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Open Marriage Night posted:Anybody get the Alien RPG book? I couldn’t find a thread in traditional games It's got a ton of well-hidden fanservice easter eggs, including multiple shout-outs to the old 90s Kenner toys, rejected Alien3 scripts, old comic books, the *old* Aliens RPG, all kinds of poo poo. It's really dense with information for people to mine from for RPG purposes.
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Open Marriage Night posted:Anybody get the Alien RPG book? I couldn’t find a thread in traditional games Same. It's a good system and the presentation is stellar; a thick hardback book that you could whack a xeno with, lavishly illustrated, gorgeously laid out, and chock full of info on the setting. It's a coffee table book with rules in. I got the dice sets too and they're very nice. But a thread in TG would be nice. Anyone want to run a PBP ?
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Jan 25, 2020 03:50
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It's good as Hell. I am setting up a roll20 or skype campaign and might have room for a couple more.
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Jan 25, 2020 05:36
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I want it but I'm broke. Well, I got the new Trinity edition instead with my Christmas money because I love that old failed 90s sci-fi game. Alienw a sslightly below it on my purchase priorities.
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Jan 25, 2020 06:41
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Just opened up my copy of the book. This might be what gets me to check out Roll20.
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Jan 25, 2020 21:07
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Horrible Taste posted:Dark Horse is following up the comic adaptation of William Gibson's Alien 3 screenplay with one for Dan O'Bannon's original Alien screenplay in April: I'm tentatively interested. The William Gibson one was a real letdown.
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Jan 26, 2020 14:19
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Gargamel Gibson posted:I'm tentatively interested. The William Gibson one was a real letdown. How so? The quality of the original script or the artwork/layout?
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Jan 26, 2020 15:32
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The art was quite good. I thought the story was mostly pretty boring and had a pretty weak climax. You think it's building up to something exciting... and then it just ends and you're like: "Oh, that earlier bit was supposed to be the climax? Huh." It's not completely terrible, there's some interesting ideas and as I mentioned before the art's nice. I just found it overall disappointing.
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Jan 26, 2020 17:24
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Open Marriage Night posted:Anybody get the Alien RPG book? I couldn’t find a thread in traditional games Yes. It’s great. Seconding that we should have a thread for it.
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Jan 26, 2020 18:29
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Gargamel Gibson posted:The art was quite good. I thought the story was mostly pretty boring and had a pretty weak climax. You think it's building up to something exciting... and then it just ends and you're like: "Oh, that earlier bit was supposed to be the climax? Huh."
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Jan 26, 2020 20:08
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Class Warcraft posted:Yes. It’s great. There is an all-purpose Free League RPG thread but I agree it deserves its own. Time permitting maybe I'll be the thread-doer. E: I would like to formally open up my game to one lucky goon. PM me if interested. Should be a 3-4 hour a weekend commitment. Owlbear Camus fucked around with this message at 05:34 on Jan 27, 2020 |
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Jan 26, 2020 20:21
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I guess the weak comic is kind of expected, if you think about it. It is an adaption of a script that was ultimately rejected for not being up to snuff.
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Jan 28, 2020 23:16
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Covok posted:I guess the weak comic is kind of expected, if you think about it. It is an adaption of a script that was ultimately rejected for not being up to snuff. The introduction by Gibson is pretty neat, he was coming off of his writing success and he got hired because they thought he could inject some unique ideas and tone into an Alien movie sort of in the style of his existing body of work, and instead he tried to write something as close in tone to the first two movies as he could and didn’t realize that wasn’t what Fox was looking for. It isn’t so much that his script was “bad”, it’s that it was never taken past the first draft because Fox said “thanks, we should have been clearer on what we wanted” and that was the end of Gibson’s involvement. I blame the weak comic adaptation on the artist not understanding pacing or depicting characters in ways that convey emotion. The audio drama uses the same script and makes it work just fine.
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Jan 28, 2020 23:26
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Disney just fired Emma Watts, who was instrumental in letting Scott have creative freedom on the prequels. I guess the lovely remake of Cameron’s film with teenagers screaming “get away from her you bitch!” at PG-13 Xenos or something equally terrible is inevitable now.
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Feb 2, 2020 02:32
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It was inevitable, they didn’t make a billion dollars so they gotta get that PG13 Marvel money.
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Feb 2, 2020 02:56
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I wish disney would fire itself into a canon and die
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Feb 2, 2020 03:23
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Saturnalia posted:Disney just fired Emma Watts, who was instrumental in letting Scott have creative freedom on the prequels. Alternately you could read it as Disney showing her the door after the middling response to Alien: Covenant both critically and financially from critics, general audiences, and fans alike, which I’m not that heartbroken over.
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Feb 2, 2020 03:25
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Xenomrph posted:Alternately you could read it as Disney showing her the door after the middling response to Alien: Covenant both critically and financially from critics, general audiences, and fans alike, which I’m not that heartbroken over. Even worse. gently caress those fans.
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Feb 2, 2020 03:32
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Saturnalia posted:Disney just fired Emma Watts, who was instrumental in letting Scott have creative freedom on the prequels. Ripley clone befriends a baby alien queen and has to protect her from colonial marines sent by the Company.
