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redshirt posted:Well if I'm in a face hugger rich environment, I will be wearing a helmet with a neck brace. Or at least some kind of high tech mask. In this five-part video series, I will be exploring how a full suit of medieval armor is in fact the best defense against alien facehuggers
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^^^ The facehugger in the first movie gets through Kane's (presumably robust, reinforced future material) space suit no problem. Yeah I think they're supposed to be freakishly strong and fast, doesn't it take like three marines to pry one off of Ripley? I always thought the most dicey part of that scene was how come it didn't just crawl up one of their arms and find purchase there? They're able to throw it across the room pretty easily. Plus, in most media we see them attack they ambush from the shadows. I think they evolved (or were designed by David  ) to be the perfect implantation vector, you're not swatting one away very easily.What's the first mention of W-Y's 'bio-weapons division' in the franchise? I don't think Ash spells it out that they have one in the first film but maybe it's in the novelization? To my memory Ripley is the first one to explicitly use the phrase when describing Burke's nefarious plan.
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Dec 13, 2023 15:17
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OB-GYN Kenobi posted:I played SNES Jurassic Park with my best friend growing up, weeks long summer adventure to beat it. There's a point where you have to reboot the system. This was before we knew anything about the internet, and there probably wasn't much out there at the time anyways. Weeks and maybe even months went by of us spending our Saturdays getting to that point then getting stuck. We'd then trace back our steps all over the drat map looking for something to help us reboot the system. Little did we know, all we had to do, was click the drat "boot" on the screen, to re-boot the system. I beat this game exactly once, and never touched it again. gently caress that triceratops.
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Dec 13, 2023 15:48
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redshirt posted:Well if I'm in a face hugger rich environment, I will be wearing a helmet with a neck brace. Or at least some kind of high tech mask. https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Apesuit
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Icon Of Sin posted:I beat this game exactly once, and never touched it again. gently caress that triceratops. Was that the game where you at one point went from an overhead view to a loving first person night vision horror segment fighting raptors indoors? That part hosed me up as a child.
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Why "apesuit"? Do they think so poorly of Colonial Marines?
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redshirt posted:Why "apesuit"? Do they think so poorly of Colonial Marines? Technically the only screen canon use is by WY security guys on Fury 161.
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Biplane posted:Was that the game where you at one point went from an overhead view to a loving first person night vision horror segment fighting raptors indoors? That part hosed me up as a child. That’s the one! With dark rooms that required a battery for your night vision goggles, otherwise entering the dark void just gave you a dinosaur roar and the “you died” screen. You needed a new battery for each building too, I think.
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Android Apocalypse posted:The trick is the tail is constricting your neck, which I suspect will cause your reflexes to gasp for air & give the facehugger an opportunity. Yeah it burns through his helmet; you can hear the sizzle when it hits the helmet and then you can see the aftermath when they cut the helmet off of him.
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Xenomrph posted:Yeah it burns through his helmet; you can hear the sizzle when it hits the helmet and then you can see the aftermath when they cut the helmet off of him. It sounds reasonable that the creature can spray acid on demand like this, but the terrifying nitpicking pedant in me thinks that the difference between 'melting through the faceplate' and 'oops melting through the actual face' implies a degree of control I find unconvincing.
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redshirt posted:I really enjoyed it. The motley crew of characters, surprise Morpheus, Predator on Predator crime. Yeah, it's almost like someone made a really good one-off RPG and filled it with 80's archetypes. Big Russian, yakuza, sniper lady, etc. I love it. Walton Goggins is so good at playing terrible people.
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Icon Of Sin posted:That’s the one! With dark rooms that required a battery for your night vision goggles, otherwise entering the dark void just gave you a dinosaur roar and the “you died” screen. You needed a new battery for each building too, I think. Utterly terrifying for child me lol
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I've always loved these things because the helmets look loving awesome and also their unique "gently caress off facehuggers trying to facehug me from the right only!" design
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Icon Of Sin posted:I beat this game exactly once, and never touched it again. gently caress that triceratops. As kids we never actually beat it. But a few years ago, with the help of save points on the emulator, we made a whole Saturday of it, and completed our childhood dream. also thinking about Aliens while talking about JP. I apologize to the group, I'll stay on topic from here on out
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aliens landing in the triassic has some legs as at least a comic spinoff. trexomorph
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Owlbear Camus posted:aliens landing in the triassic has some legs as at least a comic spinoff. trexomorph T-Rex was Cretaceous. You could have, like...Herrerasaurus I guess?
