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Owlbear Camus posted:I always figured given its tolerances and biology its body must be really exotic in composition, like silicon and mineral based. Lots of fullerite-encased hurlantium, the dense binary fans of which are a notable delicacy
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ruddiger posted:I’d imagine you’d get sick, mutate, and gestate monsters like the dudes in Prometheus and Covenant if you ate xeno meat.
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Xenomrph posted:For what it’s worth, in the comic “Aliens: Colonial Marines” (no relation to the game, predates it by a couple decades) it’s discovered that using royal jelly can cause crazy, Prometheus-style mutations. But is there anything about how the Xenos taste?
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You grow a tiny retractable mouth inside your peehole.
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Xenomrph posted:For what it’s worth, in the comic “Aliens: Colonial Marines” (no relation to the game, predates it by a couple decades) it’s discovered that using royal jelly can cause crazy, Prometheus-style mutations. There's also a short comic in Aliens Platinum Edition (with fantastic artwork, probably the best one in the collection) that shows a group of reptilian aliens enter a hive to harvest xeno eggs which are sold and eaten on their world.
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Xenomorph edibles get you high as poo poo.
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:You don't know that. You know, I do get a strange craving for lobster when I watch those movies, like man if you could just like lure those things to a vat of drawn butter and give them a few taps with a flamethrower before they fall in.. 
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Mister Speaker posted:There's also a short comic in Aliens Platinum Edition (with fantastic artwork, probably the best one in the collection) that shows a group of reptilian aliens enter a hive to harvest xeno eggs which are sold and eaten on their world. Holy poo poo, blast from the past-- that's the super short one where the art was all super stylized and kinda Heavy Metal/Moebius-y, yeah. I remember specifically being bugged by how one of the aliens had A) a three-tier bendy inner mouth with a stinger and B) a little pointy dick. Anybody? E: Hey, found it. A lil' weinomorph. 
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Given how the head of a Xeno resembles a giant schlong, it should be a given that grinding up and snorting dead Xenos would give you a wicked hard-on. I mean, that was the whole basis of hunting Rhinos to near extinction, right?
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SimonCat posted:Watching "Chariots of the Gods" 1970. The makers of Prometheus must have watched this a lot. Skip to 1 hour in to see stone carvings of an Engineer who visited ancient South America. That's a creepy landscape at 1:00:00 in the video. Cue it up there and spend the next few minutes expecting to see an Engineer starship parked just out in the open. I totally buy that the people who lived there carved some crazy poo poo.
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I'd like to thank this thread for making me spend entirely too long today thinking about boiling a xenomorph like a lobster, cracking it open and
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Code Jockey posted:I'd like to thank this thread for making me spend entirely too long today thinking about boiling a xenomorph like a lobster, cracking it open and Per Ash in ‘Aliens, the acid blood neutralizes on its own after death. 
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Xenomrph posted:Per Ash in ‘Aliens, the acid blood neutralizes on its own after death. But you boil live lobsters in water. 
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Couldn’t you just shove a bottle of tums down a xenomorphs mouth to neutralize the blood and then roll them in breading and fry them? 
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This is from a while back, so sorry. But I am fine with how Burke dies in the film. His final act is one of cowardice and putting others in danger, as he runs away and locks the door behind him. (It has been a while since I saw the films, but this is what I remember). And then he encounters an Alien, and whimpers before either being cocooned/killed off screen. Alone and unlamented. Sure, the scene where he is cocooned, and forced to blow himself up would have been nice, whilst also giving Ripley a chance to prove herself the better person. It's fine the way it is. Whilst I agree that he deserves to die, some people are saying we deserve to see him die, wheras I think he deserves to die a whimpering coward alone and off screen whilst the movie moves on with the more important people. But I understand where they are coming from.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Whilst I agree that he deserves to die, some people are saying we deserve to see him die, wheras I think he deserves to die a whimpering coward alone and off screen whilst the movie moves on with the more important people. But I understand where they are coming from. Agreed. Knowing he's in close quarters with a xeno is enough; it's a signifier of a terrible fate that's worse when left to the imagination, like 90% of the others we see (the worst of which is arguably Lambert's tapering, distant screaming in the first film). Cutting away from Burke keeps the tension/uncertainty ratcheted up while keeping the action going, as having the bad guy killed overtly would have pre-relieved all the tension before the already tense scene in engineering was over and the good guys escaped. If his fate is unseen, you imagine whatever awful poo poo you want to have happened to him since there's no way he's surviving outright. Otherwise the movie would make you flip to rooting for aliens for killing the bad guy right in the middle of rooting for the Marines to kill the aliens, and then flip right back. Him appearing later would also do the same thing, only in a different scene that's also built on tension and a ticking clock. Here lies Burke, thought of profits and died
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BrigadierSensible posted:This is from a while back, so sorry.
