For me, it's funny because in High School we did this model U.N. thing where we had to research different countries. It seemed like every other country had potash listed as an export.
What's potash? None of us High School students give a shit so we just wrote it down in our notes and went along with our day.
Based off world where the United Nations’ Outer Space Treaty of 1967 prevents any government taxation. Aside from that, they are the largest employer of Earth citizens thus crucial to the tax base.
Obviously it was kinda necessary for the plot but I always thought it was a little weird that they put the ship completely on autopilot and had no meaningful security on board, considering the value of the ship and cargo. I guess piracy isn't really a thing in that universe?
They were only going to be gone for a few hours to a day. And they're in the middle of nowhere in some unusual system no one ever goes to. The chance of piracy would be pretty low.
It's implied that they've done this sort of thing enough times to be routine, which implies there is little risk. Maybe space cops keep the route well-patrolled, who knows.
They were only going to be gone for a few hours to a day. And they're in the middle of nowhere in some unusual system no one ever goes to. The chance of piracy would be pretty low.
>Alien was actually an allegory for the fear of immigrants >the immigrant (the xenomorph) enters your country (ship) illegally, impregnates your people and kills your people
woah ... I can see now
>Bolaji Badejo died from sickle cell disease at the age of 39.
You're thinking of Kevin Peter Hall who played The Predator. He was given an HIV infected blood transfusion after a car accident.
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Imagine being a tall BVLL heterosexual black man in the late 80s and being informed that you were accidentally given the gay disease. Now imagine being the doctor or nurse who first told him.
>I guess piracy isn't really a thing in that universe?
lol they broke the ship just landing on that planet, trying to steal another spaceships cargo seems fairly risky
They probably relied on the whole space is big thing. Most transatlantic shipping did the same, you only need to worry about the coastal regions near ports unless there was a war on.
The cost to run a space ship capable of pirating huge craft like that would be prohibitively expensive and any require with the skills to pull it off would make infinitely more money working a legitimate job. That's why IRL pirates are all shitskins who can't even figure out how to use the sights on firearms, because all the African ship engineers can make more money working on cargo haulers than robbing them.
And even if they could hijack the ship, who's going to buy the cargo? They're not hauling golden space dabloons, they're hauling unprocessed mineral ore. The only people in the galaxy who have any interest in buying that are the same people running those ships in the first place. The frick are you gonna do, show up to a Wylan Yutani orbital processing dock with your stolen Wylan Yutani cargo hauler and say "Hey bro wanna buy 1000 million tons of unprocessed ore I just happened to find out in space?"
"The crew you hired all landed on some shithole planet for an unauthorized sightseeing tour and got eaten by a big ass space bug. Nothin' we could do for 'em. Fortunately we found the ore and their ship and towed them in. So, uh, what's the finder's fee for all that stuff?"
>And even if they could hijack the ship, who's going to buy the cargo?
Freighters go missing all the time with weird cargos. Almost anything worth hauling is worth selling for cents on the dollar if you steal it.
>That's why IRL pirates are all shitskins
Just because Somali pirates became popular on r*ddit due to a Tom Hanks movie does not mean that there have always been pirates in other regions. South East Asia has remained a hotbed for decades. https://time.com/piracy-southeast-asia-malacca-strait/
>The frick are you gonna do, show up to a Wylan Yutani orbital processing dock with your stolen Wylan Yutani cargo hauler and say "Hey bro wanna buy 1000 million tons of unprocessed ore I just happened to find out in space?"
That sounds like a plot of Guy Ritchie movie in Alien universe.
>Piracy isn't really a thing.
I'm going to shoot a bullet into the air.
You are going to shoot a bullet into the air a year from now.
If these two bullets connect, you win the piracy and get all of the loot.
Fricking moron.
Have you ever seen a bunch of militarily-trained guards in your local mid size blue-collar business?
The ship was only 42 million dollar's worth. A lot for one person but not a big capital investment. The refinery is built in space to supply ships because launching things out of planets is extremely inefficient and it's more cost effective for space industries to supply themselves off-planet.
That's ADJUSTED dollars, which can mean anything. The phrase does strongly suggest "adjusted for inflation" but it could be made-up finance jargon which equates to any amount of current dollar value. And since 42 million is such a tiny amount (in real dollars) where anything space-related is concerned, the latter conclusion is the most reasonable inference. It's a throwaway piece of dialogue that Cameron inserted to sound technical, but it really underestimates both the Nostromo and its payload (the Nostromo itself might have a more substantial dollar value attached, to use Burke's phrase, than the refinery it was towing, since it had to be rated for habitation and needed other very specific tech on board).
Even so, even assuming very cheap and largely automated assembly in space, use your common sense based on historical expenses of space-related equipment: the city-sized refinery thing floating in space very obviously cost orders of magnitude more than 42 million dollars, whether those are 1986 dollars or 2023 dollars.
It's not city sized, it's literally just one hectare. You'll can find industrial sites this large literally abandoned. Many people live in a one hectare property in rural areas.
That thing is FAR bigger than a hectare (a square 100m on each side) you goofball. Look at this post
The Nostromo had two shuttles.
and find the dimensions. Even the Nostromo itself (seen from above) is bigger than a hectare, and the refinery tug absolutely mogs it, dwarfs it even. The refinery tug is city-sized, small-town-sized even.
