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Guy Goodbody posted:I think one of my favorite things is that Amuro gets thrown out of his chair and spends the Axis Shock, the most heroic moment in the history of the universe, awkwardly climbing over his pilot seat. Hey it's not amuro's fault that the feddie engineers collectively decided to get rid of seatbelts back in the zeta era.
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Part of being powerful on the newtype power level scale is also being able and willing to forgo logic and embrace the things your brain is telling you can't be real. This is shown in Zeta most clearly with Amuro being scared of going back into space because he knows Lalah is out there and he can't cope with logic telling him she's not. This seems tied into growing up and why the strongest newtypes are often children with only rare individuals being strong newtypes in their adulthood. Most of them just have feelings and are ace pilots pass the age of 16, but can no longer see time as they once could.
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Nov 23, 2016 20:32
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Guy Goodbody posted:I think one of my favorite things is that Amuro gets thrown out of his chair and spends the Axis Shock, the most heroic moment in the history of the universe, awkwardly climbing over his pilot seat. Char isn't exactly Mr Cool in that moment telling Amuro and us about his weird mother issues while this happens.
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Nov 23, 2016 20:38
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I'm still going through Zeta but I assume that Amuro and Char get married and go live out in a space cottage eventually
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Nov 23, 2016 20:42
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Improbable Lobster posted:I'm still going through Zeta but I assume that Amuro and Char get married and go live out in a space cottage eventually Yeah, they get the one right next to Tupac and Elvis.
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Nov 23, 2016 20:43
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Improbable Lobster posted:I'm still going through Zeta but I assume that Amuro and Char get married and go live out in a space cottage eventually It's more of a ranch so Char can ride his horsies but yes
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Nov 23, 2016 20:45
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Char is actually very not cool thinking about it because who would ride a horse in space future but a huge dork?
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Nov 23, 2016 20:48
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Snooze Cruise posted:Char is actually very not cool thinking about it because who would ride a horse in space future but a huge dork? 
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Nov 23, 2016 20:52
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Snooze Cruise posted:Char is actually very not cool thinking about it because who would ride a horse in space future but a huge dork? 
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Nov 23, 2016 21:01
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Nah that's Sanger who rides. Elzam just gets ridden.
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Nov 23, 2016 21:02
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ACES CURE PLANES posted:Nah that's Sanger who rides. Elzam just gets ridden. He is a huge dork though.
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Nov 23, 2016 21:31
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Your posting in a thread with a franchise chock fulla dork main characters friend.
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Nov 23, 2016 21:39
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SeanBeansShako posted:Your posting in a thread with a franchise chock fulla dork main characters friend. I think it's more "every character ever"
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Nov 23, 2016 21:46
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Snooze Cruise posted:I think it's more "every character ever"
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Nov 23, 2016 23:52
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AradoBalanga posted:Mr. Ral is most definitely not a dork. Passionate about Gunpla, yes. But not a dork. In the middle of a battle he forgot to fight. 
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Nov 23, 2016 23:54
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ImpAtom posted:In the middle of a battle he forgot to fight.
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Nov 23, 2016 23:59
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AradoBalanga posted:Mr. Ral is most definitely not a dork. Passionate about Gunpla, yes. But not a dork. Talk to me about Mr. Ral's itchy bottom.
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Nov 24, 2016 00:23
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Afranchi shows that if Char had a normal childhood he might have managed to not be a sociopath.
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Nov 24, 2016 00:31
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You don't say? Not growing up surrounded by fanatics does wonders for people.
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Nov 24, 2016 00:45
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I was playing star fox 64 again and was playing sector Y. Suddenly mobile suits, and a suspiciously fast red one, with a final battle against a monkey rx-78 and white base.
