Mech media [Lancer]
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No, it’s explicitly dieselpunk.
Oh you’re right
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40k This mech is a church.
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Scythe is diesel powered mechs.
Battletech uses fusion. Their issue is heat management.
Combustion engines are used in industrialmechs. Hypothetically they could be diesel guzzling.
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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.
Mine was…
“There’s still room in hell for your sorry carcass”
“Look on the bright side kid… You get to keep all the money.”
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Relevant username
!beetlejuicing@lemmy.zip or !usernamechecksout@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.
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.
Yoon Ha Lee really likes this sort of thing. Is this set in the same universe as the Machineries of Empire books?
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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.
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40k This mech is a church.
And this cathedral is a warp capable starship
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Hey nice to see Titanfall getting some love. I personally really enjoyed Titanfall 3.
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Hey nice to see Titanfall getting some love. I personally really enjoyed Titanfall 3.
Don’t do that. Don’t give me hope.
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40k This mech is a church.
Does 40k actually have machs?
I see no reason why they wouldn’t, I’ve just never heard of them. But then my only engagement with the setting has been the Rogue Trader crpg and the occasional video.
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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.
Yoon Ha Lee really likes this sort of thing. Is this set in the same universe as the Machineries of Empire books?
Maybe. I’m not sure, I haven’t read those yet.
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Hey nice to see Titanfall getting some love. I personally really enjoyed Titanfall 3.
Titanfall 3 was definitely my favourite game of 2023, it should’ve gotten GOTY.
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I’m sure one of Horus’s mechs is just a weaponized rumor.
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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.
I grew up with Robotech, which was just a 4chan Memelord’s reinterpretation of various low budget animes.
Why yes, I am a Horus fan, why do you ask?
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Does 40k actually have machs?
I see no reason why they wouldn’t, I’ve just never heard of them. But then my only engagement with the setting has been the Rogue Trader crpg and the occasional video.
The Imperial Knight Houses, Chaos Knight Houses, and Titans for your stereotypical mechs.
One could argue that Tau Battlesuits, Space Marine Dreadnaughts, Chaos Dreadnaughts, Hellbrutes, Killa Kans, Deff Dreads, Wraith Lords, Paragon Warsuits, Mortifiers, and Penitent Engines are just smaller mechs.
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40k This mech is a church.
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The Imperial Knight Houses, Chaos Knight Houses, and Titans for your stereotypical mechs.
One could argue that Tau Battlesuits, Space Marine Dreadnaughts, Chaos Dreadnaughts, Hellbrutes, Killa Kans, Deff Dreads, Wraith Lords, Paragon Warsuits, Mortifiers, and Penitent Engines are just smaller mechs.
Wraithlords probably don’t count on the basis that there’s nobody alive inside it, not even in the half-alive space marine dreadnought sense. The pilot is full-on dead and the stone containing their soul gets put in the wraithlord so they can control it. It’s more like a giant haunted suit of armour, in my opinion at least
Eldar titans, on the other hand, actually do have living pilots (and often dead co-pilots), so we’ve still got space elf mechs
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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.
Battle Engine Aquila for me, and my favourite Lancer mech is the SSC Death’s Head… That actually checks out pretty well