There's a matte shot of the exterior as Ripley is messing with the self-destruct mechanism, and it appears to show her somewhere in the refinery tug itself, as opposed to the Nostromo. She is this tiny ant inside a skyscraper element, surrounded by other skyscraper/refinery towers. It's plainly the size of a town, or at least a very large downtown-and-environs, something like a mile or two across at least.
That thing is FAR bigger than a hectare (a square 100m on each side) you goofball. Look at this post [...] and find the dimensions. Even the Nostromo itself (seen from above) is bigger than a hectare, and the refinery tug absolutely mogs it, dwarfs it even. The refinery tug is city-sized, small-town-sized even.
There's a matte shot of the exterior as Ripley is messing with the self-destruct mechanism, and it appears to show her somewhere in the refinery tug itself, as opposed to the Nostromo. She is this tiny ant inside a skyscraper element, surrounded by other skyscraper/refinery towers. It's plainly the size of a town, or at least a very large downtown-and-environs, something like a mile or two across at least.
sorry to break it to you guys but the nostromos is a little over 200 hectares and the average city comes closer to 2000 hectares
You're agreeing with and validating what I'm saying, thank you. The refinery tug itself is clearly an order of magnitude larger than the nostromo itself, so your approximate multiplication by a factor of ten is spot-on, and is just what I've been suggesting.
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i'm not the guy you were talking to
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I understand that, since you replied to the both of us. You're a third anon. My point is that your "sorry to break it to you" doesn't make sense when addressed to me since we actually agree, have spatial reasoning, and have a sense of scale.
Close, but not quite. The feat was in fact real, but it required several takes. She trained for it and statistically at one point she was making baskets regularly (10-15 percent, in between lots of misses), but they had to do lots of takes and almost gave up. Then she made it.
it was take 4 just looked it up, total fluke obviously still amazing to see, every vid I try and post is flagged as spam but its easy to look up yourself
I'm at the part where they all have to climb the ladder. Why did Christie (the black guy) "kill himself"? The xeno was dead, so he could just climb back up. He didn't seem hurt enough to be left behind.
Anyway, just finished the movie. Man, this was way more entertaining than anything I recall seeing in the past 5 years or so. I don't remember why I thought this was the worst of the original quadrilogy... I found virtually no flaws with this movie. I should rewatch the other three ASAP.
>I found virtually no flaws with this movie
I hate you a lot
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Watch it again. It has age very well. Outside of the specific way that Christie's death was execute, and a few of the quips, it was otherwise a very serviceable and entertaining film.
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Not that Anon but i HAAAATED the alien hybrid. Terrible design. Fricking awful. It ruined the movie for me. That and dreadlock guy suiciding himself for no reason literally five feet from the top of the ladder.
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Why? It was supposed to be a baby; we never saw its adult form. I think conceptually the genetic admixture works well. Anyway, it's late here so I'm off to bed. Hopefully this thread will still be alive when I wake up.
The movie made it seem like the acid had really fricked him up, and he also couldn't get the xeno off his foot so the other guy would die too if he didn't drop
The only reason modern "esports" shooters don't have fun party maps like this is because they know these would be the most popular maps and the autistic esports maps devs that time routes with stop watches and design every little nook, cranny and choke point to be as soulless and balanced as possible would get utterly btfo and put on suicide watch.
>2005 >Have friend who is on the top national Esports teams for both CS & Q3 >Go to his house one day for a lan, and he keeps gloating about how good he is at Unreal Tournament, specifically that map with railguns only, saying it's ultimate test of skill in a video game >I only played autism CRPGs, turn based isometric games, and RTS games >Last time I played an FPS was probably CS in 2001 >I take him up on his offer and we play for about 3 hours. I wipe the floor with him 10 games in a row, with 20 kill score limit per match, with him getting maybe 1 or 2 kills on me >Even now, 20 years later, that guy calls anybody who mentions it a liar and how I'm the worst FPS player ever
Esports Black folk can suck my dick. Them ranting about muh skill is an absolute joke, holy shit. People are naturally inclined to either be good at it or not, and when it's just a giant empty map where memorizing every spawn point and deadzone is a benefit, it shows that even a scrub like me can btfo these Reddit gays.
I love the aesthetic of the first Alien movie so much. There's nothing quite like it.
I wish I could play Alien: Isolation for the first time ever again. If you are a fan of the movies, that game is a dream come true.
>What were they refining?
https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/USCSS_Nostromo
Nostromo operated as a tug, connecting to and pulling loads like a tractor truck rather than carrying those loads on board like a traditional freighter.
Nostromo was subsequently operated as a commercial hauler, transporting automated ore and oil refineries
It's insane how much they're going to be able to mine from the asteroid belt. I was reading an article a month or two back where they're going to be researching an asteroid that has about 10 quintillion dollars worth of minerals.
lmao there is literally one resource that is maybe worth gathering in space, and that's He-3, maybe. Everything else is cheaper is to gather from Earth. The whole "muh untold riches in space" is such a boring cope.
The real wealth in space is the ability to have complete control over the environment, and using that to create complex materials that can't be made on Earth. All of that will be done in LEO.
>The whole "muh untold riches in space" is such a boring cope.
Not entirely. The asteroid belt probably contains more platinum and gold than the entire Earth's crust does. Almost all of that stuff sank to the core during the Hadeon epoch.
