked how inexperienced the predator is. It's like he's really having a blast trying out how hard each animal hits and gets hit

>predator vs human woman
>human woman wins!
>do you plan to watch
i do not plan to watch

@fluffy @elftummy @thebleedingphoenix @RehnSturm256 Fuck Prey it's dogshit they ripped off a story from the comics that was actually good. Go read about the woman who REALLY beat the predators, Machiko Noguchi, and then joined their clan (it was to survive, and it was hell for her, she got her ass beat regularly and was the bottom of the totem pole, but was still strong enough to survive that- and no they never raped her, Predators find himan females disgusting.).

I have no fucking idea why they raped that story and turned it into some retarded shit about some caveman indian (no disrespect). Machiko only won in the comics because she was a modern, spacefaring woman, who had a sword and trained her whole life for combat, and instead of fighting her and the predator were forced to work together to survive a xeno infestation. She proved herself, got accepted, and was blooded. She's a full Yautja warrior. Amd and they raped that story to make it about some Indian bitch who ties a rope to her tomahawk so that she can whip it into her face and kill herself -I mean so it can fly back into the palm of her hand every time she yanks it back. Oh and she fell 15 feet directly onto where her spine connects to her skull and so she died -I mean she was knocked out and then woke up moments later and able to function.