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Hell Stink posted:End of dream. Sorry. quote:The ceiling of this cargo hold was high, extremely high, and poorly lit. Looking straight up a facehugger dropped. I couldn't raise my heavy rifle quick enough. Probably best the dream ended where it did tbh.
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Djeser posted:I'll check it out, since I apparently had some free Kindle credit and I needed to learn how to put Kindle books on my Nook anyway. Slight derail: Dunno about the Nook, but for ebook conversion / management for my Kindle I love Calibre. There's even a plugin for stripping DRM off of various formats (I use it for loading Google Play Books I've purchased onto it).
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i have had it with these motherfucking xenomorphs on this motherfucking UD-4L Cheyenne Dropship
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gary oldmans diary posted:this thread didnt actually make it 55 pages talking about 1 movie. plus that isnt really enough for its own thread. plus its entire target audience is already itt I always enjoyed when he snapped the F5 Tornado's neck at the end of Twister.
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I watched Edge of Tomorrow a couple of days ago and didn't realise until the end that Bill Paxton was in it. I'm very bad at recognising actors, but I felt dumb as hell since his role is literally "what if Hudson became Apone?". I also now regret not paying enough attention to all the times he must've died in that movie.
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Voting Floater posted:I watched Edge of Tomorrow a couple of days ago and didn't realise until the end that Bill Paxton was in it. I'm very bad at recognising actors, but I felt dumb as hell since his role is literally "what if Hudson became Apone?". I also now regret not paying enough attention to all the times he must've died in that movie. You only see him die once in the movie, and he does not say the line.
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Jun 9, 2019 16:26
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I picked up the aliens and predator comics omnibuses, and oh man I'm glad other than reading this thread I went in blind. Completely different story than the later movies and media made.
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Jun 9, 2019 18:14
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Riatsala posted:COLD FORGE COLD FORGE COLD FORGE Popped back in to say thanks for the recommendation. It's still got some of the things that bother me about the other Alien novels, but Cold Forge is the closest I've seen to getting things right. I wasn't too into the villain because Patrick Bateman types have never really appealed to me, but aside from that it worked well enough. i don't know what my ideal book-version-of-Alien would be. I was thinking a collection of short stories might work well, but then realized that the author/s would probably wind up using it to tell a bunch of ghost stories instead of exploring interesting vignettes.
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Jun 17, 2019 09:18
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There is a collection of Aliens short stories, it’s..... a mixed bag. Aliens: Bug Hunt https://www.amazon.com/dp/1785654446/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_KF1bDbTY2EYVJ Speaking of a mixed bag, NECA just released a two-pack of Linn and Dutch from the classic 90s AvP arcade game. I’ve been looking forward to this set for a while now, and my preorder shipped yesterday. Well, one of my favorite action figure reviewers got a review set from NECA and it’s got some issues. I’m not nearly as bothered by the Linn figure as he is, but the head sculpt on Dutch is, uh its real fuckin’ bad. Like, goddamn.  https://youtu.be/cdsLGsmHYDU
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Jun 17, 2019 10:09
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Xenomrph posted:the head sculpt on Dutch is, uh
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Jun 17, 2019 10:37
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I thought NECA was known for doing decent figures? Or are they just the biggest company? Those are awful, they look like knock offs!
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Jun 17, 2019 10:53
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Olympic Mathlete posted:I thought NECA was known for doing decent figures? Or are they just the biggest company? Those are awful, they look like knock offs! Neca isn’t a big company, at least not by the standards of mega-giants like Hasbro or Mattel. These really appear to be an outlier because the vast majority of their stuff is real good. They have some outliers and sometimes have some quality control issues, but this is way beyond their usual gently caress-ups. In the grand scheme of Alien figures they’re at the lowest price point: $20-$25 sorta specialty shop figures aimed at collectors; you’d generally only see their stuff at comic shops, dedicated toy/collector stores (online or otherwise), and Toys R Us when they still existed. Beyond that you start getting into Japanese import figures from specialty companies - the quality is drastically better and often come with accessories and whatever, but they cost $60-$100 a pop and don’t come out nearly as frequently. I’m looking forward to seeing the NECA twitter account - the guy who operates it is the company’s CEO and he’s got a pretty big ego and doesn’t respond well to (often deserved) criticism of his company’s products.
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Xenomrph posted:its real fuckin’ bad. Like, goddamn. Well I think it's just wonderful that they are making figures of... you know, special guys these days. Bless his heart. Also the anime one is pretty stupid.
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Jun 17, 2019 21:16
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Which anime one? The two-pack is of two of the player characters from the AvP arcade game from the 90s. 
