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Zadok Allen posted:I’ll have much more respect for Disney’s Romulus: An Alien Story if they show restraint by NOT including an Alien Queen. It will instead star an Alien Princess who sings about wanting something more than ruling over a nest of perfect organisms
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Mar 25, 2024 11:25
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Doctor Zero posted:… and that guy who was giving tours of the Titanic, it’s pretty drat prescient. James Cameron?
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Mar 25, 2024 13:12
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How long does an adult Xenomorph live for? Weeks?
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Mar 25, 2024 13:13
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ChairmanMauzer posted:James Cameron? The other guy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titan_submersible_implosion The moron that said ‘safety interferes with innovation’ and used a loving Logitech game controller to steer his deathtrap. Doctor Zero fucked around with this message at 17:10 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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Mar 25, 2024 17:01
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Kosmo Gallion posted:How long does an adult Xenomorph live for? Weeks? The original concept for ‘Alien’ was “days”, if the expanded universe is anything to go by then the current answer is “indefinitely”.
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Mar 25, 2024 17:06
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If they do live indefinitely, what does one do with its time when it's successfully cocooned or eaten every single crew member on some ship it's boarded? Play basketball?
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Mar 25, 2024 18:30
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Mister Speaker posted:If they do live indefinitely, what does one do with its time when it's successfully cocooned or eaten every single crew member on some ship it's boarded? Presumably it goes into some form of hibernation.
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Mar 25, 2024 18:37
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Mister Speaker posted:If they do live indefinitely, what does one do with its time when it's successfully cocooned or eaten every single crew member on some ship it's boarded? Watches Lawrence of Arabia and dies its roots blonde.
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Mar 25, 2024 19:19
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I'm trying to remember Alien: Covenant… does David's hair grow?
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Mar 25, 2024 19:40
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Android Apocalypse posted:I'm trying to remember Alien: Covenant… does David's hair grow? Yes.
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Mar 25, 2024 20:07
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Bonus materials give explanation as to why characters do idiotic things: they are idiots. I thought bonus material was relegated to head canon?
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Mar 26, 2024 16:41
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ruddiger posted:I thought bonus material was relegated to head canon? Yeah their heads are idiots.
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Mar 26, 2024 16:50
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ruddiger posted:I thought bonus material was relegated to head canon? Depends on the material, some of it (like the crew manifest easter egg from the old ‘Alien’ DVD, or the revelation that LV-233 and LV-426 orbit the same planet from the Prometheus blu-ray) has been incorporated into other stuff later on.
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Mar 26, 2024 16:57
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Xenomrph posted:Depends on the material, some of it (like the crew manifest easter egg from the old ‘Alien’ DVD, or the revelation that LV-233 and LV-426 orbit the same planet from the Prometheus blu-ray) has been incorporated into other stuff later on. Wait, what? Really? So much for Acheron being some super distant planetoid with a strange ancient distress beacon nobody has heard before. It’s practically a tourist hub. 
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Mar 27, 2024 06:22
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https://movieweb.com/alien-romulus-practical-effects-cgi-director-fede-alvarez-comments/ Looks like Mr. Alvarez is leaning towards practical effects, puppets, and animatronics. Went so far as to bring back the Aliens puppeteers from early movies and helping the old dudes work the puppets during shooting. Good news id say
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Dirt5o8 posted:https://movieweb.com/alien-romulus-practical-effects-cgi-director-fede-alvarez-comments/ 
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Mar 27, 2024 19:14
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Real "getting the band back together" vibes
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Mar 28, 2024 13:59
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Happy Easter to all goons who celebrate.
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Mar 31, 2024 12:55
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Owlbear Camus posted:Happy Easter to all goons who celebrate. That Cadbury Creme Egg is massive but not that tasty. 0/10 would not recommend.
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Mar 31, 2024 13:04
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Gosh, I better come in closer for a better look!
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Mar 31, 2024 13:20
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redshirt posted:Gosh, I better come in closer for a better look! Good post/av combo
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Mar 31, 2024 13:54
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Owlbear Camus posted:Happy Easter to all goons who celebrate. I thought the egg used in the teaser trailer was much smaller. Guess I'm wrong.
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https://x.com/steveasbell/status/1774146836674310306?s=20
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Owlbear Camus posted:Happy Easter to all goons who celebrate. I wouldn't fit in that dress.
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From the Aliens Expanded Instagram, which showed up on my search feed: Behind the scenes view of the queen in the throne room.
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Apr 5, 2024 08:59
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I mean, if you consider the potential applications of the Xeno, Burke was right!
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he was trying to make the number go up and fulfilling his fiduciary duty as an officer of a publicly-traded company, simple as
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:I played Alien RPG a few years ago and enjoyed it. It was fun getting into the roles of the different crewmembers (original for the game) and using that to guide your choices as your stress level went up. The rpg is flat-out excellent, maybe my favorite ttrpg. The rules really fit the setting and the background info is well presented.
