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Owlbear Camus posted:yeah getting hudson to name check sa rules. 
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Owlbear Camus posted:yeah getting hudson to name check sa rules. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy1OhtQQRik
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Owlbear Camus posted:yeah getting hudson to name check sa rules. Hicks, sir. He’s Hudson.
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Aug 16, 2019 22:09
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Dude probably just woke up from the drop ship descent, give him a break
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Aug 16, 2019 22:17
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I got a bad feeling about this drop
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Xenomrph posted:I got a bad feeling about this drop You always say that.
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Aug 16, 2019 22:21
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Alright when we get back without you I'll have sex with your folks.
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Aug 16, 2019 22:32
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Probably the best marine banter in Aliens that needed no explanation is the 'Arcturian poontang' bit. Unfortunately someone went ahead and created a description of Arcturian biology and society in one of the comics or novels (actually it might be in the USCM Technical Manual).
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Mister Speaker posted:Probably the best marine banter in Aliens that needed no explanation is the 'Arcturian poontang' bit.
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Aug 16, 2019 23:19
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I always assumed "Arcturian poontang" was just human women living on Arcturus/Arcturia. Kind of like if you said "I'm getting me some Albertan poontang" it means you're gonna hook up with some chick from Canada.
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Mister Speaker posted:Probably the best marine banter in Aliens that needed no explanation is the 'Arcturian poontang' bit. The flatwoods monster is an great lay.
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Aug 16, 2019 23:23
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Android Apocalypse posted:I always assumed "Arcturian poontang" was just human women living on Arcturus/Arcturia. Kind of like if you said "I'm getting me some Albertan poontang" it means you're gonna hook up with some chick from Canada. You might be right, if the side effect of living in Alberta is that you grow a second set of primary sex organs.
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Aug 16, 2019 23:25
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"How many drops is this for you, Lieutenant?" Yeah this thread activity made put Aliens on in the background. What a shame!
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Android Apocalypse posted:I always assumed "Arcturian poontang" was just human women living on Arcturus/Arcturia. Kind of like if you said "I'm getting me some Albertan poontang" it means you're gonna hook up with some chick from Canada. The whole exchange is part of the larger Vietnam War allegory where soldiers would hook up with transgender Thai “ladybois”. “Yeah but the one you had was a male!”
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Aug 16, 2019 23:38
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Xenomrph posted:The whole exchange is part of the larger Vietnam War allegory where soldiers would hook up with transgender Thai “ladybois”. “Yeah but the one you had was a male!” This actually makes tons of sense. That line always made me assume that there were other species we never saw. But I also knew it was just flavor for the environment and not something to be expanded on in a book or whatever.
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Lil Peeler posted:This actually makes tons of sense. That line always made me assume that there were other species we never saw. But I also knew it was just flavor for the environment and not something to be expanded on in a book or whatever. You can go either way with it - maybe there are a bunch of transgender prostitutes on Arcturus, or maybe there are supremely fuckable sexually-ambiguous extraterrestrials.  For what it’s worth, there is extraterrestrial life in the Alien universe, but it’s not like it’s Star Trek or Star Wars with a galactic federation or a billion sentient races or whatever. There’s enough indigenous life that the Marines get called in on “bug hunts” to kill infestations of space-raccoons that are eating all the power lines and making GBS threads on everyone’s lawns or whatever and the colonists can’t deal with it (the Marine dropship has nose art that says “WE ENDANGER SPECIES”); extraterrestrial life isn’t something that people really bat an eye at, and even intelligent/semi-sentient life isn’t unheard of even if it tends to be really rare or long-dead by the time humans stumble across it. You can probably list off every intelligent species depicted in the Alien universe on one hand, and about half of them are depicted as either being long-dead or the story has no humans in it so it’s unknown if humanity even knows they exist.
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So does this mean alien life was discovered before Alien? If that's the case the overall sensation of seeing the xenomorph by the Nostromo seems dulled a little bit. "Oh an alien? Kinda weird & nothing like we saw before, like those gloopy tar things on Vagra II."
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Prometheus and Covenant are not canon. Someone should hit Ridley Scott over the head and take 'his' franchise away from him.
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Android Apocalypse posted:So does this mean alien life was discovered before Alien? If that's the case the overall sensation of seeing the xenomorph by the Nostromo seems dulled a little bit. Alien life got discovered in ‘Prometheus’, which was before ‘Alien’.  I mean even in ‘Alien’ the characters aren’t that enthusiastic about what’s going on, when you’d think they’d be tripping over themselves to be the first people to find alien life. Parker and Brett don’t even want to investigate until Ash reminds them that they’ll forfeit their shares if they do - when the company handbook has standard operating procedures for extraterrestrial life (right down to how it impacts your paycheck), first contact probably happened a while ago. But even if the characters are going “ho hum, another detour to look at space aliens” they still had never seen anything like the Xenomorph and definitely weren’t prepared for it.