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Xenomrph posted:Which anime one? Oh... I see. lol
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Jun 18, 2019 00:57
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It's an extremely good arcade game
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purple death ray posted:It's an extremely good arcade game ...and it has a pretty dang good combo system that allows for some truly silly stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgZTIqr4OA
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It's a pretty loving dumb series if you think about it, oh no space vaginas killing future poor rear end in a top hat schmucks, what a tragedy.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:It's a pretty loving dumb series if you think about it, oh no space vaginas killing future poor rear end in a top hat schmucks, what a tragedy. If you’re referring to the Alien series, then you go wash your mouth out with soap right this instant, young man. 
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SilvergunSuperman posted:It's a pretty loving dumb series if you think about it, oh no space vaginas killing future poor rear end in a top hat schmucks, what a tragedy. 2edgy4me
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Jun 25, 2019 05:49
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SilvergunSuperman posted:It's a pretty loving dumb series if you think about it, oh no space vaginas killing future poor rear end in a top hat schmucks, what a tragedy. I disagree. And let me tell you, I thought about it a lot.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:It's a pretty loving dumb series if you think about it, oh no space vaginas killing future poor rear end in a top hat schmucks, what a tragedy. Get away from here you bitch
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SilvergunSuperman posted:It's a pretty loving dumb series if you think about it, oh no space vaginas killing future poor rear end in a top hat schmucks, what a tragedy.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:It's a pretty loving dumb series if you think about it, oh no space vaginas killing future poor rear end in a top hat schmucks, what a tragedy.
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Dammit, SMG is leaking into the thread.
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Currently listening to the Alien novelization on Audible. It's pretty good so far.
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Aliens is still the best and only one other Adventure Thriller (is that a term or did I just make it up?) Is on its level and that is JAWS. Except even the bad sequels to Aliens are better than the Jaws sequels no matter how much fondness I have for Jaws 3d which is stupid but in a really fun not completely moronic way. Aliens has way better videogames though as almost every Jaws game except that one super short fan made text Adventure sucks. Have I shown my Alien/Predator games collection yet? I forget where my collection image dump photos stopped and it's been a few months... Eh gently caress I'll post em anyhow and save comics and book type merch for another time.     As far as I can tell the only gameplay unique titles I am missing are the lovely MSX Aliens game and AvP arcade and given that the latter is currently only going to have a home port in an enormous 2 player 250 dollar plug and play Capcom logo THING. My commitment to the Hive is not that strong. I'm cheap.
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Holy poo poo, it's the Activision C64 Aliens game! I got that for my birthday in fifth grade. Somehow sitting here on my couch as a grown-rear end man I can hum the intro music, the entire dropship level tune, and remember that the music was done by someone named Russel Lieblich. It's a wonderful lovely little game.
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drat. That's an awesome collection you have there. I just looked up the Aliens The Computer Game, which seems to be the one you mentioned Ape. I watched the intro and that was pretty drat cool. One of the most tension building scenes in the movie all with just 16 colors and it kicked rear end.
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Splicer posted:No that's predator gently caress, I was drunk as hell but still can't believe I confused my space vaginas and space cocks. I'll never live this down.
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Is the Dead Orbit comic good? A coworker lent it to me and the art looks cool but I haven't started it yet.
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A sick Alien III lithograph signed by HR Giger himself turned up on pawn stars recently, of course the guy sells a full size art piece for Vegas spare change but look at this thing
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I hate you for making me think about Pawn Stars.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Is the Dead Orbit comic good? A coworker lent it to me and the art looks cool but I haven't started it yet.
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A Strange Aeon posted:Is the Dead Orbit comic good? A coworker lent it to me and the art looks cool but I haven't started it yet. Story's by-the-numbers, art is loving gorgeous.
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Heads up to tabletop nerds the publishers who recently lost the rights to keep printing their AvP minis game are doing a clearance. Never played the game but the models look nice and seem good to stock up on for the upcoming ttrpg. https://prodosgames.com/
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The 2000 AvP is on sale on Steam for $1.24. Just wanna throw that out there.
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Xenomrph posted:Which anime one? Think the artist traced Rob LIefeld's Captain America for Major D?
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Xenomrph posted:There is a collection of Aliens short stories, it’s..... a mixed bag. aren't you the guy who got some guys from the movie to be in your lets play?
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happyhippy posted:Think the artist traced Rob LIefeld's Captain America for Major D? More like copied the source that Liefeld copied Captain America from: it's from a Mr. Universe photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger, which makes a lot of sense because it's supposedly Dutch or a descendent of his.
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