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For many years now we've all considered Carter Burke the 'villain' of the so-called LV426 incident, but have you really looked at his story? The man did nothing wrong. A woman appeared from several decades in cryosleep and spun a bizarre yarn about 'xenomorphs' that kill to reproduced, and yet named the planed as one already surveyed and colonized? And we're supposed to believe that somehow the survey teams missed an alien spaceship, especially one that was broadcasting a signal? Entirely implausible. And sure, the conspiracy theorists among you will claim the company 'was aware' and 'suppressed the information' but why would they do such a thing? Why bother engaging in a very expensive terraforming project on a planet like that? Furthermore, look at the so-called 'leaked' story. Ellen Ripley claims that her crew were killed by this 'mysterious creature' and that she was forced to blow it up in order to kill the creature. A creature, she further claims, actually snuck onboard her escape pod anyway and that she 'heroically' fought off. Then, 50 years later, LV-426 goes silent, which could have been something as simple as a broken transmitter, but Burke is willing to believe Ripley and gives her a chance to consult on a potential alien threat and redeem herself. Now let us look at what follows. The Sulaco, along with its Space Marines, go to LV-426 and once again communication is lost. The reactor on LV-426 goes critical, destroying the colony. Several survivors, including Ellen Ripley, but not the much-blamed Mr Burke, return to the Sulaco. Then, conveniently, a disaster occurs which kills all the survivors except Ripley. She miraculously survives and lands on the prison colony of "Fury" 161. and Wayland-Yutani is called to retrieve her. In the period of time between the call and their arrival, most of the population of the colony is killed. When they arrive they find Ripley desperately trying to escape from them, at which point she takes her own life. In the search of the colony no evidence is found of so-called 'alien' species, and the Bishop-type android whose data banks could supposedly provide evidence was found to be permanently disabled by Ripley herself. Attempts to recover the Sulaco also lead to its destruction from seemingly unknown sources. Now the 'popular story' is that the cruel Burke attempted to use Ripley as some sort of broodmare for one of these Aliens. This of course makes no sense. There is no way such a creature would get past quarantine, and the act would be reported by the Space Marines. Even so what possible benefit could it bring? Anyone who could corroborate such a wild rumor is conveniently dead, and nobody can quite explain where the 'detailed' account of the events on LV-426 came from considering the base and the Sulaco were both destroyed in mysterious circumstances. So, dear reader, I ask you which is more likely. That Carter Burke is the monster that people claim, or that the real villain was Ripley herself. What is more likely, that a space monster of some kind killed everyone but Ripley on not one but three different occasions, or that Ripley herself was a madwoman desperate for attention? She herself killed the crew of the Nostromo and destructed the ship, then repeated the same act on LV-426 by sabotaging the reactor. She coerced or forced Lt. Hicks to take her back to the Sulaco, likely using the unknown child in the second escape pod as some kind of leverage. Then, once they were on the ship, she disabled the Bishop-type android, sabotaged the escape pods, and assured she (and the corpses of her unlucky victims) would land on an inhabited planet. She attempted to murder again, only to be caught in the act of triggering another self-destruct by the Wayland-Yutani employees, and chose to take her own life rather than face the consequences or answer hard questions. So I ask you again. Is Carter Burke truly the monster we've been lead to believe by mere rumor and hearsay? Or are we conveniently blaming him so we don't have to face the more horrible truth, that we were all taken in by one of the most prolific serial killers of the age?
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Xenomrph posted:ChatGPT running wild Hey, I wrote that lovely thing by hand. 
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ImpAtom posted:So I ask you again. Is Carter Burke truly the monster we've been lead to believe by mere rumor and hearsay? Or are we conveniently blaming him so we don't have to face the more horrible truth, that we were all taken in by one of the most prolific serial killers of the age? I run a game of the Alien rpg. The PCs work for the Company and their current main adversaries are radical ecoterrorists out to kill colonists and destroy terraforming equipment. The name of the ecoterrorist group is "the LNs." After a couple of sessions they found out the group is named after their hero Ellen Ripley, who managed to destroy a gigantic space refinery and a whole planet's worth of terraforming equipment single handed.
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Cessna posted:I run a game of the Alien rpg. Is there much difficulty running it as a campaign? It seems geared towards one-shots, or something like the movies where only a couple characters survive between "episodes"
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Is there much difficulty running it as a campaign? It seems geared towards one-shots, or something like the movies where only a couple characters survive between "episodes" So far I've killed off several PCs, but I try to keep a survivor or two to have some continuity between adventures. My players are okay with this, they know not to get too attached to their characters. That's just my game, though. The published adventures (Heart of Darkness, Chariots of the Gods, etc) are pretty lethal; they don't really need a group to carry through all the way from start to finish. If anything you're probably better off just using the pre-generated characters that come with each adventure and treating them as sorta-linked one-shots.
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