And you think the rich who will be the only ones able to fund space mining are just going to bring it back and distribute it instead of hoarding it and keeping the price artificially inflated like they do with diamonds? Futurism is shit, none of us are going to benefit from any of it.
If scarcity really worked that way no matter what the technology of extraction, we'd all still be living like medieval peasants, or worse. That people will probably never even mine asteroids or travel interplanetary distances is mostly due to how intrinsically difficult that is to do in the engineering sense, which is also to say that the rich are almost as stupid as the rest of us.
Probably use it as inputs for their own stuff when some rival tried to corner the market. History is full of shit like this, why do you think they gave money to that frickwit Columbus?
>Probably use it as inputs for their own stuff when some rival tried to corner the market
wdym by using it as input for their own stuff? ESL here, I imagine what you mean but not quite
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They could make their own products like circuit boards which require rare earth metals for a lot cheaper than the competitors because by mining the asteroid belt, they have elimited a major cost source.
Except precious metals like gold and platinum have utilitarian uses that generate value other than scarcity. If they didn't want more, they wouldn't be still mining it. All you'd see would be old timey prospectors.
I always imagined that it was heavy metal elements rare on earth, including but not exclusively radioactive isotopes. Chemistry is easy, transmutation of elements almost impossible in massive quantities.
There was more than one shuttle.
They only prepped one shuttle because it could handle more than the people who were still alive at that time.
"Let's do double the work to prep two shuttles because Lambert is a stupid whiny c**t!"
No, that would have never flown.
My biggest grip with the Alien series isn't any issues with any of the sequels, but rather the missed opportunity of making a trillion movies set in the same world, filled with megacorp antics and borderline-cyberpunk themes. >inb4 blader runner, soldier and alien are in the same universe
Yes, but I wanted more. Much more. Infinitely more.
It needed zero people.
It was an automated refinery.
It took dozens, hundreds, of people to fill it with ore.
The truckers in Alien were just returning it to Earth.
nah, the extended disturbing sounds she makes over the communicator in the movie?
Ridley taking about how the alien is confused by its part-human composition and is having sexual attraction compulsions to its victims.
it raped her with its tail, that not fanboy wank, thats paying attention.
No one said that it has to go back to Earth. It could be going to a local colony/station/shipyard. Isolation had Sevastopol within reach and I'm sure they could have used it
as far as humanity is concerned humans are the only known life in the entire galaxy
why would they need to defend a mining installation against nothing?
>as far as humanity is concerned humans are the only known life in the entire galaxy
"Is this going to be a stand-up fight, sir, or another bug hunt?"
Doesn't this imply they encountered alien life before?
But, I do think they have encountered other aliens. Like plants and moronic animals. But nothing sentient. They've also probably introduced life to other planets that then start to adapt to the new environment in strange and exciting ways.
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They must have, listen to the marines in this clip, they're not impressed at all by Ripley's alien encounter
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I always took that to mean that there are no aliens, so they think she is just making shit up or just confused.
It could also mean that aliens are very common that it's not a big deal. But, something as sophisticated as the xenomorphs have been encountered before
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> something as sophisticated as the xenomorphs have been encountered before
*never
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They must have, listen to the marines in this clip, they're not impressed at all by Ripley's alien encounter
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Humans have encountered no other aliens in the setting.
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I think the films are pretty vague in that. They've probably encountered plants and smalls organisms. If you watch Aliens, people are skeptical of Ripley's details about the story, but they never dismiss the idea of aliens out of hand. The Marines are skeptical of the danger, but not the idea of other life.
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>Humans have encountered no other aliens in the setting.
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Dropship has a logo on it saying "Bugstomper" and "We endanger aliens"
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There are presumably bugs in the Alien setting, likely a reference to Starship Troopers. At this point, humans have gotten extremely efficient at exterminating them, which suggests they do not really pose a real threat anymore. The Alien biology is so beyond anything the humans have dealt with before that it's basically a nightmare scenario even for people who kill giant bugs for a living.
>they don't put half their labor budget into riflemen in case a never-before-seen alien invades the site and starts eating the workers
Plot contrivance much?
>The ship's cat has been a common feature on many trading, exploration, and naval ships dating to ancient times. Cats have been carried on ships for many reasons, most importantly to control rodents
Apparently it was a common thing throughout history.
Didn't his hissing alert Ripley to the fact that the Alien was on the escape pod?
there is this series I read where the MCs commandeer a boat and all the sailors end up mutinying because the MC's forgot to bring cats, all the crew men keep asking where are the cats?
Yeah sailors were known to be a superstitious bunch. That's also why women were forbidden on board for a long time.
there is this series I read where the MCs commandeer a boat and all the sailors end up mutinying because the MC's forgot to bring cats, all the crew men keep asking where are the cats?
Why would they put a colony on LV426? Is there really that much of a shortage of habitable worlds that they need to spend decades making barren rocks livable?
Back when it was made, we didn't know habitable worlds with a breathing atmosphere were even remotely as common as we think they are now. Even by the end of the 90s, I recall there only been 1 or 2, hundreds of light years away. Today? Our closes solar system has one (Proxima Centauri B).
if they knew, why would they wait so many decades to go check it out? They could have safely grabbed some eggs and taken them to a research facility long ago
If you only count the movies as canon, the answer seems to be no. The reference to bug hunt might mean they’ve encountered lower intelligence life, but their incredulity at Ripley’s story suggests otherwise. Extended universe shit, yes and it’s fricking moronic.