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Owlbear Camus posted:aliens landing in the triassic has some legs as at least a comic spinoff. trexomorph If a facehugger got one of these, it’d be close enough. They’re up to 5ft tall. https://youtu.be/ukTUG2Okqi4?si=D2VDJIW-Y0bw236e Also, it’s B. rex 
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Xenomrph posted:Yeah it burns through his helmet; you can hear the sizzle when it hits the helmet and then you can see the aftermath when they cut the helmet off of him. If you step through the actual facehug scene you can actually see they animated the facehugger burning through the faceplate of the suit.
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Got this in the mail today. 
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Xenomrph posted:Yeah it burns through his helmet; you can hear the sizzle when it hits the helmet and then you can see the aftermath when they cut the helmet off of him. I read the Alien novelization long, long, long before I ever saw the movie, and in the book Kane's last thoughts are basically 'oh god, its burning through the helmet'
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Xenomrph posted:Got this in the mail today. I like that "Alienator Missiles" is trademarked.
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redshirt posted:I like that "Alienator Missiles" is trademarked. What’s even better is his character bio card on the back of the packaging. 
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Xenomrph posted:Got this in the mail today. I had that! Isn't it called the Bug rocker or something?
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Pennywise the Frown posted:I had that! Isn't it called the Bug rocker or something? What do you mean?
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Xenomrph posted:What do you mean? I swear I heard a commercial or read one of the backs of one of those and saw bug rocker on it. When I was 12 or so.
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Xenomrph posted:What’s even better is his character bio card on the back of the packaging. It's weird they list his home planet as LV-426, and he didn't use a smart gun in the movie.
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Beachcomber posted:It's weird they list his home planet as LV-426, and he didn't use a smart gun in the movie. *sigh* Look kid just play with the fuckin toy, ok?
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The Zombie Guy posted:*sigh* I mean, I eventually found out why Alan Grant came with a gas grenade. Jury's still out why Dennis Nerdy came with a chemical weapon squirter.
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Azubah posted:We're gonna see a predator murder the poo poo out of some nazis and that is awesome. So they’re just remaking Prey then
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Beachcomber posted:It's weird they list his home planet as LV-426, and he didn't use a smart gun in the movie. M-41A is the pulse rifle. Smart Gun was the M56.
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OB-GYN Kenobi posted:I played SNES Jurassic Park with my best friend growing up, weeks long summer adventure to beat it. There's a point where you have to reboot the system. This was before we knew anything about the internet, and there probably wasn't much out there at the time anyways. Weeks and maybe even months went by of us spending our Saturdays getting to that point then getting stuck. We'd then trace back our steps all over the drat map looking for something to help us reboot the system. Little did we know, all we had to do, was click the drat "boot" on the screen, to re-boot the system. There was an old Sega Genesis X-Men game that I remember being pretty good overall but there was one part where you were instructed to "reset the computer". Same thing you described where the solution was to hit the reset button on the console. Like you, my friend and I went all over the loving place looking for any kind of "reset" device in game.
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Yeah those NECA toys were quite imaginative. I had a bunch of them.
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Yeah those NECA toys were quite imaginative. I had a bunch of them. The NECA ones are remakes of the old 90s Kenner ones, they’re awesome.
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Xenomrph posted:The NECA ones are remakes of the old 90s Kenner ones, they’re awesome. Ah ok. I had the Kenner ones then. ChickenHeart posted:Still pretty upset we never got a genuine movie Apone figure (or Drake for that matter) Drake was one of the very few that were somewhat normal looking.  When you twisted his torso it'd make a clicking noise like gunfire. 
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BiggerBoat posted:There was an old Sega Genesis X-Men game that I remember being pretty good overall but there was one part where you were instructed to "reset the computer". Same thing you described where the solution was to hit the reset button on the console. Like you, my friend and I went all over the loving place looking for any kind of "reset" device in game. Yeah. That was real fun when you rented the game. Luckily, I played through it with my dad when he was just learning how to use computers. The lessons he got at work, from some very compassionate co-workers, must have rubbed off on him. "No, dad, don't pre- Oh, that worked! I love you!" As an aside: after my dad left back to Germany, if I had problems with my computer he could ask his former co-workers to help fix the problem and they would. Thank you, (former) Parsons Technology employees!
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I have the Kenner Ripley figure in a closer somewhere, looked pretty cool as a kid.
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Azubah posted:I have the Kenner Ripley figure in a closer somewhere, looked pretty cool as a kid. I’ve got a bunch of my Kenner figures on a shelf above my fireplace, with the NECA remakes higher up above them.
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My NECA power loader fell off of my monitor and broke its hip 
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