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Hello alien friends Bestbuy has the 6 movie collection on Blu-ray for $29.99 this week. Perfect time to add this to your collection. https://www.bestbuy.com/site/alien-...T&skuId=5926200
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He is also amazing in the game Detroit: Become Human. It's basically a sci-fi Choose Your Own Adventure movie, and it legit gave me the feels. Great game.
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Aug 30, 2020 19:56
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It legit blew my mind that he was the voice of Mr Krabs back in the day. And then I learned that Patrick was voiced by that neo-nazi guard from the early seasons of Oz that got his face slashed apart by Beecher.
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Aug 30, 2020 20:03
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The Zombie Guy posted:He is also amazing in the game Detroit: Become Human. That's buried somewhere on my to-play list, I really gotta make more time for gaming.
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Aug 30, 2020 20:56
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Vagabundo posted:It legit blew my mind that he was the voice of Mr Krabs back in the day. M-O-O-N, that spells White Power
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Aug 30, 2020 21:05
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Pennywise the Frown posted:
What's also great is that he's this hardass DI but also seems to have had some sort of fuckup in his past that's sidelined his career and kept him from going into combat.
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Aug 30, 2020 21:07
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Phi230 posted:Script idea: wormhole switches the squads from
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Aug 30, 2020 22:03
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Laterite posted:What's also great is that he's this hardass DI but also seems to have had some sort of fuckup in his past that's sidelined his career and kept him from going into combat. That's PRIVATE Zim... sir!
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Aug 30, 2020 22:40
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Pennywise the Frown posted:
He will always be Rawhide to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuIzYQnfdpI
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Aug 31, 2020 01:38
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Vagabundo posted:It legit blew my mind that he was the voice of Mr Krabs back in the day. W H A T
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Aug 31, 2020 03:21
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Code Jockey posted:W H A T https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq4ESj11BQI
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Aug 31, 2020 08:09
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https://twitter.com/Jayfuz/status/1300809408662904832
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Sep 1, 2020 19:23
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loving Australians, constantly stealing poo poo from New Zealand. Typical convict behaviour.
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Sep 1, 2020 19:51
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SilvergunSuperman posted:Also the weirdly feral bite the one dude does. I always thought he was trying to pop his ears.
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Sep 1, 2020 23:51
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Vagabundo posted:loving Australians, constantly stealing poo poo from New Zealand. Typical convict behaviour. Eh? Did they steal your Irishman?
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Sep 2, 2020 00:19
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Jay_Zombie posted:I always thought he was trying to pop his ears. It can be both!
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Sep 2, 2020 00:21
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madeintaipei posted:Eh? Did they steal your Irishman? Hey, it's OK when we do it.
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Sep 2, 2020 00:28
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Vagabundo posted:Hey, it's OK when we do it. Lol. Why did they have a Kiwi act as an Australian with an English accent anyway? Is it an NZ accent and I'm just too tone-deaf to notice? If they had cast Sam Shepard, would he have been an American acting as a Canadian with a South African accent?
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Sep 2, 2020 01:13
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The new show Raised by Wolves directed by Ridley Scott came out this week, is it any good?
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Sep 7, 2020 03:07
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Kevin DuBrow posted:The new show Raised by Wolves directed by Ridley Scott came out this week, is it any good? I guess people really like it. I haven’t seen it yet.
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Sep 7, 2020 04:15
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My brother-in-law started it and said it's pretty good so far.
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Kevin DuBrow posted:The new show Raised by Wolves directed by Ridley Scott came out this week, is it any good? It is extremely good and nothing at all like I expected. I thought the trailers gave away too much but I was gladly mistaken. It’s very much in the same vein as Prometheus and A:C, but without the crutches of being chained to an established franchise.
