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That would be interesting, to say the least. I remember a ton of people being really really pissed off when they were unceremoniously killed off in Alien3. At the time, there was a ton of interest in the alien and predator stories, and there was a comic book series that prominently featured those two characters participating in an ongoing battle against both alien species taking place years after the second film (so Newt was an adult, or at least a reasonably old teen IIRC). Which was pretty much destroyed when the third film came out. Much wailing was heard among the geek crowd.



The sad part is that Prometheus could have been a great film. If they'd just stuck to the darn story instead of doing what film writers seem to always be pressured to do and introduce "something new and different". Could have been a great way to incorporate a whole bunch of different elements in that story universe. But instead, you kinda had to ignore whole parts of it to make the pieces fit. I think it was made more awful precisely because it was soooo close to being really good. But then yanked it away. Sigh...



Yeah. Even with the horrible plot holes in the first Alien vs Predator film, it was still really good. I mean, it shouldn't be. But for some reason, if I see it on, I'll stop and watch the darn thing. It's just... fun. It sticks to action, with a smattering of back story and information, but without stepping on itself (yup. Looking at you Prometheus). Sometimes, it's much better to leave the rationale for the bad guy's actions unsaid, or vague, instead of filling in detail that's just plain stupid. Actually, it's always better. Fans manage to come up with far far better theories about the what and whys than the filmmakers ever seem to be capable of. It's almost like they go out of their way to find the most idiotic and unsatisfying route whenever possible. Which is sad.

I don't post regularly, in fact, I don't think I post at all, to be honest.

They failed their courses at the USAGICHAN school of journalism. Sad!

It's probably their lard filled limbs which hold them back.

Slackers!

Might as well, can't sleep anyway due to wicked harsh cough.

HI, ANNA!

I'll try and come up with another inflatable duck tangent to give you a hand. Give me a bit though, +1 is hard.

Transitioning from quality to quantity is hard.

Edited, Aug 11th 2016 10:56am by someproteinguy

Maybe that's where the struggle is, I was never very good at 1 on 1 PvP. Can I just CC it and then stall until someone else comes to help?

The only stars I've gotten (I guess, not tracking, but after soon sub-default) were for my ALLA Everquest or WoW posts, which I initially joined for as a happy little bird.. Political people abhor me though since most here are right-wing or faux liberals, so after so much happiness helping Everquest and WoW people, but being negatived into Hell for questioning atrocities committed by the US, I abhored too. Plus Obama Officially Sucks and the Armenian Genocide is real. I'm just so happy as a babe in a swath that even this post can now apparently be seen by people. I'm also happy for whoever Alla was who cashed out on the sale. And that these forums are still viable. There are a ton of smart people here. Unfortunately, most agree with each other and pat each other. Not much actual discussion/disagreement goes on. But still nice that people of like minds can be so codependent for more than a decade.

I co-posted on Rotten Tomatoes' forums at the time and they didn't have such a stupid popular Karma system or so many right-wingers, and yeah, made around 10K posts there. A lot of which were very good. A few of which were awful. But reason for no 10K posts here are the karma system and a ton of conservatives. But I did help Everquest peeps I think, in the long long ago.

Other near 10K posts: JREF, James Randi Educational Foundation, now known as InternationalSkeptics.

Obviously none of that was done with my handle here. And obviously I spent a lot more time composing posts about things or against ideas since the populace in those sites were a lot more challenging and varied.

I have eleventy-bajillion posts on the 2Deep4U-SoSmart forums. They're mostly awesome but I'll admit that six of them are merely brilliant.

He only co-posted there. I guess that means he provided editing and filler content for other, better, posters.