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S1e1 of Alien Earth is better than most of the Aliens films. A Triumph.
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Date: August 14th, 2025 8:06 AM Author: Federal Adventurous Messiness Stead Can't wait to watch e2
Best show opener I've seen in a long time.
Obviously very high production value too.
Check it out. |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 8:06 AM Author: frozen associate hissy fit what streamer (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49183812) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 9:47 AM Author: Federal Adventurous Messiness Stead Fx channel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49183989) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 10:25 AM Author: Saffron center (Gen Xer) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49187372) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:21 AM Author: dashing knife regret The format is S01E01, not S1E1 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225722) |
Date: August 14th, 2025 8:07 AM Author: Sooty Floppy Hell Blood Rage It's good, thank fuck there's a scifi show worth watching now btw episode 2 was released with episode 1 |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 10:25 AM Author: Saffron center He’s a busy man (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49187373) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 8:22 AM Author: Alcoholic underhanded community account I saw some shit on twitter suggesting theres some pozzed tranny or something in the show. Is it gay? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49183840) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 8:26 AM Author: bat-shit-crazy violent digit ratio parlour Yeah gay like your mom (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49183846) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 8:27 AM Author: Alcoholic underhanded community account Fuck you your mom is an ugly dyke slut. My mom is a hot straight slut. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49183850) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 11:48 AM Author: Aromatic filthy school cafeteria marketing idea This board could use more "your mom" battles. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49184570) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 9:46 AM Author: Federal Adventurous Messiness Stead There are some kids transplanted into cyborg superhuman bodies but who keep their childish behavior and innocence. We will see how that storyline goes, but no trannies that I saw (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49183988) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:34 AM Author: dashing knife regret I thought those were "hybrids." Whole scene was awful though (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225752) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 11:35 AM Author: Federal Adventurous Messiness Stead (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49184484) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 1:18 PM Author: hilarious mustard half-breed can i watch it on netflix/disney/hulu/hbo? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49184868) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 1:37 PM Author: Federal Adventurous Messiness Stead FX
not sure |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 1:46 PM Author: hilarious mustard half-breed how the fuck do i watch fx? i have to pay for another streamer in this ratfuck world? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49184958) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 1:33 AM Author: appetizing internet-worthy hospital really tough guy It’s on Disney/hulu (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49186983) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 1:41 PM Author: arrogant flushed legend Cr. Was hoping it would be good when I saw it was done by the same guy who created Fargo show (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49184944) |
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Date: August 14th, 2025 9:22 PM Author: turquoise swashbuckling institution just finished the first two episodes.
pretty damn good.
no woke faggotry.
lots of action.
TOOL in the soundtrack.
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Date: August 14th, 2025 9:27 PM Author: Federal Adventurous Messiness Stead e1 ended with a Ronnie James Dio era Black Sabbath song for the credits (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49186348) |
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Date: August 30th, 2025 10:52 PM Author: dashing knife regret I watched 15 minutes and it was all minorities. Plot seems contrived but maybe I'll come back to it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225260) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 12:34 AM Author: aqua drunken field mother Watched episode 1, watching episode 2 now.
It has a very Alien: Romulus vibe - high production values although it's really "dark" visually, seems like it will have lots of fan service and limited new ideas. Old, but new! Sigh...
Even though Prometheus had significant problems, at least it reached higher. This doesn't appear to be reaching beyond what came before at all. |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 1:28 AM Author: turquoise swashbuckling institution no, keep watching, this FX alien show reveals the meaning of life about half way through episode 2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49186978) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 2:11 AM Author: aqua drunken field mother I watched the first two episodes (all that’s been released so far) of the FX/Hulu show Alien: Earth tonight. I wanted something light and brainless and it’s delivered it so far; there’s really not much to dissect here content wise. It’s very reminiscent of the recently released movie Alien: Romulus which I surprisingly liked because of its quite strong production values and my very low expectations. Earth’s production values are significantly worse - everything is crouched in dark cinematography, even though the season supposedly cost $250+ million - but it delivers some minor scares and creepy atmosphere so far.
Both Romulus and Earth suffer from the same problem, though: a lack of imagination. Just like Star Wars and every other remake and sequel these days, the producers/writers think the audience wants “the same as before, just with a different twist.” And they’re right - it’s slop for the masses, fan service, it pays dividends and makes money, and it’s oh so boring.
