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Pennywise the Frown posted:Bad quality but I found it in an Aliens FB group. ITS READIN' RIGHT!!!
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Look into my eye... [really bad overdub that's not even Apone, just some white dude] FALL IN, PEEPUL
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Jul 12, 2023 00:15
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Still thinkin’ about Aliens, as I finished painting all the models for the Fate of the Nostromo game  
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Jul 12, 2023 00:52
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Looks great. No way in hell I could do that.
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Somebody wake up Hicks.
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edogawa rando posted:It was one of the Marines. You can tell that to Wierzbowski.
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Jul 12, 2023 03:35
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Plan R posted:You can tell that to Wierzbowski. WEIRZBOWSKI?!?!?!?!
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Jul 12, 2023 03:44
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redshirt posted:WEIRZBOWSKI?!?!?!?! WHERE'S BASKI?!?!
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Jul 12, 2023 03:47
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I missed some good chats ITT. Big up the Good Dad from last page for showing his kid the classics. Big up the miniature painting, very well done. I think I'd be Hudson; easily excitable and vulgar and maybe a bit arrogant,, but I disagree that he really falls apart when poo poo hits the fan. His end is pretty loving heroic. And I'm glad to read that blurb about the new film not having anything to do with the Ridley Scott prequels.
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Jul 12, 2023 04:14
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The real failure is in the Colonial Marines not having a second way to get off the planet after the poo poo hit the fan.
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Jul 12, 2023 04:40
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redshirt posted:The real failure is in the Colonial Marines not having a second way to get off the planet after the poo poo hit the fan. Well they did, it was docked with the Sulaco.
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Jul 12, 2023 05:01
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And why did that fail?
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redshirt posted:And why did that fail? It didn’t, the characters successfully used it to get off the planet. If you’re saying they should have brought both dropships down to begin with, that kind of requires foreknowledge of the situation that it’s not reasonable for the characters to have. It looked like it was a downed transmitter, they flew down in one ship, kept it on standby, and once things went sideways it all escalated so quickly that it went from “everything’s fine” to “we need dropship #1 to save us” to “dropship #1 just crashed into the APC and took out our transmitter that we’d use to call dropship #2” in the span of like 5 minutes.  It’s like expecting you to always have someone drive a second car behind you to everywhere you go just in case your first car spontaneously combusts. I don’t think the characters were THAT paranoid.
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Jul 12, 2023 05:23
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Xenomrph posted:It didn’t, the characters successfully used it to get off the planet. Maybe they should have had a tactical nuke on site.
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Jul 12, 2023 05:26
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Come to think of it, why didn't they have at least like one guy stay behind to look after the ship? Don't ships usually have a crew?
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Jul 12, 2023 05:30
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The Colonial Marines thought it was a rescue mission. There's some juicy colonists' daughters we have to rescue from their virginity!
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Jul 12, 2023 05:31
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Gnome de plume posted:Come to think of it, why didn't they have at least like one guy stay behind to look after the ship? Don't ships usually have a crew? That was Spunkmeyer.
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Jul 12, 2023 05:32
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thinking about Not Working, weakness, conservatism, Me, and showing up to the war at 11:15pm on day 3113 
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Jul 12, 2023 05:33
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WELL THAT'S JUST GREAT!
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If you consider the Colonial Marines Technical Manual as canon, I think the table of organization show that a platoon has two APCs, two dropships with pilots for each, and four squads. But I think it talks about how they are spread thin and always understaffed, so Apone’s unit is actually half a platoon, with only one dropship pilot. Although obviously Bishop can fly one too. But in the film they don’t believe Ripley’s story and figure they can get it done by putting everyone into a single APC and use one dropship.
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MrMojok posted:If you consider the Colonial Marines Technical Manual as canon, I think the table of organization show that a platoon has two APCs, two dropships with pilots for each, and four squads. I like the slight fact that they underestimated everything, and this led to their later defeat.
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Jul 12, 2023 05:58
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MrMojok posted:If you consider the Colonial Marines Technical Manual as canon Yes
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Not for nothing Burke probably thought it was a boom to have an understaffed vessel and a mission led by a lieutenant who graduated from OCS 30 minutes ago last in his class. Probably even pulled some strings to make it happen.
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MrMojok posted:If you consider the Colonial Marines Technical Manual as canon, I think the table of organization show that a platoon has two APCs, two dropships with pilots for each, and four squads. Ripley knew it was half-assed and when she looked at Burke and his half-shrug that confirmed it.
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redshirt posted:I like the slight fact that they underestimated everything, and this led to their later defeat. Yeah it wasn't supposed to be aliens, it was supposed to be some dumb colonists who don't know how to fix their broken transmitter and a corpo rear end in a top hat is bringing a crazy lady along just to humor her
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Owlbear Camus posted:Not for nothing Burke probably thought it was a boom to have an understaffed vessel and a mission led by a lieutenant who graduated from OCS 30 minutes ago last in his class. Probably even pulled some strings to make it happen. Boon, but yes, it was that other thing later.
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Jul 12, 2023 06:27
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Beachcomber posted:Boon, but yes, it was that other thing later. It's in the book!!
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Beachcomber posted:Boon, but yes, it was that other thing later. No BOOM BOOM in the Reactor Facility!!!
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I saw we dust off, nuke it from orbit, to be sure.
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Owlbear Camus posted:Not for nothing Burke probably thought it was a boom to have an understaffed vessel and a mission led by a lieutenant who graduated from OCS 30 minutes ago last in his class. Probably even pulled some strings to make it happen. According to the last chapter of the Technical Manual and the Weyland Yutani Report, that’s exactly what happened.
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I'd like to think I've been trained to deal with future Exo-situations, as they arise....
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redshirt posted:How did that Alien find the drop ship? Why did the ship have its hatch open in an hostile environment and without close guard?
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Fish of hemp posted:Why did the ship have its hatch open in an hostile environment and without close guard? They’d been eating too much cornbread
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Spunkmeier was supposed to close that hatch, and he did, but when he was outside taking a whizz or performing maintenance or whatever he was doing with the hatch open, a roving xeno went inside.
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Fish of hemp posted:Why did the ship have its hatch open in an hostile environment and without close guard? It wasn’t a hostile environment, the Marines had secured the area.
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Xenomrph posted:It wasn’t a hostile environment, the Marines had secured the area. In the pipe, 5 by 5.
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Xenomrph posted:It wasn’t a hostile environment, the Marines had secured the area. "The area is secure Ripley"
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Icon Of Sin posted:Still thinkin’ about Aliens, as I finished painting all the models for the Fate of the Nostromo game These are fabulous but....where's Jonesy?
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Beachcomber posted:Boon, but yes, it was that other thing later. an accurate typo considering what happened when they blatantly disregarded their orders not to shoot aliens. i unironically love how in the extended fiction the xeno is just a constant rake gag for The Company. "okay the last eight times we tried to monetize the monsters as a bioweapon it ate everybody and destroyed the research compound. but me, i got the vision to make this happen. i have my mba and a weird looking future tie"
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