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SaltWraith (saltwraith@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 12:55:00 JST SaltWraith @Ottovonshitpost @Umlaut @Platinum @LouisConde @Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends Every main hero and main villain suit in UC is made of some variation of Gundanium. -
Twoinchdestroya (twoinchdestroya@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 12:55:00 JST Twoinchdestroya @SaltWraith @Ottovonshitpost @Umlaut @Platinum @LouisConde @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends 08th MS team, the Ground Gundams were just rearmored GMs
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ferrarilegends 🇸🇩 (ferrarilegends@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 12:56:12 JST ferrarilegends 🇸🇩 @Twoinchdestroya @SaltWraith @Ottovonshitpost @Umlaut @Platinum @LouisConde @WashedOutGundamPilot speaking of GMs, never understood why they couldn't give the space GM's the beam rifle the ground GM and Gundams used, the beam spray rifle is just awful -
Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 12:56:16 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks @ferrarilegends @Twoinchdestroya @SaltWraith @Ottovonshitpost @Umlaut @Platinum @LouisConde In lore: cost, skill. The spray gun has a wider pattern, and when you’re throwing retards with minimal training into the fray, you’re willing to give them a wider margin of error in every shot fired. IIRC it also recharges much faster, cheaper.
In reality it’s ‘cause they wanted cooler stuff in the OVA and didn’t think we’d be talking about it 40 years later
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Louis Condé (louisconde@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 12:57:37 JST Louis Condé @SaltWraith @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends @Twoinchdestroya @Ottovonshitpost @Umlaut @Platinum Tomino actually did create a set of physics that post hoc rationalizes a lot of it if you really want to get in to the Minovsky particle physics. -
SaltWraith (saltwraith@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 12:57:37 JST SaltWraith @LouisConde @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends @Twoinchdestroya @Ottovonshitpost @Umlaut @Platinum I actually have a physical copy of the english translation of 0079 novel written by Tomino and one of the first things they do is explain how the minovsky particles defined the way they fight wars in UC Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks likes this. -
SaltWraith (saltwraith@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 12:57:38 JST SaltWraith @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends @Twoinchdestroya @Ottovonshitpost @Umlaut @Platinum @LouisConde Oh you know they were getting fan letters about it in Japan the same exact way the AKKHSUALLY guys would pester the writers of Star Trek in the US -
Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 13:03:35 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks @Twoinchdestroya @SaltWraith @Ottovonshitpost @Umlaut @Platinum @LouisConde @ferrarilegends Made with also-ran parts from the gundam program, so they supposedly had all these spares sitting around and figured they’d put them to use
(in reality they just had to write an excuse for the MC’s to have gundam fins because they couldn’t get financing for a team of GM’s)
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Louis Condé (louisconde@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 13:05:29 JST Louis Condé @ferrarilegends @Twoinchdestroya @SaltWraith @Ottovonshitpost @Umlaut @Platinum @WashedOutGundamPilot The GM's reactor was too weak something something minovsky particles, pretty sure @Skringot knows the specifics better. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks likes this. -
SaltWraith (saltwraith@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 13:05:58 JST SaltWraith @ferrarilegends @Twoinchdestroya @Ottovonshitpost @Umlaut @Platinum @LouisConde @WashedOutGundamPilot I think it's just Star Wars stormtrooper shit where they made them suck so the hero units look better -
ferrarilegends 🇸🇩 (ferrarilegends@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 13:05:58 JST ferrarilegends 🇸🇩 @SaltWraith @Twoinchdestroya @Ottovonshitpost @Umlaut @Platinum @LouisConde @WashedOutGundamPilot could be why, and the ground GM was a development that came after the space GM Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks likes this. -
Twoinchdestroya (twoinchdestroya@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 13:07:22 JST Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends @SaltWraith @Ottovonshitpost @Umlaut @Platinum @LouisConde Gundam has some of the most lore autistic fanbase, even AU series tend to be unnecessarily detailed in their arms race and limitations.
I love it!
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SaltWraith (saltwraith@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 13:11:53 JST SaltWraith @Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends @Ottovonshitpost @Umlaut @Platinum @LouisConde The one bit of lore they never really talk about in the shows that I love is the one about how the minovsky particles make radiowaves useless and that's why space battles are back to exciting close fleet battles instead of gay trying to snipe eachother with missiles from a million miles away like submarines. Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks likes this. -
WalrusAurelius (walrusaurelius@pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 15:21:39 JST WalrusAurelius @SaltWraith @Ottovonshitpost @Umlaut @Platinum @LouisConde @Twoinchdestroya @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends Gundam the Origin goes into it a bit when Doc Minovsky himself is trying to sell them on his updated Mobile Suit design. -
Twoinchdestroya (twoinchdestroya@poa.st)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 15:21:39 JST Twoinchdestroya @WalrusAurelius @SaltWraith @Ottovonshitpost @Umlaut @Platinum @LouisConde @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends I need to go and finish all of UC
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WalrusAurelius (walrusaurelius@pleroma.nobodyhasthe.biz)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 15:21:56 JST WalrusAurelius @Twoinchdestroya @Ottovonshitpost @Umlaut @Platinum @LouisConde @SaltWraith @WashedOutGundamPilot @ferrarilegends Origin has a lot of stuff in there to make the background a bit of a "just so" story, like Ramba Ral being instrumental to Casval and Artesia escaping from Zeon and *also* one of the first Mobile Suit pilots, while also being at constant odds with the Zabis. That said, I like Ramba Ral and his character didn't feel changed by any of that. Worst crime is that Dozle feels lampooned into the dumb gorilla trope the Japs love so much.
Personally, I like the way it portrays Degwin in relation to the rest of his family. It's a good contribution to the politics of the series.Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks likes this.
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