Their incredulity to Ripley's story was because she was describing something that hasn't been seen once in over 300 surveyed worlds. A living organism that gestates in the human and has acid for blood. It's pretty wild, and would still be "unbelievable" in a universe with some kind of hostile bug alien thing (which is probably just some unintelligent beast that is only threatening to dumbass colonists)
No, it wouldn't. 300 worlds is jack shit. If they found life at all, and multiple alien life, then anything new is possible and the xeno wouldn't considered so outlandish as to be unbelievable and consider Ripley a liar. If they had never found any life though, that is how they'd react towards Ripley since no one else has ever found anything.
ore
It was a floating finishing school. They went to different planets to teach them proper manners
Snobwarts.
Aliens 4: A spaceship cathedral full of hot nuns and a xenomorph.
Dare you come up with a better premise than this?
A colony ship full of scantily clad guys and gals and xenomorphs.
Dare you enter this magical realm?
potash
>potash
I don't know why this post cracked me up so bad, but it did.
For me, it's funny because in High School we did this model U.N. thing where we had to research different countries. It seemed like every other country had potash listed as an export.
What's potash? None of us High School students give a shit so we just wrote it down in our notes and went along with our day.
the story
feed and seed
cum
Methane gas, aka Alien farts. Real stinky ones too
God?
backdoor radiation
ur moms vagoo
Bonuses
there it is
Winrar.
situation update?????
scripts
unobtainium
Spacemetalonium
Wet, dripping chains. Did you even watch the movie?
I know that scene is supposed to be scary, but I just find it comfy.
Stanton is a very comfy actor and they had him in a Hawaiian shirt for extra comfort.
wiki says mineral ore.
For god's sake, anon, they're not minerals!
Mineral or what?
Animal.
Acid
money
how much tax do they pay?
A lot! That's why they were so disgruntled about not getting a full bonus, which is tax free.
>full bonus, which is
>tax free.
lol no. That shit is taxed at the max rate like a luxury item. Those homies were fricked from the get go.
They were smart to operate from Houston, Texas, so at least no state income tax.
>state name is Taxes
>no income texas
who writes this shit
Based off world where the United Nations’ Outer Space Treaty of 1967 prevents any government taxation. Aside from that, they are the largest employer of Earth citizens thus crucial to the tax base.
bussy
Obviously it was kinda necessary for the plot but I always thought it was a little weird that they put the ship completely on autopilot and had no meaningful security on board, considering the value of the ship and cargo. I guess piracy isn't really a thing in that universe?
They were only going to be gone for a few hours to a day. And they're in the middle of nowhere in some unusual system no one ever goes to. The chance of piracy would be pretty low.
It's implied that they've done this sort of thing enough times to be routine, which implies there is little risk. Maybe space cops keep the route well-patrolled, who knows.
no somalians in space
you sure about that?
>Alien was actually an allegory for the fear of immigrants
>the immigrant (the xenomorph) enters your country (ship) illegally, impregnates your people and kills your people
woah ... I can see now
great horror
Jesus Christ, Vasquez
Right, right. Somebody said 'Alien' and he thought they said 'Illegal alien' and signed up.
unironically good Analysis
Didn't this buck die of AIDS?
>Bolaji Badejo died from sickle cell disease at the age of 39.
You're thinking of Kevin Peter Hall who played The Predator. He was given an HIV infected blood transfusion after a car accident.
Imagine being a tall BVLL heterosexual black man in the late 80s and being informed that you were accidentally given the gay disease. Now imagine being the doctor or nurse who first told him.
>implying they'd care enough to tell him
>Kevin Peter Hall
They really did him dirty
Definitely deserved better
>thinks there will be private spaceships allowed
all of them will be strictly monitored and have built in hardwired backdoors for glowBlack folk
>I guess piracy isn't really a thing in that universe?
lol they broke the ship just landing on that planet, trying to steal another spaceships cargo seems fairly risky
he meant the crew hijacking the Nostromo and scrapping it off in the black market moron
Its probably prohibitively expensive to have spaceships just as would be in real life.
They probably relied on the whole space is big thing. Most transatlantic shipping did the same, you only need to worry about the coastal regions near ports unless there was a war on.
The cost to run a space ship capable of pirating huge craft like that would be prohibitively expensive and any require with the skills to pull it off would make infinitely more money working a legitimate job. That's why IRL pirates are all shitskins who can't even figure out how to use the sights on firearms, because all the African ship engineers can make more money working on cargo haulers than robbing them.
And even if they could hijack the ship, who's going to buy the cargo? They're not hauling golden space dabloons, they're hauling unprocessed mineral ore. The only people in the galaxy who have any interest in buying that are the same people running those ships in the first place. The frick are you gonna do, show up to a Wylan Yutani orbital processing dock with your stolen Wylan Yutani cargo hauler and say "Hey bro wanna buy 1000 million tons of unprocessed ore I just happened to find out in space?"
"The crew you hired all landed on some shithole planet for an unauthorized sightseeing tour and got eaten by a big ass space bug. Nothin' we could do for 'em. Fortunately we found the ore and their ship and towed them in. So, uh, what's the finder's fee for all that stuff?"
They get all the bonus money that was being denied to Parker
>unauthorized
it was mandatory just like ships at sea have to respond to distress signals or be held liable
>And even if they could hijack the ship, who's going to buy the cargo?
