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I watched the Aliens director cut and it was good Except it kept making me think of Covenant and Prometheus and making me angry gently caress you ridley scott If David invented the Aliens then how were they on the ancient ship on 426? If David invented the Alien on that colony ship then how did an "engineer" spaceship get to LV-426 with them? Even Aliens had me thinking: how do you start with one or a handful of xenomorphs and end up with a colony? A queen? Why do they look different? Phi230 fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Sep 19, 2019 |
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Android Apocalypse posted:I'm having a spirited discussion about Starship Troopers on Facebook ( A zack snyder remake of the starship troopers movie would be a shot for shot remake but somehow be pro-fascism (i know the book is pro-fascism)
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) with people that didn't like the movie because beers wildly off from the book. I dunno, I think both can be good for different reasons.
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Only one thing bugs me about Aliens: why does an entire military spaceship only have a crew of one squad of marines? How are ~20 people supposed to do the job of essentially an entire navy ship? It doesn't seem smart to leave the ship empty in orbit while the crew is out on a mission also they expect a squad of marines to be responsible for arming and fueling the dropship as well as doing cargo/logistics? That's like 4 jobs!
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happyhippy posted:That's what they were doing when Ripley was in the loader. Yeah but its ridiculous!
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Pennywise the Frown posted:
you don't need a private military if the government will do your dirty work for you, apparently at a moment's notice
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What if we made a movie where the Mormons DID convert the bugs
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Somehow the bugs were able to use faster than light travel to propel a rock, something we have never again seen the bugs as capable of doing "hurl their spore into space" does not mean they have FTL travel lol
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Would anyone like to get a group going for the alien RPGs when it comes out?
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mllaneza posted:I'm testing it out in a one-on-one using a Traveller starship, the Kinunir, as a stand-in for a Conestoga-Class marine transport pending. I've got to review the stress rules and get another session scheduled, but so far the system looks like to should do the job. The transition from narrative mode to "stealth" mode can be a bit jarring I hope they explain how to make that smoother in the full rules
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There's rules for predators??
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Owlbear Camus posted:Is there a canonical/semi-canonical source for how much a synthetic costs in the Aliens universe? Make them a Working Joe from Seegson
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Watching Aliens and reading Alien 3
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Hillary 2020 posted:The pre-infestation scenes should be a separate featurette on the DVD. But the scene of Ripley breaking down after finding out her daughter was dead need to be in the regular version of the movie because it's the whole driver for Ripley's actions after Newt gets captured I also think the little scene before they drop onto 426 where Hudson is talking about how they're ultimate badasses should be in the the normal cut
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I finally got around to finishing William Gibson's Alien 3 I liked the UPP B plot. I felt like the pacing was off and the story was rushed. I don't like that Newt and Ripley are just removed from the story. The idea of people exploding into Xenomorphs was cool but ultimately didn't work for me in the context of the story and universe. Bio-weapon gone wrong is one thing but making people explode into xenomorphs? The whole "xenomorph taking over human DNA" thing is another massive rule change with regard to the xeno's and its one I don't personally like. They didn't make clear why the "natural" xenomorph attacked the red-eyed xenomorph. I interpret the red-eyed xeno as some kind of man-made variation that the natural ones don't like but its still super vague and unexplored. I think its a good foundation for a good director. I would've loved to see James Cameron working on this screenplay rather than the Alien 3 we got.
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Jay_Zombie posted:Is.... is that Xenomorph.... flexing? The story is that a facehugger got to one of Baraka's people and this xeno is the result. Which is why it has armblades too
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Owlbear Camus posted:I enjoyed Alien: Isolation but I'm gonna be real with you, thread. I think it gets a pass because the premise is that Ripley goes missing so her daughter goes looking. Perfectly reasonable premise to me.
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Sunswipe posted:Also, could we have the setup be something other than "someone wants to use the xenos as a bioweapon"? Rival hives use humans as bio weapin
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Still boggles my mind that a Colonial Navy vessel would only have a squad's worth of people aboard, and also the fact they decided to only send a squad.
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Was thinking about adding Replicants as a good plot hook to an Alien Colonial Marines game.
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Xenomrph posted:It has the added side effect of helping the Aliens blend into the walls of the hive via natural camouflage, for obvious reasons. Its the Harkonnen fortress from Dune
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I wish I could get my friends to play the Alien rpg. Nobody is interested because they assume it's just a gimmick
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I'm really jealous of your campaign, dude. I've been trying to get my friends to do Alien but we settled on CoC again
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Critical support for the Xenomorph Librration Front in their struggle against USCMC imperialism
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Xenomrph posted:Just copy the plot of Blade Runner. Don’t even bother disguising it, but vehemently deny it if your players call you out. BR is also in the Alien universe so not a stretch. I had the idea of a bait-and-switch scenario where the player group responds to a colony that has gone dark. They arrive to find the colony falling apart, practically under siege from unseen forces. The players encounter these insurgents that are extremely capable and also look extremely similar, like twins. Turns out the planet houses an old military-grade replicant production facility owned by a company called Wallace Corporation, long defunct, that the replicants took over a long time ago, and keep operating, trying to live in peace but these pesky colonists keep bothering them You could get Weyland Yutani involved too, maybe with Wallace Corp having been acquired by WY decades/a century ago and they try to assert ownership of the facility. Phi230 fucked around with this message at 21:27 on Apr 29, 2020 |
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I grew up watching lovely horror movies on sci fi channel
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I'm watching the making of alien again and I realized that the deleted scene of Dallas being turned into an egg pretty much the most important thing in the alien franchise Had they included that scene the entire franchise wouldn't be recognizable. Aliens wouldn't be the same. Nothing would be the same
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Thinkin bout Aliens since my group wants me to do an ALIEN RPG game this weekend
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How do yall handle the stealth mode mechanic in ALIEN RPG, do you just have the players take turns like a board game or what
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The only good part of Prometheus was the scene where David activates the navigation computer and holds the earth in his hand. That was the only good scene. The engineers as an idea were cool but like they hosed it up really bad. Its not even particularly original, its your standard precursor alien sci fi trope.
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Retconning the xenomorphs not as some ancient haunting entity but rather a recent creation was its greatest crime.
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Yeah I liked his Data/Lore performance
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Ridley Scott is an amazing artist, story board artist, set and costume designer, and cinematographer but not great at writing, story, or character
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Nuke it from offsite, just to be sure
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So does that make the Alien Queen a disney princess?
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Wonder how avatar 2 is gonna go
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Lol that dress Newt is wearing looks like what the twins wore in the shining
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Owlbear Camus posted:who needs a knife in a nuke fight? Private, put yer hand on that wall
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Script idea: wormhole switches the squads from aliens and starship troopers What would Clancy brown do to hudson?
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