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Somehow missed this thread until now! Currently playing Aliens: Fireteam and thinking about playing some Aliens board game later     
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It’s fun! 2 players feels a little easy, unless you let Ash loose. I think it would shine at 3 players?
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Jan 15, 2023 20:51
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Mister Speaker posted:I always thought it'd be funny if someone cracked open Alien: Isolation and replaced the xeno models with a giant housecat. Jonesy! 
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Feb 15, 2023 02:25
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Neo Rasa posted:Eomer vs. Predator 
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Feb 23, 2023 22:15
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WHY BONER NOW posted:My 11 year old niece saw alien and aliens recently for the first time, scared the poo poo out of her The alien itself never bothered me as a kid, aside from the duct scene. What actually bothered me with the scene interrogating Ash’s head, that one stuck with me for forever and I didn’t even realize where it came from until I rewatched Alien last year.
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Mar 2, 2023 17:58
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WHY BONER NOW posted:The alien put on a hat and started singing and dancing NOT AGAIN!! 
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Mar 2, 2023 19:58
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I always forget the sheer size of the Nostromo. The crew area was small-ish, sure, but the entire ship itself was the size of a goddamned mountain 
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Mar 3, 2023 13:59
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Mar 8, 2023 02:02
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Rappaport posted:This seems like a self-solving problem, somehow. Yea they just fulfill their purpose then crawl off to be alone for a little bit in peaceful oblivion. They’re not alone in their oblivion for very long, though 😇
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Mar 19, 2023 15:40
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Played Another Glorious Day in the Corps with a friend a few days ago. Newt and Frost got dragged off to get cocooned: And Vazquez…well… https://i.imgur.com/b3uZ1mq.gifv
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Mar 27, 2023 09:52
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I’m stuck wondering how different Star Wars would’ve been if Yaphet Kotto had been cast as Lando, instead of Billy Dee.
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Mar 31, 2023 10:20
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The Zombie Guy posted:Lawrence Fishburn's character in Event Horizon was ready to GTFO as soon as he realized they had gotten more than they'd bargained for. Too bad the ship didn't want to let them go. He was going to nuke the Event Horizon until he ran out of missiles, or there was nothing big enough to target. It’s the only way to be sure.
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Mar 31, 2023 21:51
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:I think there was a xenomorph dog in Alien 3 Depends on the version
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Apr 1, 2023 18:55
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I saw an interview with Paul Reiser from a while back, where he knew he played Burke as a perfect slimeball. His evidence? His own mom said “yea, Burke deserved what happened to him, sorry about it son!” 
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Apr 3, 2023 22:11
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It’s a horror film, and the true monster was on screen a ton. it was Ash, and the scene where they interrogated his head haunted me as a kid more than anything the alien ever did As opposed to the alien, who got like 10-15 seconds here and there.
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Apr 4, 2023 01:35
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Idk if it was here or from my buddy that loving loves Aliens, but Another Glorious Day in the Corps is getting a reprint! I also heard rumor of new missions and Ferro/Spunkmeyer possibly being added too, but i don’t remember much more. https://www.gf9games.com/aliens/1690/theyre-back/
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Apr 6, 2023 00:23
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Parkingtigers posted:Sadly, it is a terrible game with massively over-complex systems for just shooting guns at aliens, and every mission is just grinding, loving *grinding*, through a wall of aliens towards the exit. As do I, and I actually enjoy it. Playing it isn’t a slog like playing the Doom 2016 board game  Weapon ranges? Card-based activation order? Random effects played by the invader? Card-based defense system whose icons do different things for different demons? It’s all there 
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Apr 6, 2023 09:47
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Parkingtigers posted:Now that's a game that's good as hell, and very well designed in all ways. Knowing that exists, in as good a form as it is, makes the Aliens game much more frustrating. Comparable components, but the rules... *sigh* That was FFG at their peak with Star Wars. They also had a Doom 2016 board game that was a ton of fun, but it only ever had the one release and never got any expansions. There’s a hybrid system sometime between IA, Doom, and Another Glorious Day. They’re all iterations on the same basic dungeon crawler, hell I even used IA models in Doom. Boba Fett was my Doom Slayer 
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Apr 22, 2023 10:25
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Happy Aliens day, y’all
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Apr 26, 2023 09:51
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Parkingtigers posted:Pay the Jonesy tax.
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May 7, 2023 12:36
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There’s already a starship troopers RTS. Came out last summer, I think? It’s…middling. Not offensively bad and had a few cool mechanics, but it’s just not that great.
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May 21, 2023 17:02
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MrMojok posted:Everyone drops NEVER RETREAT NEVER DELETE!
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May 29, 2023 00:43
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Looks like business is slow. Idk, could be bursting with success 
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Jun 4, 2023 21:05
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Sentinel Red posted:I guess Isolation ruined me in so much that I now have zero interest in any game that treats them like overgrown cockroaches to be mowed down by oorah’ing grunts. Did you mean Fireteam? That’s the exact opposite of what happens in Isolation. 