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Aug 17, 2019 00:21
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Mister Speaker posted:Prometheus and Covenant are not canon. Ooh, don't say this in Cinema Discusso. It makes 'em real mad.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Ooh, don't say this in Cinema Discusso. It makes 'em real mad.  Oh yeah if you like Michael Biehn and you like videogames, do yourself a favor and play Far Cry: Blood Dragon, it’s  Also I can’t personally vouch for it yet but he and Lance Henriksen recently worked on an audio drama based on William Gibson’s rejected Alien3 script draft. I’m planning to listen to it this weekend. Alien III: An Audible Original Drama https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QY1BGD1/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_.YZvDb5ZKP5AV
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So Aliens just finished and it struck me that Carrie Henn is now in her loving 40's, and our favourite Sigourney is almost 70. Where does the time go? 
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Xenomrph posted:You can go either way with it - maybe there are a bunch of transgender prostitutes on Arcturus, or maybe there are supremely fuckable sexually-ambiguous extraterrestrials. David Drake had something like that in his Hammer's Slammers books. Genefran flirts. Sci-fi gets really weird sometimes.
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Mister Speaker posted:Prometheus and Covenant are not canon. Honest opinion: When Ridley Scott adds his canon to his previous works, it's usually to their detriment. I always hated the "Iz Deckard be a replicant?" poo poo in Blade Runner. gently caress OFF, RIDDLES.
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Aug 17, 2019 05:29
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PhotoKirk posted:David Drake had something like that in his Hammer's Slammers books. Genefran flirts. I hesitate to think of what real life incident he's drawing from. Probably something where you could throw a dozen darts at the UCMJ and each one hits a relevant charge,
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Aug 17, 2019 05:38
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Hey guys. Michael Biehn said my name.
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etalian posted:looks like they made a Aliens anime lol Ha! I watched this like a month ago and kept meaning to post about it and entirely forgot, so thank you It's funny because I heard about it from someone talking about super violent and gory anime, but... eh. It had a few moments, but I've seen far worse. I liked the plot though, and the soundtrack is good!
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Xenomrph posted:It actually just came up in CineD a couple days ago, it was a lot more civil than it usually goes. Is it worth getting an Audible account for this?
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Xenomrph posted:But even if the characters are going “ho hum, another detour to look at space aliens” they still had never seen anything like the Xenomorph and definitely weren’t prepared for it. They don’t take anything approaching a weapon with them to explore the ship, and when it becomes obvious they need one it takes a while to fabricate one. This isn’t a society that has had lots of encounters with dangerous life forms, as apart from the (subverted) quarantine procedure, no one acts or behaves as if there’s even a possibility of danger. I’m probably just overthinking a basic horror movie trope (lone teenager exploring weird noise in basement).
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Code Jockey posted:Ha! I watched this like a month ago and kept meaning to post about it and entirely forgot, so thank you You need to watch the credits. Yoshitaka Amano, later responsible for character designs for the pre-VII Final Fantasy games, worked on that and you can see it in a lot of the characters.
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Torquemada posted:They don’t take anything approaching a weapon with them to explore the ship, and when it becomes obvious they need one it takes a while to fabricate one. This isn’t a society that has had lots of encounters with dangerous life forms, as apart from the (subverted) quarantine procedure, no one acts or behaves as if there’s even a possibility of danger. I’m probably just overthinking a basic horror movie trope (lone teenager exploring weird noise in basement). They did actually have pistols with them, they're just not very obvious and the film doesn't draw any attention to them. The flamethrower was cobbled together because the crew needed a way to drive the alien to the airlock without causing it to piss acid everywhere.
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Young Freud posted:You need to watch the credits. Yoshitaka Amano, later responsible for character designs for the pre-VII Final Fantasy games, worked on that and you can see it in a lot of the characters. Cats give the Lily Cat anime a 0/5 star rating.
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Vagabundo posted:Is it worth getting an Audible account for [the Alien3 audio drama]? At the risk of sounding like a sponsored YouTube video, I’d say so (especially since Audible does 30 day free trials). I’ve been going through it and it’s way, way better than the comic. It’s like they took the script and expanded it so it’s paced better and makes more sense.
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Vagabundo posted:Is it worth getting an Audible account for this? That plus the movie novelizations and other Alien universe novels are pretty good. Alien: Cold Forge and Alien: Sea of Sorrows were enjoyable.
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Xenomrph posted:You can go either way with it - maybe there are a bunch of transgender prostitutes on Arcturus, or maybe there are supremely fuckable sexually-ambiguous extraterrestrials. Why did you join the Colonial Marines, Private? I wanted to travel to far off worlds, and meet interesting and exotic beings from an ancient extraterrestrial civilization, and gently caress them. I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed female Arcturain.
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Jay_Zombie posted:That plus the movie novelizations and other Alien universe novels are pretty good. The ‘Aliens’ novelization audiobook is read by William Hope, aka Lt. Gorman.
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Xenomrph posted:The ‘Aliens’ novelization audiobook is read by William Hope, aka Lt. Gorman. He reads a couple of them I think.
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Jay_Zombie posted:He reads a couple of them I think. Uhhh... including this one.
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