Latest Posts by tacticalpizzaoven - Page 8
pokèmonize yourself!!!!
spin this wheel to see your pokemon type
spin this one to see how you'll look like
i love poison omelette
I'M DOING AN EXPERIMENT
To prove something to a friend, please
REBLOG IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES
LIKE IF YOU THINK ASEXUALS DON’T BELONG IN LGBTQ+ SPACES
they call me an undercover agent. the way i’m. under the covers :) cozy in bed :)
just thinking about a mech cockpit as a stim toy, there would be so many buttons to press and switches to flip, and so many sensations
in anticipation for tonight’s session i made this
good news! you're an animorph! bad news! you didn't know about the two-hour limit and got stuck in your first morph, which is whatever this wheel lands on
within the day this gets reblogged by vex and corsair with their infinite followers and my phone turns into a high frequency blade with the notifs
this is what i get for being funny i guess
lancer has done things to me
i used christ-the-buddha as an expletive in front of my parents. i'm finished.
out of the official frames, it's gotta be the empakaai. something about grabbing someone with THE BIG FIST is so wonderful to me.
a close second is probably the tagetes. i love the way it plays (i'm playing it right now as i type this), it feels VERY sniper, compared to the death's head's focus on a sniping-tech balance. also you can theoretically turn a leviathan hac into a rifle which is hilarious to me.
what’s everyone’s favourite lancer mech and why? people always have fun things to say about their blorbos and that extends to machines
lancer has done things to me
i used christ-the-buddha as an expletive in front of my parents. i'm finished.
Hey do any of you all ever do this:
-going about day normally
-stop suddenly at thought about a Lancer game
-resist urge to go throttle GM (former or present) because of said thought
Sometimes.
Hey do any of you all ever do this:
-going about day normally
-stop suddenly at thought about a Lancer game
-resist urge to go throttle GM (former or present) because of said thought
reblog if you’re transgender, genderqueer, or if you think you could survive being hit with a 14” shell fired from a Pennsylvania-class battleship
lancerposting about @shadow-of-gehenna
So I might as well introduce Tumblr to the @vexwerewolf -style roast memes of some of the GMS systems I did a while back. I still gotta make the rest of them but like *attention span* amirite?
you just hate me because of my beam attack
spin this wheel of fanfic tags. this will be the theme of your day tomorrow.
when a billionaire dies they should explode into a large pile of coins and xp that get randomly dropped into streets across the world
LCP Update!!!
This one is a pretty important one to get out there, a lot of things have been updated and patched to feel a little better now, namely a few mechs that have had a scrutinizing eye over them, Also very importantly: All the art work has been properly uploaded to Comp/con, including the few mechs that are yet to get a spot light on it. Thank you all again for your support and for those who might not have it: Here is the link to the Itch.io page.
How would you add depth and complexity to the culture of the Purview?
Right now, the KTB gets way more attention both because of the two supplements dedicated to it and because the competing noble houses each with its different gimmick and political alignment make it so easy to come up with drama and intrigue.
Meanwhile the Purview seems, both in and out of fiction, flat and uniform. I'm sure its leadership would want to see it and have it seen that way, but given how much it keeps expanding, and therefore adding new cultures to itself, it would have to have a lot of diversity under the hood, even if it would like to pretend otherwise.
I definitely think the Purview has a harder time of it than the KTB, but that's largely because we have a Field Guide to the KTB, whereas the Field Guide to Harrison Armory never got published because of Miguel's non-compete.
There's also the problem that the KTB has this... glamour to it, in both the modern and traditional senses of the word. I've noticed this in a lot of sci-fi properties - that applying the veneer of nobility and monarchy to something can make people forget or forgive its transgressions more easily.
When Harrison Armory, the nationalist corprostate, does imperialist expansion, we can point at it and immediately say "that's a fascism" (even when it's actually... not? Imperialist expansion is always bad but it's not always necessarily fascistic). But somehow, when the KTB do the same or sometimes worse things, like using nanite terror weapons on Free Sanjak, I've noticed people are quicker to make excuses? Like, oh, yeah that's obviously bad but their society works different the KTB are a big place and like of course they're shitty traditionalists and that's really only the Hagiographs and at least the Karrakin have Republican elements who want change and reform and yeah it's bad but aren't Knightly Chivalrous Mechs Just So Gosh Darned Cool?!
I think the nuance of the KTB is also helped by the fact that they're explicitly depicted as non-monolithic. There are ten named Major Houses with their own distinct cultures, politics and homeworlds, and great pains are taken to ensure us that there's multifarious cultures and religions even on an individual world. HA suffers because to some extent it would be more monolithic - it's a nationalist corprostate with only 400 years of history, compared to the KTB's hybrid elective-monarchy neofeudal federation with 10,000.
HA is distinctly American in the way that the nation has become a brand, and a good citizen has to remain on-brand, so things would be more homogenized. To add to that, omninet and blinkgate technology has existed for the whole of HA's lifespan. The unique and distinct cultures of the KTB worlds came about largely because they spent millennia separated from one another by light years. HA has never had this issue, and likely never will. They have the option - and, more importantly, are motivated - to keep a homogenous culture across all of the Purview.
Lancer is fundamentally a game about examining and fighting against unjust structures of power that oppress people but also being larger-than-life heroes that have fun doing it, and the KTB has an innate leg up by virtue of the fact that it has what I'd call a really strong "initial sell:" YOU'RE A SPACE KNIGHT! SPACE KNIGHTS ARE COOL! (PLEASE DON'T EXAMINE SPACEE FEUDALISM!)
To make Harrison Armory compelling, you'd need a similarly strong initial sell for them. And I think I know just the thing.
FOR HUMANITY! FOR LIBERTY! FOR HARRISON! (Please don't examine space nationalism!)
If I were to write the Harrison Armory Field Guide (Tom and Miguel HMU - just kidding. Unless...?), I'd make it BIG and LOUD and OVER THE TOP and OBVIOUS PROPAGANDA with insertions of the actual truth from a HORUS hacker on the side. I'd put Harrison Armory's positioning as "liberators of the galaxy" front and center - "we dive feet-first into hell to save people from tyrants and slavers. We do the work even the UDoJ/HR won't do. Please do not examine our imperialism or social credit system."
AMERICANS? IS ROOT BEER NICE?! I WANNA KNOW
No third option you gotta pick a side
yknow what would be a fucked up phone feature
nothing I take less seriously then people who say "oh my gods" come on now girl
spin the wheel for a genre!
Yeah yeah fuck it, put the integrated autocannon on there
Wrist mounted rocket launcher, yeah. The machine guns where the eyes should be, big fuckoff sword, yeah
Fuck it, yeah, thirty ton VT jump jet kit, partial wing with folding legs, put talons on the fucking thing too, yeah
Hip holster for the one-handed flamethrower, LRM tubes with the deadfire missiles, radiometry suite that lets me see in fuckin x-ray, yeah
Microwave gun, laser AMS, the gauntlet with the HEAT in the knuckles, put all that extra shit on there, yeah
every band name can be ranked on the 'is this a thing i would want in my house' scale between the police and the violent femmes