@AmericanChampion @GrungeQueef >It is genuinely baffling how something can reach a vaguely human-shaped form without developing the instinct not to fuck with hosts as a guest.

AND MANY OTHER SOCIAL DYNAMICS NECESSARY FOR FORMING COMPLEX SOCIETIES LARGER THAN AN IMMEDIATE TRIBE, RIGHT?
PRETTY CURIOUS

THERE'S RUINS AND IN THOSE RUINS LIVE PEOPLE INCAPABLE OF CONSTRUCTING SOMETHING LIKE THEM
AND OF COURSE SOME PEOPLE FIND THE OBVIOUS SOLUTION TO THIS CONUNDRUM THAT THESE GUYS ARE BARBARIANS WHO STUMBLED ON AN ABANDONED HIGHER CIVILIZATION
ANCIENT ALIENS, ANCIENT ARYANS, WHATEVER
MY TAKE IS THIS IS AN HG WELLS TIME MACHINE ELOI AND MORLOCS TYPE SITUATION
THESE PEOPLES HAVE ACHIEVED A HIGHER LEVEL OF ORGANIZATION IN THE PAST, BUILT THEIR CIVILIZATION AND WITHIN ITS SAFETY AND PLENTY HAD BRED THEMSELVES INTO ANTISOCIAL ANIMALS INCAPABLE OF MAINTAINING OR REBUILDING THE CIVILIZATION