Freighters go missing all the time with weird cargos. Almost anything worth hauling is worth selling for cents on the dollar if you steal it.
>That's why IRL pirates are all shitskins
Just because Somali pirates became popular on r*ddit due to a Tom Hanks movie does not mean that there have always been pirates in other regions. South East Asia has remained a hotbed for decades. https://time.com/piracy-southeast-asia-malacca-strait/
>The frick are you gonna do, show up to a Wylan Yutani orbital processing dock with your stolen Wylan Yutani cargo hauler and say "Hey bro wanna buy 1000 million tons of unprocessed ore I just happened to find out in space?"
That sounds like a plot of Guy Ritchie movie in Alien universe.
Modern piracy is just kidnapping
You don't see pirates stealing oil rigs
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/oil-rig-workers-repel-pirate-attack/
>Piracy isn't really a thing.
I'm going to shoot a bullet into the air.
You are going to shoot a bullet into the air a year from now.
If these two bullets connect, you win the piracy and get all of the loot.
Fricking moron.
>implying any pirate activity is not company sanctioned to grab insurance money from unprofitable vessels
Have you ever seen a bunch of militarily-trained guards in your local mid size blue-collar business?
The ship was only 42 million dollar's worth. A lot for one person but not a big capital investment. The refinery is built in space to supply ships because launching things out of planets is extremely inefficient and it's more cost effective for space industries to supply themselves off-planet.
That's ADJUSTED dollars, which can mean anything. The phrase does strongly suggest "adjusted for inflation" but it could be made-up finance jargon which equates to any amount of current dollar value. And since 42 million is such a tiny amount (in real dollars) where anything space-related is concerned, the latter conclusion is the most reasonable inference. It's a throwaway piece of dialogue that Cameron inserted to sound technical, but it really underestimates both the Nostromo and its payload (the Nostromo itself might have a more substantial dollar value attached, to use Burke's phrase, than the refinery it was towing, since it had to be rated for habitation and needed other very specific tech on board).
Even so, even assuming very cheap and largely automated assembly in space, use your common sense based on historical expenses of space-related equipment: the city-sized refinery thing floating in space very obviously cost orders of magnitude more than 42 million dollars, whether those are 1986 dollars or 2023 dollars.
It's not city sized, it's literally just one hectare. You'll can find industrial sites this large literally abandoned. Many people live in a one hectare property in rural areas.
That thing is FAR bigger than a hectare (a square 100m on each side) you goofball. Look at this post
and find the dimensions. Even the Nostromo itself (seen from above) is bigger than a hectare, and the refinery tug absolutely mogs it, dwarfs it even. The refinery tug is city-sized, small-town-sized even.
There's a matte shot of the exterior as Ripley is messing with the self-destruct mechanism, and it appears to show her somewhere in the refinery tug itself, as opposed to the Nostromo. She is this tiny ant inside a skyscraper element, surrounded by other skyscraper/refinery towers. It's plainly the size of a town, or at least a very large downtown-and-environs, something like a mile or two across at least.
sorry to break it to you guys but the nostromos is a little over 200 hectares and the average city comes closer to 2000 hectares
You're agreeing with and validating what I'm saying, thank you. The refinery tug itself is clearly an order of magnitude larger than the nostromo itself, so your approximate multiplication by a factor of ten is spot-on, and is just what I've been suggesting.
i'm not the guy you were talking to
I understand that, since you replied to the both of us. You're a third anon. My point is that your "sorry to break it to you" doesn't make sense when addressed to me since we actually agree, have spatial reasoning, and have a sense of scale.
Not until deep in the future
foot fetishists are fricking weird
How did she die? I don't remember her much from the movie if at all.
She strayed away from the group during the sunken mess hall sequence, what a moron lmao.
>foot fetishists
weirder yet are the women who think their feet are attractive
>tfw I just put some chicken wings in the oven
I was going to watch something else, but I haven't watched AR in a years, so might as well.
friendly reminder, she did the no net behind the back shot for real, it just happened, first shot, you can see all of them gobsmacked
Close, but not quite. The feat was in fact real, but it required several takes. She trained for it and statistically at one point she was making baskets regularly (10-15 percent, in between lots of misses), but they had to do lots of takes and almost gave up. Then she made it.
it was take 4 just looked it up, total fluke obviously still amazing to see, every vid I try and post is flagged as spam but its easy to look up yourself
sry it was take 4
I'm at the part where they all have to climb the ladder. Why did Christie (the black guy) "kill himself"? The xeno was dead, so he could just climb back up. He didn't seem hurt enough to be left behind.
Anyway, just finished the movie. Man, this was way more entertaining than anything I recall seeing in the past 5 years or so. I don't remember why I thought this was the worst of the original quadrilogy... I found virtually no flaws with this movie. I should rewatch the other three ASAP.
>I found virtually no flaws with this movie
I hate you a lot
Watch it again. It has age very well. Outside of the specific way that Christie's death was execute, and a few of the quips, it was otherwise a very serviceable and entertaining film.
Not that Anon but i HAAAATED the alien hybrid. Terrible design. Fricking awful. It ruined the movie for me. That and dreadlock guy suiciding himself for no reason literally five feet from the top of the ladder.
