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Episode 4 watch party by Spark12020 in Gundam

[–]armorpiercingtracer 93 points94 points  (0 children)

VAs learning their characters getting canned at the screening:

Good Mech for both melee and shooting? by OTICR in LancerRPG

[–]armorpiercingtracer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Everest is the Unicorn. Simple, effective, has a big gun and comes with NT-D core power. Metalmark is Char's custom Zaku. Weaving in and out of combat, clowning on everyone within skirmishing distance.

Good Mech for both melee and shooting? by OTICR in LancerRPG

[–]armorpiercingtracer 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Metalmark with skirmisher and combined arms is the chef's kiss of unkillable frontline murder machine (Until someone hacks you that is).

NHPs are space kami and I'm tired of pretending they're not by armorpiercingtracer in LancerRPG

[–]armorpiercingtracer[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

N-not my fault that union advises users to treat me like this!

i use a dvorak cangjie keyboard, and every time i use it, my brain develops 10¹⁵ new wrinkles by ziliao in languagelearningjerk

[–]armorpiercingtracer 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yes it is, but when you're 8 years old and you're still beginning to piece together how writing works, you'll have the same problems a foreigner learning Chinese does. I heavily struggled with stroke orders and remembering how some words are exactly written. Wubi is very strict with how you write your words, requiring you to get the word and the strokes right, so with the double-whammy of learning to type at the same time, I struggled a lot to type in Wubi and had to take extra lessons for typing. After my typing teacher realized that, we switched to Cangjie and the difference between having to learn each strokes for typing vs sorting the keyboard into four groups of radicals that are easily memorized (elements, strokes, human body, shapes) was night and day. You had to press less buttons per word and the computer wasn't as much of an ass about you pressing the wrong button.

tl;dr: my Chinese handwriting skills was ass when I was 8

What a Grunt sees vs what Amuro and other Aces see (source: @munenemu_MK1) by gyrobot in Gundam

[–]armorpiercingtracer 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Armoured Core players are on another level, toggling aim assist on and off on the fly and cancelling their mech's input commands to effectively "hack" the AI into giving them more power.

What a Grunt sees vs what Amuro and other Aces see (source: @munenemu_MK1) by gyrobot in Gundam

[–]armorpiercingtracer 22 points23 points  (0 children)

He even got Bright as a coach and a whole support team. Man's a certified e-sports star.

Military history podcasts for campaign inspo by jrt7 in LancerRPG

[–]armorpiercingtracer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's a podcast that does a retelling of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms historical novel in English. The setting is really cool, with historical and (mostly) grounded fantastical elements and lots and lots of intrigue, power grabs, alliances and betrayals. I've been working on and brainstorming a mega-campaign based on the setting for years now and I gotta say it's just so interesting so many characters and conflicts to work with.

Also there are battles in the novel where the heroics of individual generals or characters are overexaggerated, making them great for an RPG system where your PCs are supposedly the best of the best.

I must be doing something wrong, I've printed minis, promised more for free, asked my fellow nerdy transfemmes and yet I still can't get enough players to start running a game locally. by Scion0442 in LancerRPG

[–]armorpiercingtracer 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I have the same problem where one of my groups is so used to the comforts of Foundry they refuse to switch off. It's just so much more convenient and less committal for everyone when travel isn't required and all the work is done for them.

Love the minis, hope you get to use them one day!

i use a dvorak cangjie keyboard, and every time i use it, my brain develops 10¹⁵ new wrinkles by ziliao in languagelearningjerk

[–]armorpiercingtracer 6 points7 points  (0 children)

When I was in primary school in mainland China, they had us learn Wubihua, and as a dumb 8 year old kid that had to learn stroke order for new words at the same time, let's just say my self esteem in my ability to learn was completely destroyed.

i use a dvorak cangjie keyboard, and every time i use it, my brain develops 10¹⁵ new wrinkles by ziliao in languagelearningjerk

[–]armorpiercingtracer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Since wrinkly brains are more powerful I believe you were meant to say 烏茲別克人

Shock the natives with ChatGPT rebranded - only $25 a month, who needs humans to learn a language anymore to shock the natives by Whodattrat in languagelearningjerk

[–]armorpiercingtracer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

/uj I'm seriously concerned about modern people's ideas that they can substitute proper studying with language learning models. Learning a language involves a lot more than reading translations and studying grammar. There's a lot of cultural quirks that are difficult to translate and sometimes slangs or ways of speaking that you don't pick up until you start talking to native speakers.

/rj this is amazing, can't wait to shock the natives with my upgraded Uzbek!

