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Would Wolverine's healing factor prevent the alien from implanting in the first place and if not would the alien gain wolverine's healing factor and become a super alien?
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Everything after "The Sentinel" was superfluous trash.
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Feb 28, 2022 15:03
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Xenomrph posted:Like, the original short story? 
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Mar 1, 2022 13:39
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I'll never like covenant because as far as I'm concerned the cardinal sin a sequel or prequel can perform is to make the universe smaller. This is one of the (many) issues with resurrection, where it's matter of factly stated that in the hundreds of years since the other films nobody ever found any other Alien aliens or even found any interesting aliens at all. It moves it from a big scary universe full of potentially terrifying monsters to a very small universe consisting of humans, Walmart, and one creepy thing that's not around anymore. Prometheus is a bad film, a godawful waste of celluloid, just absolute dogshite from beginning to end, but at least it did right by the bigger universe. Sure it gave an implied origin to the aliens, but an origin that made the universe in some ways an even darker and more unknowable place. It opened a lot of potential for a universe full of ancient monsters and mysteries, a richer, darker universe that wait hang on forget all that, covenant says the engineers did sweet gently caress all for a billion years before being wiped out by robot daddy issues. They did a real good job of keeping their bioweapons under lock and key and the only bad thing out there is a single overly convoluted creature type made by a sad android.
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Mar 24, 2022 15:14
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Mar 24, 2022 15:22
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Basebf555 posted:There's no reason to assume that the Engineers were wiped out by David, or that the beings we see in the flashback scene are even proper Engineers. It's likely they were just another hybrid species that the Engineers had seeded similar to humans. And if they were Engineers, there's no reason to assume that this was their primary home world and that David wiped them all out. Basebf555 posted:We don't really know what the Engineers have been up to other than the contacts we're shown that occur between Engineers and humans, so I don't know where you're getting the idea that they haven't been doing anything. Basebf555 posted:And lastly, Covenant does not show that David created the xenomorph, only that the black goo is engineered to produce xeno-like characteristics. David performed experiments and eventually was able to hit on the formula to create xenos, he didn't invent or create something that hadn't existed before. At least, there's nothing in the movie to indicate that. Don't get me wrong, I'm fully in favour of later films and works slowly retconning all of the above out of existence through the kind of creative reinterpretation you're describing, but they would definitely be retcons and each one would make the narrative of Covenant even less coherent. Which is no great loss. Splicer fucked around with this message at 21:07 on Mar 24, 2022 |
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Mar 24, 2022 21:03
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FastestGunAlive posted:Yea I re watched a couple years ago, having not seen it for at least ten. The dialogue really is atrocious. I think the underwater scene is great though
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Mar 25, 2022 14:07
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I've always felt alien 3 (or at least the remastered version) is a good film with a few regrettable scenes, while 4 has a few good scenes in an otherwise regrettable film. And yeah the cocky, quip throwing Marines in 2 are supposed to be interpreted as overconfident. It serves a number of purposes for them to be expressing how easy a job it's going to be. 4 is what happens when you take the pointed sticks speech entirely at face value. Splicer fucked around with this message at 13:25 on Mar 30, 2022 |
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Mar 30, 2022 13:15
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mllaneza posted:Seriously. One third of all Americans have outed themselves as "would
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Mar 31, 2022 09:44
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Keeping zombie granny in the basement so you can keep injecting her with invermectin
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Mar 31, 2022 13:04
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PeterCat posted:Eh, Predator is the superior alien vs human war film of the 1980s.
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Apr 22, 2022 14:54
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Alchenar posted:I think the colonist scenes are fine, if unnecessary. They still leave the events of the fall of the colony up to the imagination.
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Apr 23, 2022 21:35
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Here's my probably incredibly controversial opinion: Starting the film with a fake-out dream jump scare is bad.
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Apr 25, 2022 22:57
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Darko posted:Its good for pacing and setting tone. It's also why horror films often do an introductory kill before introducing the real main characters and building the plot. I've grudgingly accepted that I appear to be a minority on this preference though. Xenomrph posted:We can all agree that the sentry gun bit is rad as gently caress, though, right? As an aside, is it ever established if HH had any animals in it or just humans?
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Apr 26, 2022 14:55
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Like, why does Hadley's Hope have a welcome sign at the edge of town? Who's driving there?
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Apr 28, 2022 19:33
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If SMG genuinely doesn't understand the concept of jokes or irony then a whole lot of things suddenly make sense.
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Apr 28, 2022 19:53
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:its a joke by the colonists and an attempt to make the mining colony feel and look like an actual town instead of a lone mining colony on a planet that is barely livable SuperMechagodzilla posted:If the sign is an ironic joke by the colonists, why did the colonists vandalize it with an additional ironic joke? Someone scrawled "HAVE A NICE DAY" on it. Other Adults: Let's put up a sign because this place sucks poo poo Teens: Let's vandalise the sign because this place sucks poo poo
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Apr 28, 2022 22:24
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16-bit Butt-Head posted:i personally would have went to the bar when the xenomorphs started abducting people because that really is the best time to get wasted on cheap alcohol
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Apr 28, 2022 23:27
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:things aren't actually functional at all: troops wearing short sleeves to fight acid monsters
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Apr 28, 2022 23:37
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Xenomrph posted:Now I’m picturing a chestburster popping out and it’s totally shitfaced, just drunkenly slithering around in circles.
