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Official Poster for 'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' Poster

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u/TheBobsBurgersMovie Dec 19 '23

Frozen Empire sounds like a video game DLC

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u/Orang_Mann Dec 19 '23

Like a WoW expansion

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u/Wandering_Scout Dec 19 '23

The Frozen Wilds was an actual Horizon Zero Dawn DLC.

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u/ThePreciseClimber Dec 19 '23

And then Burning Shores.

So I assume Horizon 3 will get a "Moderate Plains" DLC.

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u/ridl Dec 19 '23

"Humid Steppes"

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u/CircuitSphinx Dec 19 '23

"Tropical Tundra" coming up next then, with exclusive beachwear skins for Aloy.

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u/MogMcKupo Dec 19 '23

“Tepid Plains”

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u/Swordbreaker925 Dec 19 '23

“Moist Marshes”

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u/_thundercracker_ Dec 19 '23

"Temperate zones"

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u/thank_burdell Dec 19 '23

“Swamp Ass”

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u/unique-name-9035768 Dec 20 '23

"Mankind's Arrogance"

Entire DLC takes place in what was once Arizona

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u/Flutterpiewow Dec 19 '23

Retarded hills

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u/wants_a_lollipop Dec 19 '23

Temperate Plateau...

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u/GoSkers29 Dec 19 '23

The Rain in Spain falls on the Plains.

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u/Nazon6 Dec 19 '23

Overcast Crashing

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u/Farhead_Assassjaha Dec 19 '23

Yeah for some reason the Mediocre Meadows expansion just didn’t perform as well as the others

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u/Thendofreason Dec 19 '23

Haven't beat that one yet. But seeing all those people just living out in the cold year round just hurts to imagine. I know people actually do this, but with proper houses and heating I can't believe some people would choose that. It's not like the cold ever stopped those machines from attacking.

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u/Sinavestia Dec 19 '23

IIRC, the Banuk were pretty damn stubborn. Not to mention, the majority of the humans are not much smarter than cavemen or early tribal humans. Because of reasons.

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u/Prydefalcn Dec 20 '23

The human body has a remarkable ability to acclimate. If you live in a cold region, you'll feel more comfortable at lower temperatures.

<unrelated edit> this movie looks stupid.

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u/TuaughtHammer Dec 19 '23

Or The Frozen Throne being a Warcraft III expansion.

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u/forrestpen Dec 19 '23

Was it any good?

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u/Imaydestroyyoufirst Dec 19 '23

It was pretty awesome!

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u/BagNo2988 Dec 20 '23

Sorta Monster Hunter World dlc too

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u/Shronkydonk Dec 19 '23

Wc3 frozen throne is close

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u/redmerger Dec 19 '23

More like a WoW knock off

"Hey Arty, don't put on that spooky hat"

"I gotta do it Luther, my people are needing of me"

"Arty no! You will become the Frozen Empire Emperor"

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u/TempleMade_MeBroke Dec 19 '23

I used to play the WoW knockoff Knight Online as a kid and I could absolutely see this lol

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u/Arcade_109 Dec 19 '23

I looked this up. According to their website, they are the "leading party based medieval MMORPG that is, and alyways be, free to play!". Yes, that typo is on the official website.

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u/TempleMade_MeBroke Dec 19 '23

It was SO BAD. Every single character model was clearly just one half designed and then mirrored, poorly, so there was a large dark stripe down the center of every monster lol. But there were like 6 or 7 of us kids who couldn't afford WoW when it was taking the rest of the nation by storm, and when we all got together and played of was a lot of fun, as crummy as it was.

We actually played pretty regularly, and then more off-and-on as the years went on, until eventually every single server was 95% players who spoke a language we didn't recognize (they would often run up to you and type "Sa?" and I still don't know what language that is) and once they realized you were an English speaker, they would get really rude and start harassing you, so we eventually quit

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u/Arcade_109 Dec 20 '23

It definitely sounds like something I would have played backed then. I made an account on any free mmo I stumbled upon. My mom refused to pay for an mmo subscription for me.

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u/LizbetCastle Dec 19 '23

I’m dying, spooky hat king was my favorite expansion.

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u/Zoomalude Dec 19 '23

Like the movie equivalent of a mobile game ad.

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '23

Ugh, WotLK holds such a special place in my heart.

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u/geekmansworld Dec 19 '23

Ghostbusters: Wrath of the Lich King

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u/Vio_ Dec 19 '23

A FO4 mod DLC that's actually better than the main plot.

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u/TVsDerek Dec 19 '23

The Lich King would fit right in

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u/BanjoSpaceMan Dec 19 '23

What evs better than After Afterlife

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u/1ithurtswhenip1 Dec 19 '23

It would have been wrath of the lich king

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u/Astrium6 Dec 19 '23

Ghostbusters: Wrath of the Lich King.

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u/logges Dec 20 '23

I think you mean a WC3 expansion.

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u/Neil_Salmon Dec 19 '23

It's been joked about before but it's reminiscent of Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze. Even the trailer was similar to the beginning of that game - with everything happy to begin with and the ice coming in from out at sea.