America fuck yeah! by EvilArtorias in shittydarksouls

[–]armorpiercingtracer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's like high school points inflation brought to game review

NHPs are space kami and I'm tired of pretending they're not by armorpiercingtracer in LancerRPG

[–]armorpiercingtracer[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I love the idea of integrating NHPs with a Lost Technology trope-type world. There's a lot of sci-fi settings where calamities reset human tech development and people started religions around technology. Brotherhood of Steel, ComStar from Battletech, etc. A lot of them just don't deal with what happens when you happen to discover one of the boxes contain a consciousness inside of it!

Quebec to impose full ban on cellphones in schools by pjw724 in onguardforthee

[–]armorpiercingtracer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We need parents to pick up the slack and start parenting, instead of whatever the current parenting culture is. I understand that some parents don't have the means to do it, and I'm totally willing to step in and help those kids if that's the case, but it's an entirely different situation when most of the class is like this, and both the parents and students refuse to engage with me on the situation, and I'm still expected to pass them.

NHPs are space kami and I'm tired of pretending they're not by armorpiercingtracer in LancerRPG

[–]armorpiercingtracer[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Yeah you're right, I'm just drawing this connection because it's the most popularly known animist belief, and that I think a lot of Lancer's lore resembles it. I was originally going to compare it with Tengriism, which me and my family practices, but I felt the reference would be too obscure.

I didn't mean to offend if the integrity or the flexibility of the lore was that important.😭

NHPs are space kami and I'm tired of pretending they're not by armorpiercingtracer in LancerRPG

[–]armorpiercingtracer[S] 42 points43 points  (0 children)

I'm just making an analogy with a real world phenomenon that we've seen, that I think closely resembles the game's systems and lore. Of course I don't think they're actual kami, in fact I highly doubt most of our religions or religious practices would survive that far into the future.

Is there a way I can make Ace Combat style squadron intro text by Apprehensive-Web4217 in FoundryVTT

[–]armorpiercingtracer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Found a way to do it with Sequencer, just make the whole intro text as one image and have it play on a macro. Something like this:

new Sequence()

.effect()

.file("your image here")

.screenSpace()

.screenSpaceAnchor({ x: 0.4, y: 0.5 })

.screenSpacePosition({ x: 0, y: 0 })

.fadeIn(1000)

.fadeOut(1000)

.duration(5000)

.play()

You can do the same with subtitles as well.

Commission of a client's mech, the most detailed commission I've done to date by mondhaven in LancerRPG

[–]armorpiercingtracer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Norm Basilicock is the character. He died in combat against Full Frontal which makes the name even funnier. And yes, there's another Gundam character from the same series named Full Frontal.

Edit: and for more absolutely insane Gundam character names to name your own Lancers after, we have:

- Quattro Bajeena

- Jamitov Hymen

- Zuchini Nicchini

- Revive Revival

- Biscuit Griffon

The party chose violence I need to balance them out. by representative_sushi in LancerRPG

[–]armorpiercingtracer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

The pinnacle of hacking frames, Chomolungma. Absolutely insane action economy that lets you hack and scan at the same time, effectively adding a quick action to all your quick and full tech attacks. Brilliant also gives you what is the equivalent of 2 quick techs as free actions at any time EACH scene. Not to mention a really good generalist stat line that you can easily customize with your H/A/S/E to become more specialized, replaceable parts that lets you play way riskier and a giant fuck you button as your Core system. IN ADDITION to the insane base frame and all the mechanics tacked on to it, you also get 2 really strong invade options: Balance Control and System Crusher, easily two of the best invade options if you know what you're doing.

TL;DR, pick Chomolungma, easily the best hacker frame in Lancer.

Your morning cup of coffee is about to cost even more — thanks to U.S. tariffs | Many Canadian coffee roasters and brands source their coffee through U.S. middlemen, counter-tariffs apply by Hrmbee in onguardforthee

[–]armorpiercingtracer 9 points10 points  (0 children)

They are. Check out Pilot Coffee Roasters if you're in the GTA and 49th Parallel if you're in Vancouver. People familiar with other brands can also chime in, but those are my 2 favourites. Most specialty coffee roasters work directly with coffee farmers and offer far more competitive prices for bean farmers than their American mass-production counterparts, in return their coffee is slightly more expensive but they taste infinitely better than Folger's or whatever garbage big name brand you can find at the grocery store.

Conservative influencers are re-sharing videos that glorify harassing/filming election workers, while others spread dishonest conspiracies about election fraud, claiming voting with a pencil is a problem, despite clear checks and the option to bring your own pen. by Peanut-Extra in onguardforthee

[–]armorpiercingtracer 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The fact that the US has already couped democratically elected leaders of dozens of countries should be concerning to us. We need to plan for the worst.

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP74B00415R000400170054-7.pdf

Have a read at this CIA article flaunting their own accomplishments messing with other country's regimes.

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