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[Fniff]

Spoiler: SPOILERS SPECULATION! (click to show/hide)

It means that Childs is the Thing. Breath condensation implies something is breathing, which the Thing may not even do if it's from outer space.

[DrPoo]

Parnts arguing. Meanwhile i hear the sound of a dog in suffering out in the deep frosbitten night.
I cant do anything but shrug it all off and listen to some Holdsworth

[ChairmanPoo]

Except there's another thing simulacrum with breath

[Xantalos]

If you want to know something really scary about the Thing, I can give you what is probably the definitive answer as to MacReady and Childs.

Spoiler: Level 20 Spoiler Alert (click to show/hide)

MacReady has breath condensation, Childs doesn't.

This was my theory from the first.
I really need to watch that movie again.

[Devling]

If I can ask, who was Childs again? I have a shitty memory for names.

[Tellemurius]

the black guy

[Xantalos]

the black guy

The BALD black guy.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I'm going to have to re-watch the movie. Twice now. Thank you.

There's also an Asteroids arcade machine in the base, the implications of which shouldn't be hard to figure out. MacReady destroying his chess computer with whiskey is also very thematically important, though that one I'll leave you to think about.

[Xantalos]

I'm going to have to re-watch the movie. Twice now. Thank you.

There's also an Asteroids arcade machine in the base, the implications of which shouldn't be hard to figure out. MacReady destroying his chess computer with whiskey is also very thematically important, though that one I'll leave you to think about.

I get the Macready chess parallel thing, but what's the significance of the Asteroids game?

[Flying Dice]

I'm going to have to re-watch the movie. Twice now. Thank you.

There's also an Asteroids arcade machine in the base, the implications of which shouldn't be hard to figure out. MacReady destroying his chess computer with whiskey is also very thematically important, though that one I'll leave you to think about.

I get the Macready chess parallel thing, but what's the significance of the Asteroids game?

Possibly something to do with the fact that the more you shoot the asteroids the more dangerous they become?

[Xantalos]

I'm going to have to re-watch the movie. Twice now. Thank you.

There's also an Asteroids arcade machine in the base, the implications of which shouldn't be hard to figure out. MacReady destroying his chess computer with whiskey is also very thematically important, though that one I'll leave you to think about.

I get the Macready chess parallel thing, but what's the significance of the Asteroids game?

Possibly something to do with the fact that the more you shoot the asteroids the more dangerous they become?

But they don't really. All you have to do is spin around shooting constantly and you never get hit! [/missingthepoint]

[Loud Whispers]

Possibly something to do with the fact that the more you shoot the asteroids the more dangerous they become?

But the more you shoot the thing the more inconvenienced it becomes. The more dakka you use, the more it becomes dead.

[Fniff]

But it's only a matter of time before the asteroids eventually get you. You can hold out, but you aren't going to survive forever: you will eventually be destroyed, it's only a matter of how many you take out before you inevitably die.

[SalmonGod]

But it's only a matter of time before the asteroids eventually get you. You can hold out, but you aren't going to survive forever: you will eventually be destroyed, it's only a matter of how many you take out before you inevitably die.

So the moral is:  Battling eldritch horrors isn't about survival.  It's about going out with the highest score.

[Loud Whispers]

But it's only a matter of time before the asteroids eventually get you. You can hold out, but you aren't going to survive forever: you will eventually be destroyed, it's only a matter of how many you take out before you inevitably die.

Not quite. You can get a score so high you break the game. Victory by annihilation.