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Nov 24, 2016 19:15
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Arcsquad12 posted:I was playing star fox 64 again and was playing sector Y. Suddenly mobile suits, and a suspiciously fast red one, with a final battle against a monkey rx-78 and white base. Yup that's there
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Nov 25, 2016 00:49
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Playing Through G Genesis Genesis really drives home how utterly ridiculous the OYW has gotten in errata material and you can kind of trace it as it builds on itself. There are like twenty different Gundams running around and half of them have some sort of insane gimmick and then not only do you have the Exam System but Exam System knockoffs and there are like three different Gundams whose history is "was meant for Amuro Ray and then somehow stopped from getting to him." Any given major battle was apparently populated entirely by elite pilots in custom units who all managed to avoid running into each other except the rare times they run into Amuro. Missing Link is particularly silly as you have a customize Pixie Gundam fighting a super-double plus EXAM System machine but not the original Pixie Gundam or the original EXAM machines but an entire different set that were also running around at the same time because of course there was.
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Nov 25, 2016 10:27
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I'm still waiting for my copy of GGG, but I can't wait to unlock all sorts of units and ask "what's that from?" until I see one I recognize.
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Nov 25, 2016 14:19
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ImpAtom posted:Playing Through G Genesis Genesis really drives home how utterly ridiculous the OYW has gotten in errata material and you can kind of trace it as it builds on itself. There are like twenty different Gundams running around and half of them have some sort of insane gimmick and then not only do you have the Exam System but Exam System knockoffs and there are like three different Gundams whose history is "was meant for Amuro Ray and then somehow stopped from getting to him." Any given major battle was apparently populated entirely by elite pilots in custom units who all managed to avoid running into each other except the rare times they run into Amuro. Yeah the original story of the Federation superweapon that turned the war around in the hands of young Amuro Ray loses a little tension when it turns out there were actually 50 other Gundams that were all better about 24 hours away from any given fight. All the sidestory dudes also have huge kill counts because apparently thats how you get across their badass to nerds really lazily, even it actually means that Johnny Ridden blew up 5 times more Balls than the entire population of the Earth or something. Everyone knows Char Aznable is Charles Aznavour, but it wasn't until I read the Battle Century G/Z books that I realized that we have Amuro Ray as well. Turns out Gundam was JoJo all along.
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It isn't *That* bad when you consider that by the end of the war, the technology that made the RX-78-2 such a threat has quickly become outdated, compared to newer designs like the Gelgoog. It's not the Gundam that won the war so much as it was Amuro's piloting skills, and the gigantic industrial machine that powered the Federation's counterattack following Odessa.
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Nov 25, 2016 21:24
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ImpAtom posted:Playing Through G Genesis Genesis really drives home how utterly ridiculous the OYW has gotten in errata material and you can kind of trace it as it builds on itself. There are like twenty different Gundams running around and half of them have some sort of insane gimmick and then not only do you have the Exam System but Exam System knockoffs and there are like three different Gundams whose history is "was meant for Amuro Ray and then somehow stopped from getting to him." Any given major battle was apparently populated entirely by elite pilots in custom units who all managed to avoid running into each other except the rare times they run into Amuro. That's a nice thing about From The Ashes, really. The Feddie team is "just" a handful of highly competent pilots in mass production suits. Yeah, Zeon gets superweapons, but... it's Zeon. They crap those things out faster than the Federation can produce angsty teens.
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Arcsquad12 posted:It isn't *That* bad when you consider that by the end of the war, the technology that made the RX-78-2 such a threat has quickly become outdated, compared to newer designs like the Gelgoog. It's not the Gundam that won the war so much as it was Amuro's piloting skills, and the gigantic industrial machine that powered the Federation's counterattack following Odessa. Yeah, the Feddies having fifty Gundams by A Baoa Qu isn't that nuts when you remember that Zeon, who had a much smaller industrial base, had so many Gelgoogs they were running out of pilots for them. Amuro basically got a Pershing in 1942.
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I still love the aspect from the books that Amuro's reflexes were so fast that the Gundam couldn't keep up with him.
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I always thought that what won the war wasn't White Base or the Gundam, but the GMs and the Federation's sheer numbers. The heroes were an important part of the war, sure, bu far from the deciding factor. Makes it feel more like a real war to me.