While Prometheus had significant problems with its script, especially in the form of character choices, and it bizarrely cut most of the most important scene from the film (only available as a deleted scene, when the engineer wakes up), it at least tried to be different even as it kept the underlying Alien form (i.e. ship goes to another planet or is in space, alien kills everyone, alpha female protagonist knows the alien better than everyone else and is the lone or almost lone survivor). Prometheus introduced the engineer (an amazing character) and how the engineer race gave birth to humanity, that it had a totally different conception of birth and death than we do, it introduced the alien as a bioweapon intended to destroy humanity with, and it implicitly tied that intent to the death of Christ.
In both Romulus and Earth, there is no mythology being built, there is no attempt to change the underlying perspective or mythos of what came before. Instead - change the setting a bit, change the technology a bit (in Romulus the android personalities could be changed with a data stick, in Earth there’s different types of robots), maybe have a slightly different alien, the end.
Yawn. Boring. I may continue watching it for mindless entertainment - other than the now ubiquitous race mixing and female empowerment it hasn’t pushed for much underlying symbolic manipulation - but I knew after the first episode what I was going to get, and it did deliver that same shlock in the second.
4/10 |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 10:03 AM Author: turquoise swashbuckling institution race mixing? are you sure you're watching the right show? zero fucking that i can recall so far.
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Date: August 15th, 2025 10:24 AM Author: aqua drunken field mother I don't mean as in sex, I mean more than half the cast is non-white. Well more than half. Maybe it's not the right term if you took it this way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49187367) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 10:33 AM Author: Federal Adventurous Messiness Stead I still want to know whats the deal with that creepy asian dude from the ship - Mr. Teng?
Also the early scenes on the ship were straight up fan service, entire crew sitting around the table, etc, they nailed that. |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 10:33 AM Author: turquoise swashbuckling institution usually take race mixing to mean miscegenation
alien has always had a weird mix of colored people among the lower classes. it seemed to add to the dystopian feel of the future.
"Somebody said alien...Sanchez thought they said illegal alien and signed up."
when i saw the cyborg in the first episode the first thing i thought was what a good job they'd done finding a Yaphet Kotto stand in.
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Date: August 15th, 2025 10:25 AM Author: bat-shit-crazy violent digit ratio parlour any show that has muds = "race mixing", "woke", etc.
but that's just what america under 30 actually looks like these days |
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Date: August 24th, 2025 8:31 AM Author: fiercely-loyal indecent step-uncle's house corn cake (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49208624) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 10:28 AM Author: Federal Adventurous Messiness Stead literally none. unless he is implying that the brunette protagonist is that? I don't understand either. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49187376) |
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Date: August 24th, 2025 8:59 AM Author: Sooty Floppy Hell Blood Rage lmao at this fucking dweeb noooooo, there's women and colored folk in my tv shows, wwwaaahhhhhhh |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 10:27 AM Author: Saffron center I think people like you just like Prometheus because of the name. Every time I turn it on it’s just black guy talking to a robot. Losers like you are obsessed with The Engineers because you have Engineering Awareness. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49187375) |
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Date: August 24th, 2025 8:18 AM Author: fiercely-loyal indecent step-uncle's house corn cake (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49208618) |
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Date: August 28th, 2025 1:54 AM Author: appetizing internet-worthy hospital really tough guy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49218404) |
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Date: August 15th, 2025 2:47 AM Author: Know-it-all orange trailer park Alien expert here It looks good -HH |
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Date: August 24th, 2025 2:47 AM Author: sepia halford (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49208468) |
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Date: August 28th, 2025 12:28 AM Author: aqua drunken field mother latest episode was garbage - it was almost all stilted therapy talk (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49218281) |
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Date: August 28th, 2025 1:49 AM Author: turquoise swashbuckling institution why don't we let the aliens go?! they're living creatures?!
