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Not sure who those are.
AI tanks...
Don't think that fits in all too well with what Veroe is thinking.
Powered Armor maybe.
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Not sure who those are.
AI tanks...
Don't think that fits in all too well with what Veroe is thinking.
Powered Armor maybe.
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When I think Powered Armor, I think Chozo Battle Armor, Iron Man, or War Machine.
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First thoughts are Tekkaman Blade & Bubble Gum Crisis for me.
Sleek and refined with more weapons then you should be able to hide on such small frames, and have a human inside.
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Well, these powered suits make it so 1 man can use a crew mounted plasma cannon singlehandedly. Also shrug off almost anything but other plasma weapons. No hugely crazy weaponry, or flight, but you jump hella farther, faster, stronger, really adv. com, sat nav, implants, the works. Groundpounder gear. Cause every space opera has its endor, and the ice moon...and it's Jedi massacre. I think ep 3 was my fav. It is the most poignant. Fucking self fulfilling prophecies...
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*points back to Samus Aran and her custom modded Chozo Battle Armor*
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Never got into metroid.
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Oh I know David Weber, Som. He's my favorite Military Scifi writer. I like John Ringo alot too.
I've even thought of doing an SRP based on the Genetic Slavetrade in Weber's honorverse novels, though finding a lady to cowrite familiar with Honor Harrington enough to do it I thought would be too difficult.
I've even thought of doing an SRP based on the Genetic Slavetrade in Weber's honorverse novels, though finding a lady to cowrite familiar with Honor Harrington enough to do it I thought would be too difficult.
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How can you not be into a series where the main character is a tall, busty blonde with lots of brainpower walking around in semiorganic armor with a big beam gun on one arm?
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Maybe he's not into action platformers when it comes to video games, Razor.
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As for the powered suits think of the Starship troopers from the original Rovert Heinlein book not the lame Joel Schumacher and Casper Van Dien movie mixed with Master Cheif from Halo.
The Plasma weapons are the big guns, but the needle and Bead guns they use as standard weapons unleash a hell of a lot of damage too.
That's not even mentioning what Bomb-pumped missile salvos amounting in hundreds of missles from missile pods towed behind ships (not even mentioning Apollo missiles) and Grazers (ship to ship guns that focus high gravity fields into lazers) do to the ships.
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You should. A blast they are. *yoda nod*
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Sad to say, but as good as alot of Gundam's been, they could learn a hell of a lot from reading some David Weber the only anime I've seen that gave me the impression of what it really would be like in the future was the ones by the guy that wrote Appleseed and Ghost in the Shell. the rest seem to try to bend their futurism to fit their theme of needing giant robots.
One reason I liked double O so much was that it was the most realistic treatment and the most original thing I've seen in Gundam since the original series.
One reason I liked double O so much was that it was the most realistic treatment and the most original thing I've seen in Gundam since the original series.
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Heh. Well, keep in mind no one can truly know what the future holds. But I will one day prove that our future lies out there in space...flying giant robots and meeting hot alien babes....er << >>
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Anyway I think you guys may be right about my space opera idea...My experience with these scifi threads is the easier to explain they are the more successful they are. Either that or they need a strong enough hook to lure a cowriter in enough to make them take a chance on it.
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But isn't that one reason behind why we watch anime?
It's not too real?
Kinda the appeal of Giant Robots in the first place =)
And yes I did like the Real world feel 00 Season 1 had.
Season 2 and Awakening of the Trailblazer were uh yeah...
Odd....
It's not too real?
Kinda the appeal of Giant Robots in the first place =)
And yes I did like the Real world feel 00 Season 1 had.
Season 2 and Awakening of the Trailblazer were uh yeah...
Odd....
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Good point. Good Anime and reality may have one or two similarities but more things that are different. Like goldfish and hammerhead sharks. They're both fish but vastly different kinds of fish.
And season 2 of 00 was my favorite though that was because it had the emotional conclusion of what they set up in season 1. Season 1's realism had already hooked me leaving me invested enough emotionally in this world for season 2.
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I stalled out on season 2 after a few episodes. Got to episode 5 and no one seems to have a working upload stream
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Seems similar to my problems with Gundam Wing. That's the one good thing about so many gundam shows. It's like Baskin Robbins. You have 31 flavors of Gundam so you can pick the one you like the most.
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I'm really liking Unicorn. Dammit, now that urge to write a Gundam thread is up again.
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Make it easily accessible to a noob to Gundam or just a noob to mecha anime in general and I bet you'd have more luck with it, Razor. Like writers the world over you have to set it up to draw them in to keep them interested then engineer the thread to get them up to speed. Like the first level of alot of video games are just there to get people acquainted with the basic concept of the games and comfortable with the controls.
Also remember a good proportion of the women here on Lit are bored housewives or college girls looking for some clean fun...While its conceivable that either would be willing to give a scifi thread a go-few I think would have much familiarity with Gundam or Giant robot anime at least not compared to your familiarity with it. The idea is daunting to them like writing a physics paper with Steven Hawking would be daunting to anyone so try and make it as easy for them as possible.
Also remember a good proportion of the women here on Lit are bored housewives or college girls looking for some clean fun...While its conceivable that either would be willing to give a scifi thread a go-few I think would have much familiarity with Gundam or Giant robot anime at least not compared to your familiarity with it. The idea is daunting to them like writing a physics paper with Steven Hawking would be daunting to anyone so try and make it as easy for them as possible.
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Heh heh. We need some sort of Mobile Suit Academy....
