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Mister Speaker posted:My NECA power loader fell off of my monitor and broke its hip Time to hit up the 40k people and learn how to model incredibly detailed battle wear. Put some dry wall patch over it, some gray paint, then wash it with watered down white. Instant mini duct tape patches.
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madeintaipei posted:Time to hit up the 40k people and learn how to model incredibly detailed battle wear. I bash on 40k a lot, but some of those kitbashes are incredibly well done (ork players were particularly known for it back when I played).
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It's actually not cosmetically bad damage at all, the joint just snapped. She stands on her own still, even though the hip actuator is separated. I've been meaning to fix it but it's just a display piece that sits on my right studio monitor (the left one has the Queen).
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Pennywise the Frown posted: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. I just cracked open my Hicks figure and although the packaging doesn’t mention a “bug rocker”, the mini-comic that comes with the toy does mention it, so it does exist.
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Xenomrph posted:I just cracked open my Hicks figure and although the packaging doesn’t mention a “bug rocker”, the mini-comic that comes with the toy does mention it, so it does exist. LET'S ROCK!!!!
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Xenomrph posted:I just cracked open my Hicks figure and although the packaging doesn’t mention a “bug rocker”, the mini-comic that comes with the toy does mention it, so it does exist. Yay! I knew I saw that somewhere!
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Has there been any comics or books about predator vs terminator? I think a t800 vs a predator would be a good fight. Presumably the t800 would see the predator, camouflaged or not. But the predator has agility and, depending on the time frame, better weapons Knuckle to knuckle I'd give it to the t800. Arnold got his rear end kicked in the first predator movie, but as a t800 I think he'd win...would be rad to see
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WHY BONER NOW posted:Has there been any comics or books about predator vs terminator? I think a t800 vs a predator would be a good fight. Presumably the t800 would see the predator, camouflaged or not. But the predator has agility and, depending on the time frame, better weapons Predator has space alloy weapons and a plasma caster. Would be worth watching though.
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Beachcomber posted:Predator has space alloy weapons and a plasma caster. But, what watt range is that plasma caster? 40w?
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WHY BONER NOW posted:Has there been any comics or books about predator vs terminator? I think a t800 vs a predator would be a good fight. There's an Alien vs Predator vs Terminator comic series from Dark Horse.  No idea if it's good or not, but I'm sure somebody in the thread must have read it.
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The Zombie Guy posted:There's an Alien vs Predator vs Terminator comic series from Dark Horse. It’s awful, don’t read it.
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I think it's also a sequel to alien resurrection lol.
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WHY BONER NOW posted:Has there been any comics or books about predator vs terminator? I think a t800 vs a predator would be a good fight. Presumably the t800 would see the predator, camouflaged or not. But the predator has agility and, depending on the time frame, better weapons By default I'd give the edge to the Predator. There was one poorly conceived shot in T2 which showed, in the future war, multiple T-800s on the battlefield, like infantry. If they are just cannon fodder for Skynet, then Predator gets the edge in any encounter.
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redshirt posted:LET'S ROCK!!!! I've surely posted this ITT before, but you sharing one of my favourite lines from Aliens reminded me that I wrote this tune like twelve years ago, which is chock full of samples immediately recognizable to fans.
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WHY BONER NOW posted:Has there been any comics or books about predator vs terminator? I think a t800 vs a predator would be a good fight. Presumably the t800 would see the predator, camouflaged or not. But the predator has agility and, depending on the time frame, better weapons Plasma caster probably trivializes the encounter for Preds. To make it a remotely fair fight you'd have to take away all the predators directed energy weapons and make it use kinetic and melee only along with the environment to win. Still edge to the Predator. T-800 is a lone tank, the Predator is a guerilla who can observe and wait to engage the tank at the most advantageous time and place.
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The nets alone would probably be bad news for a T-800, and in melee I'd still think the Predator takes it (between their claws, spear, and discs made of space-metal). The T-1000 though, that's where it'd be more interesting. They could probably still tell apart a T-1000 mimicking something via one of their spectrum visors, but I think they'd need the energy weapons to properly finish one off.
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Alien Drone - Remember when I promised to kill you last?
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Xenomrph posted:It’s awful, don’t read it. It is bad, bad. A total flustercuck of a story. The art is bizarre, too.
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I’ll just leave this here: A Is for Alien: An ABC Book (20th Century Studios) (Little Golden Book) https://a.co/d/dVkHH2C
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Oh poo poo buying this for my daughter so hard
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Definitely late to the party, but I finally got around to Aliens: Fire team Elite. Anyone still playing that and want to shoot some aliens?
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Michael Biehn had a health scare... https://twitter.com/jenniferblancb/status/1737176032011301325?t=gMi-lKDZwM_mKTaN-KApdA&s=19 "I lived bitch"
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Young Freud posted:Michael Biehn had a health scare... Somebody wake up Hicks.
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Somebody better run an MRI to make sure he doesn't have anything growing in his chest. Or at least keep him away from any support beams near his cryo tube.
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I finally broke down and watched Prometheus and Covenant. I can't believe I'm writing this, but I didn't hate them. They weren't great, and I wish they weren't in the Alien universe, but once I accepted that - well, they weren't as bad as I thought they would be based on what I'd heard about them. If nothing else they might give me ideas for the Alien rpg.
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Cessna posted:I finally broke down and watched Prometheus and Covenant. The RPG as it stands cribs from them pretty heavily.
