#scifi core

[technicallyclassyperfection]

Via print:

[bixels]

She hates robots. She fucking hates robots and she's coming to kill you.

[nerdby]

ALL👏🏻MEDIA👏🏻IS👏🏻POLITICAL👏🏻

[partikron]

I keep thinking about the Dafeng test pilot that you take down in the first chapter of Armored Core VI.

In any other mech storyline, this kid would have been the protagonist. Bright-eyed and hopeful, he would have been the poster child for youthful determination in the face of corporate war profiteering, either finding a cool trick to defeat 621, or being saved by the sudden arrival of other plucky young pilots.

But we both know that no one comes to save him.

The universe of Armored Core is fantastical by any definition, but in this one moment it is at it's most brutally realistic.

"I'm...keeping up with a real merc!" he says, "My training is paying off!"

Reality sets in as the tide turns abruptly in your favor. He is outmaneuvered, outgunned and outfought by the "merc who only kills for credits".

"I can't die like this!"

But he does. All the tenacity of youth couldn't save him from you, and he dies alone and afraid, lamenting his little dream of having his own callsign, his life amounting to the meager credits transferred to your account after the mission.

He would have been the protagonist anywhere else, but here on Rubicon he is a reminder that, in a warzone, no one comes to save little boys.

[eruditegeek]

Are you interested in mechs, TTRPGs, and lesbianism? Well, of course you are. Then check out Violet Core by Sarah Carapace. A 90s vaporwave scifi adventure.

VIOLET CORE on Kickstarter until October 25th.

A heavily modified Powered by the Apocalypse system that uses D4s. You heard correctly. Now you have a use for your cute and deadly pryamids to match your cute and deadly mechs.

Make a character using five archetypes and three factions to become a pilot with various biological or cybernetic enhancements. Or maybe even none. Become little more than a component for your mech, an ace pilot dedicated to the job, a fail girl trying to do the only thing she knows, or anything between. Also, hot women. 🥰😵‍💫🥴🥵

[koyoriin]

NACHTREIHER // ARMORED CORE VI

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[krumparrian-portfolio]

C4-621 // AYRE

[strawberrybyers]

if byler is not endgame then why is stranger things so byler coded

[bozemane]

https://twitter.com/trip_dancer_g

[supnerdsimbi]

Mechs are awesome, that’s it, that’s the post

[technicallyclassyperfection]

Know your artist.

[sho-ho]

A Raven's last flight

[ataraxiaaaaaaaa]

[theterrornaut]

The Atom Man! (Rufus)

[partikron]

The Iguazu Principle

I've said before that G5 Iguazu is a convincing character because we all know someone just like him (petty, insecure, jealous), and we all pretty universally hate people with that combustible mix of traits, but I think he's also a good character because all of us are like that sometimes. We all know someone or a series of someones that just seem to do it all right. If we work out, they do it harder, lift heavier, run faster. If we do some kind of art, there's some jackass who puts together masterpieces with zero effort. If we're trying to lose weight for summer, there's one dude who's rockin' 8% body fat year-round and eats pizza twice a day or some shit. And we all HATE that person, even if we don't want to admit it.

For Iguazu, we're that asshole who is just always KILLIN' IT out there while he just kinda...exists.

I begrudgingly love Iguazu because he's one of those characters that I can appreciate from both sides. I freakin' hate that dude for being a toxic lout, but I remember being a jealous moron plenty of times in my life, so I kinda get it, y'know?

This is another one of the ways AC6 just lives in my head forever now. I call it "The Iguazu Principle": if what I'm saying or thinking sounds like something Iguazu would say, I'm being an asshole.

[krumparrian-portfolio]

Handler Walter // "Cinder" Carla