[An4ximandros]

i have watched all the alien movies, now i have to watch all of the predator movies. ****ing crossovers.

needless to say prometheus throws a trek-like monkey wrench into the whole ****ing plot line. to tie off a couple small, hardly consequential, loose threads in the original movie, they slash huge gashes into the plot of every movie and especially the crossovers with predator. up till a couple days ago i had always assumed that the boneship pilot was in fact a predator. but having re-watched it and watching prometheus again and watching both avp movies as well, the proportions are way off. so yea, il buy into most of the prometheus plot. but that scene at the end bothers me. that is the wrong timeframe for a proto-alien. full breed aliens need to be present in the predator timeframe (present day, though in some of the games predators were around in the aliens era as well).

now they ****ing absolutely have to explain how predators relate to engineers, are they a side project or another race entirely. from what ive seen the predator appear to have superior technology to the engineers. predators seem to have the best energy weapons, and from what i can tell they dont rely on hypersleep like humans and engineers do indicating that their ships have superior propulsion. if engineers created predators no doubt they should have the superior tech, but i dont see any indication of that. it is a shame the only kind of fighting we saw from the engineers was hand to hand, id like to better gauge their tactical capabilities. aside from germ warfare.

if you eliminate predator canon and avp crossovers then everything makes sense. but those are pretty good and give clues to the origin of a lot of the stuff in alien canon. so im going to have to re-watch all 3 predator movies to get a better indication about how they all fit in. now they have to make an aliens vs engineers vs predators vs humans vs whatever other bull**** they manage to throw in along the way. i wouldnt say that prometheus was as bad of an abomination than alien resurrection, but its pretty damn close.

Who was the bloody idiot that decided to crossover Aliens with Predator?

In any case, that's why you shouldn't watch crossovers, specially from Hollywood and it's Ilk.

[General Battuta]

Ridley Scott doesn't give a **** about Predators or any of that. He doesn't even particularly care about Aliens. Prometheus was a big and pretty intentional '**** you' to the way his franchise has been handled post-Alien.

[An4ximandros]

Yes, it's good to see a director have the guts for that.

[NGTM-1R]

In any case, that's why you shouldn't watch crossovers, specially from Hollywood and it's Ilk.

The Homicide/Law & Order crossovers were actually good.

[Nuke]

the original avp crossovers (if you dont count predator 2) were games. and they were damn awesome. the movies weren't that bad either. but you cant crossover things and then try to uncross them like that.

[Nuke]

-snip-

unfortunately i don't have any pictures of the cave or box of scraps to prove the rest of my story.

and you got actual fusion out of that thing?

[Firstdragon34]

It seems like a perfect moment to be listening to Freespace 1 music and re-rendering an old space scene on my Bryce 7 program, with premium settings and Depth of Field.

[StarSlayer]

In any case, that's why you shouldn't watch crossovers, specially from Hollywood and it's Ilk.

The Homicide/Law & Order crossovers were actually good.

Discussion about Alien, NGTM-1R manages to link Homicide.



Well played

[Klaustrophobia]

-snip-

unfortunately i don't have any pictures of the cave or box of scraps to prove the rest of my story.

and you got actual fusion out of that thing?

out of that specific one, no.  we didn't apply for the necessary licenses, as it would spit out neutrons.  but we physically could have, yes.  a new batch of students probably will this year.

[Colonol Dekker]

"There's something very important I forgot to tell you! Don't cross the streams… It would be bad… Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."
—Egon Spengler/Harold Ramis on crossing proton streams

AVOID COMPLETE PROTONIC REVERSAL!!!!!

[Dark Hunter]

On the other hand, reversing the polarity of the neutron flow solves everything.

[z64555]

On the other hand, reversing the polarity of the neutron flow solves everything.

But neutrons are... oh never mind.

[perihelion]

On the other hand, reversing the polarity of the neutron flow solves everything.

But neutrons are... oh never mind.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was thinking this way.

[CommanderDJ]

Doing a programming assignment after 20 minutes sleep last night. LIKE A BOSS.

[z64555]

Doing a programming assignment after 20 minutes sleep last night. LIKE A BOSS.

At least you don't have a headache.

[StarSlayer]

Just got back from four hours of Kendo and Iaido, I foresee zzzz in the immediate futur....

* StarSlayer thunk

[deathfun]

So I'm not entirely sure, but I think the bank rep I was talking to to transfer some funds from one account to the other was hitting on me

What did he say?

"I just need to say this, but you have a really nice voice"

My outward reaction was that of a thank you, while internally it was "WHAT THE **** WHERE DID THAT COME FROM"

[Colonol Dekker]

Take the compliment, if one person thinks it, odds are other people are inclined to agree ....... Including ladies

Egoboost++++ ?

[deathfun]

Take the compliment, if one person thinks it, odds are other people are inclined to agree ....... Including ladies

Egoboost++++ ?

People have been saying I've got a great voice for a long while
I just never felt inclined to agree since I never found it to be anything special

That and it hasn't done anything for me with regards to gals...

[Colonol Dekker]

It's not what you got, it's what you do with it