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Xenomrph posted:Did Asimov’s Laws of Robotics ever deal with psychological harm or was it strictly physical? I'm sure Asimov wrote about a dozen books on that which I will be sure not to read.
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Has anyone done any sort of EU fiction in the Alien universe further ahead in the future? I know Resurrection was set a few hundred years after Alien; has anyone done anything after that? I ask because I'm considering doing something like that in the rpg. The PCs make a long distance trip but end up further in the future than they expect, that sort of thing. I think that there are a lot of threads, like the status of Synthetics, that could be pulled, but I'm wondering if anyone has done this already.
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Xenomrph posted:I think Armageddon is set in the 2600s? Or at least that’s what the most reliable fan timeline says, but I haven’t fact-checked it. Interesting, I'll check that out, thanks! Shanty posted:Convert to a WH40K campaign without telling them. 
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Ferrinus posted:100% DNA match! I can't help but think that DNA doesn't work like that. I love the movies, but there are parts I'd leave out. That's one of them.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The "100% Match" is an invention. In the actual movie, it's simply a very close match - like if you compared human DNA with that of chimpanzees or something. That's to say "Engineers" are not exactly human but are a fellow species of ape, too closely related for it to be a coincidence. Sure, I understand. But you don't have to have humanity be a direct ancestor of the Engineers to have it work. They could have (and I'm just throwing out ideas here) accelerated our cognitive evolution, like the monolith aliens from 2001. They'd still be extremely important, arguably "creators" of humanity.
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Jan 31, 2024 21:04
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Ferrinus posted:They are human. I mean, they're clearly octopodae: 
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:(Picture the monolith being all like "oh poo poo, gently caress, I knocked over the goo, man! poo poo, run!" And then he trips and gets decapitated by a door). I dunno, you're making this sound better and better.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:That's why it's vital that Engineers are, basically, us: if Zeus was a real dude, he'd be a real piece of poo poo. And the subtle joke is that, in the backstory of the film, the events of the Prometheus myth likely more-or-less actually happened. More seriously, I hate that poo poo. Any movie or novel with the premise that "well, actually, humanity evolved on another planet" is a real deal-breaker for me. I'm all for some willing suspension of disbelief, but asking me to reject evolution is going to far. I'm glad Prometheus, for all of it's flaws, didn't go so far as to explicitly state this so I can cling to the idea that this isn't the case.
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Feb 1, 2024 20:53
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:This leads to the distinct possibility that Engineers are just apes who evolved alongside humanity and were "uplifted" by a third faction at some point (i.e. whoever's driving the big saucer at the start of Prometheus). Huh, I like that explanation.
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Feb 2, 2024 21:18
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Blood Boils posted:I think Scott and co stated they were the same universe once or twice, off handedly not like, strictly. Animals are pretty much extinct in Blade Runner. So is Jonesy a real cat? Or a synthetic? 
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Feb 13, 2024 20:08
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Xenomrph posted:Jones is absolutely a real boy. How does a freighter crew afford a real cat in the Blade Runner 'verse?
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Feb 14, 2024 16:23
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Xenomrph posted:Fun fact: Jones legit is Ripley’s cat specifically - on her bridge terminal, you can spot a photo of Jones as a kitten. I've watched the movie hundreds of times but never noticed that. Thanks!
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Xenomrph posted:In other news I’m having dinner with Andrew Gaska (author of the Alien RPG) tomorrow, and he’ll also be at the Game On Expo in Phoenix this weekend. I'm jealous. Tell him his game is outstanding.
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