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Apr 28, 2022 23:40
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ruddiger posted:David puts the black goo in alcohol and the alcohol doesn't weaken it in the slightest, I doubt spirits would have any effect on a full grown alien.
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Apr 29, 2022 00:15
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Darko posted:Yeah cause somehow there are like quadruple the number of xenos there now. Maybe they just found some really bad indigenous hosts given how dumb they are. Also do you know about the single typo in colonial marines that broke the entire AI?
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Apr 30, 2022 00:25
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Darko posted:I had heard about this when the game was out and people were making sad xeno gifs but I forgot what it was. This typo isn't even in the compiled code. It's in a user accessible ini file. You can literally fix it with notepad. e: tenses all over the place Splicer fucked around with this message at 00:26 on May 1, 2022 |
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May 1, 2022 00:00
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happyhippy posted:The line was: Splicer fucked around with this message at 22:32 on May 1, 2022 |
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May 1, 2022 22:26
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MrMojok posted:Has anyone tried it? Does it really make a difference to the gameplay?
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May 1, 2022 22:28
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feedmyleg posted:Only because the Blade Runner thread is long dead, just a heads up to folks in here that the Free League Blade Runner tabletop roleplaying game Kickstarter just went live. If you snagged their Alien stuff you know how good they are.
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May 3, 2022 14:33
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Now to be fair that's a different Aliens: Colonial Marines which was cancelled lol
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May 5, 2022 00:23
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The thread belongs to the people. A:FE also uses both but that's a bit more controversial. The story and voice acting are surprisingly good though.
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May 5, 2022 23:50
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Xenomrph posted:Fireteam Elite is a cool game. I wish it had more campaign content but the weapons are fun and varied, combat is largely solid, the level design (especially the way it incorporates concepts from ‘Prometheus’) is cool, and overall it’s a good time.
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May 6, 2022 01:20
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Even if they had taken Ripley's experiences seriously her experience was a single alien going apex predator on her crew. Even with the extended scenes we only see it crafting new eggs. Kidnapping living colonists to bring them to the eggs resulting in hundreds of aliens was not really predictable behaviour. The tactics and preparations for taking down a couple of very dangerous animals are very different to those for taking down a colony sized army.
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May 6, 2022 12:54
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:A “welcome” sign when there are no neighbouring towns. Well, one reason.
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May 9, 2022 07:48
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Xenomrph posted:What will really bake your noodle is that “canonically” LV426 and LV223 (the planet from ‘Prometheus’) orbit the same gas giant, and are close enough to each other to transit between the two moons if necessary.
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May 9, 2022 08:10
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FastestGunAlive posted:
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May 9, 2022 12:26
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Darko posted:It makes sense that warship moon that went horribly badly would have a crashed ship on the planet it orbits or a nearby moon depending on how you want to connect it. Prometheus is wide open enough because anything before "it went very badly for them right when they tried to goo earth and a bunch of them died" can be anything and makes the "crashed ship on the other moon" thematically make sense. Maybe the Prometheus Engineers set up shop next door after grabbing the goo from the crashed LV426 ship; who knows. Darko posted:Engineer Planet X from Covenant is a long ways away and unconnected as well and it has goo creatures because of fuckery as well. There could be any number of different goo creatures on any number of planets. People are goo creatures too, technically. Splicer fucked around with this message at 17:17 on May 9, 2022 |
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May 9, 2022 15:59
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Xenomrph posted:I’m of the opinion that Prometheus is not the “origin point” for capital-A Aliens, let alone the ones from ‘Alien’. B) Oh I absolutely agree, Capital A Aliens being directly from LV223 is less interesting than there being black goo on various planets doing who knows what, but again if they're both on moons orbiting the same planet then occams razor. Which is why that's a dumb idea and they're obviously very far away from each other.
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May 9, 2022 17:20
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I forget, how was the transmitter damaged?
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May 11, 2022 10:06
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Dog_Meat posted:From memory, don't they comment that all the antennas are intact while they're flying in? "Structure looks intact". So whatever happened happened fast. In the novelisation there's a throwaway line about maybe they all found religion and a vow of silence.
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May 11, 2022 14:35
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Dog_Meat posted:I'm relying on memory (I used to be able to obsessively quote the film) but I think it just comes down to plot requirements. The dropship rolled into the APC but I don't remember anything in the colony going up in the explosion. So the terminals were either damaged in the small arms resistance, the power went out when the station vented or the xenos have chewed up all the cables looking to cut the power.
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May 11, 2022 16:52
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The two cuts of the film present two different scenarios: This is not a blanket "ambiguity is good", an equally important part of film making is explaining what does need to be explained and god it sucks when film makers are inappropriately ambiguous.
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Neo Rasa posted:Like once it's grown a bit there's a queen and some eggs around? It hangs there and protects the queen/eggs and becomes a praetorian. There's already a hive of aliens around the queen/eggs? Start bringing beings in to get facehugged.
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