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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Sci-Fi Wi-Fi > Shittiest piece of garbage tech in science fiction
 
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Droyer
Oct 9, 2012

 What's the shittiest, worst, absolute most rear end-backwards piece of sci-fi tech you've ever seen? I don't mean in how realistic it is, idgaf about that, but in the context of the thing it's from it's just a real piece of trash.

I nominate the Scopedog from Armored Trooper VOTOMS:



Its armor can be punched through by a hangun, its fueled by one of the most volatile materials known to man so if you do much as nudge it it blows up, it once lost a fight to a bunch of bikers with molotov cocktails. Just an iron coffin pretending to be a mech.

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Droyer
Oct 9, 2012

xutech posted:

Federation uniforms...

Star Trek Captain: Number 2 I would like you to go down to the med bay to get some dilithium crystals for important reasons.

Number 2: (waking from erotic reverie) er, I would prefer not to if it's okay with you captain...please send the android..

Star Trek Captain: No it is important and it is an order.

Number 2: (trying to punch self in dick) uh, yes sir, just give me a few more seconds.

Seems like more of a feature than a bug to me.

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Droyer
Oct 9, 2012

Nebakenezzer posted:

This is something where media is really different from reality. In games at least, Light Infantry are dudes that exist to be cannon fodder, to die in droves while you research something worthwhile. In the real world, "light" and "heavy" refers to the logistics tail, mostly. Light Infantry are infantry that specialize in being infantry that don't require much in the way of supplies to do their job. In contrast, mechanicalized infantry are the dudes who roll with armor. The infantry themselves likely don't require much more in the way of supplies, but now the unit they are in drive APCs that need lots of fuel, ammo, maintenance etc.

Actually, if they got gundam/power suits, I guess the term "mechanicalized infantry" is still valid :thunk:

I don't know much about Gundam, it seems like they need as much work as a combat airplane at least

Way more probably, most Gundams are about 18 meters (about 59 feet) tall. They're less power armor and more a humanoid vehicle.

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Droyer
Oct 9, 2012

DrBouvenstein posted:

Related to the lovely Gundam robots, in Robotech/Macross, they had the transforming Varitech fighters, that were, by and large, good.

But they also had non-transforming machines called Destroids that couldn't do poo poo. Like 5 models of them, some with massive lasers, others with artillery, one with nothing but a gently caress ton of missles...all useless.

Oh, Zentradi attacking? Yeah let's put 50 of those pieces of poo poo out there, maybe they'll blow up 1 loving pod before all getting destroyed.

Please do not mention the accursed name of Robotech in this, my most sacred of threads.

For actual thread content though, and since we're talking about Gundam:



The Zudah. A competitor to the Zaku with superior power and speed. Only one little problem: It had a tendency to overexert its engine and literally break apart, inevitably killing its pilot.

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Droyer
Oct 9, 2012

SlothfulCobra posted:

For American shows and movies, they're not so much about quarries and instead they prefer to film within the 30 mile zone where union work is a lot cheaper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yy16KFzM4XU

Of course, with space colonization, it's plausible that only a very small area of the planet is colonized and the rest of the planet is unpopulated, so there basically is a very small area of the planet worth visiting.

And then there's space colonies, where it's a very neat idea to make a giant installation floating out in the void, but seldom do works make a reason why people built and live in them in the first place. The biggest reasons I've seen are using them as a hub for transport without having to enter in and out of a gravity well and as a platform for space mining, but otherwise, most people are built for living on planets and would be better off to continue living on the planet.

Babylon 5 was made to be a transport hub and a neutral meeting place. The Gundam franchise I don't think ever clarifies their reasons, which it seems relevant because all those space colonies are always wanting independence. Sonic Adventure 2 had a space colony that was just abandoned for some reason.

Gundam has "overpopulation but terraforming isn't a thing" as a reason and in SA2 the colony was a weapons research station that got shut down because the government grew suspicious of the head researcher.

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Droyer
Oct 9, 2012

Farmer Crack-rear end posted:

the water molecules in your blood were once part of dinosaur piss
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