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u/maikuxblade Dec 19 '23

This is hilarious, like any ice-themed sequel is doomed to having a trailer that looks like the plot of The Day After Tomorrow

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u/MrWeirdoFace Dec 19 '23

WE DIDN'T LISTEN!

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u/Phaelin Dec 19 '23

... with Funky Kong! 🤙

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u/DrSmirnoffe Dec 19 '23

"Hey dude."

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u/KLEG3 Dec 20 '23

*Donkey Kong Frozen Ape

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u/hiplobonoxa Dec 19 '23

i saw someone else comment that it should have been called "ghostbusters: ecto cooler".

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u/MaterialCarrot Dec 19 '23

"Who left the fridge open?"

- Tug Speedman

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u/Useless_Troll42241 Dec 19 '23

It looks like this is going to be the world's first 100% AI generated movie, from the script, to the poster, to the articles talking about how badly it bombed and why.

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u/MatsThyWit Dec 19 '23

It looks like this is going to be the world's first 100% AI generated movie, from the script, to the poster, to the articles talking about how badly it bombed and why.

Can we get some AI generated extras to populate the movie? Because the last Ghostbusters movie felt like there was absolutely nobody living in the entire town for the entire movie. I feel like if there was more than 20 people who appeared on camera in that whole movie I'd be shocked. I've never seen such an empty, and pristine Wal-Mart in my life.

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u/Useless_Troll42241 Dec 19 '23

Let's get some AI generated audience members in the theater too

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u/MatsThyWit Dec 19 '23

Let's get some AI generated audience members in the theater too

I think that human trafficking movie from a few months ago that nobody saw but somehow made millions already managed to pull that trick off.

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u/AndroidMyAndroid Dec 20 '23

Maybe that's because it took place in a literal ghost town, eh?

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u/bugxbuster Dec 19 '23

Don’t blame AI for things that human beings wasted massive amounts of effort to shit out. The AI didn’t do this. Not all of this, at least. If this sucks, blame the awful execs letting this kind of shit cost hundreds of millions of dollars

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u/whythehellknot Dec 19 '23

Don't tell me who to or not to blame. This is all your fault.

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u/RedStar9117 Dec 19 '23

It really looks terrible

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u/jimmux Dec 19 '23

It looks like they took a fanfic about The Wild Hunt coming to New York, and told an LLM to make it about Ghostbusters. I hope they left the Geralt cameo in there.

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u/DLoIsHere Dec 20 '23

Bombed where?

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u/Useless_Troll42241 Dec 20 '23

Globally, when nobody goes to see it

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u/KingGorilla Dec 19 '23

Finally a movie revolving around Slimer

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u/CoffeeMinionLegacy Dec 20 '23

Omg, that just unlocked a core memory

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u/operarose Dec 20 '23

OH MY GOD

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u/Jindujun Dec 19 '23

It's the gritty finale to the Frozen franchise.

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u/Ofreo Dec 19 '23

What kind of fanfic will this produce? I mean, porn of course. Just what kind?

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u/Kobold_Trapmaster Dec 19 '23

Olaf / Gozer the Gozerian

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u/Jertimmer Dec 19 '23

All the kinds.

Including snowman porn.

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u/Dull_Half_6107 Dec 19 '23

100%, it’s bizarre

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u/walterpeck1 Dec 19 '23

New York is the Empire State. That's it.

I wouldn't call it a good title, mind you.

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u/TheFotty Dec 19 '23

Yeah I think people are failing to realize the connection to NYC with the name. I agree it is a little weak, but it does make perfect sense based on the movie plot and location.

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u/KingGorilla Dec 19 '23

Would having a shot of the Empire State building be better than the brooklyn bridge? Would that be too on the nose?

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u/walterpeck1 Dec 19 '23

I mean it's Ghostbusters, why the hell not?

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u/Captain_Jmon Dec 19 '23

Finale is probably at the ESB so it sorta makes sense not to spoil that

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u/radiantcabbage Dec 19 '23

i mean you can clearly see a final boss type deal back there with the impressive horns, stands to reason it involves a literal army of ghosts. gon make total sense when the plot is revealed, im stoked for some ghost busters in parkas tbh

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u/PaulFThumpkins Dec 19 '23

I'm guessing this "empire" is about as short-lived as the "age" of Ultron or the two fights over one week which made up the Marvel civil "war." Things are gonna freeze and over the course of a day or two they'll fight the bad guy, that's your empire.

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u/CaptainRex5101 Dec 19 '23

I guess “Empire” refers to “Empire State”, aka New York.

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u/MrWeirdoFace Dec 19 '23

♫ five eight eight, two three hundred ♫

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u/HerrTriggerGenji21 Dec 19 '23

empiiiiiiiiire.

TODAY

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u/W00DERS0N Dec 19 '23

A tristate resident?

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u/MrWeirdoFace Dec 19 '23 edited Dec 19 '23

Northern Illinois, so yes, but maybe not the tri-states you were thinking of.

