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>Star Wars
Shamblers existed 40 years before Star Wars was released.

It's fur. There's a slipgate in the Himalayas.

>>8066667
yeti =/= shambler

>>8066640
>star wars
opinion discarded

>>8066640
What do they eat?

I always saw Shamblers and Niggur as being fleshy. Like the worm-things from OoT.

>>8066640
>It's fur
I never though different. Even for low res this wouldn't be a good depiction of leather or skin.

>>8066662
Dimensional shamblers aren't the same creatures as shamblers. The former have eyes and chitin.

>>8066858

>>8066864

>>8066858
>>8066864
Sandy Petersen shits on both of them and laughs

This is the image that inspired the Shambler.
I believe in Quake it's supposed to be skin that's extremely stretched on the body, like a shirt that's a couple sizes too small. Makes a lot more sense when you see the texture map.

>>8066889
Fug, forgot image

>>8066893
Was the original also a lighting bolt throwing cunt?

>>8066926
No, they just tear holes through time and space and kidnap people who accidentally arouse their attention. No matter where you are, or how long it takes.... they will find you, and appear when you least expect it.

>>8066797
>worm-things
You mean those things in Jabu Jabu’s Belly?

Honestly I think it's the blood that makes it look like fur. It looks like it's soaked in and matted/stained it.

This doesn't look like taut skin at all though, it's a completely wrong depiction of it even accounting for technology. After a certain point you have to just say "you may have intended to draw a pig but you factually drew a bear" to someone about their art. Shambler is past that line.

>>8066640
I don't get how you couldn't see it as fur. Just look at it. That's pixelated fur.

>>8068217
Yeah, considering that nobody's asking if the fiend has fur but also is covered in blood.

Whoever decided the shamblers were albinos deserves the blame for people assuming they were covered in polar bear fur. That's just not a skin tone you'd assume wasn't fur.

Man, Quake’s enemies are fucking freaky.

>>8068930
It's not just the blood, look at how much better a depiction of skin pulled taut this is.

>>8066640
No, it's not fur.

>>8066893
>Feathers on the shoulders and nowhere else
These scribblescrapers suck kek

>>8069049
>>8068646
>taut
It doesn't have to be taut, it can be wrinkled and icky and mottled. There are several ways to imagine a weird pattern of skin.

>>8066640

>>8066640
I always saw them as having a thick wrinkly hide like an elephant or rhino.

>>8066871
Adrian Carmack is the monsters guy, he is the ultimate authority on what he intended the monsters of his own creation to be.

Adrian said it has no fur.
Romero said it has fur.
Romero later said it has no fur.
The official 90's action figure has no fur.
The QC Shambler hat has fur.

>>8066857
Go look it up. They are dimensional shamblers.


This discussion was over after the first post you idiots. End this retarded nonsense.

>>8066662
FPBP

>>8069183
>Feathers

those are skin folds

>>8066868
Fuck, I wish that was released.

>>8066773
your hopes and dreams

>>8069771
Only logical answer is that there is more than one type

>>8066640
I think of it either as bare pale skin, ot something like walrus's coat of fur, thin, but dense, probably.also really gross.

>>8066871
>>8069759
Sandy drew a lot on monster concepts from his old pen and paper games, but Adrian interpreted them in his own way.
Given how fractured and messy Quake's development was, I'd be willing to say that there's a subjective element to it all, and it can be looked at in different ways.

>>8066893
Look at his grin, that's great!

>>8069850
>Go look it up.

Ok, here's what showed up.

>>8066640
Considering those green spots all over show indentations and rotted skin
I doubt it’s fur

>>8066871
>>8070101
Sandy Petersen shits on both of them and laughs

>>8066640
Its skin always looked like this to me

>>8072019
Sandy Petersen can't even get Lovecraft's lore correct and it was literally his job for like a decade.

>>8072171
How many books and games have you published you literal nobody?

>>8069850

>Shuffling toward him in the darkness was the gigantic, blasphemous form of a thing not wholly ape and not wholly insect. Its hide hung loosely upon its frame, and its rugose, dead-eyed rudiment of a head swayed drunkenly from side to side.

It has eyes and looks like an ape-bug. You're wrong, per HP fucking Lovecraft himself.

>>8072186
>tu quoque

>>8066773
they eat babies

>>8067290

He obviously means the Like Likes you fucking idiot retard

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>>8073346
"Well what about you" is generally considered a weak argument. So weak that it falls into logical fallacy territory.

>>8073464
I don't care. I'm always right.

>>8069850
Get BTFO retard lol.

>>8066640
it is just a sasquatch or an angry bigfoot mixed with the thing from John carpenter.

>>8066640
No shit. It even makes a bear noise when it appears. It's just a weird polar bear

>>8069576
That'd be a hilarious Halloween costume. Just print out the teeth on some paper and tape it to your face.

>draw fur
>claim otherwise after the fact
>claim your inspiration isn't fur, your inspiration was bare skin, even though your drawing clearly does not look like that

Too bad? I'm sorry dude, if you draw what you intended so incorrectly that the pixels are perfectly arranged to depict something else instead, that something else is what you drew. Tough luck buddy. You don't get to claim your giraffe is a horse whose head you drew way too long, gave bumps and spotted in a savannah pattern. That's a fuckin giraffe dude.

why would a being that lives in a ecosystem where lava is common have fur?

>>8077946
Why would a being that lives in an ecosystem where lava produces a lot of light not have eyes?

>>8077951
it neither has ears or a nose. they sense the presence of the ranger by other hidden means, thus eyes aren't neccessary.

>>8078023
It can sense bioelectrical fields, but it absolutely can detect audio. If you fire a weapon in a room with a dormant shambler, it will wake up and attack.

>>8078023
If it could do that it'd see you from behind the wall before you walked into the room.

>>8077946
I think the Shamblers are supposed to live in dark and wet caves, and are just kind of pulled into places as necessary by Shub N-Word

>>8078264
Hey, someone who actually paid attention to the plot of Quake.