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Mech media [Lancer]
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diesel guzzling? I thought battletech mechs used fusion reactors, unless they changed that at some point?
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I think people's favorite is whatever they grew up with. I played a lot of MechWarrior 2 as a kid. Give me the stompybois.
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Scythe is steampunk mechs. Some of them are ugly as shit, but it’s such a great game
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I think people's favorite is whatever they grew up with. I played a lot of MechWarrior 2 as a kid. Give me the stompybois.MechAssault and especially MechAssault 2 hold a special place in my heart and I’m sad there hasn’t been a remake of either. Nothing like fighting giant mechs in power armor while Getting Away With Murder by Papa Roach or Right Now by Korn play. So much hype.
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Scythe is steampunk mechs. Some of them are ugly as shit, but it’s such a great game
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An Eva is not a mech unfortunately... ::: They are giant beings restrained by the armor they are inside of and mentally synchronized with their pilot. :::
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Quick rec for an amazingly good book I read recently. 'Moonstorm' by Yoon Ha Lee. It's a futuristic sci-fantasy where young 'Lancer pilots' fight on behalf of a paternistic empire, in a setting where the gravity of colonized worlds and the very laws of physics are governed by the laws of society and the people that comprise them. This phenomenon is so prevalent that rebel factions live out in a segment of space called 'the Moonstorm', where anarchistic and communal values lead to an erratic and unpredictable (but undeniably beautiful and free) cosmos. In the Empire, authoritative dogma and rigid social hierarchy leads to 'normal' (to us) gravity and 'predictable' (to us) celestial body movements. Gravity is a very heavy-handed metaphor for unity and national identity in the story, and it's brilliant in exploring the divide between an oppressive imperial autocracy and an anarchistic society with just the raw backdrop. Also, techno-psychic sapient mechs and massive freaking gravity-powered railguns.
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Oh you’re right
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My first introduction was the so fucking amazing load video for mechwarrior 4. God, they put so much cool shit in a three minute blast.
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!beetlejuicing@lemmy.zip?
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I think people's favorite is whatever they grew up with. I played a lot of MechWarrior 2 as a kid. Give me the stompybois.Unless you count Power Rangers, Gundam Wing was my primary mecha media as a kid. Loved that shit!
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Quick rec for an amazingly good book I read recently. 'Moonstorm' by Yoon Ha Lee. It's a futuristic sci-fantasy where young 'Lancer pilots' fight on behalf of a paternistic empire, in a setting where the gravity of colonized worlds and the very laws of physics are governed by the laws of society and the people that comprise them. This phenomenon is so prevalent that rebel factions live out in a segment of space called 'the Moonstorm', where anarchistic and communal values lead to an erratic and unpredictable (but undeniably beautiful and free) cosmos. In the Empire, authoritative dogma and rigid social hierarchy leads to 'normal' (to us) gravity and 'predictable' (to us) celestial body movements. Gravity is a very heavy-handed metaphor for unity and national identity in the story, and it's brilliant in exploring the divide between an oppressive imperial autocracy and an anarchistic society with just the raw backdrop. Also, techno-psychic sapient mechs and massive freaking gravity-powered railguns.
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A really dumb mecha book is NecroTek by Jonathan Maberry. Because we needed undead giant robot pilots fighting the elder gods of the Cthulu mythos. Ok, that actually sounds awesome, but the writing is fun but meh. The elder gods don't actually show up, they just send armies of shoggoths piloting transforming combiner mechs.