Why? It was supposed to be a baby; we never saw its adult form. I think conceptually the genetic admixture works well. Anyway, it's late here so I'm off to bed. Hopefully this thread will still be alive when I wake up.
The movie made it seem like the acid had really fricked him up, and he also couldn't get the xeno off his foot so the other guy would die too if he didn't drop
Sooooo much wasted potential. God tier production design and casting wasted on a shit script.
I hate whedon and his rag tag motley crew diversity quipy redditor meme squads. I always want to kill them all.
Whedon disowned the film at release, and said ALL the roles were miscast. Way to out yourself as a contrarian.
They look like a bunch of space morons
.
ALIEN 4...
This time it's DERPPPPPPP.
>They look like a bunch of space morons
w.t.f. are you smoking. Alien 4 was aesthetic as frick. The casting/ costumes/production/set design were god tier. It's the script that fell short.
You probably have taste like this.
>the bonus situation
What about the Wojak situation?
we really need a final solution to the wojak situation
what were they refining?
They were producing vast amounts of soul.
skill
Looks like a 90s multiplayer fps map
wow what gives you that idea big guy?
>For you
The only reason modern "esports" shooters don't have fun party maps like this is because they know these would be the most popular maps and the autistic esports maps devs that time routes with stop watches and design every little nook, cranny and choke point to be as soulless and balanced as possible would get utterly btfo and put on suicide watch.
Why would you time a route with a stopwatch when you could just use a debug timer built into the build or something
memories
M-M-M-M-MONSTER KILL...KILL...KILL.....
>2005
>Have friend who is on the top national Esports teams for both CS & Q3
>Go to his house one day for a lan, and he keeps gloating about how good he is at Unreal Tournament, specifically that map with railguns only, saying it's ultimate test of skill in a video game
>I only played autism CRPGs, turn based isometric games, and RTS games
>Last time I played an FPS was probably CS in 2001
>I take him up on his offer and we play for about 3 hours. I wipe the floor with him 10 games in a row, with 20 kill score limit per match, with him getting maybe 1 or 2 kills on me
>Even now, 20 years later, that guy calls anybody who mentions it a liar and how I'm the worst FPS player ever
Esports Black folk can suck my dick. Them ranting about muh skill is an absolute joke, holy shit. People are naturally inclined to either be good at it or not, and when it's just a giant empty map where memorizing every spawn point and deadzone is a benefit, it shows that even a scrub like me can btfo these Reddit gays.
ut doesn't have railguns but cute story
sick beats
Those types of maps are always the best
best map
>HEADSHOT
>HEADSHOT
>HEADSHOT
impeccable 90s jungle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_0G6WPuss4
So, um, we think we should discuss the bonus situation.
Right.
Here. This addresses it in detail.
I laughed harder than I should have. Still, needs an additional pic of the emerging bonus situation in Alien 4.
i've been saying that for years, clearly the bonus situation is becoming ever more complicated
lel
I love the aesthetic of the first Alien movie so much. There's nothing quite like it.
I wish I could play Alien: Isolation for the first time ever again. If you are a fan of the movies, that game is a dream come true.
>What were they refining?
https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/USCSS_Nostromo
Nostromo operated as a tug, connecting to and pulling loads like a tractor truck rather than carrying those loads on board like a traditional freighter.
Nostromo was subsequently operated as a commercial hauler, transporting automated ore and oil refineries
congratulations, that's the most reddit thing i've seen all week
Why didn't it molt to a queen?
disgusting
Bonus situation status?
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It's insane how much they're going to be able to mine from the asteroid belt. I was reading an article a month or two back where they're going to be researching an asteroid that has about 10 quintillion dollars worth of minerals.
You sound like a Belter
I’d like her to spin my drum.
lmao there is literally one resource that is maybe worth gathering in space, and that's He-3, maybe. Everything else is cheaper is to gather from Earth. The whole "muh untold riches in space" is such a boring cope.
The real wealth in space is the ability to have complete control over the environment, and using that to create complex materials that can't be made on Earth. All of that will be done in LEO.
>The whole "muh untold riches in space" is such a boring cope.
Not entirely. The asteroid belt probably contains more platinum and gold than the entire Earth's crust does. Almost all of that stuff sank to the core during the Hadeon epoch.
And you think the rich who will be the only ones able to fund space mining are just going to bring it back and distribute it instead of hoarding it and keeping the price artificially inflated like they do with diamonds? Futurism is shit, none of us are going to benefit from any of it.
If scarcity really worked that way no matter what the technology of extraction, we'd all still be living like medieval peasants, or worse. That people will probably never even mine asteroids or travel interplanetary distances is mostly due to how intrinsically difficult that is to do in the engineering sense, which is also to say that the rich are almost as stupid as the rest of us.
As helpless you mean. They'll die with us on a burning fireball in the end. There's no escape from this prison colony.
Probably use it as inputs for their own stuff when some rival tried to corner the market. History is full of shit like this, why do you think they gave money to that frickwit Columbus?
>Probably use it as inputs for their own stuff when some rival tried to corner the market
wdym by using it as input for their own stuff? ESL here, I imagine what you mean but not quite
They could make their own products like circuit boards which require rare earth metals for a lot cheaper than the competitors because by mining the asteroid belt, they have elimited a major cost source.
Except precious metals like gold and platinum have utilitarian uses that generate value other than scarcity. If they didn't want more, they wouldn't be still mining it. All you'd see would be old timey prospectors.