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Jun 21, 2023 13:25
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Sentinel Red posted:Why would I mean Fireteam? It's precisely because Isolation was so nerve racking and the creature almost impervious to all at your disposal that anything that's just brapbrapbrapbrapbrap [a dozen aliens explode showering you with blood barely more irritating than drain cleaner] bores the poo poo out of me. I crave tension, not mindless cannon fodder. I think I misread your post, my bad. I’m still gonna buy Dark Descent because I’m thinking about that game (and therefore Aliens) a lot
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Jun 21, 2023 14:06
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Yea part of the story pre-Aliens 3 (I think?) is that the Sulaco drifted through the space of the Union of Progressive Peoples, and being a USCM vessel they were royally pissed about it. e: might’ve been part of the story in Colonial Marines? Never played that though, so not entirely sure. Icon Of Sin fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Jun 28, 2023 |
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Jun 28, 2023 09:20
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Loving Dark Descent so far I love the way ammo, stress, and alien activity all play into extracting vs pushing through to complete an objective. It’s close enough to XCOM to scratch that same itch, but still enough space to make it feel like it’s own thing. Seriously hoping for some DLC sooner or later, I’ll buy it embarassingly fast.
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Jun 30, 2023 01:31
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I still haven’t hung around to see the hive get enraged yet, as soon as the alien difficulty gets halfway into medium I’m looking for an exit. Usually by that point everyone is stressed to hell anyways, they’ve been thinking about surviving aliens for too long
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Jun 30, 2023 10:26
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Yea I’ve had marines that were well on the way to becoming Vader himself. Their prosthetics are brutally functional, nothing pretty about them (much like the things the marines already say to each other )
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Jul 5, 2023 20:03
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Drake, because I’ve had some dumb as gently caress moments in my life
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Jul 5, 2023 23:00
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Thinking about Alien instead of Aliens, and painting up the crew for the board game Flight of the Nostromo   Dallas is the only model left to work on, I’ll get to him later today
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Jul 11, 2023 16:07
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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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Mad Hamish posted:These are fabulous but....where's Jonesy? He’s not a model in the game, but he can scare the poo poo out of whoever encounters him bad enough to do morale damage He’s on the backside of certain encounter tokens, and one of the potential final missions is rescuing him 
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Jul 12, 2023 17:56
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Toxic Mental posted:Prey was not good Prey was too good to be a made-for-TV movie, but as a theatrical release probably wouldn’t have done so hot. As it stands, I loved it for how brutal it portrayed the Predator.
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Jul 12, 2023 19:18
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redshirt posted:Is this non America Disney+? I don't see it listed. It was on Hulu in the US.
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Jul 13, 2023 22:48
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I loved Gorman’s mini-arc. At the first briefing you wouldn’t have really expected him to go back in for Vas like that. Vas was even the one saying “we don’t leave our people behind!” about Apone/Dietrich after they got carted off to become parents, and he lived up to that in the end.
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Jul 18, 2023 09:47
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edogawa rando posted:At the end of the day, Gorman's biggest failings were that he was lacking in experience which made him overcompensate by being such a stickler for formality and rules, and that he lacked the ability to think flexibly on his feet, e.g., him overcomplicating instructions to Apone over the radio, and freezing under pressure when poo poo was really hitting the fan at an even greater rate than it was a few minutes ago. It doesn't make him a bad person, it just made him a bad leader that had potential to grow into the role. Probably helped by Al Matthews being a former marine, William Hope loving nailed the “inexperienced LT in over his head” role. I love that he came back to be the voice of Marshal Waits in Alien: Isolation too
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Jul 18, 2023 10:15
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MrMojok posted:It’s pretty much in keeping with real life in the USMC, and from what I understand, the Army. This tracks with the army too. It’s a commissioning source (west point, ROTC, or OCS), then the infantry officer course, then airborne school and a shot at ranger school. You’ll arrive to your unit extremely well-trained (like Gorman and his 38 simulated drops), but you’re still a brand new lieutenant who hasn’t spent a day in a unit that actually deploys yet. Gorman wasn’t a stereotype; he was the real loving deal. Al Matthews had to have some hand in that, dude was as marine as they come. He was the first Black marine to earn a battlefield promotion to sergeant, dude was a marine through and through.
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Jul 18, 2023 23:20
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Mister Speaker posted:This mild derail about military officer culture is fascinating, thanks. I have a question in that vein: BattleMaster mentioned that COs "don't get promoted up from private." Is there any precedent at all in existing militaries for an enlisted person to become an officer via field promotion? Or even if they display exemplary skill and knowledge, do they have to get sent to officer school first? Battlefield promotions are a thing, but exceedingly rare. Audie Murphy got one from staff sergeant (E6) to lieutenant (O1), but the man had also earned every/nearly every combat commendation that the US army had to offer during that time, so he’s a bit of an outlier He stayed in theater and continued doing what got him that promotion in the first place (killing nazis).
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Jul 19, 2023 00:45
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It was in one of the comics (I think?), that Hudson had previously been a corporal before punching an officer (maybe Gorman’s predecessor?). Details are fuzzy, I can’t remember where I saw that.
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Jul 19, 2023 13:02
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