#AC6

[lovewritteninthestrands]

chasing clouds over rubicon

[daddyjojohn]

oh yeah mr krabs (AAAAAAAAAAAA)

[its-a-fiasco-bratan]

I saw these tweets somewhere a while ago and, I think about them whenever landing a charged rail rifle shot on a moving target or skimming under enemy fire to land a kick to their mech makes my heart-rate go up a little more than it should.

[noshemybro]

Armored Core 6

Elden Ring

[s3znl-gr3znl]

Tch, you're pretty good. But once I've memorized your attack pattern, we're making out sloppy style

[hkcomplex]

“weird how corps will hire you for missions right after you kill a bunch of their own soldiers for their rivals, like do you think they know?”

bro that’s so crazy it’s almost like capitalism alienates us from the product of our labor so in a future where murder is sanctioned under capitalism nobody would even think to hold you accountable when you murder their friends and comrades because it’s “just a job, 621” and it’s literally not your responsibility, you didn’t make the call, you don’t have any agency, you’re just the unlucky dog who did the job and assumed all the risk and put your life on the line bobbing and weaving through enemy artillery and also paying for all your own ammunition and mech repairs cause they don’t even give you that cause you’re an independent contractor, it’s just a job, it pays the bills, specifically the bills from when you literally lobotomized yourself to become an inhuman killing machine for the sake of your career advancement. it’s like nobody holds you accountable because

under capitalism nobody even sees you as a human

y’know?

[actual-haise]

[littleouroboros]

Guys I think I got the wrong AC

[hobe-bryant]

Young people when corporations tell them to die in a foreign war for resources:

Young people when corporations tell them to die in a foreign war for resources but they have a big robot and a Dom in their headset doing pet play on comms:

[beetleslap]

The dynamic of AC6 is so funny to me it's just

handler Walter : "babygirl daddy needs you to go out there and kill anyone who owns less than ten billion dollars can you do that for me kitten"

Hound "world's okayest lobotomite" 621:

[koyoriin]

Malenia-...uh...IB-01: CEL 240 // ARMORED CORE VI

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[drenched-in-sunlight]

Ayre, who I think has impossibly kind eyes.

[wakethedevils]

gender-neutral terms to use other than mister/miss

buddy

tourist

raven

hound

mercenary

621

g13 (pronounced "gun 13")

[noneoutofnone]

Getting whiplash going back to Armored Core VI after playing Starfield

Starfield trips over itself letting you know all of the quests are chill and good actually. The choices in dialogue range from doing a good deed to doing a good deed… for money😈. The only way to join the Space Pirates is to be offered the chance to go undercover first, making sure you see the Pirate but you’re a good guy option. If a persuasion check with someone fails, leaving you only with the prompt [Attack], your companion will say something to the effect of “woof, that was rough. But you did what you had to do.”

The most recent mission I finished in Starfield was for the United Colonies. You stand in front of a council of bureaucrats trying to convince them to hand over banned archival weapon data. This could help stop a small but growing danger to the galaxy. The council argues that it could also lead to that weapon falling into the wrong hands - It was locked away for a reason. It’s a great moment because it was the first time a character in starfield stood up and said to me No, you are in the wrong here, your research could lead to the weapon data leaking, civilians will be put it danger. ALERT. oh no. ALERT. Just as this conversation is happening an entirely contained but also extremely dire attack occurs. ALERT. You rush out and save the day. The threat is proven to be real and the data is necessary. No more questions about is it the right thing to do. Forget about all that other stuff we brought up, you were right. The whole council apologizes to you profusely. Here, take the nuclear launch codes, and here’s a thousand credits as an apology for insinuating that you weren’t the galaxy’s goodest bestest boy.

Mission 1 of Armored Core 6 is called “Illegal Entry”.

In mission 4 “Destroy the transport helicopters” the helicopters are just that. No weapons. Trying to run from you. The rubiconians who stand between you and the helicopters are defending their families. During the fight the enemies bark about you being the bad guy. After the mission your Dad calls you and says “It’s just a Job 621. All of it.” Throughout the entire game you are flooded with voicemails, calls, voices in your head, that all have an opinion on whether what you’re doing is good or bad or just a job.

Starfield is telling you not to think about it too hard. Armored Core is telling you to think about it. A lot. Screaming at you to think about it. What are you doing. It’s not just a job. The game is talking about your actions through all sorts of different lenses.

It’s stepping out of a lazy river and then immediately riding down Niagara Falls in a barrel. Sometimes literally. You see the same safe boring landing cutscene a million times in Starfield. Twice 621 has packed themselves into a barrel and yeeted it into danger.

[doobermcgoober]

"I'll support you, Raven!"

[gate653]