Pred question

[Metal_Pred]

Yea...so this is gonna sound lame, but how does a pred activate his wristblades or his combistic to open?
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[Aramor]

Well, in the games... you just switch to them... yeah.
But well, I think that the combistick just has a button, and that his wrist-blades are activated through muscle. I mean, I think it was in Moonraker, James Bond once had some dart shooting gadget, attached to his wrist. He also shot those by using certain muscles.
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[The Huge Wing Wong]

i was about to post the same thing about the wristblades.i guess aramor is right.
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[Aramor]

[The Huge Wing Wong]

what the...?

why don't you put it in your sig?it's most likely the first time some1 ever said that!!!
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[Holly Resurrected]

He just likes to hear it.
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[Frost]

I like to hear people say I'm right...it doesn't happen very often...
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[Aramor]

[Metal_Pred]

so if the wristblades are activated by muscle and the combistic is activated by a button, what about the plasmacaster?
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[Aramor]

I think I read somewhere that he uses the mandibles to push buttons on the inside of his mask. In AvP though you use your Wrist Console.
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[Metal_Pred]

I like the mandible idea, many thanks Aramor.
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[Aramor]

I found it: Shoulder Cannon (Plasma Caster)

The Shoulder Cannon is a mounted and lightweight weapon capable of firing multiple long-range energy burst of charged plasma. It is controlled via the targeting system in the helmet, and tracks with the head movement of the firer.

It can be used with the Laser Sight to increase targeting capacity, and is fired either by a mandible-controlled trigger in the helmet or by the forearm-mounted control panel.

Found it here.
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[Metal_Pred]

[Metal_Pred]

Haha thats an awesome site, I just got the predator language as a font when I write. The only thing that I don't like is that the picture used to show the plasma caster, is a scene form predator 2, when the pred gets shot and his plasmacaster is broken, the guy could have used a better pic...
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[Agent 47]

[Deathmachine]

[amyltrer]

Maybe they have a sort of neuro-mental releaser for their wrist-blades.

[amyltrer]

Here's the ugly guy:




Predators have green blood, but his mouth blood vessels are crimson. They don't seem to have a tongue, so they can choke while eating.

The way his eyes are situated, very closed and sunken in the eyepits gives him a very narrow visual field.

Predators long & sharp claws aren't that effective unless they are retractable, because it prevent him from grabbing things properly, or to fold his hand in a fist. It's impossible make a fist with 4 centimeters long taloons, because they will sink into your flesh.

Predy needs a manicure.
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[Frost]

Hmm, those are some nice points. I really doubt his tongue and eyes cause him problems. But the crimson vessels in his mouth makes no sense and the claw thing is actually an age old problem.
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You forget one thing: rock crushes scissors. But paper covers rock... and
scissors cuts paper... Kiff, we have a conundrum. Search them for paper... and
bring me a rock.
-- Zapp Brannigan

[Graffiti]

I never notice the problems. The crimson veins are definetly a big contradiction.

[Aramor]

Maybe the skin around those veins make them look red. I mean, certain veins in my wrist look purple or blue...
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[Simon_Says]

Predator blood is indeed green, but maybe that discoloration is caused by a similar effect to what makes our blood look blue from the surface (it isn't, an optical illusion makes it appear so.) Or the blood vessels could be surrounded by some other tissue that happens to be red. As to having no tongue and choking: I beg to differ. They might have some sort of tongue-like organ behind the vagina-flaps (very likely.)

The sunken-eyes giving a narrow fov theory: I don't see how that works. The eyes have pretty good access to the outside. The sunkeness is probably either an adaptation that instills fear in its prey, the sunkeness could make the Pred look like a skeletal figure from a distance (if dinner is scared shitless it will probably have a harder time running away no?). Or, more likely, it’s just an adaptation that protects the eyes from damage during fights and such, sort of like what warthogs use the 'warts' for (btw, they're not warts, just natural growths).

About claws,the predator's claws seem to be very short actually. The following picture is a depiction of the hands of a Predator from AvP. I don't recall the Predators form the other filsm having claws any longr than this. You could easily clench your fists with these kinds of nails. Not to mention handle tools and equipment.



And last but not least: how the Preds activate thier wrist-blades. A year ago I would have said it was some sort of direct mental-activation (brainwave detection). However I've sinced learned that this would be an unreliable activation method, I couldn't possibly give you all the reasons that could go wrong with it. A non-direct mental-activation approach is feasible.

[Frost]

[siliconsara]

Simon pretty much hit it on the head.

Predators do have a tongue. The official P2 busts have a tongue that sits low in the mouth right before the "vagina" throat muscles. A Predator's lower jaw is a bit like a fleshy shallow cup, and in that cup sits the tongue.

Their eyes could be sunken in their head for many reasons. I always thought so that it might help them see better, or to make their eyes less visual...like how some nocturnal animals have black fur around their eyes.
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[Frost]

You wanna know the real reason they are sunk in so low? Because it looks cooler!
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You forget one thing: rock crushes scissors. But paper covers rock... and
scissors cuts paper... Kiff, we have a conundrum. Search them for paper... and
bring me a rock.
-- Zapp Brannigan