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:as having the bad guy killed overtly would have pre-relieved all the tension before the already tense scene in engineering was over and the good guys escaped.
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pooch516 posted:He essentially died the same as Nedry in Jurassic Park. You don't see exactly what's happening in the Jeep but you're imagination is probably way more gruesome than what social effects could show. Nedry gets disemboweled in the book, in graphic detail. Like he full on holds his own intestines, it's pretty insane. Aliens related, back in the 90s there was a Rhino Alien figure and it was pretty kickass.  Well it's getting a modern remake that comes out next May and holy poo poo  
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Owlbear Camus posted:Remember how in 2018's The Predator, the predators wanted to enhance their race with autism? So they’re trying to be like goons?
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Xenomrph posted:Nedry gets disemboweled in the book, in graphic detail. Like he full on holds his own intestines, it's pretty insane. wild boar alien or bust 
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paid money to post posted:wild boar alien or bust
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paid money to post posted:wild boar alien or bust You can see cops any day and they probably have a higher bodycount than the xenomorphs
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thinkin about those xeens
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Xenomrph posted:Nedry gets disemboweled in the book, in graphic detail. Like he full on holds his own intestines, it's pretty insane. I had the original as a kid and a bunch of the other animal-variants. I remember them coming with mini comic books showing their origins. The remake better have the spring-loaded battering-ram-head action of the original Edit—oh wait that was the bull variant
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wuffles posted:I had the original as a kid and a bunch of the other animal-variants. I remember them coming with mini comic books showing their origins. The Rhino Alien had the same ram-head gimmick. They’re both the same toy but with different extraneous bits and new paint - if you put them side by side, the core torso pieces are identical. Same thing with the Gorilla and Mantis Alien toys - the torsos are identical. 
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Just like real life
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TOOT BOOT posted:thinkin about those xeens 
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Pissed Ape Sexist posted:Holy poo poo, blast from the past-- that's the super short one where the art was all super stylized and kinda Heavy Metal/Moebius-y, yeah. I remember specifically being bugged by how one of the aliens had A) a three-tier bendy inner mouth with a stinger and B) a little pointy dick. Anybody? that looks Heavy Metal/2000ADish because it's Bisley
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I've been rewatching a few movies recently that happen to have Bill Paxton in them Tombstone True Lies Navy Seals Predator 2 Nightcrawler Frailty Bill Paxton was Pure and Good 
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Laterite posted:I've been rewatching a few movies recently that happen to have Bill Paxton in them Tombstone - Excellent movie. The whole cast is really good and Michael Biehn is great as Johnny Ringo. True Lies - Classic Bill Paxton being a complete shithead. Navy Seals - Haven't seen it and had no idea Paxton was in it. Again, Michael Biehn. Predator 2 - The classic Bill playing an rear end in a top hat. But he completely redeems himself and is a hero. Nightcrawler - Haven't heard of this one. Frailty - I just watched this a night or two ago and it's just so creepy. Bill Paxton plays an excellent dad who is completely insane (or is he). Laterite posted:Bill Paxton was Pure and Good He truly was. If someone asked me who my favorite actor was... I'd probably say Bill Paxton. I can't think of anyone else who has a decent range like him who is likable and you can also hate. 
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Oct 17, 2019 08:31
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Watch Near Dark 
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Watch A Simple Plan. Sam Raimi directing Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton, it can't not be watchable.
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Nightcrawler is a kickass movie and Paxton was great in it
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Anyone got strong feelings about Deep Rising? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVFEVXIyu00 'Cos I freaking love this film, and it feels like it would fit in this thread.
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Deep Rising loving slaps. IMO a great blend of horror & action, with enough humor to keep things fun.
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