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Feb 2, 2020 03:35
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I appreciated them just letting him do whatever the gently caress he wanted. They made money just not enough.
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Feb 2, 2020 04:13
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CelticPredator posted:I wish disney would fire itself into a canon and die I really enjoy the two we currently have, and I think they work quite well as a duology if we don’t receive a follow-up. Prometheus informs us our creators want us dead in an ultimately nihilist universe, and Covenant does the same with our creation, AI. The third would have likely done the same with David’s (AI) creation (Xenos) killing him due to his hubris (Covenant foreshadowed this by having the Xeno destroy the screen with David on it), and while I think Scott would have undoubtedly adapted this well, I’d rather not have Disney gently caress it up for him. Scott is notorious for wanting control, and I could not see him handling Disney’s attempts to force their franchise IP market research bullshit on him very well. It’s why he turned down Disney Star Wars and superhero movies.
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Feb 2, 2020 06:40
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Could David even be killed? Say what you will about Weyland, his products are extremely durable, unlike those Tyrell abominations
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Feb 2, 2020 06:46
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Blood Boils posted:Could David even be killed? Say what you will about Weyland, his products are extremely durable, unlike those Tyrell abominations To Tyrell's credit he found his own way to make his creations last forever when we learn in 2049 that he made a replicant that could give birth to another replicant. Note how David spends the entirety of Covenant attempting to do the same. 
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Feb 2, 2020 06:57
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ruddiger posted:Ripley clone befriends a baby alien queen and has to protect her from colonial marines sent by the Company. From Alien to Metroid and then from Metroid to Alien.
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Feb 2, 2020 09:08
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CelticPredator posted:Even worse. gently caress those fans. I’m not only talking about the fans - I’m looking at the critic and user/audience scores on RT, Metacritic, and IMDb.
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Feb 2, 2020 09:58
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Xenomrph posted:I’m not only talking about the fans - I’m looking at the critic and user/audience scores on RT, Metacritic, and IMDb. Congrats, you've trained yourself to think like a studio executive; now you, too, can blindly grope around in a futile attempt to figure out how to pander to an audience you will never understand! Just kidding, you don't have enough money to be that out of touch.
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Feb 2, 2020 20:24
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Holywood is a sinecure for upward failing failsons and eventually audiences need to stop giving money to trashpiles or it will only get worse.
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Feb 2, 2020 20:49
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The pulse rifle: https://youtu.be/zDIPuP7T64Q Discuss.
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The only thing wrong with Covenant was forcing the xenomorph into it. It’s a good Lovecraft movie. The polish painter guy aliens were cool. David’s chilling. I want more of David’s No Good Lovecraftian Abomination Planet and I’m sad we won’t get it.
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Feb 2, 2020 23:34
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My problem with Covenant is Walter would've absolutely rinsed David.
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Groovelord Neato posted:My problem with Covenant is Walter would've absolutely rinsed David. How do you know he didn't?
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Xenomrph posted:I’m not only talking about the fans - I’m looking at the critic and user/audience scores on RT, Metacritic, and IMDb. Thanks for illustrating how reducing interpretation of art to percentages and box office numbers has had a corrosive effect on Hollywood’s gradual inability to make anything original in recent years, I guess. It’s a feature of late capitalism, though - so don’t take it personal.
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Saturnalia posted:Thanks for illustrating how reducing interpretation of art to percentages and box office numbers has had a corrosive effect on Hollywood’s gradual inability to make anything original in recent years, I guess. It’s a feature of late capitalism, though - so don’t take it personal. The point was to show that it wasn’t just “the fans” that were dissatisfied with Alien Covenant as CelticPredator claimed, using the only quantifiable metrics available.
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Feb 3, 2020 01:47
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Yeah I don’t care about those people and think they’re wrong.
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CelticPredator posted:Yeah I don’t care about those people and think they’re wrong. Hey that’s fine, the point was that acting like any negative opinions of the movie can be attributed to “the fans” is demonstrably false. Plenty of fans liked the movie just fine, anyway.
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Feb 3, 2020 01:55
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Prometheus was great but also kinda bad whilst Covenant was just disappointing
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Feb 3, 2020 03:19
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Schwarzwald posted:How do you know he didn't? People forget that Walter can calculate and come to conclusions in the blink of an eye. Of course he saw the inevitability of David’s ideology and helped him escape the planet. What I want to see is Walter continuing his teacher’s work.
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Feb 3, 2020 03:24
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Xenomrph posted:The pulse rifle: I'm getting the itch to buy one of those expensive replicas now. Has anyone made an official Alien Flamethrower prop? Aliens gets all of the love in regards to high-level weapon and prop replicas but Alien sees almost none of it.
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General Battuta posted:The only thing wrong with Covenant was forcing the xenomorph into it. It’s a good Lovecraft movie. The polish painter guy aliens were cool. David’s chilling. I want more of David’s No Good Lovecraftian Abomination Planet and I’m sad we won’t get it. They spend the whole movie on it?? The alien only shows up at the very end!
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I was also disappointed there was just an Engineer city I was looking forward to a planet that was all Giger nightmarescapes.
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