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I was unaware that there was a stereotype that Swedes are all secretly Sailor Moon fans.
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It's because they are openly Sailor Moon fans.
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Nov 14, 2021 01:59
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EthanSteele posted:It's because they are openly Sailor Moon fans. Yeah, it's pretty well known. I swear, next someone is going to claim they've never heard of German ninpo.
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Nov 14, 2021 02:03
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Blaze Dragon posted:The shower is where all good ideas happen, and also where you realize "wait poo poo that doesn't make sense". I had both happen today, but I'll start with the latter: there's one scene that I found nice at first but now I realize doesn't make sense. Thankfully, I have it on Twitter for completely different reasons, so I'll just post it here: I don't think SRW is taking the music video as canon, and there's nothing else that indicates that Akane looks different in the real world than she does in the dream world.
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Nov 14, 2021 02:16
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chiasaur11 posted:Yeah, it's pretty well known. I can’t remember, was the Gundam a ninja or was Kyoji just a ninja so the robot got ninja powers?
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Nov 14, 2021 02:19
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Ethiser posted:I can’t remember, was the Gundam a ninja or was Kyoji just a ninja so the robot got ninja powers? The original pilot was a German ninja, who conveniently wore a ninja mask everywhere.
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Nov 14, 2021 02:20
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kyoji wasn't really a ninja. that's just how he concealed his superhuman physique as a dg android. though, that doesn't explain how he had any insight into domon's advanced martial arts bottlenecks. but eh, plot holes and g gundam are old friends.
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Nov 14, 2021 02:24
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chiasaur11 posted:I mean, all of G Gundam's designs are ridiculous stereotypes, including the Shining and its samurai topknot. Taking one of them out of that context is a bad move, because it's only the fact that everyone is ridiculous that lets the individual ridiculous designs work. Football Surf Cowboy, an okay lumberjack, Omelette Du Fromage, and Codename: Sailor G all work because they have each other as a comparison point. Just taking one amplifies any problematic elements rather than downplaying them, no matter how you rewrite the context. There's no reason for them, in the G Gundam universe, to be anything but ridiculous stereotypes pushed for tourism value, Yokohama Chinatowns in space. Colonies by necessity are urbanized, standardized climate-controlled spaces, with especially in G (as opposed to UC) a populace in which the richest and most internationalized escaped first, followed by a thoroughly proletarianized (and thus crammed into a way of living based on Western European urban traditions, while also being mashed together and de-localized into a collection like you'd see in an immigrant community) workforce necessary because labor must be compelled to maintain a survivability equilibrium higher than the flat 0 of space. So you have at a minimum the same sort of filter as applied to people who came through Ellis Island, cranked up higher as there is no new or abandoned isolated land for them to settle as small groups from not just their home countries but their home regions, and that means Tequila Gundam as an expression of the same processes which give us the key national holiday of Mexican-American culture being celebrated on May 5th with sombreros and cold Coronas while the key national holiday of Mexican culture is celebrated on September 16th with marching bands. This angle could have been pushed more in the background, with groups and side characters legitimately mad that their only choice to survive was to emigrate and play themselves in a giant flying Vegas theme casino and conflict between ones that wanted more honest old ways vs. ones who wanted an even share of the fruits of industrialized monotony, but lol at the idea of getting funding to address that in 1994 when the world was telling itself we'd never ask those questions again, much less weaving it in with the flamboyant cast-of-hundreds tournament structure of Domon's story.
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Nov 14, 2021 02:25
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Kchama posted:I don't think SRW is taking the music video as canon, and there's nothing else that indicates that Akane looks different in the real world than she does in the dream world. You see her at the end of the last episode though.
