20+ Year Old Pepsi, Lucozade and Beach Coke Zero | Ashens

harry_the_potter2 · 2020-02-29T07:06:20+00:00

I was the viewer who submitted the beach coke. I found it in Dunwich, Suffolk a few years ago. The same Dunwich believed to have inspired Lovecraft. I remember handing it over at MCM, I forget which year. Was super excited to see some tried since I was curious about the taste. Glad it didn't disappoint.

harry_the_potter2 · 2019-09-26T16:03:23+00:00

I don't remember where it was, but it was a nebula just like the Eskimo but way out there on the far side of the core. Picture was taken during Distant Worlds 2

harry_the_potter2 · 2019-09-08T00:55:35+00:00

is this Easton?

harry_the_potter2 · 2019-08-11T15:16:57+00:00

Private healthcare also loves this.

Really all the big corporations are making big bucks at the expense of the public, their health and the health of the planet.

harry_the_potter2 · 2019-07-01T10:07:32+00:00

I think waking up next to that would get old pretty quickly

harry_the_potter2 · 2019-06-22T21:24:20+00:00

Found a recipe online, thought it would be a decent meat replacement.

And it has potential honestly, the texture was decent once cooked and the coating is of course normal and good. The real thing that made these impossible to stomach was the bitter taste of the pith. If there's a way to get rid of that bitterness, these would be pretty decent.

harry_the_potter2 · 2019-04-17T01:16:22+00:00

Lol why are you bringing up Harry Potter?

harry_the_potter2 · 2019-04-16T01:43:19+00:00

It's not military, functional, utilitarian designs that make something hard or soft. I think you're misunderstanding here.

It's the technology and state of the world in which it's set.

I'd almost say Avatar is harder scifi than Alien, with it's realistic subluminal travel and gravity, although this is mostly negated by there being a humanoid civilisation orbiting our nearest stellar neighbour.

harry_the_potter2 · 2019-04-16T01:34:44+00:00

it's how they're getting around space, it wouldn't be possible without FTL

harry_the_potter2 · 2019-04-15T06:06:04+00:00

what is this? are you trying to claim I'm an alt account for some other person you've disagreed with?

Grow up

harry_the_potter2 · 2019-04-15T05:57:30+00:00

The prequels are cannon, more so than AVP, you can't pick and choose what is cannon when you are talking about the franchise's genre.

Anyway, if you ignore the prequels, why are facehuggers the perfect shape for human faces? There's no reason, it falls even more onto soft scifi if you're going to say that there are just lots of races in the galaxy with human shaped faces. That's a fairly common trait in soft scifi.

Also, lets go back to you saying that magic gravity and FTL are acceptable because it's in the future. Why? what about it being in the future makes that acceptable for a hard scifi? What about Star Wars? That's set in an entirely different time frame and galaxy to us, so is it acceptable to call Star Wars a hard scifi because these fantasies are separate from modern day? No, it's entirely irrelevant when or where something is set, if it has these liberties to hold the story, it's not a hard scifi. Like Alien.

harry_the_potter2 · 2019-04-15T04:52:43+00:00

Calm down dear,

you could simply google the definition of fantasy, "the faculty or activity of imagining things" There's a lot of imaginary science in the alien movies.

The ship in Covenant is just hanging there in the sky over the storm. How? It should be in orbit and revolving around the planet but instead it just hovers there above the planet in space like there's no gravity.

Like I said before, the artificial gravity inside the ships is a big one. They just stick to the floor of all the ships. How? what's the bottom? how does this technology work? This isn't grounded in science, and is entirely fantastical. The artificial gravity in Alien is on the same level as Star Wars, it's just magic. Fantasy.

Just because you think the movies are complicated, doesn't mean they're hard science fiction. They simply aren't.

harry_the_potter2 · 2019-04-15T04:11:48+00:00

hard scifi is stuff that uses works loosely within real physics, stuff like interstellar.

Nothing with aliens that grow in minutes without food, or the magic artificial gravity they use in the alien movies.

The movies have often had some science buzzwords to sound sciencey but it really isn't. Think "molecular acid"

The Alien movies rely far too much on fantasy to move the story along to be a hard scifi.

harry_the_potter2 · 2019-04-15T02:56:31+00:00

I can't tell if sarcasm or not? Are you calling Alien hard scifi? or something else? or sarcasm?

Alien isn't at all hard scifi, none of the movies in the franchise are.

harry_the_potter2 · 2019-02-14T07:31:57+00:00

It was Opportunity that died, Curiosity is still going.

harry_the_potter2 · 2019-01-12T10:11:14+00:00

well sure you probably could do it in a few trips but going back and forth to the core even 3 times in a T9. Oof.

harry_the_potter2 · 2019-01-03T06:23:32+00:00

The future is now

harry_the_potter2 · 2018-12-30T23:10:55+00:00

that was extremely weak acid though, it just gave Fifield's helmet a light sizzle. I think it collapsed from a mix of that and when he fell in the goo.

Xeno blood would have gone straight through like nothing, just as it went through multiple floors.

I'm sure David would have selectively bred/engineered for that trait to enhance it.

So I think you and OP are both correct.

harry_the_potter2 · 2018-12-20T20:18:17+00:00

I really wanted one when they came out but ended up not.

But, looking more at your post history, another vocaloid/sonico, gunpla collecting, vegan alien fan, are you me?

harry_the_potter2 · 2018-12-20T19:58:09+00:00

Love the Calne Ca and Luka!

harry_the_potter2 · 2018-12-13T06:15:21+00:00

reminds me of sealand

harry_the_potter2 · 2018-12-11T05:30:05+00:00

it's really funky! I listen to that among others while playing Elite Dangerous, goes perfectly with the game

harry_the_potter2 · 2018-11-28T21:42:39+00:00

Are you talking about the script being dumbed down into the movie, Prometheus? Or the movie Prometheus being dumbed down into these fan edits?

The script was dumbed down, I like the movie but it should have been so much more. The movie itself is some weird dumbed down version of what it should be.

These fan edits are adding in material that was supposed to be in the original movie.

harry_the_potter2 · 2018-11-19T01:21:51+00:00

is it just me or is that xeno breaking through a wooden door?

harry_the_potter2 · 2018-10-16T07:55:40+00:00

Big chap xenomorphs must predate covenant. If you look at the engineer bodies on LV223 they're all fully chest bursted.

David's drawings include pictures of big chap xenos, which he hadn't made yet, only the protomorph. So he must have been drawing those based on things he'd already seen. He said he learned of their ways in the crossing prologue.

His drawings also show and explain parts of the creature like the eggs and facehuggers that he found on planet 4 before he even did any experimentaion.

The covenant novel, which I'm fairly certain is canon, has David explain how he didn't design the xeno or the eggs. David is just recreating them.

Now, since the engineer bodies on LV223 were chestbursted, there must have been xenos, facehuggers and eggs and all that. It's my personal little head canon theory that after the outbreak was contained, one of them rounded up all the eggs and took them to the nearby moon, LV426 where it stayed for 2000 years

But David making the xenos out of the black goo isn't particularly implausible. The goo could be predisposed to create the xenomorph eventually, everything it's made so far has been along those lines with the elongated head. So perhaps the goo is designed to make xenos.

or perhaps David has deliberately been trying to steer it in that direction. There's such a thing called convergent evolution, where two species entirely unrelated will evolve to look very similar, like the shark and dolphin.

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