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there's this (two issue!) one where Predator fights a grizzly bear. The bear wins of course :lol:
HAHAHAHAHA, is this for real?
It's comics, this shit's positively tame compared to half the shit I've seen writers pull.

Remember reading one Alien comic where a captured human is forced by the aliens to eat his mother, who has been partially fused to the bio-organic wall-shit they make and severely bloated, to survive. Shit was delightfully fucked up.
 

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there's this (two issue!) one where Predator fights a grizzly bear. The bear wins of course :lol:
HAHAHAHAHA, is this for real?
It's comics, this shit's positively tame compared to half the shit I've seen writers pull.

Remember reading one Alien comic where a captured human is forced by the aliens to eat his mother, who has been partially fused to the bio-organic wall-shit they make and severely bloated, to survive. Shit was delightfully fucked up.
Not eat, fuck IIRC. He merykills her instead. And before he had to feed her, mouth to mouth. That's the main villain's backstory in Aliens: Labyrinth.

My personal favourite is a little pig vs an alien hive - thank you Chuck Dixon for Aliens: Pig
 

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there's this (two issue!) one where Predator fights a grizzly bear. The bear wins of course :lol:
HAHAHAHAHA, is this for real?
It's comics, this shit's positively tame compared to half the shit I've seen writers pull.

Remember reading one Alien comic where a captured human is forced by the aliens to eat his mother, who has been partially fused to the bio-organic wall-shit they make and severely bloated, to survive. Shit was delightfully fucked up.

whats the name of that comic? :lol:

but that pussy shit, i remember reading a manga where a lump of chicken flesh from a chicken meat-growing factory transforms into a supermutant chicken man named "Chicken George". He goes on a mission to take revenge on humanity for ruining the planet.
shit goes from crazy evil reploids that ripoff the heads of childrens just for fun to evil christian aliens that rapes people to save their own species.

its begins!
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Cautious? they seem friendly enough for me
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wait, why do you need those needles?!
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HUH?! WTF RAPE!!!
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motherfuckers, you ain't seen nothing yet

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this comic is glorious. i heartily recommend it
hint: the cover isn't a joke. it also speaks. just wait till you see the two-face xenomorph, tho...

whats the name of the comic?!. Must know.
 

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Oh fuck, the Batman/Aliens 2 comic... yeah, some guy funds an expedition to the South Pole, finds an Alien that slaughters almost the entire expedition, yet the guy manages to CAPTURE and RECOVER the Alien and brings it back to Gotham City, locks it up in a huge underground fortress that he builds. 90 years later (a.ka. today) a construction crew doing some urban renewal comes across the fortress.

Why there is a Joker Alien or a Two-Face Alien is even MORE of a derpy reason.
 

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Joker Alien came out of Joker's body, after sucking his dna? or what?
 

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Yet all that shit still doesn't beat:

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This is like the ultimate 'WHO ELSE CAN WE INSERT INTO THIS CLUSTERFUCK TO MAKE IT EVEN MORE BADASS?????'
 

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So the sheer magnitude of the shit-show fail parade that is A:CM (specifically that it bears so little resemblance to what was shown to everyone pre-release; shit games by themselves are the rule, not the exception) has threatened to inflict a tiny amount of self-awareness and reflection on the games media.

The protective shell of self-delusion is holding strong, but the passive navel-gazing over at gamasutra is delicious, if only to listen to an otherwise intelligent human adult try to rationalize what anyone outside the system would describe as "WE WERE FUCKING LIED TO, PLAYED FOR FOOLS, AND OUR JOBS ARE A WINK-NUDGE SHAM".
 

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So the sheer magnitude of the shit-show fail parade that is A:CM (specifically that it bears so little resemblance to what was shown to everyone pre-release; shit games by themselves are the rule, not the exception) has threatened to inflict a tiny amount of self-awareness and reflection on the games media.

The protective shell of self-delusion is holding strong, but the passive navel-gazing over at gamasutra is delicious, if only to listen to an otherwise intelligent human adult try to rationalize what anyone outside the system would describe as "WE WERE FUCKING LIED TO, PLAYED FOR FOOLS, AND OUR JOBS ARE A WINK-NUDGE SHAM".
So many things that are distasteful in this article.

You could use your strictly-allotted ten-minute sit-down with a busy, rehearsed executive to ask questions about how this game that doesn't exist yet fits into the company's larger strategy, how it views the business landscape as a whole. You could ask about a specific trend
Yeah that's what video game fans want to read about the companies larger strategy. :roll:

These events are expensive. Publishers pay for venues, travel, accommodation, food, fancy USB keys full of assets, pens, messenger bags, swag. I don't believe the common complaint that this stuff sways writers -- we often get so much of it that we don't care to have any more, have been doing this long enough that a branded squeak toy isn't going to make us feel unduly positive.
Emphasis mine. Also if the goodies make so little difference, why not just refuse them? If they literally don't affect you at all, you're not losing anything.
 

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So the sheer magnitude of the shit-show fail parade that is A:CM (specifically that it bears so little resemblance to what was shown to everyone pre-release; shit games by themselves are the rule, not the exception) has threatened to inflict a tiny amount of self-awareness and reflection on the games media.

The protective shell of self-delusion is holding strong, but the passive navel-gazing over at gamasutra is delicious, if only to listen to an otherwise intelligent human adult try to rationalize what anyone outside the system would describe as "WE WERE FUCKING LIED TO, PLAYED FOR FOOLS, AND OUR JOBS ARE A WINK-NUDGE SHAM".

From the article:

"We cannot be critical of a project that isn't even finished yet, that we have had no real time with. We can't examine polished executive statements -- we know they don't have much to do with the final result, so what's the point in picking them apart? Nobody wants to enter a room of breathless, hopeful people who clearly represent an entire team of hardworking people and be the jerk asking the hard questions. Why would you want to be that jerk so early in the dev process? What's the point?

All we can do is be positive. We don't have any other logical choice but to be positive. Even if something turns us off, what about the people it's intended for, who will probably like it, who will want to know? As media we enter the situation with very little control. There is no other logical sentiment, besides cautious optimism."

WTF? Do these guys just not understand how journalism works?
 

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:MWell they think taking gifts from the people they're reporting on doesn't affect them :M
 

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:MWell they think taking gifts from the people they're reporting on doesn't affect them :M

Yep. And nice preview events. And getting games for free. They think none of it effects them at all. Self-deception is a mighty thing in humans, I bet they really do believe it doesn't.
 

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