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Xenomrph posted:A reminder to everyone in this thread that Prometheus is a Christmas movie. Its literally the story of Jesus's return to Earth isn't it?
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He tried to return but then some woman and android head jacked his ride and he got face hugged instead.
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Alchenar posted:Its literally the story of Jesus's return to Earth isn't it? It’s set on Christmas. At least for day one.
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CelticPredator posted:It’s set on Christmas. At least for day one. It’s also got an immaculate conception.
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 God Sacrificing His Son (2017, Dariusz Wolski)
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A virgin (Millburn) consumes the forbidden fruit (dank nuggz) and gets wrecked by a snake (space snake). That's Christian and poo poo, right?
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Anyone tried out that board game? My kid got it for christmas
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Gargamel Gibson posted:A virgin (Millburn) consumes the forbidden fruit (dank nuggz) and gets wrecked by a snake (space snake). Elizabeth (John the Baptists mothers name) was barren (Also like John the Baptists mom) but was able to get pregnant after her man went to the "temple." And John in Christianity is a precursor to Jesus Christ just like the deacon which ended up being the result of the birth is a precursor to the Xenomorph.
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BiggerBoat posted:Anyone tried out that board game? My kid got it for christmas It owns. It's a really good implementation that has plenty of stuff to do, a good dose of the theme, and is quick/light enough for your friend who falls asleep halfway into the directions for Catan to play.
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Owlbear Camus posted:and is quick/light enough for your friend who falls asleep halfway into the directions for Catan to play. This might be the most important part.
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The Notorious ZSB posted:This might be the most important part. https://twitter.com/thisdiegolopez/status/1455893008885354499
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Owlbear Camus posted:It owns. It's a really good implementation that has plenty of stuff to do, a good dose of the theme, and is quick/light enough for your friend who falls asleep halfway into the directions for Catan to play. https://youtu.be/fyvyhkF8Xr4
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Pretty cool little board game. I ran a solo setup just to get the rules down and lost because I was reducing morale on every encounter whether I met the xeno or not so that went fast. Only thing I'd change after just one run is putting the cost of the crafted items on the tokens themselves or maybe somewhere on the board. My first run I hosed up and crafted too much poo poo because I confused the usage # with the cost and only figured out what I did wrong when I couldn't figure out how to get a cat carrier. I also screwed up by putting the concealed items and scrap on the room I was in instead of the room on the card. Also needs a d6 to track actions (move, drop craft, use, etc.) but that's easy enough. Reminds me a little bit of Last Night on Earth only with fewer cards and more restricted movement.
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In my internet journey's to build MUTHUR's keyboard, I found this awesome blog with a ton of behind the scenes stuff during the Alien shoot, almost all of it I've never seen before: http://www.gavinrothery.com/my-blog/2011/11/15/inside-alien.html
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sigher posted:In my internet journey's to build MUTHUR's keyboard, I found this awesome blog with a ton of behind the scenes stuff during the Alien shoot, almost all of it I've never seen before: This fuckin' rules I'm sure you and everyone in this thread has seen it but that reminds me of this great article on the typography in Alien, including how, when Ripley tries to deactivate the meltdown/self destruct...she actually doesn't follow the instructions correctly :O https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/12/01/alien/
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Neo Rasa posted:This fuckin' rules Also the French is apparently hosed. lol I've seen that article and actually downloaded and installed every font I could that he identified. It's wonderful, he also wrote a book you can get on Amazon. Can't wait to read through it.
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So the board game is pretty cool and my son liked it PROS: - Does a good job capturing the tension (most times) of the movie - Fairly nice balance of making you calculate your decisions on a turn - Neat differences between the characters that add a little flavor - Using Ash adds a LOT of much needed variety and challenge - Reasonably simple rules (more on that in a minute) and a short rulebook - Cooperative gameplay is nice and makes sense - So far, every game has unfolded differently (more on that too) CONS: - A few rules are just a tad vague and had to be worked out by playing a few times, mostly the "run 3 spaces during an encounter" and then getting MORE encounters along the way. - Needs MORE missions and cards. I can see the game getting old and "used up" very quickly. Expansion packs and the especially the addition of face huggers are sorely needed. Needs more everything tbh. - Since the set up is the same every game, they should print starting item icons on the board in their respective rooms. I'll probably just do this myself but a legend would be nice. - Really needs crew member deaths - for gameplay sake and also to mimic the film. - No vents? Weirdest thing to me is that the game is actually harder with more crew members, or at least has played out that way for me so far. We also got a little orange cat figure for Jones and my kid has a little Xeno toy that makes shreiking sounds that he played whenever there was an encounter. WE also briefly played with the lights out, one of those constellation lamp things and little flashlights on our last game just for some atmosphere.
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can u imagine if a xenomorph hatched from a terminator....... how sick would that thing look
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“What happened to her?” “Alien ate her.”
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Doctor Dogballs posted:can u imagine if a xenomorph hatched from a terminator....... how sick would that thing look  be careful what you wish for...
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SMERSH Mouth posted:“What happened to her?” 