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Sep 8, 2020 04:45
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I didn't have a lot to do this past weekend so I decided to binge on some Alien movies again. I'm a lifelong fan of them since my dad took me to see Aliens in the theater. I was 7 years old and it was easily the most terrifying thing I had ever seen. I spent half the movie hiding under my seat and had vivid nightmares for weeks after. It clearly made an impression on me cause Aliens could just be my favorite movie. The rest of the family was out of town so I got to really crank up the sound. My speaker setup is better than it's ever been. I really noticed how much different the older movies sound. For instance, Aliens is a fantastic sounding movie. The pulse rifles chattering and the clomping of the loader are just iconic. 3 has a haunting score and really neat effects during the tunnel scenes. Resurrection isn't really remarkable but I could notice how much surround technology was coming along by then. Flash forward to Prometheus and it's dramatic how much more low frequency stuff is going on. It really had my subs flexing. None of what I'm saying is a new take on anything but going through the series one after the other and really paying attention to the sound was interesting to me. I'm guessing one of the reasons for newer movies having such dramatic bass tones has to do with speaker tech. I definitely don't remember even theaters having the equipment to reproduce those sounds at volume.
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Sep 8, 2020 05:14
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I had a hell of a lot of fun playing the ps3 aliens game simply based on how realistic getting startled by an alien and wildly blasting a m41a pulse rifle around with accurate sound felt.
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Sep 8, 2020 05:23
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deadking posted:I just rewatched Aliens. It's awesome of course but I noticed something I hadn't remembered. In the briefing before they go down to the colony one of the marines asks if this is "another bug hunt." I thought that the xenomorph was the first extraterrestrial species humanity encountered (before Prometheus and Covenant, obviously). Am I wrong? If not what is that character referring to? Vagabundo posted:"Bug hunt" meaning "wildlife control" was my interpretation as well. frogge posted:Yeah the comics and Colonial Marines Handbook mention colonies going in open revolt and getting shock and awed for it. The heavy firepower is so those ships can be rapid response instead of having to send a bigass fleet every time. Yeh my read on it from the dismissive way that Hudson says 'Is this going to be a stand-up fight or just another bug hunt' was that the two main mission profiles for colonial marines were either shock and aweing rebellious colonists or sweep and clear for dangerous wildlife when a colonist thinks they've seen a chupacabra. So while they were an experienced combat unit the idea that the local wildlife was actually dangerous took a while to sink in. I also assumed that the 'Shake and bake' colonies that Van Leuwen talked about were some sort of public-private partnership between the government and private enterprise, and that colonial marines peacekeeping was an outcrop of this. Like they aren't the main marine corps or army with all the latest toys, they're a budget conscious paramilitary peacekeeping force cobbled together in order to keep order in the frontier. Hillary 2024 fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Sep 10, 2020 |
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Sep 10, 2020 05:49
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But they're packing state of the art firepower, there's nothing they can't handle. I took it as them absolutely being a government military, but their colonial work is equivalent to the US sending Marines into Banana Republics to ensure the money kept flowing.
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Sep 10, 2020 15:57
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Hillary 2020 posted:...sweep and clear for dangerous wildlife when a colonist thinks they've seen a chupacabra... That was my read. A snipe hunt.
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Sep 10, 2020 16:50
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Wild T posted:But they're packing state of the art firepower, there's nothing they can't handle. It was Carter Burke who said that while trying to convince Ripley to join the expedition to haul his rear end out of the fire after he'd ordered the colony to check out the co-ordinates of the alien ship and they subsequently lost contact.
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Sep 10, 2020 17:04
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Wild T posted:But they're packing state of the art firepower, there's nothing they can't handle. The USCM is absolutely a government military.
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Sep 10, 2020 17:07
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Hillary 2020 posted:It was Carter Burke who said that while trying to convince Ripley to join the expedition to haul his rear end out of the fire after he'd ordered the colony to check out the co-ordinates of the alien ship and they subsequently lost contact. But there's also the scene of Hudson proudly listing all of the high-tech weaponry they're packing. "Particle beam phalanx. Zap half a city with this baby". They're deliberately shown as highly capable, extremely cocky and wayyyy too well-equipped for the mission they're expected to be doing, since Aliens was deliberately made to be Vietnam In Space.