What are heavy metals and why exactly are they as rare in earth crust you dumb Black person
>reddit zoomers actually think we'll be mining asteroids
Loving every lol
This
But somehow its all about collonising mars, frick mars, theres literal mountains of wealth just floating out there
Sneedium
>And here's your bonus sitaution
>"ayyyyyy guys. Oh damn ripleys a grenade
deez nuts XD
I always imagined that it was heavy metal elements rare on earth, including but not exclusively radioactive isotopes. Chemistry is easy, transmutation of elements almost impossible in massive quantities.
You
Why didn't it have enough room on the escape shuttle for all of the crew?
Probably the same reason the Titenic didn't.
It was crazy that the actual spaceship model used in the film was mostly intact even when left out under the sun for decades
kino.
WTF it was a model all the time?! I thought they filmed it live on location
The Nostromo had two shuttles.
There was more than one shuttle.
They only prepped one shuttle because it could handle more than the people who were still alive at that time.
"Let's do double the work to prep two shuttles because Lambert is a stupid whiny c**t!"
No, that would have never flown.
they expected one of them in the wreckage
the spice
What were they refining?
I never noticed the Black Omen has big surprised eyes.
Looks like a gigachad.
iirc it was the life energy of the planet.
those feels when it's not a tower but a cruiser
film making
Ore from Con-ams Jupiter mining operations.
Jupiter mining operations, you say?
Btw, what was it refining?
Cats
you can't really tell from that image you posted but they mined asteroids
So what is it?
a white hole
the Nostromo was just the lil' space tugboat towing that huge refinery
I liked Outland
Good fricking movie.
this movie isn't associated enough with the alien series. it ought to be more
What other films fit in the series?
My biggest grip with the Alien series isn't any issues with any of the sequels, but rather the missed opportunity of making a trillion movies set in the same world, filled with megacorp antics and borderline-cyberpunk themes.
>inb4 blader runner, soldier and alien are in the same universe
Yes, but I wanted more. Much more. Infinitely more.
arcturian's poontangs if you ask james cameron, so frick off with him and Aliens
taste
yer mum
Looks like facing worlds from unreal tournament. They refine headshots there.
Kino.
And they were very good at it.
Will enter my hypersleep pod now. Wake me up in 53 years.
>Wake me up in 53 years.
Star Citizen will still not have reached full release.
ur mum.
>huge space facility
>run by 7 people
How many does it need?
Dunno, but something of that size only needing 7 people sounds foolish.
It's mostly automated
It needed zero people.
It was an automated refinery.
It took dozens, hundreds, of people to fill it with ore.
The truckers in Alien were just returning it to Earth.
That makes more sense.
the nostromo crew were a tug ship hauling it around space. Not the refinery crew
BONUSES
why didnt ripley just hide in the refinery when they realized there was an alien onboard?
Obtanium
Haha those orbs look like testicles xdddXDDD
so warhammer ripped off alien?
Uhh what didn't rip off Alien?
It invented space horror. It even really invented deep space sci-fi.
>It even really invented deep space sci-fi.
how about films that Alien ripped off? because it's a shot for shot remake of Planet of the Vampires (1965).
Is it tho. Show me the exact shot of something bursting out of someones chest from both films.
warhammer ripped off everything, thats kinda the point
Oldhammer ripped a bunch of series
star wars
Warhammer ripped off dune
What were they refining?
Didn't even help around the ship.
Jonesy's entire job was to catch pests. It should have caught that dang chestburster slithering around. Little shithead still wanted his bonus too.
Wait, was Jonesy the only one who actually got the bonus?
You now realize who was the true villain of the series all along. Killing everyone else off to get the whole bonus
Beef gristle. They got it from the space mill. Refine it back into beef. Interesting process.
I still need to finish this game. Fricking terrifying.
You do. It's so great. Just finished it in VR because of all the alien threads.
>...It's right behind me, isn't it?
its even better in VR. First time ran into penis head spent like good 3-4 minutes in the locker just looking at it stomping around
>terrifying
Yeah, for the first hour, then it just becomes trial-and-error the game.
Wrong. It remained terrifying and a thrilling experience the whole way through. Truly a masterpiece and exactly what's needed from an Alien story.
>tfw you find Lambert's corpse and yea, looks like it raped her
>blood near an orifice? must be raaaaaaaaaaape
fanboys should be thrown out an airlock
nah, the extended disturbing sounds she makes over the communicator in the movie?
Ridley taking about how the alien is confused by its part-human composition and is having sexual attraction compulsions to its victims.
it raped her with its tail, that not fanboy wank, thats paying attention.
hey wtf those are Brett's legs with the tail going around them, not Lambert's legs
I really hope someone got fired for that blunder
damn, I saw alien when I was 10 and I never looked back again, what a brutal death scene
cute whippet
That dog is dead now
so is the alien
>haul ore over the distance of light years
This was always stupid.
probably means humanity mined the entire solar system clean
That's highly improbable. The movie is not taking place tens of thousands of years in the future.
It's a movie you wierdo. This is why you have no friends.
I thought you were my friend?!
No one said that it has to go back to Earth. It could be going to a local colony/station/shipyard. Isolation had Sevastopol within reach and I'm sure they could have used it
Ripley’s farts.
Nothing. That was just the cover story for Space Hogwarts.
Why isn't there a military battalion guarding this industrial site in case of a never-before-seen alien invasion?
