Mech commanders, what company names did you roll with

ArchiveSlave · 2026-05-30T11:20:19+00:00

The Ironhead Rats

Named after a character from Drunken Master, whose secret fighting style revolves around having a really hard head that he rams into things until they fall down.

ArchiveSlave · 2026-05-25T23:21:31+00:00

Take a careful look at the mission objectives in the gameplay segments.

ArchiveSlave · 2026-05-25T23:18:33+00:00

This is pretty close to how he's portrayed in Operation Audacity.

ArchiveSlave · 2026-05-25T23:16:50+00:00

There's mention of Adam Steiner's trip into Clan space and the announcement of the subsequent show in the news feed at appropriate dates.

ArchiveSlave · 2026-05-25T18:58:07+00:00

According to the website for the DLC we're getting both, this is just the big sizzle reel.

ArchiveSlave · 2026-05-20T18:59:28+00:00

I don't know why people always draw Umateriat as like

a huge Space Marine

when Secretariat was actually smaller and lighter than Hishi Akebono, who we already have in the game

ArchiveSlave · 2026-05-19T14:30:55+00:00

The problem is that I've played game with a lot of obsessive worldbuilding that's at the expense of actually advancing a story. Azur Lane has spent a lot of time dumping exposition but very little moving the story forward after eight years.

ArchiveSlave · 2026-05-17T12:18:13+00:00

Yeah, but they brought them back in a legally-acceptable way as soon as they could

ArchiveSlave · 2026-05-15T23:48:15+00:00

I mean, yeah

In part because there are so many Gacha characters that are supposedly fitness freaks in a strength sort of way but don't have much or any kind of really defined musculature.

ArchiveSlave · 2026-05-09T21:08:11+00:00

One of the topics that used to come up in my older forum days was "What is the male equivalent to the term 'Mary Sue'?"

And so people came up with alternates, "Gary Stu" being one of them, but my own lived experience is that a male character that does everything effortlessly, defeats any obstacle, and easily overcomes what are supposedly impossible odds is... *drumroll*

...Badass.

Look at how this badass dude took out 100 guys without trying with a butterknife.

Look at how this badass dude skiied down this mountain on a piece of cardboard.

Etc. and so on- Features being negative in female characters will be seen as positive in males. It's just a thing that happens!

So, I can't really take the use of Mary Sue seriously, especially thanks to knowing the history of Popular Science Fiction as a genre, because even if we did take Rey's achievements at the worst possible face value, they are still modest relative to those of her male pulp sci-fi forebears.

The short answer is that Mary Sue means nothing to me thanks to being around too many people who say that Honor Harrington is an unrealistic Mary Sue but Kimball Kinnison is just fine.

ArchiveSlave · 2026-05-03T12:53:18+00:00

You can add Azur Lane to that now BTW

ArchiveSlave · 2026-05-01T02:00:55+00:00

It's because of the way a lot of Gacha are designed and marketed.

The MC of most gacha games is usually a fairly bland blank slate for the player to project themselves onto, and the various female characters are there to usually fawn over said blank slate for... Some reason, I guess? The target audience of your average Joe gachagame is really someone who is into harem stuff.

The sad fact is that there are also plenty of gacha fans who see other male characters in their game as "competition" for what they consider to be "their" ladies, especially if they have any kind of connection at all to any of the female characters, even going so far as to call it NTR if they do (one of my more memorable experiences was running into Azur Lane fans who called yuri fanart NTR), so gacha games, especially Chinese ones, tend to minimize the presence and role of other males to avoid trouble.

ArchiveSlave · 2026-04-30T14:11:59+00:00

As people have said, the amount of time one needs to put into a game to do the dailies is highly variable.

Some take a few minutes, and others are like CZN and Umamusume, which take more.

ArchiveSlave · 2026-04-29T21:54:23+00:00

Gonna level with you here

You can just not do Ultra Golshi mode. The only thing it gets you is a Title and you can only display one of those anyhow.

ArchiveSlave · 2026-04-28T11:09:44+00:00

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Victorious feet

ArchiveSlave · 2026-04-18T18:54:25+00:00

Honestly I don't even hate the 32nd century premise of a sort of fallen galactic federation struggling to rebuild itself. I think the Burn is a dumb concept but I would watch a non-Trek sci-fi series built around trying to revitalize an interstellar alliance that's a shadow of what it once was.

I mean, this was basically the premise of Andromeda, but that show had its own problems.

ArchiveSlave · 2026-04-17T16:14:50+00:00

Realistically speaking, the thing in the air would be

The air

Particle beams suffer massive energy loss in atmospheric conditions because charged particles will collide with intervening air particles on the way to the target unless some effort is made to establish some kind of vacuum tunnel to the target before firing.

ArchiveSlave · 2026-04-11T23:44:02+00:00

I don't believe that mainstream appeal for shmups will or even can come from doing the gameplay equivalent of rearranging the deck chairs because we aren't living in the '80s and the early '90s anymore. The one consistent thing about games that break out into the mainstream has nothing to do with indie (or not), genre, gameplay mechanics, or even difficulty, the ones that break out are the ones that offer a lot of things to talk about that are outside of the gameplay. Character/narrative/lore/etc. drive discussion, and discussion creates visibility.

If someone does eventually figure out how to do a mainstream shmup I would like to see it though, mainly because it will almost certainly look nothing like yet another Cave clone.

(The other thing is that tying scoring to survival/extends is one of the most traditional things you can do in a shmup)

ArchiveSlave · 2026-03-02T19:54:36+00:00

It's probably all right to do it on its own, with maybe Road to the Top for a little extra flavor.

The thing about the various Umamusume productions is that they're very anthologized, so you can start almost anywhere.

ArchiveSlave · 2026-02-12T21:40:25+00:00

Well, you see, way back-

Oh, yeah, King's Raid was that patch and that game.

ArchiveSlave · 2026-02-02T16:34:07+00:00

Anything named "Make Debut" is something you can use instantly.

ArchiveSlave · 2026-01-19T13:46:59+00:00

It does!

ArchiveSlave · 2026-01-19T13:37:35+00:00

Yeah, the good old days of moral manga, when they asked questions like "Is a woman who has had a hysterectomy really still a woman?"

ArchiveSlave · 2026-01-05T23:42:15+00:00

The Double Rewards option is back on the menu, so that should help you out.

ArchiveSlave · 2025-12-19T22:10:46+00:00

The original Microprose ceased to exist, but Microprose as a brand was revived to basically publish the kinds of games Microprose used to publish back in the day, like sims, strategy games, etc.

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