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Xenomrph posted:The RPG as it stands cribs from them pretty heavily. A lot of what is in the rpg makes more sense after watching the movies. I figured that was the origin for a lot I didn't recognize. ("What's a neomorph? Or a hammerpede?") I'll admit up front that I don't like a lot of the Alien EU that I've seen in comics or books. They go in a lot of directions that I really don't like; this is why I was very hesitant to watch Prometheus/Covenant. I was determined to stick with the first three movies, no more. And there were a LOT of things I didn't like about Prometheus/Covenant, but not enough to make me reject them entirely. I suppose if I can skim some ideas and get a good game out of what was added I'm happy.
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Having low expectations for a movie usually means you’ll be pleasantly surprised when you finally watch it. I just watched The Marvels with my daughter and we had a great time.
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Red Rox posted:Having low expectations for a movie usually means you’ll be pleasantly surprised when you finally watch it.
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When the MCU finally folds in the X-Men Universe we can finally get the Brood.
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Android Apocalypse posted:When the MCU finally folds in the X-Men Universe we can finally get the Brood. Is that related to the Tal Shiar?
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redshirt posted:Had you already watched the shows beforehand, or did you go in cold? We had also watched Ms Marvel last year and liked it, and I bought her a Ms Marvel figure to hang with her Lady Thor figure. I was the only one to have watched Wandavision but that didn’t seem to make any difference.
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So let me check my work here so I can nail down some background. As I understand it, and this has spoilers and questions: The galaxy is a cruel and uncaring place. Thousands of years ago an advanced species of giants whose technology included advanced genetic engineering pushed humanity to sapience. Notably, one sacrifices himself to further this process; there's an ongoing theme of bringing creation out of destruction throughout the movies. After a while the giant Engineers became disappointed, so they sent out horseshoe-shaped spaceships loaded with a biological weapons (aliens/xenomorphs affected by the "black liquid") to wipe out their creation. This didn't work and the ships didn't make it, so humanity survived. Did I miss why this failed? The "black liquid" is either related to or is the same substance that jump-started humanity. It's effects are unpredictable, but it generally makes whatever is exposed to it smarter or meaner or stronger or a combination of those by altering it's DNA at a base level. It kills engineers if it's dropped on them, it makes worms grow into bigger, nastier worms, and makes people give birth to squids - you name it, it's nasty genetic chaos given form. Seemingly every creature created or affected by this stuff falls into the xenomorph's reproductive cycle or forcibly implanting eggs which kill their host like a Glyptapanteles wasp. Is this just a trait of being affected by the black liquid? Also, the black liquid doesn't seem to do anything to synthetic androids directly - it doesn't morph them - but David decided to tinker with it anyway and ended up reverse-engineering the xenomorph alien, almost. Right? And at some point in the future a bunch of space truckers find the abandoned remains of one of the Engineer ships loaded with biological weapons and wakes one up, thus starting a new cycle. There's also still cans of black liquid and potentially surviving engineers out there waiting for people to trip over them. Corporations and governments especially want the black liquid to drop on to their enemies; of course, this will utterly wreck humanity, but they don't care. Correct? What killed the Engineer who was decapitated by the door - what was he running from? Do we get any hints? What is the "Deacon" thing at the end? Just another xenomorph variant, "Black Liquid * (Engineer + Squid) = Deacon?" The "neomorphs" - the pale almost-xenomorphs - are they just an early stage of the classic xenomorph? Is it a matter of "add black liquid to the neomorphs to get xenomorphs?" Does anything stand out as wrong? I just want to fill in some gaps in my understanding and make sure I have it right before I start the rpg.
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Red Rox posted:Having low expectations for a movie usually means you’ll be pleasantly surprised when you finally watch it. Yeah, same. I don't think it deserves anywhere near the level of vitriol it's been subject to, but any discourse related to Captain Marvel (film and character) is just so utterly toxic - not to mention legitimately divorced from reality when it comes to the first film* - that it immediately puts my red flag detetector on full alert. It's not a masterpiece, and no one is going to accuse it of being such, but the gags are generally solid, I enjoyed the action scenes and the film didn't overstay its welcome. The planet where everyone communicates by singing, I thought could gently caress off. To me, it felt like such a Joss Whedon joke and I can't stand that prick and his work. There was clear subtext around Danvers' sexuality, and apparently a line confirming it was cut at the script stage or thereabouts, but that's not the film's fault - hold Disney corporate accountable for that. *The first Captain Marvel film has been retroactively branded a failure it seems, when commercially and critically, it did reasonably well. I'm curious as to what metric is used to brand it a failure beyond perpetually adolescent manchildren having tantrums about their hurt fee-fees. And speaking of Joss Whedon, him whinging about Alien: Resurrection going "ooh waahhh they did this wrong and that wrong and the other thing wrong, and everyone did it wrong except for me." Nah gently caress off mate, your script was a load of loving poo poo, mate. What an utter loving tosser. edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 00:51 on Dec 21, 2023 |
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Are you an artificial person remote piloting a drop ship? Or are you a paranormal investigator looking for subterranean psycho-magnetheric ectoplasm?  If so, come on down to Radioshack for a Realistic Stereo Eletret Microphone 33-1065!  I just watched the movie again last night, noticed this, and wanted to share.
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edogawa rando posted:Yeah gently caress off mate, your script was a load of loving poo poo, mate. What an utter loving tosser. I feel like I’ve seen you say literally this about a number of NRL coaches too.
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I'm pretty sure the device in Ray's hands has also been re-used and featured in a number of sci-fi movies.
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Mister Speaker posted:I'm pretty sure the device in Ray's hands has also been re-used and featured in a number of sci-fi movies.
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Prop design for sci-fi must be such a goddamn fun job. Actually a friend of mine works on the digital side of things and the other night he said he's on some TV show now where he's designing all sorts of "Halo-rear end, Mass Effect-rear end guns" that'll be turned into props from his renders. Something like that, anyway. And I'm turbo jealous.
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