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^^^LOL. I used to work in a video store way back when those existed and always laughed at all these straight to VHS movies that came out^^^ Getting back to the board game for a minute and adding face huggers: The game mechanics and "hidden encounter" tiles as they are could add them easily now that I think about it. Just make one of them not Jones nor the Alien and put a hugger in there. When that happens, the character's turn ends and they immediately have to go to Med Bay (or be taken there by another player) where they can only be revived by (insert thing) or being visited by 1 or 2 player characters. Maybe if it's not "removed" in a certain amount of time, a second xeno is introduced into the game but we add 5 morale points (or points equal to that character's # of actions) to offset the imbalance. I think I'm also gonna mess around with an easy house rule that any character who has "x" amount of alien encounters dies and see how it works. Maybe 2 or 3 "hits" that can be easily be tracked with a coin or something. When they die, all the poo poo they were carrying is dropped in that room. Makes it more like the movie and the game is short enough that any player it happens to will still have had a good time. I just looked and there's no expansion packs for the game so maybe I can whip up a few home made missions.
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:
Before anyone gets curious, that’s the Aliens vs Predator vs Terminator comic series and it’s dogshit. Let me reiterate: this is me, Xenomrph, apologist for and consumer of any and all Alien media regardless of quality, someone who will openly defend elements of bad video game Aliens Colonial Marines, saying that this comic is awful. It’s that bad.
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There’s also the Xenoborg from AvP ‘99. I could only find small pics of it so let’s have some random YT dude explain it to us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bM0VK5KMfU
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david_a posted:There’s also the Xenoborg from AvP ‘99. I could only find small pics of it so let’s have some random YT dude explain it to us
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well i'm not surprised i'm far from the first person to think that but so far all of those look like utter rear end
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I think what I'm gonna try with the board game after reading some ideas from BBG is: - take one of the two Jones encounter tiles and make it a facehugger (If Jones is captured in a cat carrier, the second tile is obsolete anyway so it won't hurt game play) - any character encountering a facehugger goes to medbay and is out until they are revived by another character using a scrap - apply normal item/weapon rules to ^^^that^^^ so a player can fight it off with a flamethrower or whatever - Give each character 3 "wounds", easily tracked by a coin (no coin at all, heads, tails, remove coin and die), that they can use to deflect a corresponding loss in morale. Meaning, they if the encounter says they lose 2 morale, they can instead take a wound and only lose 1 morale. 3 "hits" = dead and any items are dropped in that room. Facehugger attack = a wound. - Characters can heal wounds in the Med Bay by spending one or two scrap as an action. Another character or Ash must be in the room with them to do this (maybe) - Randomize starting item placement somehow to change up the game. I think there's 13 rooms so a d12 might work and either just exclude the nest or the bridge (starting location) from starting item placement. You could also just use the regular starting locations but deal the tiles down blind those seem simple to implement and don't seem like they'd gently caress up balance too bad. I think I'm the only one here playing this game but folks should check it out. The publisher also made a JAWS board game so I'm all about that. My kid's birthday is next month and he liked the Alien game so guess what he's getting.
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BiggerBoat posted:^^^LOL. I used to work in a video store way back when those existed and always laughed at all these straight to VHS movies that came out^^^ My local video store only had video nasties and porn. And they wouldn't give us kids the porn, so I grew up on all the Alien wannabes. Including my fav The Deadly Spawn which I only found out later it was originally titled 'Return of the Alien' or some poo poo to cash in on Alien.
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happyhippy posted:My local video store only had video nasties and porn. And they wouldn't give us kids the porn, so I grew up on all the Alien wannabes. Yeah we had The Beaded Curtain also, back when partaking in pornography meant you had to show your face, sandwich your tape of "Blonde Cocksuckers" somewhere in between your copies of Predator, Alien and The Terminator and do the Walk of Shame to the register. Or, worse, occasionally being informed of your late fee for "Cum on My Face 8" in full earshot of other customers. As employees, we were allowed to take home free movies or games at the end of closing and, having no shame or career aspirations in the video rental industry, routinely grabbed a video nasty or 2, a regular good movie release and an NES game. I didn't work there long and, eventually, they stopped letting us take home games and porn. Probably because of me. Their explanation was that we were supposed to review these things for customer advice and that nobody ever asked for referrals for games or porn. Well, no, not from YOU, store owners. You're 55 years old and look like parents. I was young, decent looking and relatively hip and I did, in fact, have several young customers ask me about which games were good and, on more than one occasion, was asked for help with adult movies (two or 3 times from older-ish women who needed something "a woman might like", 1 or 2 gay guys since I'm bi and I guess looked gay enough and once, funny enough, from my dad who came in when his wife was out of town). I hooked them up cause I was cool. Sorry...nothing Alien related in that post but those direct to VHS movies took me back to a simpler time when Alien movies were awesome.
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Cross posting from the GBS Aliens thread, this is way too funny not to share
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 You know what's astonishing about this? quote:Astronaut is possess by egg demon and new egg demon is come when eat bad noodle. Kane dies while eating noodles, saying nothing of them, but they're referencing Parker when he's talking about his coffee, "Can I finish my coffee? It's the only good thing on this ship." So they paid enough attention to know that all of the food on the Nostromo sucks. lol Speaking of which I almost have my full Alien kitchen set, I just need the utensils which I can't find.
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It's like Star Wars The Third Gathers subtitling. Like yeah it's "bad" but it's in many ways more accurate than the English dub with the Jedi being called the Hopeless Situations and so on. Also Anakin Skywalker being named Allah Gold is incredible and Lucas should have edited the actual PT to make that that character's official name.
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Neo Rasa posted:It's like Star Wars The Third Gathers subtitling. Like yeah it's "bad" but it's in many ways more accurate than the English dub with the Jedi being called the Hopeless Situations and so on. Also Anakin Skywalker being named Allah Gold is incredible and Lucas should have edited the actual PT to make that that character's official name. "Smelly boy" is the best insult possible and "Our dichotomy opens the combat" sounds like something George would actually write.
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