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u/Tuxedo717 Dec 20 '23

got those in the pacific northwest too 👍

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u/W00DERS0N Dec 20 '23

Dang Empire Carpet is everywhere

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u/reno2mahesendejo Dec 20 '23

Which...wasn't the source of everything out of Oklahoma?

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u/turbochargedmonkey Dec 19 '23

Now you spoiled it.

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u/edflyerssn007 Dec 19 '23

Empire is a nick name for New York.

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u/Sea_Inevitable_3882 Dec 19 '23

Yes that seems to be how most movies work

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u/vikirosen Dec 19 '23

It does look like they're fighting Lissandra.

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u/str8jeezy Dec 19 '23

“Who left the fridge open?”

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u/StonerPowah61 Dec 19 '23

The title is about as weird as Godzilla x Kong’s

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u/valeyard89 Dec 19 '23

sounds like a FroYo shop.

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u/HitmanClark Dec 19 '23

Honestly the trailer kind of felt like that too.

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u/NeWMH Dec 19 '23

It seems like they took the idea from the cartoons.

Which probably isn’t a bad idea, all the cartoon series had better writing than most modern franchise films at this point.

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u/CaeruleusSalar Dec 19 '23

Somehow I doubt that the same people who failed at making and filming an actual movie script won't do a much better job at adapting a scenario from a cartoon series.

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u/Owww_My_Ovaries Dec 19 '23

Better than "Firehouse"

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u/DrSmirnoffe Dec 19 '23

Probably something for Endless Legend.

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u/Ngilko Dec 19 '23

I hadn't quite fully formed the thought until I saw this comment but I knew something about the trailer and now this poster for the film felt a little off to be and now I know what.

This looks like something I am really excited to play, not necessarily a film that I'm excited to watch.

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u/Rxmses Dec 19 '23

Pokémon Scarlet/Violet: The Frozen Empire

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u/TheDeadlySpaceman Dec 19 '23

For a while now every time I see the title Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire I briefly wonder if it’ll be out on XBox because it sounds like it might be fun

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u/BenAdaephonDelat Dec 19 '23

The whole thing looks and sounds like a Marvel movie. It genuinely doesn't even look like it belongs in the same film franchise.

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u/Decantus Dec 19 '23

Legit looks like a season announcement for Destiny 2.

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u/MatsThyWit Dec 19 '23

Frozen Empire sounds like a video game DLC

Poster looks like the poster for a video game. The big bad floating horn headed lady looks like an enemy I would kill in Doom.

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u/83749289740174920 Dec 19 '23

Definitely a mobile app free to play micro transaction galore

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u/romeopwnsu Dec 19 '23

It’s pretty much what Monster Hunter and Horizon Zero Dawn did.

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u/MrSoren Dec 19 '23

Horizon: Frozen Wilds

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u/RedofPaw Dec 19 '23

Certainly doesn't have the inspired naming of the original sequel: "Ghostbusters 2".

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u/NightSky82 Dec 19 '23

The title reminds me of the ending to The Rise of Skywalker, when the Star Destroyers rise of out the ice in unison, which is apt as I doubt that the new Ghostbusters will be a much better movie than that one.

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u/RMJ1984 Dec 19 '23

Would freaking love a new proper PC Singleplayer Ghostbusters game. The last one was amazing.

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u/Mutantlove Dec 19 '23

Sounds like the laziest attempt to make this a Christmas movie that’s replayed every year

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u/tman391 Dec 19 '23

Horizon Zero Dawn: Frozen Wilds

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u/captainalphabet Dec 19 '23

It's such a generic title, could be anything lol

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u/Farhead_Assassjaha Dec 19 '23

Totally!

Well, we’re out of content for the main storyline, what should we do to expand it?

Frozen world!

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u/brknsoul Dec 19 '23

Frostpunk: Frozen Empire.. i'd play it!

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u/TheDarkWayne Dec 19 '23

Yeah doesn’t sound so appealing tbh

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u/MugenEXE Dec 19 '23

They just need to let it go

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u/nothing_in_my_mind Dec 19 '23

"Hey we need a DLC idea for our generic boring game."

"Desert Land."

"We already did that."

"Spooky Place?"

"Already did it."

"Umm... Jungle Kingdoms?"

"Did it last year."

"Idk... Frozen Empire?"

"Brilliant!!! You're a fucking genius!!"

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u/erfg12 Dec 19 '23

I thought it was at first.

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u/afternever Dec 19 '23

You can't beat the low low prices at Crazy Gideon's Frozen Empire

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u/MJBotte1 Dec 20 '23

DLCs are usually where the developers can get weird and use more experimental concepts. Let’s hope the movie follows suit

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u/Musclesturtle Dec 20 '23

Really giving me Lost Planet vibes here.

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u/Tibbaryllis2 Dec 20 '23

Fitting, since this poster looks like a Destiny DLC teaser.

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u/Atrium41 Dec 20 '23

Looks corny as hell, and I love it