Battletech - Also known as Trannytech

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The Bogwater Flows On said:
Yeah, this shit becoming more apparent to me over time would be disappointing, if this wasn't just how basically ever tuber gets.
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geckogoy said:
I do not care for tex. He has some incredibly faggoty opinions, which would not be the end of the world, but he then combines it with 'i am/was formerly omegadepressed so you cant be mean to me' and he has recruited many tard guards on the basis of the latter which is an insufferable combo
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I've noticed a lot of battletech YouTubers tend to be very pretentious
 
Moja Zemlja said:
I also don't like him recommending grimmechs to new players since I think trying new builds and realising they're dogshit is a fun and important part of the game that helps you become a better player in the longrun
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Now that's a pretty good take. Grimmechs should definitely be a later check, though some mechs have a wide variety of builds so it can also help new players get a general idea of what you can do.
 
Since you are talking about BT lore videos: anyone watched those from the channel Sven van der Plank? He does a good retelling of the events of the differetn era's and also "in between" actions
 
Balr0g said:
Sven van der Plank
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Fine, really. Definately in the genre of 'talking wiki article', but he really can put together a lot of stuff. Points off for bringing others in on the 'big videos': I don't want to hear some tranny's affected lisp or Tex in his stuff.
 
Balr0g said:
Since you are talking about BT lore videos: anyone watched those from the channel Sven van der Plank? He does a good retelling of the events of the differetn era's and also "in between" actions
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Oh yeah, I found that guy a while ago via autoplay yet again finding me new creators. His video definitely serve as nothing more than background noise of a man reading wiki articles so you don't have to. Which is funny considering he actually edits his videos pretty well.
Also, man played MW5 for 9 ours straight, Jesus.
Mikoyan said:
tranny's affected lisp
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I've yet to find a tranny BT content creator thankfully, instead I got sucker punched by a tranny Fallout creator because I saw a Fallout show review in my recommended. Their whole existence seems to be "I'm trans but I'm also not a looney troon." Yeah, not today Satan.
 
I dig mech frog, he seems like a good dude too.
Tex, thank you!! He's not awful or anything but he's like the longest into BT lore and makes biggest/longest vids so he's "best". He's a Taurian fag to a fault of gas lighting people.

Arrow IV and rail guns got nerfed in MWO. I just made a hunchback 2c with a single HAG30 and MLs ... not sure it's great but fun.

I'm working on a pre invasion clan war like early 3000s story for my next TT night. Any ideas? Just stuck they feel like war of reaving.
 
Professor Donger said:
The Taurian part
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The Taurians are one of the Periphery realms, one of the relatively low-tech polities around the "major" great houses. You can read about 'em on Sarna or on books, with some hyper-semplification they're Space America/Space Texas (focused on individual freedom, education and never giving up even against overwhelming odds). Plotwise they don't amount to much bar being designated whipping boys for the Star League/Davions.

In a fandom sense, they're like the Urbanmech meme of old, people liked Taurians because they were a "good" faction with Space America characteristics and Taurian apologists/fans were kind of common and annoying in the online discourse. It massively died off as the new faction that is massively sucked off is the Magistracy of Canopus (muh space prostitutes that the devs keep giving freebies over and over) but the negative reputation of Taurian fans never recovered.

Also, apparently the new Protomech that we were supposed to get this year (much like the Celestials) are still a thing, that's good to hear. Maybe I'll get them before dying of old age.
 
Yeah, there are points in the timeline where it's painfully clear someone was mandating a course of events even if it didn't make a lick of sense.

Ghost Bear civil war, for example.
 
Capsaicin Addict said:
mandating a course of events
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The basic rules of Battletech writing are:

- Will the development be boring, predictable and a waste of an interesting setup/faction? If yes, CGL will always take it.
- Will the development make Wolf's Dragoons/Clan Wolf/Davions (in this exact order) winners? If yes, CGL will always take it.

Devlin Stone and the Republic of the Sphere (like much of the Jihad) went outside of this scheme because they were written attempting to murder Classic for the Dark Age game, and even then reality re-asserted itself making Wolf the winners forever. I'm curious if they'll have the guts of killing off Alaric though, he's absolutely reviled by everyone and seriously, no one likes wolf of the goons since forever
 
Bulk Bogan said:
The Taurians are space Franco-Texas and the writers hate them because they're "mean" to the poor put-upon Davions, who were the main characters for almost the entire franchise. The series as a whole has very, very bad author's pet syndrome.
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See, that's why you go pick the other guys like them, just with a hateboner for pirates and the Canopian faggots.
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Can't have shit in the Periphery without some groomed/groomer cat tranny trying to steal it from you.
 
I like awful factions in BT and I'm NOT ashamed, I blame me getting into it via the cartoon and OG vidya.

I do think Steiner while in 3145 is fucked up and balkenized is a lot stronger than people give it credit. I do not care about the Atlas scout meme, doesn't make me mad or happy. I like Clan wolf because Jade Falcon is bad, they fought them in war of Reiving (mw2) Ghost bear kicks ass and when I learned the lore after the game, I really liked them.

I don't mind the concept of the Wolf Dragoons (not that the IS would know but taking a literal clan name as your cover name lol wtf).

Fucking hate the cappies (but who doesn't?) and funny enough I really enjoy them on TT. I liked the combined arms, and trickery. I also have a unhealthy fetish with land mines.

played some MWO drunk (because who plays that sober?) bought me a quick draw and it's a total HOOT 5 ML and mrm40 (might scale back to 30 for some better cooling and or AMS) quick tanky torso twist is quick nice brawler.

Chaos Rising got pushed back, so I guess a few more days till I geek out on it.
 
I don't suppose anyone knows where I can find an archive of the Shrapnel magazines?
 
Bassomatic said:
Fucking hate the cappies (but who doesn't?) and funny enough I really enjoy them on TT.
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You're telling me the faction with the consistently best-designed mechs, who is almost always the first to rediscover or make really good/incredibly competent weaponry, and uses some of the best tactics that nobody else tries, is fun to play?

Color me shocked!

This is why I don't care about what factions people plays as long as they don't preach or bitch to me about them. I've built things for tons of factions because I'm like "I want a list with a lot of X. Oh, Faction K has them? Awesome!" Like I don't like Canopus, but I made a lance of "Fuck you I have plasma rifles" that uses mechs they have.
 
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