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Nov 14, 2021 02:37
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Kchama posted:I don't think SRW is taking the music video as canon, and there's nothing else that indicates that Akane looks different in the real world than she does in the dream world. The end of the last episode??? gimme the GOD drat candy posted:kyoji wasn't really a ninja. that's just how he concealed his superhuman physique as a dg android. though, that doesn't explain how he had any insight into domon's advanced martial arts bottlenecks. but eh, plot holes and g gundam are old friends. You don't really need to conceal a superhuman physique in G Gundam, since Master Asia and Domon were completely normal rear end humans who could punch mobile suits to pieces. Schwarz also used ninja techniques inside his Gundam. Kanos fucked around with this message at 02:46 on Nov 14, 2021 |
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Nov 14, 2021 02:44
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:kyoji wasn't really a ninja. that's just how he concealed his superhuman physique as a dg android. though, that doesn't explain how he had any insight into domon's advanced martial arts bottlenecks. but eh, plot holes and g gundam are old friends. I mean, we never have reason to believe he wasn't trained as a ninja. Especially not with how the Devil Gundam functions better with expert martial artists in the pilot seat. He's just a science ninja, because all of Domon's childhood friends and family members are much, much smarter than he is. Speaking of G, something that I liked about its crossovers in T was that the El Dorado V weren't the only heroes from their generation. Master Asia being around meant that, like the protagonists and the decade long trio, you had people who could share experiences from back then, rather than them being an isolated part of the world. You still get some of that with the elderly Victory characters, but it's much weaker since, well, they're much less interesting than Master Asia.
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Nov 14, 2021 02:48
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also it's not a dream world
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Nov 14, 2021 03:07
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SRW30 does Narrative better than Narrative did.
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Nov 14, 2021 05:11
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Kanos posted:The end of the last episode??? Supremezero posted:You see her at the end of the last episode though. I got that and the music video (which... goes directly from that) conflated, it turns out! Also, it turns out they answer it later in SRW30 anyways. Neither of them looked the same at the time, but Akane's personal looks is not what Ernie recognized.
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Nov 14, 2021 05:35
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I did not expect the game to rewrite the plot of Gun X Sword as much as it did, and it's amazing.
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Nov 14, 2021 06:17
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How's support attack/defend work? I've gotten it to actually pop once in a while, but it's pretty irregular.
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Nov 14, 2021 06:19
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Gamerofthegame posted:How's support attack/defend work? I've gotten it to actually pop once in a while, but it's pretty irregular. It's in the tutorial but basically the supporting unit has to be
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Nov 14, 2021 06:21
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I'm kind of surprised how little terrain generally matters in the game to the point where a robot sinks into water it's a rare handful of occasions
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Nov 14, 2021 06:24
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Most of the cool robots can fly now. It's mostly Gundam where widespread atmospheric flight doesn't really become a thing until Victory (or, recently, Hathaway). Flight being introduced to Geass and Mazinger is kind of a big deal but those are all in sequel land now. Sometimes flying robots get a B in the air so you want them to walk except in specific cases, but even that's just Gridman in 30, I think. That might be one reason no one cares about terrain anymore, because the majority of robots fly now anyway so the move penalties just punish MS and Armors (see also: water stages), but that's throwing out terrain bonuses as a carrot.
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Nov 14, 2021 06:40
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The weird-rear end thing is that they basically reduced the bonuses terrains give by a lot. HP/EN Regen terrain is super rare and +10% EVA/Def is generally the max bonus you get now.
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Nov 14, 2021 07:42
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That one mission where you start over water was funny just for J-Decker and Build Tiger stuck at the bottom of a lake while everyone else turbomurders the enemies. They'd only just gotten to shore when the mission was over.
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Nov 14, 2021 07:57
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So here's a weird thing; I didn't get the true ending? I did as the guides said, answered the correct questions, but I didn't even get the dialogue option of which ending to pick. Anyone know what's up?
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Nov 14, 2021 08:07
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Ironically we're getting a few landlocked mechas in the DLC. Sakura Wars and IBO are extremely grounded, with Bael's gimmick being that he can fly.
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Nov 14, 2021 08:25
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Personally I blame it on early OG2 stages where there were a bunch of water levels and none of your dudes can fly and oh god I forgot to equip screw modules 
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Nov 14, 2021 08:44
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ill always remember that one map of z2.1 where getter-3 gets to solo like 20 of the crab mechs from gundam wing off in the ocean while the rest of the map happens far off in the distance
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Nov 14, 2021 08:55
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RoyalScion posted:Personally I blame it on early OG2 stages where there were a bunch of water levels and none of your dudes can fly and oh god I forgot to equip screw modules J had a few maps like that too. I distinctly remember slowly, slowly, moving my FMP crew across an ocean.