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Sep 10, 2020 17:38
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Xenomrph posted:The USCM is absolutely a government military. But like the USMC they are deployed to protect private interests on the imperial periphery. You may say that the socialist colonies of the UPP are "failures," however one must understand they exist under intense attack both economically and militarily from the hegemonic united systems capitalist empire. in this essay i shall
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Sep 10, 2020 21:03
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https://www.ign.com/articles/robocop-prequel-series-ocp?sf128489029=1 So it's just Cop then? 
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:https://www.ign.com/articles/robocop-prequel-series-ocp?sf128489029=1 Well, that's the dumbest thing I've read so far today.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:https://www.ign.com/articles/robocop-prequel-series-ocp?sf128489029=1  this was already done. It's called Wall Street.
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Sep 11, 2020 15:16
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I just re-ordered Alien: Isolation for xbone on the cheap so my son can play it with me. He's seen both movies (there are only 2  ) and loved them. Very much looking forward to it since I never finished the game the first time before selling it and then wound up missing it when I needed something scary. I played it on the 360 originally so are the graphics better on the Bone? They were already loving incredible to start with. Also I got it for $12 but then realized there's a "Nostromo Edition" for $26. Did I gently caress myself or can I just download that DLC if I want it? TIA I wish it had sold better since a sequel would kick rear end and also because you could apply the game play and use the "Isolation" tag as a franchise for poo poo like Terminator, Predator and also some slasher movies. Halloween would be good. Far as that goes, make another The Thing game only do it proper this time. The PS2 game got a lot right but tweaking the Isolation engine for the Arctic base and fixing the blood testing/who to trust mechanic would loving rule. Obviously you'd have to add a little more action but not much.
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Sep 11, 2020 15:43
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There was a ZX Spectrum game of Alien where who you played as, who was infected with the Alien and who was the android was randomised each time you played. Put that into a The Thing game along with decent trust mechanics and a variety of win states (successfully kill all Things with all remaining humans tested as human, destroy the whole base, kill everything so you know that the only thing alive is human, etc) and you could have an amazing game. Of course, I'm not games developer, but I've come up with the idea so if anyone wants to use my precious ideas, I'd happily settle for 10% of gross sales.
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Sep 11, 2020 16:11
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Sunswipe posted:There was a ZX Spectrum game of Alien where who you played as, who was infected with the Alien and who was the android was randomised each time you played. Put that into a The Thing game along with decent trust mechanics and a variety of win states (successfully kill all Things with all remaining humans tested as human, destroy the whole base, kill everything so you know that the only thing alive is human, etc) and you could have an amazing game. Of course, I'm not games developer, but I've come up with the idea so if anyone wants to use my precious ideas, I'd happily settle for 10% of gross sales.
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Kaiju Cage Match posted:https://www.ign.com/articles/robocop-prequel-series-ocp?sf128489029=1 quote:the evolution of Richard Jones to Dick Jones 
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BiggerBoat posted:I just re-ordered Alien: Isolation for xbone on the cheap so my son can play it with me. He's seen both movies (there are only 2 I played A:I on 360, then later on PS4. As you said, the 360 version is already gorgeous, but I noticed slowdown in some of the areas. The PS4 version (which I assume is similar in performance to Xbone) ran smoother than shark skin. You should absolutely try it on the Bone and see what a difference newer hardware can make to an already beautiful game. An old Xbox game I remember as having a very The Thing feel was Cold Fear. You play as a Coast Guard guy, responding to a distress call from a big Russian ship in the Bering Sea. It's basically Winter Resident Evil on a boat. One of the neat things that I enjoyed about playing was how the seas would make the ship rock back and forth, which would obviously mess with your aim, and made running basically impossible.
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BiggerBoat posted:I played it on the 360 originally so are the graphics better on the Bone? They were already loving incredible to start with. Also I got it for $12 but then realized there's a "Nostromo Edition" for $26. Did I gently caress myself or can I just download that DLC if I want it? TIA I played on PC, but I'd assume it works the same in that you can absolutely buy any of the DLCs you want separately anyway. The Nostromo Edition just includes one of the DLCs, and it's nice but not very long. I expect that buying that DLC separately would probably cost less than the $14 difference too.
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