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Azubah posted:I still love the aspect from the books that Amuro's reflexes were so fast that the Gundam couldn't keep up with him. That's not from the books. That's the reason he gets the Magnetic Coating because he's burning out the Gundam's joints. MonsieurChoc posted:I always thought that what won the war wasn't White Base or the Gundam, but the GMs and the Federation's sheer numbers. The heroes were an important part of the war, sure, bu far from the deciding factor. Makes it feel more like a real war to me. It's a bit of both. Amuro did not singlehandedly win the war but the White Base and Gundam had a significant impact. They got combat data for the GMs which made them more capable than they would have been otherwise and basically buzzsawed through Zeon's top aces which prevented those aces from being around during critical battles. Char probably wouldn't have won the war on his own but Char, Lalah, the Black Tri-Stars and Ramba Ral all in top of the line suits could have brutalized the Federation forces, especially post Solar Ray.
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Lalah and Char in the Zeong uninterrupted would've wiped out the remaining federation forces by themselves after the solar ray. I never liked anyone minimizing the efforts of White Base because they made it possible for lovely earth pilots to win.
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ImpAtom posted:That's not from the books. That's the reason he gets the Magnetic Coating because he's burning out the Gundam's joints. Wasn't that also part of why the RX-78NT-1 was built? Man, there must have been dozens of suits made specifically for Amuro that got lost in the space-mail.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Wasn't that also part of why the RX-78NT-1 was built? Job John just passively aggressively hides them because of that one time in the Gun Cannon and the fact people kept making rude comments about his name.
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Improbable Lobster posted:Wasn't that also part of why the RX-78NT-1 was built? There are at least 3: The G-3 Gundam was the testbed for Magnetic Coating and thus effectively the RX-78-2 but with the magnetic coating being intended instead of a slapdash after-the-fact measure. Amuro actually gets this in the novel after the RX-78-2 is destroyed. The Alex, obviously. The Gundam Pixie which was intended to be delivered via Medea to Amuro during the Ramba Ral arc but was lost due to internal squabbling. This was basically just a higher-spec Gundam with beam knives, not a Newtype-use unit. But yeah, the Magnetic Coating was basically a stopgap measure. The Alex was intended to be a Gundam specifically designed from top to bottom to take advantage of Amuro's Newtype abilities.
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ImpAtom posted:The Gundam Pixie which was intended to be delivered via Medea to Amuro during the Ramba Ral arc but was lost due to internal squabbling. This was basically just a higher-spec Gundam with beam knives, not a Newtype-use unit. The RX-78XX Gundam Pixie () is a prototype close-quarters combat mobile suit and is part of the RX-78 Gundam Series. It was featured in the video game Mobile Suit Gundam: Cross Dimension 0079, and was designed by Kunio Okawara. The unit is piloted by Bork Cry.
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Nov 26, 2016 01:57
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My ace pilot is also named Bork
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Improbable Lobster posted:The RX-78XX Gundam Pixie () is a prototype close-quarters combat mobile suit and is part of the RX-78 Gundam Series. It was featured in the video game Mobile Suit Gundam: Cross Dimension 0079, and was designed by Kunio Okawara. The unit is piloted by Bork Cry. My pilot is also named Bork. efb: God drat it.
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Improbable Lobster posted:The RX-78XX Gundam Pixie () is a prototype close-quarters combat mobile suit and is part of the RX-78 Gundam Series. It was featured in the video game Mobile Suit Gundam: Cross Dimension 0079, and was designed by Kunio Okawara. The unit is piloted by Bork Cry. 
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ImpAtom posted:My pilot is also named Bork. It's the best Gundam name I've ever seen
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The Gundam Pixie was significantly lighter than its RX-78 brethren, due to the lack of the core block system, and as a consequence is a faster and more agile unit. However, it is relatively lightly armed, with head vulcan guns, a conventional shell-firing submachine gun and a pair of small beam daggers. How is that supposed to be an improvement over the regular Gundam? Wasn't the beam rifle a huge deal?
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