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Nov 14, 2021 09:10
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OG1 had its fair share of water stages as well.
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Nov 14, 2021 10:44
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Wait, so the creator of Combattler V got hammered after the monster of the week wrecked combattler v, then saw some yo-yo tricks on tv and thats how the yo-yo attack was born!? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIP99avRnuM
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Nov 14, 2021 18:19
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It is really weird that if you get the secret for Chronicle he downgrades from the last mobile suit he has when you last fight him. Were they afraid a middling mobile suit was going to be too strong?
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Nov 14, 2021 18:30
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Pharohman777 posted:Wait, so the creator of Combattler V got hammered after the monster of the week wrecked combattler v, then saw some yo-yo tricks on tv and thats how the yo-yo attack was born!? Not quite, in that Dr. Yotsuya didn't create Combattler V (that was the late Dr. Nanbara, Chizuru's grandfather and the namesake of the team's base, the Nanbara Connection), he's just their engineer/mission control/manager. I watched the episode featuring Gargantua (the weird out-of-nowhere robot you get in SRW3 that for some reason Raideen characters can pilot), and it was less about the Battle Team and more about Yotsuya busting his rear end trying to get some people to do loving anything to help lighten the burden on the five teenagers who are literally the only people opposing the ongoing alien invasion. His alcoholism seems pretty appropriate, in light of that.
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Nov 14, 2021 18:34
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Pharohman777 posted:Wait, so the creator of Combattler V got hammered after the monster of the week wrecked combattler v, then saw some yo-yo tricks on tv and thats how the yo-yo attack was born!? oh hay, that's my edit
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Nov 14, 2021 18:38
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Ethiser posted:It is really weird that if you get the secret for Chronicle he downgrades from the last mobile suit he has when you last fight him. Were they afraid a middling mobile suit was going to be too strong? For all of two and a half missions too. Beat the game with the normal ending today. Taking a break til at least the first two DLC waves are out.
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Nov 14, 2021 23:28
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Nuebot posted:So here's a weird thing; I didn't get the true ending? I did as the guides said, answered the correct questions, but I didn't even get the dialogue option of which ending to pick. Anyone know what's up? The wiki says that you don't get a choice on your first playthrough, you either get the True ending route or you don't, you get the choice on a new mission on NG+.
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Nov 14, 2021 23:59
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EclecticTastes posted:You know, it occurs to me, I don't think I've seen Ryusei or Masaki comment on the Huckebein, and given that the Chokijin are upcoming DLC, does that imply that the Huckebein series only exists at all in the Alpha universe on the Real Robot route (obviously, the MK-III is never made on the super route, but this implies the difference goes even further, causing even the Vanishing Trooper incident to not have happened)? 
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Nov 15, 2021 00:07
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Ok as much as the MJP crew sucks and is lame they managed to have one funny moment in a DLC mission when Kei says that Izuru made a good manga: cue the super dramatic music and a look of horror on the mc's face
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Nov 15, 2021 00:22
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So I beat Advent ten times and aside from dropping better rewards nothing really happens. 
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Nov 15, 2021 00:25
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Nuebot posted:So I beat Advent ten times and aside from dropping better rewards nothing really happens. You only get the satisfaction of beating up one of the dumbfuckest parts of the franchise.
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Nov 15, 2021 00:56
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I'm gonna be honest, from playing SRW 30, Heavy Metal L-Gaim seems like a very boring show outside of Gabale
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Nov 15, 2021 02:08
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EthanSteele posted:The wiki says that you don't get a choice on your first playthrough, you either get the True ending route or you don't, you get the choice on a new mission on NG+. I believe if you tilt the scales all the way to the left it forces you into the True path, you don't get a choice.
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Willo567 posted:I'm gonna be honest, from playing SRW 30, Heavy Metal L-Gaim seems like a very boring show outside of Gabale Basically every villain in L-Gaim is a goofy dumbass except the actual main villain, it's mostly just a matter of scale. Nei goes through as much dumb failure as Gablae does.
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