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ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Improbable Lobster posted:

It's the best Gundam name I've ever seen




Guy Goodbody posted:

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?

The beam rifle was, at the time, massive overkill. It had enough power to effectively oneshot anything but ate energy like crazy and against a mobile opponent was less useful than a regular weapon because it has so few shots. It's just that Amuro was a Newtype so he missed a LOT less than most people.

The GMs are arguably an upgrade from the Gundam for anyone who isn't Amuro. They are actually slightly superior in some ways but sacrifice the high-output weaponry of the Gundam for something reliable and usable by basically anyone. The Beam Spray Guns are much shittier than beam rifles but even the beam spray gun can punch through Zaku/Dom armor. Their big weakness is they're less effective at long ranges but due to Minovsky Interference anyone who isn't a Newtype generally isn't fighting at long range anyway.

ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 02:20 on Nov 26, 2016

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Kuvo
Oct 27, 2008

Blame it on the misfortune of your bark!
Fun Shoe
is there a list of all the terrible character names in gundam? i though Marbet Fingerhat was the worst but today i learn of Bork Cry....

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Kuvo posted:

is there a list of all the terrible character names in gundam? i though Marbet Fingerhat was the worst but today i learn of Bork Cry....

You're missing the best of all:

BRAVE COD.

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

Kuvo posted:

is there a list of all the terrible character names in gundam? i though Marbet Fingerhat was the worst but today i learn of Bork Cry....

Allelujah Haptism

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

ImpAtom posted:

You're missing the best of all:

BRAVE COD.



Now hold on, that's just a metal gear character

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Guy Goodbody posted:

Allelujah Haptism

Bring. Stabity.

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

ImpAtom posted:

Bring. Stabity.

The name's Frontal. Full Frontal.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
Urine L'ciel. Netoare Anus.

Tae
Oct 24, 2010

Hello? Can you hear me? ...Perhaps if I shout? AAAAAAAAAH!
Chad Chadan

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Darth Walrus posted:

Urine L'ciel. Netoare Anus.

Wootbit Gunhale.

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo

ImpAtom posted:

Wootbit Gunhale.

Don Boyage

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007


Girard Spriggan too for that matter.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

Tae posted:

Chad Chadan

Personality & Character
Chad is cool headed and cares about his comrade.

Skills & Abilities
History
Relationships
Dante Mogro

GimmickMan
Dec 27, 2011

I will defend Biscuit Griffon because I find it plausible that common English words describing delicious food would become names for the lower classes in the grim darkness of future mars.

...It's a bit ridiculous that his entire family would be named like that. But one or two characters? Yeah, I can believe it.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

GimmickMan posted:

I will defend Biscuit Griffon because I find it plausible that common English words describing delicious food would become names for the lower classes in the grim darkness of future mars.

...It's a bit ridiculous that his entire family would be named like that. But one or two characters? Yeah, I can believe it.

Incredibly grim series where countless people die horrible deaths.

Cheerful twins named Cookie and Cracker.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
Amuro piloting the full armor thunderbolt would have been downright terrifying.

Kuvo
Oct 27, 2008

Blame it on the misfortune of your bark!
Fun Shoe
i have no idea which of these names are real and which are fake

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

Arcsquad12 posted:

Amuro piloting the full armor thunderbolt would have been downright terrifying.

The 4 shield design look so cool. So does the armoured Alex. Really great looking robits.

muike
Mar 16, 2011

ガチムチ セブン

Kuvo posted:

i have no idea which of these names are real and which are fake

no one here has made any names up

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord
Banagher Links

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post

Kuvo posted:

i have no idea which of these names are real and which are fake

Pore Fredward

TTBF
Sep 14, 2005



They named a man Kamille even though Kamille is a girl's name.

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
Melanie Hue Carbine. You might think that's not that crazy of a name.

This is Melanie

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Kuvo posted:

i have no idea which of these names are real and which are fake

I am being honest when I say every single name mentioned here so far is real.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord
Daguza Mackle

Raxivace
Sep 9, 2014

Revive Revival.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHlJ2voJHY

Guy Goodbody
Aug 31, 2016

by Nyc_Tattoo
Grave Violento

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord
Hixar Fermi

Fon Spaak

StalkofWheat
Oct 10, 2012
Chibodee Crocket

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007



Also "Crank Zent"

AradoBalanga
Jan 3, 2013

Kuvo posted:

i have no idea which of these names are real and which are fake
After a while, you realize that absurd character names are just as much part of the Gundam franchise as Char clones and Newtypes.

For example: Arian Von Reiji Asuna.

SeanBeansShako
Nov 20, 2009

Now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldier Gentlemen.
Just imagine a majority of these names are on space war memorials.

chiasaur11
Oct 22, 2012



SeanBeansShako posted:

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.

Look, it's not his fault that he was too busy fighting loving space vampires to deal with all the space paperwork.

Can't blame him. Ordering a new Gundam is a really roundabout process.

chiasaur11 fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Nov 26, 2016

SeanBeansShako
Nov 20, 2009

Now the Drums beat up again,
For all true Soldier Gentlemen.
Also, try and tell a horrible Gundam war story using the names of all the provided before seeing how long you can last.

Improbable Lobster
Jan 6, 2012

"From each according to his ability" said Ares. It sounded like a quotation.
Buglord

SeanBeansShako posted:

Also, try and tell a horrible Gundam war story using the names of all the provided before seeing how long you can last.

The assassination of Archduke Bork Cry of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife Revive Revival, Duchess of Hohenberg, occurred on 28 June 1914 in Sarajevo when they were shot dead by Don Boyage. Boyage was one of a group of six assassins (five Serbs and one Bosniak) coordinated by Chad Chadan, a Bosnian Serb and a member of the Black Hand secret society. The political objective of the assassination was to break off Austria-Hungary's South Slav provinces so they could be combined into a Yugoslavia. The assassins' motives were consistent with the movement that later became known as Young Bosnia. The assassination led directly to the First World War when Austria-Hungary subsequently issued an ultimatum to the Kingdom of Serbia, which was partially rejected. Austria-Hungary then declared war.

Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post
I'm watching G Reco, apparently the mobile suit seats have toilets in them now.

ImpAtom
May 24, 2007

Snooze Cruise posted:

I'm watching G Reco, apparently the mobile suit seats have toilets in them now.

Technically that's kinda been a thing before though quite in that way.Mobile suits need to be equipped for long travel in certain situations. They're basically tiny combat-ready spaceships.

MonsieurChoc
Oct 12, 2013

Every species can smell its own extinction.

Snooze Cruise posted:

I'm watching G Reco, apparently the mobile suit seats have toilets in them now.

Powerful, and practical!

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Snooze Cruise
Feb 16, 2013

hey look,
a post

ImpAtom posted:

Technically that's kinda been a thing before though quite in that way.Mobile suits need to be equipped for long travel in certain situations. They're basically tiny combat-ready spaceships.

I had that thought but i wanted to live in ignorance

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