at this point its just a race to see which retard will set them free first, and whether the Timothy Olyphant robot will lift a finger to try and stop them
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Date: August 28th, 2025 1:57 AM Author: aqua drunken field mother i swear olyphant's gray hair is holding up half the weight of the show, it's basically its own character (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49218410) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:23 AM Author: puce school rare cred8ted consuela poast (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225728) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:30 AM Author: bat-shit-crazy violent digit ratio parlour don't b mean 2 consuela it's not his fault he was conceived by the braincum of rothschildren & hapsburgs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225744) |
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Date: August 28th, 2025 1:59 AM Author: Know-it-all orange trailer park Was this actually a plot point in the show (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49218413) |
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Date: August 28th, 2025 2:02 AM Author: turquoise swashbuckling institution yes from more than one character. there are also other retards moving to release them for other reasons. also it turns out they're basically just keeping them in a wet paper bag anyway. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49218417) |
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Date: August 28th, 2025 2:03 AM Author: Know-it-all orange trailer park (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49218418) |
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Date: August 28th, 2025 2:03 AM Author: aqua drunken field mother the show is basically zero sex appeal zoomers with superpowers and a couple weird aliens in the background (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49218419) |
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Date: August 28th, 2025 2:05 AM Author: Know-it-all orange trailer park Now I'm interested (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49218424) |
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Date: August 28th, 2025 2:05 AM Author: aqua drunken field mother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49218425) |
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Date: August 28th, 2025 2:07 AM Author: Know-it-all orange trailer park Sexing up Television programming has led to significant brain drain wrt how to tie the strings of a plot together (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49218429) |
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Date: August 28th, 2025 2:11 AM Author: razzmatazz stag film Sounds like IRL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49218436) |
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Date: August 28th, 2025 2:04 AM Author: Know-it-all orange trailer park "The sentient cloud of VX gas should be free to roam. It's as much of a child of this Earth as any of us." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49218423) |
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Date: August 28th, 2025 2:12 AM Author: turquoise swashbuckling institution also, there is a character walking around telling people one of the aliens made her pregnant when it grabbed her face, and everyone's just rolling their eyes and telling her she's imagining it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49218438) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:32 AM Author: dashing knife regret poast/moniker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225748) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:25 AM Author: puce school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225730) |
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Date: August 30th, 2025 10:58 PM Author: dashing knife regret So the show is set in the year 2120 but spaceships use CRT monitors
https://i.imgur.com/87HHrTf.jpeg
Oh what high production values |
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Date: August 30th, 2025 11:50 PM Author: turquoise swashbuckling institution you think they went to Goodwill and got some old TVs to save money, or were just trying to be consistent with the same set used in the original Alien? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225360) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:11 AM Author: dashing knife regret Why even bother setting it in the future? Just claim these events all happened in the 1970s.
The music people listen to also sounds oddly contemporary, like mumble rap. If it were set in the 1970s they could just play Foghat |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:26 AM Author: bat-shit-crazy violent digit ratio parlour Cr while we're at it has anyone told the creator of the Flintstones his show is premised on a bunch of anachronisms? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225732) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:27 AM Author: dashing knife regret Great analogy. You should be a law prof at a t6 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225736) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:28 AM Author: bat-shit-crazy violent digit ratio parlour You're on the edge of something big. I bet if you email Noah Hawley he will shoot back a gif of those black guys at an apple store and correct his technological timeline post haste, heaping praise on your corrective insight. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225742) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:30 AM Author: dashing knife regret Ok you convinced me to sit on my ass and watch twelve 1-hour episodes of off-brand kitsch. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225743) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:31 AM Author: bat-shit-crazy violent digit ratio parlour Do something. Take action. Your insights are wasted on us, take it straight to the chief. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225745) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:33 AM Author: dashing knife regret I'm gonna force myself to like this show, since everyone else likes it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225750) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:34 AM Author: bat-shit-crazy violent digit ratio parlour It's not very good, but you can save it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225753) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 2:51 AM Author: razzmatazz stag film They're into retro gaming (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225542) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 6:35 AM Author: bat-shit-crazy violent digit ratio parlour Wow, you really got em there. Maybe they should hire you as a scifi tech consultant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225630) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 6:38 AM Author: Crusty Theatre u in 1997: "This show set in 2025 has all these LPs, don't they know LPs are dead." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225631) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:03 AM Author: dashing knife regret This show is set in the future and features technology from 1977 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225695) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:27 AM Author: bat-shit-crazy violent digit ratio parlour Just wait until you play Fallout, that will really blow your mind. So many inconsistencies! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225737) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:28 AM Author: dashing knife regret I take it you play a lot of video games (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225741) |
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Date: August 31st, 2025 8:07 AM Author: Sooty Floppy Hell Blood Rage ITT: NSAM doesn't understand the concept of "retro-future aesthetic" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5762286&forum_id=2Elisa#49225700) |