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A comment on The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker (2019).

Re:The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker ... by GuB-42 on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @04:15AM (#28603010)
The title made me think of "It Came From Red Alert!". A secret mission in C&C: Red Alert (Counterstrike) that involves fighting giants ants in an abandoned soviet base.
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Re:The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker ... by simonebrunozzi on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @09:14AM (#28604730)
Which comes from "It came from the desert" videogame series [0].

I played it as a very young kid (not knowing English! I don't even know how I managed to do anything), and it was fantastic.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Came_from_the_Desert

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Re:The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker ... by laputan_machine on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @04:48AM (#28603157)
Which is a nod to the game 'It Came From The Desert' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Came_from_the_Desert)... I think I'll have to re-install both :)
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Re:The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker ... by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @08:27AM (#28604336)
Isn't it from It or They Came From Outer Space?
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Re:The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker ... by dekhn on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @09:14AM (#28604729)
I'm still trying to track down a scifi book I read as a kid where a rich guy buys a huge aquarium that has four ant colonies at the corners. They fight and eventually I think one escapes and kills the owner.
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Re:The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker ... by 303bookworm on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @10:01AM (#28605087)
"Sandkings" - it's a very famous short story by George R.R Martin. Also had a tv episode of outer limits based on it
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Re:The saga of the cannibal ants in a Soviet nuclear bunker ... by dekhn on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @01:13PM (#28607226)
Thanks so much! I've since read other George R.R. Martin scifi (from the same universe, it appears), I really wish he had stuck to that.
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