>abandoned
wtf why would they abandon such a large structure that probably cost millions?!
as far as humanity is concerned humans are the only known life in the entire galaxy
why would they need to defend a mining installation against nothing?
>as far as humanity is concerned humans are the only known life in the entire galaxy
"Is this going to be a stand-up fight, sir, or another bug hunt?"
Doesn't this imply they encountered alien life before?
No, it doesn't.
What about Arcturian poontang?
safer than Acheron poontang
Arcturians are humans who live on Arcturus.
But, I do think they have encountered other aliens. Like plants and moronic animals. But nothing sentient. They've also probably introduced life to other planets that then start to adapt to the new environment in strange and exciting ways.
They must have, listen to the marines in this clip, they're not impressed at all by Ripley's alien encounter
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I always took that to mean that there are no aliens, so they think she is just making shit up or just confused.
It could also mean that aliens are very common that it's not a big deal. But, something as sophisticated as the xenomorphs have been encountered before
> something as sophisticated as the xenomorphs have been encountered before
*never
Humans have encountered no other aliens in the setting.
I think the films are pretty vague in that. They've probably encountered plants and smalls organisms. If you watch Aliens, people are skeptical of Ripley's details about the story, but they never dismiss the idea of aliens out of hand. The Marines are skeptical of the danger, but not the idea of other life.
>Humans have encountered no other aliens in the setting.
Dropship has a logo on it saying "Bugstomper" and "We endanger aliens"
There are presumably bugs in the Alien setting, likely a reference to Starship Troopers. At this point, humans have gotten extremely efficient at exterminating them, which suggests they do not really pose a real threat anymore. The Alien biology is so beyond anything the humans have dealt with before that it's basically a nightmare scenario even for people who kill giant bugs for a living.
>they don't put half their labor budget into riflemen in case a never-before-seen alien invades the site and starts eating the workers
Plot contrivance much?
What do they eat?
bonuses
why did they have a cat on board?
>The ship's cat has been a common feature on many trading, exploration, and naval ships dating to ancient times. Cats have been carried on ships for many reasons, most importantly to control rodents
Apparently it was a common thing throughout history.
Jonesy was useless.
Didn't his hissing alert Ripley to the fact that the Alien was on the escape pod?
Yeah sailors were known to be a superstitious bunch. That's also why women were forbidden on board for a long time.
No. She's messing around in her underwear and it sticks its arm out from the crevice it was hiding in. She'd already shoved Jones into the cryotube.
If they wanted him to huny giant acid bleeding worms, they'd have paid him properly
His performance was on par with his assigned bonus, nothing more and nothing less.
there is this series I read where the MCs commandeer a boat and all the sailors end up mutinying because the MC's forgot to bring cats, all the crew men keep asking where are the cats?
Kino
Why would they put a colony on LV426? Is there really that much of a shortage of habitable worlds that they need to spend decades making barren rocks livable?
Maybe it was in a really good location , and they needed it as a staging area or logistics hub.
or refueling center or something.
The lady in ripleys inquiry mentions
"anything like this in over 300 surveyed worlds",
Hmm good point. I want more stories set in Aliens time frame but with no xenos
Back when it was made, we didn't know habitable worlds with a breathing atmosphere were even remotely as common as we think they are now. Even by the end of the 90s, I recall there only been 1 or 2, hundreds of light years away. Today? Our closes solar system has one (Proxima Centauri B).
It was a conspiracy they knew the derelict was out there
if they knew, why would they wait so many decades to go check it out? They could have safely grabbed some eggs and taken them to a research facility long ago
In the novelization it was OIL.
Hot dogs
United Americas vs Three World Empire war movie when?
Which TTRPG book is this from?
Alien the roleplaying game
LV-223 and LV426 are not moons of the same planet. Think about it.
What is the 'union of progressive peoples'?
>Gorman's Folly
thanks, now i gotta jerk off
H-hot
>high heel feet
Daily reminder that the black guy didn't want to job against the ayy and demanded that he survive the movie.
Not sure what Ridley did to change his mind.
unobtainium. and weapons grade uranium which is highly illegal.
Fent. Obviously.
autism
>heading down the corridor
>see this
what do you do?
Rape it, so it knows who's in charge.
>AAAAHHHH DON'T SUCK MY wiener
Vespene gas
peen gas
What's the bonus situation with Terran forces?
So, have other alien species been discovered in the Alien universe? They didn't seem very impressed by the space jockey.
If you only count the movies as canon, the answer seems to be no. The reference to bug hunt might mean they’ve encountered lower intelligence life, but their incredulity at Ripley’s story suggests otherwise. Extended universe shit, yes and it’s fricking moronic.
Their incredulity to Ripley's story was because she was describing something that hasn't been seen once in over 300 surveyed worlds. A living organism that gestates in the human and has acid for blood. It's pretty wild, and would still be "unbelievable" in a universe with some kind of hostile bug alien thing (which is probably just some unintelligent beast that is only threatening to dumbass colonists)
No, it wouldn't. 300 worlds is jack shit. If they found life at all, and multiple alien life, then anything new is possible and the xeno wouldn't considered so outlandish as to be unbelievable and consider Ripley a liar. If they had never found any life though, that is how they'd react towards Ripley since no one else has ever found anything.
Both interpretations are correct. That's the beauty of art.
good points